Using Advocacy Advertising for Promoting Exclusive Breastfeeding among Women in Nigeria by Abdulrahman Ali Kolawole

“… Objective: This study aims to assess the efficiency of advocacy advertising in fostering exclusive breastfeeding among women in Nigeria. …”
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Pemodelan 3D Jembatan Lengkung, Studi Kasus Jembatan Bukit Sulap, Menggunakan Software Autodesk Revit by Muhammad Ihsanul Kharimah, Benny Hidayat

“…Building Information Modeling (BIM) has the potential to minimize errors and increase efficiency. BIM is a method that was originally applied to the AEC (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) industry. …”
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Measuring technological development and sovereignty by V. V. Glazunova

“…Solving this problem requires assessing the efficiency of economic technologies. The aim of the study is to explain the direct (non-indexed) method of measuring technology sovereignty, taking into account qualitative features of technologies. …”
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Spatial-temporal Offshore Current Field Forecasting Using Residual-learning Based Purely CNN Methodology with Attention Mechanism by Zeguo Zhang, Jianchuan Yin

“…Furtherly, the Recurrent Neural Networks-based methods previously employed exhibit low efficiency in terms of model convergence concerning practical engineering purposes, and numerical weather models are time-consuming and computational expensive. …”
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The concept of total defense in the deterrence strategy of the Republic of Serbia by Milkovski Vangel, Božić Sandra

“…Through the development process, it is possible to achieve full agreement of all forces on their tasks, methods of engagement and associated risks. Also, with the concept of total defense, it is possible to determine measures and recommendations on changes in the existing defense system that should increase the effectiveness and efficiency of strategic deterrence. …”
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Green Finance Instruments as a Factor of Increasing Industrial Waste Utilization in Russia by N. A. Osokin, Yu. V. Nikitushkina, I. Yu. Zolotova

“…The aim of the paper is to determine the efficiency of green financing of industrial waste utilization projects in Russia. …”
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Well Testing of Fracture Corridors in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs for an Improved Recovery Strategy by Yingying Guo, Andrew Wojtanowicz

“…Diagnostic pressure and derivative plots are used to estimate corridor properties—such as spacing and conductivity—and to determine a well’s location relative to fracture corridors. …”
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Investigating the relationship between happiness and self-esteem with self-efficacy in the clinical performance of midwives working in medical centers and comprehensive health serv... by Zahra Mohebbi-Dehnavi, Mahnaz Noroozi

“…MATERIALS AND METHODS: The present study was a quantitative correlational study that was carried out using a quota method on 200 midwives working in health centers and comprehensive health services in Isfahan in 2021–2022. …”
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Tight basis cycle representatives for persistent homology of large biological data sets. by Manu Aggarwal, Vipul Periwal

“…It provides a rigorous method to compute robust topological features in discrete experimental observations that often contain various sources of uncertainties. …”
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Modeling of Frost Formation on Fin-and-Tube Surface of Air Cooler by Lagutin A. E., Kozachenko I. S., Zheliba U. A.

“…The aim of this paper is to present a new method of modeling of frost predicting process on the surface of the fine-and-tube air cooler. …”
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The Arctan-X Family of Distributions: Properties, Simulation, and Applications to Actuarial Sciences by Ibrahim Alkhairy, M. Nagy, Abdisalam Hassan Muse, Eslam Hussam

“…A rigorous Monte Carlo simulation analysis is used to determine the efficiency of the obtained estimators. …”
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The Moderating Effect of Dynamic Capabilities and Institutional Context on Internationalization of Turkish Business Groups by Tuğba Kaplan, Kader Şahin

“…The scope of the study consists of eleven multinational TBGs with FDI exceeding 100 million USD and a two-stage mixed method was used. In the qualitative methodology, person-to-person interviews and content analysis were used for determining TBGs’ internationalization motives and DC. …”
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Optimal location and size of electric vehicle charging and discharging stations in distribution networks with integrated distributed generations by Minh Thien Vo, Thi Lan Anh Tran, Quang Ai Nguyen, Trung Khanh Tran, Ngoc Dieu Vo

“…In this study, we propose a computational model to determine the optimal location and size of EVCS applying V2G technique in a distribution network integrating distributed generation sources (DG) with the goal of minimizing active power loss, using an improved method combining the firefly algorithm with the quantum-inspired evolutionary algorithm (QBFA) to find solutions for the problem. …”
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A Hybrid Multi-Strategy Optimization Metaheuristic Algorithm for Multi-Level Thresholding Color Image Segmentation by Amir Seyyedabbasi

“…The COSGO algorithm is applied using two objective functions, Otsu’s method and Kapur’s entropy, to determine optimal multi-level thresholds. …”
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ASSESSMENT OF ANGULAR DEVIATIONS OF THE VERTICAL SURFACES OF TEETH STUMPS OBTAINED DURING ODONTOPREPARATION FOR FIXED ORTHOPEDIC STRUCTURES (METAL-CERAMIC AND SOLID CROWNS) by I. O. Buentsov

“…Odontoreparation is fundamental to ensure the functional efficiency, high aesthetics and durability of fixed prostheses. …”
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Modeling of humidity stresses in a soil half-space by E. K. Agakhanov, C. A. Agakhanov, G. E. Agakhanov

“…In order to establish a more realistic behavior of soils, the paper considers the determination of their stressstrain state, taking into account new factors, including physical influences, in particular, humidity.Method. …”
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Parametric optimization of the slot waveguide characteristics using a machine-learning approach by Yadvendra Singh, Suraj Jena, Harish Subbaraman

“…Three different ML techniques, such as artificial neural network (ANN), support vector regression (SVR), and random forest (RF), were tested to compute performance parameters for the slot waveguide. The RF method outperformed the other two with mean absolute error (MAE), root mean square error (RMSE), coefficient of determination ( $$\hbox {R}^{2}$$ ), and Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE) values corresponding $$\hbox {n}_{eff}$$ and $$\hbox {P}_{conf}$$ as 0.007, 0.054, 0.961, and 0.960, and 0.129, 0.185, 0.998, and 0.998, respectively. …”
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Motion Planning for Mobile Manipulators Based on an Improved A* Algorithm and Manipulability by Cao Yi, Zhu Boyu, Gu Chao, Zhao Zhihua, Guo Yinhui

“…Finally, a mobile manipulator system consisting of a DIY six-degree-of-freedom (DOF) manipulator and Turtlebot2 mobile platform was employed to conduct comprehensive motion planning experiments in indoor environment, which verifies the effectiveness and reliability of the proposed method.…”
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Establishment of a pseudovirus neutralization assay for TGEV by Haojie Wang, Jianxing Chen, Lihong Xue, Yue Sun, Tongqing An, Yue Wang, Hongyan Chen, Changqing Yu, Changyou Xia, He Zhang

“…The pNT method provides a scalable, efficient, and reliable tool for TGEV antibody evaluation, with broad potential applications in pathogen detection and vaccine assessment.…”
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Individual tree segmentation of airborne and UAV LiDAR point clouds based on the watershed and optimized connection center evolution clustering by Yi Li, Donghui Xie, Yingjie Wang, Shuangna Jin, Kun Zhou, Zhixiang Zhang, Weihua Li, Wuming Zhang, Xihan Mu, Guangjian Yan

“…Here, we propose a new individual tree segmentation method, which couples the classical and efficient watershed algorithm (WS) and the newly developed connection center evolution (CCE) clustering algorithm in pattern recognition. …”
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