The role of religious brand community support to increase value co-creation in market religio-centric by Ken Sudarti, Hendar Hendar, Nabila Tharrazana

“…This will strengthen the virtual halal ecosystem and provide a virtual da’wah space for religio-centric consumers who base all their activities on worship according to their religious values. …”
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The JPEX scandal: a test case for Hong Kong’s new cryptocurrency regulatory regime or is it still the wild west? by Noble Po Kan Lo, Noble Po Kan Lo, Tony Hon Yiu Lau, Tony Hon Yiu Lau

“…The scandal serves as the first significant test of the city’s regulatory measures aimed at protecting consumers and investors from fraudulent activities within the crypto space. The study delves into the background and development of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies, highlighting their rapid evolution and the associated regulatory challenges. …”
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Practice of an improved many-objective route optimization algorithm in a multimodal transportation case under uncertain demand by Tianxu Cui, Ying Shi, Jingkun Wang, Rijia Ding, Jinze Li, Kai Li

“…This framework can reduce the search range of the optimization algorithm in the decision space and make it converge better. Finally, we conduct numerous simulation experiments on test problems to verify the applicability and superiority of the improved algorithm and apply it to MTRO problems under uncertain demand. …”
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THE DYNAMICS OF STATE-SOCIETY RELATIONS AND DEMOCRATIZATION IN NIGERIA by OGBONNA Emmanuel Chijioke, ALUKO Bayode, ADEYANJU Joseph

“…It agrees that there is a rich culture of civil society in Nigeria, but appraises state-society relations as a larger umbrella with a greater incentive in public space construction. Focusing mainly on secondary data, the paper argues that all the factors facilitative of democratisation, free, fair, and periodic elections, protection of civil and political rights, political literacy, accountability, and freedom of the press, remain on the shoulders of constructive state-society relations. …”
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Nested chirality and multimode transfer around exceptional points driven by external forces in electric circuits by Naiqiao Pan, Tian Chen, Xiangdong Zhang

“…Due to the complex non-trivial topology of Riemann surfaces associated with non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, the dynamical encirclement or proximity of EPs in parameter space has been shown to lead to some novel physical phenomena, such as the chiral modes modulations. …”
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Perturbative Stability and Error-Correction Thresholds of Quantum Codes by Yaodong Li, Nicholas O’Dea, Vedika Khemani

“…To do so, we distinguish space- and timelike defects in the lattice-gauge theory. …”
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Multi-scale sparse convolution and point convolution adaptive fusion point cloud semantic segmentation method by Yuxuan Bi, Peng Liu, Tianyi Zhang, Jialin Shi, Caixia Wang

“…First, addressing the drawbacks of redundant feature extraction with existing sparse 3D convolutions, we introduce an asymmetric importance of space locations (IoSL) sparse 3D convolution module. …”
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A guided approach for cross-view geolocalization estimation with land cover semantic segmentation by Nathan A.Z. Xavier, Elcio H. Shiguemori, Marcos R.O.A. Maximo, Mubarak Shah

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Poland’s Cultural Diplomacy in Ukraine by Halyna Lutsyshyn, Lesia Kornat, Olena Lukachuk

“…It is noted that the development of Poland's cultural diplomacy has been positively influenced by its EU membership, the modernization and expansion of cultural infrastructure, the growing number of cultural institutions in Poland, and the intensification of Ukrainian-Polish cultural cooperation The activities of cultural diplomacy actors such as the Polish Institute in Kyiv, the Center for Polish Culture and European Dialogue in Ivano-Frankivsk, the Mickiewicz Institute, the Stefan Batory Foundation, the Other Space Foundation, the Krzysztof Skubiszewski Foundation, and the Lane Kirkland Program, and their roles in developing and strengthening Ukrainian-Polish cultural cooperation are analyzed. …”
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Chronic right lung abscess with empyema thoracic presenting as continuous high-grade fever: A case report by Sonia, Kusum Kumari, Neetu Kataria, Sudhir K. Shahi, C. Vasantha Kalyani

“…An empyema is an accumulation of pus in the pleural space that increases after infection of either lung or pleura generally. …”
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Optimization of high-dimensional expensive multi-objective problems using multi-mode radial basis functions by Jiangtao Shen, Xinjing Wang, Ruixuan He, Ye Tian, Wenxin Wang, Peng Wang, Zhiwen Wen

“…Meanwhile, bi-population based on competitive swarm optimizer and genetic algorithm are applied for better exploration and exploitation in high-dimensional search space. Accordingly, an infill criterion based on multi-mode of radial basis functions that comprehensively considers the quality and uncertainty of candidate solutions is proposed. …”
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Predicted distribution of curl-leaf mountain mahogany (Cercocarpus ledifolius) in the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area. by Robert E Kissell, Michael T Tercek, David P Thoma, Kristin L Legg

“…A combination of probability density estimation and vector analysis was used to predict curl-leaf mountain mahogany distribution across the species range relative to climate space and how that relationship would affect curl-leaf mountain mahogany at a local scale. …”
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Investigating the effect of magnetic field on the slip flow behavior of air-fluid in a rectangular microchannel by Mohsen Saghafian, Mehdi Moslehi, Omid Ali Akbari

“…In this research, we numerically model the heat transfer problem in electronic devices using appropriate assumptions and boundary conditions close to reality, which has been mentioned in fewer studies. In this study, the space between the slider and the hard disk is simulated as a two-dimensional microchannel with specific boundary conditions affected by the magnetic field. …”
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Addressing Healthcare Access Inequalities in South Africa: Evaluating Legislative and Human Rights Obligations and Proposing Strategies for Improvement by Mlondolozi Mvikweni

“…It offers practical recommendations for policymakers and stakeholders, aiming to close the space between legal frameworks and healthcare delivery. …”
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Gradient pooling distillation network for lightweight single image super-resolution reconstruction by Zhiyong Hong, GuanJie Liang, Liping Xiong

“…In the GPDN we leverage multi-level stacked feature distillation hybrid units to capture multi-scale feature representations, which are subsequently synthesized for dynamic feature space optimization. The central to the GPDN is the Gradient Pooling Distillation module, which operates through hierarchical pooling to decompose and refine critical features across various dimensions. …”
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Integrated Gaussian Processes for Tracking by Fred Lydeard, Bashar I. Ahmad, Simon Godsill

“…However, a standard GP with constant or zero mean is prone to oscillating around its mean and not sufficiently exploring the state space. In this paper, we consider extensions of the common GP framework such that a GP acts as the driving <italic>disturbance</italic> term that is integrated over time to produce a new Integrated GP (iGP) dynamical model. …”
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AN ANALYSIS OF FACILITY ASSESSMENT OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE IN NIGERIA: A MICRO-EVIDENCE FROM KADUNA SATE by Gimba Victor Kyari, Micah Dogara, Selbyen Evelyn Gimba

“…Quantitative and Qualitative Data retrieved from the ODK tool was analysed by the G-ANC SI team using a descriptive analysis methodin Excel 2016 and SPSS version 26.The major findings of this study revealed that 149(68.98%) out of 216 respondents affirmed that their facilities have conducive ANC meeting Space (Conducive to accommodate minimum of 20 pregnant women) while 67(31.02%) said ‘no’ their facilities do not have that capacity. …”
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Quantum complexity of time evolution with chaotic Hamiltonians by Vijay Balasubramanian, Matthew DeCross, Arjun Kar, Onkar Parrikar

“…This complexity is expected to increase linearly for exponential time prior to saturating at its maximum value, and is related to the length of minimal geodesics on the manifold of unitary operators that act on Hilbert space. Using the Euler-Arnold formalism, we demonstrate that there is always a geodesic between the identity and the time evolution operator e−iHt whose length grows linearly with time. …”
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Prediction of the axial compression capacity of ECC-CES columns using adaptive sampling and machine learning techniques by Khaled Megahed

“…An adaptive sampling process is employed for efficient exploration of the design space to generate a database of 840 FE models. Subsequently, seven ML models are utilized to predict the axial compression capacity based on the FE database. …”
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UniLF: A novel short-term load forecasting model uniformly considering various features from multivariate load data by Shiyang Zhou, Qingyong Zhang, Peng Xiao, Bingrong Xu, Geshuai Luo

“…To address the above problems, we design a novel STLF model called UniLF based on Transformer framework, which contains the proposed convolutional enhancement-fusion embedding method to capture the correlations between load and covariates for embedding, the proposed feature reconstruction-decomposition block to distill multiscale features as well as more detailed local-global variations from 2D space and the core mask-guided multiscale interactive self-attention mechanism to further realize the enhanced interactions of scale features and temporal features. …”
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