THE ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF TOUR OPERATORS IN ITALY, FRANCE AND SPAIN: SOME COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE by Guido Migliaccio, Maria Calvanese

“…The average trend of two indices is illustrated: the Return on Assets (ROA) and the Current Ratio. The data were subjected to extensive statistical processing. To compare differences between countries, Anova and, where necessary, Tukey-Kramer methods were used. …”
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No evidence tube entrapment distresses rodents in typical empathy tests by Dwi Atmoko Agung Nugroho, Sri Kusrohmaniah, Emma Pilz, Clare Krikorian, David Kearns, Burton Slotnick, Maria Gomez, Alan Silberberg

“…For the first two min of each of four 20-min sessions, trapped-group subjects were permitted to move about the chamber unless they entered the tube. …”
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AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING: IS THE EU CONSUMER LAW FIT FOR THE EMERGING TECHNOLOGY? by Monica CALU

“…In light of this issue, this article explores the relationship between AI, ADM and discusses whether existing EU consumer law is equipped to deal with situations where AI systems are either used for internal purposes by companies or offered to consumers as the main subject of the contract. The paper will reveal a number of gaps in current EU consumer law and briefly discuss future legislation. …”
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The Role of Madrasah Principal in Maintaining the Existence of Madrasah Diniyyah Takmiliyah in Tamban Catur District by Nurul Hikmah, Cindy Marcelinna Putri, Muhammad Redha Anshari

“…This research is qualitative research located in MDTA Thoriqossadah, Tamban Catur District. The subject of this research is the head of the madrasah. …”
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Novel Anthropometric Indices as Screening Tools for Obesity: A Study on Healthy Iranians by Toktam Alirezaei, Hamid Soori, Rana Irilouzadian, Hadis Najafimehr

“…In our 2,812 participants, NC had the lowest area under the curve (AUC) in both male and female obese and overweight subjects. NHtR and hip circumference (HC) had the highest AUC in men and women with obesity, respectively. …”
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Interpretation of airborne radiometric data of flamingo field, Southwestern Nigeria by T. O Lawal, O. Fawale, J. A. Sunday, G. B. Egbeyale

“…To achieve this, the data was subjected to rigorous qualitative and quantitative interpretation. …”
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On the Boundary Conditions in Out-of-Plane Analysis of Thin Plates by the Finite Point Method by Sadegh Tavakoliyan, Mohamad Najar, Parham Memarzadeh, Tadeh Zirakian

“…This study thoroughly investigates the elastic FPM analysis of thin plates subjected to transverse loadings, focusing specifically on various boundary conditions (BCs). …”
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Suicide Attempters Compared to Intentional Self-Harm Have a Severe Suicidal Intention and Poorer Reasons for Living Soon after Their Attempts: A Hospital-Based Cross-Sectional Stud... by Anand Bhogaraju, Korem Anusha, Preethi Gudlavallety

“…Background: Suicidal intent after an attempt remains high, while in some studies, a cathartic effect was reported. Many subjects do not take adequate precautions despite a previous attempt. …”
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Purpose built catheters for minimally invasive surfactant therapy: Experience from a Canadian tertiary level neonatal intensive care unit by Talib Al Harthy, Michael R Miller, Orlando daSilva, Soume Bhattacharya

“…Overall, the success rate was equally high with both catheters. Users subjectively reported higher ease of use with SurfCath™. …”
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Legal and regulatory aspects of improving the sanctions policy of Ukraine by K. L. Buhaichuk

“…The US experience with the introduction of “secondary sanctions” is interesting, when a natural or legal person cooperating with sanctioned organizations or individuals may be subject to US economic sanctions. The content of the Law of Ukraine “On Sanctions” and the practice of its implementation through the decisions of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, which are enacted by Decrees of the President of Ukraine. …”
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Tear film parameters and meibography in eyes of children with vernal keratoconjunctivitis by Ruchi Gupta, Ritu Arora, Isha Gupta, Parul Jain

“…Methods: Forty-four eyes of 22 patients with VKC and 44 eyes of 22 age-matched controls were studied in a hospital-based cross-sectional study. Each subject underwent a complete ophthalmological examination including slit-lamp biomicroscopy, non-invasive break-up time (NIBUT), fluorescein break-up time (FBUT), corneal fluorescein staining, and Schirmer’s test. …”
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Quality of life related to age and economic income in diabetic older adults. Chillan, Chile, 2019 by David Isaac Caamaño Valderrama, Claudia Andrea Concha Navarro, Yocelin Belén Del Canto Celis, Gustavo Alberto Dupré Orias, Ismael Morales Ojeda, Paulina Segura Hernández

“…<p><strong>Background</strong>: suffering from diabetes can influence the perception of the individual himself and change his daily routine, thus affecting his quality of life; Based on this, the deepening of the subject is of great importance.<br /><strong>Objective</strong>: to determine the relationship between quality of life, age and income in older adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus.…”
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Labor productivity within the framework of the Labor Productivity and Employment Support national project by N. Z. Zotikov

“…The purpose of the study is to analyze the labor productivity state in the process of implementing the Labor Productivity and Employment Support project.   The subject of the study is labor productivity at the micro- and macrolevels, in individual industries and regions.   …”
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Reading from paper, computers, and tablets in the first grade: The role of comprehension monitoring by Elena Florit, Pietro De Carli, Antonio Rodà, Kate Cain, Lucia Mason

“…This study investigated whether the inferiority of screen-based reading from computers and handheld devices for informational texts is evident in beginner readers and related to comprehension monitoring skills. In a within-subjects design, first graders' (N = 58; Mage = 6.8 years) comprehension of main point, literal and inferential information was assessed using one narrative and one informational (i.e., descriptive) text read on paper, computer (laptop), and tablet. …”
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WearMoCap: multimodal pose tracking for ubiquitous robot control using a smartwatch by Fabian C. Weigend, Neelesh Kumar, Oya Aran, Heni Ben Amor

“…We evaluate all modes on large-scale datasets consisting of recordings from up to 8 human subjects using a range of consumer-grade devices. Further, we discuss real-robot applications of underlying works and evaluate WearMoCap in handover and teleoperation tasks, resulting in performances that are within 2 cm of the accuracy of the gold-standard motion capture system. …”
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Towards the improvement of project team performance based on large language models by Mykyta Rohovyi, Marina Grinchenko

“…The subject of the study is a method for identifying poor quality project sprint task descriptions to improve team performance and reduce project risks. …”
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The effect of palatine tonsil size on occlusion among 10- 12 years students in erbil city. by Hozan Farid Tawfiq, Omar Fawzi Chawshli

“…Data on the possibility of a relationship between enlarged tonsils and the occurrence of malocclusions are subjective. The purpose of this study was to seek an association between the space occupied by the palatine tonsils and the dental arch measurements. …”
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Role of prescribed medication in the development of iron deficiency anaemia in adults—a case–control study by Orouba Almilaji, Jonathon Snook, Kiran Prabhu, Elizabeth Williams, Frazer Warricker

“…Objective To estimate the strength of association between exposure to selected classes of prescribed medications and the risk of developing iron deficiency anaemia (IDA), specifically considering oral anticoagulants (OACs), antidepressants, antiplatelet agents, proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and non-steroidal anti-inflammatories.Design A case–control study involving the analysis of community repeat prescriptions among subjects referred with IDA, and unmatched controls referred as gastroenterology fast-tracks for other indications. …”
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TurkMedNLI: a Turkish medical natural language inference dataset through large language model based translation by İskender Ülgen Oğul, Fatih Soygazi, Belgin Ergenç Bostanoğlu

“…Consequently, NLI pairs are refined with extracted abbreviations and subjected to metric correction. Later, the processed sentences are then translated using Facebook’s No Language Left Behind (NLLB) translation model. …”
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TAX ADMINISTRATION STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE OF STATE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICES IN SOUTH-WEST NIGERIA by Mubaraq Sanni, Samuel Kayode Adekunle, Abdul Garba

“…The obtained quantitative data was subjected to both descriptive analysis and Partial Least Squares (PLS-SEM) regression analysis. …”
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