Student and Staff Views on Inclusion and Inclusive Education in a Global South and a Global North Higher Education Institution by Acquilina Wafula Nawire, Sally Musungu, Vasiliki Kioupi, Felister Nzuve, George Giannopoulos

“…Results are presented in the following areas: (1) capacity building for staff; (2) support and reporting services for all; (3) class sizes; and (4) modes of course delivery. Findings reveal that implementation of inclusion and inclusive education is still a challenge for both HEIs. …”
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A Multistep Look-Ahead Deadlock Avoidance Policy for Automated Manufacturing Systems by Chao Gu, Zhiwu Li, Abdulrahman Al-Ahmari

“…It is shown that the development of an optimal DAP for the considered class of Petri nets is also of polynomial complexity. …”
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The Same Conversational Page? by Adrienne Jankens, Nicole Guinot Varty, Anna Lindner, Linda Jimenez, Anita Mixon, Carly Braxton, K.M. Begian-Lewis

“… Through surveys and focus group conversations, we studied students' experiences with instruction in writing-intensive (WI) courses at our urban R1 university and their awareness of and attitudes about linguistic and rhetorical diversity. …”
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Predicting Tunnel Squeezing Using Multiclass Support Vector Machines by Yang Sun, Xianda Feng, Lingqiang Yang

“…The proposed model was validated using 8-fold cross validation, and the average error percentage was approximately 11.87%. …”
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Peningkatan Motivasi Belajar melalui Strategi Ice Breaking pada Anak Usia 4-5 Tahun di PAUD Baitul Ilmi Sadar Sriwijaya by Ari Sawitri, Septiani Selly Susanti

“…The subjects of this research were children aged 4-5 years in Class B at PAUD Baitul Ilmi for the 2023/2024 academic year, totaling 20 students. …”
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CSTN: A cross-region crop mapping method integrating self-training and contrastive domain adaptation by Shuwen Peng, Liqiang Zhang, Rongchang Xie, Ying Qu

“…Here, we introduce a novel Contrastive Self-Training Network (CSTN), integrating a self-training strategy and contrastive domain adaptation (CDA) for cross-region crop mapping. CSTN uses pseudo-labels in the target region generated by the self-training strategy to assist supervised learning, and aligns features across regions using class-aware prototypes. …”
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A Photocatalytic Active Adsorbent for Gas Cleaning in a Fixed Bed Reactor by Peter Pucher, Rabah Azouani, Andrei Kanaev, Gernot Krammer

“…Our approach is based on a coarse granular, UV-A light transparent, and highly porous adsorbent that can be used in a simple fixed bed reactor. …”
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Experimental Investigations on Pullout Behavior of HDPE Geogrid under Static and Dynamic Loading by Zheng Zuo, Guangqing Yang, He Wang, Zhijie Wang

“…Pullout tests were conducted on HDPE geogrid reinforced coarse sand under normal static loading (60–300 kPa), dynamic loading with different amplitudes (20, 40, and 60 kPa), and different frequencies (2, 4, and 6 Hz) by using the newly developed pullout apparatus. …”
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Theoretical framework for measuring cloud effective supersaturation fluctuations with an advanced optical system by Y. Kuang, J. Tao, H. Xu, L. Liu, P. Liu, W. Xu, W. Xu, Y. Sun, C. Zhao

“…Although currently limited to clouds with supersaturations below <span class="inline-formula">∼</span> 0.2 % due to small scattering signals from sub-100 nm aerosols, advancements in optical sensors could extend its applicability. …”
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Initiations in the Burmese Ritual Landscape by Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière

“…In this paper, I develop comparative analysis of a class of ritual, namely that of initiation, in three components of Burmese religion: Buddhist monasticism, Buddhist esotericism, and spirit worship. …”
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Mango Fruit Fly, Marula Fruit Fly, Ceratitis cosyra (Walker) (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae) by Gary J. Steck

“…The fly is a serious pest in smallholder and commercial mango across sub-Saharan Africa and has been recorded in Ivory Coast, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, where it is more destructive than either Mediterranean fruit fly (Medfly; Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann)) or the Natal fruit fly (Ceratitis rosa Karsch) (Malio 1979; Labuschagne et al. 1996; Javaid 1979; De Lima 1979; Rendell et al. 1995; Lux et al. 1998). …”
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Fuzzy Triangular Aggregation Operators by Ulrich Florian Simo, Henri Gwét

“…We present a new class of fuzzy aggregation operators that we call fuzzy triangular aggregation operators. …”
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"M t'studa p'm k ter vida k nha mãe tem". Género e Educação em Cabo Verde by Celeste Fortes

“…It argues that these biographical histories test the need for constructing a research agenda on gender whose central task must approach the research of different situational and contextualized strategic use of different native idioms - gender, class, ethnicity, etc. - which demand the adoption of pluralizing looks on what being a "Cape Verdean woman" means. …”
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Identification of the discrepancy bone-teeth in children between 5 and 11 years with oral breathing by Clotilde de la Caridad Mora Pérez, Raúl López Fernández, Ramón Ahmed Pérez García, Amaray Calzada Bandomo, Ileana Pérez Rodríguez, María de los Santos Haces Yanes

“…<strong>Method:</strong> Analytical, cross-sectional design, developed in the period January-April, 2007. …”
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Antibody-Mediated Rejection: Pathogenesis, Prevention, Treatment, and Outcomes by Olivia R. Blume, Sarah E. Yost, Bruce Kaplan

“…It is important to have an understanding of human-leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing including well-designed studies to determine anti-MHC-class-I-related chain A (MICA) and antibody rejection pathogenesis. …”
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Emerging organic electrode materials for sustainable batteries by P. M. Hari Prasad, G. Malavika, Anuraj Pillai, Sachu Sadan, Zeena S. Pillai

“…Despite the presence of several classes of OEMs, such as conducting polymers, 2D and 3D metal-organic frameworks, organolithium derivatives, 2D covalent organic frameworks, aromatic heterocyclic imides, and viologen derivatives, since their introduction in the 1960s, carbonyl-based molecules have maintained low discharge potentials and stable charging/discharging properties. …”
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Sensor selection scheme in activity recognition based on hierarchical feature reduction by Yu Wei, Libin Jiao, Jie Sha, Jixin Ma, Anton Umek, Anton Kos

“…It divides the process of feature reduction into two stages: first, redundant sensors are removed with one-order sequential forward selection based on mutual information; second, feature selection strategy that maximizing class-relevance is integrated with low-dimensional mapping so that the set of features will be further compressed. …”
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Jesus' affection towards children and Matthew's tale of two kings by A. G. van Aarde

“…From a perspective of the social stratification of first-century Herodian Palestine, this article argues that it is possible to consider these children as part of the expendable class. Neither Mark nor its parallel texts in the other Gospels refer to parents bringing these children to Jesus. …”
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Measuring. Monitoring. Management. Control by B.V. Chuvykin, I.A. Dolgova, G.V. Milovzorov

“…Examples of recovery algorithms for three classes of measuring pulse signals are given. Conclusions. …”

Ensemble of feature augmented convolutional neural network and deep autoencoder for efficient detection of network attacks by Selvakumar B, Sivaanandh M, Muneeswaran K, Lakshmanan B

“…Also, the proposed method improved the detection rate of minority attack classes like U2R in NSLKDD and Hearbleed in CICIDS2017.…”
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