FINANCIAL INCLUSION, INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY, AND POVERTY REDUCTION IN NIGERIA by Rashidat Sumbola Akande, Hauwah K. K. AbdulKareem, Aminat Olayinka Olohunlana

“…The paper is anchored on the Capability Approach and adopts the Human Development Index (HDI) as a proxy for poverty reduction as it measures basic human capabilities. …”
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Towards Complexity and Dynamics: A Bibliometric-Qualitative Review of Network Research in Construction by Dongping Cao, Shiting Shao

“…Future research can be enriched by investigating the multiple types of dynamic interproject relationships, adopting state-of-the-art methodologies for network data collection and triangulation, and employing multiple SNA constructs and inferential statistical methods to reveal how complex networks coevolve and interact with actors’ behaviors as well as project and organizational outcomes.…”
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Analysis and Research on the Rehabilitation Effect of Physical Exercise on College Students’ Mental Depression Based on Multidimensional Data Mining by Wen Zou

“…In order to explore the physical exercise and psychological changes of college students, this study adopts the method of multidimensional data mining, taking 23,146 undergraduates from a university in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, as the research object. …”
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Beyond Distribution: Critique of Spatial Justice Theories—Case Study of Shanghai’s 15-Minute City by Shengxi Xin, Qingyuan Guo

“…The concept of the 15-minute city is increasingly being adopted globally as a pathway towards the vision of a just city. …”
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A radix‐8 modulo 2n multiplier using area and power‐optimized hard multiple generator by Naveen Kr. Kabra, Zuber M. Patel

“…When the radix‐8 booth‐encoded technique is adopted to design this kind of multipliers, the hard multiple generator is crucial in terms of area, power, and delay. …”
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Downregulation of TET1 Promotes Glioma Cell Proliferation and Invasion by Targeting Wnt/β-Catenin Pathway by Jianwen Ji, Qiuxiang You, Jidong Zhang, Yutao Wang, Jing Cheng, Xiangyun Huang, Yundong Zhang

“…In this paper, we conducted the experiments to prove the critical roles TET1 played in glioma and explored the downstream targets of TET1 in order to provide a novel theoretical basis for clinical glioma therapy. RT-qPCR was adopted to detect the RNA level of TET1 and β-catenin; Western blot was taken to determine the expression of proteins. …”
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DIGITALIZED ACCOUNTING PRACTICES AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF MDAs IN NIGERIA: MODERATING EFFECT OF INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY by Abdulrahman KADIR, Mubaraq Sanni

“…In Nigeria, government agencies are increasingly adopting digitalized accounting practices to enhance efficiency and reduce corruption. …”
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Pluripotency Factors on Their Lineage Move by Clair E. Weidgang, Thomas Seufferlein, Alexander Kleger, Martin Mueller

“…Thereby, subsets of pluripotency-maintaining factors have been shown to adopt new roles during lineage specification and have been globally defined towards neuroectodermal and mesendodermal sets of embryonic stem cell genes. …”
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Dual Embedding Transformer Network for Hyperspectral Unmixing by Huadong Yang, Chengbi Zhang

“…A cross-feature fusion mechanism is adopted to achieve multiscale spatial-spectral feature decoupling. …”
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FINANCIAL SUPPORT AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF SELECTED FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY FIRMS IN LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA by Ayodeji Gbenga Bamidele, Edafe Bawa Dogo

“…This study thus investigates the impact of financial support, a business incubation strategy on competitive advantage of fintech firms in Lagos State, Nigeria. This study adopts a survey research design to collect primary data from a population of 200 owners/managers of registered fintech firms in Lagos State, Nigeria. …”
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A Comparison of Simplified Modelling Approaches for Performance Assessment of Piles Subjected to Lateral Spreading of Liquefied Ground by Yung-Yen Ko, Yu-Ying Lin

“…One of the pile failure cases caused by liquefaction-induced lateral spreading in the 1995 Kobe Earthquake was adopted for case study. The analyzed pile response to flow displacement and flow pressure was compared with the field observations, and the validity and capability of both approaches were accordingly discussed. …”
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An Intelligent FPGA Based Anti-Sweating System for Bed Sore Prevention in a Clinical Environment by K. S. Jaichandar, Sampath Kumar, Chew kweeTiang, Siew Fong, Stewart Tai

“…If left untreated, the skin can break open and become infected. Currently adopted methods for bed sores prevention include: use of two hourly flip chat for repositioning patient or use of air fluidized beds. …”
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Automatic Design of Robot Swarms under Concurrent Design Criteria: A Study Based on Iterated F‐Race by David Garzón Ramos, Federico Pagnozzi, Thomas Stützle, Mauro Birattari

“…Traditionally, research in automatic design has focused on missions specified by a single design criterion, adopting methods based on single‐objective optimization algorithms. …”
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Inclusion and Well-Being Among National and Immigrant University Students in Portugal: Avenues for Participatory Research by Maria Odília Teixeira, Márcia Laranjeira

“…In higher education, this requires institutions to implement inclusive educational policies, promote supportive cultures, and adopt practices that promote change, development, and individual and social well-being. …”
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Prediction of Passive Torque on Human Shoulder Joint Based on BPANN by Shuyang Li, Paolo Dario, Zhibin Song

“…Since active effort of a patient is changeable for the conscious or unconscious behavior, it is considered to be more feasible to determine the distributions of the passive resistance of the patient’s joints versus the joint angle in advance, which can be adopted to assess the active behavior of patients combined with the measurement of robotic sensors. …”
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Three-Dimensional Seismic Response Analysis of Zhubi Reef in the South China Sea by Xin Bao, Jingbo Liu, Shutao Li, Fei Wang

“…The artificial boundaries of fluid and solid domains are adopted to simulate the wave radiation and absorption of the semi-infinite seabed and the infinite seawater layer. …”
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High-tech industry development: selection of technology parks operation model elements in the field of high technology by V. V. Degtyareva, M. S. Seregin

“…Based on the rating results, the leaders among technology parks have been identified, and their behavioral models adopted as reference metrics for the model to be developed. …”
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A Modified Bat Algorithm with Conjugate Gradient Method for Global Optimization by Huda I. Ahmed, Eman T. Hamed, Hamsa Th. Saeed Chilmeran

“…The newly proposed approach, namely, the directional bat algorithm (CG-BAT), has been then tested using several standard and nonstandard benchmarks from the CEC’2005 benchmark suite with five other algorithms and has been then tested using nonparametric statistical tests and the statistical test results show the superiority of the directional bat algorithm, and also we have adopted the performance profiles given by Dolan and More which show the superiority of the new algorithm (CG-BAT).…”
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Public Speech Anxiety among Medical Residency Trainees in Riyadh by Taha Alhazmi, Aisha Khalid Alraddadi, Hussa Ibrahim Alabdulkarim, Norah Abdullah Al-Rowais

“… # Method A cross-sectional survey was conducted over a sample of 203 medical residents in Riyadh. The study adopted the questionnaire as a data collection tool. …”
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Manipulating Ratio Spectra for the Spectrophotometric Analysis of Diclofenac Sodium and Pantoprazole Sodium in Laboratory Mixtures and Tablet Formulation by Nejal M. Bhatt, Vijay D. Chavada, Mallika Sanyal, Pranav S. Shrivastav

“…The developed methods provided simple resolution of this binary combination from laboratory mixtures and pharmaceutical preparations and can be conveniently adopted for routine quality control analysis.…”
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