Example-dependent cost-sensitive learning for public- private partnership contract failure prediction by Wang, Yongqi

“…As a result, different experience levels for one hundred and seventeen developing countries are obtained based on the location of the change points. …”
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Macro-level estimation of present and future seismic loss by modelling spatio-temporal dynamics of exposure by Mestav Sarica, Gizem

“…For this purpose, three earthquake-prone Asian megacities from developing countries, namely Jakarta, Metro Manila, and Istanbul, were selected as case studies. …”
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Three essays on empirical finance by Peng, Zhuozhen

“…Measuring the demand for Fintech services using Google search volumes of high-frequent Fintech-related phrases, we document that developing countries and those with underdeveloped Fintech industry exhibit more significant Fintech demand surges during the pandemic. …”
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Port investment in a volatile environment : a contractual risk perspective on public-private partnership by Xiao, Zengqi

“…Specifically, it empirically investigates the circumstances that will affect the extent of governmental ownership in port public-private partnerships in developing countries with a focus on project factors and company factors. …”
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Improving neural machine translation: data centric approaches by Nguyen, Xuan Phi

“…This leads to a reality that translation systems among over-represented languages like English and French can achieve near human-level and commercializable quality, while under-represented and distant languages, like Nepali, are still considerably difficult to translate and bring benefits to developing countries. As a result, the fruits of NMT technology are still unequitably distributed. …”
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Digitising key workflows in the precast concrete supply chain : a BIM cloud-enabled system for productivity improvement by Phang, Thomas C. H.

“…Across the globe, the governments of developed countries have been implementing building information modelling (BIM) in the construction industry to transform the value chain to enhance the workflows in the construction industry. …”
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Development and analysis of advanced precast dry connections for concrete-encased concrete-filled steel tube columns by Zhu, Gaoming

“…Despite superior structural performance, CECFST members so far have not been widely used in developed countries with severe manpower crunch due to a lack of workable precast connections. …”
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Thermo-responsive smart windows for year-round energy savings by Li, Dan

“…In the developed countries, 40% of total energy is consumed on buildings. …”
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Evaluating the attractiveness of the terminal oxidases as drug targets in mycobacterium abscessus by Sorayah, Ria

“…The global incidence and prevalence of rapidly-growing mycobacteria (RGM) have increased at a startling rate, particularly in the developed countries. Among them is the Mycobacterium abscessus (Mabs) complex which accounts for the majority of RGM-related infections. …”
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A customer-centric framework towards robust e-waste management by Guo, Rui

“…Besides, to have the collection trend in an advanced system (e.g., Taiwan) as a reference, it brightens the way to build and improve a formal collection system in a developing country or region (e.g., Vietnam). A sustainable IoT-based closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) system is then established on the basis of the predicted WEEE collection and generation trend. …”
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