MODERN TRENDS OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONSULTING SERVICES MARKET by V. Zhukov

“…The associations of consultants and consulting agencies and their functions are considered. The tendencies of development of the world market of consulting services are revealed: attraction of various consultants; fight for qualified personnel; introduction of modern information technologies; orientation on the healthcare industry; formation of new models of counseling.…”
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Provably-Secure (Chinese Government) SM2 and Simplified SM2 Key Exchange Protocols by Ang Yang, Junghyun Nam, Moonseong Kim, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo

“…We revisit the SM2 protocol, which is widely used in Chinese commercial applications and by Chinese government agencies. Although it is by now standard practice for protocol designers to provide security proofs in widely accepted security models in order to assure protocol implementers of their security properties, the SM2 protocol does not have a proof of security. …”
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Adverse Environmental Impact: A Consultant’s Perspective by Alan W. Wells, Thomas L. Englert

“…In our over 30 years of experience, we have applied most of the approaches suggested for addressing this issue, including biostatistical methods, trend analysis, time series methods, conditional mortality rate models, stock-recruitment models, equivalent adult models, and ecosystem models. …”
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International experience in mobilising mechanisms to combat organised crime by O. Kopan, V. Melnyk

“…The study outlined the content of the organisational foundations of the system of mobilisation of law enforcement agencies involved in the fight against organised crime. …”
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Corporate Board Attributes, Shariah Board Attributes and Credit Rating: Evidence from Islamic Banks of Pakistan by Muhammad Mansoor, Nazima Ellahi, Qaiser Ali Malik

“…The study concludes that credit rating agencies in Pakistan i.e. PACRA and JC-VIS, and other international credit rating agencies including Fitch, Moody and Standard & Poor’s must consider Shariah governance attributes as key determinants while assigning long term and short term credit ratings to Islamic banks.…”
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Detection of Surface Crack in Building Structures Using Image Processing Technique with an Improved Otsu Method for Image Thresholding by Nhat-Duc Hoang

“…Therefore, the constructed model can be a useful tool for building management agencies and construction engineers in the task of structure maintenance.…”
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Systemic Risk in the Interbank Market with Overlapping Portfolios by Shanshan Jiang, Hong Fan

“…The model provides a tool for policy-makers and supervision agencies to prevent the systemic risk of banking system.…”
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Privacy Protection Method for Vehicle Trajectory Based on VLPR Data by Hua Chen, Chen Xiong, Jia-meng Xie, Ming Cai

“…Meanwhile, a mathematical model is established to expound the privacy protection principle of the (m, n)-bucket model. …”
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Encouragement of the Personnel of the State Labor Service of Ukraine to Implement International Experience within Labor Protection Management by O. A. Lukianykhina, V. O. Lukianykhin, I. V. Kolesnyk, K. О. Khamlyka

“…The advantage of this model is the ability of inspections to delegate their powers from central authorities to local agencies. …”
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Application Of ArtifiCial Intelligence in E-Governance: A Comparative Study of Supervised Machine Learning and Ensemble Learning Algorithms on Crime Prediction. by Niyonzima, Ivan, Muhaise, Hussein, Akankwasa, Aureri

“…Machine learning, a subfield of artificial intelligence, has been used by government agencies in developed countries in crime analysis and predictions. …”
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Environmental regulation, market power and low-carbon development of China's coal power industry chain —Based on both strategy and return perspectives by Jiaming Gao, Li Zhang

“…To study the behavioral strategies of government agencies and the coal power industry chain under environmental regulation, an evolutionary game model has been constructed. …”
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Integrating Social Rehabilitation into the Education System for Adolescent Drug Addicts: Legal Framework, Potential, and Challenges by Abdurrakhman Alhakim, Marthsian Yeksi Anakotta, Emiliya Febriyani, Winsherly Tan

“…Using normative legal research method and statutory approach, this research revealed numerous potentials and challenges in integrating social rehabilitation into the education system. A model consisting of normative reforms and practical framework of works is proposed to be applied by educational institutions and relevant government agencies. …”
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Multidimensional Performance Evaluation Using the Hybrid MCDM Method: A Case Study in the Turkish Non-Life Insurance Sector by Mehmet Zafer Taşcı

“…The validity and consistency of the results of the proposed decision model were tested using various sensitivity analyses.…”
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Confirmation bias in law enforcement and how debiasing interventions and mitigation strategies might help rebuild public trust: A thematic review by Segovia Richard Odin

“…For law enforcement agencies, implementing targeted training programs, de-biasing techniques, and decision-making models might improve equity and fairness concerning law enforcement practices. …”
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Determinants of Public Sector Innovation: The Example of Capacity Development in Public Procurement by Nils Otter, Mike Weber

“…The Triple-Helix-Model stresses the idea that a successful national system of innovation ought to incorporate the complexity of three social subsystems: private sector economy, governmental system and science. …”
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Ensuring the State’s Legal Liability is the Key Challenge of Legal Reform in the Modern Ukraine by O. S. Bakumov

“…The constitutional model of the state’s legal liability to a human being is based on the same principles in Ukraine. …”
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Good Worker Health and Hygiene Practices: Training Manual for Produce Handlers by Amy Simonne, Jeffrey Brecht, Steve Sargent, Mark Ritenour, Keith Schneider

“…Drawn from many sources in the subject area including the FDA-GAPs, FDA-GMPs, FDA Model Food Code, recommendations from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and other publications from federal government agencies, this manual is designed to be a reference to accompany the other educational materials included in the UF/IFAS Worker Health and Hygiene Training Program.  …”
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Good Worker Health and Hygiene Practices: Training Manual for Produce Handlers by Amy Simonne, Jeffrey Brecht, Steve Sargent, Mark Ritenour, Keith Schneider

“…Drawn from many sources in the subject area including the FDA-GAPs, FDA-GMPs, FDA Model Food Code, recommendations from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and other publications from federal government agencies, this manual is designed to be a reference to accompany the other educational materials included in the UF/IFAS Worker Health and Hygiene Training Program.  …”
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Exploring the value of digital twins for information management in highway asset maintenance by Mengtian Yin, Varun Kumar Reja, Ran Wei, Ioannis Brilakis, Brian Sheil, Federico Perrotta, Alix Marie d'Avigneau, Linjun Lu

“…Highway agencies face challenges managing dispersed asset data across maintenance processes and information systems, hindering efficient retrieval of dynamic road information for timely interventions. …”
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Assessing bias and computational efficiency in vision transformers using early exits by Seth Nixon, Pietro Ruiu, Marinella Cadoni, Andrea Lagorio, Massimo Tistarelli

“…In addition, due to many instances of misuse by law enforcement and other agencies, unbiased models for face recognition are now fundamental to the practical application of the field. …”
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