Problematising the South African Higher Education inequalities exposed during the Covid-19 pandemic: Students’ perspectives
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Corinne Knowles, A DeCaprio James, Lebogang Khoza
Former Rhodes University students, co-authors of this article, were engaged in a knowledge-making project during the Covid-19 pandemic. This paper is a product of that …
A typology of the use of clicks
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Matthias Brenzinger, Sheena Shah
Click speech sounds were first identified as consonants in the 17th century. On his voyage to India in 1627, the English traveller and historian Sir …
IMPLEMENTATION OF A DIGITAL TWINNING APPROACH TO IMPROVE DESIGNS OF POLYURETHANE HEART VALVES
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Lebohang Masheane, Willie du Preez, Jacques Combrinck
Young sub-Saharan African and developing-world patients with rheumatic heart valve diseases urgently require cost-effective prosthetic valves. To design cost-effective polyurethane heart valves, comprehend haemodynamic behaviour, …
USING TOPOLOGY OPTIMISATION TO INFLUENCE THE INFILL PLACEMENT OF FUSED DEPOSITION MODELLED PARTS
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Ashley Dillon Toth, Jared Padayachee
Additive manufacturing continues to see increased growth and adoption across various industries owing to technology improvements and increasing material options. This paper presents a method …
Unveiling Identity Biases in Toxicity Detection : A Game-Focused Dataset and Reactivity Analysis Approach
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Josiane Van Dorpe, Zachary Yang, Nicolas Grenon‐Godbout
Identity biases arise commonly from annotated datasets, can be propagated in language models and can cause further harm to marginal groups.Existing bias benchmarking datasets are …
rematchka at ArAIEval Shared Task: Prefix-Tuning & Prompt-tuning for Improved Detection of Propaganda and Disinformation in Arabic Social Media Content
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Reem Abdel‐Salam
The rise of propaganda and disinformation in the digital age has necessitated the development of effective detection methods to combat the spread of deceptive information.In …
AAST-NLP at ArAIEval Shared Task: Tackling Persuasion technique and Disinformation Detection using Pre-Trained Language Models On Imbalanced Datasets
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Ahmed El-Sayed, Omar A. Nasr, Noureldin Elmadany
This paper presents the pipeline developed by the AAST-NLP team to address both the persuasion technique detection and disinformation detection shared tasks.The proposed system for …
rematchka at NADI 2023 shared task: Parameter Efficient tuning for Dialect Identification and Dialect Machine Translation
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Reem Abdel‐Salam
Dialect identification systems play a significant role in various fields and applications as in speech and language technologies, facilitating language education, supporting sociolinguistic research, preserving …
USTHB at ArAIEval’23 Shared Task: Disinformation Detection System based on Linguistic Feature Concatenation
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Mohamed Lichouri, Khaled Lounnas, Aicha Zitouni
In this research paper, we undertake a comprehensive examination of several pivotal factors that impact the performance of Arabic Disinformation Detection in the ArAIEval'2023 shared …
SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS AND VALUE CHAIN DEVELOPMENT WITH WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS: EVIDENCE AND LESSONS FROM THE CLOTHING BANK, SOUTH AFRICA
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Tanusha Raniga
Female-headed households often benefit from engaging in sustainable livelihoods and value chain development approaches to enhance income security. In this article, the researcher employs a …
The tensions between culture and human rights: Emancipatory social work and Afrocentricity in a global world
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S.M. Kang’ethe
Editors: Vishanthie Sewpaul, Linda Kreitzer and Tanusha Raniga (2021). The tensions between culture and human rights: Emancipatory social work and Afrocentricity in a global world. …
Invasive fishes negatively impact ghost frog tadpole abundance
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Daniel van Blerk, Andrea Melotto, Josephine Pegg
Global amphibian populations are declining, and invasive fish are known to impact many threatened species.South Africa has both a biodiverse amphibian fauna and a rich …
A GENERIC COMPUTER VISION TOOL FOR RECOGNISING HUMAN ACTIVITIES
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J. Rebecca Jacobs, S. Nel
A prominent application area in the domain of computer vision is human activity recognition, which involves automatically detecting people’s actions from video footage. In this …
SYSTEM DYNAMICS MODELLING OF THE WATER-ENERGY NEXUS IN SOUTH AFRICA: A CASE OF THE INKOMATI-USUTHU WATER MANAGEMENT AREA
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Justine Geraldine Nanfuka, Rudolph Oosthuizen
The energy demand in African economies, including South Africa, is expected to double by 2040. The water-energy-food nexus, introduced at the Bonn 2011 conference, illustrates …
Lightweight Histological Tumor Classification Using a Joint Sparsity-Quantization Aware Training Framework
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Dina Aboutahoun, Rami Zewail, Keiji Kimura
Cancer decision-making is a complex process that can be exacerbated by the limited availability of oncological expertise. This is particularly true in rural areas and …
Northern Bobwhite ( Colinus virginianus ) breeding season roost site selection in a working agricultural landscape in Clay County, Mississippi
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Olivia Lappin, Kristine O. Evans, Raymond B. Iglay
Appropriate habitat management may be one of the most important factors contributing to Northern Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) population persistence, but biologists lack information on how …
Prevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in people attending the two main Goma markets in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Prudence Mitangala, Léonid M. Irenge, Edgar Tsongo Musubao
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) officially reports low coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) prevalence. This cross-sectional study, conducted between September and November 2021, assessed …
Influence of localized artificial light on calling activity of Common Poorwill ( Phalaenoptilus nuttallii )
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Paul J.E. Preston, R. Mark Brigham
The presence of localized artificial light at night (or ALAN) drastically changes the landscape for organisms by providing areas of darkness and light within an …
Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying false memories: misinformation, distortion or erroneous configuration?
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Antonio G. Lentoor
Errors can affect our memory, yet even when there are gaps in our recollection of events, memory often serves us fairly well. Memory formation involves …
CSS: A Large-scale Cross-schema Chinese Text-to-SQL Medical Dataset
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Hanchong Zhang, Jieyu Li, Lu Chen
The cross-domain text-to-SQL task aims to build a system that can parse user questions into SQL on complete unseen databases, and the single-domain text-to-SQL task …