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Public procurement emerges as an instrument to promote sustainability and innovation, facilitating the implementation of policy goals. Adaptive procurement leverages sustainable innovation available in the market. Developmental procurement creates demand for solutions that do not exist yet but need to be developed first. Real-world applications fro...

Employee time theft is predominantly viewed as a negative workplace deviant behavior that can be costly to organizations, and thus has become an important topic in the field of organizational behavior in recent years. Despite its importance, scholars have yet systematically explored the reasons why employees engage in time theft, and research on it...

In this Special Issue, we are interested in the modeling and optimization to sustainable operations management in a broad sense. The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together high-quality contributions in multiple application fields tackling real-world optimization problems where mathematical programming-based methods are used. A particular in...

This article addresses the motivational processes that enable older adults to manage health-related threats and to protect their psychological and physical functioning. Based on the Motivational Theory of Life-Span Development (MTD) [1], we describe how an age- and opportunity-adjusted use of control strategies can support the regulation of importa...

For stochastic dynamical systems with multiple uncertain parameters, it is often of interest to detect which parameters are dominant, in which the global sensitivity analysis may be one of the common means. To measure the global sensitivity in both qualitative and quantitative terms, it is of significant importance to adopt a global sensitivity ind...

“This book offers a comprehensive information about the potential and challenges of AI in the detection and prevention of infectious diseases. Several innovative chapters will provide real-life solution for several real-life problems. It covers all the major life-threatening infectious diseases indicated by UN sustainable development Goal 3. Big da...

Life is short-lived and within the short time we live, we always try to do things that we believe would make us happy. Thus, happiness in life is the goal that human beings try to achieve during their lifetime. Nevertheless, many people fail to achieve that goal of "being happy". This could be due to misunderstanding what "happiness in life" or lif...

The main goal of this paper is to study the asymptotic behaviour and the finite extinction time of weak solutions to some time-fractional parabolic equations. Moreover, we improve some results in [5, 10] by dropping out some conditions assumed there.

The goal of this study is to create new variations of the well-known Hermite-Hadamard inequality (-inequality) for preinvex interval-valued functions (preinvex-s). We develop several additional inequalities for the class of functions whose product is preinvex-s. The findings described here would be generalizations of those found in previous studies...

Introduction The goal of this study is to assess the level of physical activity associated with the use of different micromobility modes in the context of the city of Barcelona, considering both real-world and traffic-adjusted conditions. Methods The study used GPS and accelerometer devices to obtain objective measurements from 502 trips taken, in...

SDG4, and all the SDGs, are already failures. A direct cause is the failure of the international community and national governments to finance them. Despite good intentions by many, we have not made a serious effort. Achieving all 17 SDGs would require a relatively modest amount, 1-4% of global GDP, but this is not forthcoming. GDP growth and relia...

Instigated incivility is the contradiction of experienced incivility, in which envious employees incite others to spread negativity in the workplace for personal gain or to elevate their position among co-workers. " Low-intensity deviant behavior that violates the mutual respect rules of the workplace and has an uncertain goal of harming the target...

Through the use of patient information, data mining has proven to be a powerful tool in the healthcare sector for tracking illness patterns. While diagnostics are crucial for accurate medical diagnosis and prognosis, the complex nature of healthcare data sets can present challenges. It is important to recognize that there is no one-size-fits-all so...

In this paper, a multi-objective model-following control problem is solved using an observer-based adaptive learning scheme. The overall goal is to regulate the model-following error dynamics along with optimizing the dynamic variables of a process in a model-free fashion. This solution employs an integral reinforcement learning approach to adapt t...

Organizational strategy is a long-term plan that allocates how a company plans to use its resources to support business activities. It serves as a guide to how the company can achieve its goals. Companies use these strategies to help them meet their goals and develop strategic plans. Organizational strategies often include detailed assessments that...

Named entity recognition and disambiguation, often referred to as entity linking systems, refers to the task of automatically identifying knowledge graph entities in text documents. While a variety of entity linking systems based on very different approaches exist, these systems implicitly share certain processing steps in their pipeline. Despite t...

Management plays a crucial role in the smooth functioning of sports organizations. Effective management is essential for setting goals, coordinating efforts, and maintaining discipline within the organization. It ensures that resources are optimized and allocated strategically for maximum results. Moreover, management plays a crucial role in attrac...

This chapter addresses the relationship between affordable energy and energy justice. Inevitably, affordability is obtained when there is fair distribution of the energy benefits and burdens, meaning securing affordable energy to all. Additionally, this chapter explores different restrictions, limitations and barriers that nations may face when ach...

Communication, as a management function is the process of creating, communicating and interpreting ideas, facts, opinions and feelings about work performance, organisational effectiveness and efficiency as well as goals attainment in organisation. A manager must be an effective communicator and no organization can succeed or progress, build up repu...

Ecological information system is a set of technical, software and organizational measures designed to automate information processes in professional activities. An automated information system provides for the introduction of certain information technologies for data processing in the course of professional activities. It is necessary to create a c...

In Europe, the introduction of the Council Recommendation establishing a European Child Guarantee has helped put concerns relating to childhood disadvantages higher up on the policy agenda. Structured around ensuring effective access to a series of key child services, the ultimate goal of the European Child Guarantee is to promote opportunities for...

Evidently, actorness requires a base level of common goals, resources, interdependences, and objectives. However, having resources or common policies is not enough. To function as an effective foreign policy actor, there needs to be political will and sufficient decision-making capacity to bring these policies to action. Actorness in international...

Effective commanders in the Armed Forces must possess a rangeof skills and qualities, including clear communication, decision-making, integrity, adaptability,empathy,andteam-building. Effectiveleadershipiscriticaltothesuccessofanyorganization,andthisisespeciallytruefortheArmed Forces. Military operations often involve high-stress situations, comple...

The durability of fire-retardant materials used for wooden structures and wood-based products can be evaluated on small cut-out samples with the so-called Lindner test, which is a standard procedure in Hungary where 1 g of hexamethylene-tetramine is burnt under the wooden specimen and the mass loss is measured. For further spatial information about...

The essence of this study is to determine the funding options for real estate project delivery in Nigeria.The goals include determining the funding choices for real estate project delivery in Nigeria and determining the degree of association between funding options and real estate project delivery. 183 respondents were used as the data collection m...

The next step for the Chesapeake Bay Oyster Restoration effort, a large-scale expansion of the program into the Bay mainstem. Goals are: restoration of oyster driven benthic-pelagic coupling, economic benefits to EJ communities (local watermen), and use of oyster reefs as NNBF to protect vulnerable fishing town coastlines from sea-level-rise enhanc...

Malignant arrhythmias and cardiac arrest in the operating room are critical events that pose significant risks to patient safety and outcomes. This research paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of the current literature on the incidence, risk factors, and management of malignant arrhythmias and cardiac arrest in the operating room. The pape...

The article reveals the readiness of the administration, pedagogical teams of experimental institutions of general secondary education, and scientific-pedagogical workers of regional institutes of postgraduate pedagogical education for the implementation of innovative activities within the framework of the implementation of an innovative educationa...

This essay aims to familiarize the reader with the connections between public relations and sports, including best practices, analysis of PR's potential in sports, and the promotion of a favorable image that might lead to increased exposure in public. A company's ability to build and manage enduring relationships with athletes, fans, sponsors, and...

The Operator Argument against eternalism holds that having non-vacuous tense operators in the language is incompatible with the claim that every proposition has its truth-value eternally. Assuming that (1) there are non-vacuous tense operators, (2) tense operators operate on propositions and (3) tense operators which operate on eternal entities are...

Background. The recruitment of branching corals in the eastern Pacific is poorly understood despite being of paramount importance to the dynamics of coral populations. Experimental studies provide a non-destructive means to evaluate recruitment and compare settlement materials. Goals. To study Pocillopora recruitment on PVC and terracotta tiles in...

Anders Ericsson's theory of deliberate practice argues that innate abilities do not determine expertise in any domain. Rather, deliberate practice, involving focused, intensive training that challenges individuals to engage in repetition with refinement, is necessary for achieving expertise. This type of practice requires setting clear goals, recei...

In this article I recuperate a structure-oriented account of a politics of becoming from the work of Iris Young, one that rejects identity politics to focus instead on redressing structural injustice. Young offers a theorization of democracy that at once acknowledges our inner multiplicity and our individual capacity to shape our identity, and view...

World Health Organization in its work "World Health Report 2000" presented the main functions and goals of health systems. According to this report, the functions of the healthcare system are: provision of medical services, financing of healthcare, collection of revenues, mobilization, pooling of revenues (accumulation, pooling of risk and resource...

High drop-out rates among students endanger the goal of improving the quality of higher education. In the student lifecycle, the "transition-in" phase is particularly critical, as most premature drop-outs happen in this phase. Thus, universities and society need to find solutions to help students manage the challenges of the "transition-in" phase....

This work deals with the two-diode model of a photovoltaic (PV) panel. It provides the per-unit energy and current representations in addition to identifying its unknown parameters. Mathematical equations have been proposed and built using the MATLAB/Simulink simulator to achieve this goal. Only one variable has been adjusted to get all the unknown...

Companies today are increasingly called upon to address society’s issues, such as climate change and inequality, but traditional companies are not up to the task as they are designed primarily for profit maximization. Addressing society’s issues requires companies to societally hybridize, meaning introducing societal goals alongside profit goals th...

This study examined how emotional intensity of speech affects the relationship between teachers' engaging messages , and students' motivation to learn and academic performance. To achieve our goal, we recorded and transcribed teachers' lessons. Results revealed that messages appealing to external stimuli had lower emotional intensity than those app...

In Argentina, the quest for macroeconomic stability remains elusive. The experience provides a vivid depiction of how policymaking is shaped not only by policy goals but also by the particular constraints faced by a developing economy. In this chapter, we review Argentina’s experience in the last two decades, from the point of view of monetary poli...

The passages of literacy criticism in Photius’ Bibliotheca have been studied by segmenting their elements, which prevents discernment of the passage structure and the precise meaning of terms. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate, firstly, the existence of two- and three-element groups (binomials and trinomials) in Photius’ passages and, s...

While autonomous vehicle (AV) technology is forecast to widely disrupt transport systems, governments' roles in influencing this innovation have not been examined holistically. This empirical study analyses the perceptions of 34 professionals from government and non-government actors in the U.K. and Australia. Our findings identify three main categ...

The intellectual production of Luiz Carlos de Freitas is analyzed with the goal of learning the conception of educational quality that he defends. A literature review is adopted, covering papers in educational quality with evaluation policies. The author defends the conception of social quality under the focus of negotiated quality and criticism in...

Background: The goal of this study was to monitor the microbial biodiversity in beach sand that is heavily visited by tourists during the summer, and to determinate whether the high presence of bathers (around 5000 per day) can modify sand microbial composition. Methods: Between 2016 and 2020, 150 sand samples were collected from nine different poi...

Algorithmic control (AC) uses digital technologies and advanced algorithms to control workers and is rapidly becoming a central component of modern work environments. While previous research has explored the implications of AC by examining its specific forms, mechanisms, or functions, this research argues for a broader understanding of AC as socio-...

Throughout the new environment in college and as the pandemic is still around, freshmen Information Technology students deal with the effectiveness of in-person classes in their courses. This study discussed and will prove that face-to-face classes are more effective than online distance learning in terms of a different factor. It identifies the im...

The study of non-historical monument gardens aimed to inventory and assess their current state compared to the original. These gardens were researched in detail, following the steps used for historical parks and gardens. Unclassified gardens were categorized using newly established criteria based on collected information. While there's less data ab...

In recent years, HRM has received a lot of traction. Human resource management is essential for all types of enterprises. The bulk of research indicates that HRM and organizational performance have a positive link. Each organization's main goal is to attain high levels of performance in its goals and objectives. In this paper, HRM and practices wer...

This study aimed to find research trend online discussion to improve argumentation skills in education especially physics education. The method used in this research is bibliometric analysis by using VOSviewer. The data used is the Scopus database in the last 10 years. The research findings found that there are 1,447 documents that meet the predete...

One of the Education for Sustainable Development Goals is to provide equitable and inclusive access to quality education for all. However, some children with special needs, particularly slow learners, have yet to be able to enjoy inclusive and high-quality learning services. This research aims to enhance slow learners' competence by implementing th...

In this paper, we examine variants of the partial vertex cover problem from the perspective of parameterized algorithms. Recall that in the classical vertex cover problem (VC), we are given a graph \(\mathbf{G = \langle V, E \rangle }\) and a number k and asked if we can cover all of the edges in \(\textbf{E}\), using at most k vertices from \(\tex...

The paper explores the organizational impact of ESG leadership in Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) and emphasizes the integration of ESG principles into HR practices for sustainability and competitiveness. It highlights the importance of creating an enterprise-wide ESG framework, implementing consistent ESG policies, and aligning HR prac...

The book emphasizes the importance of applying work psychology, underpinned by rigorous experimentation, to actions aimed at preventing occupational risks in businesses. The author, since the late 1990s, has pioneered a unique behavioral intervention strategy. Unlike previous methods, this approach empowers the worker to identify and rectify their...

The focus of this article is to explore the Bohr inequality for a specific subset of harmonic starlike mappings introduced by Ghosh and Vasudevarao ( Some basic properties of certain subclass of harmonic univalent functions , Complex Var. Elliptic Equ. 63 (2018), no. 12, 1687–1703.). This set is denoted as ℬ H 0 ( M ) ≔ { f = h + g ¯ ∈ ℋ 0 : ∣ z h...

Co-teaching continues to be a common method of instruction, allowing students with disabilities to engage in the general education curriculum. While there are numerous exemplars of excellent co-teaching, there is more that can be done to assist preservice teachers as they learn to bridge the gap between the student’s Individualized Education Progra...

The Near-Earth Object Surveyor (NEO Surveyor) mission has a requirement to find two-thirds of the potentially hazardous asteroids larger than 140 m in size. In order to determine the mission’s expected progress toward this goal during design and testing, as well as the actual progress during the survey, a simulation tool has been developed to act a...

Idea generation, a cognitive process requiring creativity and action, is the focal point of this study. It aims to evaluate the learning needs of PBA students in Maharatul Kitabah, focusing on higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) for idea generation. The study employs educational research and development methods, iteratively aiming to align outcomes...

The article discusses the effectiveness of methods and techniques for teaching reading in Russian in the Karakalpak school. Recommendations are given to teachers when setting goals and objectives for teaching conscious reading. Consciousness of reading consists in a clear and accurate understanding by the student of the text being read. A good way...

On the basis of the analysis of more than a hundred projects that have beencompleted over the past four decades, the process of the transformation of thearchitecture of orphanages in the context of the deinstitutionalisation strategywas analysed. The analysis was based on a specially developed method ofcomparing environmental and peculiarities of f...

Background: How can flexible applications of the space and infrastructure of urban distribution centers (UDCs) be organized to help lower demands on space and infrastructure in cities? The application of flexible use of space and infrastructure can improve the efficiency of a UDC, but the challenge lies in the organization of the application of fle...

The article discusses the criteria that a person should follow in order to live a quality life at different age stages. At each age stage, it is analyzed that a person must correctly understand his goals, find ways to achieve them and improve the quality of life by realizing his goals. It is also noted that society focuses only on the quality of it...

Cryptocurrencies have become extremely popular as a form of payment in recent years. They are supported by blockchain, a cutting-edge advanced technology that makes extensive use of cryptographic mechanisms and other sophisticated distributed computing techniques. On these grounds, cryptocurrencies have been a target of several attacks. Cyber-attac...

Open access implies the idea of scientific information dissemination over the Internet that is free to the end user. The higher education and university libraries’ mission is to connect people and information, and the goals of open access help librarians respond to users' information queries more quickly. This paper presents the basic concepts of o...

The incorporation of long-term investment has consistently held a prominent position within the realm of business advancement, exerting a substantial influence on business circumstances and economic outcomes. Consequently, delving into the matter of effectively managing risk and attaining commensurate returns warrants thorough investigation. The co...

In this paper, we extensively explore parameter optimization for projectile trajectory. Our main goal is to find the best launch angle and initial velocity for maximum range. We employ five optimization methods: Nelder-Mead, Powell, Limited-memory Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno with Box constraints L-BFGS-B,Truncated Newton Conjugate-Gradient TNC...

In mathematics, the logarithm, log_ab, where a(0,1)(1,) and b>0, is always defined as the real number x, such that a^x=b. Moreover, in the field of number theory, a similar concept called the discrete logarithm can be defined as follows: For a given positive integer m(m2), let aN^(+ ) with (a,m)=1, and r is the primitive root of m, x=ind_r a if r^x...

Childfree adalah individu atau pasangan yang menjalani pernikahan dan memutuskan untuk tidak memiliki anak, hal ini di pengaruhi oleh beberapa faktor yang menjadi alasan kuat untuk tidak memiliki anak, fenomena childfree sendiri sudah muncul dan dipraktikan jauh sebelum memasuki abad ke-20, namun istilah childfree mulai trend di indonesia Pada tahu...

This study examines the challenges of implementing the MDGs in Nigeria.

The study aimed at online student admission registration management system with a case study of Metropolitan International University and it was guided by the following objectives; To analyze the current Admission Registration Management system used at Metropolitan International University, to design the student Admission Registration Management Sy...

This article will explore evolving thoughts on how the social field can be an effective lens to address relational tensions within activist groups. Gobby (2020) defines relational tensions as the ideological and social tensions that emerge in an activist group due to power inequalities, which are significant internal barriers for these groups to ac...

Life and death has always been one of the main concerns of every thinking person throughout the history of mankind and all the schools of thought, philosophy and religion have tried to explain the meaning of life and specify its goals, and each of them from a different point of view. These coils have looked into each other. However, it is quite cle...

The goal of the present paper is to observe the properties of LP-Sasakian manifolds prepared with new semi-symmetric non-metric connection. We make a plan to study some curvature's properties of LP-Sasakian manifolds admitting new semi-symmetric non-metric connection. Semi-symmetric and locally φ-symmetric LP-Sasakian manifolds admitting new semi-s...

The purpose of this study is to determine how management changes the use of information technology to support the sustainability of small and medium enterprises during the COVID-19 pandemic. Information Technology and MP play a very important role in the management of the Covid-19 pandemic because Information Technology plays a role in managing inf...

ملخص: تناولنا في دراستنا موضوع انعكاس الممارسة الرياضية ضمن النوادي الرياضية على التحصيل الدراسي لمتعلمي المرحلة الابتدائية حيث تهدف دراستنا إلى إبراز الفرق بين ممارسي وغير الممارسين للأنشطة الرياضية وانعكاسها على التحصيل الدراسي لمتعلمي المرحلة الابتدائية ، ولهذا إعتمدنا على المنهج الوصفي لملائمته طبيعة الدراسة على عينة متكونة من 6 أساتذة من الطور...

The evolution of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) criteria is an ever-growing process. The relevant organizations and bodies have started to develop ad hoc initiatives and guidelines for the assessment and measurement of ESG criteria using different lines of assessment. As a result, investors have begun to use these indices as tools to di...

Human resources are a key element that drives and is used by an organization or company as a driver, thinker, and planner to achieve its goals. The problem formulated in this research is how is the motivation, competency, integrity and performance of auditors described, and how much influence does it have. Independent variables on intervening varia...

Currently, the development of deep earth space is an important strategic, scientific, and technological goal [...]

Scope of the Book: This cross-sectorial edited book focuses on utilising research in planning, policy, leadership, and management to address the weak link between education and the nation's development. Understanding planning, policy, leadership, their concepts, methods, and tools as well as the applications in school management and improvement is...

In this article, we examine the Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation, a nonlinear model that modifies a variety of physical and chemical scenarios. The main goal of this article is to find the analytical solution to the fuzzy fractional Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equations (FFKSEs). We employ the fractional reduced differential transform method (FRDTM) for deal...

Hope is an indispensable component for living a life of meaning, value, and well-being. Hope enables us to manage stressors, threats, failures, and personal doubts while helping us to stay focused on our goals and strivings. The purpose of this paper is to understand the construct of hope within a new dimension of personality termed the Numinous. T...

The understanding of sustainable remanufacturing as an innovative method has come about as a solution to the ecological difficulties posed by industrial manufacturing. The present study investigates the concept of industrial reinvention via a review of novel practices in the field of remanufacturing. Remanufacturing is an organizational strategy th...

The Russian-Ukrainian War introduced new elements into the strategic assessments of large global corporations, changing competitive horizons and developing new models of competition. The impact of the recent BRICS expansion on the global corporations management and on the growth of sustainability goals reflects a growing global new competitive land...

The development of containerization and virtualization technologies has made Kubernetes a popular container orchestration platform that allows multiple replicas for scalability and availability. For stateful applications, each replica requires persistent storage, and a leader must be elected among the replicas to handle client requests and ensure d...

The interpretation of customer satisfaction is a complex task due to its subjective nature, which is contingent upon the individual preferences and experiences of each customer. The Real Estate industry presents a heightened level of complexity as there exist numerous factors that contribute to the determination of customer satisfaction. Customer s...

It has been proven that modern trends in land formation and use require a rethinking of approaches to the development and implementation of monitoring tools, taking into account the ecological features of regional development. The need and relevance of solving issues related to the formation and use of geoecological monitoring of land use at the re...

We describe the foundations and the systematization of natural logic-like monotonic inference using unscoped episodic logical forms (ULFs) that as reported by Kim et al. (Proceedings of the 1st and 2nd Workshops on Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning (NALOMA), Groningen, 2021a, b) introduced and first evaluated. In addition to providing a more det...

Spatial locations of players and game devices are a fundamental data type in team-sports analytics. They are typically specified in Cartesian coordinates, but with varying conventions for the origin, orientation, and scaling. In invasion games such as football, basketball, or hockey, however, many markings are of fixed dimension even when the field...

For students majoring in English Education at IAIN Parepare in the 2019–2020 academic year, the goal of this study is to ascertain whether or not the application of drilling techniques in reading might enhance reading scores on the TOEFL test. A quasi-experimental design was used in this investigation. In the 2019–2020 academic year, English Educat...

In an era where the lines between profit-driven enterprises and altruistic endeavors are increasingly blurred, the concept of a social business emerges as a dynamic force in the world of entrepreneurship. A social business represents a fusion of ideals and pragmatism, a formidable attempt to balance financial sustainability with social impact, and...

This article analyzed the model based on the requirements of the ISO 9001 standard in the management of existing or expected risks in analytical testing laboratories. The principles of the ISO 9001 standard were compared with the principles and capabilities of risk management. Enterprises and organizations, as well as analytical testing laboratorie...

The Paris Agreement limits the long-term global warming goal to well below 2 and preferably to 1 [...]

In this study, the association of large pressure fluctuations (LPFs) ≥ 0.2 hPa and runway wind shear (RWS) ≥ 12 kt at the Songshan Airport in Taipei, Taiwan, during the event on 12 December 2019 with strong northeasterly winds are analyzed. The goal of the study is to demonstrate that the two phenomena exhibited close correspondence, and the former...