THE AFRICAN UNION AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT IN AFRICA: A STUDY OF THE DARFUR CRISIS by Agaba Halidu

“…The functionalism theory of international relations was adopted and argued that African Union intervened in the Darfur crisis because the nature of the crisis demanded international collaboration and support which the Sudanese Government did not had the capacity to manage the crisis. …”
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A Novel Power-Driven Grey Model with Whale Optimization Algorithm and Its Application in Forecasting the Residential Energy Consumption in China by Peng Zhang, Xin Ma, Kun She

“…To promote the prediction accuracy of the power-driven grey model, whale optimization algorithm is adopted to seek for the optimal value of the nonlinear parameter. …”
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Contextual Awareness Service of Internet of Things User Interaction Mode in Intelligent Environment by Lingling Song

“…This article first collected a large amount of data through the literature survey method, which laid a sufficient theoretical foundation for the subsequent research; then, using smart sensors, smart interaction technology, and context awareness methods is employed to design and build a context-aware service system based on the user interaction modality of the Internet of Things; in order to test the performance and effect of the situational awareness system, take the elderly home care behavior as the research object, collect the 28-day home behavior of the elderly as sample data, and divide it into 7-day data, 14-day data, 21-day data, and 28-day data, by adopting rule pruning demand reasoning algorithm and evidence theory algorithm to reason about the service demand of the elderly. …”
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Financial Futures Prediction Using Fuzzy Rough Set and Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique by Shangkun Deng, Yingke Zhu, Ruijie Liu, Wanyu Xu

“…Then, the FRS- (fuzzy rough set-) based method, as an efficient tool for analyzing complex and nonlinear information with high noise and uncertainty of financial time series, is adopted for the price change multiclassification of the CSI300 futures. …”
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An Action Research on Improving Parents’ Digital Advertising Literacy Skills by Ahmet Ayhan, Hediye Aydoğan

“…For this purpose, the action research model, which is one of the qualitative research methods, was adopted in the study and a 12-hour digital-based training was conducted with the participation of seven parents with children between the ages of 7 and 13 living in Antalya. …”
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The Yoruba News as a Political Tool and Avenue for Cultural Revival by Abidemi Bolarinwa

“…Published weekly, Obasa – the Editor and Proprietor – successfully edited ̣ The Yorubà News ́ for over two decades from 1924 – 1945 when he died. Adopting the Diffusion of Innovations theory, this study examines the form and content of the newspaper. …”
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NIGERIAN AIRFORCE STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT AND CAPACITY IN THE FOURTH REPUBLIC, 2019-2023 by EFEFIONG ASUQUO EDET, INAH EMMANUEL MKPE, AKPANKE BETIANG JOSEPH

“…Whereas extant literature on the Nigerian Airforce has documented the history and assessed the challenges of the force, this paper contributes to the literature by examining the trajectory of the force, in terms of strategic development and capacity, during President Buhari’s administration (2015-2023) which was characterized by humongous spending on the security sector amid alarming insecurity. The paper adopted the documentary design. Data was collected from secondary sources and analyzed using the descriptive method. …”
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Transdisciplinarity: an imperative for information behaviour research by Sarah Polkinghorne, Paul Bowell, Lisa M. Given

“…Transdisciplinary approaches present information science, generally, with a timely, multifaceted opportunity to adopt research designs that centre community, government, and/or industry stakeholders, which aligns well with the practice-oriented, interdisciplinary nature of the field. …”
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Mastering the TPACK framework: Innovative approaches by mathematics teachers by Amelia Defrianti Putri, Dadang Juandi, Al Jupri, Turmudi, Sitti Busyrah Muchsin

“…Methodologically, the research adopted a survey-based approach, with data collection techniques encompassing literature reviews, interviews, and questionnaires. …”
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Redefining the role of Learning Development practitioners by Steve Briggs

“…In this opinion piece, I propose there is now a need to adopt greater specificity in how the role of LD practitioners is defined. …”
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Ijegbe and Luse Performances, and the Dialects of Collectivized Tragedy and Ideology among the Ilaje by Stephen Ola Ajimisan

“…Few forays have been undertaken into Biripo, but no known research has been carried out Ijegbe, Luse and collectivised tragedy and ideology among the people. The essay adopts Richard Schechner’s performance theory which sees performance as representation of self and advocates the revolutionary departure from the confinement of theatrical enactments to the theatre. …”
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INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC SECTOR ACCOUNTING STANDARD (IPSAS 24): ITS EFFECT ON PUBLIC SECTOR BUDGET PERFORMANCE IN KWARA STATE, NIGERIA by Salaudeen Ibrahim, Abdul-Hakeem Shuaib, Mubaraq Sanni

“…The survey method of research design was adopted and a well-structured questionnaire designed in four-point Likert-Scale was administered to respondents. …”
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The Role of Digital Feedback on the Self-Esteem of Digital Natives by Şakir Güler, Murat Sezgin

“…The participants of this study include 310 high school students in Isparta, Turkey and the study adopts Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale (RSES), Digital Feedback Form (DFF), and Personal Information Form (PIF) in order to demonstrate the role of digital feedback on the self-esteem of digital natives. …”
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Optimization and Design of Hammerheads and Fenders on Scrap Metal Shredders Based on Improved Genetic Algorithm by He Tian, Guoqiang Wang, Kangkang Sun, Zeren Chen, Chuliang Yan, Da Cui

“…To solve this problem, an improved genetic algorithm (IGA) combined with the global optimization characteristics of genetic algorithm (GA) and the local optimal solution of simulated annealing algorithm (SA) is proposed in this paper, which adopts SA in the process of selecting subpopulations. …”
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Extraction of Soil Nutrients Using Mehlich-3 Reagent for Acid-Mineral Soils of Florida by Rao Mylavarapu, Tom Obreza, Kelly Morgan, George Hochmuth, Vimala Nair, Alan Wright

“…During the 1970s, Florida along with several other southeastern US states adopted Mehlich-1 (M1) as the official extractant for acidic soils. …”
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Towards Sustainable Campus Development: A Case Study of Klaipeda University by Anne Olga, Mikalauskas Ignas

“…This case study offers a valuable model for other regional institutions aiming to adopt similar sustainable practices and technologies, aligning with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).…”
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Fast Spectral Clustering via Efficient Multilayer Anchor Graph by Yiwei Wei, Chao Niu, Dejun Liu, Peinan Ren

“…Against this backdrop, a novel algorithm named fast spectral clustering via efficient multilayer anchor graph (FEMAG) is proposed to resolve the accuracy and time-consuming trade-off problem. First, FEMAG adopts superpixel principal component analysis (SuperPCA) to extract the low-dimensional features of HSIs. …”
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A Lingual Agnostic Information Retrieval System by Umar Bn Abdullahi, Godspower Osaretin Ekuobase

“…Information retrieval system (IRS) remains a fundamental cyber-application. Consequently, adopting the design science research methodology, we introduced a lingual agnostic IRS architecture designed on the principle of transparency on user language detection, information translations, and caching. …”
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The evolution of ASEAN's language policies: A diachronic analysis of official documents and website. by Chen Zhang, Ronghui Zhao, Yan Huang

“…We employed the Wayback Machine to trace the development of the ASEAN official website and adopted a corpus-based approach, utilizing tools such as AntConc and Sketch Engine, to analyze the Chairman's Statements of the ASEAN Summit (CSAS). …”
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IMPLICATIONS OF XENOPHOBIC ATTACKS ON NIGERIANS AND NIGERIA-SOUTH AFRICA DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS: A REVIEW OF RE-CURRENT ISSUES by ABDULRASHEED ABDULYAKEEN, MUHAMMAD RABIU

“…Using secondary sources of data collection in our quest to adequately reflect the issues involved in this study, interdisciplinary approach to historical research was adopted using content analysis. Finding of this study revealed that massive evacuation of foreign businesses from South Africa have increase the level of poverty and unemployment in South Africa. …”
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