Financial Innovation and Sustainable Development in Selected Countries in West Africa by Folorunsho M. Ajide

“…This study investigated the effect of financial innovation augmented with bank competition on sustainable development in eight West African countries. Data were sourced from World Bank development indicators from years 2000-2013. …”
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Energy Management for Energy Harvesting-Based Embedded Systems: A Systematic Mapping Study by Xingyu Miao, Yongqi Ge

“…The results showed that the major research type of the EHES papers is validation research, accounting for 65%, which indicated research is still in the theoretical stage and many researchers focus on how to improve the efficiency of harvesting energy, develop a reasonable energy supply plan, and adapt EHES for real-world requirements. Furthermore, this work reviews the tools used for EHES. …”
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PEGylated Cisplatin Nanoparticles for Treating Colorectal Cancer in a pH-Responsive Manner by Wei Li, Yongjun Sun, Jian Chen, Zhibin Jiang, Jinbao Yang

“…The HA-mPEG-Cis NPs exhibited antitumor efficacy via the PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling pathway. The HA-mPEG-Cis NPs showed the lowest tumor volume and weight among all the groups in CT26 cell-bearing mouse model. …”
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Nutritional and Anti-nutritional Levels of Some Local Vegetables(<i>Vernomia anydalira, Manihot esculenta, Teiferia occidentalis, Talinum triangulare, Amaranthus spinosus</i>) from... by PO Agbaire

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Attending to adolescent experience: Tragic drama as a stimulus and a model by Lucy Elvis, Michela Dianetti

“…This approach hinges on (i) an understanding of the particular affordances of tragedy as attention-based literature and (ii) an attentive approach to stimulus presentation and exploration. Thus, we propose reading tragedies for neither their philosophical nor their cultural authority but rather because of the genre's unique affordances in relation to adolescents. …”
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HHV-8-Associated Lymphoproliferative Disorders and Pathogenesis in an HIV-Positive Patient by Carlo Guerrero, Tania Jain, Katalin Kelemen

“…We present here a case of an HIV-positive woman with a history of KS, who later developed three HHV-8-associated LPDs, including HHV-8-positive MCD, PEL, and GLPD. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of a patient with this combination of individually rare HHV-8-associated LPDs. …”
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A Study of Physical Fitness and Enjoyment on Virtual Running for Exergames by Chaowanan Khundam, Frédéric Nöel

“…Virtual Reality (VR) technology has advanced forward in everyday life where virtual fitness is possible through physically moving around in the real world. Exergame is a video game for exercise aimed at making exercise more fun. …”
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A Reinforcement Learning Based Approach for Efficient Routing in Multi-FPGA Platforms by Umer Farooq, Habib Mehrez, Najam Ul Hasan

“…In this work, we propose to integrate a Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based framework to speed up the inter-FPGA routing process. For this purpose, we first find a trade-off between the exploration and exploitation approach (also termed as the <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>ϵ</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula>-greedy approach) in our RL-based framework while not affecting the final Quality of Results (QoR). …”
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Autonomous learning and creative cognition: the mediating effect of gifted students’ self-efficacy by Şenol Orakcı

“…IntroductionIn today’s world, it is of great importance to raise qualified learners whose creative thinking skills and self-efficacy are developed and who can make various choices and take responsibility for their choices as well as implementing them by making their own decisions. …”
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Nutritional and Anti-nutritional Levels of Some Local Vegetables(<i>Vernomia anydalira, Manihot esculenta, Teiferia occidentalis, Talinum triangulare, Amaranthus spinosus</i>) from... by PO Agbaire

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New glacier thickness and bed topography maps for Svalbard by W. van Pelt, T. Frank

“…This is not in the least true for Svalbard, one of the fastest-warming places in the world. …”
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LA TRANSIZIONE IN UN ATENEO ITALIANO: UN PROGETTO SPERIMENTALE DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI LINGUA, LETTERATURA E ARTI ITALIANE NEL MONDO (LILAIM) DELL’UNIVERSITÀ PER STRANIERI DI PERUGIA... by Valentina Gasbarra

“…The transition in an Italian university: an experimental project of the Department of Italian Language, Literature and Arts in the World (LILAIM) of the University for Foreigners of Perugia The aim of this paper is to present the proposal of Welcome Course, which will start in the next academic year, in order to facilitate the successful completion of a master’s degree at the Department LILAIM (University for Foreigners, Perugia), for students who have been granted a scholarship by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI). …”
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Enabling Semantic Technology Empowered Smart Spaces by Jussi Kiljander, Arto Ylisaukko-oja, Janne Takalo-Mattila, Matti Eteläperä, Juha-Pekka Soininen

“…It has been proposed that Semantic Web technologies would be key enablers in achieving context-aware computing in our everyday environments. In our vision of semantic technology empowered smart spaces, the whole interaction model is based on the sharing of semantic data via common blackboards. …”
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"Many old people taking care of old people": Experiences of older adults after Hurricane María in Puerto Rico. by Adrián J Santiago-Santiago, Jeffrey Ramos-Santiago, Eliut Rivera-Segarra

“…The Puerto Rican population has presented demographic changes resulting in a greater proportion of older adults than almost any other country in the world, with an estimated 28% of the total population being over 60 years of age. …”
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Meta-analyses of Culex blood-meals indicates strong regional effect on feeding patterns. by Jet S Griep, Eve Grant, Jack Pilgrim, Olena Riabinina, Matthew Baylis, Maya Wardeh, Marcus S C Blagrove

“…For Cx. quinquefasciatus, 'Cx. pipiens pooled', and Cx. tritaeniorhynchus, feeding patterns were compared across the world's seven biogeographical realms. Culex tritaeniorhynchus, 'Cx. pipiens pooled' and Cx. quinquefasciatus all had significantly varied feeding patterns between realms. …”
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How to Improve the Science and Engineering Education in Islamic Countries? by Zekai Şen

“…After long centuries of slackness, the higher education is gaining momentum in the Muslim World which is striving to effect comprehensive developments in the present century. …”
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Hearing in categories and speech perception at the "cocktail party". by Gavin M Bidelman, Fallon Bernard, Kimberly Skubic

“…In separate tasks, we measured isolated phoneme categorization using two-alternative forced choice (2AFC) and visual analog scaling (VAS) tasks designed to promote more/less categorical hearing and thus test putative links between categorization and real-world speech-in-noise skills. …”
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Positive Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Public Health Measures on Healthcare by Hung Eun Hoo, Hong Chuan Loh, Alan Swee Hock Ch’ng, Fan Kee Hoo, Irene Looi

“…The positive impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic should be highlighted in order to provide hope to our community. …”
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The Relationship between Psychosocial Factors and Cognition in Multiple Sclerosis by Fahad D. Alosaimi, Alaa AlMulhem, Mario Moscovici, Hanan AlShalan, Mohammad Alqazlan, Abdulgader Aldaif, Sanjeev Sockalingam

“…Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a common disorder in some regions of the world, with over 2.3 million people diagnosed worldwide. …”
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Artificial Intelligence in Robotic Manipulators: Exploring Object Detection and Grasping Innovations by Montassar Aidi Sharif, Hanan Hameed Ismael, Muamar Almani Jasim, Farah Zuhair Jasim

“…By integrating the iterations of the You Only Look Once (YOLO) algorithm with deep learning models, our study not only advances the innovations in robotic perception but also significantly improves the accuracy of robotic grasping in dynamic environments. …”
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