COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC RELATIONS STRATEGIES IN LOKOJA AND ANKPA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS, KOGI STATE, NIGERIA by JIBRIN UMAR OMACHI, EZEKIEL S. ASEMAH, DANIEL O. EKHAREAFO

“…Recommendations are also made for local government areas to adopt proactive public relations strategies that prioritize community engagement and transparency. …”
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Marketing, advertising, and branding in Fortnite: how do brands and companies connect today to audiences through the metaverse? by Pavel Sidorenko-Bautista, Bárbara Castillo-Abdul, José-María Herranz-de-la-Casa, María Abellán-Hernández

“…This study, focusing on Fortnite as a case study, explores the connections between brands’ strategic practices and immersive gaming in the metaverse. The research adopts a qualitative methodological approach to analyze the typology of advertising and marketing efforts undertaken by brands and companies through disruptive digital platforms in the metaverse. …”
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Automatic Recognition of Financial Instruments Based on Anisotropic Partial Differential Equations by Wenfu Pan, Li Chen, Ruxing Zhang

“…The automatic tax invoice recognition system adopts a network structured tax invoice recognition model, which eliminates the cumbersome steps of character decomposition and character classification in traditional OCR character recognition. …”
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Application of Nanoparticles in Diagnosis and Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer by Juzheng Yuan, Yang Wang, Yang Cao, Shuqiang Yue, Xiao Li

“…Among them, the observation group consisted of nanotube artificial tubes, 16 males and 14 females, while the control group adopted nylon tube, male 18 and female 12. The patient was diagnosed by abdominal CT, and the patient’s demographic data and basic clinical data were recorded at the same time. …”
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Parameter Optimization of Constant Pressure Grouting Technology for Borehole Sealing with Inorganic Noncondensable Material in Tectonic Coalbed of South China by Zhao Pengtao, Wang Haiqiao, Wang Long, Wang Xinlei, Ma Hongyu

“…The effective seepage radius of the inorganic slurry gradually increases with a rising grouting pressure, and the slurry seepage range in the sandstone section is broader than that in the mudstone section. Adopting the constant pressure grouting technology with the slurry, the average drainage concentration of boreholes in Puxi coal mine is 51.5%, and the average gas flow rate is 0.005 m3/min, which are 1.35 times and 1.67 times than those with the cement grouting method.…”
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The politics of gating (A response to Private Security and Public Space by Manzi and Smith-Bowers) by Rowland Atkinson

“…I argue here, in return, that there are several problems with the positions they adopt, and that these should be considered if we are to effectively discuss how planning practice and housing systems should work with or against these new trends in the built environment. …”
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Decompression of a Dentigerous Cyst Treatment in Mixed Dentition: A Case Report with 5 Years Follow-Up by Antoine Berberi, Georges Aad, Marise Nassar, Gwenaëlle Maalouf, Nabih Nader

“…Dentigerous cysts present a high prevalence in children as they can be caused by the eruption of permanent teeth or the infection of deciduous ones. The adopted treatment modalities include enucleation (cystectomy), marsupialization, and decompression. …”
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CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYEE RETENTION IN THE BENUE STATE CIVIL SERVICE by HUNDU IORFA RAYMOND, A.A. HANGEIOR, O. AULE

“… The paper examined the effect of career development on employee retention in the Benue State Civil Service. This study adopted survey research design, the sample size for the study was 200 across the Benue State Civil Service. …”
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An Analytical Method of Coulomb’s Active Earth Pressure Acting on Cohesion-Less Backfill Subject to Local Surcharge in Cold Regions by Li Liu, Zhen Yang, Pan Zhou, Hongwei Yang

“…Herein, the simplified equivalent moment of surcharge is adopted on the premise of maintaining Coulomb’s earth pressure assumptions. …”
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The Existence of the Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) Bondowoso, 1962-2019 by Dewi Salindri, Ratna Endang Widuatie, Wana Arta

“…The ethnic Chinese population in Bondowoso has successfully adopted the local language, facilitating better relationships within the community. …”
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Frequency Synchronization Algorithms for MIMO-OFDM Systems with Periodic Preambles by Jian Sun, Fudong Li, Cheng-Xiang Wang, Xuemin Hong, Dongfeng Yuan

“…When cyclic shift delay is applied to periodic preambles, MLEs can adopt a unique structure which employs diversity and correlation calculation in the estimator. …”
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An Ontology-Based GIS for Genomic Data Management of Rumen Microbes by Saber Jelokhani-Niaraki, Mojtaba Tahmoorespur, Zarrin Minuchehr, Mohammad Reza Nassiri

“…The application uses a linear referencing technique as one of the GIS functionalities to represent genes as linear events on the genome layer, where users can define/change the attributes of genes in an event table and interactively see the gene events on a genome layer. Our application adopted ontology to portray and store genomic data in a semantic framework, which facilitates data-sharing among biology domains, applications, and experts. …”
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Research on Gas Exploration Shock Wave Spread Law via One-Way Bifurcation Pipeline by Zhi-wei Jia, Bo Li, Sheng-ming Xu

“…In order to research on gas exploration shock wave spread law via a one-way bifurcation pipeline, the gas exploration pipeline experimental system and numerical calculation model were established. By adopting the comparative analysis of experiments and numerical modeling, it conducted researches on the attenuation and shunt characteristics of the gas exploration shock wave via the one-way bifurcation pipeline and obtained the computational formulas for shock wave attenuation coefficients of branch pipelines and straight pipelines and shock wave shunt coefficients of branch pipelines. …”
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WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT AND MANUFACTURING PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIA by Adedeji Daniel Gbadebo

“…Because this has implication for future performance, the paper offers, amongst others that to enhance the profitability firms in Nigeria, there is the need to adopt more financial technologies can streamline working capital management processes, such as automating inventory and receivables tracking. …”
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The roles of a peer-led collaborative learning approach in Ethiopian secondary schools by Feyisa Mulisa, Simeret Kassahun Mekonnen

“…More than a decade ago, along with this growing concern, peer-led collaborative learning (PLCL) approach has been adopted and stuck into Ethiopian educational systems. …”
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Aspirations, Apprehensions and the Availability of Career Guidance among Dental Interns in Kerala, India by PS Sajitha, Susan Thomas, Vivek Narayan

“…The stratified random sampling method was adopted, and the population proportion ratio was used to collect the samples. …”
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Localized and Excimer Triplet Electronic States of Naphthalene Dimers: A Computational Study by Lara Martínez-Fernández, Roberto Improta

“…In the former, the spin density is delocalized over the two monomers, adopting a face-to-face arrangement with a short inter-molecular distance. …”
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PROFITABILITY AND TURNOVER APPRAISAL OF LISTED DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA by Terry Keme Zuode Odogu, Amapamo Stephen Koroye

“…Appropriately, the ex-post facto/casual comparative research design was adopted to obtain relevant and desirable secondary data from the Annual Bulletins of the Central Bank of Nigeria and E-payment Statistics Platforms from 2012 to 2020, to empirically appraise the profitability and turnover of all the 15 Nigerian deposit money banks quoted as at January 1, 2021, in the light of the non-bank led theory. …”
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Uncovering barriers to bilharzia prevention communication in Ugu district, South Africa by Lauren Dyll-Myklebust, Duduzile Zwane

“…The opinions that are voiced by the participants underscore the value of adopting a participatory communication approach to addressing a health problem. …”
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Short-Term Origin-Destination Based Metro Flow Prediction with Probabilistic Model Selection Approach by Xiaoqing Dai, Lijun Sun, Yanyan Xu

“…We then propose a data driven framework for short-term metro passenger flow prediction with the ability to utilize both spatial and temporal related information. The approach adopts two forecasts as basic models and then uses a probabilistic model selection method, random forest classification, to combine the two outputs to achieve a better forecast. …”
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