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  <title>Volume 5, Issue 1</title>
  <volume>5</volume>
  <number>1</number>
  <year>2025</year>
  <date>2025-06-30</date>
  <url>https://ijtns.ibupress.com/issue/volume-5-issue-1</url>
  <journal>
    <title>International Journal of Technical and Natural Sciences</title>
    <issn>2671-3500</issn>
    <eissn>2671-3519</eissn>
    <publisher>Balkan University Press</publisher>
    <url>https://ijtns.ibupress.com</url>
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    <article>
      <title>Analysis of the Acquisition of Health Alliance Group Inc by Reliance Digital Health Limited</title>
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        <title>Volume 5, Issue 1</title>
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        <title>Research Article</title>
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      <year>2025</year>
      <volume>5</volume>
      <content><![CDATA[<p><span class="fontstyle0">Reliance Digital Health Ltd (RDHL), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), has acquired a 45% stake in Health Alliance Group Inc. (HAGI) for $10 million in a strategic action to strengthen its position in the global digital healthcare landscape. This acquisition is a major step in increasing RDHL’s operational effectiveness and broadening its reach, especially in underdeveloped areas like the US and India. Because of HAGI’s superior telemedicine, diagnostic, and preventive care capabilities, RDHL has the chance to incorporate cutting-edge technologies into its service offerings and meet the growing demand for easily accessible, technologically advanced healthcare solutions. The aim of this study is to investigate the strategic significance of the RDHL–HAGI partnership. The research applies an investigative methodology based on secondary data collected from industry reports, corporate announcements, financial disclosures, and media articles. A fusion of qualitative and quantitative techniques, including trend analysis and textual review, is used to evaluate the acquisition’s potential impact. The research findings suggest that this strategic alliance could significantly contribute to closing healthcare gaps in access and promoting a more efficient, inclusive, and technology-enabled healthcare ecosystem. Additionally, the partnership is predicted to improve RDHL’s competitive positioning in the rapidly changing global digital health sector</span></p>]]></content>
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<p> </p>
<p><span class="fontstyle5">Analysis of the Acquisition of Health Alliance Group Inc by Reliance Digital Health Limited</span></p>
<p> </p>
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<p> </p>
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          <first_name>Anjali</first_name>
          <last_name>Gupta</last_name>
          <affiliation>School of Business Management &amp; Commerce, MVN University, Palwal-121105, Haryana, India</affiliation>
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          <first_name>Netra Pal</first_name>
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          <affiliation>School of Business Management &amp; Commerce, MVN University, Palwal-121105, Haryana, India</affiliation>
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        <title>International Journal of Technical and Natural Sciences</title>
        <issn>2671-3500</issn>
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      <title>Determination of Hematological and Biochemical Parameters in Blood Samples from Oncological Patients in Kosovo</title>
      <slug>determination-of-hematological-and-biochemical-parameters-in-blood-samples-from-oncological-patients-in-kosovo</slug>
      <parent>
        <title>Volume 5, Issue 1</title>
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        <title>Research Article</title>
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      <year>2025</year>
      <volume>5</volume>
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        <title>Volume 5, Issue 1</title>
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        <title>Research Article</title>
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      <year>2025</year>
      <volume>5</volume>
      <content><![CDATA[<p><span class="fontstyle0">The interest of analysts in applying analytical algorithms to investigate students’ performance data with a view to enhancing their knowledge is growing among data miners. The key factor of this trend is ample multimedia data generated by educational institutions with the usage of technologies, tools of e-learning, and other digital platforms for conducting online courses. Educators could utilize these data to examine and understand students’ learning behaviors by using data mining techniques to forecast student achievement, among other things. In data mining models, the difficult task is to select effective strategies that will generate satisfactory forecast accuracy. To achieve such goals, this article uses six hybrid feature selection (FS) algorithms such as hybrid PSO, hybrid GA, filter wrap, wrapper embedded, ensemble based, and filter embedded and five algorithms such as “Random Forest (RF)”, “Decision Tree (DT)”, “Logistic Regression (LR)”, “K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN)”, and “Support Vector Machine” (SVM) to forecast the performance of students and to make comparison of performance of five classification processes in the perspective of six FS models. Based on the analysis of the given data set, it is concluded that the performance of classification models improved when 20 important features were part of the data in place of all 30 attributes. Further reduction in the number of attributes did not result in further improvement in the performance of classification models in predicting students’ success or failure.</span></p>]]></content>
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<p><span class="fontstyle0">Encryption methods can protect data; this approach highlights the limitations of cloud services, rendering them unreliable and inefficient in their offerings. All this makes data owners, especially enterprises, have doubts when their data storage is not under their control, which often occurs in the cloud.</span></p>
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<p><span class="fontstyle0">storing enterprise data and the approach to service provider reliability. The topic brings in key points for implementation, management, and security that enterprises should consider when selecting a cloud technology provider. Through field studies, this research paper demonstrates how the provider of these services fulfils these key points.</span></p>]]></content>
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