The role of religious values in extending social protection: a South African perspective by L. G. Mpedi

“…In addition, the article investigates the nature of the relationship between informal coping mechanisms (such as those in AICs) and formal social security, i.e. whether informal social security strengthens or weakens formal social security. …”
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ISO Technology Analysis with Extended TAM : A Case Study in PT Ebako Nusantara by Nindhia Hutagaol, Faizal Asrul Pasaribu, Jumadi Simangunsong

“…Implementing information systems in manufacturing aims to improve operational efficiency and service quality. …”
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The promised potential of blockchain technology for transparency and fairness in agri-food chains: insights from the coffee sector by Antonella Samoggia, Andrea Fantini, Rino Ghelfi

“…The objective is to assess how specific characteristics associated with both roaster companies and products influence the quantity and quality of fairness relevant information disclosed through blockchain. Data elaboration includes linear multivariate regressions processing information related to coffee roaster companies and products, and assessing the types of fairness information conveyed through the blockchain. …”
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A Survey of Deep Learning Techniques for Arabic Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis by Dalal Alqusair, Mounira Taileb, and Hassanin Al-Barhamtoshy

“…Compared to generic sentiment analysis, the outcome provides more in-depth information. This paper aims to explore the deep learning (DL) methods employed in Arabic ABSA, and provides a new taxonomy that organizes various ABSA studies depending on the number of tasks processed. …”
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Contemporary Yoruba Heroes in Public Sculpture by Tolulope O. Sobowale, Kehinde Adepegba, Johnson O. Oladesu

“…As such, at the departure of such people, they are immortalized in sculptural forms by the living.  Examples of this is Ako figures among the Ọ̀wọ̀ people, bronze figures representing past Ooni and Sango symbol which is represented in a carved double axe wand. …”
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Automatic detection and counting of wheat spike based on DMseg-Count by Hecang Zang, Yilong Peng, Meng Zhou, Guoqiang Li, Guoqing Zheng, Hualei Shen

“…Firstly, wheat spike local segmentation branch was introduced to improve the network architecture of DM-Count, so as to extract the local contextual supervision information of wheat spike. Secondly, an element-by-element point multiplication mechanism was designed to fuse global and local contextual supervision information of wheat spike. …”
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Evaluation of Learning Management Systems for Success Factors. by Muhaise, Hussein, Adeyemi, A. L., Muteb,I.J.

“…Through the literature reviewed on eLearning and Information Systems, the desire to determine the variables that measure the success factors for information systems continues. …”
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Unfixed Bias Iterator: A New Iterative Format by Zeqing Zhang, Xue Wang, Jiamin Shen, Man Zhang, Sen Yang, Fanchang Yang, Wei Zhao, Jia Wang

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A novel intelligent photonic design method enabled by metamaterials and k-nearest neighbor by Fan Hangming, Pan Junlin, Wang Yongchen, Yuan Zhe, Cheng Mengfan, Yang Qi, Liu Deming, Deng Lei

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Graph attention convolution network for power flow calculation considering grid uncertainty by Haochen Li, Liqun Liu, Shaojuan Yu, Qiusheng He, Qingfeng Wu, Jianfeng Zhang, Qinxiong Lu

“…Meanwhile, inductive learning is used during node sampling to more efficiently utilize global information. Furthermore, the learning ability of the model is further enhanced by the combination of stacked dilated convolution layers and a fully connected layer. …”
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Federated Learning Approach for Breast Cancer Detection Based on DCNN by Hussain AlSalman, Mabrook S. Al-Rakhami, Taha Alfakih, Mohammad Mehedi Hassan

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A knowledge graph for crop diseases and pests in China by Rongen Yan, Ping An, Xianghao Meng, Yakun Li, Dongmei Li, Fu Xu, Depeng Dang

“…CropDP-KG covers relevant information on crop diseases and pests in China, featuring 8 primary entities such as diseases, symptoms, and crops, and is organized into 7 relationships such as primary occurrence locations, affected parts and suitable temperature. …”
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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

“…By prioritizing the importance of input feature positions, this module enhances the sparse learning performance of critical feature information. Additionally, it strengthens the extraction capability of intrinsic feature information in both vertical and horizontal directions. …”
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3MT Competition (EUSIPCO2024): A peek into the black box: Insights into the functionality of complex-valued neural networks for multichannel speech enhancement by Annika Briegleb

“…The proposed framework allows to assess whether and where spatial information is represented inside the ANN, answering the question whether these ANNs exploit spatial cues in addition to spectral information. …”
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Hollies at a Glance by Sydney Park Brown, Dewayne L. Ingram, William E. Barrick

“… Hollies are reliable, low-maintenance plants for Florida landscapes. Diverse sizes, forms, and textures exist, ranging from large trees to dwarf shrubs. …”
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Hollies at a Glance by Sydney Park Brown, Dewayne L. Ingram, William E. Barrick

“… Hollies are reliable, low-maintenance plants for Florida landscapes. Diverse sizes, forms, and textures exist, ranging from large trees to dwarf shrubs. …”
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Child Abuse and Pupils’ Academic Performance in Primary Schools of Kayonza Sub-County Kanungu District. by Turyahabwa, Alex

“…It was guided by three main objectives: identifying the different forms of child abuse in the area, analyzing the causes of child abuse, and assessing its effects on the academic performance of primary school children. …”
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Two-dimensional semantic morphological feature extraction and atlas construction of maize ear leaves by Hongli Song, Hongli Song, Weiliang Wen, Weiliang Wen, Ying Zhang, Ying Zhang, Yanxin Zhao, Xinyu Guo, Xinyu Guo, Chunjiang Zhao, Chunjiang Zhao, Chunjiang Zhao

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Comprehensive Review of Meta-Learning Methods for Cold-Start Issue in Recommendation Systems by Jamallah M. Zawia, Maizatul Akmar Binti Ismail, Mohammad Imran, Buce Trias Hanggara, Diva Kurnianingtyas, Silvi Asna, Quang Tran Minh

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