Modelling Customs Revenue in Ghana Using Novel Time Series Methods by Diana Ayorkor Agbenyega, John Andoh, Samuel Iddi, Louis Asiedu

“…The Neural Network Autoregression model of the form NNAR (1, 3) provided the best forecasts with the least Mean Squared Error (MSE) of 53.87 and relatively lower Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) of 0.08. …”
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Design Maintenance System on Mixer Machine to Prevent the Breakdown Using Reliability Centered Maintenance by Budhi Santri Kusuma, Mhd. Ardian Syahputra, Roaida Yanti, Dede Ibrahim Muthawali

“…The method employed is Reliability Centered Maintenance with the Failure Mode and Effect Analysis approach to identify failure patterns in a system and formulate the best strategies for designing a maintenance system. …”
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Exploring Relationships between Months and Different Crash Types on Mountainous Freeways Using a Combined Modeling Approach by Changjian Zhang, Jie He, Chunguang Bai, Xintong Yan, Chenwei Wang, Yazhong Guo

“…Investigating the relationship between the months and traffic crashes is a foremost task for the safety improvement of mountainous freeways. …”
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Optimizing online business management in the fashion sector in increasing sales volume by Nurhilalia Nurhilalia, Muhammad Yusuf, Firman Menne, Sitti Mujahida Baharuddin, Lukman Setiawan

“…The research method used is descriptive quantitative with data collection techniques through observation, interviews, documentation and distributing questionnaires via g-form. The number of respondents was 200 people selected by purposive sampling. …”
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La imagen postal de Guayaquil. De las imágenes regeneradas a las microintenciones de control estético by Tina Zerega

“… Los estudios de la visualidad han analizado las series de postales en forma individual y en su conjunto, ya que sintetizan intenciones e idealizaciones que pueden considerarse como actos antropológicos. …”
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ISLRWR: A network diffusion algorithm for drug-target interactions prediction. by Lu Sun, Zhixiang Yin, Lin Lu

“…We applied the metropolis-hasting random walk (MHRW) algorithm to improve the performance of the random walk with restart (RWR) algorithm, forming the basis by which the self-loop probability of the current node is removed. …”
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The Exposure Assessment in Current Time Study: Implementation, Feasibility, and Acceptability of Real-Time Data Collection in a Community Cohort of Illicit Drug Users by Gregory D. Kirk, Beth S. Linas, Ryan P. Westergaard, Damani Piggott, Robert C. Bollinger, Larry W. Chang, Andrew Genz

“…Participants were recruited from an ongoing community-cohort of current or former injection drug users. Of 113 individuals enrolled, 109 completed study procedures during four trials conducted from November 2008 to May 2013. …”
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11. Sınıf Din Kültürü ve Ahlak Bilgisi Dersi “Dünya ve Ahiret” ile “Kur’an’a Göre Hz. Muhammed” Ünite Kazanımlarının Öğrencilerin İlgi ve İhtiyaçları ile Uyumu ve Öğrenmeleriyle İl... by Hatice Arı, Süleyman Akyürek

“…Buna göre Kayseri il merkezinde bulunan 5 anadolu lisesinde öğrenim görmekte olan veya mezun 294 öğrenciden anket formuna cevap alınmış ve 13 öğrenciyle yarı yapılandırılmış mülakat yapılmıştır. …”
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Photophysical characterization of chosen Ln(III) macromolecular complexes by Krzysztof Staninski, Stefan Lis

“…It was found that the excitation and fluorescence spectra of DHDA in water and methanol after being exposed to ultraviolet radiation, show very obvious photochromism. The formation of 1 : 1 complexes between 4,4′,4″,4‴-(porphine-5,10,15,20-tetrayl)-tetrakis benzoic acid, (TCPPH2) and La(III), Eu(III) and Yb(III) in methanolic solution, with the use of the spectrophotometric and spectrofluorimetric methods. …”
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The study of symbiotic traits – nodulation and activity of nitrogen fixation – in different cultivars of spring vetch (Vicia sativa L.) by K. K. Sidorova, A. V. Goncharova

“…This paper presents the results of studies of nodulation and nitrogen-fixing activity that we conducted with four spring vetch cultivars raised at the Siberian Research Institute for Plant Industry and Breeding. Two varieties of forage pea, namely Druzhnaya and traditional cv. Falenskaya 42, were taken as references. …”
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Shrubs alter microbial community dynamics across various soil depths in alpine grassland ecosystems on the eastern Tibetan Plateau by Jingwei Chen, Qi Feng, Xiangtai Wang, Hang An, Jiahao Cao

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Погляд на оцінювання здатності військових формувань Збройних Сил України виконати поставлені завдання з використанням принципів і правил країн-членів НАТО... by М.М. Дєнєжкін, М.Я. Ткач

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Des jardiniers à l’épreuve du sol urbain by Marie Grenet, Élisabeth Rémy, Marine Canavèse, Nathalie Berthier

“…It is necessary to address the issue of how soil contamination is managed, experienced and perceived by gardeners : which forms of contamination affect them most ? How can the soil and its quality be appreciated in town ? …”
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‘O breves et infaustos populi favores’. The Controversies Surrounding Lieutenant Władysław Gorzeński during the Civil War in Poland-Lithuania (1715–1716) by Marcin Różycki

“…Having given up his command in the union after a mere two months, he was forced to seek protection among those who had recently been enemies. …”
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‘Whose Gold Is This?’ The Gold of the Dutch Golden Coach by Annemarie de Wildt

“…It asks what makes the object: its final form and function, the separate parts and their materiality, or the context of users and related objects as part of a continuous process of meaning making? …”
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GLOBALIZATION, POST-COLONIZING MIGRATION AND NEO-SLAVERY: THE SOCIO-POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS TO TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AFRICAN STATES by Jonathan C. Madu

“…My paper argues that the process of decolonization, especially in Africa was incomplete and that former colonies were excluded from key economic decisions that came to have severe implications for their future attempts at developing their economies, which got worse with globalization. …”
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Efectividad de una intervención educativa y la práctica de reanimación cardiopulmonar básica en estudiantes by Ambar Estefany Usecca Ramos

“…Material y métodos: Estudio con enfoque cuantitativo, transversal, cuasiexperimental, la muestra fue de 54 estudiantes, formando un grupo control (27) y experimental (27), los instrumentos aplicados fueron el cuestionario “Conocimiento sobre Reanimación Cardiopulmonar”, y una lista de cotejo tomando como referencia la Guía para personal de Salud Capacitador de la AHA 2015. …”
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A permanência do Regionalismo na literatura brasileira contemporânea by André Tessaro Pelinser, Márcio Miranda Alves

“…Se concluye que la literatura brasileña contemporánea debe mucho a la tradición regionalista, sin que ello implique cuestionamientos de calidad estética, y que corresponde a la crítica investigar los temas y las formas de la narrativa como claves de interpretación de problemas históricos que perduran.…”
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Digital Students: Myths and Reality by R. M. Petruneva, V. D. Vasilyeva, J. V. Petruneva

“…The widespread and active use of various gadgets and devices leads to a change in the mechanisms of cognitive processes and to the formation of new behavioral trends. It actualizes the need for innovative teaching methods adequate to the new reality.…”
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Translation as growth: Xiangsheng’s growing trajectory in China and abroad by Ye Tian, Guanpeng Wang

“…Our exploration reveals that translation enables the intermingling of political tension, performers’ self-awareness, audiences’ social and cultural background, and the broader historical background of the form itself as it grows and evolves in different times and locations. …”
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