Development of financial performance of food retailers as an attribute behind the increase of food insecurity in selected Central and Eastern European Countries by Oksana Dubanych, Jan Vavřina, Josef Polák

“…This article traces the research gap in addressing food insecurity by focusing on the role of food retail chains in the former “Eastern Bloc” in light of unprecedented food price inflation and the resulting scale of demand for the services of food banks. …”
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Determinants of Government Debt in ASEAN-5 Nations: An ARDL Analysis of Economic Factors by Mohammad Helmi bin Hidthiir, Zaki Ahmad, Lee Kai Lun, Mustazar Mansur, Ayman Abdalla Mohammed Abubakr, Mastora Sahal Gomaa Sahal

“…The study acknowledges limitations such as data gaps and the exclusion of variables like inflation and exchange rates, which may affect the generalizability of the results across different economic conditions. …”
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Analysis of players and scenarios of the Iranian aluminum industry with a combination of fuzzy DEMATEL and game theory by Maryam Musavi-Nogholi, Mohammad Taghi Rezvan

“…Game theory will be used in two forms, considering competition and or cooperation among players to analyze the aluminum industry market, such that one can find balancing points among existing situations of players’ strategic options and scenarios of this industry.Findings: The results indicate that the possibility of "increasing inflation" is the most likely and "increasing investment in the country" is the least likely variable, and "lifting sanctions" is the most influential variable and "production and export" is the most impressive variable. …”
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Identifying and ranking the effective financial factors on rural entrepreneurial small businesses by Khosro Farahi, Parvaneh Gelard, Hamid Tohidi

“…The results indicate a positive and significant effect of rural population ratio, financing through financial institutions, economic growth, openness rate in business space, gender composition, and inflation rate in agriculture sectors, as well as a significant reverse effect of official employment rate, job-seeking population ratio, exchange rate uncertainty, government employment rate and graduation ratio on entrepreneurship in both service and agriculture sectors. …”
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A Time-motion Comparison of Itemized Treatment Costs in First and Second In Vitro Fertilization Attempts: A United Kingdom Fertility Centre Experience by Christopher A. Jones, Olivia J. Carpinello, Dev Kumar, Louis G. Keith, Renju S. Raj, E. Scott Sills

“…While these observations were registered in 2003, an inflation adjustment using recent European Commission Eurostat data for healthcare finds the difference between initial and subsequent fresh IVF cycles in present currency to be approximately £579.14 per cycle. …”
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Influence of Rectal Decompression on Abdominal Symptoms and Anorectal Physiology following Colonoscopy in Healthy Adults by Chih-Hsun Yi, Tso-Tsai Liu, Wei-Yi Lei, Jui-Sheng Hung, Chien-Lin Chen

“…In 15 healthy subjects, rectal distension was achieved by direct air inflation into the rectum by colonoscopy. Placement of rectal and sham tube was then performed in each subject on a separate occasion. …”
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Limb Position Influences Peripheral Arterial Stiffness Reduction with Reactive Hyperemia by Ronald E. Jackson, Natalia S. Lima, Sara R. Sherman, Brooks A. Hibner, Philip S. Clifford

“…Brachial-radial pulse wave velocity (PWV) was measured with tonometers over brachial and radial arteries before cuff inflation and at 5, 15, and 30 min after release. Brachial blood flow was monitored with doppler ultrasound. …”
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DETERMINANTS OF CORPORATE TAX AGGRESSIVENESS IN NIGERIAN DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS by Bilikisu Roseline Yusuf, Samson Adewale Adediran

“…Diɑgnostic tests were equɑlly cɑrried out such ɑs ShɑpiroWilk Test for normɑlity, Vɑriɑnce Inflɑtion Fɑctor (VIF) for multicollineɑrity test, Breusch-Pɑgɑn / Cook-Weisberg test for heteroskedɑsticity, Breusch ɑnd Pɑgɑn Lɑgrɑngiɑn multiplier test for rɑndom effects, ɑnd Hɑusmɑn Specificɑtion Test to determine ɑppropriɑte estimɑtion technique between fixed ɑnd rɑndom effect model. …”
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Tracking Regional Tissue Volume and Function Change in Lung Using Image Registration by Kunlin Cao, Gary E. Christensen, Kai Ding, Kaifang Du, Maghavan L. Raghavan, Ryan E. Amelon, Kimberly M. Baker, Eric A. Hoffman, Joseph M. Reinhardt

“…Image registration was performed to align images at different time points and different inflation levels. The resulting dense displacement fields were utilized to track tissue volume changes and reveal deformation patterns of local parenchymal tissue quantitatively. …”
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Multiangle Correlation Feature Extraction and Disease Prediction Model Construction for Patients With Post-Stroke Dysarthria by Ting Zhu, Shufei Duan, Huizhi Liang, Fujiang Li, Wei Zhang

“…Principal Component Analysis and Variance Inflation Factor were employed to optimize GRA-DBN model. …”
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Analysis methods for covariate-constrained cluster randomized trials with time-to-event outcomes by Amy M. Crisp, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Matt D. T. Hitchings, Ira M. Longini, Natalie E. Dean

“…The model-based tests had inflated type I error when there were very few clusters per trial arm. …”
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Achieving the Recommended Endotracheal Tube Cuff Pressure: A Randomized Control Study Comparing Loss of Resistance Syringe to Pilot Balloon Palpation by Fred Bulamba, Andrew Kintu, Nodreen Ayupo, Charles Kojjo, Lameck Ssemogerere, Agnes Wabule, Arthur Kwizera

“…This method provides a viable option to cuff inflation.…”
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Cost Estimation and Efficiency Analysis of Korean CANDU Spent Fuel Disposal Alternatives in Consideration of Future Price Volatility by Sungsig Bang, Yanghon Chung, Dongphil Chun, Chulhong Kwon, Sungjun Hong

“…Cost estimation using ARIMA model shows little change or decreases in cost while cost estimation using inflation rates for 2020 resulted in approximately 7.2% increases compared to 2015 for all options. …”
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRIVATE DOMESTIC INVESTMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA (1986-2018): AUTO-REGRESSIVE DISTRIBUTED LAG APPROACH by Isiaka Kareem JIMBA, Rosemary Bukola AJALA

“…The study incorporated other investment measures like foreign direct investment and public investment into the model, while inflation and exchange rate were taken as control variables. …”
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Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing for Colistin: Extended Application of Novel Quantitative and Morphologic Assay Using Scanning Electron Microscopy by Omar Zmerli, Sara Bellali, Gabriel Haddad, Rim Iwaza, Akiko Hisada, Erino Matsumoto, Yusuke Ominami, Didier Raoult, Jacques Bou Khalil

“…The killing effect of Colistin was best observed after 120 minutes of incubation with the antibiotic, with significant changes in morphologic features, including bacterial inflation, fusion, and lysis, observed as early as 30 minutes. …”
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Monetary Policy and Financial Performance of Commercial Banks in Uganda: A Case Study Centenary Bank, Kabale Branch. by Kemigisha, Phiona

“…The stud) findings on the relationship between monetary policy and financial performance. the highest number of respondents mentioned that monetary policy regulates the supply of money and the lowest number of respondents mentioned that monetary policy leads to stabilization of inflation and promotes the growth of public debt. The study recommended that monetary policy has a significant effect on the financial performance of commercial banks therefore; Centenary bank Kaba le branch should study and incorporate the ever-changing operating environment of the bank when making changes or adjustments in the monetary policies of the bank and the management of the Centenary bank Kabale branch should reduce unnecessary operating costs and ensure it adopts fixed and less costly contracts to reduce on the operation cost levels in the bank. …”
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Credit Cycles: Econometric Analysis and Evidence for Russia by N. V. Artamonov, D. V. Artamonov, V. A. Artamonov

“…All interest rates are adjusted for inflation (i.e. we deal with real interest rates). …”
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Factors affecting the profitability of banks - Evidence from Serbia's banking sector by Miloš Đaković, Nada Milenković, Jelena Andrašić

“…Further analysis includes the unit root test and the variance inflation factor analysis to check for stationarity and multicollinearity of the data. …”
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Effect of Repeated Remote Ischemic Preconditioning on Peripheral Arterial Disease in Patients Suffering from Intermittent Claudication by Mehmet Balin, Tarık Kıvrak

“…Patients received 5-cycles of alternating 5-minute inflation and 5-minute deflation of blood-pressure cuffs on nondominant upper-limb every day for four weeks. …”
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Multivariable Diagnostic Prediction Model to Detect Hormone Secretion Profile From T2W MRI Radiomics with Artificial Neural Networks in Pituitary Adenomas by Begumhan BAYSAL, Mehmet Bilgin ESER, Mahmut Bilal DOGAN, Muhammet Arif KURSUN

“…Feature selection was based on intraclass correlation coefficient, coefficient variance, variance inflation factor, and LASSO regression analysis. Outcomes were identified as 7 hormone secretion profiles [non-functioning pituitary adenoma, growth hormone-secreting adenomas, prolactinomas, adrenocorticotropic hormone-secreting adenomas, pluri-hormonal secreting adenomas (PHA), follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone-secreting adenomas, and thyroid-stimulating hormone adenomas]. …”
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