Rare Objects and the Rhapsodic World of Yoruba Elite Art Collectors: Preliminary Notes by Aderonke Adesola Adesanya

“…While I examined both public and private archives, I found the private archives particularly those in the cities in southwestern Nigeria to be surprisingly rich in objects that are rare, new, and sometimes with unusual subject matter. …”
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Perspectives on the adoption of black-soldier fly larvae for animal feed among livestock farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa by Dieu-Merci Akonkwa Nyamuhirwa, Shiferaw Feleke, Paul-Martin Dontsop Nguezet, Dioukou Sissoko, Bokar Moussa, Abel-Gautier Kouakou, Seydou Zakari, Tahirou Abdoulaye, Victor Manyong

“…This article assesses livestock farmers' actual and potential adoption rates of BSFL and determinants of their adoption decisions.MethodsIn this paper, we used the treatment effect framework approach on data collected from 1,885 fish, poultry, and pig smallholder farmers in five cities of four West and Central African countries, including Kinshasa and Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Accra in Ghana, Bamako in Mali, and Niamey in Niger.Results and discussionThe results show that about 20 percent of surveyed farmers are aware of BSFL as a protein source in animal feed, and the actual adoption rate of BSFL is four percent. …”
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Development of Optimal Tilt Angle Models of a Photovoltaic Module for Maximum Power Production: Ethiopia by Ahunim Abebe Ashetehe, Belachew Bantyirga Gessesse, Fekadu Shewarega

“…The monthly average daily global horizontal solar radiation for a total of 44 cities -32 for training and 12 for testing were obtained from the National Aeronautical and Space Administration database, and algorithms were developed and implemented using MATLAB and R programming software to obtain optimum tilt angle and regression models. …”
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Determination of Carbon Footprint for Local Administrations: A Case Study for Ümraniye Municipality by Betül Hande GÜRSOY HAKSEVENLER, G. Nur Çelik Onat, Begüm Akpinar, Tuğba Bedel

“…The fact that global warming originates mostly from urbanization and cities imposes serious responsibilities for local governments. …”
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Prediction of PM2.5 via precursor method using meteorological parameters by Naeem Sadiq, Zaheer Uddin

“…The model was used for both the cities of Lahore and Karachi. The Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) value for Karachi was less than 18 and for Lahore, it was 39. …”
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An urban expressway forwarding scheme for cognitive Internet of vehicles by Jing Wang, Huyin Zhang, Sheng Hao, Chuhao Fu

“…The Internet of vehicles is an essential component for building smart cities that can improve traffic safety and provide multimedia entertainment services. …”
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A grounded theory based kano model to develop age-friendly housing retrofit strategies for older people in China by Erxin Tu, Ying Zhou

“…These findings offer a basis for optimizing AFH retrofit subsidy policies for older adults with varying physical abilities and for cities at different economic levels.…”
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Fine Sieving of Atmospheric Particles in a Collected Air Sample Using Oil Electrophoresis by Xinyue Li, Siyu Xu, Maosheng Yao

“…Using atmospheric samples, which were collected from different cities, in addition to soil and road dust samples, we tested this system under different conditions and found that the “iSCAPE’d” particles moved rapidly at varying velocities and in two opposite directions. …”
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‘Archeology’ of Hidden Values of Underutilized Historic Industrial Sites in Context of Urban Regeneration and Nature-Based Solutions by Indre Grazuleviciute-Vileniske, Diana Zmejauskaite

“…Today, cities and their heritage function under so-called BANI (Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear, and Incomprehensible) conditions. …”
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Short-Term Inbound and Outbound Passenger Flow Prediction for New Metro Stations Based on Clustering and Deep Learning by Zihe Wang, Yongsheng Zhang, Enjian Yao, Yue Wang, Juncheng Li, Jiantao He

“…The rapid expansion of metro networks, e.g., in many cities of China, continuously introduces the operation of new stations every year. …”
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Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie by Iria Gonçalves

“…Grain was grown everywhere, but this didn't stop times of scarcity and famine, both in the countryside and in the cities. While the latter had other means of responding to these crises and these phenomena have been better studied there, we barely know how rural people reacted to such adversities. …”
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A phylogenetic epidemiology approach to predicting the establishment of multi-host plant pests by Shannon Colleen Lynch, Edeli Reyes-Gonzalez, Emily L. Bossard, Karen S. Alarcon, Natalie L. R. Love, Allan D. Hollander, Beatriz E. Nobua-Behrmann, Gregory S. Gilbert

“…We applied this phyloEpi model to predict infestation risk in California using weather data and complete tree inventories from 9262 1-km2 grids in 170 cities. Regions in the state predicted with low likelihood of infestation were confirmed by independent monitoring. …”
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Noncompliance with Ocular Hypertensive Treatment in Patients with Primary Open Angle Glaucoma among the Arab Population in Israel: A Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study by Muhannad Masoud, Adi Sharabi-Nov, Joseph Pikkel

“…Ophthalmologic HMO clinics, located in 3 Arab cities in the center of Israel. Participants. 400 Arab participants (197 men, 203 women) undergoing routine clinical care were recruited. …”
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Investigation and Comparison of Some Laboratories in Terms of Occupational Health and Safety by ELMERI Observation Method by Orkun Dalyan, Mehmet Pişkin, Ömer Faruk Öztürk, Nuray Özkaya

“…In the study, a survey was conducted for three laboratories in three different cities using the checklist of the relevant ministry. …”
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RAM-MEN: Robust authentication mechanism for IoT-enabled edge networks by Muhammad Tanveer, Saud Alhajaj Aldossari

“…The rapid expansion of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) and the Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized technology by enabling real-time data processing at the network edge, which is essential for applications such as autonomous vehicles and smart cities. With the advent of 6G networks, which promise ultra-fast speeds, vast connectivity, and low-latency communication, MEC-IoT systems are becoming more powerful but also face significant security challenges. …”
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Prevalence of Hypertension in Akwa Ibom State, South-South Nigeria: Rural versus Urban Communities Study by Effiong Ekong Akpan, Udeme E. Ekrikpo, Aniema I. A. Udo, Bassey Edet Bassey

“…This was a cross-sectional study of urban and rural communities of Akwa Ibom State for the prevalence of hypertension and its predictors. Two urban cities and two rural communities were randomly selected from the three senatorial districts of the state. …”
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DQN-based energy-efficient routing algorithm in software-defined data centers by Zan Yao, Ying Wang, Xuesong Qiu

“…With the rapid development of data centers in smart cities, how to reduce energy consumption and how to raise economic benefits and network performance are becoming an important research subject. …”
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Airspace closures due to reentering space objects by Ewan Wright, Aaron Boley, Michael Byers

“…This rate rises to 26% for larger but still busy areas of airspace, such as that found in the northeastern United States, northern Europe, or around major cities in the Asia-Pacific region. For a given reentry, the collision risk in the underlying airspace increases with the air traffic density. …”
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Analysis of Coupled Coordination and Driving Factors of Urbanization, Ecosystem Services, and Human Well-Being in the High and Coarse Sediment Yield in the Middle Yellow River by Hong Cao, Qiuchen Zhu, Hua Bai, Hongzhou He, Chunli Liu

“…The ecological and social problems brought about by China’s rapid urbanization process threaten sustainable development. Taking the cities with high and coarse sediment yield in the middle reaches of the Yellow River as the research objects, this study constructed a complex analytical framework composed of urbanization, ecosystem service value (ESV), and human well-being (HBW) subsystems. …”
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Factors Driving Social Capital Participation in Urban Green Development: A Case Study on Green Renovation of Old Residential Communities Under Urban Renewal in China by Guoshuai Sun, Hengfu Zhang, Jiao Feng

“…The renovation of old residential communities within the context of urban renewal is becoming a focal point in the development of Chinese cities. To promote green development in the renovation of old residential communities in China, this study introduces the collaborative governance mechanism of government–social capital cooperation and identifies the factors influencing social capital participation in green development. …”
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