CHURCH RESPONSE TO SECURITY CHALLENGES IN THE 21ST CENTURY: THE NIGERIAN EXPERIENCE by Oyebode Paul Jegede, Abare Yunuwa Kallah

“…In similar vein, the near collapse of security architectures in Nigeria has created a Hobbesian state of nature where life is poor, nasty, brutish and short. As a result of this, the intention of this work is to examine the response of the Church to security challenges in Nigeria and how the Church can help the populace in building security consciousness in the Nigerian society. …”
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The formation, development and classification of rail corrugation: a survey on Chinese metro by Yang Wang, Hong Xiao, Zhihai Zhang, Xuhao Cui, Yihao Chi, Mahantesh M. Nadakatti

“…Stick–slip vibrations of the wheel–rail system maybe led to short-wavelength corrugations (40–60 mm), while longer wavelengths (200–300 mm) exhibited distinct fatigue damage characteristics, mainly observed in steel-spring floating slab tracks and small-radius curve sections of ordinary monolithic bed tracks and ladder sleeper tracks. …”
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Drivers of innovation value: simulation for new drug pricing evaluation based on system dynamics modelling by Qian Xing, Wendi Cheng, Wei Wang, Chunlin Jin, Haiyin Wang

“…The most substantial growth in value occurs in medications for rare diseases and niche markets, with effects varying in the short to medium term and stabilizing over the long term. …”
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An integrated strategy for sequential nitrite removal and methane recovery: Sludge fermentation driven by nitrite reduction by Xiaodi Li, Mengxue Sun, Bo Wang, Wei Zeng, Yongzhen Peng

“…Although the treatment of sludge with free nitrous acid can effectively recover short chain fatty acids, the feasibility of sequential nitrite reduction and methane recovery without acidic pH adjustment is still scarcely studied. …”
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Right versus left thoracic approach esophagectomy for patients with neoadjuvant immunochemotherapy by Kexi Wang, Xuan Xie, Jianqun He, Shuogui Fang, Yiming Zhong, Duoguang Wu, Kefeng Wang, Minghui Wang

“…Lymphovascular invasion was an independent risk factor for DFS (HR = 4.042, p = 0.004) and OS (HR = 4.607, p = 0.003) in patients with ESCC undergoing NICT combined with surgery.Conclusion There was no difference in postoperative complications and short-term survival in patients with ESCC underwent surgery after NICT regardless of left or right thoracic approach. …”
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Üniversiteye Geçiş Sürecindeki Öğrencilerde İnternet Bağımlılığı: Bir İnceleme by Serpil Sevimli Deniz

“…Elde edilen bulgular; internet bağımlılık skoru ile ağırlıklı not ortalaması arasında negatif bir korelasyon olduğu görülmektedir. …”
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Research on wireless access technologies for Internet of things by Jianchi ZHU, Bei YANG, Peng CHEN, Xiaoming SHE, Qi BI

“…Mobile Internet and Internet of things (IoT) are two major driving forces for the future development of mobile communications and will provide broad prospects for 5G.IoT expands the range of mobile communications services,evolving from “Internet of people” to “Internet of everything”.5G IoT scenarios include low-power massive-connections and low-latency high-reliability.Low-power massive-connections scenario has the characteristics of small data packets,low power consumption,mass connections.It not only requires the network to have the ability to support over a hundred billion connections,but also ensures the terminal’s ultra-low power consumption and ultra-low cost.Low-latency high-reliability scenario is primarily for applications,such as Internet of vehicle,autonomous driving,industrial control and remote medical.Such applications requires extremely high requirements on latency and reliability.They require to provide millisecond-level end-to-end latency and be close to 100% service reliability.Firstly,the technologies for low-power massive-connections scenario were introduced,including LoRa (long range wide area network) and SigFox operating on unlicensed spectrum and EC-GSM (extended coverage-GSM),LTE-M and NB-IoT (narrow band Internet of things) operating on licensed spectrum.Then,an overview of service requirements and performance metrics for ultra-reliable low latency communications was presented.Finally,the development of ITS (intelligent transport system) technologies for both 3GPP V2X (vehicle-to-everything) and IEEE DSRC (dedicated short range communication) standards was described.…”
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Analsisis pemasaran dan keuangan digital terhadap daya saing global hasil pertanian komoditas ekspor di provinsi Sulawesi-Selatan by Muhammad Irfan Arya, Farhan Djufri, Hartina Beddu

“…The presence of financial technology has had a big influence on consumer behavior because of the convenience it offers which includes payment methods, fund transfers, fund collection, fund loans, and asset management which can be done and processed in a short time. It is not surprising that fintech ultimately influences people's lifestyles, including society. …”
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Early and Ultraearly Administration of Tranexamic Acid in Traumatic Brain Injury: Our 8-Year-Long Clinical Experience by Nurdan Acar, Mustafa Emin Canakci, Ugur Bilge

“…TXA appears to be a safe drug with few side effects in the short term in head injuries. According to our experience, it comes to mind earlier in multiple trauma, especially in head trauma with pelvic trauma.…”
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Deficiency of Dietary Fiber in Slc5a8-Null Mice Promotes Bacterial Dysbiosis and Alters Colonic Epithelial Transcriptome towards Proinflammatory Milieu by Sathish Sivaprakasam, Pramodh K. Ganapathy, Mohd Omar Faruk Sikder, Moamen Elmassry, Sabarish Ramachandran, Kameswara Rao Kottapalli, Vadivel Ganapathy

“…Dietary fiber protects against IBD; bacteria ferment these dietary fibers in colon and generate short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), which mediate the anti-inflammatory actions of dietary fibers. …”
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Credit card default prediction using ML and DL techniques by Fazal Wahab, Imran Khan, Sneha Sabada

“…Banks typically serve as intermediaries for loans, investments, short-term loans, and other types of credit. The usage of credit cards is experiencing a steady increase, thereby leading to a rise in the default rate that banks encounter. …”
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An Integrated Bearing Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Multibranch SKNet and Enhanced Inception-ResNet-v2 by Baoquan Hu, Jun Liu, Yue Xu, Tianlong Huo

“…Finally, the time-frequency maps of the raw vibration signals are obtained through short-time Fourier transform (STFT) and then sent to the proposed SIR-CNN network for experiments. …”
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Organizational and legal principles of the State Bureau of Investigation activity in the system of law enforcement agencies of Ukraine by S. M. Gusarov, Ya. M. Lisoyvan

“…It has been established that, despite the short period of activity, the State Bureau of Investigations belongs to the law enforcement agencies of Ukraine by all the above-mentioned features. …”
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Soil moisture controls over carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions: a review by Yuefeng Hao, Jiafu Mao, Charles M. Bachmann, Forrest M. Hoffman, Gerbrand Koren, Haishan Chen, Hanqin Tian, Jiangong Liu, Jing Tao, Jinyun Tang, Lingcheng Li, Laibao Liu, Martha Apple, Mingjie Shi, Mingzhou Jin, Qing Zhu, Steve Kannenberg, Xiaoying Shi, Xi Zhang, Yaoping Wang, Yilin Fang, Yongjiu Dai

“…From a policy perspective, shifting focus from short-term agricultural productivity to long-term carbon sequestration is crucial. …”
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Floods after drought: storytelling with agro-pastoralists in a Kenyan dryland by Ruben V. Weesie, Melanie Rohse, Anne F. Van Loon, Johanna Koehler, Marlies H. Barendrecht, Moses Mwangi

“…Floods after drought have become more frequent, short-lived, intense, and erosive, their regenerative function diminishing. …”
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Cloud and IoT based smart agent-driven simulation of human gait for detecting muscles disorder by Sina Saadati, Abdolah Sepahvand, Mohammadreza Razzazi

“…While some symptoms can be managed with medications, these treatments often impact all muscles uniformly, not just the affected ones, leading to potential side effects including involuntary movements, confusion, and decreased short-term memory. Currently, there is no dedicated application for differentiating healthy muscles from abnormal ones. …”
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Association between sleep during pregnancy and birth outcomes: a prospective cohort study by Libing Huang, Huanjun Chen, Fuhui Yao, Zhonghan Sun, Shijiao Yan, Yuwei Lai, Chuanzhu Lv, Xiong-Fei Pan, Rixing Wang, Xingyue Song

“…Sleep quality, and sleep changes in the early and second trimesters, and sleep duration in the early pregnancy were not statistically associated with preterm birth, low birth weight and small for gestational age. Conclusions Short sleep duration during pregnancy is associated with a higher risk of preterm birth and longer sleep duration at night is associated with a lower risk of preterm birth, but the latter needs further verification. …”
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Land Use Mapping of the Guangdong–Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area Based on a New Approach at 30 m Resolution for the Years 1976 to 2020 by Yu Gu, Yangbo Chen, Jun Liu

“…Currently available public data products include those of high spatial resolution global land use temporally limited to a single or short period, or global annual land cover products in which only a single land use type is depicted, such that regional characteristics are overlooked. …”
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End-to-end neural automatic speech recognition system for low resource languages by Sami Dhahbi, Nasir Saleem, Sami Bourouis, Mouhebeddine Berrima, Elena Verdú

“…An on-the-fly data augmentation method is applied to these mel-spectrograms, treating them as images from which features are extracted to train a convolutional neural network (CNN) and a bidirectional long short-term memory (BLSTM)-based ASR. The E2E architecture of this system achieves optimal WER and CER performance. …”
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A Proposed Information System for Communicating Foot-and-Mouth Disease Events among Livestock Stakeholders in Gairo District, Morogoro Region, Tanzania by Ahmed Kijazi, Michael Kisangiri, Shubi Kaijage, Gabriel Shirima

“…Livestock keepers may also access FMD precaution measures, negative impacts, clinical signs transmission ways, and current outbreaks directly from the system using Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), Short Message Services (SMS), robocalls, and feature phones. …”
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