CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF LISTED DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA by Kenneth S. Adeyemi, Lateef Olabisi Adedeji

“… The role of capital structure decision is critical to the performance of any bank. …”
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Flood susceptibility mapping using ANNs: a case study in model generalization and accuracy from Ontario, Canada by Rahma Khalid, Usman T. Khan

“…To simulate the commonly used flood point inventory approach, the number of training samples was reduced by a factor of a 1000, which resulted in a 28% decrease in accuracy. …”
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Perceived quality of padel users: adaptation and validation of the QPadel assessment tool by Nicolás Fernández Martínez, Pablo Gálvez-Ruiz, Ramón Gómez Chacón, Alejandro Lara-Bocanegra

“…This study aims to adapt and validate an evaluation tool based on a literature review.MethodsThe sample included 402 users (298 men and 104 women, predominantly a frequency of play of 1–2 days a week for 1–2 h) from clubs across the Andalusian Autonomous Community (South of Spain). …”
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Present bias and its influence on financial behaviours amongst Indians by Sumit Kumar Maji, Sourav Prasad

“…Purpose – Present bias (PB) is a cognitive bias that stimulates the individual decision-maker to favour the present reward even over the higher reward in the future to avoid the uncertainty attached to the reward in an uncertain future. …”
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Analysis of the Association between Teachers’ Classroom Teaching Behaviors and Students’ Knowledge Acceptance Based on Psychological Data Analysis by Tianjin Yao, Xiuye Yang

“…These two models use algorithms to fine-grained divide the dataset from the perspective of subject users and mental health factors, respectively, and then use decision tree algorithms to classify and predict the mental health factor information by the subject user base information. …”
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Analyzing Information System Quality and Financial Information Quality: An Evidence of Local Government Organizations in Indonesia by Mohammad Anas, Rr Forijati, Mochamad Muchson

“… End-user satisfaction is a potential substitute for utility in decision-making, user satisfaction is a measure of the extent to which an information system meets the information needs of its users. …”
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Novel methods for selecting stock portfolio in conditions of uncertainty and forecasting with RR-DEA, ANFIS, FGP: A case study of Tehran stock exchange. by Mohammadmahdi Taheri, Amir Azizi, Emran Mohammadi, Abbas Saghaei

“…Portfolio selection and management are two of the most important decisions in the financial field. The existence of uncontrollable factors affects the decision-making process, which is a problem for investors who are responsible for the final financial decisions on how to allocate their budgets to financial assets in their investment portfolios. …”
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Design optimization of wood-carved window grilles in historical architectures using stable diffusion model and intuitionistic Fuzzy VIKOR by Xinhui Kang, Jiao Wang

“…Through a hybrid approach combining artificial intelligence and multi-criteria decision-making, this paper provide traditional artisans with a steady stream of creative inspiration, shorten the R&D cycle for wood carving products, and offer new directions for the protection and modernisation of wood carving cultural heritage.…”
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Guidance Action in the Costa Rican Humanities School System for the Development of Comprehensive Student Well-being by María Marta Castro-Arce, Gabriela Chacón-Fonseca, Ángeles Sánchez-López

“…It was carried out from a positivist and naturalistic paradigm, using a concurrent triangulation design with a non-probabilistic sample as a starting point. A total of 85 participants were selected based on the following criteria: representatives of SCHC executive directors and eleventh-year students. …”
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Vaginal Candida spp. colonization, infection and drug susceptibility in adult women- a clinical study by Prof Fingani Nyasulu, Dr Suchanun Meksang, Associate Professor Dr. Prasert Trivijitsilp

“…Conclusion: Understanding vaginal carriage of Candida spp. and drug susceptibility provides guidance in decision making for course of treatment and management of vaginal Candida colonization and infections in adult women.…”
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Oncological Care During the Covid-19 Pandemic (Literature Review) by Sh. Kh. Gantsev, K. V. Menshikov

“…An individual approach should be taken when considering the potential risk and beneficial effects of anticancer therapy in the population of cancer patients. A decision to delay the onset of cancer therapy should be made on an individual basis. …”
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Challenges of Teacher Training in Sex Education by María Luisa Preinfalk-Fernández

“…A questionnaire was applied, using a structured sample stratified by unequal clusters, to 242 regular undergraduate students. …”
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Health information sharing – conceptual clarification and exploratory analysis in the context of mammography screening by Paula Stehr, Elena Link, Constanze Rossmann

“…About one-fifth of the sample shared information on mammography between the two survey waves. …”
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Exploring the impact of entrepreneurial orientation and market orientation on entrepreneurial performance in the context of environmental uncertainty by Peng Cheng, Shaoling Wu, Juntao Xiao

“…This study provides theoretical support and practical guidance for entrepreneurial enterprises in turbulent markets in strategic decision-making.…”
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FEATURES OF FOREIGN INVESTOR ATTRACTION TO FUNDING OF THE RUSSIAN STARTUPS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE POSTCRISIS ECONOMY by Е. A. Poliakova

“…The results of this study can be used by investors to make rational decisions on investing in Russian business. Repeated research, extension of the sample and segmentation of data for time periods may reveal changes in key features of investing in Russia in dynamics, and lead to more accurate results.…”
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Studying the Role of Personality Traits on the Evacuation Choice Behavior Pattern in Urban Road Network in Different Severity Scales of Natural Disaster by Fatemeh Mohajeri, Babak Mirbaha

“…The study of evacuation behavior in response to disaster is necessary for emergency traffic management. As decision-making is not exclusively dependent on observable variables, in this research, it is attempted to study the evacuation choice behavior pattern in emergency response to earthquake disaster by considering both physical and behavioral factors. …”
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Enhancing community resilience to ice-jam floods through individuals’ mitigation efforts by Mohammad Ghoreishi, Brandon Bellows, Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt

“…Stage-specific interventions are needed, as people at different decision-making stages need strategies that are specifically tailored to adopt protective behaviours. …”
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Economic Evaluation alongside Multinational Studies: A Systematic Review of Empirical Studies. by Raymond Oppong, Sue Jowett, Tracy E Roberts

“…Other challenges reported included inadequate sample sizes and choosing cost-effectiveness thresholds.…”
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Binary Quasi-differential Stochastic Process Keying Modulation Scheme for Covert Communications by Z. J. Xu, S. Zhang, Z. W. Liu, J. L. Lin, X. S. Huang, Y. Gong

“…Specifically, when the number of samples within a bit period is 400, the BER approaches approximately 10^-5 at a SNR of -5 dB under an AWGN channel, which adequately satisfies the communication requirements.…”
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Machine Learning Approaches for Predicting Employee Turnover: A Systematic Review by Hojat Talebi, Amid Khatibi Bardsiri, Vahid Khatibi Bardsiri

“…Additionally, large datasets (more than 10,000 samples) were predominantly used, suggesting that more comprehensive data improve model performance. …”
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