Intragovernmental governance in South Africa - An analysis of recent jurisprudence by Andreas SJ Karsten, Marjoné van der Bank

“…In the South African local government domain, municipalities’ ability to execute legislative and executive powers is vested in municipal councils (section 151(2) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996). …”
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Coupled Geomechanics and Flow Modeling of Fractured Reservoirs considering Matrix Permeability Anisotropy by Dawei Wu, Yuan Di, Yu-Shu Wu

“…Simulations also show that the anisotropic matrix permeability affects the compaction in the reservoir domain, which reflects on the performance of production.…”
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A New Methodology of Design and Development of Serious Games by André F. S. Barbosa, Pedro N. M. Pereira, João A. F. F. Dias, Frutuoso G. M. Silva

“…The development of a serious game requires perfect knowledge of the learning domain to obtain the desired results. But it is also true that this may not be enough to develop a successful serious game. …”
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Anthropomorphism in artificial intelligence: a game-changer for brand marketing by Sofia Gomes, João M. Lopes, Elisabete Nogueira

“…This research illuminates a new path in the domain of AI-enabled brand interactions, showing the distinct influence of anthropomorphism in chatbots on customer satisfaction, trust and loyalty, thus revolutionizing traditional paradigms of consumer-brand engagement and decision-making processes. …”
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A large-scale dataset for Chinese historical document recognition and analysis by Yongxin Shi, Dezhi Peng, Yuyi Zhang, Jiahuan Cao, Lianwen Jin

“…We believe that HisDoc1B could provide valuable resources to boost the advancement of research in this domain.…”
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Advances in the Study of Heartwood Formation in Trees by Shuqi Yang, Fangcuo Qin, Shengkun Wang, Xiang Li, Yunqing Zhou, Sen Meng

“…Furthermore, it presents a comprehensive review of the latest research advancements in this domain, covering five key aspects: metabolism, hormonal regulation, transcriptional regulation, cell biology, and environmental influences. …”
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Further Analysis of Non-Gaussian Wind Pressure Peak Factor Calculation by Tao Ye, Ledong Zhu, Zhongxu Tan, Lanlan Li

“…In this paper, some characteristics of wind pressure coefficient time series in time and frequency domain are analysed. Based on the basic theory of fractal, the R/S analysis of wind pressure time series is made, and the fractal characteristics of wind pressure coefficient time series are explained. …”
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Axial-Symmetry Numerical Approaches for Noise Predicting and Attenuating of Rifle Shooting with Suppressors by Shi-Wei Lo, Chang-Hsien Tai, Jyh-Tong Teng

“…In addition, dynamic mesh model was used to where the ballistic domain changed with time due to the motion of bullet. …”
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Evaluation of Housing Quality Indicators Using Analytic Network Process (ANP) by hossein mobarra, Mahsa Faramarzi Asli

“…Housing is a crucial domain for testing human interactions and serves as a physical framework where social, cultural, and economic resources intertwine. …”
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Applying Fourier Neural Operator to insect wingbeat sound classification: Introducing CF-ResNet-1D by Béla J. Szekeres, Máté Natabara Gyöngyössy, János Botzheim

“…The model is designed to analyze raw time-domain signals, leveraging the parallel spectral processing capabilities of FNOs. …”
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Exploring the Synergy Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Resources: A Qualitative Review of Business Management Literature by Girlovan Aura, Horobet Alexandra, Botoroga Cosmin-Alin, Belascu Lucian, Lucian Paul

“…The study investigated 402 abstracts of scholarly articles published in the Business Management and Accounting domain of the Scopus database spanning from 2000 to 2023. …”
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Modeling the hydrodynamics of the OWC device placed over an undulated seabed in the presence of ocean current by Santanu Kumar Dash, Kshma Trivedi, Santanu Koley, Shrabani Mondal

“…Moreover, the study in the time domain is carried out in order to illustrate the variations in free surface elevations at different time instances by considering the influence of both following and opposing currents. …”
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DS-SwinUNet: Redesigning Skip Connection With Double Scale Attention for Land Cover Semantic Segmentation by Zirui Shen, Wanjie Liu, Sheng Xu

“…In recent years, the development of visual transformer has gradually replaced convolutional neural networks in the visual domain with attention computation, causing pure transformer networks to become a trend. …”
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Curvature Effects on the Vibration Characteristics of Doubly Curved Shallow Shells with General Elastic Edge Restraints by Hui Shi, Teijun Yang, Shiliang Jiang, W. L. Li, Zhigang Liu

“…Vibration problems of the shell are solved by a modified Fourier series method that each of the displacements is invariably expressed as a simple trigonometric series which converges uniformly and acceleratedly over the solution domain. All the unknown expansion coefficients are treated equally as a set of independent generalized coordinates and solved using the Rayleigh-Ritz technique. …”
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Arginine-Restricted Therapy Resistant Bilateral Macular Edema Associated with Gyrate Atrophy by Sibel Doguizi, Mehmet Ali Sekeroglu, Mustafa Alpaslan Anayol, Pelin Yilmazbas

“…Dilated fundus examination revealed multiple bilateral, sharply defined, and scalloped chorioretinal atrophy areas in the midperipheral and peripheral zone. Spectral-domain optical coherence tomography revealed bilateral cystoid macular edema in both eyes. …”
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Chaotic Spread-Spectrum Communication: A Comparative Study between Chaotic Synchronization and Matched Filtering by Arturs Aboltins, Andreas Ahrens, Nikolajs Tihomorskis

“…These systems possess similar spectral and time domain characteristics, allowing us to shed light on their fundamental differences and limitations in chaos-based communication. …”
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Using EEG technology to enhance performance measurement in physical education by Zhaofeng Zhai, Zhaofeng Zhai, Lu Han, Wei Zhang

“…Current research methodologies in this domain primarily rely on behavioral and self-reported data, which ack the precision to capture the complex interplay between physical activity and cognitive-emotional outcomes. …”
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Forecasting the number of rural migrant workers in Chongqing using the optimized grey N_Verhulst model by Dai Liu, Chengxiang He, Jianlong Ma

“…The new model is constructed by introducing fractional-order operators in the real domain. In this way, the accumulating order of the traditional N_Verhulst model is optimized. …”
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Practically Efficient Blind Speech Separation Using Frequency Band Selection Based on Magnitude Squared Coherence and a Small Dodecahedral Microphone Array by Kazunobu Kondo, Yusuke Mizuno, Takanori Nishino, Kazuya Takeda

“…Blind source separation methods based on frequency domain independent component analysis have shown significant separation performance, and the microphone arrays are small enough to make them portable. …”
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Buckling Behavior of Metallic Cylindrical Shell Structures Strengthened with CFRP Composite by Z. Draidi, T. T. Bui, A. Limam, H. V. Tran, A. Bennani

“…For metallic unstiffened shell, an adequacy between experiment and simulation is noticed in the mainly membrane precritical behavior, during the buckling initiation characterized by the boundary layer problem corresponding to axisymmetric wavelength appearance near boundaries and in the postcritical domain associated to localization of the buckling mode at one extremity of the shell. …”
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