COMPLEX FOR ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS OF SUBSURFACE LAYERS WITH NANOMETER DEPTH RESOLUTION by A. S. Kamyshan, F. F. Komarov, V. V. Danilevich, P. A. Grishan

“…A measuring complex for quantitative analysis of element contents and distributions of doping atoms in subsurface layers of crystals as well as in thin films by means of the registration of energy spectra of ions scattered to angles higher than π/2 has been designed and fabricated. …”
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Protocol to computationally average confocal images of zebrafish lymphatic vessels to identify phenotypes by Hannah Arnold, Virginia Panara, Amin Allalou, Katarzyna Koltowska

“…Summary: Characterization of zebrafish mutants is routinely time consuming as morphological phenotypes can be subtle or variable, thus hampering robust quantification. Here, we present a protocol to identify the overall phenotype by overlaying images of lymphatic vessels acquired from multiple zebrafish embryos of a genetic background. …”
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REDUCTION OF NEGATIVE IMPACT OF HOUSING AND PUBLIC UTILITIES ON THE ENVIRONMENT UNDER CONDITIONS OF TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT by A. Bronitsyn, S. Kiseleva

“…The scenario method presupposes the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the situation, taking into consideration various economic, ecological, and social factors.…”
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Les « techniques alternatives » sont-elles envisagées comme un outil de gestion qualitative des eaux pluviales ? by Émeline Comby, Anne Rivière-Honegger, Marylise Cottet, Sébastien Ah-Leung, Nina Cossais

“…The results show that stormwater management is primarily considered quantitatively. Alternative stormwater management make municipal actors and scientists think differently the city. …”
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An Efficient Algorithm for Ill-Conditioned Separable Nonlinear Least Squares by Jiayan Wang, Lanlan Guo, Zongmin Li, Xueqin Wang, Zhengqing Fu

“…Numerical experiments are performed using RBF neural network data, and the experimental results are analyzed in terms of both qualitative and quantitative indicators. The results show that the proposed algorithms are effective and robust.…”
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Youth’s underrepresentation in the European Parliament: Insights from interviews with young Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) by Daniel Stockemer, Aksel Sundström

“… Why do political parties elect so few young deputies? Given that the quantitative literature has at best only partially answered this question, we decided to conduct a qualitative investigation. …”
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Filter-Based Fading Channel Modeling by Amirhossein Alimohammad, Saeed Fouladi Fard, Bruce F. Cockburn

“…This paper addresses various challenges when designing real and complex spectrum shaping filters with quantized coefficients for efficient realization of both isotropic and nonisotropic fading channels. …”
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Coaching Effectiveness Framework by Joanna Jarosz, Rick Cartor

“…Leveraging the ‘Cube of Coaching Effectiveness’, this study reviews scientific literature and further integrates findings from qualitative and quantitative research, coaching effectiveness questionnaire validation, insights from global data on coaching outcomes and from the interviews with coaches. …”
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Some recent developments on linear determinacy by Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Bingtuan Li, Haiyan Wang

“…The process of invasion is fundamental to the study of the dynamics of ecological and epidemiological systems. Quantitatively, a crucial measure of species' invasiveness is given by the rate at which it spreads into new open environments. …”
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Relationship between Spirituality and Emotional Maturity with Cultural Intelligence in Preventing Culture Shock by Triantoro Safaria, Khoiruddin Bashori

“…The role of spirituality and emotional maturity (EM) in cultural intelligence (CQ) is mostly carried out in the Westen country compared to Indonesia. Therefore, this quantitative study aims to examine the relationship between spirituality and emotional maturity (EM) with cultural intelligence (CQ). …”
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CURRENT ISSUES OF APPLICATION OF FOREIGN EXPERIENCE OF PREDICTING THE ECONOMIC NEEDS IN QUALIFIED PERSONS IN PRACTICE OF GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION by I. Gorokhova, E. Nikitskaya, N. Sorokina

“…It was noted that a holistic approach to forecasting the needs of the national economies in qualified personnel was developed abroad, based on the optimal combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. The necessity of revealing and analyzing the factors determining the current and prospective demand and supply of labor in the digital economy is substantiated. …”
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Public Private Partnerships as a Systemic Instrument of Governance in Regional Innovation Policy by Iryna Kristensen, Walter Scherrer

“…We find that such PPPs are able to address knowledge related systemic goals of regional innovation policy more comprehensively than entrepreneurial goals; that PPPs tend to address the quantitative dimensions of systemic goals of regional innovation policy better than qualitative dimensions; and that there is considerable variation how PPPs address innovation-related goals across types of regions and industries involved. …”
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VARIANTS FOR EVALUATING THE RIGIDITY OF FLAT RING FLANGES by RADU I. IATAN, GHEORGHITA TOMESCU, MELANIA CORLECIUC (MITUCA), GEORGETA ROMAN (URSE), NICOLETA SPOREA, IULIANA- MARLENA PRODEA, IOLANDA CONSTANTA PANAIT

“…The present analysis considers the quantitative effect of the deformed gasket and the stiffness of the curved/bent screws on the tightness of the system. …”
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Total Variation Regularization of Matrix-Valued Images by Oddvar Christiansen, Tin-Man Lee, Johan Lie, Usha Sinha, Tony F. Chan

“…We perform numerical experiments on both synthetical data and 3D human brain DTI, and measure the quantitative behavior of the proposed model.…”
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The Lack of Social Well-Being in Two Disadvantaged Hungarian Micro-Regions by Nóra Baranyai, Júlia Schuchmann

“…The results are based on an empirical research using qualitative and quantitative methods conducted in 2014.…”
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Farmers’ preferences toward organic certification scheme: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment in Northern Vietnam by Kene Boun My, Huy Nguyen-Quang, Phu Nguyen-Van, Thi Kim Cuong Pham, Anne Stenger, Tuyen Tiet, Nguyen To-The

“…This study uses a quantitative approach based on a discrete choice experiment with 586 farmers in Northern Vietnam to measure how representative market and non-market factors could influence their preferences for participating in organic certification schemes. …”
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On Topological Analysis of Entropy Measures for Silicon Carbides Networks by Xing-Long Wang, Muhammad Kamran Siddiqui, Syed Ajaz K. Kirmani, Shazia Manzoor, Sarfraz Ahmad, Mlamuli Dhlamini

“…We extend this computation to the quantitative and pictorial comparisons which could be beneficial in the structure amendment for effective implementation.…”
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Reflections on a century of road transport developments in West Africa and their (gendered) impacts on the rural poor by Gina Porter

“…It draws on diverse evidence, including twentieth century colonial archives, personal ethnographic field research undertaken over a 35- year period, associated quantitative surveys, and relevant secondary literature. …”
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Transversal Skills in the Academic Curriculum of Management School Students in Algeria by Amghar Meryem, Naga Nahla, Zouambi Anaïs Radja

“…Accordingly, we conducted a quantitative survey among students at a management school. …”
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Detection of Fuzzy Association Rules by Fuzzy Transforms by Ferdinando Di Martino, Salvatore Sessa

“…The fuzzy association rules are represented in the form of linguistic expressions and we introduce a pre-processing phase to determine the optimal fuzzy partition of the domains of the quantitative attributes. In the extraction of the fuzzy association rules we use the AprioriGen algorithm and a confidence index calculated via the inverse fuzzy transform. …”
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