Value Investment Analysis of Engineering and Construction Companies in the United States: A Case Study of KBR by Miao Yichen

“…Financially, the company demonstrates solid solvency, efficient operational capacity, and promising growth potential, despite short-term earnings volatility. …”
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USING MACHINE LEARNING METHODS FOR PREDICTION OF DURABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: ROMANIA CASE STUDY by Dumitrel-Victor TIȚA, Daniel NIJLOVEANU, Nicolae BOLD, Doru-Anastasiu POPESCU

“…Thus, besides the obvious target of economic development, these economies must consider the alignment with the external factors, the social movements regarding workforce and social welfare, as well as the efficient usage of resources for production branches of the economy. …”
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Challenges to sustainable transport infrastructure integration in Johannesburg, South Africa by Ntebo Ngcobo, Opeoluwa Akinradewo, Phindile Mokoena

“…Key challenges identified include lack of political commitment to sustainable transportation, insufficient investment in energy-efficient vehicles, and resource constraints. The study also highlighted the need to expand and modernize transport infrastructure to accommodate population growth and increased economic activities. …”
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Offshoring Location Decision in Fuzzy Environment by Mehmet Şahin

“…Offshoring location selection is a crucial decision for firms in terms of competitiveness, flexibility, productivity, and profitability. Determining an efficient and appropriate location for offshoring has been a substantial multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) problem. …”
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Social and Economic Conditions for Innovation Development of Russian Regions by N. E. Bondarenko, R. V. Gubarev, T. V. Grishina

“…The efficient social and economic development of the Russian Federation is impossible without sustainable development of its entities, which implies well-balanced regional economy based on advanced production, housing and public utility, transport and other types of infrastructure; the development of social sphere and provision of favourable living conditions for the population; elimination of misbalances in regional development. …”
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Digital transformation of human resource management processes and practices: a study of Slovak enterprises by Vanda Čirčová, Janka Beresecká, Patrik Boršoš, Eva Čapošová

“…Implementing digital tools in HR can enhance the efficient use of HR, reduce negative environmental impacts, and promote corporate social responsibility. …”
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Beyond Recycling: Embedding Circular Economy and Social Values in Urban MSMEs of Malang by Siti Markhamah, Budi Eko Soetjipto

“… Growing global awareness of environmental issues has led to the increasing adoption of circular economy principles as a practical approach to building efficient and sustainable systems. In Indonesia, particularly in Malang City, micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) play a vital role in the national economy, contributing over 60% to the gross domestic product (GDP) and employing more than 97% of the workforce. …”
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Utilizing FRET-based Biosensors to Measure Cellular Phosphate Levels in Mycorrhizal Roots of Brachypodium distachyon by Shiqi Zhang, Lucas Jurgensen, Maria Harrison

“…Leveraging a semi-automated ImageJ macro for sensitized FRET analysis, this method provides a precise and efficient way to determine relative intracellular Pi levels at the level of individual cells or organelles.…”
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How to design an art-science program? Self-reported benefits for artists and scientists in the VI4 artist-in-residence program. by Skylar Cuevas, Qi Kathy Liu, Helen Qian, Max E Joffe, Karisa Calvitti, Megan Schladt, Eric P Skaar, Kendra H Oliver

“…While many new programs bridge the arts and sciences, a data-based examination of art-science program design can lead to more efficient programming. The Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation Artist-in-Residence program is a virtual program that brings together undergraduate student "artists" and faculty-level "scientists" to generate science-art content. …”
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Robust Synthetic Data Generation for Sequential Financial Models Using Hybrid Variational Autoencoder–Markov Chain Monte Carlo Architectures by Francesco Bruni Prenestino, Enrico Barbierato, Alice Gatti

“…These findings position the proposed framework as a computationally efficient and structurally simple alternative to Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)-based methods, suitable for real-world applications in data-driven financial modelling.…”
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Stakeholder perceptions to support Jurassic Park project as a future wildlife tourism by Septi Fahmi Choirisa, Edi Purnomo

“…It has a positive impact on a stakeholder within and beyond the destinations through effective and efficient benefit-sharing. This study examine the environmental attitudes, community attachment, economic gain, and community involvement that will impact to the stakeholder perceptions to revitalization project in Komodo National Park, Indonesia. …”
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Optimizing The Role of Zakat and Wakaf in Promoting National Economic Growth: Analytic Network Process (ANP) Method Approach by Robithoh Alam Islamy, Mulawarman Hannase

“…This study combines descriptive qualitative and quantitative research using the Analytic Network Process (ANP) method. …”
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The Effect of Capital Structure on Financial Performance “Applied study in Turkish Stock Exchange” by Muhammad Nawzad Ali, Amanj Mohamed Ahmed

“…The requirements for businesses to have an effective and efficient capital structure have become critical to the health and survival of businesses today. …”
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Management of Medical Records at Kabale Regional Referral Hospital. by Nkamwesimira, Trinity

“…The use of an electronic records management system is believed to be efficient and effective promoting easy accessibility, and retrieval of patient medical records and allowing easy communication amongst the healthcare service institutions and healthcare practitioners.…”
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X-FASNet: cross-scale feature-aware with self-attention network for cognitive decline assessment in Alzheimer's disease by Wenhui Chen, Shunwu Xu, Yiran Peng, Yiran Peng, Hong Zhang, Jian Zhang, Huaihao Zheng, Hao Yan, Zhaowen Chen, Zhaowen Chen

“…The proposed architecture implements a dual-pathway multi-scale feature extraction approach to identify discriminative neuroanatomical patterns across various spatial resolutions, while integrating a novel cross-scale feature-aware self-attention module that enhances inter-scale information exchange and captures long-range dependencies. Quantitative evaluations on the DPC-SF dataset demonstrate that X-FASNet achieves superior performance with 93.7% accuracy and 0.973 F1-score, outperforming CONVADD by 10.8 percentage points in accuracy and 0.118 in F1-score, while also surpassing EfficientB2 on key performance metrics. …”
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Epidemiological surveillance and economic impact analysis of different porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus infection statuses in 23 breeding pig farms in Hubei, Chi... by Huifeng Zhao, Jingwei Zhou, Min Zhang, Xiutao Yang, Zhaofang Xi, Qingxia Gao, Rui Fang, Pengfei Zhao, Junlong Zhao

“…The Kruskal-Wallis nonparametric test was used to assess the differences in production efficiency and weaning costs across various PRRSV infection statuses. …”
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YOLOV8-CMS: a high-accuracy deep learning model for automated citrus leaf disease classification and grading by Hongyan Zhu, Dani Wang, Yuzhen Wei, Pengcheng Wang, Min Su

“…Abstract Background Citrus leaf diseases significantly affect production efficiency and fruit quality in the citrus industry. …”
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Figure of merit for piezoelectric MEMS speakers by Mingchao Sun, Menglun Zhang, Yale Wang, Shaobo Gong, Chen Sun, Chongling Sun, Chengze Liu, Linbing Xu, Wei Pang

“…These FOMs facilitate the evaluation of key metrics, such as sound pressure level and energy efficiency over a wide frequency range, enabling quantitative comparisons among various speaker designs. …”
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Stable water isotope analysis of plant-soil interspecific interactions in wheat-maize intercropping by Duo-Peng Shi, Ying-Bo Liu, Yun-Ling Cui, An-Yu Zhao, He-Zhe Sun, Liang Xue, Wen-Feng Cong, Muhammad Ali Raza, Li-Qin Zhang

“…This integrated strategy significantly increased yields (>17 % for wheat and >50 % for maize) and provides a quantitative basis for designing water-efficient intercropping systems in arid regions.…”
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Rapid Detection of Trace Toxicants in Blood Using Thermal Desorption Coupled to Continuous Atmospheric Pressure Interfaced Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry by Hui-wen RUAN, Gui-yun SONG, Zhi-gang FAN, Suo-suo YANG, Jian KANG, Lei HUA, Wei-guo WANG

“…This approach provides doctors with precise and timely information to improve patient care quality and treatment efficiency.…”
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