Rapunzel Syndrome: A Rare Presentation with Giant Gastric Ulcer by Antonios Athanasiou, Adamantios Michalinos, Demetrios Moris, Eleftherios Spartalis, Nikolaos Dimitrokallis, Vaios Kaminiotis, Demetrios Oikonomou, John Griniatsos, Evangelos Felekouras

“…We performed a surgical laparotomy and successfully removed a huge trichobezoar extending into the small intestine.…”
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Investigating the Role of Non-Governmental Organisations in Green Energy Innovations and Sustainable Practice in Lagos State, Nigeria by Bamidele Olajide, Loveth Walker, Victor Ojakorotu

“…This paper investigates the role of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in green energy and sustainable practices provision in Lagos State, Nigeria. Given the huge energy deficit in the state and its impacts on the socioeconomic dynamics of the state, the study, dwelling on the blending of theoretical assumptions of stakeholder theory and Ecological Modernization Theory and qualitative research design found that NGOs are central to the efforts of Lagos State government in promotion of renewable energy adoption and other sustainable practices. …”
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Binary program taint analysis optimization method based on function summary by Pan YANG, Fei KANG, Hui SHU, Yuyao HUANG, Xiaoshao LYU

“…Taint analysis is a popular software analysis method, which has been widely used in the field of information security.Most of the existing binary program dynamic taint analysis frameworks use instruction-level instrumentation analysis methods, which usually generate huge performance overhead and reduce the program execution efficiency by several times or even dozens of times.This limits taint analysis technology’s wide usage in complex malicious samples and commercial software analysis.An optimization method of taint analysis based on function summary was proposed, to improve the efficiency of taint analysis, reduce the performance loss caused by instruction-level instrumentation analysis, and make taint analysis to be more widely used in software analysis.The taint analysis method based on function summary used function taint propagation rules instead of instruction taint propagation rules to reduce the number of data stream propagation analysis and effectively improve the efficiency of taint analysis.For function summary, the definition of function summary was proposed.And the summary generation algorithms of different function structures were studied.Inside the function, a path-sensitive analysis method was designed for acyclic structures.For cyclic structures, a finite iteration method was designed.Moreover, the two analysis methods were combined to solve the function summary generation of mixed structure functions.Based on this research, a general taint analysis framework called FSTaint was designed and implemented, consisting of a function summary generation module, a data flow recording module, and a taint analysis module.The efficiency of FSTaint was evaluated in the analysis of real APT malicious samples, where the taint analysis efficiency of FSTaint was found to be 7.75 times that of libdft, and the analysis efficiency was higher.In terms of accuracy, FSTaint has more accurate and complete propagation rules than libdft.…”
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The Point of the Centre: Present and Past Discourses of “China”-hood by David Mervart

“…El continuo auge económico y geopolítico de China nos recuerda que lo que actualmente se denomina China fue hace un tiempo el Reino del Centro, el centro del mundo. …”
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Persian SMS Spam Detection using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques by Roya Khorashadizade, Somayyeh Jafarali Jassbi, Alireza Yari

“…As part of the Machine Learning methodologies, the vector support machine makes use of the data and features at hand to determine the ultimate classification. …”
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Optimization of Meat and Poultry Farm Inventory Stock Using Data Analytics for Green Supply Chain Network by Rajnish Kler, Roshan Gangurde, Samariddin Elmirzaev, Md Shamim Hossain, Nhut V. T. Vo, Tien V. T. Nguyen, P. Naveen Kumar

“…Due to this imbalance, a huge amount is spent on balancing the requirements. …”
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Dynamic Spatiotemporal Causality Analysis for Network Traffic Flow Based on Transfer Entropy and Sliding Window Approach by Senyan Yang, Lianju Ning, Xilong Cai, Mingyu Liu

“…The potential information and regularity of traffic state evolution can be extracted from the huge traffic flow time series data and applied to intelligent transportation systems. …”
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Hawking-Page transition in 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity by Xiao-yan Hu, Yuan-zhang Cui, Wei Xu

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ESTIMATED ELECTRICITY BILLING SYSTEM AND ITS EFFECTS ON CONSUMERS IN RESIDENTIAL AND BUSINESS CENTRES IN WUKARI METROPOLIS, TARABA STATE by Abubakar Ahmadu, Vyonkhen Tanko Nacho

“…A sample size 131 was determined using the Cochran’s formula for smaller population. …”
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Ethiopian Water Hyacinth Leaf Extract as a Potential Tannery Effluent Treatment Material by Fitsum Etefa Ahmed, Awoke Fenta Wodag, Gemeda Gebino Gelebo, Belay Meles Gebre

“…Tannery effluent contains a huge amount of pollutant compounds such as toxic substances which need to be treated using either synthetic or natural products. …”
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Tokenizers for African Languages by Goodwill Erasmo Ndomba, Medard Edmund Mswahili, Young-Seob Jeong

“…Despite incredible development in the field of natural language processing (NLP), there has been a huge gap in the performance of NLP tasks between high-resource languages (HRLs) and low-resource languages (LRLs). …”
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Modern vaccines and coronavirus infections by Yu. A. Belikova, Yu. V. Samsonov, E. V. Abakushina

“…Vaccines represent an outstanding success story in modern medicine and are responsible for a huge reduction in morbidity and mortality worldwide. …”
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A Novel Emerging Topic Identification and Evolution Discovery Method on Time-Evolving and Heterogeneous Online Social Networks by Xiaoyan Xu, Wei Lv, Beibei Zhang, Shuaipeng Zhou, Wei Wei, Yusen Li

“…Our method is proved to yield preferable results on both a huge amount of computer-generated test data and a great amount of real online network data crawled from mainstream heterogeneous social networks.…”
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Fuzzy Approach in Rail Track Degradation Prediction by Mostafa Karimpour, Lalith Hitihamillage, Najwa Elkhoury, Sara Moridpour, Reyhaneh Hesami

“…The rail track characteristics that have been collected over the years will be used in developing a degradation prediction model for rail tracks. …”
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Efficient Handling of Data Imbalance in Health Insurance Fraud Detection Using Meta-Reinforcement Learning by Supriya Seshagiri, K. V. Prema

“…The efficiency of the models is measured using imbalance-safe metrics like Geometric mean, Harmonic mean, and Mathew’s Correlation Coefficient (MCC), and metrics like Cohen’s Kappa score are used to gauge the consistency of the results. …”
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Efficacy of Bluetooth-Based Data Collection for Road Traffic Analysis and Visualization Using Big Data Analytics by Ashish Rajeshwar Kulkarni, Narendra Kumar, K. Ramachandra Rao

“…Effective management of daily road traffic is a huge challenge for traffic personnel. Urban traffic management has come a long way from manual control to artificial intelligence techniques. …”
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Carbon emissions assessment of concrete and quantitative calculation of CO2 reduction benefits of SCMs: A case study of C30-C80 ready-mixed concrete in China by Zuojiang Lin, Guangyao Lyu, Kuizhen Fang

“…This study elucidates the changes in carbon footprint variations in concrete production processes and component contributions due to the use of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) and changes in raw material transport distances through the establishment of a large-scale concrete mix proportion database and life-cycle assessment (LCA). …”
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South African healthcare reforms towards universal healthcare – where to next? by G Solanki, T Wilkinson, N G Myburgh, J E Cornell, V Brijlal

“…The challenges faced by the South African healthcare system are huge, and we cannot afford to wait for NHI to address them all. …”
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Biofortification and fortification of wheat flour: Qualitative analysis for implementation and acceptance. by Rahima Yasin, Zahra A Padhani, Mushtaque Mirani, Muhammad Khan Jamali, Mahwish Memon, Sana Khatoon, Riya Rai, Areeba Rahman, Anushka Attaullahjan, Jai K Das

“…Various stakeholders involved in the wheat-flour industry including farmers, seed suppliers, owners of atta-chakkis and flour mills, grocers and flour merchants, bakers and hoteliers, consumers, and agronomists were interviewed to gauge their knowledge of bio-fortified and fortified wheat-flour. …”
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Biocomposite Polyvinyl Alcohol/Ferritin Hydrogels with Enhanced Stretchability and Conductivity for Flexible Strain Sensors by Qiang Fu, Junxiao Tang, Weimin Wang, Rongjie Wang

“…The strain sensor constructed from this hydrogel shows good sensitivity (gauge factor = 1.7 at 150% strain), accurate real-time resistance response, and good long cyclic working stability when used for joint motion monitoring. …”
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