Improving the evapotranspiration estimation by coupling soil moisture and atmospheric variables in the relative evapotranspiration parameterization by Elisabet Walker, Virginia Venturini

“…In addition, Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) products were used to obtain global maps of ET and compared with Global Landsurface Evaporation Amsterdam Methodology (GLEAM) and Terra Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) MOD16 products, displaying the flexibility of these new parametrizations with different sources of data.…”
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Joint embedding–classifier learning for interpretable collaborative filtering by Clémence Réda, Jill-Jênn Vie, Olaf Wolkenhauer

“…By combining the training of a structured collaborative-filtering classifier and an embedding learning task, JELI predicts new user-item associations based on jointly learned item and user embeddings while providing feature-wise importance scores. Therefore, JELI flexibly allows the introduction of priors on the connections between users, items, and features. …”
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“In truth, I was really a pioneer”: Female Entrepreneurship and Selfhood Formation in Bethlehem's Diasporic Merchant Community, 1900–1940 by Eibhlin Priestley

“…This piece argues that transnational migration and marriage equipped women with essential skills for commercial success and highlights their self-perception as pioneers who forged new paths in the mahjar. Flexible roles for women in Bethlehem’s merchant community, underpinned by Ottoman cultural transformations and the innovative and outward-looking values which underpinned the community’s bold business enterprises, also played a significant role in fostering female entrepreneurship. …”
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Natural gas logistics management using multi-criteria optimisation methods by Sergey N. Lanin

“…The paper emphasises the importance of adaptability and flexibility of the logistics system in a dynamically changing external environment. …”
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Exploring shifts in values among urban Senegalese: The impact of global crises on social and cultural norms. by Yachiyo Tobita, Mandiaye Diagne, Joseph Bassama, Moussa Ndong, Mor Gueye, Kiyokazu Ujiie

“…These results suggest that individual values are flexible and may change in response to external factors such as global crises.…”
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Program Satisfaction of the Pioneering Graduates of the Bachelor in Secondary Education –Science in a Philippine State University by Rey-Mark Basagre

“…The identified strengths of the program are an organized and flexible curriculum, learner-centered and academic freedom, relevant competencies, approachable and competent faculty, and good resources and facilities. …”
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UCAP:a PCL secure user authentication protocol in cloud computing by Xuefeng LI, Junwei ZHANG, Jianfeng MA

“…As the combine of cloud computing and Internet breeds many flexible IT services,cloud computing becomes more and more significant.In cloud computing,a user should be authenticated by a trusted third party or a certification authority before using cloud applications and services.Based on this,a protocol composition logic (PCL) secure user authentication protocol named UCAP for cloud computing was proposed.The protocol used a symmetric encryption symmetric encryption based on a trusted third party to achieve the authentication and confidentiality of the protocol session,which comprised the initial authentication phase and the re-authentication phase.In the initial authentication phase,the trusted third party generated a root communication session key.In the re-authentication phase,communication users negotiated a sub session key without the trusted third party.To verify the security properties of the protocol,a sequential compositional proof method was used under the protocol composition logic model.Compared with certain related works,the proposed protocol satisfies the PCL security.The performance of the initial authentication phase in the proposed scheme is slightly better than that of the existing schemes,while the performance of the re-authentication phase is better than that of other protocols due to the absence of the trusted third party.Through the analysis results,the proposed protocol is suitable for the mutual authentication in cloud computing.…”
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Modified Chen distribution: Properties, estimation, and applications in reliability analysis by M. G. M. Ghazal

“…This article proposed a flexible three-parameter distribution known as the modified Chen distribution (MCD). …”
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Fully Discrete Local Discontinuous Galerkin Approximation for Time-Space Fractional Subdiffusion/Superdiffusion Equations by Meilan Qiu, Liquan Mei, Dewang Li

“…., backward Euler difference or second-order central difference)/local discontinuous Galerkin finite element mixed method to construct and analyze a kind of efficient, accurate, flexible, numerical schemes for approximately solving time-space fractional subdiffusion/superdiffusion equations. …”
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On the Efficient Broadcasting of Heterogeneous Services over Band-Limited Channels: Unequal Power Allocation for Wavelet Packet Division Multiplexing by Maurizio Murroni

“…We address this problem by means of the genetic algorithms (GAs), which allow flexible suboptimal solution with reduced complexity. …”
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Assessing vulnerability and framing adaptive options of two Mediterranean wine growing regions facing climate change: Roussillon (France) and McLaren Vale (Australia) by Anne-Laure Lereboullet, Douglas Bardsley, Gérard Beltrando

“…Implementing new strategies of adaptation to uncertainty in climate, as well as in economy, depends on: a sufficient financial capital, a sustainable management of water resources, and flexibility in legislation. To achieve this, diversification and entrepreneurship of producers is particularly important.…”
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Exploration of English Teachers' Instructional Communities of Practice: A Multiple Case Study by Jenny P Arabis

“…Key findings revealed that teachers leveraged flexible scheduling to increase productivity and develop innovative teaching methods. …”
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Cluster-projected matrix product state: Framework for engineering exact quantum many-body ground states in one and two dimensions by Hidehiro Saito, Chisa Hotta

“…It has several advantages, including the ability to achieve the calculation of states at nearly equal cost in one and two dimensions including those belonging to gapless or long-range entangled classes, flexibility in designing Hamiltonians unbiasedly across various forms of models, and numerically feasible validation of exactness through energy calculations. …”
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Traffic classification in SDN-based IoT network using two-level fused network with self-adaptive manta ray foraging by Mohammed A. Aleisa

“…Abstract The rapid expansion of IoT networks, combined with the flexibility of Software-Defined Networking (SDN), has significantly increased the complexity of traffic management, requiring accurate classification to ensure optimal quality of service (QoS). …”
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Novel EDAS Methodology Based on Single-Valued Neutrosophic Aczel-Alsina Aggregation Information and Their Application in Complex Decision-Making by Shahzaib Ashraf, Shakoor Ahmad, Muhammad Naeem, Muhammad Riaz, Md. Ashraful Alam

“…The results suggest that the proposed method may overcome the inadequacies of the existing decision method’s lack of decision flexibility by using SVN aggregation operators.…”
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Micro-transitions et écoquartiers : la recomposition des pratiques énergétiques face aux déterminismes matériels et socio-économiques by Taoufik Souami, Ida Kasdi

“…The materials expected to automatically reduce energy footprints by limiting the margins of flexibility of the inhabitants fail to meet identified targets. …”
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Low-Interference Dual Resonant Antenna Configurations for Multistandard Multifunction Handsets and Portable Computers by Mohamed Sanad, Noha Hassan

“…The new antennas have very small cross-sectional areas, and they are made of a flexible material. They do not require any additional components or ground planes. …”
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To be digital or not to be, that is the ESG question by Luis Martín, Noelia Sánchez-Ortiz

“…And there is a tool to allow this connectivity among stakeholders, without barriers and at a fraction of the cost of any other solution: the digital technology. Cheap, flexible and without boundaries, it is pushing our creativity to the limit. …”
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College Calisthenics Teaching Based on Information Technology by Bolong Wang

“…There were significant differences in basic physical qualities such as push-ups, rope skipping, and flexibility between the two groups (P<0.05).The experimental data show that the use of information-based teaching mode is more conducive to students’ accurate grasp of action points, and because of the retrospectivity, students can consolidate knowledge and practice themselves more conveniently. …”
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Enhancing the Efficiency of Routing Strategies in WSNs Using Live Streaming Algorithms by Hayder Jasim Alhamdane, Mohsen Nickray

“…However, sometimes problems arise, such as poor flexibility, focusing on a single operative, and relying on precise algebraic models. …”
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