Dimensions of Career Decisions: A Validated Tool for Romanian High School Students by Roxana Elena Stoica, Oana Alina Bota, Ana-Maria Cazan

“…This tool offers a practical means to assess career decision-making processes and inform targeted interventions in educational and counselling settings.…”
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Autonomous decision-making method of unmanned ship based on improved DDPG algorithm by Wei GUAN, Shuhui HAO, Zhewen CUI, Miaomiao WANG

“…Conclusions The trained model enables autonomous decision-making and navigation while ensuring compliance with the COLREGs, thereby providing valuable insights for intelligent decision-making in the field of maritime transportation.…”
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Determining resources and capabilities in complex context: A decision-making model for banks. by Mochammad Ridwan Ristyawan, Utomo Sarjono Putro, Manahan Siallagan

“…These gaps serve as the foundation for decision making models. This study aims to develop a decision-making model for determining banking resources and capabilities. …”
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Impact of Anchoring, Herding and Loss-Aversion on Working Women’s Investment Decision-Making by H. Srivastava, S. Moid, N. J. Rushdi

“…The purpose of this paper is to determine the impact of anchoring, herding, and loss aversion on influencing working women investors’ investment decision-making. The sample size consists of 196 working women investors who are trading in the Indian Stock Market from Uttar Pradesh, India. …”
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Digital Storytelling and Brand Trust Drive Generation Z in Skincare Purchase Decisions by Maulana Aditya Alfian Noor, Rizky Aditya Wirayudha, Siska Ernawati Fatimah

“…This aligns with technological developments that make it easier for them to find information through social media, compare products, and see skincare user testimonials, which can encourage them to make effective purchasing decisions. This study examines how brand trust and digital storytelling affect consumers' buying decisions. …”
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Optimizing agricultural biomass selection for biochar production using multicriteria decision-making by Ayodeji Raphael Ige, Grażyna Łaska, Grzegorz Świderski, Grzegorz Zając

“…Abstract This study presents a multicriteria decision-making approach using the AHP-TOPSIS method to evaluate agricultural biomass for sustainable biochar production. …”
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A decision‐making tool for navigating extracellular vesicle research and product development by Francesca Loria, Sabrina Picciotto, Giorgia Adamo, Andrea Zendrini, Samuele Raccosta, Mauro Manno, Paolo Bergese, Giovanna L. Liguori, Antonella Bongiovanni, Nataša Zarovni

“…By identifying and weighing key assessment criteria for comparing distinct EV‐based preparations and related processes, our EV‐DMG may assist any EV community member in making informed, traceable, and reproducible decisions regarding the management of EV sources or samples. …”
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Factors affecting farmers’ decision to join coffee producer cooperatives to improve their welfare by Intan Parumbuan Rombeallo, Muhammad Hatta Jamil, Didi Rukmana

“…The aim of this research is to evaluate the farmer characteristics, knowledge, social and economic factors that influence the decision to join a cooperative, as well as its impact on farmers’ welfare. …”
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Contraceptive use and decision-making in Guéra, Chad: a mixed-methods study by Vincent de Paul Allambademel, Mahamat Abdelaziz, Natalie Andrasko, Bongo Goumbo, Robert Madjigoto, Alexis Ngarmbatedjimal, Solal Noubadjim, Salomon Tamira, Theodora Varelis, Katchebe Vourbane, Sara E. Casey

“…Given the dominance of injectables within our sample, programs should explore introducing and scaling up community-based distribution of the self-injectable contraceptive (DMPA-SC). …”
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To jump or not to jump: Mule deer and white‐tailed deer fence crossing decisions by Emily N. Burkholder, Andrew F. Jakes, Paul F. Jones, Mark Hebblewhite, Chad J. Bishop

“…We examined 2 fine‐scale fence crossing decisions to determine factors influencing 1) crossing success and 2) the mode of crossing by 2 sympatric deer species. …”
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Embedding a Choice Experiment in an Online Decision Aid or Tool: Scoping Review by Nyantara Wickramasekera, Phil Shackley, Donna Rowen

“… BackgroundDecision aids empower patients to understand how treatment options match their preferences. …”
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The role of sampling in an explanatory sequential mixed methods study: General applications of the transformative paradigm by Tashane K. Haynes-Brown

“…The purpose of this article is to illustrate how considerations from the transformative paradigm were integrated broadly in the sampling decisions in an explanatory sequential mixed methods study. …”
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Models of self-peptide sampling by developing T cells identify candidate mechanisms of thymic selection. by Iren Bains, Hisse M van Santen, Benedict Seddon, Andrew J Yates

“…While many studies have elucidated key elements influencing lineage commitment, we still lack a full understanding of how thymocytes integrate signals obtained by sampling self-peptides to make fate decisions. To address this problem, we apply stochastic models of signal integration by T cells to data from a study quantifying the development of the two lineages using controllable levels of agonist peptide in the thymus. …”
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Free Sampling, Bundling, and Digital Formatting: Exploring Strategy Effects of Digital Goods Retailers by Li Chen

“…Our paper makes an exploratory effort by investigating retailers’ bundling and multi-formatting strategies on their free sample size decisions. Drawing from the prior literature, we develop a set of hypotheses related to the interplay of strategies. …”
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Comparison of two benthic assemblage sampling gears for use on intertidal oyster reefs in Louisiana by Finella M. Campanino, Stephanie K. Archer, Jillian C. Tupitza, Cassandra N. Glaspie, Megan K. La Peyre

“…However, there were significant differences in richness across reefs in tray samples only, while evenness differed across reefs only in suction samples. …”
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A comparison of participatory science seining and electrofishing for sampling fish assemblages in an urban river by Olivia F. Williams, Sally Petrella, Lauren Eaton, Robert Muller, Philip Kukulski, Paul Seelbach, Catherine Riseng, Karen M. Alofs

“…Validating participatory science data enhances utility for monitoring, assessment, and management decisions.…”
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A Small-Sample Scenario Optimization Scheduling Method Based on Multidimensional Data Expansion by Yaoxian Liu, Kaixin Zhang, Yue Sun, Jingwen Chen, Junshuo Chen

“…The lack of historical operation data in new integrated energy systems leads to insufficient DRL training samples, which easily triggers the problems of underfitting and insufficient exploration of the decision space and thus reduces the accuracy of the scheduling plan. …”
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Fatigue reliability assessment of small sample excavator working devices based on Bootstrap method by Yuhong Shao, Pengmin Lu, Binhua Wang, Qingyi Xiang

“…The virtual augmented sample method (VASM) combined with Bootstrap method was used to analyze the reliability of the excavator working device under extreme small samples, and the interval and point estimations of life parameters were obtained. …”
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Investigation of university students attitudes toward leisure time activities (ardahan university sample) by Fatih Murathan, Talha Murathan, Ali Türker

“…The population of the study consists of 5200 students having studied in the education year of 2017-2018 and the sample of the study consists of 1057 (538 male, 519 female) volunteer students. …”
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Deep reinforcement learning-empowered anti-jamming strategy aided by sample information entropy by LI Gang, WU Qi, WANG Xiang, LUO Hao, LI Lianghong, JING Xiaorong, CHEN Qianbin

“…The information entropy prediction network was utilized for fine-grained selection of training samples of the anti-jamming strategy network to improve the quality of training samples, thereby enhancing the ultimate online decision-making capability and generalization performance of the anti-jamming strategy. …”
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