From consultants to integrators: the evolution and transformation of a consulting business model into technology enterprises in the HR technology market by Irina V. Gladysheva, Alexey O. Gorlov

“…The authors of the study attempt to establish the patterns of formation and development of consulting business, to determine the behavior of consulting actors at the national and international levels, to evaluate the key elements of the consulting business model, its reaction to technological changes and success in solving staff-r elated problems. …”
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A Comparative Study of Population Growth Indicators in Iranian Cities and Their Geographical Neighbors by Keramatolah Ziari, Samin Yousefi

“…This descriptive-analytical study used various sources such as books, articles, research reports, and related documents. The study evaluated the country's population outlook by analyzing birth and death rates, fertility rates, age structure, and migration patterns. …”
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Star Classifier Head on Deformable Attention Vision Transformer for Small Datasets by Muhammad Izzah Alfatih, Suryo Adhi Wibowo

“…The star operation captures high-dimensional and non-linear feature spaces from low-dimensional inputs, enhancing the model’s ability to learn complex patterns. We evaluated our proposed method on small datasets such as CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, MNIST, and Fashion MNIST, demonstrating its superior performance over state-of-the-art transformer-based models like ViT-B, Swin-T, CvT-13, and TSD-T. …”
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Light in, sound keys out: photoacoustic PUFs from stochastic nanocomposites by Taehyun Park, Junhyung Kim, Raksan Ko, Byullee Park, Hocheon Yoo

“…Abstract We present a concept of physically unclonable functions utilizing the photoacoustic effect to generate structurally random, inference-resistant cryptographic keys. …”
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Smart home and spaces with multiple stakeholders: automation, conflicts, security and recommender systems by Eran Kaufman, Yigal Hoffner

“…A critical component, a rule engine, was designed and implemented. It evaluates and carries out the rules according to the state and context of the home and its residents, recognizing and resolving conflicting rules. …”
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Enhancement of Antibacterial Activity of Capped Silver Nanoparticles in Combination with Antibiotics, on Model Gram-Negative and Gram-Positive Bacteria by Aruna Jyothi Kora, Lori Rastogi

“…The crystallinity of the nanoparticles in FCC structure is confirmed from the SAED and XRD patterns. …”
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The Climate Change Related Adaptation and Resilience of Traditional Tradicional Dwellings: the Case of Yucatan Penisula by Joel Audefroy, Bertha Nelly Cabrera Sanchez

“…The principal objective of this text is to evaluate the adaptative and resilient processes of Maya housing to the effects of climate change, considering the principal criteria / indicators that might affect the habitat’s internal environment, its constructive structure, the materials and the inhabitant’s comfort, but without changing the Maya house’s basic design patterns. …”
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Multiparity as a risk factor for congenital toxoplasmosis: a cross-sectional study by Priscilla Vilela dos Santos, Débora Nonato Miranda de Toledo, Bianca Alves Almeida Machado, Zolder Marinho Silva, Valter Ferreira de Andrade-Neto, Nathalia Sernizon Guimarães, André Talvani

“…A structured questionnaire was applied to determine the socioeconomic, environmental, gestational, clinical, and dietary patterns…”
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Comparison of alternative approaches for analysing multi-level RNA-seq data. by Irina Mohorianu, Amanda Bretman, Damian T Smith, Emily K Fowler, Tamas Dalmay, Tracey Chapman

“…It enables the description of genome-wide patterns of expression and the identification of regulatory interactions and networks. …”
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Robust Synthetic Data Generation for Sequential Financial Models Using Hybrid Variational Autoencoder–Markov Chain Monte Carlo Architectures by Francesco Bruni Prenestino, Enrico Barbierato, Alice Gatti

“…The model leverages Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) layers for capturing long-term temporal dependencies and MCMC sampling for effective latent space exploration, ensuring high variability and accuracy. Experimental evaluations on datasets of Google, Tesla, and Nestlé stock prices demonstrate the model’s superior performance in preserving statistical and temporal patterns, as validated by quantitative metrics (discriminative and predictive scores), statistical tests (Kolmogorov–Smirnov), and t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbour Embedding (t-SNE) visualisations. …”
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Mitigating Sinkhole Attacks in MANET Routing Protocols using Federated Learning HDBNCNN Algorithm by Sherril Sophie Maria Vincent

“…By combining progressive ML methods through decentralized network structure, hence the study expressively provides a secure communication in MANETs and contributes a scalable and effective results through evaluating its performance metrics.  …”
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Generalized analysis of fractional Dullin-Gottwald-Holm equation: Soliton solutions and their applications in non-linear wave dynamics by Yousef Jawarneh, Ali H. Hakami, Abaker A. Hassaballa

“…We develop fresh plethora of perturbed kink structures, kink and anti-kink soliton solutions using well-established criteria, and we evaluate their intricate behavior patterns. …”
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Integrating isotopic niche metrics and gut microbiota assembly reveals coexistence mechanisms in subtropical riverine fish by Yaqiu Liu, Xinhui Li, Konstantinos Ar. Kormas, Chunni Kou, Huifeng Li, Yuefei Li, Jie Li

“…Understanding interspecific niche overlap is fundamental for evaluating resource partitioning and competitive interactions among sympatric species. …”
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Probabilistic Forecasting of Crude Oil Prices Using Conditional Generative Adversarial Network Model with Lévy Process by Mohammed Alruqimi, Luca Di Persio

“…Traditional time series forecasting models, such as ARIMA and LSTM, often rely on assumptions regarding data structure, limiting their flexibility to estimate volatility or account for external shocks effectively. …”
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Comparative study on carbon emission spatial network and carbon emission reduction collaboration in urban agglomerations by Yongqiang Dong, Lanjian Liu

“…Social network analysis reveals the carbon emission spatial network structure, while a collaborative quantity/centrality versus intensity/centrality scatter plot assesses their alignment. …”
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On improving Kaiwa (会話) assessment: Incorporating JF Standard descriptors and MFRM by Rina Supriatnaningsih, Ahmad Yulianto, Lispridona Diner

“…The result revealed that: (1) 29 biases were found in rater-student interaction and rater-component interaction; (2) different patterns of rating behaviour were discovered. Rater 1 was more lenient than rater 2 but rater 2 was more consistent; (3) pronunciation and fluency are components that contributed the most to bias while structure was the most objective component being scored. …”
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Experimental and numerical investigations on tensile properties of carbon fibre-reinforced plastic and self-reinforced polypropylene composites by Ma Quanjin, Sahu Santosh Kumar, Badgayan Nitesh Dhar, Rejab Mohd Ruzaimi Mat

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Study of complexity factor and stability of dynamical systems in $$f(\mathcal {G})$$ f ( G ) gravity by M. Zeeshan Gul, W. Ahmad, M. M. M. Nasir, Faisal Javed, Orhan Donmez, Bander Almutairi

“…We select the identical complexity factor for the structure as used in the non-static scenario, while considering the analogous criterion for the most elementary pattern of development. …”
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MediaWatchers4Climate: Assessing the Accuracy of Climate Change Narratives in Greek Media Through Machine Learning by Thomai Baltzi, Stella Nikitaki, Fani Galatsopoulou, Ioanna Kostarella, Andreas Veglis, Vasilis Vasilopoulos, Dimitris Papaevagelou, Antonis Skamnakis

“…Through keyword-based filtering, thematic clustering, and content comparison techniques, the framework aims to detect discursive shifts, trace the replication of news stories, and identify misinformation patterns. While the current phase focuses on model development and data structuring, preliminary observations suggest significant content repetition across sources and a lack of original reporting on climate issues. …”
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A Discourse Analysis of Radio Call ins In Runyankore-Rukiga. by Niwamanya, Diana

“…The findings revealed how the conversation structures differ in the different structures. By analyzing the structure of these conversations, we identify patterns and functions of discourse markers, such as turn-taking, topic shifts, and signaling agreement or disagreement. …”
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