Estimating cash in bank branches by time series and neural network approaches by Pejman Peykani, Farzad Eshghi, Alireza Jandaghian, Hamed Farrokhi-Asl, Farid Tondnevis

“…Providing efficient and powerful approach for liquidity management of bank branches has always been one of the most important and challenging issues for researchers and scholars in the banking field. In other words, estimating the amount of required cash in different branches of the bank is one of the basic and important questions for managers of the banking system. …”
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Creativity and disinformation in artificial intelligence-driven fashion communication by Sigita Kamašauskė, Živilė Sederevičiūtė-Pačiauskienė

“…The findings of this research show the emerging machine-washing concept as the topics that scholars are mostly focused on – the recreation of reality using deepfakes and altered images, digital influencers, and their messages. …”
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The Public Transport Crisis in South Africa: Through the Eyes of the Four Revolutions by Mondli Hlatshwayo

“…In other words, the debates on the technological advances provide scholars, researchers, engineers, and working-class organisations with the space to foreground transport as an issue requiring special attention, especially in South Africa where the public transport system faces many challenges. …”
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International mobility programmes, European identity, and the satisfaction with EU policies by Tartaglia Stefano, Inserra Chiara

“…In social sciences, several scholars have demonstrated the relationship between participation in international mobility programmes and European identity. …”
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Speranza i Mickiewicz by Katarzyna Gmerek

“…This article researches the translations of two Adam Mickiewicz’s ballads published in Ireland by Lady Wilde (known under the pen-name Speranza), both versions probably unknown to Polish scholars. Simultaneously, it is a case study for exploring nineteenth-century lesser known Victorian poetry, retrieved from both traditional and electronic sources, from a librarian’s point of view. …”
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Fossils and Theories of Evolution in Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet by Anthony Zielonka

“…As they discuss the ideas of Buffon, Cuvier, Lamarck, and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, aswell as of traditionalist Biblical scholars, Bouvard and Pécuchet, unsurprisingly, find their theories to be incompatible, contradictory and ultimately unconvincing. …”
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E-Commerce Logistics Path Optimization Based on a Hybrid Genetic Algorithm by Dong Yang, Peijian Wu

“…Based on the problem of e-commerce logistics and distribution network optimization, this paper summarizes the solution ideas and solutions proposed by domestic and foreign scholars and designs a method to optimize the B2C e-commerce logistics and distribution network by taking into account the special traffic conditions in the city. …”
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Trajectory Tracking Control Study of a New Parallel Mechanism with Redundant Actuation by Haiqiang Zhang, Hairong Fang, Dan Zhang, Qi Zou, Xueling Luo

“…Parallel mechanisms with redundant actuation are attracting numerous scholars’ research interest due to their inherent advantages. …”
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Current Issues in Implementing Project-Based Learning in Higher School (The Materials of the Round-Table Discussion) by M. V. Pevnaya, L. N. Boronina, A. V. Kulminskaia

“…The integration of project-based learning into higher education is a topic of significant interest to scholars and practitioners from different countries. …”
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The Good, The Bad and The Legacy of Kwaito by Madimabe G. Mapaya, Thulani G. Zulu

“…The enlisted exploratory methodology involved content analysis of scholarly articles, books, and online data, including YouTube interviews and documentaries about kwaito. …”
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Race and Materiality in African Religious Contexts by Federico G. Settler

“…Theaimis to point out specificways in which religion scholars privilege materiality of visuality, space,and ritual studies, at the expense of other ways of knowing and being.The articlethenadvancessome suggestions as to why or how these regimes are sustained and point out some problematics. …”
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Community Participation in the South African Local Government Dispensation: A Public Administration Scholastic Misnomer by Ntwanano Mathebula

“…This paper seeks to challenge the notion that community participation is a substitute in its ontological and epistemological form and connotation for public participation. Many scholars in public administration have jumped on the bandwagon of dispensation, thus creating a misnomer in relation to a distinct nature of community participation and public participation which clearly undermines the authenticity of conception within the discipline and scholarship in general. …”
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The Exile Experience Reconsidered: a Comparative Perspective in European Cultural Migration during the Interwar Period by Renato Camurri

“…The first phase of studies into intellectual exile was strongly conditioned by two classic interpretative paradigms: the acculturation paradigm and the paradigm of the impact refugee scholars had on American culture. However, the field of so called “Exile Studies” has widened remarkably in recent years extending to philosophy, literature, sociology and anthropology. …”
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Des architectes urbanistes au cœur d’une lutte entre des écologies concurrentes. « Quartier libre des Lentillères » contre « écocité Jardin des maraîchers » à Dijon... by Pierre Bouilhol

“…After describing the competing viewpoints on this contested piece of land, the article focuses on the perspective of those mobilizing to oppose the development project as well as its reception by scholars and professionals working on urban questions. …”
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Modeling the Grain Import Trade: A Cointegration Analysis of China’s Panel Data by Feng Zhao, Pingping Sun, Jie Zhang

“…In recent years, China has become the world’s largest importer of grain, and scholars have particularly examined whether China’s grain import trade presents this effect. …”
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The Lingua Franca Core: A Plausible Option? by Marco Sandro Antonio Ugarte Olea

“…This paper also presents a set of reactions that her proposal has prompted in scholars in the area of teaching English language pronunciation. …”
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Urban Industrial Land Expansion and Its Influencing Factors in Shunde: 1995–2017 by Chen Xiong, Jiayi Lu, Fangqu Niu

“…The change in the industrial land is of great significance to the sustainable development of cities. However, scholars have done relatively little research on this subject, especially on the urban industrial land expansion process and its influencing factors. …”
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When customers strike back: examining the impact of psychological contract violation on customers' switching behaviour by David Amani

“…Although the psychological contract has garnered attention from scholars in the social sciences, little is known about its implications from a marketing perspective. …”
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Conflitti del lavoro, lavoro in conflitto. Trasformazioni aziendali globali e nuove forme di fragilità e precarizzazione by Fulvia D’Aloisio

“…Based on an ethnographic research on the Fiat-Sata factory of Melfi (founded in 1993), it shows the progressive change of the line of conflict between workers and owners towards a more subjective and existential conflict between time of work and private and familiar life. As some scholars think, the ‘old fashioned’ conflict has not totally disappeared, rather it has changed its sense and value, flowing towards a different configuration. …”
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The Experiences and Challenges of Doctoral Education in Public Universities Compared. by Ocan, Johnson, Eton, Marus, Akena, Francis Adyanga, Ayiga, Natal

“…Contribution: In terms of contribution, this research will improve scholarly writing and publication abilities, in addition to increasing the identity of doctoral education in Uganda. …”
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