Dickens in Arabia: Going Astray in Tripoli by Gillian PIGGOTT

“…What light does this throw upon Dickens’s representations and the students’ reaction to it? Taking, finally, a post-colonial critical position, the article asks what, in this post-colonial age, can be said about Dickens’s relationship to cultures of the Middle East? …”
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Assessing citizens\' satisfaction from urban management performance in the field of urban servicesCase study: City of Farouj by mohammad motamedi, seyedhassan rasouli, mohammad nasiri

“…In the next step, 380 questionnaires were completely and correctly collected and entered into SPSS software. Finally, the results of the study were analyzed by statistical tests. …”
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OSPREI: A Coupled Approach to Modeling CME‐Driven Space Weather With Automatically Generated, User‐Friendly Outputs by C. Kay, M. L. Mays, Y. M. Collado‐Vega

“…Second, ANother Type of Ensemble Arrival Time Results simulates the propagation, including expansion and deformation, of a CME in interplanetary space and determines the evolution of internal properties via conservation laws. Finally, ForeCAT In situ Data Observer produces in situ profiles for a CME's interaction with a synthetic spacecraft. …”
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Converging accommodation in the Black Country Dialect by Lyndon Higgs

“…Accommodation towards and away from BC dialect forms serves to disambiguate the situations of utterance involved, as well as clarifying relationships between the speakers. Finally, an example of what initially appeared to be the much rarer phenomenon of diverging accommodation is studied: a BC dialect speaker uses a SE feature (the third person subject pronoun she) in a context where the BC dialect variant (her in subject function) would be expected. …”
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Optimizing Image Feature Extraction with Convolutional Neural Networks for Chicken Meat Detection Applications by Azeddine Mjahad, Antonio Polo-Aguado, Luis Llorens-Serrano, Alfredo Rosado-Muñoz

“…The results show that the developed models outperformed conventional methods, significantly improving the ability to differentiate between chicken meat types, such as yellow wing, white wing, yellow thigh, and white thigh, with the training accuracy reaching 100%. …”
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The role of graphene Oxide’s aromatic rings in activated carbon made from banana leaves (ACBL) and Fe3O4 in hydrogen production by Dewi Sartika, Denny Widhiyanuriyawan, Agung Sugeng Widodo, Purnami, I.N.G Wardana

“…When Fe3O4 is combined with activated carbon made from banana leaves (ACBL), electron transfer occurs between the ACBL aromatic ring and Fe3+ ions from solved Fe3O4, which increases the solution’s conductivity and finally produces more hydrogen. ACBL is a biomass catalyst used as a free parameter to increase the Fe3O4 magnetic field in the solution. …”
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Macroscopic Mechanical Properties and Microscopic Bonding Mechanisms of Glass Fiber-Modified Loess by Le Li, Wanjun Ye, Yang Bai, Yuntao Wu

“…With the help of scanning electron microscopy (SEM), the pores and cracks image analysis system (PCAS) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) tests, the microscopic properties of the improved loess were studied qualitatively and quantitatively from three aspects: mode of structural contact, pore morphological characteristics and pore structure arrangement characteristics. Finally, the interface zone bond-slip model was used to analyze the internal mechanism of glass fiber and loess interface zone slip. …”
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Proximal bronchiolar adenoma with malignant transformation to invasive mucinous adenocarcinoma with 4 years follow-up: a case report and literature review by Yuan-Hui Yang, Ke Yin, Jia-Qi Xu, Xiao-Ying Xu, Jun-Lei Zhang, Ji-Xuan Liu, Xin-Zhi Feng, Xiao-Yan Lin, Xiao-Yan Lin

“…Hybridization Capture-based next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis detected driver gene mutations in Kirsten Rat Sarcoma viral oncogene homolog (KRAS) and Cyclin-Dependent Kinases (CDK) 6 in the case, thereby inferring the malignant transformation of BA into IMA.ConclusionIn this case, the detection of driver gene KRAS mutation and loss of continuity in the basal cell layer within the mucous glandular structures of the nodule suggests the malignant transformation of BA into IMA, inferring the malignant potential of BA.…”
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Exploring parental knowledge, care-seeking, and support strategies for neonatal illness: an integrative review of the African Great Lakes region by Sarah Farrell, Tracey A. Mills, Dame Tina Lavender

“…The second theme, “sub-optimal healthcare-seeking behaviour”, highlighted delayed care-seeking due to cultural, social, and economic factors. Finally, “strategies to support parents’ understanding” emphasised the roles of community workers, health education phone calls, SMS, and videos, and neonatal monitoring systems. …”
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Attention-based interactive multi-level feature fusion for named entity recognition by Yiwu Xu, Yun Chen

“…Next, we adopt cross-attention in the feature fusion layer to fuse features by exploiting the interaction between word- and character-level features. Finally, the fused features are fed into the sequence labeling layer to predict the word labels. …”
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Incident duration prediction through integration of uncertainty and risk factor evaluation: A San Francisco incidents case study. by Amirreza Salehi, Ardavan Babaei, Majid Khedmati

“…Each cluster undergoes a Multiple Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) process to gain deeper insights into their distinctions and provide valuable managerial insights. Finally, we employ both traditional Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) models to perform classification and regression tasks. …”
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A Verifiable and Secure Industrial IoT Data Deduplication Scheme With Real-Time Data Integrity Checking in Fog-Assisted Cloud Environments by Jakkarin Lapmoon, Somchart Fugkeaw

“…For real-time data integrity, we propose an integrity verification algorithm that cross-references hash values stored in the cloud and blockchain, enabling fast and lightweight integrity checks. Finally, extensive experiments and comparative evaluations demonstrate that VERDUP significantly improves deduplication performance compared to existing methods.…”
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Towards Equitable Diabetes Care: A Global Perspective on Quality Measurement Exchange by Alon Rasooly, Orly Manor, Ruitai Shao, Moriah E. Ellen, Nadav Davidovitch

“…Global inequities in quality measurement underscore the need for collaborative efforts to address the Inverse Care Law. Finally, a realist framework was developed to guide stakeholders in identifying relevant iKE initiatives, facilitating gradual improvements in quality measurement. …”
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La Investigación en la Escuela de Bibliotecología y Ciencias de la Información de la Universidad de Costa Rica by Magda Cecilia Sandí Sandí, Rebecca Vargas Bolaños

“…Se brinda información sobre la investigación que se realiza en la EBCI, a saber la producida por la población estudiantil en sus trabajos finales de graduación y la que realiza el cuerpo docente sobre su carga académica. …”
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Instruction and demonstration-based secure service attribute generation mechanism for textual data by LI Chenhao, WANG Na, LIU Aodi

“…Concurrently, to prevent semantic loss due to over-generalization, a cosine similarity threshold was regulated, enabling the generation of a service attribute set. Finally, a weighted directed acyclic attribute graph was constructed based on the similarity between initial and derived attributes within the set, facilitating the dynamic construction of a secure service attribute library with a controllable scale and adjustable security granularity, in accordance with security control requirements. …”
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Production Analysis for Fractured Vertical Well in Coal Seam Reservoirs with Stimulated Reservoir Volume by Chen Li

“…The result reveals that storage coefficient and conductivity factor mainly influence the early time; the permeability ratio and dimensionless SRV region radius mainly influence the property of SRV region. Finally, the analytical solution of the new model was applied to field history match. …”
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Reversible data hiding algorithm in encrypted images based on prediction error and bitplane coding by Haiyong WANG, Mengning JI

“…With the increasing use of cloud backup methods for storing important files, the demand for privacy protection has also grown.Reversible data hiding in encrypted images (RDHEI) is an important technology in the field of information security that allows embedding secret information in encrypted images while ensuring error-free extraction of the secret information and lossless recovery of the original plaintext image.This technology not only enhances image security but also enables efficient transmission of sensitive information over networks.Its application in cloud environments for user privacy protection has attracted significant attention from researchers.A reversible data hiding method in encrypted images based on prediction error and bitplane coding was proposed to improve the embedding rate of existing RDHEI algorithms.Different encoding methods were employed by the algorithm depending on the distribution of the bitplanes, resulting in the creation of additional space in the image.The image was rearranged to allocate the freed-up space to the lower-order planes.Following this, a random matrix was generated using a key to encrypt the image, ensuring image security.Finally, the information was embedded into the reserved space.The information can be extracted and the image recovered by the receiver using different keys.The proposed algorithm achieves a higher embedding rate compared to five state-of-the-art RDHEI algorithms.The average embedding rates on BOWS-2, BOSSBase, and UCID datasets are 3.769 bit/pixel, 3.874 bit/pixel, and 3.148 bit/pixel respectively, which represent an improvement of 12.5%, 6.9% and 8.6% compared to the best-performing algorithms in the same category.Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm effectively utilizes the redundancy of images and significantly improves the embedding rate.…”
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RESEARCH ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF GRADIENT LATTICE STRUCTURES BASED ON VORONOI METHOD (MT) by LIN Wei, YANG FengShuang, SHI YingYu

“…The distribution forms of different gradient unit cell structure were set, and finally the lattice structures with different gradient were generated. …”
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Comparison of growth models to describe growth from birth to 6 years in a Beninese cohort of children with repeated measurements by Achille Massougbodji, Michel Cot, Shukrullah Ahmadi, Florence Bodeau-Livinec, Roméo Zoumenou, André Garcia, David Courtin, Jules Alao, Nadine Fievet, Jérémie Botton

“…Mean height growth trajectories were identical in shape and direction for boys and girls while the mean weight growth curve of girls fell slightly below the curve of boys after neonatal life. Finally, 35%, 27.7% and 8% of boys; and 34%, 38.4% and 4% of girls were estimated to be underweight, wasted and stunted at age 6 years, respectively.Conclusion The growth parameters of the best-fitting Jenss-Bayley model can be used to describe growth trajectories and study their determinants.…”
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Oxytocin attenuates demand for cocaine in female rats by Amy S. Kohtz, Hannah Davies, Belle Lin, Gary Aston-Jones

“…Fos reactivity in OXT+ neurons was greater when rats were in proestrus compared to diestrus and significantly correlated to motivation and circulating levels of P4. Finally, using ovariectomized females with P4 replacement, we show that P4’s demand attenuating effects are reversed by atosiban (1.0 mg/kg, IP), an OXT antagonist. …”
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