THE RELATIONSHIP OF PARTNER SUPPORT WITH VARIOUS ACTIVITIES OF THE ELDERLY HYPERTENSION by Farah Dwita Angelina, Joni Haryanto, Elida Ulfiana

“…Blood pressure in the elderly with hypertension can be controlled in various ways, namely doing physical activity regularly, performing activities related to cognitive function, and controlling stress levels so as not to affect contractions or pulsations of the heart and nervous system that can cause blood pressure to increase. …”
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SMART AGENT-BASED FRAMEWORK FOR MULTIPLE SIMULTANEOUS BILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS TO SUPPORT BUSINESS PROCESSES by Adina-Georgeta CREȚAN

“…The objective of this study is to provide assistance to autonomous microgrids that lack the capacity to secure large contracts independently. Addressing interoperability challenges, the paper advocates negotiation activities as a fundamental solution. …”
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Dynamics of urban green spaces in a megacity under the green economy framework and their influencing factors: a case study of Chongqing urban area by Jing Ge, Yinghong Shi

“…The primary patterns of this reduction include edge erosion in the inner suburbs, inward contraction in central urban areas, and minor perforation in new towns.DiscussionThe analysis indicates that economic drivers, such as industrial development and economic growth, are the dominant factors contributing to the reduction of urban green spaces. …”
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Application of Artificial Neural Network in the Baking Process of Salmon by Pengfei Jiang, Kaiyue Zhu, Shan Shang, Wengang Jin, Wanying Yu, Shuang Li, Shen Wang, Xiuping Dong

“…With the increase of temperature, muscle fibers contracted, the interstices increased, the rate of water loss increased, and the sensory score decreased. …”
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Vertebrate TNF Superfamily: Evolution and Functional Insights by Ignacio Marín

“…In several gnathostome lineages, particularly in some tetrapods, the TNF superfamily has significantly contracted due to numerous gene losses. This evolutionary model provides a framework for exploring functional data, showing that the descendants of different ancestral genes have acquired distinct roles, most prominently in the innate and adaptive immune systems, which led to a species-specific refinement of which TNFSF genes were conserved or lost. …”
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The Impact of Delivery Type on Ventricular Performances of Healthy Neonates by Erman Cilsal

“…When compared with the first visit, both isovolumic contraction time and isovolumic relaxation time were lower between the groups but myocardial performance index values were increased without significance at the second visit. …”
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Stability Analysis and Simulation of Diffusive Vaccinated Models by Mohammed M. Al-Shamiri, N. Avinash, P. Chellamani, Manal Z. M. Abdallah, G. Britto Antony Xavier, V. Rexma Sherine, M. Abisha

“…Equilibria are identified, and the basic reproductive number is calculated. The Banach contraction mapping principle is applied to rigorously establish the solution existence and uniqueness. …”
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Studying Some Important Aspects of Corrugated Steel Web in Girders by Maryam Jumaa

“…When a bridge is subjected to the weight of vehicles or external forces from the environment, the corrugated steel web can undergo deformation resembling that of an accordion, with expansion and contraction occurring along its corrugated pattern. …”
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Procurement at Local Government Level – Issues and Controversies by Marija Kaštelan Mrak, Nenad Vretenar, Jelena Jardas Antonić

“…Picking up on questionnaire responses from 200 LGUs that reported having held over 350 cases of providing services through contract agreements with ‘independent’ service providers, we formed an opinion of what could be the consequences of developing more structured public procurement procedures.…”
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Forecast uncertainties real-time data-driven compensation scheme for optimal storage control by Arbel Yaniv, Yuval Beck

“…Incorrect or improper adjustments to mitigate forecast uncertainties can result in suboptimal energy management, significant financial losses and penalties, and potential contract violations. The revised algorithm optimizes the operation of the battery system in real time and safeguards its state of health by limiting the charging/discharging cycles and enforcing adherence to contractual agreements. …”
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Critical import insurance as a tool to support entrepreneurs under sanctions by А. V. Averin, A. F. Baranova, A. M. Kutyrev

“…The current economic and political conditions of Russia’s development introduce significant business risks when concluding import contracts for importing critical goods and implementing additional supportive measures for importers of those goods that are duly recognized as critically important for the country’s economic development. …”
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Shaping the 2010 Strategic Defence & Security Review : An Exercise in Squaring Conflicting Priorities by Jean-Claude Sergeant

“…But the main causes of this black hole are to be found in a combination of factors : the competition between the three Services for securing state-of-the-art equipment, often as a result of the required level of interoperability with American Forces ; the fact that this overspecification trend has been tacitly encouraged by the incapacity or unwillingness of the MoD to scrap an arms project once the main financial gate has been cleared irrespective of its wayward development ; the “cosy relationship” between major defence industrialists, MoD procurement officials and MPs, which often affects the way major contracts are awarded. Employment considerations are likely to trump cost saving attempts. …”
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ENABLING SUSTAINABLE PROCUREMENT OF BUILT ASSETS IN AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES: PERSPECTIVES OF FACILITIES’ DIRECTORS by Bankole AWUZIE, Fidelise EMUZE

“…Challenges identified include: the seeming obsession of HEIs, acting as clients, with low front-end cost of project delivery; poor awareness of what SP entails; absence of skills required to champion the cause of SP within such HEIs, and non-specification of SD based requirements in the contracts documents. It is expected that this study would contribute to deepening existing knowledge concerning implementation of SD in HEIs in SSA. …”
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Connection between Relationship Quality and Megaproject Success: Moderating Role of Contractual Functions by Dedong Wang, Yongqiang Lu, Shaoze Fang

“…This work also divided contract functions into control, coordination, and adaptation to investigate the impact of these functions on the relationship between social exchange factors and mianzi (face) with relationship quality. …”
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Measuring Migration Status Based on the Place of Marriage Overestimates the Share of Male Migrants in Historical Populations. Evidence From Dutch Marriage Certificates by Matthias Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge, Paul Puschmann

“…The place of marriage, however, is not necessarily identical to the place of residence, because couples traditionally contracted their marriage in the bride's or bride's parents' municipality of residence. …”
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Effects of the manufacturing process on fracture behaviour of cast TiAl intermetallic alloys by A. Brotzu, F. Felli, D. Pilone

“…Tests carried out on several samples characterised by different alloy compositions highlighted that solidification shrinkage and solid metal contraction during cooling produce the development of relevant residual stresses that are sufficient to fracture the castings during cooling or to produce a delayed fracture. …”
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Mortality, Work and Migration. A Consideration of Age-specific Mortality from Tuberculosis in Scotland, 1861-1901 by Alice Reid, Eilidh Garrett

“…We show that the age and gender-specific pattern of mortality in the rural area is consistent with higher male than female out-migration together with return migration of those who had contracted the disease elsewhere and needed care during their lengthy illness. …”
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Conflicts-law constitutionalism in the EMU: how much unity can European diversity sustain? by Anna Peychev

“…The core of the contract between economic and monetary union is set in not so much the formally legal, if economically irrational and practically contentious, divide of the Treaties, but rather, the rules for governing the right balance of EMU are found in its economic governance framework, set up to condition national budgetary policies into optimal function in service of Union monetary policy. …”
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Building resilience: quantity surveyors in the face of future pandemics by Matshete Modiba, Nishani Harinarain

“…Noteworthy impacts include alterations in work dynamics, modifications in site evaluations, increased instances of cost overruns, shifts in contract interpretation, and changes in the preparation of monthly payment certificates. …”
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Endogenous Third-Degree Price Discrimination in a Supply Chain with One Common Manufacturer and Duopoly Retailers by Hongmei Yang, Wei Wang

“…Consequently, the manufacturer designs a fixed fee contract to stimulate retailers to price discriminate and to achieve a win-win situation for them finally.…”
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