URBAN SUSTAINABILITY TRANSFORMATIVE EFFECTS OF GREEN ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE AFRICAN CONTINENT by Trynos GUMBO, Bonolo LETLAPE

“…Among the renewable energy infrastructure technologies worth noting is the landfill-gas to electricity investments that have been embraced by a few African countries since the advent of the new millennium. The technologies have been adopted not only to improve economic performances of the African continent but also to realise social and environmental benefits that accrue from the innovations. …”
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A new dimensionality reduction technique based on the Wavelet Transform for cancer classification by Lisardo Fernández, Mariano Pérez, Juan M. Orduña, José M. Alcaraz

“…In recent years, there has been a significant increase in both the number of research works on this topic and the number and size of labeled databases with some type of cancer. Although the advent of methylation microarrays such as the HumanMethylation450 platform has greatly reduced the dimensionality of the problem from billions to 450K positions, this data size is still too large to be processed by machine learning algorithms for cancer prediction and classification. …”
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Refugee securitization and the challenges of formal integration: case of Somali refugees in Kenya and Ethiopia by Fred N. Ikanda, Abdirahman A. Muhumad, Jana Kuhnt

“…A history of border conflicts that shaped the relationship between refugee hosting areas and the national governments long before the advent of camps, coupled with shared Somaliness between locals and refugees in hosting areas, and the back-and-forth refugee movements across international borders have created a confluence of factors that reinforce suspicion and distrust towards Somali refugees. …”
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Wake-up call for recovery: a paradigm shift to address the deep crisis in Israel’s public mental health services in the shadow of October 7, 2023 by Amir Krivoy, Gadi Rosenthal

“…Diagnostic practices, centered on outdated classifications, fail to address the complexity of severe mental illnesses, resulting in imprecise diagnoses and insufficient treatments. Despite the advent of psychopharmacology, significant advancements in drug efficacy are lacking, with recovery rates stagnating or declining. …”
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Machine learning-based analysis of microfluidic device immobilized C. elegans for automated developmental toxicity testing by Andrew DuPlissis, Abhishri Medewar, Evan Hegarty, Adam Laing, Amber Shen, Sebastian Gomez, Sudip Mondal, Adela Ben-Yakar

“…However, current low-resolution and labor-intensive methodologies prohibit its application for sub-lethal DevTox studies at high throughputs. With the recent advent of the large-scale microfluidic device, vivoChip, we can now rapidly collect 3D high-resolution images of ~ 1000 C. elegans from 24 different populations. …”
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TRANSNATIONAL THREATS AND FOREIGN POLICY SHIFTS: INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON WEST AFRICAN COUNTRIES by AHMED OLAWALE MOLIKI, NURUDEEN ABIDEMI AKANBI

“…The challenges of terrorism and insurgency in West Africa countries is highly facilitated by the advent of globalisation, and this has greatly impacted how these nations position their foreign policy, shifting from the traditional way of foreign policy making to one that encompasses collaborations to tackle emerging threats. …”
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Privacy-preserving data compression scheme for k-anonymity model based on Huffman coding by Yue YU, Xianzheng LIN, Weihai LI, Nenghai YU

“…The k-anonymity model is widely used as a data anonymization technique for privacy protection during the data release phase.However, with the advent of the big data era, the generation of vast amounts of data poses challenges to data storage.However, it is not feasible to expand the storage space infinitely by hardware upgrade, since the cost of memory is high and the storage space is limited.For this reason, data compression techniques can reduce storage costs and communication overhead.In order to reduce the storage space of the data generated by using anonymization techniques in the data publishing phase, a compression scheme was proposed for the original data and anonymized data of the k-anonymity model.For the original data of the k-anonymity model, the difference between the original data and the anonymized data was calculated according to the set rules and the pre-defined generalization level.Huffman coding compression was applied to the difference data according to frequency characteristics.By storing the difference data, the original data can be obtained indirectly, thus reducing the storage space of the original data.For anonymized data of the k-anonymity model, the anonymized data usually have high repeatability according to the generalization rules of the model or the pre-defined generalization hierarchy relations.The larger the value of k, the more generalized and repeatable the anonymized data becomes.The design of Huffman coding compression was implemented for anonymous data to reduce storage space.The experimental results show that the proposed scheme can significantly reduce the original data and the anonymous data compression rate of the k-anonymity model.Across five models and variousk-value settings,the proposed scheme reduces the compression rate of raw and anonymized data by 72.2% and 64.2% on average compared to the Windows 11 zip tool.…”
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School Leadership and Management in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Recent Developments and Future Prospects by Turgut Karakose, Tijen Tülübaş

“… Background/purpose. With the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI), it has become possible to invent computer systems that can perform human-like processes to tackle large data and solve complex problems. …”

Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials on Androgens versus Erythropoietin for Anaemia of Chronic Kidney Disease: Implications for Developing Countries by B. Adamu, S. M. Ma'aji, P. J. Erwin, I. M. Tleyjeh

“…Androgens which are relatively cheap were used in the treatment of anaemia in dialysis patients before the advent of Erythropoietin (EPO). However, there are concerns about their efficacy and side effects. …”
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IJSIE ABSTRACTS by Kananga Mukuna

“…Influential trends towards responsible research and innovation, the globalisation of research, the emergence and inclusion of new or previously excluded stakeholders, and the advent of open science are reshaping scholarly publishing's scope and nature. …”
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A case study on using a large language model to analyze continuous glucose monitoring data by Elizabeth Healey, Amelia Li Min Tan, Kristen L. Flint, Jessica L. Ruiz, Isaac Kohane

“…However, interpreting metrics and charts and synthesizing them into linguistic summaries is often non-trivial for patients and providers. The advent of large language models (LLMs) has enabled real-time text generation and summarization of medical data. …”
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Internet of things enabled smart agriculture: Current status, latest advancements, challenges and countermeasures by Navod Neranjan Thilakarathne, Muhammad Saifullah Abu Bakar, Pg Emeroylariffion Abas, Hayati Yassin

“…Owing to the ever-increasing world population, estimated at 7.9 billion in 2022, feeding this number of people has become a concern due to the current rate of agricultural food production subjected to various reasons. The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) based technologies in the 21st century has led to the reshaping of every industry, including agriculture, and has paved the way for smart agriculture, with the technology used towards automating and controlling most aspects of traditional agriculture. …”
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MARKETING EVOLUTION: FROM TRADITIONAL TO WEB 3.0 by Andriy Melnyk

“…The results obtained demonstrate a substantial transition in marketing methodologies from unidirectional communication in conventional marketing to dynamic, interactive customer interaction in digital and Web 3.0 marketing. The advent of Web 3.0 technologies, including blockchain, tokenization, and decentralized applications, has engendered novel options for individualized, trust-centric interactions between customers and marketers. …”
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In-office laryngeal procedures (IOLP) in Canada: current safety practices and procedural care by Yael Bensoussan, Jennifer Anderson

“…Abstract Background The advent of chip tip technology combined with advanced endoscopy has revolutionized the field of laryngology in the past decade. …”
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Wastewater metagenomics in Africa: Opportunities and challenges. by Stephen Kanyerezi, Fatma Zahra Guerfali, Abbas Abel Anzaku, Oluwasegun Adesina Babaleye, Tracey Calvert-Joshua, Julien Alban Nguinkal, Oluwaseun Paul Amoo, Chiraz Atri, Waqasuddin Khan, Iqra Saleh, M Imran Nisar, Arthur Shem Kasambula, Koketso Morapedi, Gerald Mboowa

“…The advent of metagenomics has dramatically expanded our understanding of microbial communities, particularly through the study of wastewater, which serves as a rich source of microbial data. …”
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Deep Q-Networks for Minimizing Total Tardiness on a Single Machine by Kuan Wei Huang, Bertrand M. T. Lin

“…Due to its computational intractability, exact approaches such as dynamic programming algorithms and branch-and-bound algorithms struggle to produce optimal solutions for large-scale instances in a reasonable time. The advent of Deep Q-Networks (DQNs) within the reinforcement learning paradigm could be a viable approach to transcending these limitations, offering a robust and adaptive approach. …”
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Pacific Pumas in Indian Jungle: Place of Latin America in Indo-Pacific by T. A. Vorotnikova

“…After the ratification of the TPP by Mexico, Peru, and Chile, an agreement that unites all four Pacific Ocean continents for the first time emerged. The advent of the RCEP, which includes powerful economies such as China, South Korea, and Japan, demonstrates a clear global shift from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from West to East. …”
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The curated Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM genome provides insights into strain specificity and microevolution by Meichen Pan, Sarah O’Flaherty, Ashley Hibberd, Svetlana Gerdes, Wesley Morovic, Rodolphe Barrangou

“…Abstract Background The advent of next generation sequencing technologies has enabled a surge in the number of whole genome sequences in public databases, and our understanding of the composition and evolution of bacterial genomes. …”
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Phony peach disease: past and present impact on the peach industry in the southeastern U.S.A by Kendall A. Johnson, Clive H. Bock, Phillip M. Brannen

“…Limited research has been conducted on PPD since the 1980s, but the advent of new technologies offers the opportunity for new, foundational research to form a basis for informed management of PPD in the U.S. …”
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Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children with COVID-19 in a multitransfused patient by Swarnalata Das, Manas Behera Ranjan, Palash Das

“…The patient was treated with intravenous corticosteroids and improved with the same. The advent of COVID19 pandemic saw most children having a mild disease with no or minimal symptoms. …”
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