The Effects of Public - Private Partnership Act on the Slovenian Public Utilities Providers by Veronika Petkovšek, Primož Pevcin

“…The paper presents the legal status of existing public enterprises in Slovenia before and after the adoption of Public-Private Partnership Act, that demanded the reorganization of existing public enterprises in the period 2007-2009. …”
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American Weed: A History of Cannabis Cultivation in the United States by Nick Johnson

“…Understanding how the US became one of the premier cannabis-growing regions of the world in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries will help scholars pinpoint major themes in the world history of cannabis, such as its adoption and distribution by marginalized peoples, its transnational appeal in a globalized capitalist system, and how the plant embeds itself within the urban and rural ecology of human civilization. …”
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Examining the application of nominalization in segmented abstracts: a corpus-based study by Yuan Yuwei

“…Segmented abstracts show distinct strategies for the adoption of nominalizations in different sections. …”
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Automatic Pipelining and Vectorization of Scientific Code for FPGAs by Syed Waqar Nabi, Wim Vanderbauwhede

“…Manual translation of such legacy code into device-specific parallel code requires significant manual effort and is a major obstacle to wider FPGA adoption. We are developing an automated optimizing compiler TyTra to overcome this obstacle. …”
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Artificial intelligence in education: Current challenges by Fabijanić Gagro Sandra

“…The regulatory environment in this field is becoming increasingly dynamic, either through the adaptation of existing or the adoption of new comprehensive laws and legal frameworks at both the national and international levels, to ensure the ethical, non-discriminatory, sustainable and verifiable use of artificial intelligence in education.…”
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Toward sustainability: ESG bridging socioemotional wealth and sustainable financial in family firms by ChangYi Zhu, Alexandra Simón Villar, Maria Jose Parada Balderrama

“…From a policy perspective, these results suggest the need for government incentives and enhanced disclosure standards to encourage broader ESG adoption among family firms in emerging markets.…”
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MEASURES TO PRESERVE THE ECO-BALANCE OF THE TERRITORIES AND DEVELOP ECOLOGICAL TOURISM: IN SEARCH OF PARITY by L. N. Talalova

“…The study showed that the inclusion of several cultural objects in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2019, the adoption of specific measures for their conservation (Road Map – 2020) will allow the Republic of Uzbekistan to transform areas with a high level of landscape and recreational potential into centers of regional ecotourism, and with regard to cultural monuments, this will be minimal losses.…”
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International unification and national bibliography by Osvaldas Janonis

“…The development of international co-operation requires the adoption of standards on the international level. The international unification guarantees the compatibility of bibliographic data and the possibility of universal access to it. …”
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THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SALES MARKUPS OF GUARANTEEING ELECTRICITY SUPPLIERS BY METHOD OF COMPARISON OF ANALOGUES: DECREASE OR INCREASE by O. O. Mozgovaya, Yu. V. Sheval

“…The goal of the comparative method adoption is the improvement of guaranteeing electricity supplier’s effectiveness. …”
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Scimago Institutions Rankings for the Assessment of National Education System and Particular University by V. M. Galynsky, A. V. Zhuk

“…It is noted how the adoption of political decisions, such as the “May decrees” in the Russian Federation or projects “211”, “985” in China increase the number of universities in the country participating in the ratings. …”
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A Low Cross-Polarization Microstrip Antenna Array for Millimeter Wave Applications by Yanzhi Fu, Yixiang Lin, Changda Shi

“…The antenna element is composed of symmetric T-shaped patches with vias. The adoption of a double-sided symmetric radiation patch structure can suppress the cross-polarized electric field, and the vias reduces energy leakage during the power transmission along the antenna patches. …”
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Exploring the elastocaloric effect of Shape Memory Alloys for innovative biomedical devices: a review by Girolamo Costanza, Ilaria Porroni, Maria Elisa Tata

“…It concludes by analyzing future directions of elastocaloric cooling and heating for biomedical applications, including possible upcoming medical and biomedical devices, evaluating challenges that researchers still need to address for the adoption of SMA�s EC in the biomedical field.…”
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Practical Evaluation Method for the Pouring Scheme of a Long-Span Concrete-Filled Steel Tube Arch Bridge by Xinyu Yao, Tianzhi Hao, Nianchun Deng

“…Concrete pouring steel tube arch is a critical part in the construction of a long-span concrete-filled steel tube arch bridge. With the adoption of the improved TOPSIS, this study summarized five indicators that controlled the concrete-filled steel tube pouring sequence. …”
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Le couloir ouest-saharien : un espace gradué by Claire Cécile Mitatre

“…Focusing our study on how these Arabic speaking people position themselves, from a linguistic and cultural point of view, vis-à-vis their more or less distant neighbors, will help us understand the logic underlying the recent adoption of this ethnonym beyond the geopolitical borders of Western Sahara.…”
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Advances in lignocellulosic feedstocks for bioenergy and bioproducts by Daniel B. Sulis, Nathalie Lavoine, Heike Sederoff, Xiao Jiang, Barbara M. Marques, Kai Lan, Carlos Cofre-Vega, Rodolphe Barrangou, Jack P. Wang

“…However, large-scale adoption of lignocellulosic feedstocks faces considerable obstacles, including scalability, bioprocessing efficiency, and resilience to climate change. …”
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A Whole-Food Plant-Based Diet Reversed Angina without Medications or Procedures by Daniele Massera, Tarique Zaman, Grace E. Farren, Robert J. Ostfeld

“…He declined both drug therapy and invasive testing. Instead, he chose to adopt a whole-food plant-based diet, which consisted primarily of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, potatoes, beans, legumes, and nuts. …”
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Impacts of the CSR strategies of technology companies on performance and competitiveness by Juan Andrés Bernal-Conesa, Antonio Juan Briones-Peñalver, Carmen de Nieves-Niet

“…This study used structural equation modelling to analyse and investigate the adoption of corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies by the Spanish technology industry and the impacts of these strategies on technology companies’ performance and competitiveness. …”
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Ways to Improve the Efficiency of Doctoral Education by A. M. Margolin, R M. Mel’nikov

“…The current process of doctoral education, as well as its results, remain the target of severe criticism despite the adoption of a system of measures aimed at improving the quality of dissertation review including ubiquitous plagiarism checks, reduction of the number of defenses of substandard dissertations and a stricter code of practice for dissertation committees. …”
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Introduction to the South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines by B Hodkinson, E van Vuuren, A Maharaj, F Paruk, K Makan

“…These guidelines have been prepared using the AGREE II instrument and based on adoption and, where appropriate, adaptation of international guidelines. …”
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Dual-Channel Decisions under Blockchain and Returns by Guangdong Liu, Ziyang Li, Jinggui Chen

“…Only if the fixed cost of blockchain technology is low would the manufacturer adopt it.…”
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