Remediation of degraded soils with hydrogels from domestic animal wastes by Isaac Mwangi, Grace Kiriro, Sauda Swaleh, Ruth Wanjau, Paul Mbugua, Jane Catherine Ngila

“…It was found out that modification had influence on the swelling ability giving it superabsorbent properties with swelling capacities (300 g g−1) within 5 min of moisture exposure plus a high water retention capacity of 90%. …”
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Mix-layers semantic extraction and multi-scale aggregation transformer for semantic segmentation by Tianping Li, Xiaolong Yang, Zhenyi Zhang, Zhaotong Cui, Zhou Maoxia

“…However, they lack the ability to exploit the intrinsic position and channel features of the image and are less capable of multi-scale feature fusion. …”
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Wastewater Treatment with Geotextile Filters: The Role in Permeability and Pollutant Control by Maria Vitoria Morais, Leonardo Marchiori, Josivaldo Sátiro, Antonio Albuquerque, Victor Cavaleiro

“…The application of geotextiles as filter materials in various systems, such as biofilters, wetlands, and wastewater treatment plants, has grown significantly in recent years. The ability of these materials to support biofilm growth makes them ideal for the removal of organic and inorganic contaminants present in wastewater. …”
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Employee Performance Evaluation Using A New Preferential Voting Process by Mehdi Soltanifar, Seyed Abdullah Heidariyeh

“…Twelve performance evaluation indicators extracted from the research background by experts in four categories with the titles of service compensation system in the first category; Job security, perceived organizational justice, perceived organizational support, and physical working conditions in the second category; Job characteristics, job clarity and ability of employees in the third category and job feedback, job stress, organizational citizen behaviour and motivation in the fourth category were ranked and documented using a linear optimization model based on the goal programming and policy. …”
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Conflicts between indigenous and scientific concepts of landscape management for wildlife conservation: human-chimpanzee politics of coexistence at Bossou, Guinea by Gen Yamakoshi, Vincent Leblan

“…For the people of Africa, this continued to be an externally-driven activity with little endogenous motivation and, quite often, real motives for opposition. Even in the context of today’s participatory conservation approaches, there is vocal skepticism about the ability of Africans to act independently and about the existence of local “conservation” philosophies. …”
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Effect of The Rs-10 Radioprotector on Protein-Steroid Interaction in Irradiated Animals with Biphasic Adrenocortical Response to Irradiation by Nadezhda Omelchuk

“…Prophylactic administration of RS-10 before irradiation reduces the level of free hormone and leads to a decrease in hypercorticism, increasing the reserve capabilities of the binding ability of the CSG at the height of radiation sickness. …”
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On Entropy Measures and Eccentricity-Based Descriptors of Polyamidoamine (PAMAM) Dendrimers by Zhi-Hao Hui, Asfand Fahad, Muhammad Imran Qureshi, Rida Irfan, Aneesa Shireen, Zahid Iqbal, Rahma Alyusufi

“…Topological indices (TIs) assign a numeric value to a graph or a molecular structure. Due to their ability to predict the physiochemical properties of a molecular graph, several TIs have been introduced and studied, mainly based on degree and distance. …”
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The Utility of ChatGPT in Educational Research—Potential Opportunities and Pitfalls by Turgut Karakose

“…Background/purpose –Leveraging the latest developments in natural language processing, recent versions of ChatGPT has demonstrated astounding performance on a wide array of tasks through its ability to understand and generate human language, and respond to diverse conversational prompts. …”
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Research and application of mining AI video edge computing technology by ZHANG Liya, HAO Bonan, MA Zheng, YANG Zhifang

“…A lightweight software development kit (SDK) framework based on the register machine was proposed to decouple operators, improving the parallel computing ability of the algorithms and reducing the storage requirements of the SDK. …”
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Learning beyond borders: lifelong learning and learning culture in Islamic institutions in the pursuit of quality education by Nur Hanisfatin Rushami Zien, Nurul Azma Abu Bakar, Rohaizah Saad

“…Originality/value – This study's contributions extend beyond academia, offering insights for educators and policymakers alike. The findings can inform education ministries, curriculum developers and stakeholders, aiding them in providing substantial support to educators aligning with the principles of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).…”
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The Diagnosis and Treatment of Infantile Nystagmus Syndrome (INS) by Sangeeta Khanna, Louis F. Dell'Osso

“…When used with the patient's measured, pre-therapy visual acuity, the NAFX demonstrates the amount of visual acuity loss that is due to sensory abnormalities, demonstrates the amount due to the nystagmus waveform, and estimates the measured post-therapy acuity for all values of improved NAFX and gaze angles measured. The ability to predict visual acuity improvement was not possible before the use of the NAFX. …”
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The Significance of Mobile Applications Based Learning in Creating Awareness of Occupational Health and Safety by Muhamad Faisal Aulia Nugraha, Roemintoyo Roemintoyo, Djono Djono

“…This is in response to the low awareness among students in Surakarta, which has the potential to increase the risk of danger and diminish their ability to compete in the workforce. The mobile application's development is intended to address these issues". …”
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Ensuring Cybersecurity in the Context of Digital Economy Development by I. A. Sheremet

“…Cybersustainability implies the ability of a system to perform its functions under successful attacks on its resources (probably less effectively within in a short period of time necessary to neutralize cyberthreats and their impacts).Turning to the issue of ensuring cybersustainability of the emerging digital economy of the Russian Federation, the author examines the main types of system-destructing cyberattacks and highlights the steps taken by the Russian government to tackle these threats. …”
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The High Price of Gender Noncompliance: Exploring the Economic Marginality of Trans Women in South Africa by Siyanda Buyile Shabalala, Megan Campbell

“…This structural economic bias is reflected in four key areas: (a) patriarchal family systems enforce conformity to cisgender expectations through abuse, financial neglect, and rejection, displacing trans women into precarious circumstances, including homelessness and survival sex work; (b) cisnormative workplace conventions demand legal gender alignment as a precondition for organizational access and employability, shutting out trans identities lacking state recognition of their gender; (c) institutionally entrenched anti‐trans stigma creates heightened scrutiny and discrimination during hiring processes; and (d) a gender‐segregated labor system undermines trans women’s ability to participate in both “male” and “female” jobs due to nonadherence to traditional, biologically defined gender roles. …”
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The Foundations for the Current Development of National Mathematical Education, Laid by its Leaders in the 20th Century by Alexei L. Semenov, Alma E. Abylkassymova, Tatiana A. Rudchenko

“…The simplest and most useful option seems to be one in which the goal is adapted to the student’s initial level, abilities and motives. In the context of the digital transformation of schools, the ideas of G.V. …”
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A Scoping Review of Obesity among Indigenous Peoples in Canada by Malek Batal, Stéphane Decelles

“…Studies in First Nations and Inuit alike showed higher prevalence of obesity in women, as well as an increase with time. …”
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Effect of Size and Drying Time on the Rehydration and Sensory Properties of Freeze-Dried Snails (Achatina achatina) by Matthew A. Achaglinkame, Eric Owusu-Mensah, Abena A. Boakye, Ibok Oduro

“…Size had a significant (P<0.05) effect on the rehydration ability of the samples with the half-sized and freeze-dried for 15 h samples having the highest. …”
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Impact of morphological traits and irrigation levels on fresh herbage yield of sorghum x sudangrass hybrid: Modelling data mining techniques. by Halit Tutar, Senol Celik, Hasan Er, Erdal Gönülal

“…Model fit statistics, including coefficient of determination (R2), adjusted R2, root of mean square error (RMSE), mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), standard deviation ratio (SD ratio), Mean Absolution Error (MAE) and Relative Absolution Error (RAE), were used to evaluate the prediction abilities of the fitted models. The MARS method was shown to be the best model for describing fresh herbage yield, with the lowest values of RMSE, MAPE, SD ratio, MAE and RAE (137.7, 1.488, 0.072, 109.718 and 0.017, respectively), as well as the highest R2 value (0.995) and adjusted R2 value (0.991). …”
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Potential of International Project Activity for University Development by E. V. Kudryashova, L. A. Zarubina, S. V. Popkova, N. V. Baykina

“…Due to such features as practice orientation, time limits, and the ability to integrate different types and forms of international cooperation, the projects help university to address the challenges in a complex way and achieve multiple effects and, therefore, contribute significantly to developing world-demanded research, creating scholars networks and publishing, strengthening international partnerships, capacity building, enhancing academic mobility, developing the university campus and its infrastructure. …”
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Genetic control of scald resistance in barley landraces by O. N. Soboleva, G. S. Konovalova, E. E. Radchenko

“…The aim of this study is to find donors of genes for effective resistance to scald with the ability to easily transfer this trait for hybridization. …”
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