PUBLIC INFRASRUCTURE PROJECT FAILURES IN NIGERIA: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENTIAL EFFECTS ON ECONOMY AND WELFARE OF CITIZENRY by YUSUF GARBA MANJO

“…These findings and recommendations are the contributions of this work to scholarship as they are different from the previous related studies. …”
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Net zero and protection: Framing environmental action in Corporate Social Responsibility reports of rail companies by Marina Bondi, Jessica Jane Nocella

“…Results shed light not only on how companies represent themselves through the genre of CSR reports, but also on cross-cultural differences. Specifically, countries using net zero as their main objective present themselves as efficient while those preferring climate protection as caring. …”
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Continual learning with hebbian plasticity in sparse and predictive coding networks: a survey and perspective by Ali Safa

“…Recently, the use of bio-inspired learning techniques such as Hebbian learning and its closely-related spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) variant have drawn significant attention for the design of compute-efficient AI systems that can continuously learn on-line at the edge. …”
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Chinese Character Features Facilitate Working Memory Updating: Evidence From the EEG by Hongli Li, Decai Ren, Yihang Ouyang

“…By employing a combination of event‐related potential (ERP) and time—frequency analysis (TFA) techniques, we investigated differences in neural activity among participants as they engaged in the real character and pseudo‐character 2‐back tasks. …”
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Biochemical and structural characterization of enzymes in the 4-hydroxybenzoate catabolic pathway of lignin-degrading white-rot fungi by Eugene Kuatsjah, Alexa Schwartz, Michael Zahn, Konstantinos Tornesakis, Zoe A. Kellermyer, Morgan A. Ingraham, Sean P. Woodworth, Kelsey J. Ramirez, Paul A. Cox, Andrew R. Pickford, Davinia Salvachúa

“…Summary: White-rot fungi (WRF) are the most efficient lignin-degrading organisms in nature. However, their capacity to use lignin-related aromatic compounds, such as 4-hydroxybenzoate, as carbon sources has only been described recently. …”
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A Novel Hybrid Model for Automatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Classification Using Histopathological Images by Oguzhan Katar, Ozal Yildirim, Ru-San Tan, U Rajendra Acharya

“…Among all cancer types, lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related deaths, with most cases linked to non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). …”
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Effects of aging and valence on emotional response inhibition: conclusions from a novel stop-signal task by Jill D. Waring, Stephanie N. Hartling

“…Thus, while response inhibition is less efficient in older adults, it does not differ by emotion across adulthood. …”
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Salvador Urban Network Transportation (SUNT): A Landmark Spatiotemporal Dataset for Public Transportation by Marcos V. Ferreira, Matheus Souza, Tatiane N. Rios, Islame F. C. Fernandes, Jorge Nery, João Gama, Albert Bifet, Ricardo A. Rios

“…Realizing these benefits requires a deeply understanding the population and transit patterns and the adoption of approaches to model multiple relations and characteristics efficiently. This work addresses these challenges by providing a novel dataset that includes various public transportation components from three different systems: regular buses, subway, and BRT (Bus Rapid Transit). …”
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Reflection on the pharmaceutical service in nursing homes; understanding reality to cover needs by Juan F. Peris-Martí, Elia Fernández-Villalba, Patricia Bravo-José, Carmen Sáez-Lleó, María García-Mina Freire

“…In this sense, diverse factors related with the patient care setting, but also linked to different pharmaceutical levels, make it difficult to implement a patient care model. …”
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High-throughput numerical modeling of the tunable synaptic behavior in 2D MoS2 memristive devices by Benjamin Spetzler, Vinod K. Sangwan, Mark C. Hersam, Martin Ziegler

“…Here, we introduce a numerical modeling framework that facilitates efficient exploration of the large parameter space for 2D memristive synaptic devices. …”
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A Damage Classification Approach for Structural Health Monitoring Using Machine Learning by Diego Tibaduiza, Miguel Ángel Torres-Arredondo, Jaime Vitola, Maribel Anaya, Francesc Pozo

“…These kinds of inspection strategies are based on the fact that these waves can propagate over relatively long distances and are able to interact sensitively with and uniquely with different types of defects. …”
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Assess the Changing Role of Database Technology within Geographic Information System Over the Past 45 Years by Ashna Abdulrahman Kareem Zada

“…This paper shows the different methods, in which spatial data are integrated by major database vendors and database within GIS. …”
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Carbon Tax and the Industrial Sector in Developed and Developing Countries A Dynamic General Equilibrium Model by kolsum afshoon, mehdi nejati, Seyed Abdulmajid Jalaee, zeinolabedin sadeghi

“…Based on the results of the research, it was observed that due to the differences in the regions, the macroeconomic effects in the industry will be different for different regions of the world. …”
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Testing Pretrained Large Language Models to Set Up a Knowledge Hub of Heterogeneous Multisource Environmental Documents by Paolo Tagliolato Acquaviva d’Aragona, Gloria Bordogna, Lorenza Babbini, Alessandro Lotti, Annalisa Minelli, Martina Zilioli, Alessandro Oggioni

“…The Knowledge Hub is intended to serve as a resource to assist public authorities and users with different backgrounds and needs in accessing information efficiently; users should be able to either formulate natural language queries or to navigate a knowledge graph that is automatically generated to find relevant documents. …”
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APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN ORTHODONTIC DENTISTRY (LITERATURE REVIEW) by Yu.Ye. Lokota, Ye.Yu. Lokota, M.E. Izay, M.I. Kayla

“…The model needs a lot of data to learn different aspects, using abstractions from different levels of processing. …”
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Using IR spectroscopy as a holistic monitoring approach in winemaking: A review by Marianthi Basalekou

“…Monitoring all aspects of winemaking from grape to wine is a technically challenging task, as different key compounds are related to each step, requiring different analytical methods for their estimation. …”
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Static and Dynamic User Portraits by Ko-Hsun Huang, Yi-Shin Deng, Ming-Chuen Chuang

“…In this research, we reflect on three different design studies related to social interaction, experience, and cross-platform service design to discuss multiple ways of identifying both direct users and invisible users in design research. …”
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A Suggested Point Search Algorithm for Circle Detection in Binary Images by Sundus Ebraheem

“…The proposed algorithm was compared with Hough Transform (HT) method for circle detection by using many images with different numbers and radius of circles and different image dimensions. …”
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Spatially mapping the tumour immune microenvironments of non-small cell lung cancer by Lysanne Desharnais, Mark Sorin, Morteza Rezanejad, Bridget Liu, Elham Karimi, Aline Atallah, Anikka M. Swaby, Miranda W. Yu, Samuel Doré, Saskia Hartner, Benoit Fiset, Yuhong Wei, Baharak Kadang, Roni Rayes, Philippe Joubert, Sophie Camilleri-Broët, Pierre-Olivier Fiset, Daniela F. Quail, Jonathan D. Spicer, Logan A. Walsh

“…The spatial architectural differences between lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) are relatively unexplored. …”
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Fatigue and short crack assessment of powder bed fusion laser-based fabricated AlSi10Mg miniature specimens under alternating bending load by Sebastian Stammkötter, Jochen Tenkamp, Mirko Teschke, Kai Donnerbauer, Alexander Koch, Timo Platt, Dirk Biermann, Frank Walther

“…Results of S-N curves did not allow a precise lifetime prediction due to increasing effect of manufacturing-related defect distributions, while fracture mechanical approaches enable a uniform fatigue lifetime description of different testing volumes. …”
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