Establishment of Key Performance Indicators for Green Building Operations Monitoring—An Application to China Case Study by Jinqiu Li, Qingqin Wang, Hao Zhou

“…Secondly, “SMART” principle and Delphi method were adopted to select the key performance indicators for green building operations monitoring. …”
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Consumer Protection in the Retail and Financial Services Sectors against the Practice of Exoneration Clauses by Anna Maria Tri Anggraini, Megawati Simanjuntak, Arief Safari, Rizal E. Halim, Slamet Riyadi

“…Informants were selected by purposive sampling. The results show that standard clauses have been regulated in Article 18 of the Consumer Protection Law. …”
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A dialog on common morality in medical ethics in a pluralist setting in Iran: a qualitative content analysis by Ladannaz Zahedi, Bagher Larijani, Mohsen Javadi, Shahin Aawani, Seyed Abdosaleh Jafari, Kobra Joodaki, Roya Rashidpouraie, Saeedeh Saeedi Tehrani

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Morphological characterization of parental lines and cultivated genotypes of bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) by KALYANRAO KALYANRAO, B S TOMAR, BALRAJ SINGH, AHER B M

“…The procedure PRINCOMP was then used to perform a principle component (PC) analysis using fourteen quantitative variables and genotypes plotted on two dimensions using the first two principle components (PC1 and PC2). …”
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Thermodynamic machine learning through maximum work production by Alexander B Boyd, James P Crutchfield, Mile Gu

“…We introduce the thermodynamic principle that work production is the most relevant performance measure for an adaptive physical agent and compare the results to the maximum-likelihood principle that guides machine learning. …”
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Implementation of geometric morphometry in the study of shapes of Bronze Age sickles from the Volga-Ural region by Bersenev E.V., Bakhshiev I.I.

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The first application of sensory structures based on photoelectric transducer for the study of enzymatic reactions by A. V. Kozinetz, O. V. Tsymbalyuk, S. V. Litvinenko

“…The application of silicon sensory structures based on photoelectrical transducer principle for detecting the activity of adenosine triphosphate hydrolases on the example of total Mg2+,Na+,K+-ATPases preparations of plasma membranes of rat erythro­cytes has been experimentally tested. …”
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STRUCTURE OF PRODUCT EXPORTS OF UKRAINE: ASSESSMENT OF THE ELASTICITY OF THE PRODUCT GROUPS DYNAMICS by Anatolii O. Zadoia

“…Based on the data for 2021 (the last pre-war year of export growth), 5 commodity items that provide more than 75% of export income (group A) and 10 commodity items that make up more than 90% of exports (A+B) were selected. It is these positions that should be the focus of the state’s attention on the formation of export policy. …”
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Review and prospect of coal rock hydraulic fracturing physical experimental research by Quangui LI, Yize DENG, Qianting HU, Xiaobin WU, Xiaoguang WANG, Zhizhong JIANG, Le LIU, Yanan QIAN, Mingyang SONG

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Admission Practices of National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN): A Solution to the Challenges of Education Access in Nigeria by Adamu Bappah

“… The study investigated the admission Practices of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) in addressing the challenges of access, gender equity and promotion of federal character principle. The study population comprised 1425 academic and non-academic staff of NOUN in which 6 samples were purposely selected from the population. …”
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Determination of Lactate by Sequential Injection Analysis Using a Fluoride Ion-selective Electrode Detector by Yuichi TAKAHASHI, Takashi MASADOME

“…A combination of sequential Injection Analysis (SIA) system and the ion-selective electrode (ISE) detector is considered to be one of a very effective analytical method. …”
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Biological Populations, Cooperation Mechanisms and Distributive Justice by Angelos Kornilakis

“…The paper examines the relationship between cooperative mechanisms deployed by biological organisms and the principles and theory of distributive justice, which is the legal foundation of cooperation.…”
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Pratiques de recrutement et formes de discrimination des femmes diplômées – le cas du Chili by Rosario Undurraga, Emmanuelle Barozet

“…Despite the standardization of professional entry requirements in many labour domains, discrimination exists in most steps of the selection process. This discrimination not only limits women’s careers and their likelihood of reaching top positions, but also unveils how economic and social modernization in its neoliberal phase clashes with certain ethic ruling principles in contemporary Chilean society. …”
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Democracy Through Multi-Body Sortition: Athenian Lessons for the Modern Day by Terrill G. Bouricius

“…The key role of sortition (selection by lot) to form multiple deliberative bodies is explained. …”
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Coevolutionary strategies at the collective level for improved generalism by Przemyslaw Andrzej Grudniewski, Adam James Sobey

“…The results show that the diversity divergence in the principles of working of the selected coevolutionary approaches is more important than their individual performances. …”
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Organizational and legal aspects of the formation of the corps of professional judges in Ukraine by Prysiazhna A.

“…The methodological basis of the study is a system of interrelated conceptual principles and methods, which make it possible to comprehensively and fully investigate the foundations of the reform of the judicial system and the formation of a qualified judicial corps. …”
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General Learning Equilibrium Optimizer: A New Feature Selection Method for Biological Data Classification by Jingwei Too, Seyedali Mirjalili

“…Intentionally, the feature selection can be an imperative preprocessing step before the classification stage. …”
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Corporate debt maturity structure: the role of firm level and institutional determinants in selected African countries by Etudaiye-Muhtar, Oyebola Fatima, Ahmad, Rubi, Tunde, Matemilola Bolaji

“…This study investigates the role of firm-level and institutional variables on debt maturity structure in selected African countries. Using panel generalised method of moment that addresses endogeneity problem; our findings reveal a dynamic process of adjustment to optimal debt maturity structure. …”
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Proposing a neural framework for the evolution of elaborate courtship displays by Ryan W Schwark, Matthew J Fuxjager, Marc F Schmidt

“…Thus, we speculate about why the PAG, as well as its key inputs, might serve as targets of sexual selection for display behavior. In doing so, we attempt to combine core ideas about the neural control of behavior with principles of display evolution. …”
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Transition mutation bias is crucial to adaptive extended spectrum beta lactamase (ESBL) resistance evolution by Omolara Dorcas Popoola, Roseline Tolulope Feyisola, Titilayo Oyeronke Adesetan, Omowunmi Abosede Banjo, Taiwo Adeolu Dele-Osibanjo, Oluwafemi Daniel Amusa, Kehinde Bolarinwa, Sunday Ebenezer Popoola, Benjamin Thoha Thomas, Moses Olusola Efuntoye

“…Our findings therefore have shown that adaptive ESBL resistance evolution is driven by transition mutation, positive natural selection and ESBL gene flow. It is thus imperative to state that understanding these adaptive resistance driven factors and how they operate is crucial to deciphering the fundamental principles of adaptive evolution that might help circumvent the global challenges of antibiotic resistance.…”
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