Endogenous Third-Degree Price Discrimination in a Supply Chain with One Common Manufacturer and Duopoly Retailers by Hongmei Yang, Wei Wang

“…Moreover, if a retailer chooses to acquire information and price discriminate, the retail prices for two types of consumers increase with the fraction of high price-sensitivity consumers. …”
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Employee Performance Model Through Work Productivity: Work Professionalism and Training in PT Semen Padang by Dori Mittra Candana, Hapzi Ali, Zefriyenni Zefriyenni

“…A proportional random sampling technique was utilized to choose 296 employees from PT Semen Padang (Persero) Tbk, with the data subsequently examined using SEM-PLS. …”
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ACE2 : S1 RBD Interaction-Targeted Peptides and Small Molecules as Potential COVID-19 Therapeutics by Lennox Chitsike, John Krstenansky, Penelope J. Duerksen-Hughes

“…The COVID-19 pandemic that began in late 2019 continues with new challenges arising due to antigenic drift as well as individuals who cannot or choose not to take the vaccine. There is therefore an urgent need for additional therapies that complement vaccines and approved therapies such as antibodies in the fight to end or slow down the pandemic. …”
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Online Self-Supervised Learning for Accurate Pick Assembly Operation Optimization by Sergio Valdés, Marco Ojer, Xiao Lin

“…The system selects the best-performing model to correct the misalignment and dynamically chooses between corrective strategies and the learned model, optimizing the cycle times and improving the performance during the cycle, without halting the production process. …”
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Project Assignments Assessment in the Content-Integrated Language Course: Stages, Forms, and Online Tools by S. V. Titova

“…Unfortunately, at the current stage, peer-assessment, reflection and self-assessment are a weak point in the educational process, since usually the student does not participate in control and assessment, he is not involved in the process of developing or choosing assessment criteria, in peer and self-assessment, in reflective activity after completing the project assignment or taking a course. …”
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Caring for Form: Ali Smith and Contemporary Refugee Life-Writing by Miriam Nandi

“…This paper explores the ethical dimensions of telling somebody else’s life zooming in on the example of “The Detainee’s Tale as told to Ali Smith.” …”
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Magnetic Resonance Visibility, Artifacts, and Overall Safety of the Self-Locating Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter with a Tungsten Tip by Maurizio Gallieni, Umberto G. Rossi, Massimo Tonolini, Andrea Ianniello, Roberta Miglio, Gianmarco Sabiu, Maurizio Cariati

“…In all sequences, an extensive paramagnetic blooming artifact was detected at the level of the tip tungsten ballast, with a circular artifact of 5 cm in diameter. …”
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Implementation of Vygotsky's Theory of Social Constructivism in Learning Pancasila Education in Elementary Schools As Strengthening Cooperation Attitudes by Ressi Kartika Dewi, Munawir Yusuf, Subagya Subagya

“…Gondangmanis State Elementary School still tends to be selective in choosing their group mates, but after the teacher implements Vygotsky's theory of social constructivism through Pancasila Education learning, students easily blend in with each side regardless of differences. …”
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Supplier Encroachment Channel Selection on an Online Retail Platform by Zongyu Mou, Kaixin Ding, Yaping Fu, Hao Sun

“…To solve this problem, we take one supplier selling products through an indirect reselling channel on a third-party online retail platform (TORP) as the base model, and further consider that the supplier can choose TORP agency selling, the owned channel, or both to encroach onto the online market. …”
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Statistical Analysis of the Possibility of Hail in Northern Zagros by Mohammad Reza Salimi Sobhan, zahra beygom Hejazizadeh, fariba sayadi, fatemeh qaderi

“…Therefore, in order to estimate and estimate the probability of occurrence of this phenomenon, 10 hail data data of 10 synoptic stations of the region were used during the statistical period of 2014- 1992. In choosing the best method for calculating the distribution of precipitation probabilities, different types of probability distributions of discrete random variables were tested by means of both Kolmogorov and Anderson-Darling testsThe results showed that the good Poisson distribution test had a good fit for hail occurrence at a high level of 90.99%. …”
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Balancing Long Lifetime and Satisfying Fairness in WBAN Using a Constrained Markov Decision Process by Yingqi Yin, Fengye Hu, Ling Cen, Yu Du, Lu Wang

“…We formulate the problem of dynamically choosing which sensor should communicate with the AP to maximize network lifetime under the constraint of fairness as a constrained markov decision process (CMDP). …”
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Predicting Changes of the Cultivation Areas for Astamaran and Berhi Cultivars in Iran in the 21st Century by Maryam Afzali, javad khoshhal dastjerdi, Aziz Torahi

“…Global warming in the last century has led planners to design pre-awareness programs and algorithms due to future climatic conditions in order to choose long-lived durable plants that can survive in future environmental conditions and have good economic yield. …”
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Quantum-inspired K-nearest neighbors classifier for enhanced printer source identification in forensic document analysis by Saad M. Darwish, Raad A. Ali, Adel A. Elzoghabi

“…Machine learning models in this field must identify discriminative features that differentiate printers while minimizing noise. In particular, choosing an appropriate distance metric for K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) classifiers is critical and requires experimentation. …”
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Compliance of an Attorney’s Professional Profile with the Current Legislation by O. G. Yushkevych

“…It has been noted that an important step in choosing an attorney’s profession is to study the attorney’s professional profile as a comprehensive characteristic of advocacy with the description of specific features of this profession. …”
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Entre Paris et les Tropiques, le rôle inattendu des Instituts Pasteur dans la naissance de la psychologie animale pendant la période coloniale by Marion Thomas

“…At a time animal intelligence was blooming in France and elsewhere, apes became not only an attractive research model for psychological studies, but also were appealing to biomedical studies. …”
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“High energy ahead!”: exploring Chinese adolescents’ pragmatic identities in bullet-screen discourse by Jue Wu

“…By selecting Bilibili as the research site and carefully choosing six representative bullet-screen videos as analytical samples, the study examines the bullet-screen content in detail, revealing that adolescents can flexibly construct multiple pragmatic identities within this instant interactive discourse system. …”
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Algorithm for preliminary processing of charge coupled devices array data based on the adaptive Wiener filter by Hl. S. Litvinovich, I. I. Bruchkouski

“…The researcher should choose the modes of recording spectra which allow to achieve the highest accuracy of spectral measurements in remote sensing systems. …”
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Compressed Sensing Based Apple Image Measurement Matrix Selection by Ying Xiao, Wanlin Gao, Ganghong Zhang, Han Zhang

“…Real time acquiring and transmitting apple image has great importance for monitoring the growth of fruit trees and efficiently picking apple. This paper firstly chooses sym5 wavelet base as apple image sparse transformation base, and then it uses Gaussian random matrices, Bernoulli random matrices, Partial Orthogonal random matrices, Partial Hadamard matrices, and Toeplitz matrices to measure apple images, respectively. …”
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Gender and affiliation differences in topic selection in U.S. congressional speeches by Lenard Dragana Božić, Omazić Marija

“…Further correlation test results recorded subtler differences which pointed to linguistic changes in stereotypization, such as women signaling less emotion and choosing more formal ways of expression.…”
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF KIDNAPPING ON THE COMMUNITY: A CASE STUDY OF ZURMI, ZAMFARA STATE by FAISAL MUHAMMAD

“…RCT sees individuals as rational actors, capable of making their own choices, which includes choosing to commit crime. Before kidnappers go into the menace, they must have weighed the options and concluded more rewards than punishment. …”
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