Evaluation of Cadmium Contaminations in Soil and Plants, and Potential Ecological Risk at a Tertiary Institution Campus, Malete, Kwara State, Nigeria by P. O. Ben-Uwabor, S. O. Olarinoye

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Usefulness of a personalized algorithm‐based discharge checklist in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure by Florent Allain, Virginie Loizeau, Laure Chaufourier, Maya Hallouche, Laurence Herrou, Amir Hodzic, Katrien Blanchart, Annette Belin, Alain Manrique, Paul Milliez, Rémi Sabatier, Damien Legallois

“…There was a higher referral to HF follow‐up programme in the PCL group but not to telemedicine or cardiac rehabilitation programs. …”
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Strategies of planning online scientific projects for blind and visually impaired students by Ekaterina A. Gradaleva, Maria Houston

“…The findings show that distance learning programmes for blind and visually impaired people are becoming popular in many countries, but in Russia there are only a few of them. …”
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A qualitative inquiry of speech-language therapists’ views about breastfeeding management by Danica Schlome, Esedra Krüger, Bhavani Pillay

“…The study underscores the need for breastfeeding training in undergraduate programmes and highlights the demand for continuous professional development opportunities. …”
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Farmed fish welfare in Egypt: Surveying current practices and future directions for tilapia culture by Charlotte Flores, Christopher Bryant, Mohamed Bakr, Wasseem Emam

“…There is also a clear need for establishing training programmes that cover animal health and welfare aspects in aquaculture.…”
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Big Data Analytics For Organizations: Challenges and Opportunities and Its Effect on International Business Education by Twana Saeed Ali, Tugberk Kaya

“…Big data can be fine-tuned and used to create new online learning programmers. Data collected by government departments, universities and institutions could be used as a new innovative learning system such as (MLE) which has a passive and active character i.e. it can be accessed anywhere at any time. …”
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Commitment, partnerships and operational research: three priorities for 11 EMR countries to achieve TB elimination by M. van den Boom, K. Bennani, G. B. Migliori, L. D’Ambrosio, R. Centis, A. Parvez Sayed, H. Y. Atta, Y. Hutin

“…METHODS: We surveyed 11 EMR national TB programme managers and collected information on eight TB elimination framework domains using a close-ended data collection tool. …”
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Une formation d’éducateur spécialisé en animation socioculturelle et sportive qui prend forme en Belgique francophone by Marianne Block, Marine Fontaine, Lore Martin, Marie Pirotte, Julie Reynaert

“…Inauguré en septembre 2014 au sein du département social de la Haute École HELMo à Liège, le programme de premier cycle d’Éducateur spécialisé en animation socioculturelle et sportive est le fruit d’un tissage délicat entre les préoccupations de l’équipe et les besoins des terrains. …”
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Emergent patterns in global health diplomacy: a network analysis of the resolutions adopted by the World Health Assembly from 1948 to 2022 by Kelley Lee, Didier Wernli, Nicolas Levrat, Bastien Chopard, Jean-Luc Falcone, Stephan Davidshofer

“…While chain-like patterns are associated with specific diseases programmes, radial patterns are characteristic of highly important procedural decisions that member states reaffirm in similar situations. …”
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Mechano-gated iontronic piezomemristor for temporal-tactile neuromorphic plasticity by Xiao Wei, Zhixin Wu, Hanfei Gao, Shiqi Cao, Xue Meng, Yuqun Lan, Huixue Su, Zhenglian Qin, Hang Liu, Wenxin Du, Yuchen Wu, Mingjie Liu, Ziguang Zhao

“…Here we demonstrate a mechano-gated iontronic piezomemristor with programmable temporal-tactile plasticity. This system utilizes a bicontinuous phase-transition heterogel as a stiffness-governed iontronic mechanogate to achieve bidirectional piezoresistive signals, resulting in wide-span dynamic tactile sensing. …”
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ECO-INNOVATIONS IN JAPAN: THE MAIN DIRECTIONS by A. I. Bancheva

“…So far the paper draws an attention on two types of innovations: engineering technologies and social reforms (programms, education etc.). Basing on governmental Programs and open data bases the most important environmental technologies for nowadays in Japan are defined. …”
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Implementation of project-based learning at a technical university: teacher enthusiasm or resistance by Ekaterina A. Gradaleva, Maria Houston

“…The most important units of the programme have been specified. It is recommended that the course trains educators to plan projects with due regard to curriculum, to share knowledge and develop skills significant in a specific area of studies, to nurture contemporary co mpetencies, such as confidence, perseverance, innovative thinking, creativity, flexibility, openness, sociability, teamwork. …”
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A Systems View of BRICS Value Chains, South Africa and BRICS participation in African Continental Free Trade Area by Thokozani Simelane, Adrino Mazenda

“…This however requires academic interrogation, which will yield information and knowledge that can be used to formulate programmes, policies and strategies of how BRICS value chains can be of significant support to AfCFTA. …”
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Detection of Two-Phase Slug Flow Film Thickness by Ultrasonic Reflection by Deddy Kurniadi, Narendra Kurnia Putra, Lalu Febrian Wiranata

“…The accuracy of results is attributed to the combination of FPGA (Field-Programmable-Gate-Array) instruments and measurement methods, showcasing the study's novel approach. …”
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Perspectives of Rural Teachers on the Effects of Peer Pressure on Learners’ Behaviour – A Case of the Mqanduli Magisterial District, South Africa by Berington Zanoxolo Gobingca, Nomhle Mqolombeni

“…The study recommends the collaboration of stakeholders such as schools, the Department of Education and sister departments as well as municipalities in introducing or strengthening programmes inculcating acceptable and desirable morals to learners.…”
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Internships for young scientists at educational institutions in Sweden by A. A. Hrechko, P. R. Ponomarenko, Ie. P. Tertytskyi, V. V. Gololobov

“…The second project was CAPABLE (Common Academic Practices and Abilities in Learning for Research) of the SI Baltic Sea Neighbourhood programme, which also took place in two stages. Postgraduate students Polina Ponomarenko, Vadym Gololobov, and Ievgen Tertytskyi took part in this project. …”
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Efficient Polarization Demosaicking Via Low-Cost Edge-Aware and Inter-Channel Correlation by Guangsen Liu, Peng Rao, Xin Chen, Yao Li, Haixin Jiang

“…Additionally, as our methods operate within a 5 × 5 window, parallel acceleration on graphics processing units (GPUs) or field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) is highly feasible.…”
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The Machine Translation (MT) of Proverbs in the ENG-PL Language Pair by Romaniuk-Cholewska Dominika

“…While traditional dictionaries are invaluable in the translation of sayings, there is a growing trend to replace them with machine translation (MT) programmes. Although some studies have investigated the quality of machine translation of proverbs, research in this area is relatively limited. …”
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Fostering an enabling environment for Learners with Special Needs in rural primary schools in Lesotho by Mathabo Lebona, Mohapi Augustinus Monyane, Kananga Robert Mukuna

“…Therefore, the study recommends that teachers be given continuous workshops by MoET and in-service training to fill the gaps in special education programmes and produce teachers who can be relevant in inclusive teaching and learning in Lesotho's primary mainstream schools, particularly rural schools.…”
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Layout Aware Optimization of High Speed Fixed Coefficient FIR Filters for FPGAs by Shahnam Mirzaei, Ryan Kastner, Anup Hosangadi

“…We present a method for implementing high speed finite impulse response (FIR) filters on field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Our algorithm is a multiplierless technique where fixed coefficient multipliers are replaced with a series of add and shift operations. …”
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