Embedded Vehicle Routing Problem: A Modeling and Optimization Framework for Real-World Multi-Purpose Truck Network by Tipaluck Krityakierne, Chanon Boonkangwan, Chanoknun Phunnasorn, Wasakorn Laesanklang

“…This paper introduces original contributions to the field of vehicle routing problems, specifically addressing the optimization of multi-purpose truck routing within the agricultural third-party logistics domain. …”
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The Influence of Marketing Mix and Cafe Atmosphere on Customer Loyalty Through Customer Satisfaction As a Mediation Variable by M. Risal, Achmad Efendi, Adi Firmanzah

“…Each variable and its indicators play a critical role in shaping consumer behavior. Originality/Value (State of the Art): While the marketing mix and café atmosphere have been studied conceptually and theoretically, research on café atmosphere remains limited. …”
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Perceiving Excitation Characteristics from Interactions between Field Road and Vehicle via Vibration Sensing by Yuansheng Cheng, Xiaoqin Li, Xiaolan Man, Feifan Fan, Zhixiong Li

“…The results showed that coefficient (R2) of frequency correlation between the roughness excitation and the original unevenness at the excitation point at the rear end of the rectangular soil pit fell within 0.9641∼0.9969. …”
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The Impact of Entrepreneurship, R&D Internal Capabilities and R&D External Collaboration on Innovation Performance in MAPNA Industrial Group by Abbas Khamseh

“…The level of innovation performance in the MAPNA group was 6.44, which is in the medium to high range.Originality/Value: This study proposed a conceptual model to illustrate the relationship between intrapreneurship, R&D internal capabilities, and R&D external collaboration to engender innovative performance of MAPNA.…”
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Refugee entrepreneurship: Systematic literature review by Jan Brzozowski, Inna Voznyuk

“…Furthermore, our review highlights a clear dichotomy in the circumstances of refugees displaced within Europe – primarily Ukrainians and those from the Balkans – compared to those originating from the Middle East or African countries. …”
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The “guild” concept in riparian ecology: Use, limitations and prospects for improving the reproducibility and transferability of results by Philippe Janssen

“…The aim was to highlight the advantages and disadvantages of this approach, in a context of generalization, comparison and reproducibility of results. I identified 24 original research articles and extracted information on the traits used, guild construction methods and study contexts. …”
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Intrinsically Noncombustible Thermosets from Sulfur-Containing Epoxy Resin and Benzoxazines: Evaluation of Thermal and Mechanical Properties by Ya Lyu, Haibo Fan, Liliang Qiu

“…This analysis revealed that the oxazine and epoxy rings undergo ring-opening and cross-linking reactions at the same time and that double-substituted structures originating from the furan and thiophene rings appeared during the curing process. …”
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Efficacy of 0.5% Levofloxacin and 5.0% Povidone-Iodine Eyedrops in Reducing Conjunctival Bacterial Flora: Metagenomic Analysis by Caixia Fan, Baoxia Yang, Yusen Huang

“…Bacteria associated with postoperative endophthalmitis mostly originate from the normal bacterial flora of the patient’s conjunctiva and eyelids, so the incidence of endophthalmitis may be reduced by eliminating the ocular and adnexal flora before surgery. …”
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‘Gvardeets’: a new awnless brome (<i>Bromorsis inermis</i>) cultivar developed in Tyumen Province by N. A. Feoktistova, Yu. E. Leonidov

“…It has a good yield: the harvest of green mass for 9 years averaged 22.8 t/ha; hay, 7.7 t/ha; seeds, 0.19 t/ha, which is higher the original cv. ‘Sverdlovsky 38’ (♀) by 13, 12 and 16% and the productive cv. …”
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Prevalence and diversity of Aphanomyces astaci in cambarid crayfish of Pennsylvania: where native and introduced hosts meet by Adam Petrusek, Michaela Mojžišová, Adéla Mikešová, Radka Piálková, David A. Lieb

“…Genotype group E was not detected in F. limosus, possibly due to limited spatial distribution of the original strain. Our results highlight both benefits and limitations of combining multiple pathogen genotyping methods.…”
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Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Nasofacial Groove by Tamajit Sau, Saumitra Kumar, Ankita Atin Mukherjee, Debalina Mazumdar

“…However, nasofacial groove is a very uncommon area for the origin of squamous cell carcinoma. Case Report: A 65-year-old housewife with hypertension and type 2 Diabetes Mellitus presented with painless swelling over right nasofacial groove for last 5 months which was insidious in onset, gradually progressive to reach the present size. …”
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Assets performance evaluation with the use of returns distribution characteristics by Seyedeh Masoumeh Mirsadeghpour Zoghi, Masoud Sanei, Ghasem Tohidi, Shokoofeh Banihashemi, Navideh Modarresi

“…The results show that by considering the returns distribution characteristics, the input and outputs values of the model are estimated more realistically and more reliable results can be obtained; thus a profitable portfolio can be constructed.Originality/Value: Evaluation of the assets performance by taking into account the returns distribution characteristics leads to realistic results.…”
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Portfolio formation based on risk-adjusted performance and distribution-based returns using data envelopment analysis by Hosseinali Heydarzadeh, Fereydon Rahnamay Roodposhti, Alireza Rashidi Komijan, Seyyed Esmaeil Najafi

“…The probability distribution of returns leads to different results in calculating stock risk-adjusted value/conditional value, with the empirical return distribution and normal distribution providing a more desirable performance (in terms of the Sharpe ratio) compared to the Cauchy distribution and sample ratios.Originality/Value: In the literature, an efficient portfolio is usually formed by calculating asset weights in the stock basket so that the Sharpe ratio reaches its maximum value. …”
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EXISTENTIAL CHOICE. AN ESSAY ABOUT THREE AFRICANS (REFLECTION ON AUGUSTINE’S CONFESSIONS) by S. V. Sannіkov

“…Augustine's openness to accepting Truth from Above and at the same time understanding the inability to seize it independently distinguishes him from similar searches of Jacques Darrida. Originality. The research has shown that the existential choice, which in contrast to ordinary choices, changes a man’s life and renders meaning to his existence, is made not with a volitional decision, but with a hardly explicable encounter connecting personal with over-personal being. …”
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Distribution of the arctic variant of the CPT1A gene in indigenous populations of Siberia by B. A. Malyarchuk, M. V. Derenko, G. A. Denisova, A. N. Litvinov

“…It is assumed that CPT1A Arctic variant originated from Eskimo ancestors, probably as a result of adaptation to a high-fat diet and/or to the extremely cold environment. …”
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Systematic review of 99 extremity bone malignancy survival prediction models by Cheng-Yo Lai, Hung-Kuan Yen, Hao-Chen Lin, Olivier Quinten Groot, Wei-Hsin Lin, Hao-Ping Hsu

“…Methods We followed Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines and systematically searched PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane to identify articles presenting original prediction models with 1-year survival outcome for extremity metastasis and 5-year survival outcome for sarcoma. …”
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Hunting for Cold Exoplanets via Microlensing by Beaulieu, Jean-Philippe

“…It is the only method currently probing exoplanets in the Earth-Saturn mass range beyond the snow line, where the core accretion theory originally predicted that most massive planets would form. …”
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Sulfone-modified chitosan as selective adsorbent for the extraction of toxic Hg(II) metal ions by Youssef O Al-Ghamdi, Khalid A Alamry, Mahmoud A Hussein, Hadi M Marwani, Abdullah M Asiri

“…Sulfone-modified chitosan/5–20 based on variable loading of the corresponding phenacyl bromide (5, 10, 15, and 20% with respect to the original weight of the pure chitosan) was synthesized. …”
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Cerebral 18F-FDG PET in macrophagic myofasciitis: An individual SVM-based approach. by Paul Blanc-Durand, Axel Van Der Gucht, Eric Guedj, Mukedaisi Abulizi, Mehdi Aoun-Sebaiti, Lionel Lerman, Antoine Verger, François-Jérôme Authier, Emmanuel Itti

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>We developed an original and individual approach including a SVM to classify patients between healthy or MMF metabolic brain profiles using 18F-FDG-PET. …”
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PLZero: placeholder based approach to generalized zero-shot learning for multi-label recognition in chest radiographs by Chengrong Yang, Qiwen Jin, Fei Du, Jing Guo, Yujue Zhou

“…Finally, we propose a hallucinated class-based prototype learning module (HCPL), which leverages contrastive learning to control the distribution of hallucinated classes around seen classes without significant deviation from the original data, encouraging high dispersion of class prototypes for seen classes to create sufficient space for inserting unseen class samples. …”
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