AraDetector at ArAIEval Shared Task: An Ensemble of Arabic-specific pre-trained BERT and GPT-4 for Arabic Disinformation Detection
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Vian Sabeeh, Hanan Belhaj, Serry Sibaee
The rapid proliferation of disinformation through social media has become one of the most dangerous means to deceive and influence people's thoughts, viewpoints, or behaviors …
Assessment of Heavy Metals in Fish Tissues of Tilapia and Catfish from River Hadejia, Northern Nigeria
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Lawan Musa Yalwa, Haruna Ahmad
Kidney failure has become a growing problem at Hadejia Emirates over the last decade. This can be attributed to water pollution, possibly due to heavy …
A Dataset of Self-Reported Attitudes to Afrikaans Swearwords
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Gerhard van Huyssteen, Roald Eiselen, Jakobus S. du Toit
Until recently, no research has ever been done on user attitudes to Afrikaans taboo language. To address this shortcoming, a multidisciplinary research project was initiated …
Effect of technology on staff retention: case study of pick Npay Namibia
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Elingua Kuume, Nikodemus Angula
When business leaders have retention measures in place, they generally see increased profitability. The expense of replacing IT professionals, on the other hand, poses substantial …
PERCEPTIONS OF SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS REGARDING THE ASSET-BASED COMMUNITY-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT (ABCD) APPROACH: A SOUTH AFRICAN STUDY
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Hanna Nel, Natalie Mansvelt, Yolisa Shugu
Asset-based community-driven development (ABCD) has gained momentum in social work education over the last ten years. This mix-method study presents students’ perceptions of the relevance …
COVID-19 second wave and clinical characteristics of cases in Uganda: A retrospective cross-sectional survey of confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases, March–June 2021
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Abel Wilson Walekhwa, Brenda Nakazibwe, Mary Nantongo
We conducted a retrospective cross-sectional population-based survey among recovered COVID-19 cases in Uganda to establish the case presentations of the second wave SARS-CoV-2 infections. We …
Opinion Leadership and Achievement of Sustainable Health Care in Nigeria: Analyzing the Two-Step Flow Paradigm
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Ifeanyi Martins Nwokeocha
This study examined the influence of opinion leadership in the achievement of sustainable health care delivery in Nigeria using this two-step flow paradigm. Two previous …
Alphabet Size Matching Techniques Based on Non-Binary Gilbert-Varshamov Bounded Limits for Synchronization Finite State Markov Channel
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Shamin Achari, Ling Cheng
The Gilbert-Varshamov (GV) lower bound is used to provide indications and prescriptions for the outer code coding parameters for a memory synchronisation model that focuses …
Plasma Fat Status is Associated with the Prevalence of Opportunistic Infections and may Predict Disease Progression in HIV/AIDS
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Christopher Nyirend
Objective: To establish the association between plasma fat status and the prevalence of opportunistic infections in HIV/AIDS patients. Design and Methods: A Cross Sectional and …
EFFECTS OF WEED CONTROL METHODS ON WEEDS AND PRODUCTIVITY OF RANGE GRASSES IN SEMI-ARID KENYA
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Bosco Kidake Kisambo, Bryan Peter Ogillo, David Mutisya Musyimi
Background: Weeds are a common occurrence and challenge in different crops eventually influencing crop development and yields. Weed control and management are key in enhancing …
IMPACT OF TILLAGE PRACTICES ON PROPERTIES OF SOIL, EVAPOTRANSPIRATION AND PRODUCTIVITY OF COWPEA IN NIGERIA
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Kabiru Alani Shittu, Omotayo B. Adeboye, Durodoluwa Joseph Oyedele
Background: Tillage is one of the major threats to soil health which often results into soil physical degradation if not properly managed. Zero tillage is …
Kondo resonance effects in emergent flat band materials
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Aniekan Magnus Ukpong
Macroscopic degrees of freedom that are involved in the transport of carriers through mesoscopic electronic devices are susceptible to the effects of strong many-body correlations. …
DEINDIVIDUATION AND CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY
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Shannon Hoctor
This contribution assesses the social-psychological concept of deindividuation in the particular context of its use in instances of crowd violence in South African criminal law. …
Robust Facility Location of Container Clinics: A South African Application
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Carike Karsten, Wilna L. Bean, Quintin Van Heerden
There is a lack of dynamic facility location models for developing countries that consider the changes in the problem environment over time, such as patient …
FORMATION OF PERFORMING PIANO PLAYING SKILLS AMONG STUDENTS WITH VISUAL DISABILITIES
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Elena Savina, Valeria Lotkova
ФОРМИРОВАНИЕ ИСПОЛНИТЕЛЬСКИХ НАВЫКОВ ИГРЫ НА ФОРТЕПИАНО У ОБУЧАЮЩИХСЯ С ОГРАНИЧЕННЫМИ ВОЗМОЖНОСТЯМИ
Analysing the role of Organisational Culture on Consequence Management in Government Departments: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic
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Beatah Sibanda, Surika Van Rooyen
The study aims to determine how organisational culture contributes to consequence management using lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing evidence from two government departments in …
Impact of Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Investment on economic growth in South Africa: A time series analysis
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Andile Mhlabane, Rachel Nishimwe-Niyimbanira
Since post-apartheid, South Africa has made great strides in increasing its investment through foreign cash inflows and domestic investment. This research tries to establish the …
Notes on geminates in Sesotho
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Kristina Riedel, Seunghun J. Lee
CHARACTERISATION OF BONE-REGENERATING SCAFFOLDS PRODUCED THROUGH LITHOGRAPHY-BASED CERAMIC MANUFACTURING
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Morakane Gloria Moletsane, Willie du Preez, Deon de Beer
Lithography-based ceramic manufacturing (LCM) is an additive manufacturing (AM) technology that builds custom-designed, three-dimensional ceramic parts layer by layer. The level of precision of the …
ENHANCING DISTRACTED DRIVER DETECTION WITH HUMAN BODY ACTIVITY RECOGNITION USING DEEP LEARNING
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Frank Zandamela, Fred Nicolls, Dumisani Kunene
Deep learning has become popular owing to its high accuracy and ability to learn features automatically from input data. Various approaches are proposed in the …