The Role of Open and Distance Learning (ODL) in Promoting Access to Women's Education in Northwestern Nigeria: A Case Study of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) by Shehu Usman Adamu, Bala Kwata Waziri, Adewale Adesina, Babangida Iro

“…Faculties of Agric, Arts, Education Law and Management had enrolment figures of 134 (0.52%), 634 (2.53%), 3,921 (15.4%8), 98 (0.38%), 2,954 (11.66%) respectively while Faculty of Social Sciences had 3,311 (13.07%). Generally, Open and Distance Learning has given women tremendous opportunities to higher education in the region considering that over twenty-five thousand women registered for various programmes using the ODL during the period under review. …”
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Research Reports on Assessment of Handwriting Ability in Children Aged 6-12 Years by Using Smart Handwriting Analysis Recognition Platform by HAN Ping, YANG Wenyi, XIE Yiyang, XIE Qiurong, WANG Jiawei, YANG Caihong, ZHAN Shiqi, YAN Zhaoshan, ZHANG Yu

“…Writing outcome accuracy explained only 39.1% of the variation in overall writing performance, and writing outcome accuracy, time-on-paper ratio, writing control, and writing integration together explained 71.8% of the variation in overall writing performance.ConclusionAt the primary level, girls generally outperform boys in writing ability, but sex and dominant hand still do not predict overall performance in writing. …”
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The Role of Open and Distance Learning (ODL) in Promoting Access to Women's Education in Northwestern Nigeria: A Case Study of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) by Shehu Usman Adamu, Bala Kwata Waziri, Adewale Adesina, Babangida Iro

“…Faculties of Agric, Arts, Education Law and Management had enrolment figures of 134 (0.52%), 634 (2.53%), 3,921 (15.4%8), 98 (0.38%), 2,954 (11.66%) respectively while Faculty of Social Sciences had 3,311 (13.07%). Generally, Open and Distance Learning has given women tremendous opportunities to higher education in the region considering that over twenty-five thousand women registered for various programmes using the ODL during the period under review. …”
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Network Meta-Analysis of Factors Influencing the Carbon Sink Capacity of Urban Park Green Spaces by Yutong JI, Tianyi LIN, Lian LIU, Xiong LI

“…The influence of the external environment on carbon sink capacity is generally weaker but still requires attention in specific scenarios. …”
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Maternal and neonatal complications of pregnant women with bipolar disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysisResearch in context by Damien Etchecopar-Etchart, Masoud Rahmati, Dong Keon Yon, Lee Smith, Laurent Boyer, Guillaume Fond

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戶外冒險教育課程對大學生心理賦能之 成效研究 Effects of Integrating Psychological Empowerment Into an Outdoor Adventure Education Curriculum for College Students... by 蕭如軒 Ru-Syuan Hsia, 吳崇旗 Chung-Chi Wu

“…Data were collected and analyzed using a qualitative mixed-methods approach with a modified version of Spreitzer’s (1995) Psychological Empowerment Scale to determine differences in psychological empowerment after participation in Outward Bound training programs. For this scale, generalized and task-specific assessments are used to measure an individual’s overall feelings about life and generalized beliefs about empowerment. …”
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大學教師學術發表影響力之影響因素 Factors Influencing Publication Impact of Faculty by 郭玲玲 Ling-Ling Kueh, 許清芳 Ching-Fan Sheu

“…Although full professors generally achieved a higher publication impact, assistant professors from specific departments also achieved excellent performance. …”
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Association between traffic-related air pollution and risk of outpatient visits for dry eye disease in a megacity along the subtropical coast in South China by Fan Cao, Yue Chen, Yan-Chao Gui, Zi-Yue Fu, Zheng Lyu, Kou Liu, Li-Ming Tao, Zhi-Fan Chen, Hai-Feng Pan, Zheng-Xuan Jiang, Qian-Li Meng

“…A time-series study using a quasi-Poisson generalized linear model (GLM) combined with distributed lag non-linear model (DLNM) was adopted. …”
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ReluformerN: Lightweight High-Low Frequency Enhanced for Hyperspectral Agricultural Lancover Classification by LIU Yi, ZHANG Yanjun

“…It was found that after high-frequency feature extraction, similar features were generally clustered together, but the spacing between different features was small, and there were also some features with overlapping situations. …”
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Path and Practice of Gap Management in National Parks: A Comparison Between China and the US and Inspirations Therefrom by Yun MA, Siyuan HE

“…The research highlights key similarities and differences between the two countries in the aforesaid aspects, and proposes policy recommendations for optimizing gap management in China’s national parks.ResultsIn China, the concept of “gap” in land planning generally refers to small areas within designated zones that do not align with the intended function, such as plots scattering in ecological protection, agricultural, and urban development zones. …”
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Détection de différents rétrovirus chez des primates non-humains infectés par STLV-1 ou SFV et pathologie viro-induite by Jocelyn Turpin, Sandrine Alais, Ambroise Marçais, Olivier Hermine, Réjane Rua, Antoine Gessain, Romain Lacoste, Renaud Mahieux

“…Il est communément établi que l'ADN proviral de SFV peut être détecté par PCR dans les cellules du sang circulant et dans la salive, tandis que celui de STLV-1 est généralement recherché uniquement dans les cellules mononucléées du sang périphérique. …”
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Scaling and intermittent properties of oceanic and atmospheric <i>p</i>CO₂ time series and their difference in a turbulence framework by K. Robache, F. G. Schmitt, Y. Huang, Y. Huang

“…By using empirical mode decomposition of the time series, together with generalized Hilbert spectral analysis, the intermittency of the time series was considered in the multifractal framework. …”
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Lightweight Apple Leaf Disease Detection Algorithm Based on Improved YOLOv8 by LUO Youlu, PAN Yonghao, XIA Shunxing, TAO Youzhi

“…In addition, to assess the model's generalization ability, a stratified sampling method was used, selecting 20% of the images from the dataset as the test set. …”
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Pathways Through Which Green Exposure Type Influences Cardiovascular Diseases Mortality in Shanghai, China by Jianzhong HUANG, Yanting XU, Lan WANG, Zhouqian HE

“…In contrast, streets with a higher per capita green space show lower levels of physical activity, a trend attributed to their location on the urban fringe area, where park accessibility, green space quality, and safety are generally lower. Additionally, building density, road density, and land-use mix emerge as direct predictors of CVDs mortality. …”
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Dense Nursery Stock Detecting and Counting Based on UAV Aerial Images and Improved LSC-CNN by PENG Xiaodan, CHEN Fengjun, ZHU Xueyan, CAI Jiawei, GU Mengmeng

“…These results indicate that the improved LSC-CNN model achieves high counting accuracy and exhibits strong generalization ability.[Conclusions]The improved LSC-CNN model integrated the advantages of point supervision learning from density estimation methods and the generation of target bounding boxes from detection methods.These improvements demonstrate the enhanced performance of the improved LSC-CNN model in terms of accuracy, precision, and reliability in detecting and counting trees. …”
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L’aqueduc de l’Yzeron : nouvelles données sur le double siphon de Craponne (Métropole de Lyon) by David Baldassari

“…Their dimensions are generally around 14.40 m high and 12.80 cm wide. The depth is more variable and ranges from 0.25 to 0.79 m. …”
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Field intercomparison of ice nucleation measurements: the Fifth International Workshop on Ice Nucleation Phase 3 (FIN-03) by P. J. DeMott, J. A. Mirrielees, J. A. Mirrielees, S. S. Petters, S. S. Petters, S. S. Petters, D. J. Cziczo, D. J. Cziczo, M. D. Petters, M. D. Petters, M. D. Petters, H. G. Bingemer, T. C. J. Hill, K. Froyd, K. Froyd, K. Froyd, S. Garimella, S. Garimella, A. G. Hallar, A. G. Hallar, E. J. T. Levin, E. J. T. Levin, I. B. McCubbin, I. B. McCubbin, A. E. Perring, A. E. Perring, A. E. Perring, C. N. Rapp, T. Schiebel, T. Schiebel, J. Schrod, K. J. Suski, K. J. Suski, D. Weber, D. Weber, M. J. Wolf, M. J. Wolf, M. Zawadowicz, M. Zawadowicz, J. Zenker, J. Zenker, O. Möhler, S. D. Brooks

“…</p> <p>INP activity in the immersion-freezing mode was generally found to be an order of magnitude or more, making it more efficient than in the deposition regime at 95 %–99 % water relative humidity, although this limited data set should be augmented in future efforts.…”
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Screening 215 Lentil Genotypes under Salinity Stress During the Seedling Stage in Greenhouse Conditions by Ahmad Nezami, jafar Nabati, Mohammad Kafi, Elahe Boroumand Rezazadeh

“…Genotypes of the cluster sixth, including MLC25, MLC47, MLC64, and MLC77, had the highest values in all studied traits, including survival percentage and growth stage, plant height, branches number per plant, leaf survival percentage, shoot fresh and dry weights, relative water content, and potassium concentration, while they had the lowest values in the percentage of shed leaves, sodium concentration, and the sodium to potassium ratio. Conclusion: Generally, genotypes MLC25, MLC47, MLC64, and MLC77 had the highest values for all studied traits, including survival percentage, growth stage, plant height, the number of lateral branches, the percentage of remaining leaves, fresh and dry weights of shoot, tissue water content, and potassium concentration, while they had the lowest percentage of leaf shedding, sodium concentration, and the Na/K ratio. …”
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Extremal Results on <i>ℓ</i>-Connected Graphs or Pancyclic Graphs Based on Wiener-Type Indices by Jing Zeng, Hechao Liu, Lihua You

“…Then, we use the Wiener-type indices of graph <i>G</i>, the Wiener-type indices of complement graph <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mover><mi>G</mi><mo>¯</mo></mover></semantics></math></inline-formula> with minimum degree <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>δ</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>G</mi><mo>)</mo><mo>≥</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> or <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>δ</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>G</mi><mo>)</mo><mo>≥</mo><mn>3</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> to give some sufficient conditions for connected graphs to be pancyclic. Our results generalize some existing results of several papers.…”
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La flore sauvage du boulevard Dr Henri-Henrot à Reims/Durocortorum : approche carpologique de l’environnement du site et des productions de denrées végétales by Véronique Matterne, Clémence Pagnoux

“…This last category is highly diversified in this case, contrary to what is generally observable for other ancient period sites. …”
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