Brand contact integration in the Ethiopian beer market by Samson Mekonnen, George Angelopulo

“…Publicity and personal promotion are emphasised, product quality receives great attention, the company concentrates on a narrowly defined service interface, and a strong market-back strategy is evident in its communications. The Nordic School model of brand contact integration offers a heuristic prism for the assessment of communication integration, and we conclude that IMC principles are firmly embedded in the marketing communication practice of the Ethiopian brewer, but with characteristics that are specific to its unique market conditions. …”
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Resource base of the building materials industry as the basis for sustainable development of the economy by O. E. Astafyeva

“…This is done to increase competitiveness and provide the strategy of building materials industry development.…”
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Simple Motion Pursuit and Evasion Differential Games with Many Pursuers on Manifolds with Euclidean Metric by Atamurat Kuchkarov, Gafurjan Ibragimov, Massimiliano Ferrara

“…In the case of evasion game, we construct a strategy for the evader.…”
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From Fiction to Video Games: Contemporary Needle Arts Across Genres by Amy D. WELLS

“…The presence of needle arts in contemporary fiction demonstrates how the craft becomes intertwined with the plot, working as a narrative strategy, moving beyond just its function of décor or setting. …”
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Student youth participation in the development of a comfortable urban environment by Yu. V. Ukhanova, A. E. Zhdanova, K. E. Kosygina

“…The study was conducted in Vologda, Russian Federation, through a quantitative methodological strategy (questionnaire survey among university students, n = 207). …”
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Abnormal Decrease of Macrophage ALKBH5 Expression Causes Abnormal Polarization and Inhibits Osteoblast Differentiation by Junquan Weng, Haidong Fan, Huijuan Liu, Su Tang, Yuyan Zheng

“…Our findings present a new mechanism for the suppression of osteoblast development in diabetic peri-implantitis and a new treatment strategy to promote anabolism by inhibiting ALKBH5.…”
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COVID-19 Vaccination during Pregnancy in Southeast Asia by Jia Ni Kwan, Hong Chuan Loh, Irene Looi

“…Vaccination seems to be the most effective strategy to curb the pandemic and secondarily by social distancing, wearing face masks and practising hand hygiene. …”
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Determinants of Portuguese Banks’ Profitability – An Update by Maria Clara Pires, Maria Basílio, Carlos Borralho

“…The profitability proxy used is the return on equity (ROE). The empirical strategy followed was pooled OLS. Variables relevant for explaining Portuguese banks' profitability are capital adequacy, liquidity and credit risk. …”
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Design and performance analysis of energy efficiency based CR primary user emulation attack defensive scheme by Yunchuan WANG, Xiaorong XU, Yingbiao YAO, Weiwei WU

“…Energy efficiency based PUEA defensive scheme was investigated with performance analysis.In this scheme,CSS energy efficiency was constructed as the optimum objective in the presence of PUEA with secure detection probability and false alarm probability threshold as the constraint conditions.Secure CSS model and PUEA defensive scheme were proposed to achieve energy efficiency based secure CSS.K-out-of-N criterion is set as global decision criterion in the scheme.Optimal fusion threshold K and optimal cooperative SUs N can be determined in secure CSS with the guarantee of energy efficiency.Compared with the traditional maximum ratio combining (MRC) fusion rule,the proposed PUEA defensive scheme not only guarantees system energy efficiency,but also improves system detection performance.Namely,the proposed scheme makes a trade-off between energy efficiency and detection performance in the presence of PUEA.The numerical simulation results show that the proposed strategy is not affected by the PUE interference power,and it has a high degree of persistence for PUEA attack.…”
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Safeguarding Mobile Users from Violation by Third-party Apps by Vusumuzi Malele, Kagiso Mphasane

“…Secondly, there is a need for increased confidence in data integrity protocols, and the necessity to ability for emphasizing strong availability controls and backup strategies for mobile users’ continuous access to services. …”
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On Key Evolution over Wireless Channels by Zhihong Liu, Yong Zeng, Pingjuan Zhang, Qiping Huang

“…To further confuse the eavesdropper, we present a strategy for legitimate parties to send artificial noise if the eavesdropper cannot distinguish the sources of messages. …”
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UPAYA MENINGKATKAN PENGETAHUAN MATERI SURAT AL HUJURAT AYAT 13 DENGAN PENERAPAN MODEL PEMBELAJARAN DISCOVERY LEARNING PADA SISWA by Seto Wicaksono Sodiq, Ade Akhmad Saputra

“…The aim of this research is: (a) Want to know the increase in knowledge of Surah Al Hujurat Verse 13 in class IV students at SDN 41 Plus Banasin III after implementing the Discovery Learning learning model strategy. This research uses two rounds of action research. …”
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From Animal Odd Couples to Oddkin: Probing Visual Representations of Interspecies Friendship through Critical Cuteness by Justyna Włodarczyk

“…Finally, the article suggests that the “cutification” of interspecies relations may be a strategy for diffusing the systematic violence meted out against wildlife during the colonization of the North American continent.…”
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Near-term benefits from investment in climate adaptation complement long-term economic returns from emissions reduction by Lei Duan, Angelo Carlino, Ken Caldeira

“…Abstract Previous studies have suggested that a combined strategy using both emissions abatement and climate adaptation can improve economic outcomes. …”
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VHSAP-based approach of defending against DDoS attacks for cloud computing routing platforms by UZhi-jun W, UIYi C, UEMeng Y

“…Based on the analysis of security overlay service (SOS) approach of defending against DDoS attacks in large scale network,the vulnerability in the exit mechanism of being attacked nodes in SOS approach is explored.The vulnerability is solved by improving the Chord algorithm according to the routing strategy in cloud computing.Hence,the virtualization hash security access path (VHSAP) in three-layer structure is proposed to protect the cloud computing platform.In VHSAP,the heartbeat mechanism is applied to realize virtual nodes by using the virtual technology.Therefore,the virtual nodes have the ability of resilience,which can complete the seamless switching between being attacked nodes in cloud computing platform,and guarantee the legitimate user's authority of accessing to the resource in cloud computing platform.Experiments of VHSAP defending against DDoS attacks are carried out in simulation network environment.The parameters,such as the number of being attacked nodes in hash secure access path (HSAP),and the switching time and the handoff delay between nodes,are focused in experiments.The result shows that VHSAP achieves a higher data pass rate than that of SOS approach,and enhances the security of cloud computing platform.…”
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Drivability Improvement Control for Vehicle Start-Up Applied to an Automated Manual Transmission by Danna Jiang, Ying Huang, Zhe Zuo, Huan Li

“…The designed control strategy is verified on a complete powertrain and longitudinal vehicle dynamic model with different driver’s torque demands.…”
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Value-difference learning based mMTC devices access algorithm in multi-cell network by Xin LI, Jun SUN

“…In the massive machine type communication scenario of 5G, the access congestion problem of massive machine type communication devices (mMTCD) in multi-cell network is very important.A double deep Q network with value-difference based exploration (VDBE-DDQN) algorithm was proposed.The algorithm focused on the solution that could reduce the collision when a number of mMTCDs accessed to eNB in multi-cell network.The state transition process of the deep reinforcement learning algorithm was modeled as Markov decision process.Furthermore, the algorithm used a double deep Q network to fit the target state-action value function, and it employed an exploration strategy based on value-difference to adapt the change of the environment, which could take advantage of both current conditions and expected future needs.Moreover, each mMTCD updated the probability of exploration according to the difference between the current value function and the next value function estimated by the network, rather than using the same standard to select the best base eNB for the mMTCD.Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can effectively improve the access success rate of the system.…”
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Bypassing Islamism and Feminism: Women’s Resistance and Rebellion in Post-revolutionary Iran by Fatemeh Sadeghi

“…The third presupposition is that discrimination against women in post-revolutionary Iran is essentially a legalist strategy and has resulted in campaigns that failed to address women’s daily challenges. …”
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On a Certain Lithuanian Purpose Clause Construction by Axel Holvoet

“…It is argued that the anteriority converb was introduced as a pseudo-conditional strategy used to avoid a factive reading in constructions with evaluative predicates (as in gerai būtų suradus... = gerai būtų, jeigu surastume... …”
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Digital inclusive finance, rural revitalization and rural consumption. by Wei Li, Lu Zhang, Mingyue Pu, Hui Wang

“…Based on the above findings, we believe that while promoting digitally inclusive finance, it is important to promote rural revitalization strategy in a timely manner, improve rural infrastructure, and continuously stimulate the impact of digitally inclusive finance on rural residents' consumption.…”
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