Italy's excellence in research by Rosaria Ciriminna, Cristina Della Pina, Mario Pagliaro

“…The critical analysis of the results may inform policy efforts aimed at opening up a positive long-term economic development perspective for Italy. …”
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Through the lens of Good Participatory Practice: Findings and lessons learned from the healthcare worker subcommittee of the COVID-19 Healthcare Worker Exposure Response and Outcom... by Mei Lin Chen-Lim, Jayne F. Koellhoffer, Kisha Batey Turner, Martha Summerlin, Anoop George, Eileen Handberg, Daryl Lawrence, Syed Hasan Naqvi, Emily O’Brien, Lauren Cohen, Patty McAdams, Laura Webb, Renee Leverty

“…This experience demonstrated the importance of having participants’ input as expert advisors to an investigative team in their research efforts during a global health emergency.…”
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Evaluating Sampling Designs to Survey Fish Diversity in Lakes From Northern Temperate Zones by Erik García‐Machado, Eric Normandeau, Guillaume Côté, Isabeau Caza‐Allard, Charles Babin, Louis Bernatchez

“…However, the effect of variables such as sampling effort and sampling design still requires consideration. …”
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Biological characteristics of bream (Abramis brama Linnaeus, 1758) of the Kremenchuk Reservoir as an object of commercial fishery by N. Rudyk-Leuska, O. Buzevych, M. Leuskyi, I. Burjak

“…The total amount of analyzed fishing effort was 3210 net days, of which mass measurements were conducted on 12086 breams and 692 breams were collected for full biological analysis. …”
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A Decision Model Assessing the Owner and Contractor’s Conflict Behaviors in Construction Projects by Guangdong Wu, Huanming Wang, Ruidong Chang

“…The results showed that the effort levels of the owner and contractor not only relate to benefit-sharing coefficient and effort outcome coefficient but also depend on the contractor’s ability of converting the conflict into benefit and the loss caused by conflict behaviors. …”
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Inventory and Ordering Decisions in Dual-Channel Supply Chains Involving Free Riding and Consumer Switching Behavior with Supply Chain Financing by Senyu Xu, Huajun Tang, Zhijun Lin

“…This work investigates the effects of two typical behaviors, free riding behavior and consumer switching behavior, on inventory, ordering, and sales effort decisions in decentralized and centralized decision situations with stochastic demand. …”
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Joint Inventory, Pricing, and Advertising Decisions with Surplus and Stockout Loss Aversions by Bing-Bing Cao, Zhi-Ping Fan, Hongyan Li, Tian-Hui You

“…Under endogenous price case, the optimal policy is determined under mild conditions; we also provide the solutions when order quantity factor or advertising effort level is fixed in this case. In addition, the sensitivity analysis shows that the loss aversions affect the optimal decisions of order quantity, price, and advertising effort level in a systematic way.…”
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An Analysis of Indonesia’s Free and Active COVID-19 Vaccine Diplomacy by Raden Mas Try Ananto Djoko Wicaksono, Fajar Bambang Hirawan, Safendrri Komara Ragamustari

“…The study's aims to examine Indonesia's effort to procure COVID-19 vaccine while maintaining free and active principles and analyze the importance of free and active vaccine diplomacy to ensure the country's independence. …”
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Territorio nacional, cartografía y poder en la Nueva Granada (Colombia) a mediados del siglo XIX by Lucía Duque Muñoz

“…One of the main events of Colombian cartography history in XIX century is the effort to represent the territory of the country as a whole.The aim of this effort was to sketch the national territory’s border with other neighbor states, its geography and its internal political divisions. …”
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Maurice Denis dans la Grande Guerre by Fabienne Stahl

“…Although he was found medically unfit to serve on the front line, the patriotic élan he felt led him to become involved in the war effort: he was mobilised as a railway guard in Conches (Eure) and was subsequently attached to the military administration in Evreux in 1914-1915; drawings and paintings bear witness to this confused and unsettled period for the artist. …”
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Le sanctuaire suburbain d’Augustodunum de la Genetoye à Autun (Saône-et-Loire) : apport de l’approche combinée de données spatialisées à la restitution du théâtre antique du Haut d... by Gilles Bossuet, Antoine Louis, Filipe Ferreira, Yannick Labaune, Clément Laplaige

“…The first investigations undertaken on the site of the antique theatre Haut du Verger at Autun (Saône-et-Loire), in 2013, were followed by an unusual joint effort between an architecture specialist, geophysicians and archaeologists. …”
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Improved PESA algorithm based on comentropy by Kun WANG, Lin-lin WANG, Yan LIU, Yu-hua ZHANG, Meng WU

“…Simula-tion results show that the computational effort of C-PESA increases linearly with the rising number of solutions. …”
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Language engineering for the Semantic Web: a digital library for endangered languages. Endangered languages, Ontology, Digital library, Multimedia, EMELD, Intelligent querying and... by Lu Shiyong, Liu Dapeng

“…In this paper, we describe the effort undertaken at Wayne State University to preserve endangered languages using the state-of-the-art information technologies. …”
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Multiple Control Strategies for Prevention of Avian Influenza Pandemic by Roman Ullah, Gul Zaman, Saeed Islam

“…To do this, we use three control functions, the effort to reduce the number of contacts with human infected with mutant avian influenza, the antiviral treatment of infected individuals, and the effort to reduce the number of infected birds. …”
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Parity in the German Labour Market Nearly Achieved by Alexander Kubis

“…Maintaining the current high level of economic activity therefore requires an all-out effort to raise the potential supply of skilled workers. …”
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Eliminating Boundary Layer Separation on a Cylinder with Nonuniform Suction by James Ramsay, Mathieu Sellier, Wei Hua Ho

“…Maximum uniform suction effort was needed at Re=20, requiring a suction coefficient of CQ=49.14 (as a percentage of the free-stream velocity) to eliminate separation. …”
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ESTIMATING COST CONTINGENCY FOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS: THE CHALLENGE OF SYSTEMIC AND PROJECT SPECIFIC RISK by J.I.T Buertey, Emmanuel Abeere-Inga, Theophilus Adjei Kumi

“…The research revealed that the effect of project specific risk including natural and force majeure conditions and economic indicators are beyond the prediction and stochasticity effort of the project team. Project specific risk can be managed only through collaborative communicative effort of the project team with simulation to enable the right construction technologies to be selected and risk impact to be curtailed. …”
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Simulated Pain and Cervical Motion in Patients with Chronic Disorders of the Cervical Spine by Zeevi Dvir, Noga Gal-Eshel, Boaz Shamir, Evgeny Pevzner, Chava Peretz, Nachshon Knoller

“…Patients first performed maximal movement of the head (maximal effort) in each of the six primary directions and then repeated the test as if they were suffering from a much more intense level of pain (submaximal effort). …”
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From Tradition to Future: Sundanese Indigenous Laws as the Vanguard of Environmental Conservation and Disaster Mitigation by Dimas Febriansyah Krisna Dwiputra, Enok Maryani, Fahmi Nugraha Heryanto

“…To address the existing gap, this research aims to identify, analyze, and interpret the values of Sundanese Indigenous laws (Pikukuh) that can be utilized and relevant for these efforts. This study used a qualitative method with a case study design in Kampung Naga, Baduy, Kuta, and Cikondang. …”
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Reviewing South Africa’s Non-Proliferation Policy and Strategic Trade Controls by Melanie Reddiar

“…It is also aimed at South Africa maintaining its image as a reliable and responsible supplier, recipient and end user of strategic goods and technologies, while contributing meaningfully to global efforts of disarmament and non-proliferation of WMDs as a responsible member of the international community, as an advocate for global disarmament, and as a leader in efforts to prevent the proliferation of WMDs, in general. …”
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