THE ROLE OF SECTOR IN USERS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE PERCEIVED QUALITY OF SHARING ECONOMY SERVICES by Doris Podrug

“…These results can be useful for service providers in the sharing economy in accommodation and transport to better understand the preferences and expectations of their users and improve the quality of their services.…”
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Providing Adapted Contextual Information in an Overlay Vehicular Network by José Santa, Andrés Muñoz, Antonio F. Gómez-Skarmeta

“…This has been carried out by means of an ontology model which represents users' preferences and contextual information. Finally, using a whole prototype of the telematic platform, the performance of this interring process has been evaluated to point out its impact on the system operation.…”
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Introduction of smart technologies in event-management: socio-cultural aspect by V. A. Shelginskaya

“…This could provide the meeting industry with new management capabilities related to the ability to predict and program visitor behavior based on the analysis of extremely large amounts of data about their behavior, thinking and preferences. However, event activities are based on creating for the visitor such a spatio-temporal period that he perceives as unique. …”
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A narrative review of proactive palliative care models for people with COPD by Amy Pascoe, Xinye Chen, Natasha Smallwood

“…Each model describes a diverse set of interventions and many of these share common elements, including the normalisation of palliative principles within routine care and the provision of diverse delivery settings to accommodate individual preferences and needs. Successful palliative care models must be practical, accessible and innovative to respond to individuals’ complex and evolving needs, foster multi-disciplinary collaboration and input and optimally utilise local healthcare resources.…”
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Sex Differences in Perception of Economic and Dating Access by Rachel E. Hall, Khandis Blake, Ho Fai Chan, Benno Torgler, Stephen Whyte

“…These inequalities and their impacts can accentuate perceptions, preferences, and behaviors of males and females in different ways. …”
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Smart HVAC Control in IoT: Energy Consumption Minimization with User Comfort Constraints by Jordi Serra, David Pubill, Angelos Antonopoulos, Christos Verikoukis

“…To that end, first, we propose an energy scheduling method that minimizes the energy consumption cost for a particular time interval, taking into account the energy price and a set of comfort constraints, that is, a range of temperatures according to user’s preferences for a given room. Then, we propose an energy scheduler where the user may select to relax the temperature constraints to save more energy. …”
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Cognitive basis of animal names in the Russian language and its dialects in the common Slavic context by E.M. Markova

“….), feeding modes and preferences (what the animal feeds on), sounds, smell, habitat, etc. …”
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The polysemy of the colour term white in English, Russian, Tajik and Uzbek by Zayniev Daler

“…Colour is one of the central categories of both a conceptual and a linguistic world of image, correlated with an axiological and an esthetic assessment, a semiotic and value world of image of a given national culture, which allows us to talk about colour preferences, ethnic colour mentality, colour gaps and colour universals, that is, about the colour world of image. …”
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The Effectiveness of Using Motion Graphics in Acquiring English Vocabulary among Second-Grade Intermediate Students by Khawlah Abdulaaziz M. Al-Turki, Latifah Abdullah K Alharbi

“…The study recommended using a variety of instructional strategies to meet the diverse needs and preferences of learners as well as ensure that the instructional materials and resources are accessible to all students, including those with diverse learning needs and backgrounds. …”
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Electric Vehicle Charging Route Planning for Shortest Travel Time Based on Improved Ant Colony Optimization by Aiping Tan, Chang Wang, Yan Wang, Chenglong Dong

“…To bridge this gap, we propose the electric vehicle charging route planning based on user requirements (EVCRP-UR) problem, which aims to integrate user preferences and multiple constraints. Our approach utilizes topology optimization to reduce computational complexity and improve path planning efficiency. …”
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Navigation Systems May Deteriorate Stability in Traffic Networks by Gianluca Bianchin, Fabio Pasqualetti

“…In this paper, we propose a dynamic model where drivers imitate the path preferences of previous drivers, and we study the properties of its equilibrium points. …”
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Using activating methods of teaching artistic design to future interior designers by Nadezhda S. Zhdanova, Anna V. Ekaterinushkina, Yuliya S. Antonenko

“…Each subject area of activity has its own preferences in the use of activating methods, their combinations and places of application. …”
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Reputation Revision Method for Selecting Cloud Services Based on Prior Knowledge and a Market Mechanism by Qingtao Wu, Xulong Zhang, Mingchuan Zhang, Ying Lou, Ruijuan Zheng, Wangyang Wei

“…However, it is difficult to provide objective evaluations in open and dynamic environments because of the possibilities of malicious evaluations, individual preferences, and intentional praise. In this study, we propose a novel unfair rating filtering method for a reputation revision system. …”
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Technology adoption and extreme stock risk: Evidence from digital tax reform in China by Kangqi Jiang, Xiaofeng Chen, Jiayun Li, Mengling Zhou

“…Finally, we perform a further analysis examining investors’ holding preferences. Contrary to expectations, we observed a decrease in stock liquidity and the shareholding of long-term and fund investors, attributed to the escalated tax burden and diminishing business benefits post-reform. …”
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Independent State, Federal State, or Unitary State? Age, Gender, and Regional Differences Among Anglophone Cameroonians by Elvis Nshom

“…This study seeks to highlight anglophone attitudes and preferences towards forms of governance, as well as the differences between men and women and between northwesterners and southwesterners, i.e., the inhabitants of the two English-speaking regions in Cameroon, with respect to this question. …”
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Antecedents of smart tourism destination perceived attractiveness and behavioral intention for digital natives by Andar Danova Lastaripar Goeltom, Ratih Hurriyati, Vanessa Gaffar, Lili Adi Wibowo

“…In order to achieve high levels of satisfaction from the digital native generation, tourism destinations must adapt to how they interact and present content that matches their technological preferences. This study aims to measure the perception of STD attractiveness for digital natives by exploring antecedent factors and their impact on intentional behavior. …”
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Optimizing Negotiation Conflict in the Cloud Service Negotiation Framework Using Probabilistic Decision Making Model by Rajkumar Rajavel, Mala Thangarathinam

“…This negotiation conflict occurs during the bilateral negotiation process between the participants due to the misperception, aggressive behavior, and uncertain preferences and goals about their opponents. Existing research work focuses on the prerequest context of negotiation conflict optimization by grouping similar negotiation pairs using distance, binary, context-dependent, and fuzzy similarity approaches. …”
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Educational Hybrids in Russian Higher Education by V. S. Senashenko, A. A. Makarova

“…The influence of integration preferences on the formation of  hybrid educational structures in the system of national higher education is  revealed. …”
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Quality of Life from a Transhumanist Perspective by Zlatica Plašienková, Martin Farbák, Eva Smolková

“…Initially, the authors deal with the issue of the quality of human life concerning individual preferences and social solutions, and they proceed with their beliefs based on the assumption that the guarantor of the life of citizens is the state government. …”
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What is a meaningful life for persons with acquired neurological impairments? A scoping review protocol. by Randi Steensgaard, Michele Offenbach Hundborg, Hanne Pallesen, Lena Aadal

“…Including the patients' perception of a meaningful life is crucial to facilitate adjustment of any rehabilitation initiatives to the patients' wishes, hopes, needs, and preferences. Even so, the descriptions and common traits of a meaningful life from the impaired person's perspective are scarcely covered in the literature. …”
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