Effects of Environmental and Disturbance Factors on Plant Community Distribution in Tropical Moist Afromontane Forests, South-West Ethiopia by Semegnew Tadese, Teshome Soromessa, Getaneh Gebeyehu

“…The plant community classification was performed using agglomerative hierarchical cluster analysis (Ward’s Linkage method) in R software (version 4.0.1). …”
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Semi-automatic construction of heterogeneous data schema based on structure and context-aware recommendation by Nan Yin, Junheng Liang, Xi Guo, Xue Jiang, Jie He, Xiaotong Zhang

“…We propose a schema fragment tree structure to represent data schemas with hierarchical relationships, transforming the recommendation into subtree matching. …”
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Construction of 3D Indoor Topological Models Based on Improved Face Sorting by Qun Sun, Xinwu Zhan, Pu Tang

“…Then, by improving the existing face-sorting method according to vector products in 3D space, a method for constructing 3D topological relationships for indoor spaces is proposed, which successively constructs the topological hierarchical combination of volume and the topological adjacency relationships of adjacent volumes. …”
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Formation Producing Control of Multi-Quadcopter Systems Under the Cloud Access by Nargess Sadeghzadeh-Nokhodberiz, Mohammad-Reza Ghahramani-Tabrizi, Allahyar Montazeri

“…As the first step, a hierarchical control structure is provided to derive the control laws and conditions for the stability of the nonlinear under-actuated multi-quadcopter system to guarantee the asymptotic consensus of the quads’ positions to the biased average of the initial positions. …”
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Introduction risk of fire ants through container cargo in ports: Data integration approach considering a logistic network. by Shota Homma, Daisuke Murakami, Shinya Hosokawa, Koji Kanefuji

“…A relationship between locations based on logistics connectivity is assumed rather than the spatial correlation based on the geographical distance used in the past. Hierarchical Bayesian models integrating data through the network were implemented for two fire ant species (Solenopsis invicta and Solenopsis geminata) observed in Japanese ports. …”
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The Role of Self-Construal, Values, and Religiosity on Judgements of the Reasonability of Lying by Sercan Balım, Muhammed Sukru Aydın

“…The results of the hierarchical regression analysis showed that religiosity, conservation, and self-enhancement values were the predictors of acceptability of self-protection lies. …”
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Spatial Patterns and Temporal Variability of Drought in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Metropolitan Areas in China by Wanyuan Cai, Yuhu Zhang, Qiuhua Chen, Yunjun Yao

“…The modified Reconnaissance Drought Index (RDI) was applied to capture the drought patterns and to estimate the drought severity at 33 meteorological stations. Agglomerative hierarchical cluster analysis (AHCA) and principal component analysis (PCA) were used to identify three different drought subregions R1, R2, and R3 based on the monthly precipitation values in BTHMA, which is located in southeast, north, and south of BTHMA, respectively. …”
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Clustering Universities According to Performance Indicators and Determination of Organizational Culture Types in Clusters by Maxat Aitimbetov, Dinmukhamed Kelesbayev, Gulzhamal Koptayeva, Gulshat Zhadigerova, Assylkhan Tursyn, Aripkhan Sadykov

“…In order to achieve this goal, statistical data collected from 29 state universities were classified using hierarchical cluster analysis and Ward’s Technique. In this context, firstly, the concept of organizational culture and its effects on organizational performance were explained in the light of literature information, then cluster analysis was conducted on universities in terms of institutional size and performance. …”
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Time to Consensus in International Negotiations by I. Z. Aronov, O. V. Maksimova

“…The "consensus minus k" rule, intended to break deadlocks, is found to be ineffective for international organizations with numerous participants and divergent interests. In hierarchical structures, consensus is typically achieved through preliminary negotiations within subgroups, which further prolongs the consensusbuilding process.…”
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Homeostatic model and job-organization related factors as predictors of subjective wellbeing of Mizan-Tepi university teachers by Michael Emru adesse

“…A sample of 162 teachers participated in this study by responding to questionnaires that included measures of the abovementioned variables. Hierarchical linear regression was used to test the hypotheses. …”
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Joint security and performance improvement in multilevel shared caches by Amin Sarihi, Ahmad Patooghy, Mahdi Amininasab, Mohammad Shokrolah Shirazi, Abdel‐Hameed A. Badawy

“…A simple and efficient timing attack on the shared portions of multilevel hierarchical caches and its corresponding countermeasure is proposed here. …”
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The optimization model for allocating reward to employees using GAHP and cluster analysis by Mehdi Ajalli

“…For this purpose, first, by designing and distributing a comparative questionnaire of indicators and completing them by the experts of Shahid Fakuri Industries' component manufacturing unit, and by using the group hierarchical analysis process model with Expert Choice software, the weight of the effective indicators in employee evaluation was calculated, then the values of the indicators for 29 employees with using the formula of the normalization function in the Excel software, it is standardized, and the weight of the indicators is multiplied by the standard values of the data, and then the distance matrix and the optimal number of clusters are calculated through the Machaon software, and finally, using the discriminative clustering approach and using the K-means method, data clustering was done with SPSS and Makaon software and a suitable model was presented for allocating rewards to the workers of the parts making unit.…”
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Spatial Network Structures of Urban Agglomeration Based on the Improved Gravity Model: A Case Study in China’s Two Urban Agglomerations by Yubo Zhao, Gui Zhang, Hongwei Zhao

“…The results of the study are as follows: (1) the existing urban connections have obvious hierarchies and imbalances, with the YRDUA urban hierarchical connections being of larger scale. (2) Cities are closely connected, but city networks are unbalanced, though the YRDUA has more balanced urban development. (3) Each node city has a clear radiation range limit, and spatial distance remains an important constraint on urban connections. …”
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Teaching for social justice: Distributive justice and recognition justice perspective by Marković Milica M., Stančić Milan S.

“…The analysis showed that teaching based on distributive justice would tend to maintain the established hierarchical relationships in society so that differences in the origin of students would not be respected in teaching, nor would interaction between students and critical thinking be encouraged, which would make it impossible to strengthen the individual capacities of students. …”
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Molecular Modeling and Simulation Analysis of Antimicrobial Photodynamic Therapy Potential for Control of COVID-19 by Maryam Pourhajibagher

“…In this in silico study, SARS-CoV-2-SG was selected as a novel target for curcumin as a photosensitizer during aPDT to exploit its physicochemical properties, molecular modeling, hierarchical nature of protein structure, and functional analysis using several bioinformatics tools and biological databases. …”
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Identifying multilevel factors on student mathematics performance for Singapore, Korea, Finland, and Denmark in PISA 2022: considering individualistic versus collectivistic culture... by Jinpeng Niu, Hui Xu, Jiangtao Yu

“…Abstract Employing a two-level hierarchical linear modelling (HLM) analysis, the current study comparatively explored the effects of student- and school-level factors on student mathematics performance for Singapore, Korea, Finland, and Denmark in the 2022 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). …”
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A research on academic self-perception and academic achievement of secondary school students by Şenay Bozdağ, Sümer Aktan

“…Pearson correlation analysis, simple linear regression analysis, and stepwise multiple hierarchical regression analysis were applied to determine the relationship between academic self-perception and achievement in English language courses. …”
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Corporate Culture and Organizational Performance: A Case Study of National Water and Sewerage Corporation (Nwsc) Ibanda Area by Peace, Tumushabe

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EZH2/miR-142-3p/HMGB1 axis mediates chondrocyte pyroptosis by regulating endoplasmic reticulum stress in knee osteoarthritis by Yang Chen, Shanshan Dong, Xin Zeng, Qing Xu, Mingwei Liang, Guangneng Liao, Lan Li, Bin Shen, Yanrong Lu, Haibo Si, Peifang Wei

“…In vivo experiments mechanistically validated the hierarchical regulatory relationship between EZH2, miR-142-3p, and HMGB1 and their effects on chondrocyte ER stress and pyroptosis. …”
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Tailoring industrial enzymes for thermostability and activity evolution by the machine learning-based iCASE strategy by Nan Zheng, Yongchao Cai, Zehua Zhang, Huimin Zhou, Yu Deng, Shuang Du, Mai Tu, Wei Fang, Xiaole Xia

“…Here, we develop an isothermal compressibility-assisted dynamic squeezing index perturbation engineering (iCASE) strategy to construct hierarchical modular networks for enzymes of varying complexity. …”
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