Simulation Modeling for Analysis of a (Q, r) Inventory System under Supply Disruption and Customer Differentiation with Partial Backordering by Parham Azimi, Mohammad Reza Ghanbari, Hasan Mohammadi

“…Partial backordering is applied when a stock out occurs, and customer can select either to leave the system without purchasing or to backorder products. …”
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Cormac McCarthy’s The Road : Rewriting the Myth of the American West by Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz

“…The denouement of the story also strikes those familiar with his fiction as unusual. …”
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Nature-based solutions (Nbs) for flood mitigation: Recent UK case studies by Rameshwaran Ponnambalam, Blake James, Trill Emily, Robotham John, Bishop James, Old Gareth, O’Brien Alex, Scarlett Pete

“…The Littlestock Brook NFM study showed that the Nbs interventions successfully attenuated all storm event discharge peaks during the monitoring period (up to 55% reductions) and that over 40% of the total storage volume remained available throughout all events. …”
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Effects of Different Snow Clearing Measures on Urban Snowmelt Runoff Management by MA Zhenjie, FENG Youcan, TIAN Lin, GAO Jinhua, XUE Lijun

“…In response to the issue of surface water accumulation due to snowmelt runoff in urban areas, the Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) is used to examine the influence of three kinds of snow clearing measures, i.e., mechanical, chemical, and manual measures, on the patterns of snowmelt runoff as well as the winter performance of low-impact development (LID) in cold regions. …”
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Influence of personality, biases on financial risk tolerance among retail investors in India by Aniruddha S Rao, Savitha G Lakkol

“…The data of 530 retail investors in India, who had more than 2 years of investing experience in the stock market, were collected. The study considered the HEXACO model since it captures all dimensions of personality that are not considered in the commonly used Big Five Model (BFM). …”
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FAB: Fast Angular Binary Descriptor for Matching Corner Points in Video Imagery by Mehwish Tahir, Nadia Kanwal, Fatima Anjum

“…Modern descriptors use binary values to store neighbourhood information of feature points for matching because binary descriptors are fast to compute and match. …”
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Comparison of Conventional Polyethylene Wear and Signs of Cup Failure in Two Similar Total Hip Designs by Thomas B. Pace, Kevin C. Keith, Estefania Alvarez, Rebecca G. Snider, Stephanie L. Tanner, John D. DesJardins

“…Clinically, at a 9-year average followup, both groups had comparable HHS scores and incidence of thigh or groin pain, though the machined group had an increased incidence of osteolysis and annual linear wear rate.…”
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COVID-19 Pandemic in Brunei Darussalam by Wei Shan Ang, Jodi Woan-Fei Law, Vengadesh Letchumanan, Yong Sze Ong, Yatinesh Kumari, Long Chiau Ming, Loh Teng-Hern Tan

“…Early and decisive interventions taken by authorities and the public’s cooperation have been a remarkable success story. The key success factors are effective pandemic containment measures, public communication strategy, and enhanced surveillance mechanisms supported by the mass testing program and contact tracing. …”
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Mathematical models of digital transformation asymmetric information game in energy enterprises by Caicai Guo, Riqiang Li, Bei Yuan

“…In addition, government subsidies can cause a reaction in the stock prices of energy companies, and act as a signaling mechanism for the financial sector to discern creditworthiness among energy companies.…”
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Interwencja bogini/Szatana? "Wenus w futrze" (2013) – lektura palimpsestowa filmu Romana Polańskiego by Iwona Kolasińska-Pasterczyk

“…Venus in Fur has been defined as a kind of palimpsest, i.e. a film story based on the fictional skeleton of other works. …”
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Re-Creation, Re-Membrance, and Resurgence: Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse by Celia Cores Antepazo

“…Wagamese therefore constructs a narrative in which the protagonist’s development mirrors the ideal that the author sets for Canada, in which reconciliation with Indigenous truth will not take place unless the whole story is acknowledged.…”
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Madrid selon Basilio Martín Patino : le charme discret de l’imperfection by Bernard Bessière

“…Basilio Martin Patino’s 1985 movie is a polymorphous piece blending fictional and documentary elements in a way that makes interpretation difficult. The story may be summarized in the following way: on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, a German production company sends a documentarian to Madrid to have him shoot a documentary on Civil War Madrid. …”
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Design and Implementation of Decentralized Swarm Intelligence E-Commerce Model Based on Regional Chain and Edge Computing by Xiaofang Luo

“…The architecture utilizes the characteristics of nontamperable and traceable data on the blockchain to solve the problem of mutual distrust between the transaction parties, uses MongoDB for data retrieval and filtering to solve the problem that it is difficult to query flexibly on the blockchain, uses the file platform to save public resources to solve the problem that it is very expensive or even infeasible to store images or large texts in the blockchain, and ensures remote sensing resources and services related to the effective storage of images and description texts. …”
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Application of Heterogeneous Network Oriented to NoSQL Database in Optimal Postevaluation Indexes of Construction Projects by Airong Yang, Guoxin Yu

“…With the advent of the Internet Web 2.0 era, storage devices used to store website data are developing at an ever-increasing high-growth rate and a diversified trend. …”
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CEO Characteristics and Earnings Management: A Study of Manager Tenure, Age, Gender, and Overconfidence by Chen Sitao, Tzavara Dionisia, Argyropoulou Maria, Koufopoulos Dimitrios, Argyropoulou Rachel

“…Using earnings and executive characteristics data for A-class companies listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges between 2016 and 2020, the research employs multiple regression analysis to empirically analyse the impact of manager characteristics on corporate earnings management. …”
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INTEREST INCOME AND DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS (DMBs) PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIA by Russell Olukayode Christopher Somoye, Bamidele M. Ilo, Lateef Adewale Yunusa

“…The study employed data from the annual reports and accounts covering the period 2012-2017 of fifteen (15) selected interest charging DMBs out of the twenty-one (21) listed banks on the Nigerian Stock Exchange as on 31st December, 2018. The results obtained from the random effect model indicate that interest income and capital adequacy contribute and significantly drive the profitability of the Nigerian DMBs. …”
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Evaluation of the Fluctuation Mechanism of Behavioral Financial Market Based on Edge Computing by Xiaoliang Yuan

“…With the development of the stock market, traditional financial theories and behavioral financial theories continue to converge, and traditional financial theories based on investor rationality and efficient market assumptions are subject to unprecedented conjectures. …”
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Real‐Time 3‐D Modeling of the Ground Electric Field Due To Space Weather Events. A Concept and Its Validation by Mikhail Kruglyakov, Alexey Kuvshinov, Elena Marshalko

“…Taking the 7–8 September 2017 geomagnetic storm as a space weather event, we show that real‐time high‐resolution 3‐D modeling of the GEF is feasible. …”
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Optimal Scheduling Strategy for Regional Microgrid considering Large-Scale Access of Electric Vehicles by Tengfei Zhang, Yiling Cheng, Chen Peng, Fumin Ma, Deliang Zeng, Gregory M. P. O’Hare

“…Numerical results show that EVs store electric energy during valley hours and output electric energy during peak hours. …”
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Investigation and analysis of rhetorical functions of Epithet in Khaghani's Odes by Mahammad Hossein Esmaeli, Mahammad Khakpour, Ibrahim Ranjbar

“…Details such as origin, appearance, skill, lineage, position and ability of the characters in the story are provided through epithet. These details help us to deepen the meaning and significance of the events and the formation of the characters' identities. …”
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