Bus-Stop Sami: Transient Temples in Urban South India by Eliza F. Kent

“…A site for community building and income-generation for their mostly poor and working class patrons, they are increasingly a source of anxiety for middle class residents who fear their capacity to morph quickly into full-fledged temples. …”
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Comparison of Fuzzy-AHP and ANP Decision Making Methods to Assess the Ecological Capability of Ecotourism Application (Case study: Dehloran National Natural Monuments) by Mohsen Tavakoli

“…In this model, gradually from class one to class three, the quality and flexibility of land is unsuitable for ecotourism. …”
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Stability Analysis and Stabilization Solutions for Landslides (Case Study: Khorramabad-Pole Zaal Freeway) by Majid Ebrahimi, Ahmad Zakerian, Javad Dawoudian, Abolghasem Amir-Ahmadi

“…As For the classification proposed by Peck et al. (1998), the slope number 6 is located in the class of very high landslide invulnerability, while the slope number 8 is in the class of is high vulnerability. …”
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Intelligent approach to detecting online fraudulent trading with solution for imbalanced data in fintech forensics by Saad M. Darwish, Amr Ibrahim Salama, Adel A. Elzoghabi

“…Traditional machine learning algorithms trained on unbalanced datasets tend to bias towards the majority class (legitimate transactions) and may overlook minority class (fraudulent transactions) patterns. …”
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Severe-hail detection with C-band dual-polarisation radars using convolutional neural networks by V. Forcadell, V. Forcadell, C. Augros, O. Caumont, O. Caumont, K. Dedieu, M. Ouradou, C. David, J. Figueras i Ventura, O. Laurantin, H. Al-Sakka

“…The first is created from severe-hail cases (<span class="inline-formula">≥2</span> cm), and the second is obtained from rain or small-hail cases (rain or hail <span class="inline-formula">&lt;2</span> cm) selected with the help of a cell identification algorithm above densely populated areas with no hail reports. …”
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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AN ACTIVITY-BASED APPROACH TO TEACHING THE PAST TENSE IN MEDICAL ENGLISH FOR PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES by Yu.V. Lysanets, O.M. Bieliaieva, I.V. Znamenska, H.Yu. Morokhovets, I.V. Rozhenko

“…The suggested methodological algorithm is feasible for both oral and written communication, reading and listening comprehension activities, group work, individual and self-directed work in class, as well as for in-class or self-paced learning, depending on the features of the curriculum and students’ English proficiency. …”
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Growth dynamics of Indian infants using latent trajectory models in pooled survey datasets by Aswathi Saji, Jeswin Baby, Jeswin Baby, Prem Antony, Srishti Sinha, Sulagna Bandyopadhyay, Joby K. Jose, Anura V. Kurpad, Tinku Thomas

“…The trajectories named Classes of Children were created for length-for-age Z scores (LAZ) and weight-for-age Z scores (WAZ) based on place of birth, residential area, and maternal education.ResultsWe identified two latent classes for LAZ in boys and three latent classes for LAZ in girls, and four classes for WAZ were identified in both boys and girls. …”
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ESL students english business skills development (based on the authentic movies «The Devil Wears Prada» and «Promised Land») by Irina Y. Sukhanova

“…The article focuses on the possibility and necessity for the ESL teachers to develop ESL students business communicative skills during their classes. The author introduces requirements necessary for improving effective ESL students activity, shares some experience of using original movies and textbooks as a means of ESL students work and presents various types of tasks for studentsAccording to the state educational standards of higher education a modern specialist should do self-study, using modern educational and information technologies, understand the diversity of social, cultural, ethnic, religious valuesand differences, knowways and means of cultural communication.The main goal of our study is to create the complex of exercises in order not only to keep up students motivation to the following subject but also to develop their communicative skills and business communicative skills. …”
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Connecting metal-organic framework synthesis to applications using multimodal machine learning by Sartaaj Takrim Khan, Seyed Mohamad Moosavi

“…Utilizing this approach, we create a synthesis-to-application map for MOFs, offering insights into optimal material classes for diverse applications. …”
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PRINCIPLES OF EFFICIENCY ESTIMATION TECHNIQUE OF MACHINE-PROCESS UNITS BASED ON THE FIFTH-GENERATION MOBILE UTILITIES by Edward Iosifovich Lipkovich, Vladimir Vladimirovich Shchirov

“…The problem of a comparative evaluation of a new technique design under developing the engineering solution and documentation is set. The created fifth-generation mobile power unit (MPU) is compared to the modern machine-process units based on a modern tractor identical in a draught class. …”
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Moral Dilemmas for Rural Contexts: Construction and Validation in a Colombian Secondary School by Fabio Enrique Barragán Santos, Agustín David Arias Rey

“…The remaining three dilemmas that were not validated could be polished thanks to the learning experience gained by the research team in relation to creating dilemmas, the students’ performance at facing dilemmas and the teacher´s role in the development of dilemmas in class. …”
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Play and Imagination in Developing Language Teacher Identity-in-Activity by Paula Golombek, Patrick Klager

“…His narrative inquiry created a mediational space in which he could ‘play’ with images, as well as academic concepts that had been introduced in a graduate course on genrebased instruction, and ‘imagine’ a more satisfying identity-in-activity, expressed as ‘synergy’ in a curriculum unit he designed for his grammar class. …”
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Opioid Crisis Detection in Social Media Discourse Using Deep Learning Approach by Muhammad Ahmad, Grigori Sidorov, Maaz Amjad, Iqra Ameer, Ildar Batyrshin

“…The findings show that our proposed methodology achieved the highest cross-validation score of 93% for binary classification and 91% for multi-class classification, demonstrating performance improvements of 9.41% and 10.98%, respectively, over the baseline model (XGB, 85% in binary class and 81% in multi-class).…”
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Mondialisation et nouvelle mobilité des élites africaines by Michel Lesourd

“…Today, the social class of “leaders” in Africa (high public official, political elite, business managers, big traders) is the main benefiter of the wealth accumulation process that has been created by the globalization, the development of exchanges and communication, as well as the global economic deregulation. …”
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A Two-Stream Deep Learning Framework for Robust Coral Reef Health Classification: Insights and Interpretability by Arslan Abdul Ghaffar, Gyu Sang Choi

“…The framework uniquely incorporates two parallel processing streams: one dedicated to analyzing the structural aspects of coral imagery and another focused on capturing color variations, both critical for accurate health assessment. We created a specialized dataset of 20,000 images by combining five public datasets, applying a class fusion process to ensure consistent class definitions across diverse data sources. …”
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geodl: An R package for geospatial deep learning semantic segmentation using torch and terra. by Aaron E Maxwell, Sarah Farhadpour, Srinjoy Das, Yalin Yang

“…Common assessment metrics (i.e., overall accuracy, class-level recalls or producer's accuracies, class-level precisions or user's accuracies, and class-level F1-scores) are implemented along with a modified version of the unified focal loss framework, which allows for defining a variety of loss metrics using one consistent implementation and set of hyperparameters. …”
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PRIVATE TECHNIQUE OF FORMATION OF REQUIREMENTS TO INFORMATION PROTECTION SYSTEMS FROM UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO AUTOMATED BATH SYSTEMS USING GENETIC ALGORITHM by I. G. Drovnikova, A. A. Zmeev, E. A. Rogozin

“…The proposed private method of forming requirements for GIS from unauthorized access in the AU using GA has a theoretical significance, practical value and allows you to formulate quantitative requirements for a wide class of AS certified in a certain class of security in accordance with the requirements of current regulatory documentation.…”
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The European Synarchy: New Discourses on Sovereignty by Dimitris N. Chryssochoou

“…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="ArticleText"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;At the same time, recent changes in the workings of the EU polity have not affected its nature as an essentially statecentric project, preserving a balance between state sovereignty and a relatively moderate yet discernible deepening of integration by means of producing a system of political co-determination; in other words, a new form of &lt;em&gt;synarchy&lt;/em&gt; between states and &lt;em&gt;demoi&lt;/em&gt; – an ensemble &lt;em&gt;sui generis&lt;/em&gt; of highly interdependent systems – is created, its structural and functional interaction resulting in a multilogical system of entwined sovereignties.…”
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Implementasi Model Pembelajaran Rekreasi-Prokreasi dalam Membaca Kritis Teks Eksplanasi di SMK by Bambang Eko Hari Cahyono, Lulus Irawati, Devit Tri Candrawati

“…The selected informants were Indonesian Language teachers and class XI students. Data were collected in-depth interview techniques, observation techniques, and documentation studies. …”
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Fluoroquinolones and Biofilm: A Narrative Review by Nicholas Geremia, Federico Giovagnorio, Agnese Colpani, Andrea De Vito, Alexandru Botan, Giacomo Stroffolini, Dan-Alexandru Toc, Verena Zerbato, Luigi Principe, Giordano Madeddu, Roberto Luzzati, Saverio Giuseppe Parisi, Stefano Di Bella

“…The formation of biofilms complicates treatment, as they create environments that are difficult for most antimicrobial agents to penetrate. …”
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