Circular Economy and its Indicators for Russia by S. N. Bobylev, S. V. Solovyeva

“…The article analyzes and adapts for Russia the UN Sustainable Development Goals directly related to the circular economy, proposes and quantifies key indicators. In the field of quantitative indicators, four areas have been identified for the development of crucial indicators set for the circular economy in Russia. …”
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Upland rice breeding for drought tolerance (review) by P. I. Kostylev, А. V. Aksenov

“…Currently, there have been identified many quantitative trait loci (QTL) of drought tolerance in rice, but only a few of them are suitable for use in marker breeding. …”
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Corporate Social Responsibility: Completeness and Transparency of Information by M. V. Melnik, M. T. Velikhanov

“…The areas of activity in the field of social responsibility, reflected in the form of ESG reporting, are systematized, their specifics and algorithmization of indicators that allow assessing the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of social responsibility are provided. …”
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Logistic Service Improvement Parameters for Postal Service Providers Using Analytical Hierarchy Process and Quality Function Deployment by Nisa James, Anish K. P. Kumar, Robert Jeyakumar Nathan

“…By refining logistics efficiency, this study provides suggestions and recommendations for boosting satisfaction and profitability, shedding light on service-led economic advancement for postal services in emerging economies. …”
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Governments’ behavioral strategies in cross-regional reduction of inefficient industrial land: learned from a tripartite evolutionary game model by Guangyu Li, Shaohua Wu, Heyuan You, Chengcheng Wang

“…However, previous studies have overlooked the quantitative analysis of the intergovernmental interest game involved in cross-regional RIIL, essential for determining project outcomes. …”
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Transformative Transdisciplinary Approaches to Digitalisation in the Tourism Supply Network: Enhancing Resilience and Collaboration in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal by Portia Pearl Siyanda Sifolo

“…Innovative technologies improved the supply chain efficiency, cutting coordination delays by 25% in Gauteng and boosting rural tourism visibility in KwaZulu-Natal, with a 30% increase in bookings. …”
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The Level of Cybersecurity of the BRICS Member Countries in International Ratings: Prospects for Cooperation by O. Ovchinnikova, N. K. Upadhyay

“…Based on the ITU rating, we assess the cybersecurity efficiency of the BRICS member countries versus other countries. …”
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Utility of the bucket cable trap to capture American black bears by Morgan A. Pfander, Wendelyn S. Fairbanks

“…Although the bucket cable trap has been used to capture black bears and grizzly bears (U. arctos) in the United States and Canada, quantitative assessments of its capture efficiency, injury rates, and capture biases are lacking. …”
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Environmental sustainability indicators applied to bioprocesses: a bibliometric analysis (2005–2024) by Anibal Alviz-Meza, Segundo Rojas-Flores, Ángel Darío González-Delgado

“…The need to incorporate quantitative, qualitative, and descriptive indicators that comprehensively capture the environmental impacts of biotechnological processes led us to compile thirty diversified indices. …”
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Suitability Analysis of Inverter Topologies and Their Modulation Strategies for Two-Phase Bearingless Motors by Qiang Ding, Xucong Bao

“…It is worth mentioning that the idea of carrier phase shifting is applied to the two-phase BM drive system in this paper to improve the system efficiency further. Finally, based on a set of 4000rpm/100W two-phase BM prototype platform, the inverter topology and its modulation scheme explored in this paper are given a complete comparison of simulation and experimental quantitative data to demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed improved two-phase BM SPWM drive scheme based on the staggered parallel topology.…”
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Determinants of Commercial Bank Lending: Evidence in United Arab Emirates by A. Al-Minawi, T. Tayachi, M. Antar

“…For this purpose, the investigator aimed to use a quantitative research method so that only accurate, authentic, and fully updated data can be obtained from the selected population. …”
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Thermometry with embedded SI traceability for industrial applications by Pearce Jonathan, Kjeldsen Henrik, Nielsen Jan, Müller Ingmar, Krause Christian, Sutton Gavin, Fateev Alexander, Andreu Aurik

“…The activities are grouped into four categories: 1) Develop techniques for traceable, quantitative thermal imaging from -100 °C to 500 °C; 2) Improve practical primary Johnson noise thermometry by developing sensing electronics and a robust probe for use up to 1200 °C; 3) Develop thermographic phosphor thermometry up to 1250 °C; 4) Develop artificial intelligence approaches to enable in-situ traceable thermometry. …”
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A novel transcendental metaphor metaheuristic algorithm based on power method by Huiying Zhang, Hanshuo Wu, Yifei Gong, Xiao Pan, Qipeng Zhong

“…The algorithm is rigorously evaluated on 49 benchmark functions from the CEC 2017 and CEC 2022 test suites. Quantitative analysis reveals that PMA surpasses nine state-of-the-art metaheuristic algorithms and performs better, with average Friedman rankings of 3, 2.71, and 2.69 for 30, 50, and 100 dimensions, respectively. …”
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Employment of Graduates of Pedagogical Universities: Statistics vs Mythology by L. M. Nurieva, S. G. Kiselev

“…In the current research, it is proved that the allegations of low efficiency of the system of teacher education are untenable. …”
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Developing a Model for Measuring and Evaluating the Role of Commodities as Hedging Tools in Investor Portfolios by Zahra Mohammadi Pourmazaheri, Babak Jamshidinavid, Mehrdad Ghanbari, Alireza Moradi

“…In portfolio construction, adding a single commodity to a quantitative stock portfolio resulted in low returns, offset by reduced fluctuations. …”
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Integrative pigGTEx resource with GWAS reveals genetic mechanism underlying semen quality in boars by Xuehua Li, Qing Lin, Zhanwei Zhuang, Kai Rao, Zhili Li, Xiuguo Shang, Panjie Xia, Lin Zhu, Zhe Zhang, Yunxiang Zhao

“…In the past, boar breeding has mostly emphasized characteristics such as lean meat percentage, feed conversion efficiency, and growth rate, while overlooking the genetic improvement of reproductive traits. …”
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Dose Reduction in Scintigraphic Imaging Through Enhanced Convolutional Autoencoder-Based Denoising by Nikolaos Bouzianis, Ioannis Stathopoulos, Pipitsa Valsamaki, Efthymia Rapti, Ekaterini Trikopani, Vasiliki Apostolidou, Athanasia Kotini, Athanasios Zissimopoulos, Adam Adamopoulos, Efstratios Karavasilis

“…The ECAE architecture integrates multiscale feature extraction, channel attention mechanisms, and efficient residual blocks to reconstruct high-quality images from low-dose inputs. …”
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Accuracy Evaluation of Multi-Source Precipitation Data in Mountain Flood Simulation in Guoning Village， Xiahe County by Wubin HUANG, Jing FU, Runxia GUO, Junxia ZHANG, Yu LEI

“…From 22:00 on September 6， 2023 to 04:00 （Beijing Time） on September 7， Xiahe County in Gansu Province experienced severe convective weather， with short-term heavy rainfall in some areas， causing flash floods in Guoning Village， Xiahe County， resulting in casualties.In this study， the characteristics of Radar Quantitative Precipitation Estimation （Radar-QPE）， FengYun 4B Quantitative Precipitation Estimation （FY4B-QPE）， and CMA Multi-source Precipitation Analysis （CMPA） precipitation products were contrastive analyzed based on meteorological station observations.These precipitation data were used to drive the hydrodynamic hydrological model and evaluate the effect of different precipitation data in the flash flood simulation.The results showed that： （1） Among the 12-hour cumulative precipitation amounts， CMPA demonstrated higher accuracy in terms of the position of large value areas and differences in local precipitation levels； Radar-QPE was closer to AWS （Automatic Weather Station） in terms of cumulative precipitation level but showed significant differences in spatial distribution； FY4B-QPE overestimated the cumulative precipitation level by 33.8%.（2） In terms of hourly distribution， CMPA was most similar to AWS in terms of temporal evolution， spatial distribution， and precipitation level； Radar-QPE's peak values were smaller， and the peak times were lagged， with negative deviations in precipitation being dominant； FY4B-QPE's peak values and peak times were consistent with reality， but there were deviations in the start and end times of precipitation， with positive deviations in precipitation being dominant.（3） In the hydrological simulation study， CMPA， Radar-QPE， and FY4B-QPE all overestimated water levels， but the timing of water level peaks was more consistent with AWS.CMPA performed best in terms of RMSE （Root Mean Square Error）， NSE （Nash Efficiency Coefficient）， and Bias （Relative Deviation）， followed by Radar-QPE， and FY4B-QPE performed relatively poorly.Although existing site-observed precipitation cannot fully meet the needs of research and early warning for small and medium scale mountain floods， the high precision of CMPA data could effectively supplement the deficiencies of traditional meteorological observation stations to some extent.Meanwhile， the algorithms and accuracy of Radar-QPE and FY4B-QPE needed to be further improved and enhanced.…”
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Comparative analysis of anthocyanin content in various tomato samples in connection with breeding by E. A. Dzhos, M. I. Mamedov, O. N. Pyshnaya, N. A. Golubkina, O. V. Verba, A. A. Matyukina

“…As a result of the research, the quantitative content of anthocyanins in fruits of dif- ferent tomato specimens has been studied, on which the dietary and medicinal quality of the fruits depends. …”
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Hospital discharge planning in cardiac care: study protocol for a mixed-methods study on the implementation, influencing factors and quality of care in Germany by Udo Schneider, Gabriele Meyer, Dirk Horenkamp-Sonntag, Vera Winter, Kai Svane Blume, Steffen Fleischer, Raphaele Bartels, Lena Imhof, Karl Blum, Susan Gottschalk, Robin Heber, Bjoern Andrew Remppis, Jonas Schreyoegg

“…Quantitative analyses will be based on primary data from hospital and patient surveys combined with secondary data from health insurance claims and hospital quality reports. …”
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