Systematic Performance Evaluation of Shield TBM Cutters for Excavating Multiple Soft Rock by Chuyuan Cao, Kui Zhang

“…The evaluation results show that the method has an intrinsic applicability in helping to make a reasonable trade-off between cost and cutting performance during the cutter selection process.…”
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On Determinants of Exchange Market Pressure in Turkey: The Role of Model Uncertainty by Gülden Poyraz, Ahmet İncekara

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INTERROGATING ISLAMIC LAW AND POSITIVE LAW AGAINST COUNTERFEIT PRODUCTS IN THE CONSUMER SOCIETY by Iva Faizah, Zulfa Ahmad Kurniawan

“…The ease of getting product with the same quality as the original product but have a minimal price is an advantage for the transaction, but that transaction also brings losses, especially for the owner of patent rights on the trademarks of the products being traded, on the condition that the loss is legally violated and provides criminal penalties and fines for the perpetrators, as well as in the point of view of Islamic law. …”
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Issues of LNG producing companies entering the eastern markets and ways to overcome them by F. A. Ostroumov, V. Ya. Afanasiev

“…As a   result, the study has identified a  number of  challenges for LNG producers, primarily related to   geopolitical complexities, regulatory environment, and market development dynamics, to   innovations, ecological norms, and understanding regional tensions that may impact supply chains and trade agreements. The findings of  the article can be   used when domestic companies develop strategies to  enter the  еastern LNG markets with existing contracts or  expand them.…”
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Ocean in danger: Climate challenges and sustainable solutions by Françoise Gaill

“…The ocean’s resources are vast, diverse and essential, particularly in ensuring our supply of food. Our trade and communication both depend on the ocean. …”
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Renewable Energy Consumption and Economic Growth in Nine OECD Countries: Bounds Test Approach and Causality Analysis by Lin Hung-Pin

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Efectos de los factores de edificabilidad sobre la productividad laboral de moldajes de vigas en fundaciones The effects of buildability factors on formwork labor productivity of g... by Abdulaziz M Jarkas

“…Nonetheless, an extensive search of the literature revealed a dearth of research into its effects on in situ reinforced concrete construction, especially at the formwork trade level. Despite the importance of this trade to in situ reinforced concrete material, the influence of buildability factors on formwork labor productivity of major structural elements are yet to be quantified in measurable terms. …”
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Enhancement and Expansion of the Neural Network-Based Compact Model Using a Binning Method by Jinyoung Choi, Hyunjoon Jeong, Sangmin Woo, Hyungmin Cho, Yohan Kim, Jeong-Taek Kong, Soyoung Kim

“…This results in reduced simulation speed and a trade-off between simulation accuracy, model coverage, and simulation speed makes it difficult to utilize ANN-based compact models in a variety of ways. …”
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Challenges and Economic Implications in the Control of Foot and Mouth Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from the Zambian Experience by Y. Sinkala, M. Simuunza, D. U. Pfeiffer, H. M. Munang’andu, M. Mulumba, C. J. Kasanga, J. B. Muma, A. S. Mweene

“…Foot and mouth disease is one of the world’s most important livestock diseases for trade. FMD infections are complex in nature and there are many epidemiological factors needing clarification. …”
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Study on the Technical Efficiency of Creative Human Capital in China by Three-Stage Data Envelopment Analysis Model by Jian Ma, Yueru Ma, Yong Bai, Bing Xia

“…The expansion of the scale of education, development of healthy environment, growth of GDP, development of skill training, and population migration could reduce the input of creative human capital and promote the technical efficiency, while development of trade and institutional change, on the contrary, would block the input of creative human capital and the promotion the technical efficiency.…”
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Financial Sustainability and Value of Joint-Stock Companies from Food Industry in Central and Eastern Europe by Serhiy Zabolotnyy, Natalia Wasilewska, Mirosław Wasilewski

“…However changes in sources of financing could provoke a trade-off between financial sustainability and enterprise value. …”
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Manufacturer’s Collaborative Business Strategy with Two Different Reverse Channels in a Closed-Loop Supply Chain by Sungwook Yoon, Sukjae Jeong

“…Therefore, manufacturers must determine the appropriate investment strategies to be applied to the two channels by analyzing the trade-offs between these opportunities. For this purpose, we discuss three investment strategies: Revenue-Sharing Investment, Direct Subsidy per Unit Returned Cartridge, and Hybrid Investment. …”
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Optimal Positioning of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Base Stations Using Mixed-Integer Linear Programming by Gowtham Raj Veeraswamy Premkumar, Bryan Van Scoy

“…This approach introduces a trade-off between computational time efficiency and optimality, which can be tuned by adjusting the number of clusters. …”
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Theoretical Study of the Pre-Plasma Density Scale Length’s Influence on the Absorption Efficiency in Laser–Solid Interaction at Relativistic Laser Intensities for PW-Class Lasers... by Iuliana-Mariana Vladisavlevici, Michael Ehret, Evgeny Filippov, Enrique García-García, Cruz Mendez, Marta Olivar Ruíz, Óscar Varela, Luca Volpe, Jose Antonio Pérez-Hernández

“…This effect can be beneficial for the spectral cut-off energy of accelerated protons, where a trade-off between absorption and electron dynamics yields an optimum pre-plasma scale length. …”
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Online hotel ratings and its influence on hotel room rates: the case of Lisbon, Portugal by Conceição Castro, Fernanda A. Ferreira

“…For 151 hotels in Lisbon, from 3 to 5 stars, through a multiple regression model, the results suggest that hotel category, location and facilities ratings have a positive influence on hotel room rates, but higher trade-off between what clients pay and the guest hotel stay experience has a negative impact on the consumer’s willingness to pay, as well as the number of comments. …”
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Sensor fusion with high‐order moments constraints using projection‐based neural network by Yousef Alipouri, Reza Rafati Bonab, Lexuan Zhong

“…The proposed method makes trades off between accuracy and complexity. The other problem, which has not been studied in the literature, is existence of constraints on moments. …”
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Matching Sensing to Actuation and Dynamics in Distributed Sensorimotor Architectures by Zoe Turin, Graham K. Taylor, Holger G. Krapp, Emily Jensen, J. Sean Humbert

“…We additionally present an <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$H_{\infty }$ </tex-math></inline-formula> controller formulation which allows for a trade-off between minimization of actuator effort and robustness versus disturbance rejection and tracking capability, providing design flexibility over the maximally robust controller.…”
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Adaptive Radar Waveform Design Based on Weighted MI and the Difference of Two Mutual Information Metrics by Fengming Xin, Bin Wang, Shumin Li, Xin Song, Chi-Hsu Wang

“…It could provide different trade-offs between two types of MI. Simulation results show the proposed algorithm is valid.…”
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Potential of environmental, social, and governance investment as a hedge in Indonesia during COVID-19 pandemic by Robiyanto Robiyanto, Frieska Dwi Agustina, Intiyas Utami, Budi Frensidy, Andrian Dolfriandra Huruta

“…The ESG indices used were the ESG Leader index and the SRI-KEHATI index, and the conventional indices used were the Composite Stock Price Index (JCI), which were compared against overall market return and the LQ45 index containing 45 stocks actively traded in Indonesia. Using Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) and Quantile Regression (QREG) techniques, the study found that ESG investments cannot act as hedge or safe haven in IDX. …”
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Self-Organized Fission-Fusion Control Algorithm for Flocking Systems Based on Intermittent Selective Interaction by Panpan Yang, Maode Yan, Jiacheng Song, Ye Tang

“…The influences of the main control parameters on the performance of the fission-fusion behavior are also discussed. In particular, the trade-off parameter α balances the exploration (fission) and exploitation (fusion) behaviors of flocking system and significantly enhances its movement flexibility and environmental adaptivity.…”
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