Strategy, information processing and scorecard models in the UK financial services sector by Judith Broady-Preston; Tim Hayward

“…Scorecard models are employed increasingly to translate the mission and strategy of a company into a comprehensive set of performance measures, providing the framework for a strategic management system. …”
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Design and Construction of a Four-Point Contactless Switch for Industrial Application. by Okello, Thomas

“…This project report details the design and construction of a contactless switching system for controlling four loads using an APDS and RGB gesture sensor, along with an Arduino. The system employs a proximity-based sensor to detect hand movements and control the four corresponding loads. …”
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Challenges in decentralization and service delivery, Wakiso district by Henry Stanley, Mbowa, Siraje, Kaaya

“…The study was guided by a case study design and employed the qualitative data collection approach. …”
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Self-Organized Criticality of Rainfall in Central China by Zhiliang Wang, Chunyan Huang

“…In this paper, our objective is to find the evidence of self-organized criticality (SOC) for rain datasets in China by employing the theory and method of SOC. For this reason, we analyzed the long-term rain records of five meteorological stations in Henan, a central province of China. …”
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Spatiotemporal Characteristics of Reservoir-Induced Earthquakes Using P-Wave Velocity Structures by Zhiren Feng, Bo Jin, Hongfu Lei, Di Liu

“…In this study, through the seismic phase observation report obtained by a river reservoir seismic network from September 2012 to July 2015, the joint inversion method of source and velocity structure is employed, combined with the regional seismic geological environment data. …”
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Rheological Properties in Aqueous Solution for Hydrophobically Modified Polyacrylamides Prepared in Inverse Emulsion Polymerization by Shirley Carro, Valeria J. Gonzalez-Coronel, Jorge Castillo-Tejas, Hortensia Maldonado-Textle, Nancy Tepale

“…Inverse emulsion polymerization technique was employed to synthesize hydrophobically modified polyacrylamide polymers with hydrophobe contents near to feed composition. …”
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Firm Growth Function and Extended-Gibrat’s Property by Atushi Ishikawa, Shouji Fujimoto, Takayuki Mizuno, Tsutomu Watanabe

“…In the derivation, we analytically show that the parameter of the extended-Gibrat’s property is identical to the power-law growth exponent and that it also decides the parameter of the exponential growth. By employing around one million bits of exhaustive sales data of Japanese firms in the ORBIS database, we confirmed our analytic results.…”
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The Stability of Certain Motion of a Charged Gyrostat in Newtonian Force Field by A. A. Elmandouh, Fatimah H. Alsaad

“…The sufficient conditions for instability are presented employing the linear approximation method. The energy-Casimir method is applied to gain sufficient conditions for stability. …”
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Structural, Electronic, Mechanical and Optical Properties of RhZrZ (Z = As, Sb) Half-Heusler Compounds: First-Principles Calculations by Adem Beriso Bejo, Megersa Wodajo Shura, Mesfin Asfaw Afrassa, Kumneger Tadele, Fekadu Tolessa Marem, Kunsa Haho Habura

“…In this study, density functional theory (DFT) as it is implemented in the Quantum Espresso simulation package was employed to investigate the structural, electronic, mechanical and optical properties of RhZrZ (Z = As, Sb) half-Heusler compounds. …”
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Introduction to Dossier. Dimensions of Politics and Political Brokerage: Skills, Scales, Resources and Trajectories by Edison Hurtado Arroba, Martín Paladino, Gabriel Vommaro

“…Drawing on the sociology of political practice, a definition of political work is developed which centres on three aspects: the skills and practical abilities that politicians develop, the resources that are employed and the outputs of political practice. From here, we propose and dissect a range of key analytic dimensions (scales of action, resources, skills, careers and trajectories) to configure the objectives for research on this topic from the everyday practices of politicians and political professionals. …”
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Practical Approach for the Determination of Response Factors of Impurities in Drugs by HPLC by Dharmendra Kushwah, Haresh B. Patel, Praveen K. Sinha, Pijush K. Jana

“…Two different approaches were employed and the verification of correctness of approach was done using a known related substance of known response factor.…”
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Case Study of Remaining Service Life Assessment of a Cooling Water Intake Concrete Structure in Indonesia by M. Sigit Darmawan, Ridho Bayuaji, N. A. Husin, R. B. Anugraha

“…Both destructive and nondestructive tests were employed to obtain the parameter needed for the assessment. …”
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Advances in hydrogel for diagnosis and treatment for Parkinson’s disease by Peining Zhu, Peining Zhu, Peining Zhu, Peining Zhu, Zenghui Zhao, Zenghui Zhao, Zenghui Zhao, Zenghui Zhao, Yufei Gao, Yufei Gao, Yufei Gao, Yufei Gao

“…Hydrogels are a kind of three-dimensional hydrophilic network structure gels that are widely employed in biological materials. Hydrogels are conspicuous in many therapeutic applications, including neuron regeneration, neuroprotection, and diagnosis. …”
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A New Gap Function for Vector Variational Inequalities with an Application by Hui-qiang Ma, Nan-jing Huang, Meng Wu, Donal O'Regan

“…We solve this optimization problem by employing the sample average approximation method. …”
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Euler Operational Matrix of Integration and Collocation Method for Solving Functional Integral Equations by Sohrab Bazm, Fatemeh Pahlevani

“…This approach transforms the integral equation into a set of nonlinear algebraic equations, which can be efficiently solved by employing standard numerical methods like Newton's method or Picard iteration. …”
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Influence of Organoboron Compounds on Ethylene Polymerization Using Cp2ZrCl2/MAO as Catalyst System by Luis Alexandro Valencia López, Francisco Javier Enríquez-Medrano, Ricardo Mendoza Carrizales, Florentino Soriano Corral, Adali Castañeda Facio, Ramón Enrique Díaz de León Gómez

“…A low density polyethylene with improved thermal stability was obtained when N,N-dimethylanilinium tetra(pentafluorophenyl)borate was employed as activator.…”
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Seismic Fragility Analysis of Buildings Based on Double-Parameter Damage Models considering Soil-Structure Interaction by Panpan Zhai, Peng Zhao, Yang Lu, Chenying Ye, Feng Xiong

“…Results show that considering SSI induces a higher fragility than that of the fixed model and that employing the DPDMs for the fragility analysis provides more reasonable results than those evaluated using the MIDR damage index.…”
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On New Picard-Mann Iterative Approximations with Mixed Errors for Implicit Midpoint Rule and Applications by Teng-fei Li, Heng-you Lan

“…In order to solve (partial) differential equations, implicit midpoint rules are often employed as a powerful numerical method. The purpose of this paper is to introduce and study a class of new Picard-Mann iteration processes with mixed errors for the implicit midpoint rules, which is different from existing methods in the literature, and to analyze the convergence and stability of the proposed method. …”
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Development of a Low Cost Assistive Listening System for Hearing-Impaired Student Classroom by Setha Pan-ngum, Tharapong Soonrach, Sangvorn Seesutas, Anukool Noymai, Pasin Israsena

“…Audio characteristics and user tests show that it is comparable to a commercial system, currently employed in our partner school. The results also show that wearing an ALS clearly improves hearing of hearing-impaired students. …”
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Results on Uniqueness of Solution of Nonhomogeneous Impulsive Retarded Equation Using the Generalized Ordinary Differential Equation by D. K. Igobi, U. Abasiekwere

“…The fundamental matrix theorem is employed to derive the integral equivalent of the equation which is Lebesgue integrable. …”
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