External Relations of Russian Border Regions by L. R. Rustamova

“…Intrastate regions affect interstate relations by strengthening their cultural, trade, and economic ties, often contributing to the intensification of interstate dialogue. …”
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Modeling of investment attractiveness of countries using entropy analysis of regional stock markets by H. Danylchuk, N. Chebanova, N. Reznik, Y. Vitkovskyi

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Serological Investigation of Akabane Virus Infection in Cattle and Sheep in Nigeria by Daniel Oladimeji Oluwayelu, Comfort Oluladun Aiki-Raji, Emmanuel Chibuzor Umeh, Samat Odunayo Mustapha, Adebowale Idris Adebiyi

“…An overall seropositivity of 70.1% (129/184) was obtained with antibodies being detectable in 73.8% of abattoir (trade) cattle and 40.0% in farm cattle, while 4.3% (8/184) seropositivity was observed in sheep. …”
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Designing Load-Bearing Bio-Inspired Materials for Simultaneous Static Properties and Dynamic Damping: Multi-Objective Optimization for Micro-Structure by Bo Dong, Yunfei Jia, Wei Wang

“…Moreover, the optimal design of bio-inspired composites needs to take into account the trade-offs between various mechanical properties. …”
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Anachronism in using the notion of “an entrepreneur” to refer to a mandatory participant of a public contract by E. V. Vakulovych

“…Thus, it has been noted that in case of retail trade, legal entities and individuals-entrepreneurs directly enter into a public contract only if their individual, independent and original economic activity involves the exchange of goods of an industrial and technical nature or intended to meet the personal needs of society to another specific commodity – money. …”
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Text to Realistic Image Generation with Attentional Concatenation Generative Adversarial Networks by Linyan Li, Yu Sun, Fuyuan Hu, Tao Zhou, Xuefeng Xi, Jinchang Ren

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Optimizing fast charging protocols for lithium-ion batteries using reinforcement learning: Balancing speed, efficiency, and longevity by Khairy Sayed, Mahmoud Aref, Mishari Metab Almalki, Mahmoud A. Mossa

“…Slower profiles, on the other hand, improve long-term battery health and efficiency by controlling temperature and minimizing deterioration, even though they require longer charging times.The RL-based approach balances quick charging with battery preservation by implementing a reward system that penalizes dangerous conditions like high voltage or temperature in order to lessen these trade-offs. These results highlight the necessity of sophisticated charging processes to maximize efficiency in battery-dependent systems, such as electric cars and portable devices.…”
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Oil palm in the 2020s and beyond: challenges and solutions by Denis J. Murphy, Kirstie Goggin, R. Russell M. Paterson

“…Abstract Background Oil palm, Elaeis guineensis, is by far the most important global oil crop, supplying about 40% of all traded vegetable oil. Palm oils are key dietary components consumed daily by over three billion people, mostly in Asia, and also have a wide range of important non-food uses including in cleansing and sanitizing products. …”
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Energy-Dominated Local Carbon Emissions in Beijing 2007: Inventory and Input-Output Analysis by Shan Guo, J. B. Liu, Ling Shao, J. S. Li, Y. R. An

“…For greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by Beijing economy 2007, a concrete emission inventory covering carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) is presented and associated with an input-output analysis to reveal the local GHG embodiment in final demand and trade without regard to imported emissions. The total direct GHG emissions amount to 1.06E + 08 t CO2-eq, of which energy-related CO2 emissions comprise 90.49%, non-energy-related CO2 emissions 6.35%, CH4 emissions 2.33%, and N2O emissions 0.83%, respectively. …”
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Effects of Rising Rural Labor Prices on Land Use Pattern: Evidence from Grain Production in China by Tianyu Gu, Xinyi Liu, Ziqi Cao, Wencong Lu

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Can digital governance stimulate green development? Evidence from the program of “pilot cities regarding information for public well-being” in China by Xuxin Zou, Jiadi Min, Shuang Meng, Wenguan Dai, Xinyang Li

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Technological Evolution of Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Structural Health Monitoring of Bridges in Peru: History, Challenges, and Opportunities by Carlos Cacciuttolo, Esteban Muñoz, Andrés Sotil

“…In this sense, there is a permanent need to provide connectivity and promote trade between communities through road bridge infrastructure. …”
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On Harmonizing the External Economic Policy among the Countries of the Common Economic Space: Problems and Prospects by E. S. Ratushnyak

“…The paper finds the main tax policy directions of harmonization of customs union countries focused on eliminating of the barriers and for easy the implementation of a process for foreign trade enterprises, the development of the participating countries investment attractiveness, the enhancing the products competitiveness, the development of the export activities efficiency on the whole for the formation of the common customs area. …”
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Réflexions sur les variations, dans le temps et dans l'espace, des ressources alimentaires de deux espèces sympatriques de semnopithèques by Claude Marcel Hladik, Annette Hladik

“…P. entellus lived in larger groups, moved longer distances in larger territories of 10-15 ha, and fed from more different plant species with higher average food quality The trade-off between living on lower-quality, more abundant foods, entailing diminished movement over small territories, and living on a higher diversity of higher quality foods that require moving further and defending larger territories, was discussed in terms of taste perception, based either on satiety or on immediate sensory reward. …”
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About a concept of creating a social network users information aggregation and data processing system by L. V. Rudikova, O. R. Myslivec

“…The developed universal system is based on the information technology of data warehousing, and it has the following aspects: an expandable complex subject area, the integration of stored data that come from various sources, the invariance of stored data in time with mandatory labels, relatively high data stability, the search for necessary trade-off in data redundancy, modularity of individual system units, fl and extensibility of the architecture, high security requirements vulnerable data.The proposed system organizes the process of collecting data and filling the database from external sources. …”
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A comparison of valuation methods for cultural ecosystem services in support of ecosystem accounting by Anna Bronzes, Lars Hein, Rolf Groeneveld, Alim Pulatov

“…Valuation of such services requires a non-market approach as they are not traded on markets and, thus, have no directly observable market price. …”
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Symbiotic Root-Endophytic Soil Microbes Improve Crop Productivity and Provide Environmental Benefits by Gary E. Harman, Norman Uphoff

“…Reductions in global greenhouse gas levels can be accelerated by incentives for carbon farming and carbon cap-and-trade programs that reward such climate-friendly agriculture. …”
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Protocol for a cluster randomized study to compare the effectiveness of a self-report distress tool and a mental health referral service to usual case management on program complet... by Shawna Bailey, Carrie Stoner, Kelly Cruise, Giulio DiDiodato

“…<h4>Participants</h4>Students enrolled in Community Builder's Trades & Diversity Training Program in either the city of Barrie or Sudbury (in Ontario, Canada) will be eligible for enrollment if they have an active Ontario Health Insurance Plan number and Canadian Social Insurance Number and provide written informed consent prior to Training program commencement.…”
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Prospering the ASEAN Community: How Micro-Region Becomes a Driving Force Prosperity in Indonesia’s Border Area? by Fitrisia Munir, Yanyan Mohammad Yani, Rendi Prayuda, Artha Yudilla, Dini Tiara Sasmi

“…Transnational activities have contributed to the trade development and optimization of each country’s local production, a strategic goal, and micro-regions have emerged as critical players in this activity. …”
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Stability Improvement of an Efficient Graphene Nanoribbon Field-Effect Transistor-Based SRAM Design by Mathan Natarajamoorthy, Jayashri Subbiah, Nurul Ezaila Alias, Michael Loong Peng Tan

“…The transistor sizing constraint affects conventional 6T SRAM in a trade-off in access and write stability. This paper investigates on the stability performance in retention, access, and write mode of 15 nm GNRFET-based 6T and 8T SRAM cells with that of 16 nm FinFET and 16 nm MOSFET. …”
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