VARIATION ORDERS DURING EXECUTION OF CONSTRUCTION INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS: CASE STUDY OF AN ELECTRICITY COMPANY
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Mrs Takalani Mashamba, MG Kanakana-Katumba, Rendani Wilson Maladzhi
Electricity plays a fundamental role in efforts towards sustainable development and poverty alleviation. The South African government resolved to build new power-generating plants, but the …
Simplify: Automatic Arabic Sentence Simplification using Word Embeddings
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Yousef SalahEldin, Caroline Sabty
Automatic Text Simplification (TS) involves simplifying language complexity while preserving the original meaning.The main objective of TS is to enhance the readability of complex texts, …
UoT at NADI 2023 shared task: Automatic Arabic Dialect Identification is Made Possible
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Abduslam F A Nwesri, Nabila A S Shinbir, Hassan Ebrahem
In this paper we present our approach towards Arabic Dialect identification which was part of the The Fourth Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task (NADI …
First report of non-native bamboo longhorn beetle, Chlorophorus annularis (Fabricius, 1787) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from Madagascar
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Seunghyun Lee, Wonwoong Kim, JEAN CLAUDE RAKOTONIRINA
The bamboo longhorn beetle Chlorophorus annularis has been recently intercepted in several countries and becoming an emerging invasive species of concern.Here, we report the presence …
SECURITY ACCESS CONTROL EFFECTIVENESS DESIGN
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Duarte Gonçalves
South Africa’s infrastructure has faced a barrage of security attacks that has led to the promulgation of the Critical Infrastructure Protection Act (CIPA) No. 8 …
A COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW AND EVALUATION OF LINK PREDICTION TECHNIQUES
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Lienke Brown, S. Nel
This paper provides a comprehensive overview and evaluation of link prediction techniques. The study includes an analysis of various methods, ranging from simple heuristics to …
HETEROGENEOUS TRADING STRATEGY ENSEMBLING FOR INTRADAY TRADING ALGORITHMS
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Coetzee Koegelenberg, Jan H. van Vuuren
Since the inception of algorithmic trading during the mid-1970s, considerable resources and time have been committed by the financial sector to the development of trading …
Carbon dioxide (CO2) gas and eDNA assessment as tools for eradicating and monitoring invasive fish in anchialine pools in Hawai‘i
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Robert W. Peck, Maya J. Munstermann, Malia Hayes
Invasive fish can profoundly affect communities they invade.In Hawai'i, invasive fishes have become established in many anchialine pools, threatening the persistence of resident invertebrates, including …
Numerical investigation of premature fatigue of high-speed train wheels in presence of facets defect with case study
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Naima Jouilel, Nissrine Mhaiti, Mohammed Radouani
In this paper, the premature failure of the high-speed railway wheel of power locomotive commissioned in Morocco since 2018 was investigated. A three-dimensional model of …
To assess the main drawbacks of advanced technologyfor the accounting sphere
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Teresia Nande, Nikodemus Angula
Every accountant knows that accounting is a business language and that language has undergone many changesover the years. Dissemination in the use of information technology …
Unsupervised Cross-lingual Word Embedding Representation for English-isiZulu
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Derwin Ngomane, Rooweither Mabuya, Jade Abbott
In this study, we investigate the effectiveness of using cross-lingual word embeddings for zero-shot transfer learning between a language with an abundant resource, English, and …
HausaNLP at SemEval-2023 Task 10: Transfer Learning, Synthetic Data and Side-information for Multi-level Sexism Classification
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Saminu Mohammad Aliyu, Idris Abdulmumin, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad
Saminu Mohammad Aliyu, Idris Abdulmumin, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Saheed Abdullahi Salahudeen, Aliyu Yusuf, Falalu Ibrahim Lawan. Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop …
Constructing Procedural Graphs with Multiple Dependency Relations: A New Dataset and Baseline
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Haopeng Ren, Yushi Zeng, Yi Cai
Current structured and semi-structured knowledge bases mainly focus on representing descriptive knowledge but ignore another commonsense knowledge (Procedural Knowledge).To structure the procedural knowledge, existing methods …
UL & UM6P at SemEval-2023 Task 10: Semi-Supervised Multi-task Learning for Explainable Detection of Online Sexism
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Salima Lamsiyah, Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Hamza Alami
This paper introduces our participating system to the Explainable Detection of Online Sexism (EDOS) SemEval-2023 -Task 10: Explainable Detection of Online Sexism.The EDOS shared task …
Test positivity and clinical presentation of COVID-19 in Mozambican infants hospitalized during the second wave of the pandemic in 2021.
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Dulce Osório, Suraia Tane Liasse, Uneisse Cassia
Introduction: during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique, there was a surge in pediatric hospitalizations at a time when there was relatively …
A Data Set of Final Year High School Examination Texts of South African Home and First Additional Language Subjects
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Johannes Sibeko, Menno van Zaanen
This article describes a data set of reading comprehension and summary writing texts that were used in final-year high school examinations in South Africa between …
LEGAL REGULATION OF INTERNAL PARTY DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA
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Ufuoma Veronica Awhefeada, Patrick Chukwunonso Aloamaka
The lack of internal democracy in many political parties in Nigeria has created a general loss of confidence in voters toward the electoral process and …
EVALUATING THE ACCURACY OF A DIGITAL CORRELATION SYSTEM TO PREDICT THE FATIGUE FAILURE OF ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED PARTS
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Shaun Botha, Jaundrie Fourie, Cornelius Petrus Kloppers
Internal defects that occur during the additive manufacturing process of direct metal laser sintering can have a significant influence on the fatigue performance of Ti-6Al-4V …
Transformation or ‘Training the Dog’? Approaches to Access Within an Historically White University in South Africa
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Dina Zoë Belluigi, Gladman Thondhlana
Abstract This chapter provides insights into the intractable ethico-political nature of ‘access’ in post-colonial, post-conflict higher education (HE), through the reflections of Black academics and …
Hepcidin and iron metabolism in preterm infants
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Sufeng Ruan, Sufei Yang, Jinrong Li
Background Iron deficiency (ID) and ID anemia are widespread in low-income countries, particularly among preterm infants. Hepcidin is a key regulator of iron metabolism, which …