Compliance with the Municipal Agro-Environmental Legislation in Francisco de Orellana, Ecuador by E. Pozo, J. Pozo, A. Bonilla, J. Jimenez

“…Data were collected through analysis of public policies, regulations, legislation and ordinances, and interviews with the main actors of the Decentralized Municipal Autonomous Government. …”
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Relationship between Soft Skills and Academic Outcomes in Higher Education: Evidence from Undergraduate Management Students by Ashot G. Mirzoyan, Irina P. Suslova, Angelina V. Govorova

“…The analysis uses a multiple regression model, logistic regression, ordinal logistic regression and hierarchical clustering. …”
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"La figlia di Iorio": la società patriarcale, il “diverso” e la donna libera, fra dramma borghese e melodramma by Guido Baldi

“…D’Annunzio da un lato sente il fascino dei due diversi, che entrano in conflitto con l’ordine sociale, ma d’altro lato finisce per celebrare la famiglia tradizionale, in cui fa rientrare l’eroe, dopo l’autoeliminazione del corpo estraneo, la donna. …”
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Energy Transitions in Cities: A Comparative Analysis of Policies and Strategies in Hong Kong, London, and Melbourne by Philip Wong, Joseph Lai

“…Hong Kong emphasizes regulatory measures like the Buildings Energy Efficiency Ordinance, London uses market-based instruments such as carbon pricing, and Melbourne prioritizes community engagement and renewable energy integration. …”
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Transmission Error Analysis of Cycloid Pin Wheel Based on Geometric Contact Algorithm by Huang Yuelei, Zhang Yinghui, He Weidong

“…After analyzing the vector equation of the meshing point, a method to solve the problem of numerical non-convergence is proposed, that is, to find the meshing point with equal normal vector in the obtained point with equal ordinate and abscissa on the cycloid wheel and the needle tooth. …”
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Les marqueurs de changement de topique du discours en roumain : évolution sémantique et rôle pragmatique by Alice Ionescu, Cecilia-Mihaela Popescu

“…We have analyzed the following units, which can function as topic shift markers: altfel (“otherwise”), de altfel (“besides”), de asemenea (“moreover”), (de) altminteri (“otherwise”, “moreover”), pe de altă parte (“on the other hand”, “from another point of view”), în altă ordine de idei (“on a different note”) and apropo (“by the way”). …”
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Understanding tinnitus symptom dynamics and clinical improvement through intensive longitudinal data by Milena Engelke, Jorge Piano Simões, Laura Basso, Nina Wunder, Berthold Langguth, Thomas Probst, Rüdiger Pryss, Winfried Schlee

“…App data from a multi-center randomized clinical trial were analysed using time-series feature extraction and nested cross-validated ordinal regression with elastic net regulation to predict clinical improvement based on the Clinical Global Impression—Improvement scale (CGI-I). …”
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Problems of poetic translation by M. R. Arpentieva

“…Translation is an understanding activity requiring trans-ordinate knowledge of both own and translated language. …”
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Effects of accessibility and adequacy of technical vocational education and training equipment on acquisition of employable skills in Uganda. A case of Uganda Technical College - E... by Wanda, Herbert, Edoru, John Michael

“…Statistical Package for the Social Sciences was used to run descriptive analyses, ordinal regressions, and frequency distribution. Findings on adequacy show that 77% of the learners are availed of equipment not relevant to their program and spend little time practicing on the equipment. …”
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Assessing the feasibility of measuring residents’ quality of life in English care homes and the construct validity and internal consistency of measures completed by staff proxy: a... by Claire Goodman, Julienne Meyer, Karen Spilsbury, Barbara Hanratty, Rachael Carroll, Adam L Gordon, Gizdem Akdur, Anne Killett, Jennifer Burton, Ann-Marie Towers, Stacey Rand, Nick Smith, Sinead Palmer, Stephen Allan, Lucy Anne Webster

“…As there have not been any previous studies of the structural validity of the English language version of the QUALIDEM, ordinal exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was applied for this measure only. …”
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Social support in old age: differences by sex in a sample from northern Mexico by Rosa Isabel Garza-Sánchez, José González-Tovar

“…We used the multi-dimensional scale of perceived Social support (MSPSS), measures the perceptions of support of three main sources: family, friend and other significant, obtained an ordinal alpha coefficient of ω =. 934. We used an intentional sampling, participated 396 adults (Mage = 69.81, of = 6.95), 56.3% were women and 43.8% men. …”
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Complete Mode Spectrum Decomposition of Complex‐Structured Light by Computer‐Generated Holography by Yunfei Ma, Zilong Zhang, Yuqi Wang, Hongzhi Yang, Wei He, Lingyu Kong, Suyi Zhao, Xiaotian Li, Yetong Hu, Changming Zhao

“…Through the interference between the inverse conversion of eigenmodes in the Fourier domain, complete mode spectrum can be constructed with eigenmode ordinals, amplitude weight coefficients, and relative phases. …”
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Metformin increases mammographic breast density: a randomized controlled trial by Sadaf Alipour, Ladan Hosseini, Zohreh Forootan, Hadith Rastad, Leila Bayani, Mahboubeh Abedi, Bita Eslami

“…Based on results from Ordinal Logistic Regression, the odds of achieving a higher density for the intervention group was approximately 2.33 (95% CI, 1.04 to 5.18) times that of the placebo group. …”
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Hemispatial Neglect Shows That “Before” Is “Left” by Mario Bonato, Arnaud Saj, Patrik Vuilleumier

“…These findings further suggest that the representation of events order is spatial in nature and provide compelling evidence that ordinality is similarly represented within temporal and numerical domains.…”
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RISCURILE LA ADRESA SECURITĂȚII REPUBLICII MOLDOVA ŞI STRATEGIILE DE POLITICĂ EXTERNĂ ÎN CONDIŢIILE ACTUALE by USM ADMIN

“…De asemenea, aceasta este nevoită să facă față riscurilor de ordin social, economic și politic care pot afecta securitatea națională a statului și bunăstarea geneală a cetățenilor, precum și să întreprindă măsurile necesare pentru a ține situația sub control. …”
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Rural Acoustic Landscape Analysis Based on Segmentation and Extraction of Spectral Image Feature Information by Huijun Xiao, Tangsen Huang, Ensong Jiang

“…In actual use, there are three types of spectrograms, namely linear amplitude spectrum, logarithmic amplitude spectrum, and self-power spectrum. The ordinate of the linear amplitude spectrum has a clear physical dimension and is the most commonly used. …”
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Efficient Intrusion Detection System Data Preprocessing Using Deep Sparse Autoencoder with Differential Evolution by Saranya N., Anandakumar Haldorai

“…Since datasets are required for the various feature dimensions, this article proposes an efficient data preprocessing method that includes a series of techniques for data balance using SMOTE, data normalization with power transformation, data encoding using one hot and ordinal encoding, and feature reduction using a proposed deep sparse autoencoder (DSAE) with differential evolution (DE) on data before feature selection and classification. …”
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Short-Term Prediction of Traffic State for a Rural Road Applying Ensemble Learning Process by Arash Rasaizadi, Seyedehsan Seyedabrishami, Mohammad Saniee Abadeh

“…To find the most precise prediction for each time interval for segments, several ensemble methods, including voting methods and ordinal logit (OL) model, are utilized to ensemble predictions of four machine learning algorithms. …”
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Periodontal Disease in the Brazilian Population: A Retrospective Analysis on the 2013 National Health Survey to Identifying Risk Profiles by Thiago Antônio Raulino do Nascimento, José Vilton Costa, Ricardo Oliveira Guerra

“…The presence or absence of a risk factor was analyzed using five variables (ten categories), while ordinal regression assessed risk profiles based on sociodemographic aspects of the Brazilian population. …”
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