Sectoral Concentration in Loans and Credit Risk: An Examination by Company Accounts in Turkey by Elif Acar, Arzu Şahin

“…Unlike previous studies primarily reliant on banking system data, this research broadens the scope by incorporating the real sector credit usage data for the measurement of concentration. Additionally, instead of the commonly used Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, the study employs the Sector Concentration Index as a measure of concentration, allowing for a comparison of sector distribution with an ideal market sector distribution. …”
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The Ethics of Refusal in Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life by Marguerite La Caze, Magdalena Zolkos

“…This is because Malick's Jägerstätter undertook a very specific act of refusal – that of refusing to “make others suffer” (and chose instead to suffer himself). We conclude by drawing attention to three key presences in the film; nature, children and the wife, Fani, who turn the negative power of refusal into an affirmative gesture of companionship, co-presence and witnessing.…”
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Enhanced Efficiencies for High-Concentration, Multijunction PV Systems by Optimizing Grid Spacing under Nonuniform Illumination by Pratibha Sharma, Alex W. Walker, Jeffrey F. Wheeldon, Karin Hinzer, Henry Schriemer

“…Our model suggests that, at lower concentrations (<1000 suns), the penalty for using uniformly spaced fingers instead of nonuniformly spaced fingers is <0.1%. However, at a concentration of 2500 suns the penalty increases to 0.3%. …”
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Emerging Role of PET in the Diagnosis and Staging of Lung Cancer by Geoffery Coates, Stephen J Skehan

“…This may allow treatment to be changed after only one course of chemotherapy, instead of waiting for anatomical disease progression to become obvious clinically or with CT. …”
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A Combination of Classification Robust Adaptive Kalman Filter with PPP-RTK to Improve Fault Detection for Integrity Monitoring of Autonomous Vehicles by Hassan Elsayed, Ahmed El-Mowafy, Amir Allahvirdi-Zadeh, Kan Wang, Xiaolong Mi

“…The CAKF reduces FDE computational load by using a robustness test instead of traditional FDE methods, improving precision and availability in protection level estimation. …”
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Correlation feature and instance weights transfer learning for cross project software defect prediction by Quanyi Zou, Lu Lu, Shaojian Qiu, Xiaowei Gu, Ziyi Cai

“…To implement better CPDP models, recent studies focus on either feature transferring or instance transferring to weaken the impact of irrelevant cross‐project data. Instead, this work proposes a dual weighting mechanism to aid the learning process, considering both feature transferring and instance transferring. …”
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Mitigating physical climate risks: ESG budgeting approaches as risk boundaries for companies by Putri Wika Harisa, Bakhtiar Irfan, Mahasabha Ni Luh Ayounik

“…As a conceptual paper, no data was collected to provide empirical evidence to support ESG budgeting practices; instead, the concept of ESG-related cost or sustainable budget tagging was described. …”
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The Forerunner of the Government Reform of Peter the Great by N. V. Shevtsov

“…However, as it often happens with the prominent reformists he became a victim of the in-house political tussle; he placed the wrong bet on Sophia instead of Peter the Great and his court. As a result, he was deprived from his post, lost his estates, and was sent into exile to the north of the country. …”
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Counterweight cities in South America as an answer to unitarian centralism: Santa Cruz, Guayaquil and Concepcion by Esteban Valenzuela-Van Treek, Claudia Vaca

“…These strengths have helped both cities achieve a higher degree of regional autonomy than Concepcion in Chile. The later, has-instead- concentrated in developing as an academic and cultural hub. …”
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AIRank: Author Impact Ranking through Positions in Collaboration Networks by Jun Zhang, Yan Hu, Zhaolong Ning, Amr Tolba, Elsayed Elashkar, Feng Xia

“…However, due to its easy manipulability, simply relying on citation cannot objectively reflect the actual impact of scholars. Instead of citation, we utilize the academic networks, in virtue of their available and abundant academic information, to evaluate the scientific impact of scholars in this paper. …”
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Improved Extended Multiplicative Scatter Correction Algorithm Applied in Blood Glucose Noninvasive Measurement with FT-IR Spectroscopy by Qingbo Li, Qishuo Gao, Guangjun Zhang

“…The principal components of the differential spectra are used instead of the pure spectra of the analytes in this algorithm. …”
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Cementation of copper onto brass particles in a packed bed by Stanković Velizar D., Šerbula Snežana M., Jančeva B.

“…The method of packed bed cementation, using brass particles, which are usually a secondary material for re-melting, could particularly be favorable instead of the conventional one, because zinc dust is being substituted with some less valuable starting material that could be upgraded on copper before its re-melting.…”
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Surface defect detection on industrial drum rollers: Using enhanced YOLOv8n and structured light for accurate inspection. by Guofeng Qin, Qinkai Zou, Mengyan Li, Yi Deng, Peiwen Mi, Yongjian Zhu, Hao Liu

“…In terms of algorithms, firstly, using deformable convolution instead of standard convolution to enhance the feature extraction ability of the backbone network. …”
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Nurses’ Knowledge Regarding Cardiac Catheterization at General Hospital in Rania City by Bayan O. Sharif, Shara H. Salih, Niga A. Sailh, Bahar I. Salim

“…Data were collected from a stability sample of 60 nurses using demographic form instead of the section with the conductive questionnaire of Knowledge regarding cardiac catheterization . …”
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Design thinking to avoid maladaptation in building climate change resilience of urban areas by M. Radomska, M. Zeltina

“…It was shown that climate issues should be considered as a separate category and target instead of including it into the broad category of environmental protection. …”
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Spatial conservation planning: Proposing clustering methods to improve connectivity protection by Nikolaos Nagkoulis, Maria Papazekou, Stelios Katsanevakis, Antonios Mazaris

“…We introduce three metrics (s‐core, Louvain clustering, walktrap clustering) that allow us to improve the spatial prioritization process by protecting areas that present high connectivity values. Instead of prioritizing unique planning units (PUs), by incorporating these metrics into spatial prioritization process we manage to identify clusters of PUs that collectively exhibit high connectivity values. …”
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A Two-Stage Robust Optimization Method Based on the Expected Scenario for Islanded Microgrid Energy Management by Qing Duan, Wanxing Sheng, Haoqing Wang, Caihong Zhao, Chunyan Ma

“…In this study, focusing on the energy management of a typical islanded microgrid and considering uncertainties such as the power output of renewable energy sources and the power demand of loads, an expected-scenario-oriented two-stage robust optimization (E-TSRO) method is proposed to alleviate the conservative tendency of the C-TSRO method because the E-TSRO method chooses to optimize the system cost according to the expected scenario instead, while ensuring the feasibility of the first-stage variables for all possible scenarios, including the worst case. …”
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Utilization of Waste Textile Cotton by Synthesizing Sodium Carboxymethyl Cellulose: An Approach to Minimize Textile Solid Waste by Md. Samsur Rahaman, Sultana Shamsun Nahar, Jahid M. M. Islam, Rajib Samadder, Md. Saifur Rahaman, Rujina Khatun Chadni, Faisal Rahaman Shagor, Md. Latifur Rahman, Tania Akter Ruhane, Mubarak Ahmad Khan

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STRATEGIES OF RUSSIAN VERTICALLY INTEGRATED OIL COMPANIES IN THE GLOBAL MARKET by V. I. Golomedov

“…Creation of vertically integrated companies leads to effective distribution of the factors of economic globalization. Instead of classic advantage factors comes global competitive advantages. …”
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A Self-Checking Hardware Journal for a Fault-Tolerant Processor Architecture by Mohsin Amin, Abbas Ramazani, Fabrice Monteiro, Camille Diou, Abbas Dandache

“…Effective rollback recovery is possible thanks to using a hardware journal and chosing a stack computing architecture for the processor core instead of the usual RISC or CISC. The main objective of the journalization and the hardware self-checking journal is to prevent data not yet validated to be sent to the main memory, and allow to fast rollback execution on faulty situations. …”
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