Impact of grid connected photovoltaic system under different weather conditions and load type
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Rebai Asma, Zoubir Zahzouh, Saliha Boulahchiche
Electricity distribution managers are continuously under pressure to expand their grids to cope with load growth and properly supply their consumers. To achieve these objectives, …
Knowledge and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination in Sudan: A cross-sectional study
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Safaa Badi, Loai Abdelgadir Babiker, Abdullah Yasseen Aldow
Background: Vaccines are an essential part of public health interventions to mitigate the devastating health and non-health impacts of COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the fact that …
Matilda in der Humangeographie: Gender Citation Gap und Zitierpartikularismus
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Malte Steinbrink, Philipp Aufenvenne, Christian Haase
Vergeschlechtlichte Ungleichheiten in der Wissenschaft sind seit langem bekannt und bestehen trotz aller Gegenmaßnahmen fort. Gender Gaps zeigen sich nicht nur in der universitären Personalstruktur, …
Solar water heating based on Bellville weather conditions in winter
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Zamavangeli Mdletshe, Velaphi Msomi, Ouassini Nemraoui
Abstract Hot water supply is a daily necessity for various purposes ranging from industrial to domestic usage. However, the availability of hot water supply is …
The Predictive Value of ERCC1, RRM1, and Thymidylate Synthase in Advanced Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Patients Treated with Platinum-Based Chemotherapy
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Nagwa Wahba, Ola Khorshid, Fatma Abo Elkasem
BACKGROUND: A rare yet severe neoplasia called malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) typically manifests itself in advanced stages. Despite some improvements in the treatment of patients …
Applying Paul’s Theological and Ethical Teachings in Romans 12:1 to an African Context
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Isaac Boaheng
One of the key challenges facing Christianity in contemporary Africa is ineffective discipleship. The African church has won many converts in recent times and yet, …
The Significance of Market Power in the Financial Sustainability of Emerging Agricultural Cooperatives in the Central Free State of South Africa: A Resource-based View
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Kingsley Nwenenda Orlu, Patient Rambe
Introduction: Despite the accessibility of institutional support mechanisms to cooperative firms in South Africa, many emerging agricultural cooperatives in the Central Free State remain underrepresented …
Assessment of serum interleukin 19 level in patients with warts
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Radwa El‐Sayed Mahmoud Marie, Aya Mohamed kamal Lasheen, Hebat‐Allah Hassan Nashaat
Background: Warts are viral cutaneous infections caused by human papilloma virus (HPV), presented by verrucous growth over the skin surface. The cell mediated immune response …
Clinical characteristics, risk factors and diagnostic outcomes of patients presented with indeterminate biliary stricture: A multicenter study
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Mohammed Tag‐Adeen, Mohamed Malak, Muhammad Abdel‐Gawad
Background and aim: Indeterminate biliary stricture (IBS) is a frequently encountered clinical problem. In this study, we aimed to highlight the clinical characteristics, risk factors …
Perceived trust: Do all of its dimensions matter for insurance inclusion?
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Archillies Kiwanuka, Athenia Bongani Sibindi
The study aimed to examine the significance of perceived trust dimensions in explaining insurance inclusion in Uganda. Insurance inclusion remained very low in Uganda. Although …
The use of autologous skeletal muscle-derived cells as a sling in the treatment of stress-induced urinary incontinence: An experimental study in dogs
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Bassem Wadie, Haytham G. Aamer, Sherry M. Khater
Purpose This is an experimental preclinical study testing the applicability of autologous skeletal muscle-derived cells as a treatment of SUI in a canine model. Methods …
Alex-U 2023 NLP at WojoodNER shared task: AraBINDER (Bi-encoder for Arabic Named Entity Recognition)
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Mariam Hussein, Sarah Khaled, Marwan Torki
Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a crucial task in natural language processing that facilitates the extraction of vital information from text.However, NER for Arabic presents …
AlexU-AIC at WojoodNER shared task: Sequence Labeling vs MRC and SWA for Arabic Named Entity Recognition
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Shereen Elkordi, Noha Adly, Marwan Torki
Named entity recognition (NER) is one of many challenging tasks in Arabic Natural Language Processing.It is also the base of many critical downstream tasks to …
ANLP-RG at NADI 2023 shared task: Machine Translation of Arabic Dialects: A Comparative Study of Transformer Models
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Wiem Derouich, Saméh Kchaou, Rahma Boujelbane
In this paper, we present our findings within the context of Subtask 2 of the NADI-2023 Shared Task.This task requires the exclusive utilization of the …
Policy-based Reinforcement Learning for Generalisation in Interactive Text-based Environments
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Edan Toledo, Jan Buys, Jonathan P. Shock
Text-based environments enable RL agents to learn to converse and perform interactive tasks through natural language.However, previous RL approaches applied to text-based environments show poor …
Pragmatic Inference with a CLIP Listener for Contrastive Captioning
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Jiefu Ou, Benno Krojer, Daniel Fried
We propose a simple yet effective and robust method for contrastive captioning: generating discriminative captions that distinguish target images from very similar alternative distractor images.Our …
Toxicity Evaluation and Genetic Improvement of Bacillus thuringiensis Isolated from Different Regions in Assiut, Egypt against Mosquito Larvae
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Abdallah Rafeek, Abd El‐Latif Hesham, Aly A. Abd-Ella
This study aims to evaluate the toxicity and genetic improvement of Bacillus thuringiensis isolates. Isolates were obtained from soil, insect and water samples from different …
Psychosocial impact of COVID-19 on achievement of adolescents with hearing impairment in English language
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Samuel Olufemi Adeniyi, Olaotan Oladele Kuku
This study examined psychosocial impact of Covid-19 on the achievement of secondary school adolescents with hearing disabilities in English Language in Lagos State. A survey …
Quality assurance in cytology reporting in Ghana: an urgent call
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Kofi Effah, Joseph Emmanuel Amuah, Ethel Tekpor
Introduction: In Ghana, the Papanicolaou (PAP) smear remains central to cervical cancer screening although human papilloma virus testing is recommended. The success of the PAP …
Spectral–Temporal Fusion of Satellite Images via an End-to-End Two-Stream Attention With an Effective Reconstruction Network
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Tayeb Benzenati, Yousri Kessentini, Abdelaziz Kallel
Due to technical and budget constraints on current optical satellites, the acquisition of satellite images with the best resolutions is not practicable. In this article, …