How Useful Is a Distributed Ledger for Tracking and Tracing in Supply Chains? A Systems Thinking Approach by Christian Straubert, Eric Sucky

“…<i>Methods</i>: This article presents an exploratory case study research of eight companies to identify the main goals, and problems that the companies have when they engage in T&T. …”
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Modern Psychoactive Substances and Their Detection in Biomedical Samples by A. M. Grigoryev, V. N. Fateenkov

“…The subject of special consideration was the problems of using chromatography-mass spectrometry methods of NPS analysis in Russian – issues of accessibility of standard substances, search libraries, etc. …”
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Effects of gradual deformation of identical and nonidentical, rotated and nonrotated U-shaped subwavelength resonators in few-layer metasurfaces by Andriy E. Serebryannikov, Atilla O. Cakmak, Evrim Colak

“…Effects of stacking of the arrays of subwavelength resonators in one few-layer metasurface is connected with the key problems of modern electrical engineering, applied physics, and beyond. …”
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Hybrid CNN-LSTM Model with Custom Activation and Loss Functions for Predicting Fan Actuator States in Smart Greenhouses by Gregorius Airlangga, Julius Bata, Oskar Ika Adi Nugroho, Boby Hartanto Pramudita Lim

“…The hybrid model integrates CNNs for spatial feature extraction and LSTMs for temporal dependency modeling, enhanced by a custom activation function and loss function tailored for the problem’s characteristics. …”
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EMERGENCE OF CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS IN ECOLOGICAL FILMIC DISCOURSE by Yana V. Vermenych

“…Taking English documentaries on ecological problems as empirical data, I aim to reveal how conceptual metaphors emerge in ecological filmic discourse. …”
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Key Research Areas in Territorial Marketing from 2020 to 2025 by Aleksandra Sztuk

“…The research indicates that this process should be based to a greater extent on distinguishing features referring to the identity of the place. It emphasizes the importance of residents' involvement in this process. …”
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Cultural Aspects of Type-2 Diabetes-related Social Stigma: A Cultural Epidemiological Study among General Community Members in Urban Pune, India by Abhay Machindra Kudale, Mayuri Dnyandeo Ghawat, Akshada Vikram Gopale, Mugdha Sharad Phutane, Saju Joseph

“…The milder stigma for type-2 diabetes was revealed through the preference to hide, problems in arranging marriages, difficulties in ongoing marriages, and discrimination instances at the workplace. …”
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Adaptation of Migrant Children in a Foreign Cultural Environment: Socio-Philosophical Analysis by Darya A. Ananʼina, Anastasia V. Terentyeva, Jiang Dan

“…As an empirical method, the focus group method is used, which helps to identify the difficulties and features of the adaptation process, as well as the goals and prospects of further socialization, which is a priority for migrant children, representatives of educational institutions ‒ preschool, school education.…”
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IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF FOREIGN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY OF ENTERPRISES ON THE BASIS OF MARKET RESEARCH by Iryna Gontareva, Mariia Nesen

“…To achieve the goal, the following tasks were set and solved: identifying the characteristic fea­tures of the organization's activities, familiarizing with the principles of accounting and financial reporting, analyzing the marketing and foreign economic activities of organizations. …”
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Estimation Vehicular Waiting Time at Traffic Build-Up Queues by Mohamed Maher Ata, Mohamed El-Darieby, Baher Abdulhai, Emad Felemban, Saleh Basalamah, Basim Zafar

“…Due to the high growth of social economic activities and the increased need for mobility in recent days, transportation problems like congestion, accidents, and pollution have been increased. …”
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Socio-Natural and Socio-Ecologo-Economic Models Designed by the Method of Agent Modeling by A. F. Ageeva

“…It analyzes constructive features of agent-oriented and multi-agent models and on the basis of its results it puts forward the classification of models, according to which it is possible to combine them in two groups, each of them includes several sub-types depending on the purpose and specific conceptual idea of building the imitation process. …”
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Ecology and management of the black inch worm, Hyposidra talaca Walker (Geometridae: Lepidoptera) infesting Camellia sinensis (Theaceae): A review by Somnath Roy, Soma Das, Gautam Handique, Ananda Mukhopadhyay, Narayanannair Muraleedharan

“…This review collates the work and literature on the ecology of H. talaca and offers an analysis of the problems encountered in managing the defoliator in tea plantations. …”
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Diagnosis and surgical treatment of complicated acute necrotizing pneumonia in children (literature review) by A.F. Halahan

“…The current state of the problem of early diagnosis and treatment of necrotizing pneumonias is studied. …”
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Medical Image Classification Algorithm Based on Weight Initialization-Sliding Window Fusion Convolutional Neural Network by Feng-Ping An

“…However, deep learning has the following problems in medical image classification. First, it is impossible to construct a deep learning model hierarchy for medical image properties; second, the network initialization weights of deep learning models are not well optimized. …”
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Evolution of Budget Expenditures and Budget Investment in the Context of Structural Transformation of the National Economy of Ukraine by Ivanchenkov Viacheslav S.

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Application of XAI to the prediction of CTCF binding sites by Thomas Vanhaeren, Angela del Robledo Troncoso-García, José Francisco Torres Maldonado, Federico Divina, Pedro Manuel Martínez-García

“…This work represents a proof of concept showing that XAI are suitable for the extraction of molecular insights from complex biological problems like CTCF binding prediction.…”
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Putting migration in context: a review of how theory and methods shape climate-induced migration research findings by Matthew Turner, Anika M. Rice, Emily Fornof, Jesse Ribot

“…Studies were also coded for how they incorporated key methodological features needed to support causal claims. We find that conceptual framings, choice of data, and data availability in each study region strongly influence the prevalence of basic causal inference problems (e.g., mismatched spatial and temporal scales, over-aggregation of migration data, lumping of destination types). …”
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How Does Aristotle’s Categories Criticize the Theory of Forms? by Zeynep Duran

“…In this respect, Categories has the claim of explaining both the essences and accidents of things and thereby solving the related problems of predication. Accordingly, although no direct reference can be found in the text itself, scholarly opinion has concluded Categories to offer two fundamental critiques of Platonic Forms: (1) The theory of Forms fails to explain the accidental features of things by assuming one kind of being, and (2) the theory of Forms fails to explain the essential natures of things because of its relational account of predication. …”
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Regulatory Barriers in Digital Mergers and Acquisitions: Antitrust Regulation of Technology Secto by K. Afuwape

“…Special attention is paid to the problems of determining the dominant position, regulatory control, and specific features of digital markets.Scientific novelty: the article systematically compares the regulatory regimes of the world’s leading jurisdictions through the prism of digital mergers and acquisitions. …”
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A Destination Prediction Network Based on Spatiotemporal Data for Bike-Sharing by Jian Jiang, Fei Lin, Jin Fan, Hang Lv, Jia Wu

“…However, this new form of transport has also led to problems, such as illegal parking, vandalism, and theft, each of which presents a major administrative challenge. …”
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