The crisis of local leadership: A passing trend or a systematic problem? by Klačar Bojan

“…The author analyses how the combination of high centralization in decision-making process and weak internal democracy within political parties and the electoral system in the long term encourages the negative selection of political elites at the local level. A logic incentive for local leaders and local democratic processes is to increase their political rating by communicating with voters. …”
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Ensuring the performance of external communications: An informal classification of target groups by Mikhail V. Rodchenkov

“…Methodologically, the study rests upon stakeholder theory, which is supported by expert assessments, structural-logical analysis, and multidimensional discriminant analysis. …”
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Assessing tax payments in regional budgets formation by E. P. Ogorodnikova, L. I. Rakhmatullina, N. V. Andreeva

“…The study pays attention to the indicators that characterize budget policy formation effectiveness in Russian regions. Logical and statistical methods and techniques have been used. …”
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Students’ Belief Biases Concerning Climate Change and Factors Considered While Evaluating Informal Reasoning Arguments by Perihan Gunes

“…The students showed a weak tendency for the argument-based evaluation concerning the reasons for the strength and weak of arguments that included logical reasoning between premises and conclusions. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF IT OUTSOURCING IN UKRAINE: A PROSPECT OF THE BRAIN DRAIN REDUCTION by Nataliia Marynenko, Halyna Tsikh, Iryna Kramar

“…Research methods used are as follows: desk research, inductive and deductive methods, abstract and logical method, system approach,  analysis and synthesis, empirical methods, and statistical analysis. …”
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Embedding of national cryptographic algorithm in Hyperledger Fabric by Qi CAO, Shuhua RUAN, Xingshu CHEN, Xiao LAN, Hongxia ZHANG, Hongjian JIN

“…Hyperledger Fabric is an extensible alliance blockchain platform and provides support for enterprise-level commercial blockchain projects.The cryptographic algorithm is the core technologies of the platform, ensuring the security and non-tampering of the data on the chain.But the original Fabric platform lacks the national cryptographic algorithm support.The embedding and support of the national cryptographic algorithm of the Fabric platform was designed and implemented.Firstly, the interaction logic of between components and the invocation scenario of each type of cryptographic algorithm in the Fabric platform were analyzed, an idea of embedding national cryptographic algorithm support for the platform was proposed.Secondly, the modules and interfaces for SM2, SM3 and SM4 were added to BCCSP of the Fabric platform based on the open source code of national cryptographic algorithm implementation.Thirdly, the interface of cryptographic algorithm invoked by the upper layer of each component is associated to the interface of corresponding national cryptographic algorithms, which realized the invocation support of national cryptographic algorithm for the upper layer applications.Finally, the correctness and effectiveness of the embedded national cryptographic algorithm were verified by creating a fabric-gm test instance.And compared with the performances of the test instance built by the mirror of the native Fabric platform.The experimental results show that the embedded national cryptographic algorithm interfaces are corrected and the generated national cryptographic certificates are effective.Moreover, compared with the native Fabric platform, the network start up time increases by about 3%.In the millisecond unit, the transaction time cost increases by about one time, the dynamic certificate generation time increases by about 9%, and all the performance are within the acceptable range.…”
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State of the digital age: modeling of institutional transformations by D. V. Shelokov

“…Its specificity lies not only in the formalization of knowledge about social structures and processes, but also in the reflection of controlled and spontaneous processes, the awareness of the necessary actions and the will to carry them out in the interacting subjects – actors and building by them of a logically related model of behavior. At the same time, a feature of cognition is the maximum approximation of the formed image to a real process or phenomenon. …”
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Subjective Hesitation in Paul Auster’s Report from the Interior: ‘you think of yourself as anyone, as everyone’ by Nicolas Pierre BOILEAU

“…But for Lacanian psychoanalysis, what is said matters less than the way what remains unsaid still manages to be conveyed and to influence the subject: a reading in these terms enables one to detach oneself from this carefully crafted example of logical reconstruction of subjectivity, and to observe the stitches of open wounds that fail to be entirely cured. …”
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Holy Terror!: Islamophobia and Intermediality in Frank Miller’s Graphic Novel by Frank Mehring

“…I will turn to the medium of graphic novels to first reveal how Miller’s narratives and silhouette aesthetics of (super)heroes have become complicit with Islamophobic responses to the crisis of 9/11; second, to trace the discourse of Islamophobia in post-9/11 America in Miller’s work; and, third, to reveal how this discourse interlinks with the patriotic logic of the fight against terrorism.…”
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Buildings, Causalities, and Injuries Innovative Fuzzy Damage Model during Earthquakes by Mohammad Reza Amiri Shahmirani, Abbas Akbarpour Nikghalb Rashti, Mohammad Reza Adib Ramezani, Emadaldin Mohammadi Golafshani

“…In this study, the degree of damage to the structure is first determined and the potential damage is then predicted using field data and fuzzy logic (FL). Effective parameters in the model include the structure height, building age, shear wave velocity in the soil, the plan equivalent moment of inertia, distance to the fault, earthquake factor, the number of inhabitants in the building, and the building height-to-width ratio (HWR). …”
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An Analysis of the Optimal Allocation of Core Human Resources in Family Enterprises Based on the Markov Model by Jinyang Cao

“…Based on the Markov model, this article is based on the B/S architecture, designed the three-tier architecture of the presentation layer, business logic layer, and data layer adopted by the system, forming the basis of quality management, job management, performance management, and salary management-oriented human resources optimization configuration system. …”
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Analysis of the Localization of physical expansion in Germi city, using VIKOR by Fariba Esfandiari, Soghra Jedi Gheshlagh Ilkhchi, Elnaz Piroozi

“…Therefore, investigating and analyzing natural phenomena and human factors area and will ultimately provide control measures and logical approach and limits of this process is essential. …”
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EXPLORING THE TEMOKAN TRADITION IN JAVANESE WEDDINGS: AN ANTHROPOLINGUISTIC APPROACH by Nanda Ramadhayani, Alemina br Perangin-angin, Rozanna Mulyani

“…These elements are further embedded with values and norms, including religious, logical, ethical, and aesthetic dimensions. Norms such as etiquette, customary practices, legal expectations, and habitual behaviors further reflect the tradition's cultural significance. …”
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Amplification of factors of regional markets transformations in the context of generation theory by R. S. Blizkiy, E. A. Divaeva

“…Methods of scientific research: system analysis, synthesis, economic and statistical method, methods of abstraction and inductive logic. The purpose of the study is to determine the content of regional markets meaning on the basis of the analysis of Russian regional markets regularities of transformations and corresponding regional specifics, to develop a process-role model considering existing paradigms of regional economy, realizing the dilemma of contradictions of consumers generations, business and state in the demands, values, and space of the market, entailing causal relationship of amplification of Russian markets transformation factors. …”
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The impact of digital technologies on the information potential of accounting (financial) statements. Part 2: Impact of digital platforms and models on transparency of corporate re... by M. T. Turmanov, T. M. Rogulenko

“…The use in the course of the study of general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis, as well as methods of logical comparison, reduction and selection of methodologically important facts of reality, made it possible to conclude that in legal terms, the electronic form of existence of objects, objects, processes is legitimized, and the digital form is a deep care into the virtual world through cryptography, the use of complex systems, encryption code and a limited number of participants. …”
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Some features of mathematical education in Lithuania during the years of dependence by Juozas Banionis

“…At that time curriculums of secondary school emphasized the necessity to educate pupils' logical thinking, vivid imagination of space. In V–XI forms mathematics as a subject consisted of systemic arithmetic, algebra, geometry and trigonom­etry courses, which were sufficient for students entering the institutions of higher education. …”
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Factorial Structure of Cognitive Activity Using a Neuropsychological Test Battery by A. Ardila, M. Rosselli, J. R. Bateman

“…Factor III was measured by the WMS Logical Memory subtests (immediate and delayed; “verbal memory factor”). …”
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Sustainable Strategic Alliance Partner Selection Using a Neutrosophic-Based Decision-Making Model: A Case Study in Passive Component Manufacturing by Huai-Wei Lo, Dong-Shang Chang, Lee-Te Huang

“…This study introduces neutrosophic fuzzy logic to reflect the uncertainty in complex problems. …”
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Adaptive Fuzzy Control for Attitude Stabilization of Spacecraft with Deployable Composite Laminated Solar Array by Wei Zhang, Weibing Zhu, Shijie Zhang, Xiangtian Zhao

“…This paper proposed a novel adaptive proportional-derivative typed fuzzy logic control scheme for the attitude stabilization of a flexible spacecraft during the deployment of a composite laminated solar array. …”
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Problems of the development of the state-private partnership in the Russian Federation by I. I. Kohanovskaya, A. A. Petin

“…Among the methods used are comparative, formal-legal, normative, logical, systemic, structural and functional.The adopted amendments and changes in the regulatory framework did not solve all the problems and did not give private investors’ confidence in the implementation of public-private partnership projects, since its regulatory support does not allow to eliminate the historically formed problems.The key problems and limitations of the development of public-private partnership are revealed in the arcticle: the lack of a national strategy for the development of public-private partnership; insufficient level of development of regulatory and legal regulation; the question remains the solution of corruption component; the lack of an integrated system of public administration of public-private partnership; the lack of unification and consistency of Federal, regional and municipal legislation; the problems of privatization and redistribution of property.…”
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