The Development Related Role of Pottery Production in the Ankole Region in Western Uganda: A Case Study by Kayamba, William K., Kwesiga, Philip

“…According to the results, women are predominantly responsible for creating traditional pottery, whereas males are mostly involved in developing new techniques and manufacturing commercial pottery. …”
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Accelerated failure model with empirical analysis and application to colon cancer data: Testing and validation by John Abonongo, Anuwoje Ida L. Abonongo, Abdussalam Aljadani, Mahmoud M. Mansour, Haitham M. Yousof

“…Application of the proposed model to a colon cancer dataset reveal its superior parametric fit compared to the Cox proportional hazards (Cox-PH) model and other competing AFT models, as indicated by information criteria and goodness-of-fit measures. This new AFT model contributes to the repertoire of tools/models for analyzing survival datasets and offers an advantageous hazard-based regression approach.…”
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Business strategy design methodologies: from product design to platform design by E. V. Vasilieva

“…The publication presents by step-by-step an algorithm for constructing a strategy for bringing a new offer to the market based on the “Jobs To Be Done” method. …”
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Mercados culturais no Brasil: o BNDES e o financiamento das empresas culturais brasileiras by Elder P. Maia Alves

“…Such changes have led BNDES to a range of new financial and institutional activities, which, together, turned it into the most important state actor in the market of cultural capitalism in Brazil.…”
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A novel RNN architecture to improve the precision of ship trajectory predictions by Martha Dais Ferreira, Jessica N. A. Campbell

“…Monitoring maritime transport activities is crucial for ensuring the security and safety of people and goods. This type of monitoring often relies on the use of navigation systems such as the Automatic Identification System (AIS). …”
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Understanding the Factors That Are Associated with Motorcycle Crash Severity in Rural and Urban Areas of Ghana by William Agyemang, Emmanuel Kofi Adanu, Steven Jones

“…This comparison is particularly important because the commercial use of motorcycles and their rapid growth in urban areas are a new phenomenon, in contrast to rural areas where people have long relied on motorcycles for their transportation needs. …”
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Improving the Attractiveness of Waste Steel Cans for Steel Mills by Removing Tin by B.J. Gajda, J. Reterski

“…The ever-increasing amount of municipal waste due to the rising demand for consumer goods presents a significant challenge in finding new, effective methods for material recovery and recycling. …”
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THE LEVEL OF USING PAYMENT INSTRUMENTS IN THE TRANSFER OF DIGITAL CURRENCY by Nicoleta PANAIT, Mădălina RĂDOI

“…Digital payments and e-commerce have undergone tremendous changes, revolutionising the way we buy and pay for various goods and services. E-commerce has ushered in a new era of online shopping, while digital payments have made transactions more convenient, fast and secure. …”
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Advertisement Synthesis Network for Automatic Advertisement Image Synthesis by Qin Wu, Peizi Zhou

“…To solve this problem, this paper proposes a new two-stage automatic advertisement image generation model, called Advertisement Synthesis Network (ASNet), which explores a two-stage generation framework to synthesise consistent-looking product advertisement images. …”
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Advertising in Lithuanian Periodicals in 1918-1940: Characteristics of its Quantitative and Qualitative Developement by Giedrė Polkaitė

“…The greatest change was the fact that people who published adverts mastered new technologies, which had an impact on the consumer. …”
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The Optimal Licensing Contract in a Differentiated Stackelberg Model by Xianpei Hong, Lijun Yang, Huaige Zhang, Dan Zhao

“…This paper extends the work of Wang (2002) by considering a differentiated Stackelberg model, when the leader firm is an inside innovator and licenses its new technology by three options, that is, fixed-fee licensing, royalty licensing, and two-part tariff licensing. …”
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Crisis risk in the 21st century and their impact on the banking sector by Vesić Tamara, Petronijević Jovan, Ravić Nenad

“…On the other hand, due to the corona virus pandemic, many factories have stopped producing gold, the transport of goods is functioning slowly, which has led to a shortage of gold, so it is almost impossible to buy a gold ducat or gold bar in Europe. …”
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Optimization of Intelligent Management System for Crafts Production Based on Internet of Things by Xiaojiang Zhou, Keqi Li

“…Crafts are a special kind of personalized goods that can be personalized with the help of the Internet to better meet consumers’ individuality and make them part of the personalized craft design. …”
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Modeling Drivers’ Stopping Behaviors during Yellow Intervals at Intersections considering Group Heterogeneity by Juan Li, Hui Zhang, Yanru Zhang, Xuan Zhang

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Formation of competitive advantages of Russian transnational corporations in the context of globalization by A. Mozgovoy

“…The methods of obtaining competitive advantages of transnational corporations have been adduced and сharacterized.For Russian transnational corporations, the issue of their competitiveness is very acute in the markets of rapidly turning goods or in the markets of new technologies. Factors, hindering the growth of the competitiveness of Russian corporations: incorrect corporate policies, leading to inefficiency of personnel motivation, corporate culture, inconsistency with international standards, incorrect alignment of the global strategy, lack of reciprocity principles and correct negotiation. …”
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Marketing in the food trade by Ewa Bąk-Filipek, Urszula Tetwejer

“…There are many companies and organizations engaged in the retail sale of food and new ones are emerging. In the event of major importance to food self-service sales, and sales of traditional, full service provider of customer and dealer support. …”
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Piracy as counter-hegemony by Tanja Bosch

“…The research questions were guided by a desire to explore qualitatively the processes by which consumers in this low-income neighbourhood practise and understand their purchase and consumption of pirated goods, particularly films on DVD. The study found that the consumers of Hanover Park engage in a complicated process of bricolage, often recontextualising what they view to communicate new meanings, appropriating African-American and gang films as a form of political cultural resistance. …”
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Changing needs and demand of clients vs ability to pay in architectural industry by Emeka J. Mba, Francis O. Okeke, Ajuluchukwu E. Igwe, Obas J. Ebohon, Foluso C. Awe

“…Data analysis, including descriptive statistics, chi-square goodness-of-fit tests, and Spearman’s rank correlation, revealed that the primary drivers of changing client demands are requests for design modifications (mean score 4.81), unclear client information (4.42), and the addition of new project scopes (4.25). …”
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The Dweller on the Threshold: Whiteness, the Family and the End of Classical Cinema by Conall Cash

“…Once whiteness and the family become explicit objects of protection, the myth of their naturalness and goodness is rendered problematic, and in these films, the protector themselves must be excluded in order for the myth to function. …”
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Estimating Macroscopic Volume Delay Functions with the Traffic Density Derived from Measured Speeds and Flows by Rafał Kucharski, Arkadiusz Drabicki

“…This paper proposes a new method to estimate the macroscopic volume delay function (VDF) from the point speed-flow measures. …”
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