Nuclear Power Plants as Equivalents of Hydroelectric Reservoirs and Providers of Grid Stability: The Case of the Brazilian Electrical System by Ivo Leandro Dorileo, Welson Bassi, Danilo Ferreira de Souza

“…In the current configuration of Brazil’s hydro-thermal-wind power system, hydroelectric reservoirs have progressively lost their long-term regulatory role due to inadequate planning, inefficient energy use, and reduced inflows. …”
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La competencia pragma-discursiva en las respuestas por correo electrónico a reclamaciones: una propuesta didáctica para el aula de español de los negocios by Almudena Basanta, Lieve Vangehuchten, Rebecca Van Herck

“…Despite the rise of new means of communication, in the current B2C (Business to Consumer) context, businesses opt to individually handle complaints via email, thus giving rise to a unique professional communication genre. …”
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Lifelong Learning and Employability in the Danube Region Countries: Influences and Correlations by Constanţa-Nicoleta Bodea, Maria-Iuliana Dascălu, Gordana Velikic, Stelian Stancu

“…The conclusions of the current study are particularly important in the Romanian context, as the employment rate of recent graduates is in a decreasing trend, but also for all the Danube Region ex-communist countries, which have to boost their employment rates as well, to assure their economical growth. …”
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Performance Measurement of Management System Standards Using the Balanced Scorecard by Jan Kopia, Andreas Kompalla, Melanie Buchmüller, Bastian Heinemann

“…This study summarized current research in the field of performance measurement in the context of MSS and IMS and the use of BSC and quantitatively and qualitatively tests the usefulness of BSC in measuring the effect of MSSs using the Execution Premium. …”
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Effect of Students’ Personal Agency on Academic Compliance: An Experimental Study by Anagha M Nambisan, Shailja Rana

“…Employing an embedded mixed-method design, the current research integrated a matched pair scenario experiment regarding students’ compliance towards timely submission of assignments, along with content analysis of descriptions provided by participants about their perception towards compliance. …”
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MARKETING COMMUNICATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE by Olimpia OANCEA

“…Once companies have developed products and services, they must communicate the value and benefits of the offerings to current and potential customers. Consumers are changing. …”
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Identifying the Main Components of Metamodern Education by Reza Saee Mehraban, Shahrbanoo Khoshkab

“…The current research has been carried out to analyze the components of metamodern education. …”
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Beyond the individual: governing AI’s societal harm by Nathalie A. Smuha

“…Drawing on a legal domain specifically aimed at protecting a societal interest—environmental law—I identify three ‘societal’ mechanisms that EU policymakers should consider in the context of AI. These concern (1) public oversight mechanisms to increase accountability, including mandatory impact assessments with the opportunity to provide societal feedback; (2) public monitoring mechanisms to ensure independent information gathering and dissemination about AI’s societal impact; and (3) the introduction of procedural rights with a societal dimension, including a right to access to information, access to justice, and participation in public decision-making on AI, regardless of the demonstration of individual harm. …”
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Progressive scale implementation for personal income tax as a necessary condition for ensuring social justice by N. Z. Zotikov

“…In the context of the current unfavorable demographic situation and external challenges due to Western sanctions, it is necessary to strengthen motivation to work, considering foreign positive experience to introduce a real and workable progressive scale of personal income taxation.…”
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Product management specifics Russian IT industry under sanctions by M. V. Potanina

“…The role of specialists of this type in Russia in the context of international market changes, features of the evolution of Russian product managers, the potential and points of growth of this profession were studied. …”
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Which factors influence plan reuse in a sequential posture selection task? by Christoph Schütz, Christoph Schütz

“…A recent study showed a significant drop in PoR if participants were asked to skip every second drawer in a sequential drawer opening task. In the current study, we sought to disentangle four confounded factors that were potentially responsible for this drop in PoR: a change of (1) spatial distance, (2) digit distance, (3) number of drawers, or (4) context (presence of skipped drawers). …”
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The pharmacological management of depression – Update 2017 by Elzbieta Osuch, Andre Marais

“…This article summarizes the currently available antidepressant drugs in South Africa. …”
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Study on the mechanism of Dexmedetomidine’s effect on postoperative cognitive dysfunction in elderly people by Yuanbin Cai, Fan Yu, Wei Wu, Wurong Chen

“…This paper provides a comprehensive review of current research on the mechanisms by which DEX affects POCD in the elderly. …”
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Consumers’ Attitudes Towards Whole Dried Figs Attributes: A Preliminary Study in Italy by Federica Monaco, Pietro De Marinis, Guido Sali

“…This research combines qualitative and quantitative approaches to enrich the current knowledge and uncover consumers’ attitudes towards whole dried figs. …”
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Behavior and sustainability benefits of modular steel buildings by Ahed Habib, Ausamah Al Houri, Bashar Alibrahim, Maan Habib

“…Accordingly, this study aims to first perform a bibliometric analysis of current literature to identify key trends in the field, then discuss the existing findings in the literature, and finally conduct a critical sustainability assessment to place modular steel buildings within the context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. …”
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Investigation of the Effects of Accessible Traffic Calming and Flow Improvement Applications on Traffic by Kadir Berkhan Akalın, Çağdaş Kara, Abdulkadir Özden

“…Proving public transportation and pedestrian priority systems is one of the most important elements of urbanization. In this context, in many developed and developing countries, especially pedestrian and bicycle safety has been prioritized and related applications have been developed and the use of environment and humanfriendly transportation systems has been expanded. …”
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Does the Experience of Being Phubbed by Friends Affect Psychological Well-Being? The Mediating Roles of Loneliness, Relationship Satisfaction, and Self-Esteem by Yeslam Al-Saggaf

“…Past research found that phubbing partners indirectly affected their well-being. The current study was aimed at investigating whether phubbing friends is also indirectly related to their well-being. …”
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Properties of Raw Saudi Arabian Grey Kaolin Studied by Pyrrole Adsorption and Catalytic Conversion of Methylbutynol by Murad Alsawalha, Elaref Ratemi

“…This current article demonstrates how X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF) was employed to reveal the major constituents of a sample of natural grey Saudi kaolin. …”
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Application of dynamic systems modeling approach to rank optimal urban waste management strategies using SWOT method by Hamid Shahbandarzadeh, Mohammad Hossein Kabgani

“…Also, from the technical point of view, the current research is innovative by focusing on combining fuzzy logic with the dynamic systems modelling approach and the Delphi method. …”
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PRODUCTION PROSTHETIC NOSE FOR CAD / CAM TECHNOLOGY: ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES by L.B. Yerys

“…Gypsum wax reproductions prosthetic nose in a container.6. Replacement of wax on the plastic. 7. …”
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