Sustainable Competitive Advantage: A Survey of Companies in Southern Brazil by Julio Cesar Ferro de Guimarães, Eliana Andréa Severo, César Ricardo Maia de Vasconcelos

“…This study aims at identifying the relationship between sustainable competitive advantage and organizational performance, as well as measuring the relationship of environmental sustainability and social responsibility as attributes of sustainable competitive advantage. In order to achieve that, a survey was carried out in 1496 different size companies and activity sectors in Brazil. …”
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Thermal Comfort for Urban Parks in Subtropics: Understanding Visitor’s Perceptions, Behavior and Attendance by Chuang-Hung Lin, Tzu-Ping Lin, Ruey-Lung Hwang

“…The paper is an effort toward thermal comfort assessment for urban parks under the climatic conditions of Taiwan to help architects achieve better climatic design. Field interviews, observations, and micrometeorological measurements were conducted in this study. …”
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Development of an optimal process for friction stir welding based on GA-RSM hybrid algorithm by Nabi Mehri Khansari, Filippo Berto, Namdar Karimi, S.M.N Ghoreishi, Mahdi Fakoor, Mozhgan Mokari

“…The results show that GA-RSM could be an effective approach to achieve optimized process for FSW with minimum cost…”
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Cooperation mechanism of multi-agent system driven by utility by Han-bing DENG, Xia ZHANG, Ji-ren LIU

“…Meanwhile, driven by utility, group task income can achieve the optimum, which enhances the cooperation efficiency of agent groups. …”
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Rotating Machine Fault Diagnosis Based on Optimal Morphological Filter and Local Tangent Space Alignment by Shaojiang Dong, Lili Chen, Baoping Tang, Xiangyang Xu, Zhengyuan Gao, Juan Liu

“…Results show that the method can effectively remove the noise and extract the fault features, so the rotating machine fault diagnosis can be achieved effectively.…”
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Inhaled Corticosteroid Therapy Does Not Control Asthma by Robert L Cowie, Margot F Underwood, Stephen K Field

“…BACKGROUND: Randomized clinical trials demonstrate efficacy and show that inhaled corticosteroid therapy can control asthma, but details concerning their effectiveness in achieving this goal in the community are lacking.…”
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Transition to competent oral feeding in preterm infants: Analyzing timing and determinants by Gabriela Bolea Muguruza, Cristina de Frutos Martínez, M. Teresa Tamayo Martínez, Judith Martín Corral

“…Introduction: The achievement of oral feeding competence (OFC) is a challenge in preterm infants and can be affected by several factors. …”
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Evaluation of Hafıza-i Saltanat theater play and activities in terms of history teaching by Muhammet Ahmet Tokdemir, Gülin Karabağ, Cemile Açıl

“…Then, the play was examined in the context of historical reality, 10th grade history course curriculum achievements and textbooks, and the activities of the play were examined with student opinions in the context of age, level, knowledge, skills and 10th grade history course curriculum achievements. …”
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DRCO: Dense-Label Refinement and Cross Optimization for Semi-Supervised Object Detection by Yunlong Qin, Yanjun Li, Feifan Ji, Yan Liu, Yu Wang, Ji Xiang

“…DRCO achieves 27.31% mAP with only 1% COCO labeled data, which is approximately 1.24% mAP higher than the previous state-of-the-art. …”
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ILN-YOLOv8: A Lightweight Image Recognition Model for Crimped Wire Connectors by Xiaojian Zhou, Jicheng Kan, Nur Fatin Liyana Mohd Rosely, Xu Duan, Jiajing Cai, Zihan Zhou

“…To address this, we propose an Improved Lightweight Network based on YOLOv8 (ILN-YOLOv8) to achieve high-precision and high-efficiency detection of crimped wire connectors. …”
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The effect of social support on academic performance among adolescents: The chain mediating roles of self-efficacy and learning engagement. by Xiangping Zhang, Wensheng Qian

“…This study aims to examine the correlation between social support and academic achievement among Chinese middle school students, framed within the Social Cognitive Theory. …”
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Impact of pathological complete response on survival in gastric cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy: a propensity score matching analysis by Yonghe Chen, Jiasheng He, Jiabo Zheng, Yi Lin, Huashe Wang, Lei Lian, Junsheng Peng

“…Better tumor differentiation was the only pre-treatment factor significantly associated with achieving pCR (p < 0.001). Conclusion In this retrospective study, LAGC patients who achieved pCR after NAC demonstrated significantly better survival outcomes compared to other response groups. …”
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Research on pipeline-type power frequency electromagnetic heating system and multi-layer winding based power regulation method by Feng Zhou, Longyun Liu, Zixuan Wang, Xin Tong, Yanping Liu

“…From this, the optimal hollow radius of the core structure was determined, achieving a saving ratio of approximately 36.52 %. …”
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The Uncoupling of Disease Activity from Joint Structural Progression in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Treated with Filgotinib by Yoshiya Tanaka, Tatsuya Atsumi, Daniel Aletaha, Hendrik Schulze-Koops, Haruhiko Fukada, Chris Watson, Tsutomu Takeuchi

“…Abstract Introduction While modern treatments can prevent progressive bone destruction in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) achieving clinical remission, it is unclear whether residual clinical activity may cause or be associated with progressive joint damage. …”
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Numerical simulation of an HTL-free carbon-based perovskite solar cell with graphitic carbon nitride doped zinc oxide as electron transport layers by Joseph Kariuki, Nicholas Rono, Chinedu Christian Ahia, Eric Kibagendi Osoro, Edson L. Meyer

“…The optimal density defect of the absorber was maintained at 1.0×1012 cm−3, while the donor doping density of the ETL was achieved at 1.5×1022 cm−3 doping level. Utilization of palladium as the back contact led to achievement of a higher efficiency. …”
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Association Between Patient-Reported Pain and Remission or Low Disease Activity in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Data from RA-BE-REAL Prospective Observational Study by Peter C. Taylor, Walid Fakhouri, Samuel Ogwu, Ewa Haladyj, Inmaculada de la Torre, Bruno Fautrel, Rieke Alten, Peter Nash, Eugen Feist

“…More patients on baricitinib achieved pain improvement in all analyzed thresholds than patients in cohort B-TNFi and B-OMA at 3 M. …”
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A Classifier Model Using Fine-Tuned Convolutional Neural Network and Transfer Learning Approaches for Prostate Cancer Detection by Murat Sarıateş, Erdal Özbay

“…Among the TL models, Vgg19 achieved the highest accuracy rate at 92.74%. In comparison, ViT achieved an accuracy of 93.55%, while MaxViT-v2 achieved an accuracy of 95.16%. …”
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An Improved Topology of Isolated Bidirectional Resonant DC-DC Converter Based on Wide Bandgap Transistors for Electric Vehicle Onboard Chargers by Md. Tanvir Shahed, A. B. M. Harun-Ur Rashid

“…Gallium nitride (GaN) switching device-based designs achieved the highest levels of efficiency among the switching devices. …”
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Employees Team Work and Performance of Organizations in Kabale District: A Case Study of Kabale District Local Government. by Akansasira, Mathius

“…The study revealed that the benefits of employee teamwork of organization in Kabale district include; team exists to achieve a shared goal, boundedness means the team has an identifiable membership, members of group usua'!…”
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Leveraging artificial intelligence to meet the sustainable development goals by Ziemba Ewa Wanda, Duong Cong Doanh, Ejdys Joanna, Gonzalez-Perez Maria Alejandra, Kazlauskaitė Ruta, Korzynski Pawel, Mazurek Grzegorz, Paliszkiewicz Joanna, Stankevičienė Jelena, Wach Krzysztof

“…Aim/purpose – This study aims to identify the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with specific reference to their targets, and to present good practices in this regard.…”
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