Postharvest Storage, Packaging and Handling of Specialty Crops: A Guide for Florida Small Farm Producers by Jonathan Adam Watson, Danielle Treadwell, Steven A. Sargent, Jeffrey K. Brecht, William Pelletier

“…Good postharvest practices establish appropriate cold chains that maintain the correct temperatures, humidity, and respiration rates while also ensuring the safety, sanitation, and quality of the fruits. …”
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A mixed-integer linear programming model for scheduling volunteers in technical support teams in Non-Governmental Organizations by Valdir Soares Silva Neto, Ricardo Lukas de Medeiros França, Keren Karolyne Nóbrega Silva, Luciano Carlos Azevedo da Costa, Hugo Harry F. R. Kramer

“…To solve the problem, a mathematical model is proposed whose objective is to allocate volunteers to tasks for which they have the greatest ability. The model ensures that the technical needs of the team are met, guaranteeing the allocation of specific numbers of volunteers to each role. …”
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Regulations and Guidelines for Chemigation by Haimanote K. Bayabil, Kati W. Migliaccio, Jonathan H. Crane, Teresa Olczyk, Qingren Wang

“…In addition, it is important that the irrigation system is built to allow the injection of chemicals or fertilizers at a known rate and that ensures application uniformity. Knowing the correct concentration of chemicals during chemigation is critical as some chemicals could potentially damage plants. …”
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Regulations and Guidelines for Chemigation by Haimanote K. Bayabil, Kati W. Migliaccio, Jonathan H. Crane, Teresa Olczyk, Qingren Wang

“…In addition, it is important that the irrigation system is built to allow the injection of chemicals or fertilizers at a known rate and that ensures application uniformity. Knowing the correct concentration of chemicals during chemigation is critical as some chemicals could potentially damage plants. …”
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TRUST AND ECONOMIC SATISFACTION AS ANTECEDENTS, AND LOYALTY AS OUTCOME, OF SMALL BUSINESS CUSTOMERS’ COOPERATION AND COORDINATION IN BANKING RELATIONSHIPS by Russell KAMPANI, Pierre MOSTERT, Michelle Caroline VAN DER MERWE

“…Extant literature on business-to-business relationships highlights trust, satisfaction, cooperation, and coordination, regarded as important constructs comprising relationship quality (RQ), as key drivers for ensuring loyalty. However, the interaction between these RQ constructs remain unclear. …”

Financial Literacy and Profitability of Private Enterprises: A Case Study of Hakashenyi SACCO Kabale. by Amanya, Rodgers

“…The study concluded that implementing a good cash management system ensures better control of financial risk and increases the opportunity for profit.…”
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Design and Simulation of a Thermal Heating Unit for a Room Heater. by Wabwire, Jovent Apollo

“…The primary goal is to create an efficient and cost-effective solution that ensures thermal comfort in cold residential environments, even with outdoor temperatures as low as 15 °C, while keeping ventilation and exfiltration losses below 7065 ACH. …”
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Evaluasi Tata Kelola Teknologi Informasi di Dinas Pertanian Gianyar Menggunakan COBIT 2019 by I Nyoman Rai Widartha Kesuma, Irman Hermadi, Yani Nurhadryani

“…Berdasarkan analisis faktor desain, proses yang menjadi prioritas tertinggi atau memiliki skor ≥ 75 adalah MEA03 (Managed Compliance with External Requirements), BAI04 (Managed Availability & Capacity), dan EDM03 (Ensured Risk Optimization).  Hasil penilaian tingkat kapabilitas pada proses MEA03, BAI04 dan EDM03 baru mencapai tingkat kapabilitas level 1 dan Dinas Pertanian Gianyar mengharapkan tercapainya tingkat kapabilitas level 2, sehingga terdapat gap sebesar 1 pada setiap proses tersebut. …”
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AI-assisted super-resolution cosmological simulations IV: An emulator for deterministic realizations by Xiaowen Zhang, Patrick Lachance, Ankita Dasgupta, Rupert A. C. Croft, Tiziana Di Matteo, Yueying Ni, Simeon Bird, Yin Li

“…Validation of reconstructed SR runs from LR simulations requires ensuring that specific statistics of interest are accurately reproduced by comparing SR outputs with target high resolution (HR) runs. …”
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Research for SARIMA and PatchTSMixer Models on the IEA Monthly Statistics Dataset by Hu Yuwei

“…Accurate forecasting is crucial for energy management, policy-making, and ensuring a stable power supply. However, a significant gap exists in comparing the predictive performance of traditional machine learning methods with advanced deep learning models using real-world datasets. …”
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Diabetes Risk Assessment: A Comparative Study of Decision Trees and Ensemble Learning Models by Lei Tianxing

“…DT methodically evaluate various indicators that impact classification outcomes, using sequential decisions to classify each indicator based on the results of previous classifications. This process ensures that all possible combinations of indicators are mapped to a single classification result. …”
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Traditional Songs of Ìlọrin: Enacting Identities, History, and Cultural Memories by Hakeem Olawale

“…The paper argues that given such a diverse ethnic and cultural origins, performance of Ìlọrin traditional songs become a reminder of family histories, origins, political structure, hegemonic influences, myths, legends, Islamization of Ìlọrin, and a way of ensuring harmony and bridging generational gaps among the various groups in a state that is known as the “State of Harmony”. …”
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Integrating artificial intelligence into healthcare systems: opportunities and challenges by Bongs Lainjo

“…To address these concerns, healthcare organizations must promote a culture of accountability, ensuring that healthcare providers remain vigilant about patient data security. …”
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Women’s leadership in Ethiopian higher education: development, contribution, quality and preference by Abebaw Yirga Adamu

“…The results suggest that enhancing women leadership development requires providing training, mentoring and other opportunities specifically aimed at advancing women to senior leadership positions, and ensuring sustainability of women leadership development programs. …”
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Ebaco-R: Refinement of organizational commitment bases scale by Leandro Trigueiro-Fernandes, Marcos Luiz Lins Filho, Anderson Luiz Rezende Mól, Miguel Eduardo Moreno Añez

“…Finally, it was verified that the refined model, EBACO-R, presented a convergent validity, ensuring a greater suitability of the scale to the theory. …”
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AFM-DViT: A framework for IoT-driven medical image analysis by Jiacheng Yang

“…However, current models face limitations in handling diverse datasets and ensuring privacy across distributed systems. To address these challenges, we propose the AFM-DViT model, which integrates adaptive federated learning with Vision Transformer, significantly enhancing diagnostic accuracy and efficiency in IoT-based settings. …”
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Gradient formulae for probability functions depending on a heterogenous family of constraints by van Ackooij, Wim, Pérez-Aros, Pedro

“…Such functions appear in probability or chance constraints ensuring that the degree of satisfaction is sufficiently high. …”
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Fostering Inclusion in Digital Marketplace: Vistas into the Online Shopping Experiences of Consumers with Visual Impairment in India by Greeshma Benny Thadikaran, Sandeep Kumar Singh

“…This study helps marketers and other stakeholders to understand the online shopping experiences of CWV and ensures consumer well-being and inclusion. …”
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Non-oscillatory central schemes for the Saint-Venant system by Rooholah Abedian

“…Both of these steps are designed to preserve the C-property, which ensures the exact preservation of the quiescent flow solution. …”
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WORKPLACE GENDER INEQUALITY: ASSESSING INTERSECTIONAL BARRIERS EXPERIENCED BY WOMEN OF COLOUR IN REACHING UPPER MANAGEMENT POSITIONS IN THE WORKPLACE by IFEOMA CLARE OKORONTA, DYMYTRO KYLYMNYUK

“…The study recommends the implementation and enforcement of robust diversity and inclusion policies, development and implementation of programs that provide equal opportunities for career advancement and leadership development for women of colour, ensuring transparent hiring and promotion processes to prevent bias and favouritism. …”
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