THE EFFECT OF TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP ON EMPLOYEES PERFORMANCE – CASE STUDY OF 5 ALGERIAN BANKING INSTITUTIONS by Ali Bousbia Brahim, Ognjen Riđić, Tomislav Jukić

“…As far as the research time frame was concerned, it was performed in a crosssectional manner, in the summer of 2014. Out of 174 sent out surveys, the responses were collected from 132 surveyed individuals. …”
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Plant Colonization by Biocontrol Bacteria and Improved Plant Health: A Review by Roohallah Saberi Riseh, Fariba Fathi, Mozhgan Gholizadeh Vazvani, Mika Tapio Tarkka

“…The use of biological control agents is one of the best strategies available to combat the plant diseases in an ecofriendly manner. Biocontrol bacteria capable of providing beneficial effect in crop plant growth and health, have been developed for several decades. …”
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Methods of studying the cardiovascular system in students of a sports university in the process of recreational rest by Viacheslav Zaytzev, Sergii Iermakov, Karol Gorner, Krzysztof Prusik

“…Assessment of the functional state of the student's cardiovascular system is carried out in a complex manner. Conclusions. It is necessary to take into account the anamnesis of the entire life of the student. …”
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Unified Quantile Regression Deep Neural Network with Time-Cognition for Probabilistic Residential Load Forecasting by Zhuofu Deng, Binbin Wang, Heng Guo, Chengwei Chai, Yanze Wang, Zhiliang Zhu

“…Then, features generated from both subnetworks are fused and fed into the forecasting model with an end-to-end manner. Besides, a globally differentiable quantile loss function constrains the whole network for training. …”
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Big Data Analysis Using Apache Spark MLlib and Hadoop HDFS with Scala and Java by Hoger Khayrolla Omar, Alaa Khalil Jumaa

“…However, loading the datasets from Hadoop HDFS as well as to the local disk to identify the pros and cons of each manner and discovering perfect reading or loading dataset situation to reach best execution style. …”
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Improving the Quality of Colonoscopy Bowel Preparation Using an Educational Video by Sateesh R Prakash, Siddharth Verma, John McGowan, Betsy E Smith, Anjali Shroff, Gregory H Gibson, Michael Cheng, Douglas Lowe, Kavitha Gopal, Smruti R Mohanty

“…One hundred thirty-three patients scheduled for an outpatient colonoscopy were prospectively randomized in a single-blinded manner to video or nonvideo group. In addition to written bowel preparation instructions, patients in the video group viewed a brief instructional video. …”
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Pharmalens Augmented Reality Application For The Dangers of Illegal Drugs by A. Muh. Nurul Akbar, Imran Firman

“…This study addresses these challenges by leveraging advancements in digital technology to deliver information in an engaging and contemporary manner. An interactive application was developed using the Multimedia Development Life Cycle (MDLC) method, particularly the Luther-Sutopo model, integrating multimedia elements such as images, audio, video, animations, and educational articles. …”
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Synergistic Effect of Geranylgeranyltransferase Inhibitor, GGTI, and Docetaxel on the Growth of Prostate Cancer Cells by Bin Han, Naohiro Fujimoto, Mizuki Kobayashi, Tetsuro Matsumoto

“…Zol inhibited the growth of all prostate cancer cell lines tested in a dose-dependent manner through inhibition of geranylgeranylation. …”
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Deep reinforcement learning to enhance the energy-efficient performance of UAV-enabled F-RAN by Haibo MEI, Kun YANG, Xinyu FAN

“…Fog radio access network (F-RAN) is suitable for Internet of things applications of national important industries, such as pipeline network monitoring in wide area.However, the performance of the F-RAN based on the territorial fog access point will be affected greatly by the complicated territorial environment.This causes F-RAN not able to provide fog access service in a timely and effectively manner.To this problem, the research was proposed to utilize low altitude UAV as the fog access point to realize air ground edge communication and fog computing, which has attracted enormous research interests.How to use deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to improve the energy efficiency of UAV fog access point and extend the mission time of UAV were discussed.Deep reinforcement learning can ensure the UAV fog access point to adjust the configuration strategy timely of air ground communication and computing, including resource optimization, dynamic task offloading and caching.DRL can also optimize the UAV trajectory in 3-D space, and improve the overall performance of UAV enabled fog access network.The innovation of the research lies in the comprehensive discussion of the main optimization problems to be solved in the UAV-enabled F-RAN using DRL.The technical details were also summarized to solve the related optimization problems.Finally, the technical challenges and future research directions of the application of DRL in the UAV-enabled F-RAN were discussed.…”
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Chronic Ethanol Feeding Modulates Inflammatory Mediators, Activation of Nuclear Factor-κB, and Responsiveness to Endotoxin in Murine Kupffer Cells and Circulating Leukocytes by Miriam Maraslioglu, Elsie Oppermann, Carolin Blattner, Roxane Weber, Dirk Henrich, Christian Jobin, Elke Schleucher, Ingo Marzi, Mark Lehnert

“…Furthermore, LPS and TNF-α stimulated the gene expression of different inflammatory mediators, in part, in a NF-κB-dependent manner.…”
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A Statistical Approach for Comparative Assessment of the Effect of Smoke Exposure in In Vivo Experiments: A Case Study of an OECD 90-Day Inhalation Study Including 3R4F and 1R6F Re... by Kondylis Athanasios, Kogel Ulrike, Ho Jenny, Wong EeTsin, Phillips Blaine, Hoeng Julia, Vanscheeuwijck Patrick

“…Most in vivo toxicology studies are conducted in a heavily regulated environment, in accordance with sound scientific principles, and in an ethical manner. Statistical methods are an important component of these scientific principles, and many regulatory authorities provide guidelines or recommendations for statistical analyses and reporting. …”
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TEEG Induced A549 Cell Autophagy by Regulating the PI3K/AKT/mTOR Signaling Pathway by Lu Shi, Yijun Tu, Yu Xia, Siqi Ye, Chaozhi Ma, Yanwen Liu, Pengtao You

“…TEEG markedly inhibited A549 cell proliferation in a concentration-dependent manner. Immunofluorescence staining showed that TEEG induced autophagy in A549 cells. …”
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A Review of Graduate Attributes in the Oman Authority for Academic Accreditation and Quality Assurance of Education (OAAAQAE's) Quality Audit Reports by Zulaikha Talib Al-Saadi, Holi Ibrahim Holi Ali

“…Additionally, there is a need for an appropriate evaluation mechanism for GAs to be conducted in a systematic and timely manner. Moreover, GAs should be explicitly assessed and benchmarked based on the feedback obtained from relevant stakeholders. …”
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METTL3 Promotes Osteo/Odontogenic Differentiation of Stem Cells by Inhibiting miR-196b-5p Maturation by Xiao Han, Guoyue Li, Haoqing Yang, Chen Zhang, Yangyang Cao, Ning Wang, Lihua Ge, Zhipeng Fan

“…Taken together, our findings highlight the critical roles of the METTL3-miR-196b-5p signaling axis in an m6A-dependent manner in osteo/odontogenic differentiation of SCAPs, identifying some potential targets for tooth and maxillofacial bone defects.…”
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Role of C5 Activation Products in Sepsis by Peter A. Ward

“…C5a reacts with its receptors C5aR and C5L2 in a manner that creates the “cytokine storm”, and is associated with development of multiorgan failure (MOF). …”
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A dual-RPA based lateral flow strip for sensitive, on-site detection of CP4-EPSPS and Cry1Ab/Ac genes in genetically modified crops by Jinbin Wang, Yu Wang, Xiuwen Hu, Yifan Chen, Wei Jiang, Xiaofeng Liu, Juan Liu, Lemei Zhu, Haijuan Zeng, Hua Liu

“…In conclusion, this strategy achieved the expected purpose of simultaneous detection of the two popular targets in GM crops within 20 min at 37 ℃ in a rapid, equipment-free field manner, providing a new alternative for rapid screening for transgenic assays in the field.…”
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Assessing Persian translation of selected rhetorical figures in Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece by Shakespeare by Abolfazl Horri

“…A general evaluation of the Persian translation of these selected devices in these two poems, based on functional equivalence, shows that the Persian translator has made great effort to translate these devices into Persian in an efficient manner and within the framework of a functional equivalence. …”
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Unsupervised Learning in a Ternary SNN Using STDP by Abhinav Gupta, Sneh Saurabh

“…The proposed ternary SNN is trained in an unsupervised manner using the Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity (STDP) learning rule. …”
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Modeling Behaviors for a New Compliant Mechanism by Recursive Hierarchy of Random Forest Models by Hieu Giang Le, Thanh-Phong Dao, Minh Phung Dang, Thao Nguyen-Trang

“…The numerical results demonstrate that the proposed hierarchical manner can improve the performance of component Random Forest models tuned with different values of number of trees and max-depth. …”
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“What are we celebrating?”: Nation-Building and The Politics of Independence Commemoration in Ghana by Manuel Jojo MANU-OSAFO, Enoch LAMPTEY, Kofi Takyi ASANTE

“…This somewhat paradoxical observation arises from the fact that people distinguished the material from the symbolic aspects of independence in a manner that reflects the prevailing factional, ideological, class and other rifts in society. …”
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