Heterogeneity in the Preferences of Potential Users of Automated Transit Network (ATN) by Ardeshir Kohandel Shirazi, Ingmar Andreasson, Farshid Afshar, Ashkan Kohandel Shirazi, Hamidreza Mokhtarian

“…Despite the potential hypothesis bias and the status quo bias, the results captured the directionality and relative importance of the attributes of interest.…”
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Religion Behind Bars: Faith-based Programs in the Rehabilitation of Offenders in the Medium B Westville Correctional Center, Durban by Sultan Khan

“…It is in this context that this article reviews religious practices and beliefs among male offenders and its role in rehabilitating their deviant behavior so that they may self-actualize to become good citizens upon release in the South African society. …”
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The Essence of the Prohibition of Tender Rigging from a Business Competition Law Perspective by Dave David Tedjokusumo, Lucianus Budi Kagramanto, Endang Prasetyawati, Krisnadi Nasution

“…Results of the Research: The essence of the prohibition on bid rigging from a business competition law perspective can actually be observed in Article 22 of Law no. 5/1999, Per. …”
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AnomLite: Efficient binary and multiclass video anomaly detection by Anna K. Zvereva, Mariam Kaprielova, Andrey Grabovoy

“…The initial layers of MobileNetV2 are employed for efficient spatial feature extraction, capturing low-to-mid-level features such as edges and textures, while the last hidden state of an LSTM processes temporal dependencies to identify patterns indicative of anomalies. …”
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Stroke Subtype Clustering by Multifractal Bayesian Denoising with Fuzzy C Means and K-Means Algorithms by Yeliz Karaca, Carlo Cattani, Majaz Moonis, Şengül Bayrak

“…Multifractal denoising techniques capture interest in biomedicine, economy, and signal and image processing. …”
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A review of state-of-the-art resolution improvement techniques in SPECT imaging by Zhibiao Cheng, Ping Chen, Jianhua Yan

“…Abstract Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), a technique capable of capturing functional and molecular information, has been widely adopted in theranostics applications across various fields, including cardiology, neurology, and oncology. …”
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The Laws and Customs of the Yorùbá People by E.A. Ajisafe Moore (Undated, M. A. Ola Fola Bookshops, Abeokuta, Nigeria. 87 pages. Price $21.95 on Amazon.com) by Akinloye Ojo Ojo, Kingsley Opia-Enwemuche

“…It is not clear when The Laws and Customs of the Yoruba People (henceforth Laws and Customs) was actually published. The author’s reference in the preface to 1906 as the time when he commenced his research efforts for the book provides a first pointer to possible publication of the work in early twentieth century. …”
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Kinematic and Kinetic Predictors of Y-Balance Test Performance by Samuel Nelson, Charles S Wilson, James Becker

“… # Methods Thirty-one physically active individuals performed YBT trials on a force plate while whole body kinematics were recorded using a motion capture system. Sagittal, frontal, and transverse plane joint kinematics and joint moments were calculated at maximum reach in each YBT reach direction. …”
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A Channel Attention-Driven Optimized CNN for Efficient Early Detection of Plant Diseases in Resource Constrained Environment by Sana Parez, Naqqash Dilshad, Jong Weon Lee

“…The proposed <i>LeafNet</i> leverages small, uniform convolutional filters to capture fine-grained details of plant disease features, with an increasing number of channels to enhance feature extraction. …”
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Transformer-generated atomic embeddings to enhance prediction accuracy of crystal properties with machine learning by Luozhijie Jin, Zijian Du, Le Shu, Yan Cen, Yuanfeng Xu, Yongfeng Mei, Hao Zhang

“…By performing experiments on widely-used materials database, our CrystalTransformer-based UAEs (ct-UAEs) are shown to accurately capture complex atomic features, leading to a 14% improvement in prediction accuracy on CGCNN and 18% on ALIGNN when using formation energies as the target, based on the Materials Project database. …”
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Machine vision model for drip leakage detection of pipeline. by Cong Xiao, Yiyuan Zhou, Yanwen Wu, Guodong Zhang

“…The two-dimensional image of the target droplet is obtained dynamically through the camera capture technology. The droplet boundary extraction algorithm is proposed, and the three-dimensional model of the target droplet is established, so the volume calculation problem of the droplet is solved, which provides a way of thinking for drip leakage detection of the pipeline.…”
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A multi-task genetic programming approach for online multi-objective container placement in heterogeneous cluster by Ruochen Liu, Haoyuan Lv, Ping Yang, Rongfang Wang

“…MOCP-MTGP can automatically generate multiple groups of allocation rules from historical workload patterns and different cluster states, and capture the similarities between all online tasks to guide the transfer of general knowledge during optimization. …”
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Levofloxacin-induced visual hallucinations: A case report and review of the literature by Valentina Raffaelli, Giulia Cantoni, Gabriella Nucera, Pietro Marino

“…The Naranjo Probability Scale (NPS) for determining the likelihood of whether an adverse drug reaction (ADR) is actually due to the drug rather than the result of other factors was calculated as + 6 (‘probable’). …”
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The growing U.S.-Chinese rivalry and foreign policy initiatives of the Biden administration in Latin Caribbean America by A. D. Trebukh

“…The author concludes that the steps taken by the 46th President of the United States in the Latin American direction have strong ideological overtones. They actually force the LCA countries to take sides in the U.S.…”
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Characterization and Modelling of Multiscale Natural Fractures in Shale Reservoirs: A Case Study from a Block in the Southern Sichuan Basin by Shaohua Gai, Ailin Jia, Yunsheng Wei, Ruohan Liu

“…Stochastic modelling is applied to factures. We find that faults identified by the ant tracking result are excellent in line with Macroscale faults interpreted directly from seismic data. …”
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Dialogue as a tool of nutrition literacy in an agricultural intervention programme in Odisha, India by Rama Narayanan, Akshaya Kumar Panda, D. J. Nithya, R. V. Bhavani

“…The transformative behaviour of the CHFs was captured through observation, interviews and focus group discussion with a set of qualitative indicators. …”
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Kinect-Based Exergames Tailored to Parkinson Patients by Ioannis Pachoulakis, Nikolaos Papadopoulos, Anastasia Analyti

“…The platform employs Microsoft Kinect, an affordable off-the-shelf motion capture sensor that can be easily installed in both home and clinical settings. …”
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CodeContrast: A Contrastive Learning Approach for Generating Coherent Programming Exercises by Nicolás Torres

“…CodeContrast advances the automated generation of high-quality programming exercises, capturing relationships among programming components to enhance educational content and improve the learning experience for students and instructors.…”
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Nonlinear analysis of reinforced concrete shells and the compressive membrane action on bridge deck slabs by Beatriz da Costa Fernandes, Jordlly Reydson de Barros Silva, Bernardo Horowitz

“…With this study it can be observed that the CSM, despite the good performance presented in the validation phase, as it is based on Kirchhoff thin plate theory (usual practice in many projects) failed to capture this effect, underestimating the ultimate load by an average of 44% in relation to experimental tests. …”
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The Role of the Sustainable Development Concept in Shaping Energy Policy Transformations in the Caspian Region Countries by R. A. Aliev

“…The research endeavor seeks to determine the main directions for transforming the energy policies of oil and gas producing countries in the Caspian region in response to imperatives of sustainable development.At present, the most relevant aspects of energy policy in the Caspian countries involve the further development of oil and gas projects, strict adherence to environmental standards and regulations, ensuring energy efficiency across the entire production chain, and the implementation of "operational decarbonization" measures and carbon capture and storage technologies to reduce the carbon footprint of the fuel and energy complex. …”
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