Toward Fiscal Decentralization: Assessing the Performance of Internally Generated Revenue Collection for Local Development in Ghana by Charles Nicholas, Charles Dwumfour Osei, David Kwao-Sarbah

“…The findings reveal a striking pattern where property rates emerged as the most consistent and high-performing source of IGF, while revenues from land royalties and administrative fees lagged significantly. …”
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Fatty acid filled polyaniline nanofibres with dual electrical conductivity and thermo-regulatory characteristics: Futuristic material for thermal energy storage by Tanwar Surya, Varshney Gunjan, Kaur Raminder

“…Thermogravimetric analysis revealed a multi-step deterioration pattern, demonstrating the developed nano-encapsulated-phase change material’s (PCMs’) exceptional thermal stability. …”
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Analysis of Factors Affecting Social Participation in Municipal Waste Management by Farhad Afshar, Madjid Abbaspour, Akram al-Muluk Lahijanian, Reza Azizinezhad

“…Also, from the social components of people's lifestyle, food consumption pattern had the highest priority.…”
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Zonation of macrofauna across sandy beaches and surf zones along the Dutch coast by Gerard Janssen, Saskia Mulder

“…BSI ranged from 1.4 to 1.1 for the northern and western Dutch coasts respectively and had an overall value of 1.2. The rates of exposure of the beaches varied between 8 and 12, and are therefore regarded as sheltered to moderately exposed. …”
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INTEGRATED APPROACH TO ASSESSING THE SEISMIC HAZARD OF URBAN AREAS IN SOUTHERN PRIANGARIE (CASE OF THE LEFT BANK OF THE ANGARA RIVER IN IRKUTSK) by A. Yu. Eskin, V. I. Dzhurik, S. P. Serebrennikov, E. V. Bryzhak

“…The experimental methods provided the data on the seismic properties of the reference and investigated soils, the propagation rates of seismic waves in such soils, and the pattern of microseism levels, as required for a valid estimation of seismic effect parameters by the seismic rigidity method and the microseism technique. …”
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Use of Computational Intelligence in Customizing Drug Release from 3D-Printed Products: A Comprehensive Review by Fantahun Molla Kassa, Souha H. Youssef, Yunmei Song, Sanjay Garg

“…Computational intelligence (CI) mimics human intelligence by expanding the capabilities of machines in data analysis, pattern recognition, and making informed decisions. …”
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Inaccurate DNA synthesis in cell extracts of yeast producing active human DNA polymerase iota. by Alena V Makarova, Corinn Grabow, Leonid V Gening, Vyacheslav Z Tarantul, Tahir H Tahirov, Tadayoshi Bessho, Youri I Pavlov

“…Finally, we demonstrate that the mutation rates in yeast strains producing human DNA Pols ι and η are not elevated over the control strain, despite highly inaccurate DNA synthesis by their extracts.…”
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Impact of selective evidence presentation on judgments of health inequality trends: an experimental study. by Sam Harper, Nicholas B King, Meredith E Young

“…We randomized participants to see either a difference or ratio measure of health inequality alongside raw mortality rates in 5 different scenarios. At baseline there were no differences between treatment groups in assessments of inequality trends, but selective exposure to the same raw data augmented with ratio versus difference inequality graphs altered participants' assessments of inequality change. …”
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SynergyBug: A deep learning approach to autonomous debugging and code remediation by Hong Chen

“…The system demonstrated exceptional detection strength for functional and performance, and security bugs, where the detection rates reached 94% and 90% and 92%, respectively. …”
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Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Severe Brain Injury by Yu. A. Churlyaev, M. Yu. Verein, S. L. Kan, Ye. V. Grigoryev, N. N. Yepifantseva, T. P. Aikina

“…Their general condition was rated as very critical. The patients were divided into three groups: 1) non-ARDS; 2) Stage 1 ARDS; and 3) Stage 2 ARDS. …”
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Assessing the Effects of Climate Change and Land‐Use Changes on Extreme Discharge in the Western Watershed of Lake Urmia, Iran by Ghasem Farahmand, Behzad Hessari, Hossein Salehi

“…Furthermore, land‐use change assessments indicated that expanding orchards and irrigated and rain‐fed agricultural lands will significantly elevate future peak discharge, with differences exceeding 10 m3/s in sub‐basins like Nazlochay and Barandozchay, driven by reduced infiltration and increased runoff rates. Modeling with these tools confirmed that climate and land‐use changes synergistically alter flood dynamics, a pattern consistent with regional studies. …”
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Slope Stability Assessment along Qalachwalan-Suraqalat Main Road, Sulaimani, NE-Iraq by Ghafor A. Hamasur, Nzho M. Qadir

“…The slope stations were chosen on the basis of difference in discontinuities pattern, variation in slope morphology and difference in the type of failure and the data were analyzed for their potential degree of stability by kinematic analysis, using DIPS v6.008 software and slope mass rating system [discrete-SMR and continuous-SMR (CSMR)], using SMR Tool - v205 software. …”
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The Clinical and Pathological Characteristics of Patients with Proliferative Glomerulonephritis with Monoclonal Immunoglobulin Deposits by Tariku T. Gudura, Hanny Sawaf, Randy Ogbenna, Ali Mehdi, Leal Herlitz, Surafel K. Gebreselassie, Shane A. Bobart

“… Introduction: Proliferative glomerulonephritis with monoclonal immunoglobin (Ig) deposits (PGNMID) is a rare form of kidney disease associated with low monoclonal protein detection rates and poor renal outcomes. The lack of effective therapy is partly due to limited data and understanding of its pathogenesis. …”
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Oral and maxillofacial cancer: A 35-year retrospective analysis at a referral dental hospital in Saudi Arabia by Ohoud Nasser Alotaibi

“…Objectives: As rates of oral and maxillofacial cancer (OMFC) continue to rise, the role of dentists in early detection and prevention has become increasingly important. …”
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A theory of memory for binary sequences: Evidence for a mental compression algorithm in humans. by Samuel Planton, Timo van Kerkoerle, Leïla Abbih, Maxime Maheu, Florent Meyniel, Mariano Sigman, Liping Wang, Santiago Figueira, Sergio Romano, Stanislas Dehaene

“…Both subjective complexity ratings and objective violation detection performance were well predicted by our theoretical measure of complexity, which simply reflects a weighted sum of the number of elementary instructions and digits in the shortest formula that captures the sequence in our language. …”
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Experimental study on the dynamic properties of low-cement sludge solidified soil under long-term cyclic loading by Jiantao Lin, Wenjun Wang, Xiao Cheng, Haoqiang Pan

“…The test results revealed the following: (1) The cumulative deformation of the solidified soil exhibited either a “stable” or a “failure” pattern, with the transition governed by the critical dynamic load, which was strongly influenced by the cement content. (2) Increasing the cement content significantly enhanced the fatigue resistance of the solidified soil; when the content was increased from 4 to 6%, the fatigue life improved by up to 575%. (3) When the cement content exceeded 6%, the growth rates of both fatigue life and initial dynamic elastic modulus slowed markedly, indicating a clear phenomenon of diminishing marginal returns. …”
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Investigation of gas natural separation process unsteady features by means of an experimental rig and mathematical modeling by V. A. Ivanov, V. S. Verbitsky, R. A. Khabibullin, K. A. Goridko, E. I. Nikonov

“…It is revealed that at small time intervals (<1 s) the regimes with slug-churn flow pattern are characterized by significant nonstationarity. …”
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Gut–Vaginal Microbiome Crosstalk in Ovarian Cancer: Implications for Early Diagnosis by Hao Lin, Zhen Zeng, Hong Zhang, Yongbin Jia, Jiangmei Pang, Jingjing Chen, Hu Zhang

“…Ovarian cancer remains a formidable global health burden, characterized by frequent late-stage diagnosis and elevated mortality rates attributable to its elusive pathogenesis and the critical lack of reliable early-detection biomarkers. …”
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Valley-filling Potential Evaluation of Urban Public Charging Stations Based on Price Incentive by Dawei SU, Yihui FAN, Tianhui ZHAO, Hongjin PAN, Youhui HUANG, Gang WANG, Yongyong JIA

“…Then, the typical load characteristic indicators including valley-period and flat-period load rates are proposed, and the charging load valley-filling potential evaluation parameters are introduced to carry out valley-filling potential evaluation of urban public charging stations. …”
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Big team science reveals promises and limitations of machine learning efforts to model physiological markers of affective experience by Nicholas A. Coles, Bartosz Perz, Maciej Behnke, Johannes C. Eichstaedt, Soo Hyung Kim, Tu N. Vu, Chirag Raman, Julian Tejada, Van-Thong Huynh, Guangyi Zhang, Tanming Cui, Sharanyak Podder, Rushi Chavda, Shubham Pandey, Arpit Upadhyay, Jorge I. Padilla-Buritica, Carlos J. Barrera Causil, Linying Ji, Felix Dollack, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Huakun Liu, Monica Perusquia-Hernandez, Hideaki Uchiyama, Xin Wei, Houwei Cao, Ziqing Yang, Alessia Iancarelli, Kieran McVeigh, Yiyu Wang, Isabel M. Berwian, Jamie C. Chiu, Dan-Mircea Mirea, Erik C. Nook, Henna I. Vartiainen, Claire Whiting, Young Won Cho, Sy-Miin Chow, Zachary F. Fisher, Yanling Li, Xiaoyue Xiong, Yuqi Shen, Enzo Tagliazucchi, Leandro A. Bugnon, Raydonal Ospina, Nicolas M. Bruno, Tomas A. D'Amelio, Federico Zamberlan, Luis R. Mercado Diaz, Javier O. Pinzon-Arenas, Hugo F. Posada-Quintero, Maneesh Bilalpur, Saurabh Hinduja, Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos, Shaun Canavan, Liza Jivnani, Stanisław Saganowski

“…In 46% of tests, teams also outperformed baseline models that relied on the simple average of ratings from training datasets. More notably, results uncovered a methodological challenge: multiplicative constraints on generalizability. …”
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