RECONCILIATION AS A MISSIONAL PARADIGM FOR POST-1994 SOUTH AFRICA

“…The following research questions are posed: In a country that is statistically over 75 per cent Christian, why are life, actions, behaviour, morality and integrity so far removed from the Christian scriptural principles of the Bible, as the rule book and guidance for life? …”
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Delving into Secondary School EFL Teachers’ Practices Facilitated by Task-Based Language Instruction by Syla Rrita

“…The results show that this pedagogical transformation necessitates material adaptation, as well as careful task design, planning and preparation. As per the examination procedure, it is evident that task-based teaching is not created with examination in mind. …”
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Improved Genetic Algorithm to Solve the Scheduling Problem of College English Courses by Jing Xu

“…Firstly, a variable-length decimal coding scheme satisfying the same course that can be scheduled at different times, different classrooms, and different teaching weeks per week is proposed, which fully considers the flexibility of classrooms and time arrangements of the course and makes the scheduling problem more reasonable. …”
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Research on Forest Carbon Sequestration Based on FSC Model and DeepAR Algorithm by Yin-di Xu

“…This paper clarifies that forest carbon sequestration is mainly influenced by three aspects: human, climate, and nonclimatic physical factors, constructs a model for estimating the carbon sequestration rate of forest ecosystems based on forest age and the logistic growth equation, and combines human behaviour and climate influencing factors to make comprehensive corrections to the carbon sequestration rate of forest ecosystems per unit area. A model for calculating the carbon sequestration rate over time in a forest system was developed, which combined with the DeepAR Algorithm to obtain carbon sequestration. …”
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Multifocal motor neuropathy. A clinical case and literature review by O. Laucius, V. Danielius, T. Vanagas, P. Valiukevičius

“…The worldwide frequency of this disease is estimated at 1 person per 100,000 people. MMN is diagnosed when there are characteristic clinical signs, electroneuromyography test results support the clinical findings, and other possible diagnoses are excluded. …”
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Decoupling Relationship Between Water Resources Utilization and Economic Development in Henan Province Based on Water Footprint-Extended LMDI Model by LU Qiuyu

“…Aiming at the related problems of water resources constraining economic development in Henan Province,this paper constructs the water footprint-extended LMDI model,decomposes the decoupling driving factors into four decoupling factors,and studies the decoupling relationship between water resources utilization and economic development in Henan Province from 2004 to 2018.The results show that:In terms of the possession and self-sufficiency rate of total per capital water footprint,the overall water shortage in Henan Province has been alleviated,but it is still in a state of shortage;In terms of decoupling state,the overall decoupling of Henan Province is in a good statel,the decoupling state of agricultural water is relatively stable,and the hydrological year has an impact on the agricultural virtual water consumption and decoupling state;In terms of decoupling factor decomposition,the technological decoupling factor contributes to the decoupling in Henan Province,the industrial structure and scale economy are the main promoting and inhibiting factors of decoupling,respectively,and the change of population driving factor has no obvious inhibiting effect on decoupling in Henan Province.Therefore,it is necessary to improve the utilization efficiency of water resources,the repetition rate of industrial water use,and improve the agricultural irrigation water-saving technology in Henan Province.…”
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Retail commodity detection method based on location learnable visual center mechanism by Xiaohua LYU, Mingchen WEI, Libo LIU

“…To address the problem of low detection accuracy caused by the difficulty in effectively capturing significant and diversified feature information for packaging deformation and overlap products, a location learnable visual center (LLVC) mechanism was designed to improve YOLOX-s, achieving higher detection accuracy.To effectively deal with product packaging deformation and overlap phenomena, firstly, global context information was captured through a lightweight multi-layer perceptron to help the model better understand spatial information in product features.Secondly, the local feature representation ability was enhanced by the designed LLVC and the spatial information was used to allocate learnable weights for local features to increase the attention of discriminative local features.Finally, the intersection over union (IoU) loss function was replaced with centered intersection over union (CIoU) and power parameters were introduced on this basis to effectively reduce the missed detection rate.Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves an accuracy of 91.3% on the retail product checkout (RPC) dataset, which is 2.2% higher than YOLOX-s and better than current mainstream lightweight object detection algorithms.At the same time, frame per second (FPS) is 97 frame/s, and the model size is 9.48 MB.It can accurately and in real-time detect retail products in scenarios where computing resources are limited.…”
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Case study: Review of nursing management and it’s implementation in the Ar-Rahman Room Islamic Hospital Purwokerto by Susanti Indri Heri, Sumarni Tri, Alifiya Innazza Nur

“…After implementation, there was a significant improvement in therapeutic communication and handover meeting, which successfully reduced the time from 55.5 minutes to 30 minutes per session. The prioritized problems found were the ineffective implementation of pre and post conference, lack of therapeutic communication, and inefficient handover meeting process. …”
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Measurement System of Gear Dynamic Transmission Error based on Optical Encoder by Liang Zhihao, Zhao Kegang, Liu Yanwei, Ye Jie

“…The simulation results show that in order to ensure the measurement accuracy for a gear system with a maximum speed of 1 500 r/min,the resolution of an optical encoder should be not less than 200 pulses per revolution and the time resolution of a data acquisition card should be not lower than 3. 3 × 10^-9 s. …”
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ENVIRONMENTAL PERCEPTIONS OF CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS FROM VILLA PEHUENIA, NEUQUÉN by Miguel Angel Prieto, Luciano Javier Sánchez, María Cecilia Navarro, Adela Maria Bernardis

“…In a second stage, a systematization of the data and subsequent preparation of a map per school that characterizes the city was carried out. …”
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RETRACTED: The economic case for blend fuels: A cost-benefit analysis in the European context by Cemil Koyunoğlu

“…This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief.The journal was alerted to issues within this article including the presence of the phrase ''As of my knowledge cutoff in 2021,'' indicative of ChatGPT output, the unknown provenance of fourteen case studies, and a nonsensical Figure 1, as detailed here: https://pubpeer.com/publications/80DA33E23C3638EC6CDB6E0389C3B2.As per journal policy, the author was contacted and asked to provide an explanation to these concerns. …”
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EFFECTIVENESS OF CLINICALLY SUPERVISED EXERCISE PROGRAM ASCOMPARED TO HOME BASED EXERCISE PROGRAM ON PAIN ANDDISABILITY IN KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS by Wahaj Sheikh

“…Sample size: I have taken 30 subjects per groups. Interventions: Both groups performed same amount of exercise (25 minutes for four consecutive days about 4 weeks. …”
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Development of a New Multi-step Iteration Scheme for Solving Non-Linear Models with Complex Polynomiography by Amanullah Soomro, Amir Naseem, Sania Qureshi, Nasr Al Din Ide

“…Two numerical methods of second-and sixth-order convergence are carefully merged to obtain a hybrid multi-step numerical method with twelfth-order convergence while using seven function evaluations per iteration, resulting in the efficiency index of about 1.4262. …”
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The Effects of Inventory Control on Construction Companies: A Case Study of Kavuma Investments Limited. by Atwongyeire, Pleasure

“…Chapter two covered a written discussion of related literature search. It was as per the study and reflected the objectives of the research about the effects of inventory control on construction companies in Uganda, a case study of Kavuma Investments Ltd. …”
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An Unusual Case of Cystic Fibrosis Associated Pneumocystis jiroveci Pneumonia in an Infant by Ravinder Kaur, Priyanka Katariya, Megh Singh Dhakad, Bhanu Mehra, Urmila Jhamb, A. P. Dubey

“…Empirical antibiotic regimen comprising ceftriaxone and azithromycin was initiated that was switched to meropenem as per antimicrobial susceptibility report, but the patient did not improve. …”
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Pattern of sedentary behavior in brazilian adolescents by Drielly Elvira Ramos, Maria Raquel de Oliveira Bueno, Lidyane Zambrin Vignadelli, André Oliveira Werneck, Enio Ricardo Vaz Ronque, Manoel João Coelho-E-Silva, Marcelo Romanzini

“…Adolescents spent about 10 hours per day in sedentary behavior. Total sedentary time in bouts was 50% (278 from 535 minutes) in short bouts. …”
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Application of Ultrasound to Selectively Localize Nanodroplets for Targeted Imaging and Therapy by Paul A. Dayton, Shukui Zhao, Susannah H. Bloch, Pat Schumann, Kim Penrose, Terry O. Matsunaga, Reena Zutshi, Alexander Doinikov, Katherine W. Ferrara

“…Within a vessel with a diameter on the order of hundreds of micrometers or larger, particle velocity on the order of hundreds of micrometers per second is produced and the dominant mechanism for droplet displacement is shown to be bulk fluid streaming. …”
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Legal and Safety Aspects of the Application of Automated and Autonomous Vehicles in the Republic of Croatia by Melita Milenković, Davor Sumpor, Sandro Tokić

“…This oversight highlights Croatia’s lack of preparedness to integrate highly automated and autonomous vehicles, which are crucial for safety and environmental performance as per European Union standards. This paper aims to clarify the safety and legal recommendations for the trafficking of these vehicles in Croatia. …”
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Higher risk of hydraulic dysfunction and carbohydrate depletion of declining Larix principis-rupprechtii trees by Huanhuan Song, Tianyu Zhong, Jianxiao Zhu, Tao Yan

“…Additionally, the comparable Huber value, intrinsic water-use efficiency, and leaf mass per area between healthy and declining trees suggest a relatively profligate water-use strategy by declining trees. …”
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A Comparative Study of Electric Load Curve Changes in an Urban Low-Voltage Substation in Spain during the Economic Crisis (2008–2013) by Pedro M. Lara-Santillán, Montserrat Mendoza-Villena, L. Alfredo Fernández-Jiménez, Mario Mañana-Canteli

“…The EC was compared using representative curves per time period (precrisis and crisis). These representative curves were obtained after a computational process, which was based on a search for days with similar curves to the curve of a determined (base) date. …”
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