Connectedness and spillovers between African and global Islamic equities: implications for portfolio hedging and investment strategies by Andrew Phiri, Izunna Anyikwa

“…Thus, we examine the spillover and connectedness effects between conventional African and global Islamic equities using the time-varying parameter (TVP-VAR) connectedness approach applied to daily time series spanning 16/05/2013 to 28/02/2024. We also adopted the minimum connectedness portfolio (MCoP) approach to extract multivariate and bivariate optimal portfolio weights for different combinations of African and Islamic equities. …”
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Impacts and challenges of industry 4.0 in manufacturing: a systematic literature review by Tamires Fernanda Barbosa Nunes, Roselaine Ruviaro Zanini, Ariane Ferreira Porto Rosa, Lizandra Garcia Lupi Vergara

“…Additionally, six potential challenges faced by manufacturing in adopting digital transformation were found: (i) management, (ii) government, (iii) implementation, (iv) workforce, (v) operation, and (vi) security. …”
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Microchip Nd:YAG and Nd:YVO4 Lasers Pumped by VHG Wavelength-Stabilized Laser Diode by T. Saiki, A. Tatebayashi

“…We adopted a single-mode, single-wavelength volume holographic grating (VHG) wavelength-stabilized wavelength laser diode (LD) as a pumping LD for an end-pumped microchip Nd:YAG and Nd:YVO4 lasers we developed during CW and pulse operations. …”
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Comprehensive Evaluation and Decision for Goaf Based on Fuzzy Theory in Underground Metal Mine by Rongxing He, Huan Liu, Fengyu Ren, Guanghui Li, Jing Zhang, Yanjun Zhou

“…In this paper, the fuzzy theory was adopted based on the fact that the goaf stability evaluation and handling measure decision were fuzziness. …”
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Atatürk’ün Halkçılık Politikasında Köycülüğün Yeri ve Antalya Halkevi’nin Solak Köyü’nde Yaptığı Örnek Köy Çalışması by Nursel GÜLCÜ

“…Ataturk enacted numerous laws to promote the development of the villages and exerted great efforts for people, particularly villagers, to adopt the innovations. In this regard, Ataturk led the opening of People’s Houses (Community Centers) in 1932 to initiate significant cultural development throughout the country. …”
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Review of Current Strategies to Address Micronutrient Deficiencies (MNDs) in Ghana: A Scoping Review by Jolene Mateko Azagba-Nyako, Charles Tortoe, Paa Toah Akonor, Alice Padi, Jackline Boateng, Richard Otwey

“…Eligibility criteria for inclusion of information from articles and publications were based on report findings on nutrition-related programmes and policies conducted and implemented in Ghana and should have been published between 2000 and 2024. Databases adopted for this scoping review include Google Scholar, PubMed, ScienceDirect, AGORA, Hinari and JSTOR. …”
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Generalized Fefferman-Graham gauge and boundary Weyl structures by Gabriel Arenas-Henriquez, Felipe Diaz, David Rivera-Betancour

“…Recent developments have shown that it is possible to generalize the FG gauge to restore boundary Weyl invariance by adopting the Weyl-Fefferman-Graham gauge. In this paper, we focus on three-dimensional gravity and study the emergence of a boundary Weyl structure when considering the most general AdS boundary conditions introduced by Grumiller and Riegler [1]. …”
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Variable size sampling to support high uniformity confidence in sensor data streams by Hajin Kim, Myeong-Seon Gil, Yang-Sae Moon, Mi-Jung Choi

“…We believe that the proposed UC-KSample is an excellent approach that adopts an advantage of KSample, dynamic sampling over a fixed sampling ratio, while improving the uniformity confidence.…”
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Evolutionary Game Analysis of Firms’ Technological Strategic Choices: A Perspective of the Behavioral Biases by Yingqing Zhang, Ruguo Fan, Ming Luo, Mingman Chen, Jiaqin Sun

“…The corresponding results show that (1) innovation risk is an important factor affecting the technological strategic choices of firms, (2) increasing the intellectual property protection and the patent fee for technology transfer can effectively control the spillover effect of technology, (3) there is a partial U-shaped relationship between the consumers’ price preference and innovation, and (4) the behavioral biases such as reference point dependence, loss aversion, and probability weighting will change the perception of payoff and risk and will eventually induce firms to adopt the innovation strategy.…”
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Parameterless-Growing-SOM and Its Application to a Voice Instruction Learning System by Takashi Kuremoto, Takahito Komoto, Kunikazu Kobayashi, Masanao Obayashi

“…The improved SOM is applied to construct a voice instruction learning system for partner robots adopting a simple reinforcement learning algorithm. …”
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INTERACTIVE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION AS A TOOL FOR TRAINING A COMPETITIVE SPECIALIST by О. Bieliaieva, Т. Skrypnikova, Т. Khmil

“…The main advantages of interactive learning are the ability to: level the contradiction between motivation and stimulation in the learning process, static and dynamic learning; form the future doctors' awareness of the importance and value of various types of communication; simulate professional situations, solving which students can demonstrate the acquired knowledge, abilities and skills in a relaxed and psychologically comfortable atmosphere, which encourages them to actively participate in all stages of an interactive class; solve real cases from medical / dental practice; implement formative assessment; regulate inter-subject relationships in the educational process; develop clinical thinking, the ability to substantiate one's own opinion and the ability to defend one's own position, critically evaluate adopted and propose alternative solutions, teamwork skills, communicative culture, positive motivation, and self-confidence.…”
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The Challenges of Gender Diversity in Boards of Directors: An Australian Study with Global Implications by Suzanne Young, Karen Farquharson, Daswin De Silva, Paul Mather

“…The findings indicate that boards are adopting a social rather than rational approach to board selection. …”
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DESIGN ANALYSIS OF AN AUTOMATIC PHASE SELECTOR by ADEDOTUN O. OWOJORI, ABIODUN M. AKINBOLADE, KAYODE F. AKINGBADE

“…This paper gives a design analysis of an automatic phase selector linking available power supplies, that is; switching between a three-phase public utility supply, as a result of total power outage in the public supply to an alternative secondary supply (in this case a Generator and an Inverter system) and back when power is restored. The design adopts the use of a microcontroller-based system interconnected with other hardware components for proper isolation, switching and visualization of switching conditions. …”
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Feature Selection for Very Short-Term Heavy Rainfall Prediction Using Evolutionary Computation by Jae-Hyun Seo, Yong Hee Lee, Yong-Hyuk Kim

“…Discriminant functions, such as support vector machine (SVM), k-nearest neighbors algorithm (k-NN), and variant k-NN (k-VNN), were adopted in discriminant analysis. We divided our modified AWS data into three parts: the training set, ranging from 2007 to 2008, the validation set, 2009, and the test set, 2010. …”
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Detection of Prosthetic Knee Movement Phases via In-Socket Sensors: A Feasibility Study by Amr M. El-Sayed, Nur Azah Hamzaid, Kenneth Y. S. Tan, Noor Azuan Abu Osman

“…Gait cycle and locomotion movements such as stair ascent and sit to stand were adopted to characterize the validity of the technique. …”
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A Novel Excavation and Construction Method for an Extra-Long Underwater Tunnel in Soft Soils by Jian Wu, Zhifang Zhou, Wenjun Xia, Haixiao Wang, Zhongqiang Fang

“…To investigate the tunnel deformation during excavation, a finite element analysis combined with field monitoring data was adopted, indicating that the magnitude of the tunnel deformation was notably less than those reported from other excavation projects. …”
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Enhancing reading achievement through a timed reading approach: A quasi-experimental study in the Saudi EFL context by Abduljalil Hazaea

“… This study implements a timed reading (TR) approach as a scaffolding teaching and learning method to enhance reading achievement and strategies within the Saudi English as a foreign language (EFL) context. The study adopted TR intervention in which processes of EFL reading are scaffolded with those of getting a driving license. …”
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« J’ai lu votre livre » by Marion Marx

“…Indeed, this long letter, written in French, adopts the form of a true poetic meditation, at least doubly addressed: to Natalie Clifford Barney and, secondly and implicitly, to Sappho. …”
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Argumentation and the “New Oratory”: the staging of the speaker in investor pitches in English by Fiona Rossette-Crake

“…Identified by Aristotle as one of the three types of argument alongside logos and pathos, ethos can be attributed a more prominent role according to the more holistic approach adopted here. In keeping with contemporary discourse analysis theory and enunciative pragmatics, ethos is analysed in terms of the staging of the speaker and the positioning of participants, and hence as a cornerstone of the process of enunciation. …”
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New Operational Matrix via Genocchi Polynomials for Solving Fredholm-Volterra Fractional Integro-Differential Equations by Jian Rong Loh, Chang Phang, Abdulnasir Isah

“…Numerical results show that the Genocchi polynomial approximation adopting the operational matrix of fractional derivative achieves good accuracy comparable to some existing methods. …”
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