Identification and interpretive ranking of factors affecting the improvement of agility in business process management by Sadegh Hasani Moghadam, Mohammad Mahdi Mohtadi, Hossein Bazargani, Ali Taheri, Mohsen Miri

“…After that, the results showed that environmental awareness, knowledgeable and competent human resources, organizational learning dimension, contingent and appropriate structures, governance, improvisation-based strategy-making, technological infrastructure, dynamic adaptation, culture, and creative sustainability are prioritized, respectively.Originality/Value: Using soft operations research techniques, including the interpretive ranking process, in designing an agile model for managing business processes will significantly help process organizations in complex and dynamic environments to simultaneously exploit the benefits of stability in managing processes and dynamism coming from being agile.…”
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Challenges in the transition between medical and vocational rehabilitation: a qualitative focus group study with service providers in Germany by Eileen Wengemuth, Lara Kleist, Lukas Kühn, Kyung-Eun Anna Choi

“…Methods In this sub-study we made use of a qualitative approach and conducted semi-structured focus groups with service providers, namely employees of rehabilitation institutions which we analyzed using Qualitative Content analysis and an inductive-deductive Coding System. …”
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Assessment Design And Practices Toward Holistic Learning Of Higher Education Students: Empirical Evidence Via Path Analysis Modelling Approach by Ebenezer Afrifa-Yamoah, Esther Adama, Amanda Graf, Kwadwo Adusei-Asante

“…We explored the correlations within defined networks by path analysis via partial least square structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) framework of SmartPLS 3. …”
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The Influence of Multi-Sensory Perception on Public Activity in Urban Street Spaces: An Empirical Study Grounded in Landsenses Ecology by Tianqi Han, Lina Tang, Jiang Liu, Siyu Jiang, Jinshan Yan

“…Grounded in landsenses ecology, this study employs correlation analysis, regression analysis, and Partial Least-Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) to examine the effects of different urban street spatial characteristics on public behavior and the mediating role of multi-sensory perception. …”
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Computer-Integrated Monitoring Technology with Support-Decision of Unauthorized Disturbance of Methane Sensor Functioning for Coal Mines by Oleksandr Vovna, Hanna Kaydash, Leszek Rutkowski, Іvan Sakhno, Іvan Laktionov, Maryna Kabanets, Sergey Zozulya

“…This allows for the identification of unregulated modes of operation without the need for hardware redundancy during the implementation of measurement modules for information processing in cyber-physical systems. The structure of computer-aided monitoring with decision support has been substantiated and developed, which implements the mathematical apparatus of the proposed method for detecting unauthorized interference with sensor operation modes. …”
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Barriers to uptake of harm reduction techniques for GBMSM who use drugs in night-clubs and sex-on-premises venues in London and the Southeast: a mixed-methods, qualitative study by Stephen Naulls, K. Oniti, J. Eccles, J. M. Stone

“…Methods The study used a mixed-methods approach, including an online survey (n = 53) and semi-structured interviews (n = 8). Participants included GBMSM with lived experience of substance use in night-time venues, as well as those providing support to this population. …”
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Operant Discriminative Learning and Evidence of Subtelencephalic Plastic Changes After Long-Term Detelencephalation in Pigeons by S. M. Cerutti, S. Diaz-Cintra, L. Cintra, E. A. M. Ferrari

“…The data indicate that telencephalic systems might have an essential function in reversal operant discrimination learning. The structural characteristics of subtelencephalic systems after long-term detelencephalation evidence plastic changes that might be related to functional mechanisms of learning and neural plasticity in pigeons.…”
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A narrative account of third space technology enhanced learning and teaching roles working in Australian higher education by Kate Mitchell, Kashmira Dave, Meredith Hinze, Alex Tsirgialos

“…By discussing our own journeys, not only can we begin to uncover tensions more fully, but we also uncover viable solutions to the way progression pathways, organisational structures and relationships across teams are conceived and leveraged within and across the sector. …”
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The adverse impact of chemo-radiotherapy on the quality of life of oral cancer patients: A review by Rishima Bhutani, Ravindra Singh, Anushka Mishra, Priya Baluni

“…The head and neck carcinomas are close to various bodily structures involved in vital physiological and social activities components. …”
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Deep Learning-Based Post-Stroke Myoelectric Gesture Recognition: From Feature Construction to Network Design by Tianzhe Bao, Zhiyuan Lu, Ping Zhou

“…In this paper, we delve into the potential of deep learning (DL) for post-stroke hand gesture recognition by collecting the sEMG signals of eight chronic stroke subjects, focusing on three primary aspects: feature domains of sEMG (time, frequency, and wavelet), data structures (one or two-dimensional images), and neural network architectures (CNN, CNN-LSTM, and CNN-LSTM-Attention). …”
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Design a Dual Polarizations MIMO Antenna Based on Decoupling Elements for 5G Smart-Phones by Haider Saad, Mahmood F. Mosleh, Raed Abd-Alhameed

“…HFSS is used for designing and simulating the proposed structures, while CST is used for verifying the results. …”
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Effective Resistivity in Relativistic Reconnection: A Prescription Based on Fully Kinetic Simulations by Abigail Moran, Lorenzo Sironi, Aviad Levis, Bart Ripperda, Elias R. Most, Sebastiaan Selvi

“…This resistivity formulation—which relies only on single-fluid MHD quantities—successfully reproduces the spatial structure and strength of nonideal electric fields and thus provides a promising strategy for enhancing the reconnection rate in resistive MHD simulations.…”
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Exploring the potential of an oyster (Saccostrea mordax) in oligotrophic seas: Effects of starvation on physiological and molecular regulation by Shuming Guo, Liqiang Zhao, Yuexin Zhao, Zohaib Noor, Xiaogang Yang, Shiwei Fu, Zhen Zhao, Weitao Wan, Jinkuan Wei, Yanping Qin, Haitao Ma, Ziniu Yu, Jun Li, Yuehuan Zhang

“…On the contrary, most genes in the collagen family, that contribute to the stability of tissue structure, were up-regulated, which may contribute to long-term tolerance to starvation. …”
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Hydraulic fracture propagation characteristics of directional perforation fracturing in horizontal wells for deep coalbed methane by Shuxin HUANG, Song LI, Bo CHEN

“…The study suggests that for fracturing of structurally intact coal seams, increasing perforation depth and density while reducing perforation diameter can achieve better results.…”
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Effect of Nb and Si Content on Phase Stability, Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Sintered Ti–Nb–Si Alloys by Derek Manoel Luup Carvalho, Deivison Daros Paim, Isadora Schramm Deschamps, Claudio Aguilar, Aloísio Nelmo Klein, Francisco Cavilha Neto, Guilherme Oliveira Neves, Cristiano Binder

“…Electron microscopy showed the presence of β phase grains, and grains with β + α intragranular structures and precipitates. Increasing Nb content resulted in a decrease in ultimate tensile strength while increasing Si content from 0.10% to 0.35 wt.% exhibited the opposite effect.…”
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Spectral multiplier theorems for abstract harmonic oscillators on UMD lattices by van Neerven, Jan, Portal, Pierre, Sharma, Himani

“…We consider operators acting on a UMD Banach lattice $X$ that have the same algebraic structure as the position and momentum operators associated with the harmonic oscillator $-\frac{1}{2}\Delta + \frac{1}{2}|x|^{2} $ acting on $L^{2}(\mathbb{R}^{d})$. …”
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Effect of Partial Replacement of NaCl with Salty Pig Bone Peptides on the Quality and Flavor of Low-NaCl Sausages by Li ZHAO, Yuxin CAO, Ziwei SONG, Jiaxin LIAN, Yaxin ZHU, Miaoyun LI, Qingyun BAI, Jun CHEN

“…The findings indicated that sausages supplemented with 1% NaCl+1% SPBP (1% LNS-SPBP) outperformed the control (supplemented with 2% NaCl) in terms of color, appearance, taste and flavor, while tissue structure was comparable to that of the control group. …”
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Photocatalytic Activity of Ag-TiO2 Composites Deposited by Photoreduction under UV Irradiation by Carlos Díaz-Uribe, Jose Viloria, Lorraine Cervantes, William Vallejo, Karen Navarro, Eduard Romero, Cesar Quiñones

“…X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) measurements were used for physicochemical characterization. The structural study showed that all samples were polycrystalline, main phases were anatase and rutile, and no additional signals were detected after surface modification. …”
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Testosterone: Relationships with Metabolic Disorders in Men—An Observational Study from SPECT-China by Jing Cheng, Bing Han, Qin Li, Fangzhen Xia, Hualing Zhai, Ningjian Wang, Michael Jensen, Yingli Lu

“…The strength of associations between total testosterone (TT) and metabolic parameters may vary in different nature of population structure; however, no study has ever given this information in Chinese population, especially those without metabolic syndrome (MS). …”
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The impact of sports experience on manual dexterity performances in school-age children by Antonino Patti, Domenico Savio Salvatore Vicari, Valerio Giustino, Flavia Figlioli, Genny Margherita Seidita, Alessandra Calogera Montalto Monella, Aurora Oddo, Antonio Paoli, Patrik Drid, Ewan Thomas, Antonino Bianco

“…This study indicates that structured sports, such as Capoeira, can have a beneficial impact on improving manual dexterity. …”
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