JUDICIAL REVIEW IN SOUTH AFRICA AND INDIA: ADVANCING CONSTITUTIONALISM OR UNDUE ACTIVISM?
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Radley Henrico
The Supreme Court of India and the Constitutional Court of South Africa, as apex courts, also function as guardians of the constitutions of each respective …
Epidemiology of human Monkey-pox cases in Rivers State, Nigeria January 2017-June 2022
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Hastings Chinedu Onu, Owhonda Golden, I. Aaron Wali
The resurgence in monkey pox disease has posed a global health threat. Nigeria recorded increased number of reported monkey pox cases in 2017, with cases …
Comparative analysis of China and Nigeria agricultural reforms in the advancement of food sustainability on a national scale
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Nchedo Josephine Oguine
Due to the rapidly growing population of China and Nigeria, a top government objective is ensuring foodsecurity. Dietary security is the ideal in which everyone …
Towards understanding the influence of rurality on students’ access to and participation in higher education
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Hellen Agumba, Zach Simpson, Amasa Ndofirep
This study examines the experiences of students from rural backgrounds in higher education in South Africa in order to foster more equitable access and participation. …
Relational Reading~Writing~Thinking~Becoming in Higher Education: Possibilities for scholarly reading and writing in times of turbulence
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The paper explores our scholarly practice of collaborative academic writing by engaging with a Relational Reading of Text approach and Slow scholarship. It grew out …
Target-Agnostic Gender-Aware Contrastive Learning for Mitigating Bias in Multilingual Machine Translation
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Minwoo Lee, Hyukhun Koh, Kang-il Lee
Gender bias is a significant issue in machine translation, leading to ongoing research efforts in developing bias mitigation techniques.However, most works focus on debiasing bilingual …
UL & UM6P at ArAIEval Shared Task: Transformer-based model for Persuasion Techniques and Disinformation detection in Arabic
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Salima Lamsiyah, Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Hamza Alami
In this paper, we introduce our participating system to the ArAIEval Shared Task, addressing both the detection of persuasion techniques and disinformation tasks.Our proposed system …
AN ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ASSESS THE WELL-BEING OF STREET CHILDREN IN ZIMBABWE: IMPLICATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
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Constance Gunhidzirai
This study reports on an assessment of the well-being of street children in Harare Metropolitan Province in Zimbabwe using the ecological systems approach. This study …
ADAPTING THE SOCIAL WORK CURRICULUM FOR RELEVANCE IN A SOUTH AFRICAN UNIVERSITY: A COLLABORATIVE AUTOETHNOGRAPHY OF SOCIAL WORK ACADEMICS DURING THE KZN FLOODS
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Siphiwe Motloung, Bongane Mzinyane
This article adopts collaborative autoethnography in order to critically reflect on the experiences of social work academics who integrated disaster-specific approaches to the social work …
Construction of the metabolism-related models for predicting prognosis and infiltrating immune phenotype in lung squamous cell carcinoma
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Zeming Ma, Liang Wang, Xiaoyun Huang
Purpose: Cancers often display disorder metabolism, which closely related to the poor outcome of patients.We aimed to establish prognostic models using metabolism-associated genes, and identify …
Robust Optimization for Misalignment Tolerance in Inductive Power Transfer Coupler Design
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Sampath Jayalath, Azeem Khan
The coupler parameters, such as transmitter inductance (LTx), receiver inductance (LRx), and the coupling coefficient (k) or mutual inductance (M), vary with the misalignments. Their …
Robust Optimization of a Wireless Power Transfer Coupler Against Manufacturing and Fabrication Tolerances
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Sampath Jayalath, Azeem Khan
The design variables are optimized to improve the overall performance of wireless power transfer (WPT) coils or couplers. However, failure to consider their uncertainties and …
Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Republic of Congo, February 2022
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Gilbert Ndziessi, Fabien Roch Niama, Axel Gilius Aloumba
In resource-limited countries, the lack of widespread screening masks the true situation of COVID-19. We conducted this study to assess SARS-CoV-2 spread by detection of …
First escaped populations of Gazania ×splendens Hend. & Andr. Hend. (Asteraceae) in Algeria
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Nora Sakhraoui, Sonia Rouidi, Franz Essl
During field surveys carried out in north-eastern Algeria, the escape of Gazania ×splendens Hend.& Andr.Hend.was observed; it is reported here as in the process of …
ASSESSING ORGANISATIONS’ READINESS TO ADOPT GREEN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: THE CASE OF A SOUTH AFRICAN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES VENDOR
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Isaac Muranganwa, Rennie Naidoo
Green information technology (IT) adoption is an important topic in the fields of information systems, business sustainability, and corporate social responsibility. This case study applies …
FROM ‘VICTIM’ TO ‘SURVIVOR’: DECONSTRUCTING THE PERVASIVE NOTION OF VICTIMHOOD IN DISCOURSES AROUND PROGRAMMES DEALING WITH GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
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Goitseone Leburu
Social workers are among key professionals rendering empowerment services to people affected by gender-based violence in South Africa. These services are rendered within the developmental …
Not All Counterhate Tweets Elicit the Same Replies: A Fine-Grained Analysis
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Abdullah Albanyan, Ahmed E. Hassan, Eduardo Blanco
Counterhate arguments can effectively fight and limit the spread of hate speech.However, they can also exacerbate the hate, as some people may respond with aggression …
UM6P at SemEval-2023 Task 12: Out-Of-Distribution Generalization Method for African Languages Sentiment Analysis
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Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Hamza Alami, Salima Lamsiyah
This paper presents our submitted system to AfriSenti SemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis for African Languages.The AfriSenti consists of three different tasks, covering monolingual, multilingual, …
Pathways from information to the adoption of conservation agriculture practices in Malawi and Tanzania
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Paswel Marenya, Josephine Gakii Gatua, Dil Bahadur Rahut
Abstract To reduce agriculture's carbon, land and water footprint, the diffusion of conservation farming methods is one commonly cited proposition. Yet the process of translating …
Translating Ethics into Practice: Providing Long-Term Cardiometabolic and Cardiovascular Disease Care for Research Participants in Africa
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Cody Cichowitz, Godfrey Kisigo, Grace Ruselu
In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), health systems face significant challenges responding to the growing burden of cardiometabolic and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) [1,2], and most adults in …