Educating through intercultural exchanges: South African and Greek students interconnect through art by Riata Steyn

“…In Banners for liberty, students reflected on historical struggles for freedom and justice, reinterpreting them through a humanist perspective relevant to contemporary issues. Although initially prepared for  in-person collaboration, students from both continents adapted to online learning, shifting their creative processes into virtual spaces. …”
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A novel wide-area fault isolation scheme for regional power systems with changeable network topologies by Guangxiao Zhang, Xiaoyang Tong

“…However, they encounter challenges such as inefficiencies in path searching, high memory usage from dense matrices, and incomplete tripping strategies due to overlooking circuit breaker connectivity at the same depth. To address these issues, this paper proposes a novel WAFI scheme utilizing a depth-limited Breadth-First Search (DL-BFS) algorithm. …”
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A Picture Guide to Cancer Progression and Evolutionary Accumulation Models: Systematic Critique, Plausible Interpretations, and Alternative Uses by Ramon Diaz-Uriarte, Iain G. Johnston

“…After an overview of the available methods, we focus on why inferences might not be about the processes we intend. Using fitness landscapes, we highlight difficulties that arisearising from bulk sequencingand reciprocal sign epistasis, from conflating lines of descent, path of the maximum, and mutational profiles, and from ambiguous use of the idea of exclusivity. …”
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Authors’ Moral Rights in the Digital Environment by E. Sápi

“…Legal institutions and legal practice on the issue of protection of the author’s moral rights are subjected to critical analysis.Results: the genesis and normative fixation of the author’s moral rights are investigated in historical retrospect. …”
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Design and evaluation of vaccines for the control of the etiological agent of East Coast fever by José de la Fuente, Isidro Sobrino, Margarita Villar

“…Despite their effectiveness, these methods face scalability and usability issues, necessitating the development of new prevention strategies, particularly in the field of vaccines for the effective and sustainable control of East Coast fever. …”
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Experiences of women, men and healthcare workers accessing family planning services in Malawi: A grounded theory by Idesi T. Chilinda, Alison Cooke, Dame T. Lavender

“…This was supported by three main categories: navigating the processes, disempowerment of women and learning by chance. …”
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A Review on Integrating IoT, IIoT, and Industry 4.0: A Pathway to Smart Manufacturing and Digital Transformation by Fujun Qiu, Ashwini Kumar, Jiang Hu, Poorva Sharma, Yu Bing Tang, Yang Xu Xiang, Jie Hong

“…Finally, the article emphasizes the importance of addressing security issues in promoting the successful adoption of the IIoT and achieving its expected benefits. …”
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Conceptual principles of formation and functioning of vertically integrated structures by V.A. Topilo, V.K. Danylko

“…Despite the significant scientific contribution of the authors to the study of this topic, there is a number of unresolved issues regarding the selection of areas, forms, types of vertical integration that need further study and clarification. …”
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Evaluasi Pelaksanaan Program Ujian Online di SMK NEGERI 4 JAKARTA by Erni Kristiyani

“…During the implementation of the online testing program, there are some issues such as school wifi network can not be used, the server often down, students must bring their own laptops and modems, and as well as a hot classroom. …”
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Systematic review of government strategies for sustainable crop production in Botswana: navigating climate change challenges by Boitshwarelo Lorato Masocha, Paidamwoyo Mhangara, Botlhe Matlhodi, Daniel Mmereki, Oagile Dikinya

“…Moreover, there is limited research in Botswana to provide an understanding of issues related to policy implementation and the progression of crop production after the implementation of these policies. …”
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FORMATION AND ACTIVITIES OF POLITICAL PARTIES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN THE 1990s (REGIONAL CONTEXT) by N. Shaozheva, M. Gugova

“…It was that it was the ruling communist and post-communist political elite that initiated reforms, played a key role in party building and tried to maintain control over political processes, including in Kabardino-Balcaria. The main sources of the study were archival materials collected at the Centre for Documentation of the Recent History of the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, which contain detailed data to examine the issues related to the formation and activities of regional ofices of federal political parties during the historical period. …”
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TourismNeuro xLSTM: neuro-inspired xLSTM for rural tourism planning and innovation by Jing Jiang, You Li, You Li

“…These methods struggle with sparse and irregular data commonly found in rural tourism datasets, leading to less accurate predictions and suboptimal decision-making.MethodsTo address these issues, we propose NeuroTourism xLSTM, a neuro-inspired model designed to handle the unique complexities of rural tourism planning. …”
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Foreign experience of local government budget management: analysis and application by R.A. Ismailova, A.R. Kalymbetova, B.M. Dandayeva

“… Local self-government in the world is one of the most important mechanisms in solving issues of local importance and is the basis of regional development. …”
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Analysis of the Relationship between Financial Development and Economic Growth: The Case of Transition Economies by A. О. Syzdykova, S. Nakhipbekova, K. Massadikov, S. Tileuova

“…Financial development, which is considered to be one of the reasons for economic growth, is one of the issues discussed in the literature in recent years. …”
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Adversarial example defense algorithm for MNIST based on image reconstruction by Zhongyuan QIN, Zhaoxiang HE, Tao LI, Liquan CHEN

“…With the popularization of deep learning, more and more attention has been paid to its security issues.The adversarial sample is to add a small disturbance to the original image, which can cause the deep learning model to misclassify the image, which seriously affects the performance of deep learning technology.To address this challenge, the attack form and harm of the existing adversarial samples were analyzed.An adversarial examples defense method based on image reconstruction was proposed to effectively detect adversarial examples.The defense method used MNIST as the test data set.The core idea was image reconstruction, including central variance minimization and image quilting optimization.The central variance minimization was only processed for the central area of the image.The image quilting optimization incorporated the overlapping area into the patch block selection.Considered and took half the size of the patch as the overlap area.Using FGSM, BIM, DeepFool and C＆amp;W attack methods to generate adversarial samples to test the defense performance of the two methods, and compare with the existing three image reconstruction defense methods (cropping and scaling, bit depth compression and JPEG compression).The experimental results show that the central variance minimization and image quilting optimization algorithms proposed have a satisfied defense effect against the attacks of existing common adversarial samples.Image quilting optimization achieves over 75% classification accuracy for samples generated by the four attack algorithms, and the defense effect of minimizing central variance is around 70%.The three image reconstruction algorithms used for comparison have unstable defense effects on different attack algorithms, and the overall classification accuracy rate is less than 60%.The central variance minimization and image quilting optimization proposed achieve the purpose of effectively defending against adversarial samples.The experiments illustrate the defense effect of the proposed defense algorithm in different adversarial sample attack algorithms.The comparison between the reconstruction algorithm and the algorithm shows that the proposed scheme has good defense performance.…”
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More on the Fatigue Resistance Assessment of the Freight Car Bogies’ Cast Parts by A. V. Sukhov, V. A. Reykhart

“…Enhancement of the railway car axle-loads, development of freight car bogie advanced design versions as well as increase in the number of part fracture events demand for revision of certain issues of the existing fatigue testing procedure. …”
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Safety of Autonomous Vehicles by Jun Wang, Li Zhang, Yanjun Huang, Jian Zhao

“…In this article, the levels of automation are reviewed according to the role of the automated system in the autonomous driving process, which will affect the frequency of the disengagements and accidents when driving in autonomous modes. …”
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Generative AI for Industry 5.0: Analyzing the Impact of ChatGPT, DALLE, and Other Models by Siva Sai, Revant Sai, Vinay Chamola

“…Ethical challenges, including issues of privacy and the necessity for unbiased AI-driven decisions, are explored, alongside technical obstacles such as data fragmentation and the safeguarding of sensitive information. …”
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The right to life: the moments of origin and loss by O. I. Amelchakov

“…The subject of the article is the right to life interpretation issue, as well as the definition of the term "life" applicable in the legal field, the study of the problems of establishing of the constitutional right to life realization moment and its loss. …”
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INTERDEPARTMENTAL INTERACTION AND LEGAL BASIS FOR BUILDING A MODEL OF ESTATE SELF-GOVERNMENT IN THE CITIES OF SMOLENSK PROVINCE AT THE LATE 18TH - FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURIES by Petrusev D.S.

“…The study is devoted to the topical issues of the heyday of the provincial city, which is related to the construction of the state administrative apparatus, refracted in the plane of domestic politics. …”
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