Revolutionizing RIS Networks: LiDAR-Based Data-Driven Approach to Enhance RIS Beamforming by Ahmad M. Nazar, Mohamed Y. Selim, Daji Qiao

“…This extension enables the GNN to effectively learn the mapping from received pilots to optimal beamformers and reflection coefficients to maximize the RIS-assisted sumrate among multiple users. …”
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AI in Marketing Management: Executive Perspectives from Companies

“…These insights highlight the importance of tailored approaches, such as financial incentives, pilot programs, and targeted training, to reduce aversion and encourage adoption across diverse organizational contexts. …”
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CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SERVICE FIRMS’ PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIA by Moruff Sanjo Oladimeji, Adebiyi Julius Abosede, Benneth Uchenna Eze

“…The test re-test method was employed to test the reliability of the instrument, by conducting a pilot study, whereby, the questionnaire was administered twice within an interval of two weeks to 20 management staff of service firms, and the result of the two tests was correlated. …”
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SiO2/TiO2 Composite Coating on Light Substrates for Photocatalytic Decontamination of Water by Hana Bíbová, Lenka Hykrdová, Hiep Hoang, Milan Eliáš, Jaromír Jirkovský

“…Outdoor experiments were carried out with calcined Liapor and oxalic acid or methylene blue under sunlight on pilot reactors in the Czech Republic and Vietnam. …”
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The Impact of Land Development Rights Transfer on Urban–Rural Spatial Justice: A Case Study of Chongqing’s Land Quota Trading by Siyi Wei, Jing Huang, Zhanlu Zhang

“…Using the Chongqing land quota trading pilot as the core case, we apply synthetic control methods to analyze the causal effects of this policy. …”
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Results of the GreenCleanS Project funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia by Kolarski Dejan, Lukić Jelena, Vasović Valentina, Janković Jelena, Mihajlović Draginja

“…The technology development includes experimental work at the laboratory scale and pilot scale level (technology readiness level, TRL 4), as well as the demonstration of the technology in an operational environment, involving the treatment of 3 tons of oil in a mobile desulfurization unit to achieve TRL 7. …”
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Misbehavior or misalignment? Examining the drift towards bureaucratic box-ticking in Competency-Based Medical Education. by Alicia C Strand, Andrea Gingerich, Vijay John Daniels

“…The internal medicine residency program at the University of Alberta implemented a CBME pilot in 2016. From March to June 2018, a research assistant interviewed 16 residents and 27 preceptors shortly after they completed an EPA assessment. …”
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Identifying Political Risk Management Strategies in International Construction Projects by Tengyuan Chang, Bon-Gang Hwang, Xiaopeng Deng, Xianbo Zhao

“…To fill this research gap, a total of 27 possible strategies were identified through a comprehensive literature review and validated by a pilot survey with 10 international experts. Appraisals of these 27 strategies by relevant professionals were collected using questionnaires, 155 of which were returned. …”
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Small-holder Goat Farmer Profile Demographic-based on Financial Aspect in Majene Regency, West Sulawesi Province by Muhammad Iqbal Rivai, Tanrigiling Rasyid

“…For goat farmers who consider traditional methods to maximize efficiency, counseling and training are needed. More detail, a pilot or fostered goat farm with easy, efficient and profitable management is needed based on technology so that farmers who still make raising livestock a side job are more confident and switch to focus more on goat breeding activities. …”
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Spillover effects of rural residents’ past pro-environmental production behavior on their voluntary waste separation behavior by Yuhua Teng, Ning Li, Changjin Liu, Jing Yang, Yan Chen

“…Based on the survey data of rural residents in the National Ecological Civilization Pilot Area (Jiangxi), this paper empirically analyzes the spillover effect and mechanism of past pro-environmental production behavior on rural residents’ voluntary garbage sorting behavior, and adopts the fsQCA to clarify the grouping paths and examines the interactive relationship among multiple factors. …”
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Neurostimulation for Neurogenic Bowel Dysfunction by J. Worsøe, M. Rasmussen, P. Christensen, K. Krogh

“…Numerous methods of neurostimulation to treat NBD have been investigated in pilot studies or retrospective studies. Therefore, larger controlled trials with well-defined inclusion criteria and endpoints are recommended before widespread clinical use of neurostimulation against NBD.…”
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Virtual Mentoring for Medical Physicists: Results of a Global Online Survey by Jacob Van Dyk, Matt Jalink, L. John Schreiner, Robert Jeraj

“…Methods: Informed by a literature review and pilot testing by focus groups, the survey was electronically disseminated to multiple medical physics organizations, list servers, and professional contacts. …”
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Installation Project for Water Purification from Suspended Particles by E.N. Neverov, A.K. Gorelkina, E.S. Mikhalova, P.S. Korotkih

“…The aim of this work is to evaluate methods for treating water containing suspended coal dust and to develop a treatment plant design along with approaches for pilot testing. A design of the plant for purifying water with suspended coal dust particles, a diagram of the interaction of elements, feasible technological solutions and options for the operation of the plant are proposed. …”
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A Multistage Decision-Feedback Receiver Design for LTE Uplink in Mobile Time-Variant Environments by Juinn-Horng Deng, Shu-Min Liao

“…Based on the block-type pilot arrangement of the LTE uplink type 1 frame structure, the time-domain least squares (TDLS) method and polynomial-based curve-fitting algorithm are employed for channel estimation. …”
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Trends and issues in multicultural business communications in South A'frica by R Hugo-Burrows Hugo-Burrows

“…Business communication is defined as consisting of management as well as marketing communication. A pilot survey on existing business communication strategies in a large South African province is discussed. …”
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Integrative model for disclosing the diagnosis to children and adolescents with HIV in San Luis Potosí by Rubén Romero Ortiz, Ismael García Cedillo, Rocío Angélica González-Romo

“…Three members of the medical staff, two primary caregivers, and two patients aged 13 and 14 living with HIV participated in the pilot application of this program. A pre-post quasi-experimental study was conducted.…”
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Motor Sequence Learning across Multiple Sessions Is Not Facilitated by Targeting Consolidation with Posttraining tDCS in Patients with Progressive Multiple Sclerosis by Harald Seelmann-Eggebert, Muriel Stoppe, Florian Then Bergh, Joseph Classen, Jost-Julian Rumpf

“…In this cross-sectional double-blind cross-over pilot study, effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on motor sequence learning were examined across four sessions on days 1, 3, 5, and 8 in 16 patients with progressive MS. …”
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Potential of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma Antagonist Compounds as Therapeutic Agents for a Wide Range of Cancer Types by Jack D. Burton, David M. Goldenberg, Rosalyn D. Blumenthal

“…While preclinical activity has been observed in many cancer types, clinical activity has been observed only in pilot and phase II trials in liposarcoma and prostate cancer. …”
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Survey of Screw-Retained versus Cement-Retained Implant Restorations in Saudi Arabia by Alaa Makke, Abdulwahed Homsi, Montaha Guzaiz, Abdulrahman Almalki

“…Prior to distribution, the surveys were proofread and pilot-tested at the Faculty of Dentistry at Umm Al-Qura University. …”
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THE EFFECT OF PREPARATION CONDITIONS OF RAPIDLY SOLIDIFIED IRON BASED GRANULES ON PROPERTIES OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL FORMED BY CASTING TECHNOLOGY by A. S. Kalinichenko, V. A. Sheinert, V. A. Kalinichenko, A. G. Slutsky

“…It has been found that granules formed are characterized with typical microstructure of white cast iron containing perlite and ledeburite. Microhardness of pilot cast iron granules is characterized by high values (from 7450 up to 9450 MPa) and depends on the size of the fraction. …”
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