The Global Impact Index as a Tool for Assessing Inclusion and Social Effectiveness: Arcobaleno Social Cooperative’s case by Daniel Iannaci, Roberto Gambassi, Giovanni Iozzi, Giovanni Porquier

“…However, traditional evaluation models, often developed for for-profit companies, fail to capture complexity and specificity of organizations that integrate social, economic, and environmental missions. …”
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DPN-GAN: Inducing Periodic Activations in Generative Adversarial Networks for High-Fidelity Audio Synthesis by Zeeshan Ahmad, Shudi Bao, Meng Chen

“…We trained two versions of the model: DPN-GAN small (38.67 M parameters) and DPN-GAN large (124M parameters). For evaluation, we use five different datasets, covering both speech synthesis and music generation tasks, to demonstrate the efficiency of the DPN-GAN. …”
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Diagnostic Workup of Mosaicism in Children by Francesca Besagni, Alessandra Gelmetti, Annalucia Virdi, Bianca Maria Piraccini, Iria Neri

“…ABSTRACT Mosaicism refers to a phenomenon in which a variant event occurs, resulting in two or more different cell populations within the same individual. …”
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Standardized training assessment of residents in obstetrics and gynecology on entrustable professional activities by Wenjing Zhang, Yiping Hao, Teng Zhang, Xinlin Jiao, Zhonghao Mao, Yuankai Zhang, Dongxiu Zhao, Baoxia Cui

“…Among the four different position of residents (social training residents, entrusted training residents, professional master and permanent staff), permanent staff has the highest EPA scores in this EPAs-evaluation study. …”
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Time sequence of non-grain cultivated land restoration in Shandong Peninsula urban agglomeration, China by Jinhua Liu, Yuqing Wang, Zhongxiao Cong, Baokun Zhu, Keqiang Wang, Yan Zhao

“…Focusing on non–grain cultivated land, this study established a county-level evaluation framework based on Third National Land Survey data. …”
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Practice and application of learning curve theory in improving prescription review skills in standardized training for pharmacists in medical institutions by Jingjing Xu, Qin He, Min Xu, Kun Fu, Jiao Luo, Ying Ma, Xu Liu, Hen Xi

“…The time spent on prescription review is significantly shortened compared to the learning stage, and the system operation proficiency meets the standard. Through the practice and application of learning curve theory, regulatory training institutions provide scientific basis for teaching and training, which can serve as an evaluation standard for the standardized training effect of pharmacist prescription review, and also provide valuable reference for the scientific design of teaching practice for future students.…”
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Assessment of Seismic Vulnerability for a Hospital Building Using Field Data and Various Numerical Analyses Considering Bidirectional Ground Motion Effects by Alireza Kharazian, Arianna Guardiola-Villora, Juan José Galiana-Merino, Sergio Molina, Gonzalo Ortuño-Sáez, Juan Luís Soler-Llorens, José Antonio Huesca-Tortosa, Igor Gómez, David Montiel-López

“…Data from these sensors were used to update and refine the finite element model of the structure for a detailed analysis of the building’s seismic performance. The different analytical procedures included both elastic and inelastic modelling, as well as static and dynamic assessments, to provide an exhaustive evaluation of the building’s behaviour under seismic loads. …”
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Instances for the problem of pre-positioning emergency supplies by Renata Turkeš, Kenneth Sörensen

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COOLFACADE by Alejandro Prieto Hoces

“…The second part explores different aspects required as input for façade integration; while the third part comprises the evaluation of solar cooling technologies in terms of current possibilities and constraints for the development of integrated façades, based on the inputs identified in the second part. …”
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Budding Well: A Fun and Sharing-based Rehabilitation Program through Music and Arts for the Children and Teenagers with Extremity Anomalies by Pak-Cheong Ho, Josephine M-W Wong, Wai-Wang Chau, Alice H-Y Cheung, Hiu-Wun Wong, Gabby S-S Hui, Edwin Lee, Judia S-C Yue, Michael Mak, Wing-Lim Tse

“…Functional assessments and psychosocial centric questionnaire outcomes except CFESI-2 did not show any statistical difference. Age sensitivity testing in CFESI-2 Social domain score showed the best result when cut-off age was at 10.5 (<italic>p</italic> = 0.04) and this cut-off value was further proved by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis (<italic>p</italic> < 0.01). …”
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Assessing and Regulating the State of Population Reproduction by N. P. Tikhomirov, T. M. Tikhomirova

“…The article explains the differences in resolving this problem for indicators shown in the article.…”
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Comparative analysis of machine learning methodologies and technologies by Mukhitdinova Kh. Munavvarkhon

“…The author considers the main differences, advantages and limitations of ML approaches, focusing on factors such as: computational cost, scalability and ease of imple mentation. …”
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Bio-Inspired Multiobjective Optimization for Designing Content Distribution Networks by Gerardo Goñi, Sergio Nesmachnow, Diego Rossit, Pedro Moreno-Bernal, Andrei Tchernykh

“…In addition, the computed solutions had different tradeoffs between the problem objectives. …”
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Brokerage, Compensation and Reproduction of the Discharge by Mohammed Benidir

“…It shows how these contrasts shed light on the approaches to collective loss evaluation adopted by the State, the mining company, brokers, notables and activists. …”
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The impact of vehicle moving violations and freeway traffic flow on crash risk: An application of plugin development for microsimulation. by Junhua Wang, Yumeng Kong, Ting Fu, Joshua Stipancic

“…The methodology allows for the evaluation and monitoring of risks, alerting of road hazards, and identification of hotspots, and could be applied to the operations of existing facilities or planning of future ones.…”
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METHODS OF ANALYZING AND ESTIMATING CREDIT RISK OF THE BANK IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION by Bahrom A. Tursunov

“…The author shows the directions of credit risk minimization and offers the complex system of assessing the financial standing of agents and fixing limits for different bank transactions. This system allows not only to protect the bank against losses but can serve as a basis for conducting active operations, foster the growth of bank's profits, enlarge the number of reliable agents.…”
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Investigation of Lubrication Capability of Zinc Oxide-Reinforced Nanolubricants in Automotive Applications by Álmos Dávid Tóth, Ádám István Szabó

“…Nanoparticle-reinforced lubricants can be one of the future solutions to developing operating machines with an achievable maximum energy efficiency.…”
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LcProt: Proteomics‐based identification of plasma biomarkers for lung cancer multievent, a multicentre study by Hengrui Liang, Runchen Wang, Ran Cheng, Zhiming Ye, Na Zhao, Xiaohong Zhao, Ying Huang, Zhanpeng Jiang, Wangzhong Li, Jianqi Zheng, Hongsheng Deng, Yu Jiang, Yuechun Lin, Yun Yan, Lei Song, Jie Li, Xin Xu, Wenhua Liang, Jun Liu, Jianxing He

“…Feature selection was performed using differential expressed protein analysis, area under curve (AUC) evaluation and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression. …”
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A Review on Integrating Autonomy Into System of Systems: Challenges and Research Directions by Mohammadreza Torkjazi, Ali K. Raz

“…As a result, four overarching challenges for SoASs are identified that must be addressed by systems engineers to ensure a successful realization of the SoAS in the future: 1) SoAS foundation; 2) emergence, safety, and performance; 3) architecture and integration; and 4) test and evaluation. Each challenge is comprehensively examined in the three founding domains by discussing domain-specific state-of-the-art methods and tools that different engineering disciplines have proposed to address. …”
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Integrating Intrinsic and Eccentric Seismic Vulnerability Indices to Prioritize Road Network Accessibility by Ahmad Mohamad El Maissi, Sotirios A. Argyroudis, Moustafa Moufid Kassem, Lee Vien Leong, Fadzli Mohamed Nazri

“…This study is integrating engineering judgment and numerical methods to create a comprehensive evaluation for assessing the accessibility rates for road networks. …”
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