Information and Communication Technologies of households and individuals, geographical proximity and regional competitiveness: distribution, clusters and spatial patterns of techno... by Reyes González-Relaño, Ángel Luis Lucendo-Monedero, Francisca Ruiz-Rodríguez

“…In this context, this paper aims to identify and characterise the clusters and patterns that define the spatial behaviour of ICT access and usage variables at household and individual level in the Technology Readiness (TR) pillar of the Regional Competitiveness Index (RCI). A database of 280 NUTS2 has been created in order to perform: i) an exploratory statistical analysis to show the regional behaviour of the ICT variables; and ii) a spatial autocorrelation analysis to detect the presence of spatial dependence. …”
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New data from the historical bee collection (Hymenoptera, Anthophila) of the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra and additional faunistic updates for Portugal by Hugo Gaspar, Simone Flaminio, Albano Soares, Cristina Rufino, João Loureiro, Sílvia Castro, Thomas J. Wood

“…In this work, we revised and databased (via GBIF) 13,374 Portuguese bee records (11,053 unpublished), covering 464 species, of which 11 are new to Portuguese fauna. …”
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Kurdish Language Learning Tool in Serious Game by Gulala Ali Hama Amin, Karzan Hussein Sharif

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Skin Tumors Diagnosis Utilizing Case Based Reasoning and The Expert System by Roza Fuad Majeed, Soran AB. M. Saeed, Dana Abdulmajeed Abdilkarim, Haval Mohammed Sidqi

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Design of a Hybid Energy Metering System with an Alarm. by Kakuru Isaac

“…The software module consists of the Application Platform especially for token generation and Database. The SMS Command format for recharging of the meter was also developed using GSM which is a cell system which implies that the cellular telephones unite with it via looking for cells in the prompt region in the neighboring cells to maintain a strategic distance from contortion in signs with the phone. …”
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Design of a Hybid Energy Metering System with an Alarm. by Kakuru Isaac

“…The software module consists of the Application Platform especially for token generation and Database. The SMS Command format for recharging of the meter was also developed using GSM which is a cell system which implies that the cellular telephones unite with it via looking for cells in the prompt region in the neighboring cells to maintain a strategic distance from contortion in signs with the phone. …”
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Students’ Daily Attendance Management System. by Komurembe, Phionah, Rukundo, Emmanuel

“…The system was developed using web-based programming languages, including HTML, CSS, and PHP, with MySQL employed for database management. Rigorous testing ensured optimal performance and functionality across various modules, such as student and staff management. …”
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The Kab Quartery News Leter. Issue 08, 2024 Graduation Edition. by Kabale University

“…As a result of this newsletter, we are also growing our database of local knowledge so that we can make use of it in the future. …”
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Red dragon fruit (Hylocereus polyrhizus), a superfruit rich in betacyanins pigments with antioxidative potential for hepatoprotection: A review by Teck Wei Lim, Renee Lay Hong Lim, Liew Phing Pui, Chin Ping Tan, Chun Wai Ho

“…The journals, books, conference proceedings as well as electronic database were searched up to December 2024, using keywords, red dragon fruit, red pitaya/pitahaya, Hylocereus polyrhizus, betacyanins, betanin, antioxidant and liver. …”
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A systematic scoping review reveals that geographic and taxonomic patterns influence the scientific and societal interest in urban soil microbial diversity by Simon Masson, Matteo Chialva, Davide Bongiovanni, Martino Adamo, Irene Stefanini, Luisa Lanfranco

“…Here, a comprehensive database of scientific papers published in the last 30 years investigating different aspects of soil microbial diversity was built and systematically reviewed. …”
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Load recognition method based on convolutional neural network and attention mechanism by ZHAO Yitao, LI Zhao, LIU Xinglong, LUO Zhao, WANG Gang, SHEN Xin

“…Firstly, the power data of eight different household appliances are collected to establish a U-I trajectory curve database. Secondly, the feature aggregation ability of CNN is improved by using squeeze-and-excitation network (SENet) attention mechanism to complete the feature extraction and load identification of U-I trajectory curves of different electrical appliances. …”
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A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF MOBILE-ASSISTED VOCABULARY LEARNING AND TEACHING IN ESL/EFL CONTEXT by Muhammad Nawaz, Malini Ganapathy, Sadaf Manzoor, Tess Ezzy, Shahzad Ul Hassan Farooqi

“…First, a bibliometric analysis was employed to provide a comprehensive overview of the field, encompassing 774 publications retrieved from the Scopus database. Second, 20 empirical articles were analyzed to determine technological and pedagogical trends in MAVL studies. …”
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KUKHARENKOITE-(Ce) AND ITS MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE IN PEGMATITES OF THE VISHNEVYE MOUNTAINS (SOUTH URALS) by V.I. Popova, M.A. Rassomakhin, V.A. Popov, A.M. Kuznetsov, S.M. Lebedeva

“…R110190 of kukharenkoite- (Ce) from the RRUFF database. The mineral assemblage of pegmatite from vein no. 35 includes feldspars, annite, yangzhuminite (?)…”
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A Systematic Review of Self-directed Learning in Medical Education in Undergraduate Medical Students by Dharmendra Kumar Gupta, Arunima Chaudhuri, Dip Gaine

“…A methodical exploration was carried out within the PubMed database to locate pertinent research articles released between 2012 and 2024. …”
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Trends in the disease burden of cystic echinococcosis in China, 1990–2044 analysis and forecasting study by Jianping Li, Jingjing Wei

“…Using the Global Burden of Disease 2019 (GBD 2019) database, we analyzed the trends in annual percentage change (APC) and average annual percentage change (AAPC) for incidence, prevalence, death, and disability-adjusted life years (DALY) rates of cystic echinococcosis in China via the Joinpoint Regression Program 4.8.0.1 software. …”
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Factors influencing the determination of dosing weight in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) by Cassandra R. Montoya, Janine Y. Khan, Delphine Nelson, Gustave Falciglia

“…Infants were identified from a database of very low birth weight infants. Before regaining birth weight (BW), dosing and birth weight% difference was described. …”
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INSTITUTIONAL DETERMINANTS OF NON-PERFORMING LOANS OF DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA by Olusegun Opeyemi Oni, Henry Jonathan

“…The data was collated from the World Bank Governance Indicators, World Bank Development Indicators and Heritage Foundation Database for the period under study. This study applied System GMM technique with an elaborated econometric method, based on a panel set from 23 Sub-Sahara African countries. …”
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The role of Airbnb creating a “new”-old city centre: facts, problems and controversies in Porto by Pedro Chamusca, José Rio Fernandes, Luís Carvalho, Thiago Mendes

“…We make use of qualitative and quantitative methods and draw on the official AirDNA database to analyse the relation between Airbnb and urban transformation, and the governance context. …”
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A framework for conceptualizing integrated prescriptive maintenance and production planning and control models by Kevin Wesendrup, Bernd Hellingrath, Zoi Nikolarakis

“…Limitations of the investigation: The study is limited to only one scientific database. Additionally, the quantitative analyses might be sensitive due to a low sample size for some components, and we only measure the linear dependency between two components. …”
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A Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization-Tuning Algorithm for the Prediction of Nanoparticle Morphology from Microscopic Images by Abhishek Singh, Thaseem Thajudeen

“…Typically, 2-dimensional features from the images are compared to available structures in a database or regression equations are used to predict 3-dimensional morphological parameters including fractal dimension and pre-exponential factor. …”
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