The Contributions of Party System to Democratic Development in Africa: A Historical Perspective by Ameen Abdulkadir

“…Democracy instead of being the bedrock of good governance stayed on as an unfulfilled promise because the method of power acquisition remained basically authoritarian and functioned on the basis of a hierarchy of networks and alliances with local tribe, ethnic group or through top-down utter sovereignty of institutions that choke the grassroots politicization of society which had been the moral fibre of the process of democratization. …”
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Old believers in the 20th century of Lithuania by Grigorijus Potašenko

“…The Congress agreed upon the official name of Old Believers – Pomortsy – Eastern Old Belief Church without ecclesiastic hierarchy. The organization of the Church and the internal statute was resolved. …”
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Affect in Literary Translations: What is at Stake for the Author and the Translator by Klaarika Kaldjärv

“…The examination extends to the hierarchy within literature and translation, questioning whether a translated text can be considered an autonomous entity and if translators can be acknowledged as authors considering the transformative nature of translation and the subjective, creative processes involved. …”
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Building resilience: A holistic approach for revitalizing existing infrastructure assets by Ahmed Gouda Mohamed, Farah Alashkar, Akinsanmi Sheriff Akindeinde, Ahmed Osama Daoud

“…The developed approach incorporates asset hierarchy and classification, condition assessment via pilot survey, Markov chain model for degradation anticipation, stakeholder perception analysis through questionnaires for comparative analysis, and constructing an optimization model for fund allocation. …”
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An integrated DEA-fuzzy AHP method for prioritization of renewable energy sources in India by Jyoti Luhaniwal, Shivi Agarwal, Trilok Mathur

“…This study analyzes various RES in India-solar, geothermal, hydro, biomass, wave, onshore, and offshore wind energy -using an integrated data envelopment analysis (DEA) and fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (Fuzzy AHP) methodology. Four main parameters-technical, economic, environmental, and socio-political -are identified and supported by 19 criteria, with environmental parameters including both desirable and undesirable criteria. …”
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The crisis of local leadership: A passing trend or a systematic problem? by Klačar Bojan

“…The author will analyse the party leadership of the relevant political parties/organizations in Serbia, internal party elections and the mobility of local leaders in the party hierarchy. Through secondary sources and document analysis, the derogation of local leadership and democracy and their exchange (trade off) for the stability of political processes at the national level are analysed. …”
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Simulating the impact of white matter connectivity on processing time scales using brain network models by Paul Triebkorn, Viktor Jirsa, Peter Ford Dominey

“…It has been shown that this processing is distributed in a hierarchy across multiple areas in the brain with areas close to the sensory cortex, processing on a faster time scale than areas in associative cortex. …”
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Types of organizational culture as predictors of corporate social responsibility by Gunchao Zi

“…In the course of the research, the results were obtained, which showed that all the analysed types of organizational culture predict the directions of corporate social responsibility that are responsible for the effectiveness of the organization’s work in relation to social issues and show its effective implementation. The “clan”, “hierarchy”, and “bureaucracy” types of organizational culture provide an opportunity of anticipation of circumstance that the organization respects the interests of its agents. …”
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Path Planning For A Mobile Robot Using The Chessboard Method And Gray Wolf Optimization Algorithm In Static And Dynamic Environments by Ali Hatami Zadeh, Javad Sharifi, Meysam Yadegar

“…Four types of grey wolves, namely alpha, beta, delta, and omega, are employed to simulate the leadership hierarchy. Additionally, three main stages of hunting—searching for prey, encircling prey, and attacking prey—are implemented. …”
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A maturity model for assessing sustainable project management knowledge areas: A case study within a logistics firm by Elifcan Göçmen

“…Weighted average score of all maturity items is obtained using Likert-scale and criteria weights are first calculated using Hesitant Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (HF-AHP). Practicality of these approaches is illustrated through a real data in a logistics organization. …”
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A gender-based review of workplace violence amongst the global health workforce-A scoping review of the literature. by Sioban Nelson, Basnama Ayaz, Andrea L Baumann, Graham Dozois

“…Younger age, less experience, shifting duties, specific clinical settings, lower professional status, organizational hierarchy, and minority status were found to be sensitive to gender, reflecting women's structural disadvantages in the workplace. …”
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Management of innovative development of urban areas by V. V. Merkulov, T. Yu. Shemyakina

“…The model of strategic management of the city based on the principles of system approach, integrity (definition of border and control system of all agglomeration), emerdzhenticy (achievement of synergetic effect), hierarchy (idea of orientation of the strategic analysis), self-organization (compliance to laws of the theory of organization) is investigated. …”
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Modernization of government management in empires of new time: comparative political analysis by A. D. Aseev, V. V. Shishkov

“…In institutional terms, the center of the empire is represented by general imperial authorities and management, in functional terms, the imperial power has exclusive administrative prerogatives associated with the concentration of resources of power and their distribution over the imperial hierarchy. The differentiation of administrative approaches shows the administrative and political specificity of the empire-state. …”
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Geografia do trabalho no Brasil by Alexandre Gori Maia

“…Although the obtained classification does not allow quantifying the relation between Brazilian municipalities, it allows identifying an obvious socio-economic hierarchy among groups of municipalities. Overall, most Brazilian municipalities show low pattern of socio-economic development, prevailing agricultural activities and a huge number of low-paid workers. …”
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Semiotic Diagnostics: Methodology for Measuring Education Transformation Efficiency by N. A. Lyurya

“…These requirements are the need to conduct such a selection which does not cut off other paths to other goals but changes the hierarchy in the subordination of ways to achieve goals. …”
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Change of social status of contemporary women from the Republic of Moldova / Schimbare de statut social la femeile contemporane din Republica Moldova by MIHAI Aurelia

“…Young women establish attributes with reference to personal qualities in the first half of the hierarchy, adult women equally value the subjective and objective side of social status.…”
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Root Cause Analysis of Adverse Outcomes in the Obstetrics & Gynaecology: A Prospective Study at a Tertiary Care Centre by Brijesh Narayan, Pushkar Mendiratta

“…Conclusion: Adverse events carry a giant burden with them, but their incidence can definitely be cut down by adhering to institutional protocols, checklists, increased awareness and involvement at multiple levels of hierarchy.…”
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Proficient Node Scheduling Protocol for Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks by R. Saravanakumar, N. Mohankumar, J. Raja

“…Low energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (LEACH) is one of the clustering key routing techniques used to reduce energy consumption. …”
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Evaluation Model of Highway Reconstruction and Expansion Scheme Based on Multiple Attribute Decision Making by Xinhao Pan, Man Xu, Jie Jia, Yifeng Xia, Qian Chen

“…First, a method was proposed to determine the weight of evaluation index by coupling fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) with difference driven principle (DDP). …”
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Location of Emergency Escape Ramps on Two-Lane Rural Highways Based on the Fuzzy Multicriteria Decision-Making Method by Mohammad Heidarian, Ali Abdi Kordani, Alireza Sarkar, Seyed Mohsen Hosseinian

“…Then, 3 general criteria and 16 subcriteria were classified, and finally, the importance of criteria was examined by the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (F-AHP), and the high-priority options were illustrated using the fuzzy technique for order performance by similarity to ideal solution (F-TOPSIS). …”
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