BIMODAL VOTERS ACCREDITATION SYSTEM (BVAS) MACHINES AND ELECTIONS INTEGRITY IN NIGERIA: AN APPRAISAL OF THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTION IN KOGI STATE by Ahmed Audu YUSUFU, Mahmud Gana IDREES

“…Based on this conclusion, the paper recommends among others that, INEC should live up to its name by being independent and ensure it conducts elections without fear or favour and in accordance with the provisions of the electoral law. …”
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Information Accessibility in the Form of Braille by Samuel Dolphin, Maren Downing, Mia Cirrincione, Adam Samuta, Kevin Leite, Kimberly Noble, Brian Walsh

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PMEPA1 Serves as a Prognostic Biomarker and Correlates with Immune Infiltrates in Cervical Cancer by Jing Li, Wei-min Kong

“…Univariate and multivariate analysis showed that PMEPA1 expression was an independent predictor for overall survival in CC patients. …”
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Problematic issues of applying the category of “guilt” to legal entities by Yu. M. Zhornokui

“…It was concluded that the issue of the possibility of guilt in a legal entity within the limits of civil liability is determined by several factors of both an objective and subjective nature, namely: a) various mechanisms of forming the will of participants in civil legal relations; b) lack of understanding of the manifestation of the legal entity's own guilt as an independent participant in civil relations, or the guilt of members of its bodies, participants or employees; c) the absence of a direct indication in the current Civil Code of Ukraine on the existence of guilt in a legal entity, since the code (Article 96) contains a norm only about its responsibility. …”
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MHC Class I Molecules Exacerbate Viral Infection by Disrupting Type I Interferon Signaling by Simo Xia, Yijie Tao, Likun Cui, Yizhi Yu, Sheng Xu

“…In this study, we found a reduced viral load in MHC I-deficient macrophages that was independent of type I IFN production. Mechanically, MHC I mediated viral suppression by inhibiting the type I IFN signaling pathway, which depends on SHP2. …”
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MORF: Multi-view oblique random forest for hepatotoxicity prediction by Binsheng Sui, Qingzhuo He, Bowei Yan, Kunhong Liu, Yong Xu, Song He, Xiaochen Bo

“…Based on the consideration that the hepatotoxicity data involve multiple types of features, this paper proposes a multi-view oblique random forest (MORF) for hepatotoxicity prediction by considering each type of feature as an independent view. The Householder transformation is employed to get the inclined cut hyperplane in each view. …”
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The effect of positive interspike interval correlations on neuronal information transmission by Sven Blankenburg, Benjamin Lindner

“…We compare two integrate-and-fire models with threshold noise that differ solely in their interspike interval (ISI) correlations: the renewal model generates independent ISIs, whereas the non-renewal model exhibits positive correlations between adjacent ISIs. …”
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Authenticity Detection of Black Rice by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Support Vector Data Description by Hui Chen, Chao Tan, Zan Lin

“…., a specificity of 100% and a sensitivity of 94.2% on the independent test set with tight boundary. It indicates that SVDD combined with NIR is feasible and effective for authenticity detection of black rice.…”
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Comparison Of Epidural Analgesia Vs Intraoperative Peri-Articular Injection For Pain Management Following Total Knee Arthroplasty by Rahman Rasool Akhtar, Riaz Ahmed, Waqas Ali, Hira Waris

“…Postoperative pain on VAS score after six hours and 24 hours and side effects on the first postoperative day were assessed between both groups. Independent samples T-test was used for comparison of variables keeping P value significant at 0.05. …”
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Local Void Fractions and Bubble Velocity in Vertical Air-Water Two-Phase Flows Measured by Needle-Contact Capacitance Probe by Shanfang Huang, Xiangxiang Wu, Benyang Zong, Yugao Ma, Xiaoyu Guo, Dong Wang

“…The theoretical analyses and experiments show that the needle-contact capacitance probe can reliably measure void fractions with the readings almost independent of temperature and salinity for the experimental conditions. …”
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Effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence Multimedia Courseware in Classroom Teaching Application by Yu Chen, Zhong Chen

“…Through flexible and interactive course interaction, students are more convenient and more independent to learn but also reduce the teacher’s time cost and greatly play the advantages of distance education, and the English teaching mode of artificial intelligence multimedia courseware is very popular with students. …”
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TROIS POÈMES DE STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ: A DEBUSSY-RAVEL COMPARISON by Attila FODOR

“…Even the dreamy, noble and playful juvenile poems commonly put on music by the two composers in these cycles (Soupir and Placet futile), are treated with a great care in order to preserve their inner musicality. Thus, the quasi-independent vocal line, with a pronounced recitative character is carried by an almost autonomous musical accompaniment, which oscillates between figurative and expressive states. …”
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Asymmetry of the economic development of the Eurasian Economic Union: analysis and recommendations by A. A. Urunov, A. R. Vagapova, S. I. Shirinova

“…The initial data for the study were the official sources of the statistical authorities of the EAEU countries, the Interstate Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States as well as publications and scientific articles related to this topic. …”
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Medical and social domains of ageing research in Singapore (2008–2018): a scoping review by Chen Hee Tam, Elaine Qiao Ying Ho, Sumali Subhashini Hewage, Shilpa Tyagi, Gerald Choon Huat Koh

“…Methods: Using relevant search terms, articles were extracted from multiple databases and then screened and reviewed for eligibility and inclusion by independent reviewers. Data such as article title, authors, year of publication, name of journal, type of journal, study design and the kind of data used were charted from the included articles for evidence synthesis. …”
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Wear - Sediment Quantity Correlation Model for Preventive Maintenance Scheduling of a Hydroelectric Power Plant by Kleber Zhañay, Cristian Leiva, Erika Pilataxi, William Quitiaquez

“…The data analysis detailed is the least squares method where the independent variables considered are power and suspended particles with their nephelometric unit of measurement of turbidity in parts per million (PPM). …”
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Does Dopamine Depletion Trigger a Spreader Lexical-Semantic Activation in Parkinson’s Disease? Evidence from a Study Based on Word Fluency Tasks by S. Zabberoni, G. A. Carlesimo, A. Peppe, C. Caltagirone, A. Costa

“…Our results show that semantic spreading was not altered in the PD sample examined; this suggests that in early PD the functioning of the semantic system is relatively independent from the activity of dopamine brain networks.…”
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A Hierarchical Reputation Evidence Decision System in VANETs by Yang Yang, Zhipeng Gao, Xuesong Qiu, Qian Liu, Yuwen Hao, Jingchen Zheng

“…In VANETs, users are rational, independent, and selfish. Stimulation-based reputation management system is critical for them to avoid selfishness and promote network performance in large-scale VANETs. …”
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Don't die like me: Which proteins are responsible for the selective neuronal vulnerability within the substantia nigra? by Simone Steinbach, Mariana Molina, Lea T Grinberg, Luisa Aring, Annika Guntermann, Katrin Marcus, Helmut Heinsen, Renata E Paraizo Leite, Caroline May

“…Following, their proteome was analyzed by data independent acquisition mass spectrometry. The samples were analysed donor-specifically and not pooled for this purpose. …”
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Gerris spinolae Lethierry and Severin (Hemiptera: Gerridae) and Brachydeutera longipes Hendel (Diptera: Ephydridae): Two Effective Insect Bioindicators to Monitor Pollution in Some... by Arijit Pal, Devashish Chandra Sinha, Neelkamal Rastogi

“…Regression analysis between each individual-independent water quality variable and insect abundance demonstrated a significant positive correlation in each case between B. longipes abundance and BOD, phosphate, free CO2, and algae dry weight, while a significant negative correlation of each of these variables was found with Gerris spinolae abundance. …”
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Work-Related Psychosocial Factors and Mental Health Problems Associated with Musculoskeletal Pain in Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study by Tiina Freimann, Mati Pääsuke, Eda Merisalu

“…Binary logistic regression was used to assess the associations between dependent and independent variables. Results. Analysis was based on 404 nurses (45% of the hospital’s nursing population). …”
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