Addressing Healthcare Access Inequalities in South Africa: Evaluating Legislative and Human Rights Obligations and Proposing Strategies for Improvement by Mlondolozi Mvikweni

“…A comprehensive review of legislative documents, including the National Health Act, the Promotion of Access to Information Act, and the Protection of Personal Information Act, was conducted to assess their impact on healthcare access. …”
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Converting from Seepage Irrigation to Plasticulture for Vegetable Production: A Case Study by Charles E. Barrett, Lincoln Zotarelli, Lucas G. Paranhos, Mark W. Warren

“… This article is intended to provide information to producers and Extension agents that are interested in using drip irrigation for vegetable production. …”
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External Support and Demographic Factors as Differentials of Achievement Goal Orientation among Adolescent Students in Resource-Limited Environments. by Ndyareeba, Eunice, Biirah, Judith, Kasawo, Henry Kibedi, Zanna, Clay

“…This study unveils demographic factors (age, gender, school type, compassion support, parental education, income) as correlates of achievement goal orientation. …”
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Efficient Moving Object Segmentation in LiDAR Point Clouds Using Minimal Number of Sweeps by Zoltan Rozsa, Akos Madaras, Tamas Sziranyi

“…LiDAR point clouds are a rich source of information for autonomous vehicles and ADAS systems. …”
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Discovering emergent connections in quantum physics research via dynamic word embeddings by Felix Frohnert, Xuemei Gu, Mario Krenn, Evert van Nieuwenburg

“…Our findings suggest that this representation offers a more flexible and informative way of modeling conceptual relationships in scientific literature.…”
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No more flying blind: Leveraging weather forecasting for clear-cut risk-based decisions by Manuel Lombardi, David Sladek, Francesco Simone, Riccardo Patriarca

“…On this basis, this paper proposes an innovative methodology to support decision-making in VTOLs missions, emphasizing the importance of weather forecasting practices. …”
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Knowledge and Attitudes About Emergency Contraception Among Married Women in the Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey by Yeşim Bayoğlu Tekin, Ülkü Mete Ural, Işık Üstüner, Gülşah Balık, Figen Kır Şahin, Emine Seda Güvendağ Güven

“…The major barriers to use of EC are lack of information and misconceptions about EC. To increase their awareness and dispel negative attitudes, Turkish women need intensive information about EC. …”
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Simple shell measurements do not consistently predict habitat in turtles: a reply to Lichtig and Lucas (2017) by Evers, Serjoscha W., Foth, Christian, Joyce, Walter G., Hermanson, Guilherme

“…The origin and ancestral ecology of turtles is debated and various shell or limb proportions have been reported to correlate with habitat ecology among extant turtles, such that they may be informative for inferring the ecology of fossil turtles, including early shelled stem turtles. …”
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Pastoral livestock farming constraints and adaptation strategies in response to institutional reforms in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of West Africa by Basnewindé Ilboudo, Alhassane Zaré, Alhassane Zaré, Innocent Charles Emmanuel Traoré, Innocent Charles Emmanuel Traoré, Loyapin Bondé, Reginald Tang Guuroh, Reginald Tang Guuroh, Reginald Tang Guuroh, Oumarou Ouédraogo

“…The main information collected included pastoral landscape and the current state of the livestock production system. …”
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Analog parallel processor for broadband multifunctional integrated system based on silicon photonic platform by Na Qian, Defu Zhou, Haowen Shu, Ming Zhang, Xingjun Wang, Daoxin Dai, Xiao Deng, Weiwen Zou

“…Abstract Sharing the hardware platform between diverse information systems to establish full cooperation among different functionalities has attracted substantial attention. …”
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Competitive displacement of lipoprotein lipase from heparan sulfate is orchestrated by a disordered acidic cluster in GPIHBP1 by Anamika Biswas, Samina Arshid, Kristian Kølby Kristensen, Thomas J.D. Jørgensen, Michael Ploug

“…Due to its disordered state, the crystal structure of LPL•GPIHBP1 provided no information on these electrostatic interactions between LPL and GPIHBP1 acidic tail. …”
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Tropical cyclone intensity estimation based on YOLO-NAS using satellite images in real time by Priyanka Nandal, Prerna Mann, Navdeep Bohra, Ghadah Aldehim, Asma Abbas Hassan Elnour, Randa Allafi

“…Extensive experimentation illustrates that the proposed model achieves superior performance on various metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall, F1-Score, mAP rates, MSE and inference time as compared to other similar cutting-edge algorithms. …”
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Case study of a neuroendocrine tumor of uncertain origin: single-cell transcriptomics unravels potential primary location by Frolova Tatyana, Ekaterina Avsievich, Diana Salimgereeva, Zoia Antysheva, Alesia Maluchenko, Denis Maksimov, Ilia Feidorov, Mark Voloshin, Olga Glazova, Natalia Bodunova, Nikolay Karnaukhov, Pavel Volchkov, Julia Krupinova

“…Identifying the tumor’s pancreatic origin informed a targeted management approach, avoiding unnecessary systemic treatment and underscoring the potential of single-cell approaches in personalized oncology.…”
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The Effect of Land Degradation on Potato Production in Rubanda District: A Case Study of Muko Sub-County. by Niwaha, Richard

“…More still, 14.6% of the farmers revealed that provision of information to potato farmers on improved potato technologies by extension workers reduce land degradation and improve potato production. …”
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Preservation of Electronic Records and Performance of Microfinance Institutions: A Case Study of Lyamujungu SACCO Kaharo Branch. by Ainembabazi, Abias

“…The results on types of electronic records kept in Lyamujungu SACCO were bills and receipts, income statement, inventories of goods, financial statements, employment records, cash flow statement and balance sheet, the study findings on the role of preserving Electronic Records towards performance of Lyamujungu SACCO were; enables quicker and cheaper documents compilation, Electronic Records enables staff to access all information anytime, provide access to very large information, provision of online tools and sharing of content, there is little personalization for users, the study findings, on challenges faced in preserving Electronic Records for performance of Lyamujungu SACCO, were inadequate technical knowledge, inadequate skills, adequate communication infrastructure, poor management of records and inadequate finance and the study findings on the possible solutions to challenges faced in preserving Electronic Records in Lyamujungu SACCO for better performance were proper methods of filing, training of records management staff, expanding the file system capacity, improvement in provision of bandwidth and training of records management staff. …”
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Impact of Divorce on Girl Child Education in Nyakinama Sub-County Kisoro District. by Niyobyose, Sarah

“…A sample of 50 respondents was used to gather the required information and both purposeful sampling and simple random methods were employed in selecting the sample size. …”
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An Assessment of Socio-Economic Factors explaining Pupil Dropout in UPE Schools of Nyabihoko Sub- County, Ntungamo District by Abert, Musinguzi

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Image recognition technology for bituminous concrete reservoir panel cracks based on deep learning. by Kai Hu, Yang Ling, Jie Liu

“…The core model is an improved Xception network, enhanced with an adaptive activation function, dynamic attention mechanism, and multi-level residual connections. These innovations optimize feature extraction, enhance feature weighting, and improve information transmission, significantly boosting accuracy and robustness. …”
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CHARACTERISTICS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF BOSNIAN AND HERZEGOVINIAN COMPANIES by Adisa Delić, Emira Ahmetović

“… The technological revolution (especially in the field of information and communications technology) and globalization are the key factors in shaping the new competitive landscape which is characterized by hypercompetition, increasing consumer demands and increasing demands for innovation, knowledge and learning. …”
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SOCIAL MEDIA AND WOMEN MOBILIZATION FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT by SHARU AISHA AHMAD, AYODELE B. JOSEPH

“…Social media has become a very powerful platform that informs and educates its users. Community development is the advancement and progress of a particular community. …”
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