Zakat-based urban farming: A tool for poverty alleviation, community empowerment, financial inclusion, and food security by Kinan Salim, Baharom Abdul Hamid, Ziyaad Mahomed, Wiaam Hassan

“…Serving as a replicable blueprint, this project envisions the transformation of urban spaces into productive landscapes, thereby ensuring sustainable livelihood, amplifying food security, and promoting financial inclusion. …”
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Automatic Voltage Regulator Betterment Based on a New Fuzzy FOPI+FOPD Tuned by TLBO by Mokhtar Shouran, Mohammed Alenezi

“…To optimize the controller parameters, the Teaching–Learning-Based Optimization (TLBO) algorithm is utilized in conjunction with the Integral Time Absolute Error (ITAE) objective function, ensuring precise tuning for optimal control behavior. …”
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Elucidating the molecular basis of salt tolerance in potatoes through miRNA expression and phenotypic analysis by Caicai Lin, Shuangshuang Zheng, Kui Liu, Ru Yu, Peiyan Guan, Baigeng Hu, Lingling Jiang, Mengyu Su, Guodong Hu, Qingshuai Chen, Xia Zhang

“…Understanding and enhancing salt tolerance in potatoes is crucial for ensuring food security. This study evaluated the salt tolerance of 17 diverse potato varieties using principal component analysis, membership function analysis, cluster analysis, and stepwise regression analysis. …”
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FINANCIAL SUPPORT AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF SELECTED FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY FIRMS IN LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA by Ayodeji Gbenga Bamidele, Edafe Bawa Dogo

“…The validity and reliability of the research instrument was established using Average Variance Extracted, Composite Reliability, and Cronbach’s alpha coefficients, thus ensuring its accuracy and consistency. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were utilised to analyse the data. …”
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An innovative and efficient implementation of matrix-free Newton krylov method for neutronics/thermal-hydraulics coupling simulation by Peijun Li, Chen Hao, Ning Xu, Yanling Zhu, Yizhen Wang, Zhigang Zhang

“…Numerical results indicate that MFNK method can obtain strong stability, high convergence performance, and relatively high computational efficiency while ensuring high accuracy. It demonstrates that MFNK method has significant performance advantages and potential for high-fidelity N/TH coupling simulation.…”
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Cooperative game scheduling and revenue sharing strategy for virtual power plants considering scenery uncertainty by SONG Duoyang, XUE Tianliang, LI Yipu, TU Jintong, BI Yuhao, WANG Mankang

“…Finally, the example results show that the proposed method effectively improves the prediction accuracy of wind power, realizes the cooperative and complementary operation among alliances within the virtual power plant, and ensures the fairness and reasonableness of the revenue distribution among multiple subjects.…”
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Enhancing 21st Century Skills in Students with Special Needs Through STEM Learning by Maya Rahma Sarita, Asih Widi Wisudawati

“…The data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis, including reduction, presentation, and conclusion drawing, while validity was ensured through source triangulation. The findings reveal that STEM learning is conducted in three stages: introductory, main, and closing phases. …”
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Intelligent rockburst level prediction model based on swarm intelligence optimization and multi-strategy learner soft voting hybrid ensemble by Qinghong Wang, Tianxing Ma, Shengqi Yang, Fei Yan, Jiang Zhao

“…Such predictions are vital not only for ensuring the safety of workers and infrastructure but also for optimizing construction and operational strategies in underground environments. …”
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ASDNet: An Efficient Self-Supervised Convolutional Network for Anomalous Sound Detection by Dewei Kong, Guoshun Yuan, Hongjiang Yu, Shuai Wang, Bo Zhang

“…Anomalous Sound Detection (ASD) is crucial for ensuring industrial equipment safety and enhancing production efficiency. …”
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Enhanced thermal dissipation for BCB-bonded 3D integrated membrane photonic circuits by Salim Abdi, Kevin Williams, Yuqing Jiao

“…This thermal resistance is maintained across various BCB thicknesses up to 30 µ m, ensuring the possibility of using such devices for scalable 3D integration on other platforms or with electronics. …”
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Soft Skills: Rankings in the Assessment of Entrepreneurs and the Participation of HEIs in Their Formation by M. A. Lukashenko, E. V. Alekseeva

“…It is believed that possession of these skills ensures the subject’s competitiveness in the labor market. …”
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Transcriptome sequencing reveals regulatory genes associated with neurogenic hearing loss by Fengfeng Jia, Fang Wang, Song Li, Yunhua Cui, Yongmei Yu

“…Enrichment analysis revealed biological processes and pathways associated with hearing loss, highlighting the involvement of circadian rhythm disruption and other neuro-related disorders. Although our study is limited by the sample size and the absence of larger-scale investigations, the identified genes and regulatory factors provide valuable insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying hearing loss. …”
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Occupational risk factors for sleep quality among Serbian airline pilots by Marko Stojanović, Dejan Nesic, Miloš Maksimović, Zorica Terzić-Šupić, Jovana Todorović, Ivana Topalović, Željko Vlaisavljević, Jelena Ilić Živojinović

“…IntroductionThe ability of airline pilots to maintain a good level of sleep goes a long way in ensuring operational effectiveness with regard to safety as well as personal health. …”
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La influencia militar en la construcción política del indio ecuatoriano en el siglo XX by Cecilia Ortiz

“… Este artículo sostiene que las Fuerzas Armadas en Ecuador han influido en la organización política delas poblaciones indígenas en un proceso que cubre un siglo aproximadamente, y en su reciente eclosión en la política nacional. El 21 de enero de 2000 la cúpula militar protagonizó un golpe de Estado en el que utilizó a un sector de oficiales superiores, a los indios organizados y a los movimientos sociales. …”
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Sexual and reproductive health and rights, HIV and migration in southern Africa: A rapid review by G Musuka, I Chingombe, E Moyo, T Chikava, B Moyo, M Mapingure, H Musuka, T Dzinamarira

“…Nevertheless, existing policies, such as Botswana’s inclusive HIV treatment policy and South Africa’s National Strategic Plan for HIV, TB and STIs, demonstrate steps towards ensuring migrants’ rights to healthcare. …”
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Enhancing User Differentiation in the Electronic Personal Synthesis Behavior (EPSBV01) Algorithm by Adopting the Time Series Analysis by Mohanaad Shakir

“…The study is divided into stages, with the first phase focusing on enhancing the existing EPSB model, the second phase implementing EPSBalgorithmV01, and the final stage ensuring validation. Thus, two preliminary experiments were conducted with 22 users from January 13 to February 1, 2024. …”
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Collaborative Optimization of Container Liner Slot Allocation and Empty Container Repositioning Within Port Clusters by Wenmin Wang, Cuijie Diao, Wenqing He, Zhihong Jin, Zaili Yang

“…Compared to state-of-the-art studies, the following paper makes new contributions to proposing a cooperative possession strategy within port clusters for the first time. This paper ensures that liner companies and partners achieve a win–win situation in the cooperative game, expanding market shares and improving customer satisfaction.…”
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The study of social perceptions about Armenia by digital technologies by A. A. Komarova

“…The relevance of sociological research, taking into account digital sources of information, since the Internet is currently the main provider of data on tourist countries, has been substantiated.Tourism in modern Armenia is one of the economic sectors developing at the most intensive pace, and the country is looking for opportunities for further development of this industry, which ensures the practical significance of research related to the image of Armenia and the Armenian people in the eyes of tourists, both real and potential, just planning a trip to this country. …”
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Analysis of Artificial Intelligence Training Indicators According to the Results of Russian Universities Monitoring by T. V. Ryabko, V. A. Gurtov, I. S. Stepus

“…Artificial intelligence (hereinafter referred to as AI) is currently an area of strategic importance and a key technology ensuring a new digital economy development in Russia. …”
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The development of the Republic of Slovenia in the post-pandemic period. Opportunities for economic cooperation with Kazakhstan in the agro-industrial sector by A.A. Lukianov, M.K. Baimyrzaeva, B.Sh. Gussenov

“…Countries around the world have faced many difficulties related to problems in logistics, the functioning of production facilities, ensuring the availability of various tourist destinations, etc. …”
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