PREVALENCE AND CONSEQUENCES OF KIDNAPPING IN SOUTHERN TARABA STATE, NIGERIA by YIKWABS PETER YIKWAB, WAJIM JOHN, ALEGBEJO NOAH KOLAWOLE, AROKOYO JACOB

“…Extant literature on kidnapping have mostly captured the discourse on kidnapping from the prism of its historization and causes with paucity of research with regards to the prevalence and consequences especially as it affects Southern Taraba State, Nigeria. …”
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Utilization of local coal in Pakistan's oil-fired power plants and future clean technologies for power generation by Qamar Abbas, Haseeb Yaqoob, Uzair Sajjad, Hafiz Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Musaddiq Jamil

“…The research explores clean coal technologies like Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) combined with Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) and carbon capture systems to mitigate environmental impact. …”
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Deep Unfolding-Aided Parameter Tuning for Plug-and-Play-Based Video Snapshot Compressive Imaging by Takashi Matsuda, Ryo Hayakawa, Youji Iiguni

“…Snapshot compressive imaging (SCI) captures high-dimensional data efficiently by compressing it into two-dimensional observations and reconstructing high-dimensional data from two-dimensional observations with various algorithms. …”
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Evolving Spiking Neural Network Model for PM2.5 Hourly Concentration Prediction Based on Seasonal Differences: A Case Study on Data from Beijing and Shanghai by Hengyuan Liu, Guibin Lu, Yangjun Wang, Nikola Kasabov

“…Furthermore, inadequate processing of the available spatio-temporal data has precluded the capture of predictive historical patterns. Therefore, we have developed a staging evolving spiking neural network (eSNN) model named Staging-eSNN that first employs a time series clustering algorithm to distinguish the seasonal from the diurnal variation in the PM2.5 concentration. …”
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Digital Markets and Data Exploitation: Addressing Abuse of Dominance Under Indonesian Competition Law by Moch. Marsa Taufiqurrohman, Helza Nova Lita, Gress Gustia Adrian Pah

“…The power derived from service providers' access and control over users' data can capture the market from existing competitors and potential entrants, potentially resulting in higher and even discriminatory consumer prices. …”
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Data Makers and Users' Views on Useful Paradata by Isto Huvila, Lisa Andersson, Olle Sköld, Ying-Hsang Liu

“…The findings underline that there is a need to continue developing and testing ideas how to capture and document paradata, and to find ways how to help data makers adopt proven practices to facilitate paradata making. …”
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Nonlinear finite element analysis of equivalent Iwan model considering threaded connections by Litai Sun, Ling Li, Xiaochan Gao

“…The results show that the finite element model based on the Iwan model can accurately capture the complex contact behavior of the threaded joint. …”
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Measurements of stable ruthenium fission products in nuclear reactor fuel samples by Genna M. Patton, Zachary A. Torrano, Amanda Salazar, Jeffrey Miller, Matthew E. Sanborn, Susan K. Hanson

“…The measured Ru ratios clearly comprise inputs from both fission and neutron capture reactions. These measurements serve as important experimental validation of previous theoretical studies suggesting that Ru isotope ratios reflect the burnup of nuclear fuel and could be used to distinguish between reactor types.…”
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PRIVATE SECURITY SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM by BENJAMIN KOMMEY, SETH KOTEY, ERIC TUTU, DANIEL OPOKU

“…A facial recognition algorithm is run on the face extracted from the image captured after the object that caused the motion is identified and classified as human. …”
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Enhancing environmental monitoring of harmful algal blooms with ConvLSTM image prediction by Sung Jae Kim, Yongbok Cho

“…These interpolated images are then used as input for a ConvLSTM (Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory) network, which integrates convolutional layers to capture spatial patterns and LSTM units to model temporal dependencies. …”
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Comparison of the Performance of the C.45 Algorithm with Naive Bayes in Analyzing Book Borrowing at the Library Pringsewu Muhammadiyah University by Dani Wilian, Sriyanto Sriyanto

“…These results demonstrate that C4.5 is more adept at capturing complex relationships within the data, providing deeper insights into user preferences and enhancing library services. …”
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THE IMPLICATIONS OF TERRORISM ON FOOD PRICES IN NIGERIA by LILIAN NNENNE AKHANOLU, HEZEKIAH AMAMIZO OGUNNUBI

“…In view of these occurrences , this paper examines the implications of terrorism on the recent prices of food and our empirical results shows that terrorism has a negative effect on the prices of food in the country .The study adopted the descriptive analysis of secondary data to examine the effects of terrorism on food prices in the nation .The study will examine the topic in detail and based on this ,the following policy recommendations will be put forward which includes government providing securities for farmers by using the non-biased military to silent the insurgents, adopt a registration data of herders with government which will capture all operating herders in Nigerian states for easy tracking of any misbehavior, provide employment for our jobless youths who had become instruments in the hands of terrorist promoters, and  above all, Nigerian government should adopt State police for a better protection of our rural areas and communities. …”
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Development of an automated foot contact area measurement program for podoscopes using ChatGPT-4: a case report by Min Cheol Chang

“…A 53-year-old female volunteer stood on a podoscope to capture images of her feet, which were processed to isolate the foot contours and measure the contact areas. …”
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Clinical and genetic analysis of methylmalonic aciduria in 60 patients from Southern China: a single center retrospective study by Hiba Abid, Areeba Abid, Sarah Sohail, Sara Jawaid

“…Moreover, we address the underestimation of liver dysfunction in MMA patients, noting the need for longitudinal follow-up to capture the progression of liver function abnormalities. …”
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Distinct roles for intra- and extracellular siderophores during Aspergillus fumigatus infection. by Markus Schrettl, Elaine Bignell, Claudia Kragl, Yasmin Sabiha, Omar Loss, Martin Eisendle, Anja Wallner, Herbert N Arst, Ken Haynes, Hubertus Haas

“…We have previously demonstrated that A. fumigatus excretes fusarinine C and triacetylfusarinine C to capture extracellular iron, and uses ferricrocin for hyphal iron storage. …”
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Local and global stability analysis of HIV/AIDS by using a nonstandard finite difference scheme by Amjid Hussain Morani, Maha Mohammed Saeed, Muhammad Aslam, Atif Mehmoud, Ali Shokri, Herbert Mukalazi

“…The NSFD method effectively captures the dynamics of HIV propagation under various scenarios, providing valuable insights into HIV/AIDS progression. …”
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Enhancing the performance of iron-based binders with seawater and CO2 sequestration by V Chandralega, M Shanmugasundaram, David Stone

“…In this study normal water and seawater were employed as the CO₂-capturing media, enabling mass transfer for reactions under ambient conditions. …”
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An Emerging Theory of School-Based Participatory Science by P. Sean Smith, Christine L. Goforth, Sarah J. Carrier, Meredith L. Hayes, Sarah E. Safley

“…In this essay, we put forth a theory of SBPS that is emerging from a four-year study of efforts to integrate participatory science in elementary classrooms. The theory captures the complexity of SBPS and describes factors that shape the experience teachers and students have with participatory science. …”
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Influences of footstrike patterns and overground conditions on lower extremity kinematics and kinetics during running: Statistical parametric mapping analysis. by Yifang Zhuang, Wenxing Zhou, Ziwei Zeng, Shiwei Mo, Lin Wang

“…Thirty rearfoot strikers (RFSs) and non-rearfoot strikers (nRFSs) ran at 3.3 m/s on a specially designed indoor track covered with three surfaces: artificial grass, synthetic rubber, and concrete. A motion capture system with ten cameras combined a force plate was used to collect marker trajectory and ground reaction force (GRF) during the running stance phase. …”
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Short-term urban traffic forecasting in smart cities: a dynamic diffusion spatial-temporal graph convolutional network by Xiang Yin, Junyang Yu, Xiaoyu Duan, Lei Chen, Xiaoli Liang

“…It first combines the dynamic generation matrix and the static distance matrix to grasp real-time traffic conditions, and then introduces the diffusion random walk strategy to capture the correlation of spatial nodes. Finally, the convolutional LSTM module is used to mine the spatiotemporal dependence of traffic data to improve the accuracy of traffic prediction. …”
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