Conceptual Advancements in Infrastructure Maintenance and Management Using Smart Contracts: Reducing Costs and Improving Resilience by Valentina Villa, Luca Gioberti, Marco Domaneschi, Necati Catbas

“…The civil engineering sector operates within a complex ecosystem of stakeholders, requiring efficient management and maintenance of structural and infrastructural assets. …”
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Mothers Fear from Caesarean Section in Kirkuk City by Hewa Sittar Salih

“…Methodology: A descriptive study of a quantitative design was carried out at Azadi teaching hospital and Kirkuk general hospital in Kirkuk governorate for women after caesarean birth June 5th2013 to April 31st2014. …”
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Hematological Malignancies Escape from NK Cell Innate Immune Surveillance: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Implications by Laure Farnault, Carole Sanchez, Céline Baier, Thérèse Le Treut, Régis T. Costello

“…A challenge of immunotherapy is to restore an efficient antitumor response. A combination of classical therapy plus immune modulation strategies will soon become a standard of care for hematological malignancies.…”
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Data-Driven Customer Retention Strategies in E-Commerce: A Fuzzy Z-Number Approach by Siyin Hu, An Chen

“…The outcomes show better efficiency in terms of precision, which is equal to 0.98, and accuracy of 97.2%, showing improvements compared to the previous methods. …”
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Research on Decision of Echelon Utilization of Retired Power Batteries Under Government Regulation by Xudong Deng, Xiaoyu Zhang, Yong Wang, Lihui Wang

“…The results show that a “low-subsidy, high-penalty” mechanism can more effectively guide enterprises to prioritize echelon utilization and that moderate consumer usage significantly improves battery reuse efficiency. This study enriches the application of the evolutionary game theory in the field of battery recycling and provides quantitative evidence and practical insights for policy formulation.…”
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Progress in Regenerative Cooling and Coking Carbon Accumulation of High-Density Heat-Absorbing Hydrocarbon Fuels by Ma Zhengzheng, Mao Qian, Cheng Yifan, Shi Baolu, Wang Ningfei

“…Regenerative cooling has emerged as a cost-efficient and thermodynamically viable strategy for extreme thermal protection in hypersonic propulsion systems. …”
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Microbial biosensors for environmental monitoring by David VOGRINC, Maša VODOVNIK, Romana MARINŠEK-LOGAR

“…Linking this response with the quantitative data, using a transducer, is the crucial step in the construction of a biosensor. …”
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Basketball shooting motion analysis according to the BEEF concept by Ahmad Panji Ramadhan, Fajar Awang Irawan

“…BEEF is a shooting concept that makes it easier for athletes to understand and handle shots properly and correctly with the advantage of being more efficient and effective in the shooting. The methods in this study use quantitative descriptive by using survey methods with test and measurement techniques to collect data.  …”
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Decomposed Linear Dynamical Systems (dLDS) models reveal instantaneous, context-dependent dynamic connectivity in C. elegans by Eva Yezerets, Noga Mudrik, Adam S. Charles

“…By analyzing individual worms and neurons, we found that (1) changes in interneuron connectivity mediate efficient task-switching and (2) changes in sensory neuron connectivity show a mechanism of adaptation.…”
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Cultural Imprints on Urban Housing: A Spatial Analysis of Apartment Designs in Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa by Jung Yun Choi, Jaepil Choi

“…By applying Space Syntax, a quantitative analysis tool, this study examines how cultural factors distinctly influence the layout of apartments. …”
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Biomimetic Sulfide Oxidation by the Means of Immobilized Fe(III)-5,10,15,20-tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)porphin under Mild Experimental Conditions by Paolo Zucca, Gianmarco Cocco, Manuela Pintus, Antonio Rescigno, Enrico Sanjust

“…Further studies are in progress to drive sulfate yields up to nearly quantitative.…”
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Hybrid storage engine for geospatial data using NoSQL and SQL paradigms by José A. Herrera-Ramírez, Marlen Treviño-Villalobos, Leonardo Víquez-Acuña

“…These requirements can change, or  some operations may be performed in a more efficient way on another database engine, so using just one engine means being tied to its features and work model. …”
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Boosting human resource professionalism in change leadership to foster organizational commitment by Nguyen Minh Ha, Pham Thi Diem

“…Design/methodology/approach This research utilized a quantitative method to analyze the data from 1,058 employees working in 24 sustainable enterprises in Vietnam by PLS-SEM. …”
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THE SYSTEM OF HYBRID FORECAST MODELS FOR SYTUATIONAL CENTERS OF REGIONAL ADMINISTRATION BODIES AND THEIR APPLICATION IN EDUCATION by Olga V. Kitova, Ludmila P. Dyakonova, Victoria M. Savinova

“…The efficient system of state strategic management provides a foundation for competitive economy. …”
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Using AHP to prioritize flood mitigation measures in urban areas by Nugraha Nur Budi, Puspaningrum Alifia, Santosa Yaqutina Marjani

“…The research employs a waterfall method with a quantitative approach, integrating AHP into a comprehensive flood mitigation information system. …”
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Features of Compressed Natural Gas Physical Distribution: A Bulgarian Case Study by Miroslav Stefanov

“…Building a competitive and resource-efficient transportation system involves the achievement of a number of ambitious goals. …”
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Risks and Strategies of China’s Direct Investment in Central Asia from the Perspective of Big Data by Jiong Huang

“…At the same time, we also need to seize the opportunity of the development of digital economy, and gradually establish a scientific and efficient investment model to effectively avoid the risk of direct investment.…”
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Research of Trend Gastro Diplomacy in Indonesia by Humairah Muljabar

“…Gastrodiplomacy, as a form of cultural diplomacy, can play a bigger and more efficient role in increasing awareness of the nation's image and building national identity through food. …”
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Proposal for an analytical model of materiality in the Global Reporting Initiative Standards reports by Igor Laguna Vieira, Elmo Rodrigues da Silva, Luiz Carlos de Martini Junior, Luis Alberto Duncan Rangel

“…Originality The published literature contains few studies that propose quantitative models for the assessment of materiality for sustainability reports. …”
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Urban change detection of remote sensing images via deep-feature extraction by Haiying Wang, Mingzhong Wu

“…In this study, we propose an efficient model called BiUnet-Dense for extracting deep features by integrating the advantages of Bi-Unet, Dense Block, and long short-term memory (LSTM) networks. …”
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