Pricing Method of the Flexible Bus Service Based on Cumulative Prospect Theory by Wanjing Ma, Yuhang Guo, Kun An, Lei Wang

“…The results show that heterogeneous fares can help the flexible bus company to obtain higher profits but have negligible influence on social welfare. In addition, the development of long-distance services and regulations over the detour time can also help to obtain more profits.…”
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Role of Pigeonpea Cultivation on Soil Fertility and Farming System Sustainability in Ghana by S. Adjei-Nsiah

“…Despite its importance, the potential of pigeonpea as a soil fertility improvement crop has not been exploited to any appreciable extent and the amount of land cultivated to pigeonpea in Ghana is vey negligible. This paper synthesizes recent studies that have been carried out on pigeonpea in Ghana and discusses the role of pigeonpea cultivation in soil fertility management and its implication for farming system sustainability. …”
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ELECTRONIC TAXATION AND TAX COMPLIANCE AMONG SMES IN KOGI STATE by Adebowale Ogunsola

“…Using multiple regression analysis, at 5% level of significance, the study found that the effect of electronic tax registration on tax compliance is negatively negligible and insignificant. Meanwhile, it was established that the effect of electronic tax filing and electronic tax payment on tax compliance is positive and significant to some extent. …”
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Irreversible Thermodynamic Description of Dark Matter and Radiation Creation during Inflationary Reheating by Juntong Su, Tiberiu Harko, Shi-Dong Liang

“…Once the energy density of the scalar field becomes negligible with respect to the matter densities, the expansion of the Universe decelerates, and inflation has a graceful exit.…”
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Classification of Iranian weather types based on Woś method by Hassan Heidari, Ebrahim Mesgari

“…The findings indicated that the predominant temperature types in the country are primarily categorized as hot and very hot, with sub-codes reflecting generally low to moderate cloud cover and negligible precipitation. Furthermore, the application of Ward's clustering method facilitated the identification of three distinct climatic groups. …”
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An Assessment of the Utility of a Bayesian Framework to Improve Response Propensity Models in Longitudinal Data by Eliud Kibuchi, Gabriele B Durrant, Olga Maslovskaya, Patrick Sturgis

“…Our findings indicate that conditioning on previous wave data leads to negligible improvement of the response propensity models’ predictive power and discriminative ability. …”
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A Single-Layer Dual-Band Reflectarray Cell for 5G Communication Systems by Sandra Costanzo, Francesca Venneri, Antonio Borgia, Giuseppe Di Massa

“…The proposed configuration allows to achieve very small interelement spacings and negligible mutual coupling effects between the two bands, thus assuring an independent phase-tuning mechanism at both desired frequency bands. …”
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Convergence and Quantum Advantage of Trotterized MERA for Strongly-Correlated Systems by Qiang Miao, Thomas Barthel

“…We find that the average angle amplitude can be reduced considerably with negligible effect on the energy accuracy. Benchmark simulations suggest that the structure of the Trotter circuits for the TMERA tensors is not decisive; in particular, brick-wall circuits and parallel random-pair circuits yield very similar energy accuracies.…”
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A Computation Complexity Reduction of the Size Decision Algorithm in 3D-HEVC Depth Map Intracoding by Hamza Hamout, Abderrahmane Elyousfi

“…The resulting experiences show that the proposed method can significantly save the computational complexity with a negligible loss of intracoding efficiency.…”
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KV7 Channels Regulate Firing during Synaptic Integration in GABAergic Striatal Neurons by M. Belén Pérez-Ramírez, Antonio Laville, Dagoberto Tapia, Mariana Duhne, Esther Lara-González, José Bargas, Elvira Galarraga

“…In contrast, it is negligible in the somatic compartment. This modulation occurs on sub- and suprathreshold responses and lasts during the whole duration of the responses, hundreds of milliseconds, greatly altering SPNs firing properties. …”
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Experimental Study on Liquid Flow and Heat Transfer in Rough Microchannels by Xuan Zhang, Taocheng Zhao, Suchen Wu, Feng Yao

“…Although roughness is negligible for laminar flow through tubes in classic fluid mechanics, the surface roughness may play an important role in microscale fluid flow due to the large ratio of surface area to volume. …”
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Thermal Changes in Guidewires Used During Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography During Electrical Conductance: An Ex-Vivo Safety Experiment by Rahul Karna, Nicholas Michael McDonald, Jacob Weiner, Théodon I. Netoff, Stuart K Amateau

“…In our ex-vivo study, minimal heat was generated via electrical conductivity despite direct current suggesting negligible risk of thermal injury during sphincterotomy. …”
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Highly Specific Chemiluminescence Immunoassay for the Determination of Chloramphenicol in Cosmetics by Qiyan Li, Riran Zhu, Jun Li, Xiaobing Wang, Lihua Xu, Yanshen Li, Peng Li

“…The anti-chloramphenicol antibody (mAb) adopted in this work for direct immunoassay could bind to CAP specifically, with negligible cross-reactivity (CR) (less than 0.01%) with most CAP analogues, including structurally related thiamphenicol (TAP) and florfenicol (FF). …”
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Desulfurization Capabilities of Indigenous Bacteria Isolates for Enhanced Sulfur Removal by Emmanuela Kwao-Boateng, Kwabena Danquah, Emmanuel Ankudey, Lawrence Darkwah, Derrick Boateng

“…Furthermore, the biological process results in a negligible level of undesirable products and emissions without lowering the calorific value of the fuel. …”
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Investigation of Early Corrosion Behavior of Canister Candidate Materials in Oxic Groundwater by the EQCM Method by Gha-Young Kim, Sung-Wook Kim, Junhyuk Jang, Seok Yoon, Jin-Seop Kim

“…In the oxic groundwater solution, Ni, Ti, and SS304 exhibited negligible mass changes, indicating their insusceptibility to general corrosion. …”
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Ultrasensitive Detection of Ferulic Acid Using Poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) Functionalized Graphene-Based Electrochemical Sensor by Lin-jie Liu, Xia Gao, Pei Zhang, Shi-lan Feng, Fang-di Hu, Ying-dong Li, Chun-ming Wang

“…This fabricated sensor also displayed acceptable reproducibility, long-term stability, and high selectivity with negligible interferences from common interfering species. …”
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Streptococcus pneumoniae Coinfection in COVID-19: A Series of Three Cases by Chaitanya Pal, Paulina Przydzial, Ogechukwu Chika-Nwosuh, Shrey Shah, Pratik Patel, Nikhil Madan

“…In one meta-analysis of coinfections in COVID-19, rates of Streptococcus pneumoniae coinfections have been negligible when compared to previous influenza pandemics. …”
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Calculation of the Effective Delayed Neutron Fraction by Deterministic and Monte Carlo Methods by M. Carta, S. Dulla, V. Peluso, P. Ravetto, G. Bianchini

“…Both theoretical and numerical results confirm the effectiveness of the Monte Carlo βeff evaluation, at least in cases where spectral differences between total and prompt fluxes are negligible with respect to the value of the functionals entering the classical βeff formulation.…”
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Zincophilic CuO as electron sponge to facilitate dendrite-free zinc-based flow battery by Jin Seong Cha, Sanghyeon Park, Noh-Uk Seo, Yun-Chan Kang, Chan-Woo Lee, Jung Hoon Yang

“…Strong electronic redistribution between Zn and CuO explains the high Zn affinity on CuO, with negligible nucleation overpotential. Additionally, CuO exhibits remarkable electron-accepting and -donating capabilities in electron-rich and electron-deficient environments, resembling a sponge. …”
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The effectiveness of TRIS and ammonium buffers in glass dissolution studies: a comparative analysis by Ramya Ravikumar, Clare L. Thorpe, Claire L. Corkhill, Sam A. Walling, James J. Neeway, Carolyn I. Pearce, Albert A. Kruger, David S. Kosson, Jose Marcial, Russell J. Hand

“…Although 11B NMR showed evidence of TRIS-B complexation, its effect on the rate of elemental release was found to be negligible under the test conditions. With ammonium buffer, the release of alkali cations was slightly elevated when compared to the same conditions with TRIS at early time points.…”
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