Spatially Explicit Analysis of Landscape Structures, Urban Growth, and Economic Dynamics in Metropolitan Regions by Ioannis Vardopoulos, Marco Maialetti, Donato Scarpitta, Luca Salvati

“…Assuming that settlement morphologies and landscape structures are the result of economic transformations, the present study illustrates a statistical framework investigating metropolitan growth due to the inherent changes in landscape configurations <i>vis à vis</i> socio-demographic functions. …”
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Social and geographical postulates of the formation of a new administrative-territorial structure of Ukraine by Viktoria Yavorska, Kateryna Kolomiyets

“…New ATS should be based on a genetically rooted, historical and geographically-based settlement system various territorial regions – this is the second postulate. …”
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Resolving out of Africa event for Papua New Guinean population using neural network by Mayukh Mondal, Mathilde André, Ajai K. Pathak, Nicolas Brucato, François-Xavier Ricaut, Mait Metspalu, Anders Eriksson

“…Abstract The demographic history of the Papua New Guinean (PNG) population is a subject of interest due to its early settlement in New Guinea, its relative isolation and substantial Denisovan ancestry. …”
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ACQUITTAL OF THE DEFENDANTS IN THE CRIMINAL TRIAL BASED ON ARTICLE 16(1)(B) OF THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE - HIGHLIGHTS by Sandra Sophie-Elise OLĂNESCU, Alexandru Vladimir OLĂNESCU

“…Civil claims not settled by the criminal court may be brought before civil courts, one of which is the delivery of a settlement of acquittal based on Article 16(1)(b) of the Criminal Procedure Code. …”
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Machine Learning-Based Seismic Damage Assessment of a Bridge Portfolio in Cohesive Soil by Burak Ozturk, Ahmed Fouad Hussein, Mohamed Hesham El Naggar

“…Oversampling improves classification for specific targets but introduces overfitting risks in others, while undersampling generally degrades model performance. …”
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The natural capital of the Colombian Caribbean Basins. Evidence of rapid anthropic transformation by César Augusto Ruiz-Agudelo, Francisco de Paula Gutiérrez-Bonilla

“…The Caribbean basins play a crucial role in human settlement. The Colombian Caribbean basins occupy an area of approx. 10 million hectares, located in the country's north. …”
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Еthnodemographic factors of terrorist activity development in the Sudan-Sahel region by I. P. Suprunchuk, G. N. Zhirenko, A. A. Savchenko

“…Their main aspects are the dynamics and type of reproduction of the population, the structure and features of settlement systems, the ethnic composition of the population and its mosaic. …”
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Picking the Wild Poppies by Dominika Moravčíková

“…After analyzing the fundraising model, this article observes and reflects on an application process for a scholarship in the case of my child Roma interlocutor from a village settlement who would otherwise continue to lack access to music schooling and proper musical instruments. …”
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Third-Party Litigation Funding: Legal Feasibility and Insights from Australia, the UK, and the US for Expanding Access to Justice in Indonesia by Herliana Herliana

“…Indonesia currently lacks specific regulations governing TPLF, raising questions about its legal permissibility and practical implementation. …”
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Islamic Banking in Malaysia: Arbitration Resolution of Financial Disputes and Obstacles to its Spread by Elena V. Sitkareva

“…Purpose: the article examines the main problems associated with the extension of arbitration of domestic and international Islamic financial disputes in Malaysia. These include the specific features of the legal regulation of Malaysia, excluding the resolution of certain categories of cases by way of arbitration, and the lack of legal certainty in the submission of cross-border contracts in the field of Islamic banking to Sharia law.To achieve this goal in the article you must accomplish the following tasks: to determine whether there are institutions in Malaysia providing arbitration services for disputes in the field of Islamic banking; investigate the reasons for the unwillingness of the parties to a financial dispute to transfer it to arbitration; to identify the main problems of transferring a cross-border financial dispute to international arbitration; to study the practice of international arbitration on this issue.Methods: this article is based on an interdisciplinary concept of research, which allowed to distinguish the distinctive features of the legal regulation of the settlement of financial disputes in Malaysia.Results: currently the popularization of arbitration permits for domestic and international financial disputes in Malaysia faces difficulties due to both internal reasons and the traditional approach of Islamic banks to include in contracts the reservation of subordination of the provisions of the contract to the law of England or the United States in conjunction with the reservation clause financial disputes in the courts and arbitration of these states. …”
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Horizontal lines of memory: Terraced heritage in Sierra de Cabrera-Bédar. Approach and intervention strategies in rural abandoned landscapes by María Zurita Elizalde

“…The objective of this article is to address the problems which abandoning this agricultural technique entailed from the specific perspective of an environment where dry conditions and new exploitation and settlement practices enhanced the erosion of these horizontal lines from memory. …”
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Institutional Challenges to Community Development: The Case of Kobodi Administrative Area in the Mnquma Local Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa by Luleka Mkosi

“…South Africa’s key community development challenge is to overcome the legacy of colonialism and apartheid, characterised by racially segregated settlement patterns and unequal distribution of resources. …”
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Audit on Going Concern in the Context of an Institutional Approach by L. S. Makhanko

“…The significance of the conducted research is in clarifying the methodological foundations of the going concern auditing based on the institutional approach, which made it possible to take into account and explain the impact on the current practice of the features of a specific institutional model and develop practical recommendations regarding the completeness of the functional capabilities of the business on going audit in relation to the features of the national economic system.…”
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UV Fluorescent Powders as a Tool for Plant Epidemiological Studies by Paul M. Severns, Clarence Codod, Ashley J. Lynch

“…We believe that the approaches and methods shared in this manuscript can be used to design specific experiments that will fill important plant epidemiological knowledge gaps in future studies.…”
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A model for placing electric vehicle charging stations in megapolis based on the sparrow search algorithm by Sizhuo Du, D. V. Kapski

“…Active use of electric vehicles (passenger cars and rail and trackless passenger transport) in cities and especially in megalopolises reduces the harmful impact on the ecosystem of the settlement and improves the quality of life in general. …”
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A child, twelve goats, three sheep, a cow, and a horse by František Trampota, Jarmila Bíšková, Jiří Kala, Petr Kos, Miriam Nývltová Fišáková, David Parma

“…In addition to anthropological, zooarchaeological, and taphonomic analyses, the find was assessed within the larger spatial context of the Morava River basin, where new, specific settlement patterns, diverse burial practices, and three distinct pottery styles (Jevišovice, Bošáca, and Globular Amphora) emerged. …”
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Regional Experience in Supporting the Development of Agricultural Consumer Cooperation by Natalya M. Suray, Marina G. Mirgorodskaya, Aleksey N. Kuraev, Petr S. Burlankov, Yulia V. Melnikova

“…The regional three-level system for managing the development of “region – district – settlement” cooperation proved to be very effective, as did the local cooperation development institutions. …”
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A Typological Analysis Method for Rural Dwellings: Architectural Features, Historical Transformations, and Landscape Integration: The Case of “Capo Due Rami”, Italy by Stefano Bigiotti, Mariangela Ludovica Santarsiero, Anna Irene Del Monaco, Alvaro Marucci

“…Drawing on data collected from direct surveys, historical records, cartographic materials, and documentary sources, the morphological and settlement evaluation of agricultural constructions refines traditional methods and techniques used in the analysis of residential models. …”
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Deformation and safety control limits of shield tunnel under surface loading effects by Rong BIAN, Bing WU, Yongjun SUN, Tianci WENG, Yonglin XIONG

“…Previous studies often focused on specific loading modes and have not adequately addressed the mechanical interactions between segment joints during analysis. …”
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Scientific Workflow-Based Synthesis of Optimal Microgrid Configurations by Olga Edeleva, Alexei Edelev, Mikhail Voskoboinikov, Alexander Feoktistov

“…We have successfully tested our approach for the synthesis of optimal microgrid configurations on the case study of a specific microgrid providing heat and electricity to a small settlement.…”
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