Financial Management Practices and Small- Scale Businesses' Profitability, from the Viewpoint of Kabale Municipality, Uganda by Eton, Marus, Fabian, Mwosi, Eliab, Byamukama Mpora

“…Limitations: This study was only conducted within Kabale Municipality and future studies should be conducted in the entire region. Contribution: The study identified a trio of factors – operational expenses, microeconomic factors, and individual characteristics that constrain profitability…”
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Perceptions and influences of literature on psychological processes and dispositions in contemporary society by Petrović Nebojša

“…Literature, as an integral part of cultural heritage, serves as one of the key sources of socialization, contributing to the formation of individual and group identities, as well as personal values and dispositions. …”
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Experimental and numerical study on vibration-based damage detection and localisation in laminated composite plates by Saeesh Verenkar, I. Sridhar, Vinayak S. Uppin, P. S. Shivakumar Gouda

“…The results affirm that the proposed DI is effective and precise in identifying damage in plate-like structures, both for individual and multiple damage scenarios. This research study presents a novel approach for identifying and pinpointing damage in composite plates, thereby making a valuable contribution to the field of structural health monitoring (SHM) applications…”
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Wear Investigation of Aluminum Alloy Surface Layers Fabricated through Friction Stir Welding Method by S. Vijayakumar, S. Anitha, R. Arivazhagan, Ashebir Dingeto Hailu, T. V. Janardhana Rao, Hari Prasadarao Pydi

“…The contribution of sliding distance and speed are 3.75% and 1.85%, respectively.…”
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Modification of partial safety factors for a semi-probabilistic evaluation of existing timber structures by Maria Loebjinski, Zheng Li, Wolgang Rug, Hartmut Pasternak

“…Currently, engineers are confronted with the challenge of applying design rules developed for new structures in the evaluation of existing ones as no specific recommendations exist on a European level. As a contribution to this, a first step of this study is the evaluation of the reliability level of timber elements subjected to common limit states. …”
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Aerodynamic and Inertial Loading Effects of Insect-Inspired Appendages in Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles by Titilayo Ogunwa, Javaan Chahl

“…However, appendages in insects exist in various shapes and sizes, which affect the level of both the inertial and aerodynamic contributions to the overall system. Here, the effects of the individual dynamic, inertial and aerodynamic contributions of biologically inspired appendages in fixed wing forward flight demonstrate the utility of the framework on an example system. …”
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Trend and evolution in muti-microgrid systems: A bibliometric analysis and literature review by Nishant Thakkar, Deepa Kaliyaperumal, V. Ravikumar Pandi

“…Visualization tools like VOSviewer and Excel reveal that China and India lead MMG research, with significant contributions in energy management (EM) and control techniques. …”
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INVESTMENTS IN THE GREEN ECONOMY INITIATIVES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE PROFIT OF ECONOMIC SUBJECTS by Azizakhon F. Gafurova, Umida F. Gafurova, Mokhinur Dilshod qizi Rakhimova, Dilafruz S. Nasirkhodjaeva

“…The essence of the green economy and its components is considered, with an analysis of each component and its contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and green transition. …”
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Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships: Architecture for Autonomous Navigation Systems by Anas S. Alamoush, Aykut I. Ölçer

“…This study makes a substantial contribution by filling a critical gap in the maritime literature, offering a detailed explanation of the elements within autonomous navigation systems.…”
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பெரியபுராணத்தில் நாயன்மார்களின் பண்பாட்டு மரபுகள் / Cultural Traditions of the Nayanmars in Periyapuranam... by முனைவர் க. முத்துமாரியம்மாள் / Dr. K. Muthumariammal

“…The ancient Tamils primarily followed the Saiva religion. Hence, the contribution of the Nayanmars to the history of Tamil epic literature is invaluable. …”
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Rural land-use change key stakeholders network analysis in Shahriyar county, Iran by sara sadeghizadeh ghavi fekr, asghar tahmasebi, farhad azizpour

“…Population growth and the need for economic and social services have accelerated the demands for land and its manipulations over the recent decades. The contribution of policies and interventions of different stakeholders in land change is not adequately addressed in previous studies. …”
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Quantifying uncertainties in satellite NO₂ superobservations for data assimilation and model evaluation by P. Rijsdijk, P. Rijsdijk, P. Rijsdijk, H. Eskes, A. Dingemans, A. Dingemans, K. F. Boersma, K. F. Boersma, T. Sekiya, K. Miyazaki, S. Houweling, S. Houweling

“…Furthermore, we account for systematic errors in the retrievals leading to error correlations between nearby individual observations contributing to one superobservation. …”
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A novel framework unveiling the importance of heterogeneous selection and drift on the community structure of symbiotic microbial indicator taxa across altitudinal gradients in amp... by Jin Zhou, Zhidong Liu, Sishuo Wang, Jing Li, Lin Zhang, Ziyan Liao

“…ABSTRACT Existing analytical frameworks for community assembly have a noticeable knowledge gap, lacking a comprehensive assessment of the relative contributions of individual or grouped microbial distinct sampling units (DSUs) and distinct taxonomic units (DTUs) to each mechanism. …”
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An Outdoor Walking Program for Immigrant Muslim Older Adults: A Community‐Based Participatory Intervention by Jordana Salma, Shelby Yamamoto, Nancy M Salbach, Ruth Barclay, Allyson Jones

“…A fitness instructor delivered the weekly program that was followed by individual semistructured interviews to explore participants' satisfaction and program acceptance. …”
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Particulate Matter During Food Preparation on a Barbecue: A Case Study of an Electric Barbecue by Jan Stefan Bihałowicz, Artur Badyda, Wioletta Rogula-Kozłowska, Kamila Widziewicz-Rzońca, Patrycja Rogula-Kopiec, Dmytro Chyzhykov, Grzegorz Majewski, Mariusz Pecio

“…The concentrations of particulate matter (PM) at the barbecue were determined with a Palas AQ Guard optical spectrometer, while the background concentrations were measured with a Palas Fidas 200 optical spectrometer that complies with the EN16450 standard. The contribution of the individual PM fractions measured in the barbecue environment differed from that observed in the ambient air. …”
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« Little Wise Men : Three Friends and the Public Administration World They Made » by Pierre-Yves Saunier

“…This article examines the transnational endeavors that presided over the establishment and maintenance of a structured regime of circulation in public administration considered as a profession, a theory, a discipline and a governmental practice. The three individuals who are at the core of the article were vital in organizing this regime, and their contribution to integrate the contribution of inter-governmental organizations, non governmental organizations, professional US societies and US universities has left a deep imprint in the field. …”
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Role of nutritional factors at the irritable bowel syndrome by Yu. O. Shulpekova, A. V. Sedova

“…To discuss effect of certain types of food at irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and options of reduction of symptom intensity by individual adjustment of ration.Key points. Undoubtedly, dietary habits in the most cases influence severity of IBS symptoms: pain, flatulence, stool disorders. …”
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Implementing a teleophthalmology referral platform in routine practice: Understanding a digital health intervention implementation using normalisation process theory by Sarah Abdi, Dilisha Patel, Josie Carmichael, Konstantinos Balaskas, Ann Blandford

“…This study highlights the complexity associated with implementing digital health interventions in routine practice and the contribution of NPT in untangling some of these complexities.…”
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SYSTEMATIC RISK ASSESMENT USING OLS METHOD - THE CASE OF THE CAPITAL MARKET OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA by Azra Zaimović

“… The Sharpe-Lintner Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) implies a simple linear equation for pricing risky financial assets, individually and in portfolios. CAPM finds that the relevant risk measure of individual financial assets held as a portion of a well-diversified portfolio is not a variance (or a standard deviation) of financial assets, as proposed by the Modern Portfolio Theory, but a contribution of financial assets to the portfolio variance, measured by the financial asset beta. …”
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Did Bank Capital Regulation Exacerbate the Subprime Mortgage Crisis? by M. A. Petersen, M. C. Senosi, J. Mukuddem-Petersen, M. P. Mulaudzi, I. M. Schoeman

“…This contribution is the second in a series of papers on discrete-time modeling of bank capital regulation and its connection with the subprime mortgage crisis (SMC). …”
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