Examining E-Services and Citizen Engagement for Sustainable Local Governance. Lessons for South Africa in the Post-COVID-19 era by Lewis Edwin Chigova, Costa Hofisi

“…The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the critical role of digital transformation in maintaining essential services and sustaining governance processes. This paper thus sought to examine the nexus between e-services and citizen engagement for sustainable local governance in South Africa during the post-COVID-19 era. …”
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Wave-Net: A Marine Raft Aquaculture Area Extraction Framework Based on Feature Aggregation and Feature Dispersion for Synthetic Aperture Radar Images by Chengyi Wang, Lei Wang, Ningyang Li

“…The experimental results revealed that the proposed Wave-Net model solved the issue of blurred boundaries and achieved better segmentation accuracy with limited samples.…”
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Few-Shot Flood Water Level Prediction Based on Mechanistic Models and Deep Learning: A Collaborative HEC-RAS-LSTM Framework by Li Faxian, Lv Mou, Li Hang

“…High-quality hydrological data are generated through HEC-RAS to address the issue of missing observed data. And the simulation data are used to drive a neural network model (LSTM) for flood water level prediction. …”
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CNN-ViT: A multi-feature learning based approach for driver drowsiness detection by Madduri Venkateswarlu, Venkata Rami Reddy Chirra

“…The input images are processed simultaneously through both branches, and their extracted features are merged and used to classify the driver’s state into one of four categories: Closed, Open, no_yawn, or yawn. …”
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Institutionalizing the Culture of Critique in the Scientific Community with Which Paradigm or Scientific Foundation? Modernism, Postmodernism or Chaos-Complexity by Seyyed Mohammad Hossein, Sousan Keshavarz

“…Although critique is the basis of personal and social growth and development, this issue has not become a dominant culture and logical process of the scientific community. …”
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Training marine species object detectors with synthetic images and unsupervised domain adaptation by Heather Doig, Oscar Pizarro, Stefan Williams

“…Neural network object detectors can reduce the effort involved in this process by locating and classifying species of interest in the images. …”
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A novel robust multi-objective evolutionary optimization algorithm based on surviving rate by Wenxiang Jiang, Kai Gao, Shuwei Zhu, Lihong Xu

“…To address this issue, we propose a novel robust multi-objective evolutionary optimization algorithm based on the concept of survival rate. …”
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A reposition algorithm for e-hailing based on quantum annealing and intuitive reasoning by Chao Wang, Yiyun Shi, Sumin Wang

“…Based on 400000 real data, four algorithms are compared: minimum-cost flow, sequential markov decision process, hot-dot strategy, and driver-prefer strategy. …”
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Current state of studying pedagogical aspects of a doctor's activity in domestic research studies by Petr Petrovich Pivnenko, Nadezhda Petrovna Vitenko

“…A substantial analysis of the thematic clusters presented in the article allows us to conclude that the process of turning to this issue is not intensive, orderly and methodologically secure and requires further comprehensive study in the theoretical and methodological field of both Pedagogical and Psychological sciences.…”
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An intelligent multi-attribute decision-making system for clinical assessment of spinal cord disorder using fuzzy hypersoft rough approximations by Muhammad Abdullah, Khuram Ali Khan, Atiqe Ur Rahman

“…However, the diagnostic process can be enhanced by integrating theoretical frameworks that resemble fuzzy sets, which better manage complexity and uncertainty. …”
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The Point Cloud Reduction Algorithm Based on the Feature Extraction of a Neighborhood Normal Vector and Fuzzy-c Means Clustering by Hongxiao Xu, Donglai Jiao, Wenmei Li

“…However, the original point cloud model is often vast and includes considerable redundant data, resulting in inefficiencies during the three-dimensional modeling process. To address this issue, this paper proposes a point cloud reduction algorithm that leverages domain normal vectors and fuzzy-c means (FCM) clustering for feature extraction. …”
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Comparing the Relative Efficacy of Generalized Estimating Equations, Latent Growth Curve Modeling, and Area Under the Curve with a Repeated Measures Discrete Ordinal Outcome Variab... by Daniel Rodriguez, Ryan Verma, Juliana Upchurch

“…Results suggest AUC performed equally well with both methods, although missing data management is an issue with both AUC and GEE.…”
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Artificial Intelligence-Driven Multimodal Route Planning: Addressing Dynamic Unavailability and Disruptions by Surya Prakash, Utkal Mehta, Bibhya Sharma

“…These samples are then processed and used to effectively train an LSTM network and predict routes upon interrogation of the obtained model. …”
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Exploring Novel Y140F/H Mutant Fungal CYP51 Inhibitors: A Molecular Docking and Dynamics Study on Thiophene Compounds by Abdulrahim A. Alzain, Alaa Edris, Rua M. Mukhtar, Hagar M. Mohamed, Malek Abdullah Marzoqi Aldowimar, Ali A. Alqarni, Gamal A. Mohamed, Sabrin R. M. Ibrahim

“…Findings: The docking process involved two stages: docking on the wild type followed by docking on the mutant type, leading to the discovery of three compounds (referred to as compounds 1, 2, and 3) with better docking scores than the reference, indicating stronger binding affinity. …”
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Understanding Memories in The Interface of Space: Collage As a Representational Tool in Design Education by Ali Şahin, Betül Hatipoğlu Şahin, Merve Atmaca Çetinkaya

“…The definition and examination of mental and sensory processes in the perception of space have become the subject of many studies. …”
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Design and Development of an Edugame Arabic for Learning Media by Yudha Riwanto, Inggrid Yanuar Risca Pratiwi, Asri Wulan Septiana, Fauzia Anis Sekar Ningrum, Ajie Kusuma Wardhana

“…However, the Edugame Arabic was created to overcome this issue. Using the GDLC process, which includes phases of initialization, pre-production, production, testing, and publishing. …”
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Resources Allocated to Rural Healthcare Facilities in South Africa by Skhumbuzo GCABASHE, Mohamed SAHEED BAYAT, France Khutso Lavhelani KGOBE

“…This paper investigates the critical issue of resource allocation in rural healthcare facilities in South Africa, focusing on the case study of Christ the King Hospital. …”
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Manajemen Mutu Pengelolaan Pendidikan Berbasis Madrasah Digital pada Madrasah Tsanawiyah di Kota Parepare by Muhammad Alwi, Abdul Halik, Andi Putri Ayu Darapati, Muh Mahsyar

“…In the era of digital transformation, Islamic educational institutions, particularly madrasahs, face significant challenges in maintaining education quality while integrating digital technologies. A key issue lies in the gap between the current state of digital readiness and the expected standards of digital education management. …”
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Childhood Maltreatment and Violent Behaviour: A Systematic Review by Md. Bashir Uddin Khan, Yanwen Tang

“…Through a meticulous screening process and stringent inclusion criteria, 27 studies were finally selected for analysis using the PRISMA guidelines. …”
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N. M. Sikorsky, A. I. Barsuk, I. E. Barenbaum and the Evolvement of Russian Theoretical Book Studies in the Late Soviet Period by D. A. Elyashevich, V. A. Mutev

“…Berkov), excessive attention to complexity as a key characteristic of the book science, the unresolved issue of scientific methods of bibliological research. …”
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