Participatory Development of Demand-Driven Curriculum for Career-Ready E-Extension Services in Nigeria by Olanike Deji, Solomon Adesoji, Banji Adisa, Abiodun Agboola, Adedayo Ajayi, Dorcas Alabi, Julius Ayinde, Olajide Filusi, Toyin Ojo, Oladimeji Oladele, Aanuoluwapo Opayinka

“…The major perceived advantages of e-extension were reduced risk, time and cost effectiveness while infrastructural and human challenges were the perceived challenges that could possibly hinder the smooth running of e extension.…”
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Agent-based risk analysis model for road transportation of dangerous goods by Hassan Kanj, Ajla Kulaglic, Wael Hosny Fouad Aly, Mutaz A.B. Al-Tarawneh, Khaled Safi, Sawsan Kanj, Jean-Marie Flaus

“…It involves the movement of substances that are capable of posing significant societal and environmental risks for exposed populations, properties, and infrastructures in different environments. These substances, ranging from flammable liquids and explosives to toxic chemicals, play crucial roles in various industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, and research. …”
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A spatiotemporal distribution prediction model for electric vehicles charging load in transportation power coupled network by Xiaolong Yang, Jingwen Yun, Shuai Zhou, Tek Tjing Lie, Jieping Han, Xiaomin Xu, Qian Wang, Zeqi Ge

“…New challenges are introduced to the planning of urban EV charging infrastructures. To effectively plan the charging facilities, accurately predicting EV charging loads is essential. …”
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A Hybrid FEM-CNN for Image-Based Severity Prediction of Corroded Offshore Pipelines by Mohammad Fadzil Najwa, Muda Mohd Fakri, Abdul Shahid Muhammad Daniel, Aziz Norheliena, Mohd Mohd Hairil, Mohd Amin Norliyati, Mohd Hashim Mohd Hisbany

“…This work substantially augments the effectiveness of structural analyses that provide a better safety feature for critical infrastructural assets within the oil and gas industry and has great advantages to engineers, researchers, and academicians working on pipeline integrity management.…”
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Insights into spinetail devil ray spatial ecology in the Mediterranean Sea through satellite telemetry by Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Mohammed Abudaya, Giacomo Milisenda, Simonepietro Canese, Viola Panigada, Jehad Salah, Simone Panigada

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Morbidity Cost and Willingness to Pay for Healthcare Insurance among Wheat Farmers in Jigawa State of Nigeria by Mohammed Sanusi Sadiq, Muhammad Ahmad, Emmanuel Gama, Abbas Sambo

“…Nonetheless, enhance institutional factors, alongside social extension, financial and infrastructural facilities are recommended.…”
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Machine Learning as a Downscaling Approach for Prediction of Wind Characteristics under Future Climate Change Scenarios by Abbas Yeganeh-Bakhtiary, Hossein EyvazOghli, Naser Shabakhty, Bahareh Kamranzad, Soroush Abolfathi

“…Assessment of climate change impacts on wind characteristics is crucial for the design, operation, and maintenance of coastal and offshore infrastructures. In the present study, the Model Output Statistics (MOS) method was used to downscale a Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) with General Circulation Model (GCM) results for a case study in the North Atlantic Ocean, and a supervised machine learning method (M5’ Decision Tree model) was developed for the first time to establish a statistical relationship between predicator and predicant. …”
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Motivations, activités et expériences du tourisme oléicole : Perspectives d’un panel Delphi portugais by Francisco Dias, Fernanda Oliveira

“…Le patrimoine oléicole est un élément central dans de nombreux territoires ruraux méditerranéens et constitue la base du développement d’une série d’infrastructures, d’activités et d’expériences qui composent l’oléotourisme. …”
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INVESTIGATING POINTS-OF-GENERATION POWER LOSSES ON THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL GRID FOLLOWING UNBUNDLING OF THE ELECTRIC UTILITY INDUSTRY by AJEWOLE TITUS OLUWASUJI, OLABODE OLAKUNLE ELIJAH, OKAKWU IGNATIUS KEMA, EGBEDINNI OLAKUNLE FEMI

“… Aside from the domino effects of being radial in structure, the Nigerian national electric grid is currently suffering from deteriorated infrastructures and unpredictable fuel supply for power generation. …”
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Les lacs d’Hanoï, quelle place pour une pièce urbaine endémique ? by Martin Jaillais Neliaz

“…If they presented obstacles, they were dried up to make way for new transport infrastructures or to enable the completion of major real estate operations. …”
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Exclusion within the inclusion practices of learners with hearing impairment in inclusive schools: A systematic review by Salimini Mbazi, Patrick Ojok, Stackus Okwaput

“…This review highlights that exclusion practices exist because of the poor preparation of teachers to teach in inclusive schools and poor infrastructures in inclusive schools.…”
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Improving early prediction of crop yield in Spanish olive groves using satellite imagery and machine learning. by M Isabel Ramos, Juan J Cubillas, Ruth M Córdoba, Lidia M Ortega

“…Temporal data come from public web services, such as spatial data infrastructures of some state agencies. The processing of the satellite imagery is carried out by the geospatial processing service Google Earth Engine. …”
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Relationship of Meteorological Variables with the Concentration of Various Tree Pollen Types in Madrid (Spain) by Javier Chico-Fernández, Esperanza Ayuga-Téllez

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Teaching a neural network modeling socio-economic development of the region by S. V. Romanchukov, O. G. Berestneva, L. A. Petrova

“…The use of third-party cloud-based software platforms (primarily IBM and Google infrastructures) allows to bypass the problem of the research team’s lack of expensive material and technical base, however they impose a number of limitations dictated by the requirements of the existing machine learning algorithms and the specific architecture provided platforms This puts the research team in front of the need to prepare the accumulated data set for processing: reducing the dimension, checking the data for compliance with the platform requirements and eliminating potential problem areas: “data leaks”, “learning distortions” and others. …”
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Climatic Hazards: High Importance but Low Severity to Coastal Rural Fishing Communities by Daniel Koomson, Katherine Sian Davies-Vollum, Debadayita Raha

“…Socio-economic stressors include infrastructural (e.g., water and energy insecurity), socio-cultural (e.g., conflicts and land insecurity), occupational (e.g., exploitation, power asymmetries, illegal fishing), and environmental (e.g., plastic waste pollution) factors. …”
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Analysis of Necessity and Feasibility for Ground Improvement in Warm and Ice-Rich Permafrost Regions by Honglei Wang, Hu Zhang, Mingtang Chai, Jianming Zhang, Zhizhong Sun, Guoyu Li

“…Characterized by low bearing capacity and high compressibility, warm and ice-rich frozen soil is a kind of problematic soil, which makes the original frozen ground formed by of that unreliable to meet the stability requirements of engineering infrastructures and foundations in permafrost regions. …”
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Improving the quality of life for sustainable development in the context of globalization and modernization of Kazakhstan's economy by R.U. Unerbayeva, G.Zh. Alibekova, J. Grabara, A.Zh. Zhainazar

“…Tokayev noted that ‘in order to improve the quality of life of every Kazakhstani citizen, infrastructural issues that directly affect the quality of life will be in the centre of attention’. …”
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Isolated Effect and Sensitivity of Agricultural and Industrial Waste Ca-Based Stabilizer Materials (CSMs) in Evaluating Swell Shrink Nature of Palygorskite-Rich Clays by Fazal E. Jalal, Babak Jamhiri, Ahsan Naseem, Muhammad Hussain, Mudassir Iqbal, Kennedy Onyelowe

“…These problematic soils exhibit undesirable characteristics which greatly affect the pavements, boundary walls, slab-on-grade members, and other civil engineering infrastructures. A series of geotechnical tests were performed on soil specimens using prescribed percentages of the aforementioned Ca-based stabilizer materials (CSMs). …”
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Conflict-induced displacement in Pakistan: a sociological study of lived experiences of involuntary migration among Afghan immigrants by Kashif Iqbal, Sheng Hongcheng, Hu Liang

“…This mass exodus, fueled by the pursuit of safety and refuge, has strained social and economic infrastructures, necessitating a comprehensive sociological analysis. …”
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Designing a web-based virtual environment for 3D cadaster by Javad Sadidi, Sabah Motamedi, hani rezayan

“…Complexity of multi dimension developments and infrastructures intensifies the land related challenges to adopt legal laws, restrictions and responsibilities.  …”
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