JEAN BODIN'S NOTION OFSOVEREIGNTY, GOOD GOVERNANCE AND NTHE QUEST FOR SOCIOPOLITICALADVANCEMENT IN NIGER by EKUASE INNOCENT O., COLLINS OKONKWO, EDOGIAWERIE MORRIS K.O.

“…It is based on this premise that this paper attempts to examine Bodin's recommendations on the separation of the church from the state for the purposes of sovereign, good and progressive governance. Can the state actually thrive and survive without the involvement of the church in the running of the day-to-day activities of the state? …”
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Plant height measurement using UAV-based aerial RGB and LiDAR images in soybean by Lalit Pun Magar, Jeremy Sandifer, Deepak Khatri, Sudip Poudel, Suraj KC, Buddhi Gyawali, Maheteme Gebremedhin, Anuj Chiluwal

“…However, RGB showed more reliability in estimating plant height at physiological maturity when the LiDAR could not capture an accurate plant height measurement. The results from this study contribute to identifying ideal aerial phenotyping sensors to estimate plant height in soybean during different growth stages.…”
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Applying Imaging Technique to Investigate Effects of Solute Concentrations and Gas Injection Rates on Gas Bubble Generation by Guanxi Yan, Zhixin Cheng, Ye Ma, Alexander Scheuermann, Ling Li

“…Based on those results and findings, it is able to conclude that bubble size control, whose mechanism has been previously identified as the bubble collision and coalescence rather than the surface tension of water solutions, is actually dominated by not only the solute concentration but also the gas injection rate when a porous air sparger is used to generate bubbles. …”
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Stochastic Diffusive Modeling of CO₂ Emissions with Population and Energy Dynamics by Muhammad Shoaib Arif, Kamaleldin Abodayeh, Hisham M. Al-Khawar, Yasir Nawaz

“…This study develops a stochastic diffusive model to capture the complex dynamics of CO2 concentration, human population growth, and energy production. …”
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Comparative Analysis of YOLOv8 and HSV Methods for Traffic Density Measurement by Prof. I Gede Pasek Suta Wijaya, Muhamad Nizam Azmi, Ario Yudo Husodo

“…This method, while straightforward, may not accurately capture the dynamic nature of vehicle movement. In contrast, the YOLOv8 segmentation method utilizes a deep learning approach to detect and segment vehicles, providing potentially more precise measurements. …”
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Food insecurity among African Americans in the United States: A scoping review. by Elizabeth Dennard, Elizabeth Kristjansson, Nedelina Tchangalova, Sarah Totton, Donna Winham, Annette O'Connor

“…The primary objectives of this review were to identify which risk factors have been investigated for an association with food insecurity, describe how food insecurity is measured across studies that have evaluated this outcome among African Americans, and determine which dimensions of food security (food accessibility, availability, and utilization) are captured by risk factors studied by authors. Food insecurity related studies were identified through a search of Google Scholar, PubMed, CINAHL Plus, MEDLINE®, PsycINFO, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, and Web of Science™ (Clarivate), on May 20, 2021. …”
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Hip Abduction Strength: Relationship to Trunk and Lower Extremity Motion During A Single-Leg Step-Down Task in Professional Baseball Players by M. Christopher Zipser, Hillary A Plummer, Nathan Kindstrand, Johnathan C Sum, Bernard Li, Lori A Michener

“…Bilateral hip abduction isometric strength was measured using a handheld dynamometer (HHD), and then multiplied by distance from the greater trochanter to the HHD and expressed as hip abduction torque. Video cameras captured the SLSD, with participants standing on one leg while lowering their contralateral heel to touchdown on the floor from a 0.203m (8in.) step. …”
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Diffusion Smart-seq3 of breast cancer spheroids to explore spatial tumor biology and test evolutionary principles of tumor heterogeneity by Antony Cougnoux, Loay Mahmoud, Per A. Johnsson, Alper Eroglu, Louise Gsell, Jakob Rosenbauer, Rickard Sandberg, Jean Hausser

“…Finally, we characterize aspects of tumor heterogeneity captured by 3D spheroids that are missing from 2D cultures but found in tumors in vivo. …”
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Elimination of the Impact Produced by DG Units on the Voltage Profile of Distribution Networks by Saad Ouali, Abdeljabbar Cherkaoui

“…The criteria of the allocation of the var devices and the required network reinforcement are developed in this paper, considering all possible topology structures, and an innovative codification method is introduced to reduce the needed computation time and communication data to actualize the sensitivity coefficients and get the proposed control approach flexible with network topology reconfiguration. …”
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The effect of the stiffener pitch on the stress-strain state of the crane beam elements by V. S. Markeev, V. V. Zverev, I. A. Zajcev

“…Based on the design schemes of existing and actually operated crane beams of the metallurgical enterprise, a computational model of the structure under study was developed in the computational complex of strength analysis of structures by the method of finite element analysis.Results. …”
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Multimodal approach to public health interventions using EGG and mobile health technologies by Xiao Zhang, Han Liu, Mingyang Sun, Shuangyi Feng

“…PH-CLIP employs hierarchical feature extraction to capture the temporal dynamics of EEG signals, aligning them with contextually relevant textual descriptions for improved public health insights. …”
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Urban Scenic Spot Activity Center Investment: Strategic Construction Company Selection Using the Grey System-II Thinking Compromise Ranking of Alternatives from Distance to Ideal S... by Shuo Zhang, Moses Olabhele Esangbedo

“…First, a time delay was introduced between the first and second rounds of administering the weighting questionnaire to capture decision-makers’ preferences for the evaluation criteria as System-2 thinking, then the Grey System-2 Thinking (GS2T) weighting method was proposed for group decision-making. …”
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A novel approach to Lyapunov stability of Caputo fractional dynamic equations on time scale using a new generalized derivative by Michael Precious Ineh, Edet Peter Akpan, Hossam A. Nabwey

“…These examples highlighted the advantage of our definition of fractional-order derivative over integer-order approaches in capturing the intricacies of dynamic behavior.…”
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One More Time about the Age of Teachers in Russian Universities: Old Problems and New Trends by V. F. Pugach

“…It means this position is actually a “glass ceiling” for teachers in Russian higher education. …”
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Female Brain and Endocrinological Research-Veteran (FemBER-Vet) study: A study protocol for identifying endocrinological, lifestyle and psychosocial determinants of brain health ou... by Tamlyn Watermeyer, Elliott Atkinson, Glyn Howatson, Gill McGill, Christina Dodds, Paul Ansdell, Chinedu Udeh-Momoh

“…<h4>Methods</h4>The Female Brain and Endocrinological Research-Veteran (FemBER-Vet) Study will create a highly-phenotyped readiness cohort of ex-service persons as well as non-veterans to assess the impacts of, and risks associated with, military service on brain health, using state-of-the-art non-invasive cognitive, physiological and biomarker capture techniques. FEMBER-Vet will include 90 participants across three study groups (30 female veterans, 30 male veterans, 30 female civilians) to delineate the precise biological, socio-demographic, health, lifestyle, military-related, and life-course determinants of brain health outcomes (psychosocial, cognitive, neurophysiological, and other biomarkers).…”
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Competing fairness ideals underlie wealth inequality across decision contexts by Inge Huijsmans, Sarah Vahed, Cătălina E. Răţală, Alberto Llera, Alan G. Sanfey

“…We tackle this topic by simulating wealth inequality through the allocation of bonus endowments in both Dictator Game (DG) and Ultimatum Game (UG) settings and capturing distributive decisions. By integrating a computational model, we quantify individual differences in the interplay between financial self-interest and competing pro-social motivations that emerge in the context of pre-existing wealth inequity. …”
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Command, Control and Co-Creation: Drivers and Barriers Faced by Professionals Co-Creating in the Slovenian Public Sector by Sanja Vrbek, Marlot Kuiper

“…Design/methodology/approach: The paper relies on two Slovenian case studies capturing the experience of professionals from the Ministry of Public Administration and the Municipality of Ljubljana. …”
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Stress in autism (STREAM): A study protocol on the role of circadian activity, sleep quality and sensory reactivity. by Clara C Gernert, Christine M Falter-Wagner, Valdas Noreika, Barbara Jachs, Nazia Jassim, Kathryn Gibbs, Joaquim Streicher, Hannah Betts, Tristan A Bekinschtein

“…TET facilitates the quantification of relevant aspects of individual experience states, such as stress or sensory sensitivities, by providing a continuous multidimensional description of subjective experiences. Capturing the dynamics of subjective experiences phase-locked to neural and physiological proxies both between and within individuals, this approach has the potential to contribute to our understanding of critical issues in autism, including sleep problems, sensory reactivity and stress. …”
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Correcting scale distortion in RNA sequencing data by Christopher Thron, Farhad Jafari

“…Abstract RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) is the conventional genome-scale approach used to capture the expression levels of all detectable genes in a biological sample. …”
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Psychological adaptation of a person experiencing loneliness to the conditions of studying at a university by Zinaida I. Berezina, Irina N. Ulybysheva

“…The results of the study will make it possible to determine the features of individual work with students of pedagogical areas with different levels of loneliness and to develop an individual program for the adaptation of students, depending on the loneliness actually experienced by the individual, especially in the 1st year of study.…”
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