Pre-Evaluation of Industrialization Project of Local Science and Technology Achievements Based on FAHP by Yongzhi Chang, Yu Hang, Tong Liang

“…The research took the smart manufacturing project in Xiqing District of Tianjin as the object of empirical analysis and applied the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) to comprehensively evaluate the project. …”
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On the legal implications of Large Language Model answers: A prompt engineering approach and a view beyond by exploiting Knowledge Graphs by George Hannah, Rita T. Sousa, Ioannis Dasoulas, Claudia d’Amato

“…Nevertheless, there are cases where the LLM recommends actions that have potential legal implications and this may put the user in danger. We provide an empirical analysis on multiple existing LLMs showing the urgency of the problem. …”
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Research on the Estimation Model of Electrical Parameters of Silver-Based Contacts Based on Surface Morphology by Chao Wang, Xiancheng Wang, Chengjun Guo

“…After the morphological parameters affecting electrical performance are quantified, the variation laws of single and composite morphological parameters on electrical performance are clarified. …”
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The ethics of DeCSS posting: towards assessing the morality of the Internet posting of DVD copyright circumvention software by K.R. Eschenfelder, R.G. Howard, A.C. Desai

“…</b> The paper draws on empirical findings of actual DeCSS posting to consider the limitations of current frameworks. …”
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Healthcare practitioners as accomplices: a qualitative study of gender affirmation in a context of ambiguous regulation in Indonesia by Benjamin Hegarty, Alegra Wolter, Amalia Puri Handayani, Kevin Marian, Jamee Newland, Dede Oetomo, Ignatius Praptoraharjo, Angela Kelly-Hanku

“…Given that all participants expressed a desire for gender affirmation, but such services were widely unavailable, accomplices played a crucial role in supporting trans people to access healthcare. Conclusions An empirical study based on an “ethics from below” helps to show that arguments grounded in autonomy, or based on biomedical evidence, are unlikely to alter unjust laws or facilitate a change to pathologizing guidelines governing understanding of trans people’s healthcare and legal needs in Indonesia. …”
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A Hybrid Prognostic Approach for Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Lithium-Ion Batteries by Wen-An Yang, Maohua Xiao, Wei Zhou, Yu Guo, Wenhe Liao

“…This study proposes a hybrid prognostic approach that can predict the RUL of degraded lithium-ion batteries using physical laws and data-driven modeling simultaneously. In this hybrid prognostic approach, the relevant vectors obtained with the selective kernel ensemble-based relevance vector machine (RVM) learning algorithm are fitted to the physical degradation model, which is then extrapolated to failure threshold for estimating the RUL of the lithium-ion battery of interest. …”
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The Contributions of Party System to Democratic Development in Africa: A Historical Perspective by Ameen Abdulkadir

“…It is important to bear in mind that most of the electoral systems, laws, institutions and constitutions that govern elections in Africa were inherited from colonialism. …”
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Refugee securitization and the challenges of formal integration: case of Somali refugees in Kenya and Ethiopia by Fred N. Ikanda, Abdirahman A. Muhumad, Jana Kuhnt

“…The article adds a normative empirical dimension to securitization theory by providing a nuanced understanding of the concept as it applies to different refugee groups in similar contexts. …”
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Baranya between the two world wars: Political review by Vajagić Predrag M.

“…With the end of World War I, new states were created in Europe that emerged on the ruins of once powerful empires. Certain issues have arisen between the new states related to the mutual division of border territories. …”
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Ethnonational discourse of migrants in social networks on the example of Tajik and Kyrgyz virtual communities on VK by T. N. Yudina, D. A. Besfamilnyi

“…It has become a social space of ethno-national discourse with its own laws and rules of social interaction, including conflictogenic one. …”
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Cross-border data sharing through the lens of research ethics committee members in sub-Saharan Africa. by Nezerith Cengiz, Siti M Kabanda, Keymanthri Moodley

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>Our results indicated variability in REC members' perceptions, suboptimal awareness of the existence of data protection laws and a unanimously expressed need for REC member training. …”
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BEING AS A SYMBOLIC REALITY: A SOCIOCULTURAL CROSS-SECTION OF THE ANALYSIS by Юлія БРОДЕЦЬКА

“…It is noted that the world cannot be understood exclusively empirically. It is symbols that can explain everything that cannot be explained by the laws of nature. …”
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Development of students' critical thinking as the development of their functional literacy by Vera M. Zhurakovskaya, Sergey V. Krivykh

“…Research methods include methods of theoretical and empirical research. The paper proposes the technique Critical analysis of the text, represented by a new list of questions, the rationale for which is carried out on the basis of 4 laws of logic, the criteria for selecting the content of education, which provide the possibility to develop techniques for the development of critical thinking of students. …”
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Against Futility Judgments for Patients with Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness by William Choi

“…In contrast, futility judgments are made in empirically tenuous confidence in the patient’s inability to survive or recover meaningfully. …”
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Cyborg Adolescents and Digital Data: Examining Education and Revenue Generation in the Digital Lives of Youth through More-than-Human Ethnography by Davood Zahrani, Ali Hashemianfar, Ahmad Mehrshad

“…Adolescents are increasingly aware of the various pathways, laws, principles, and stakeholders involved in this landscape. …”
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