Constructivist perspective on Japan’s Foreign Aid Loans; In Case Jakarta Wastewater Infrastructure by Lalu Radi Myarta, Tulus Warsito, Nadhif Fadhlan Musyaffa, Hasri Ainun Hakiem

“…In which this study found that Japanese aid is motivated by identity interests, which encompasses role identity as environmentalist and collective identity in the foreign aid practice. …”
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Effects of Pooling Samples on the Performance of Classification Algorithms: A Comparative Study by Kanthida Kusonmano, Michael Netzer, Christian Baumgartner, Matthias Dehmer, Klaus R. Liedl, Armin Graber

“…Guidelines are derived to identify an optimal pooling scheme for obtaining adequate predictive power and, hence, to motivate a study design that meets best experimental objectives and budgetary conditions, including time constraints.…”
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A New Truncated Muth Generated Family of Distributions with Applications by Abdullah M. Almarashi, Farrukh Jamal, Christophe Chesneau, Mohammed Elgarhy

“…In this paper, we use a truncated-composed scheme to create a new unit Muth distribution, from which we motivate a more general family of continuous distributions called the truncated Muth generated family. …”
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Non-Invasive Point-of-Care Detection of Methamphetamine and Cocaine via Aptamer-Based Lateral Flow Test by Bilge Erkocyigit, Ezgi Man, Ece Efecan, Ozge Ozufuklar, Deniz Devecioglu, Basak Bagci, Ebru Aldemir, Hakan Coskunol, Serap Evran, Emine Guler Celik

“…For field testing, the most important requirements are portability, sensitivity, non-invasiveness, and quick results. Motivated by this problem, a point of care (POC) test based on lateral flow assay (LFA) was developed for the detection of cocaine (COC) and methamphetamine (MET) in saliva which has been selected as the matrix for this study due to its rapid and non-invasive collection process. …”
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Infernal instabilities in negative-triangularity plasmas with negative central shear by X.M. Zhang, L. Li, Y.Q. Liu, Z.Y. Dong, J.W. Li, Y. Liang, F.C. Zhong

“…A systematic numerical investigation is carried out to understand magnetohydrodynamic stability of the ideal infernal-kink instability in tokamak plasmas with both negative triangularity (neg-D) shaping and negative central shear for the equilibrium safety factor profile. The latter is motivated by the desire to form the internal transport barrier in the neg-D configuration, which is known to have difficulty in forming the edge transport barrier. …”
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Green Policy-Based Sustainable Development through the Development of Village-Owned Enterprises (BUMDes) by Febrina Rury, Marta Auradian, Amin Raja Muhammad, Hadi Sofyan, Ferlan Margina, Mento Meris Essio

“…This article is motivated by the innovation of the Siak District government through Regional Regulation No. 4 of 2022 concerning Siak Green District. …”
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A New Routing Protocol with High Energy Efficiency and Reliability for Data Delivery in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks by Mahfuzur Rahman Bosunia, Daniel P. Jeong, Chanhong Park, Seong-Ho Jeong

“…The proliferation of mobile devices has changed the trends by which people access and share contents in the communication world, leading to migration from the wired to wireless networks with high expectations of ubiquitous connectivity. These trends have motivated researchers to have interests in the future advanced mobile communications. …”
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Towards the decolonization of the extractive regime: Patterns and limits of judicialization in mining conflicts by María Ximena González-Serrano, Digno José Montalván-Zambrano, Lieselotte Viaene

“…In this article, we have been motivated by the need to address a little-studied aspect of extractivism in Latin America: the colonial foundations of the regulatory framework of corporate mining and the limits of the judicialization of human rights in order to achieve transformation. …”
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Psychological Factors Associated with Phantom Limb Pain: A Review of Recent Findings by Xaver Fuchs, Herta Flor, Robin Bekrater-Bodmann

“…In this review, we summarize research on the role of emotional, motivational, cognitive, and perceptual factors in PLP. …”
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New Steroid–Alkaloid Bioconjugates as Potential Bioactive Compounds: Synthesis, Spectroscopic and In Silico Study by Hanna Koenig, Karolina Babijczuk, Kamil Ostrowski, Damian Nowak, Tomasz Pospieszny, Beata Jasiewicz

“…The search for new biologically active compounds with prospective pharmaceutical applications has motivated the investigation of alternative synthesis pathways. …”
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Economic groups, corporate networks and think tanks. The case of the Centro de Estudios Públicos in Chile by Juan Jesús Morales-Martín, Martín Alfonso Videla-Rocha, Roberto Ibacache-Monasterio

“…This number of donors motivates the main objective of this article: to analyze the corporate power structure that is interlaced around this think tank and the companies that finance it. …”
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Retinal Fundus Image Registration via Vascular Structure Graph Matching by Kexin Deng, Jie Tian, Jian Zheng, Xing Zhang, Xiaoqian Dai, Min Xu

“…Motivated by the observation that a retinal fundus image may contain some unique geometric structures within its vascular trees which can be utilized for feature matching, in this paper, we proposed a graph-based registration framework called GM-ICP to align pairwise retinal images. …”
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Deprescribing and Optimal Selection of Proton Pump Inhibitors (Contributions of the 26th United Russian Gastroenterology Week) by V. T. Ivashkin, I. V. Maev, A. S. Trukhmanov, A. A. Sheptulin, V. I. Simanenkov, T. L. Lapina, I. B. Khlynov, N. N. Dekhnich, O. D. Lopina, O. P. Alekseeva, N. V. Korochanskaya, M. F. Osipenko, P. V. Pavlov, S. S. Pirogov, G. N. Tarasova, Yu. P. Uspenskiy, D. N. Andreev, D. E. Rumyantseva

“…Deprescribing is considered to be an effective strategy of a motivated reduction of the PPI dosage, duration of therapy and the patient’s transfer from a regular to on-demand intake regimen. …”
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The role of GPT in promoting inclusive higher education for people with various learning disabilities: a review by Thippa Reddy Gadekallu, Gokul Yenduri, Rajesh Kaluri, Dharmendra Singh Rajput, Kuruva Lakshmanna, Kai Fang, Junxin Chen, Wei Wang

“…GPT can provide personalized and diverse solutions that successfully cater to the distinct requirements of students with learning disabilities. This motivated us to conduct an extensive review to assess the effectiveness of GPT in enhancing accessibility and inclusivity in higher education for students with learning disabilities. …”
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Exploring the melodies of opportunity: do nepo babies pursue music out of genuine passion or is it a matter of engaging in musicpreneurship? by Eugine Tafadzwa Maziriri, Brain Mabuyana, Brighton Nyagadza, Mufaro Dzingirai, Tafadzwa C. Maramura

“…Originality/value – Although there is a wide range of literature on musicpreneurship, there are gaps in studies that have examined whether a nepo baby's interest in music is motivated by musicpreneurship or a genuine passion for it. …”
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A Bibliometric Analysis of Publications on University-Industry Collaboration Using VOSviewer and R-biblioshiny by Zhan Guofang, Mohamad Sattar Rasul, Marlissa Omar

“…Recent research has focused on themes such as technology transfer, barriers, benefits, and the motivations driving collaboration.…”
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Evidence for the communicative function of human-directed gazing in 6- to 7-week-old dog puppies by Stefanie Riemer, Alina Bonorand, Lisa Stolzlechner

“…Furthermore, the number of gaze alternations in the two contexts was correlated, indicating an underlying propensity for gazing at humans despite likely different motivations in the two contexts. Similar to humans, and unlike great apes or wolves, domestic dogs show gaze alternations from an early age if they are well-socialised. …”
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From Maximization to Optimization: A Paradigm Shift in Rice Production in Thailand to Improve Overall Quality of Life of Stakeholders by Ryoichi Doi, Supachai Pitiwut

“…Under the optimization paradigm, the farmers have established diversified sustainable relationships with the paddy fields in terms of ecosystem management through their own self-motivated scientific observations. The system has resulted in good health conditions for the farmers and villagers, financial security, availability of extra time, and additional opportunities and freedom and hence in the improvement of their overall quality of life. …”
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Study of the forming limit of 6063 aluminum alloy perforated sheet under in-plane and out-of-plane stretching conditions by Houssem Lakache, Abdelghani May, Mohand Ould Ouali, Abdelghani Mokdad, Lahouari Benabou

“…The FLDs were determined for the two forming tests: MARCINIAK and NAKAZIMA tests. This choice is motivated by the simplicity of the shapes of the blanks and punches used during these tests, but also in order to measure these curves in both flat (MARCINIAK) and curved (NAKAZIMA) zones. …”
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VoxSenes Acoutic Database by Luciana Albuquerque, Catarina Oliveira, Ana Rita Valente, António Teixeira

“… Motivated by the need to increase knowledge about the effect of age on speech production, and by the lack of speech data on European Portuguese (EP), this work focuses on the development of a speech database, with acoustic data of healthy adults using standardized recording procedures. …”
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