Enhancing service delivery for metropolitan municipalities in South Africa via project management by Bhekabantu Alson Ntshangase, Steven Kayambazinthu Msosa

“…A qualitative and exploratory study was adopted using semi-structured interviews amongst a purposive sample of 60 respondents. The findings of this study showed that project managers lack Project Management credentials, which makes the implementation of projects at the Metropolitan Municipality level complex and demanding. …”
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The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Project-Based Learning: Teacher Perceptions and Pedagogical Implications by Sergio Ruiz Viruel, Enrique Sánchez Rivas, Julio Ruiz Palmero

“…Conducted with a sample of teachers (n = 300), this study investigated perceived effectiveness, the AI-powered personalization of learning, and motivation. …”
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The Role of BIM in Sustainable Construction Project Delivery Methods With Focus on Circular Economy by Sepehr Nourjalili, Fariborz Forouzannia

“…ABSTRACT Delivery methods in sustainable construction projects and building information modeling (BIM) have addressed many problems and introduced many challenges and opportunities to improve the efficiency of construction project management. …”
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Manifold Energy Projection Twin Support Vector Machine for Semi-Supervised Classification by Jia-Nan Zhou, Zhi-Lin Feng

“…The Projection Twin Support Vector Machine (PTSVM) and its variant, the Least Squares PTSVM (LSPTSVM), have demonstrated significant effectiveness in supervised classification tasks due to their strong generalization capabilities. …”
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Navigating the Relational Dynamics of Carbon-Smart Urban Green Infrastructure (UGI) Projects by Essi Ryymin, Outi Tahvonen

“…At the institutional level, relations concerning the shared principles and rationales of the project, as well as the project design process and diverse working cultures, presented both constraints and advances in project success and carbon-smart solutions.…”
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Main Lobe Anti-Interference Algorithm Based on Robust Oblique Projection Preprocessing by Sui Zhenxing, Wang Zheng, Yuan Xiaolei

“…Finally, the data after oblique projection preprocessing is processed by robust adaptive beam nulling to suppress the sidelobe interference. …”
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Conscious and Unconscious Gender Bias in Competence Evaluations: Mental Representations of Project Managers by Rocío Poveda-Bautista, Jose Antonio Diego-Mas, Hannia González-Urango, Carmen Corona-Sobrino

“…Using a sample of project management professionals, we applied noise-based reverse correlation (NBRC) to reveal participants’ unconscious mental representations of an ideal project manager by generating faces that best represented project managers. …”
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Is contractual flexibility always good for relationship quality among the parties in construction projects? by Qianxing Ding, Lianying Zhang, Tak Wing Yiu, Ziqing Liu

“… Contractual flexibility as an effective way to maintain and increase parties’ relationship quality has been widely introduced to contracting in construction projects. However, conflicting evidences exist regarding their effectiveness on relationship quality based on transaction cost theory. …”
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Resourcing and the sustainability of Donor funded Potatoes Projects in Kabale District, Southwestern Uganda by Turyasingura, John Bosco, Moses, Agaba, Meza, Orach, Zombeire, Jotham, Kyabarongo, Benon

“…Background: Poor sustainability of funded potato projects occasioned by nonparticipation of potato farmers in local resourcing of funded potato projects continue to discourage donors from more investments because previously funded projects are not sustainable. …”
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Drug dispensing in public community pharmacies: evidence from the MedMinas project by Camilla Vieira Neves, Sabrina Cerqueira-Santos, Rafaella de Oliveira Santos Silva, Tatiana Chama Borges Luz, Noemia Urruth Leão Tavares

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Critical Factors Affecting Quality of Building Projects: Professionals Service Providers’ Perspectives by Olusola Aluko, Modupe Mewomo

“…Notwithstanding, previous studies lacked in-depth explorations of professional service providers’ views on critical factors affecting the quality of building projects. Consequently, this paper evaluates critical factors that affect the quality of building projects from the professional service providers’ views. …”
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Procurement internal control systems and cost-effectiveness in force account construction projects by Shadrack Samwel Mwaiseje, Faustine Peter Panga, Alban Dismas Mchopa

“…In response to this issue, the present study examines the role of procurement internal control systems on cost-effectiveness in force account (FA) construction projects in local government authorities (LGAs). A cross-sectional research design with a sample size of 318 respondents from selected LGAs in Dodoma, Tanzania was used. …”
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A pilot project- Causes of hypersegmentation in neutrophils apart from existing causes by Gunjan Bhatia, Namita Goyal, Priyanka Parakh, Shuchi Goyal, Shelesh Kumar Swami, Nitesh Kumar Chauhan

“…Results: After obtaining written, understandable, informed consent for this pilot project, 410 volunteers were enrolled. Macrocytic red blood cells were seen in more than 50% of cases. …”
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Association between nitrogen dioxide and incident breast cancer in Alberta’s tomorrow project by Mohadeseh Ahmadi, Rachel A Murphy, Maryam Darvishian, Trevor J. B. Dummer

“…Our findings suggest a risk magnitude similar to other studies, yet the lack of significant association may be due to sample size limitations and lower NO2 levels in Alberta compared to other regions globally.…”
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Role of Artificial Intelligence in Determining Ideal Nasal Tip Projection in Diverse Populations by Aaron L. Wiegmann, MD, MS, Elizabeth S. O’Neill, MD, Stephanie L. Taiberg, BS, Sammy Sinno, MD, Rod J. Rohrich, MD

“…Background:. Nasal tip projection ideals have been based on the Caucasian nose; however, many racial groups have underprojected tips. …”
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Feasibility and preliminary effects of the mindful healthy family project among rural families by Tsui-Sui Annie Kao, Jiying Ling, Mohammed Alanazi, Nick Bara, Jessica Barnes Najor

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Reducing unnecessary blood tests in elderly care: a quality improvement project by Anavi Prakash, Theik Oo, Soe Aye, Jonathan Cullis

“…There was an observed improvement in the justification of tests, suggesting that clinicians were considering the necessity of the tests before requesting, although this observation was not statistically significant.A key limitation to this project is the small sample size, which may have resulted in type II errors. …”
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Hypothetical acceptability of minimally invasive tissue sampling and considerations for practice: A qualitative study in Vietnam by Nhung Doan Phuong, Ngan Ta Thi Dieu, My Le Thao Nguyen, An Luu Phuoc, Halina Suwalowska, Duy Manh Nguyen, Ha Thi Lien Nguyen, Huong Thi Thu Vu, Thach Ngoc Pham, Trung Cap Nguyen, Mai Thị Phước Loan, Mary Chambers, Nghia Ho Dang Trung, Jennifer Ilo Van Nuil, H. Rogier van Doorn

“…One alternative is minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS). This study was part of a larger project to explore the perceptions of MITS in Vietnam to provide recommendations for its potential implementation. …”
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Point Cloud Registration for Lava Tube Surface Reconstruction Using Curvature-Optimized Projection by Jiaqi Yao, Yanqiu Wang, Wen Li, Yuan Han, Hognxu Ai, Zhenchen Ji, Fu Zheng, Zhibin Sun

“…Compared with Farthest Point Sampling, Normal Space Sampling, Uniform Sampling, and Voxel Sampling methods, our method has a higher reconstruction surface accuracy and is suitable for high-precision surface reconstruction of natural lava tube point clouds. …”
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Land Cover/Land Use, Change, and Projection in the Kars Province according to the CORINE System by Mucip Demir

“…This study aims to determine the changes that occur periodically in the land cover/land use in the Kars province according to the coordination of information on the environment (CORINE) system, to determine the natural and human environmental factors that affect this change and help project future land use. In the study, a 1990 vector data set representing the first sampling year in the CORINE system and customized according to the administrative boundaries of the Kars province and a vector data set of 2018 representing the last sampling year of the same system were used. …”
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