Graded Response Models on the Curiosity Measurement of Elementary School Students
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Curiosity is one of the most important characters for elementary school students. However, the facts in the field show that the measurement model used by …
Numerical treatment of singularly perturbed unsteady Burger-Huxley equation
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Imiru Takele Daba, Gemechis File Duressa
This article deals with the numerical treatment of a singularly perturbed unsteady Burger-Huxley equation. The equation is linearized using the Newton-Raphson-Kantorovich approximation method. The resulting …
IOL Research Machine Translation Systems for WMT23 General Machine Translation Shared Task
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Wenbo Zhang
This paper describes the IOL Research team's submission systems for the WMT23 general machine translation shared task.We participated in two language translation directions, including English→Chinese …
The Social, Education, Health, and Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Kenya’s Adolescents
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Julie Mwabe, Karen Austrian
Abstract The first case of COVID-19 was detected in Kenya in March 2020. Initial government responses included several containment measures such as school closures, movement …
BIG-C: a Multimodal Multi-Purpose Dataset for Bemba
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Claytone Sikasote, Eunice Mukonde, Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam
We present BIG-C (Bemba Image Grounded Conversations), a large multimodal dataset for Bemba.While Bemba is the most populous language of Zambia, it exhibits a dearth …
It is a Bird Therefore it is a Robin: On BERT’s Internal Consistency Between Hypernym Knowledge and Logical Words
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Nicolas Guérin, Emmanuel Chemla
The lexical knowledge of NLP systems should be tested (i) for their internal consistency (avoiding groundedness issues) and (ii) both for content words and logical …
Investigating Students’ Understanding of Complex Number and Its Relation to Algebraic Group Using and APOS Theory
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Idowu Oluwaseun Longe, Aneshkumar Maharaj
This study focused on students’ inability to correctly use psychometric tests applied for complex numbers in the context of generating an Algebraic abelian group (closure, …
South Africa: Desegregated Teaching, Democratic Citizenship Education and Integrating of Ethnic Minority Teachers
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Nuraan Davids
Abstract Much of the debates on South Africa’s recently desegregated schools centre on intersectional tensions between access/participation; external inclusion/internal exclusion; and assimilation/integration – as it …
The Impact of interferon lambda 3 Polymorphism on Hepato-Cellular Carcinoma Progression in Hepatitis C Virus Patients: Treatment-Naïve and Experienced
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Mohamed Abd Elrahman, Marwa Ibrahim, Ahmed Khairy
OBJECTIVES: In this study, we investigated the association between the IFN-λ3 rs12979860 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and the transition from late fibrosis to HCC in …
Case report: 11 years on hemodialysis with a 4-year-old baby girl: A success story
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Alex Tatang Mambap, Efuetnkeng Bechem, Kate Kan
Despite advances in clinical management and dialysis care, the outcome of unplanned pregnancy in women on maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) remains a difficult journey for the …
New cetacean fossils from the late Cenozoic of South Africa
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Romala Govender, Felix G. Marx
Marine sediments from the western coast of southern Africa record the origin of the Benguela Upwelling System, one of the most productive in the world. …
Preparation of a Regioselective Quercetin-3-palmitate and Its Using for Boosting Cooking Oil Stability
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Hanaa Soliman
Due to over worldwide use of frying oil, and due to its oxidation and deterioration after the usage for short time, huge oil amounts are …
The role of forensic auditing techniques in preventing non-government organisations’ financial statement fraud in South Africa using a proactive approach
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Jean Damascene Mvunabandi, Bomi Cyril Nomlala
This study is designed to investigate the role of proactive forensic auditing techniques in preventing fraudulent activities among NGOs in the eThekwini region. The population …
Technical and economic evaluation of an engine and irrigation pump using a T-type mixer for natural gas
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Waleed Kamel ElHelew, Abdallah Mahmoud Abdelmaqsoud, Khaleed Faran ElBagoury
Energy is regarded as one of the most crucial resources in the industrial process. Numerous measurements were made in the year 2021 in the workshops …
Effectiveness of clinical integrated short course training of evidence based medicine for postgraduate medical specialty students in Ethiopia in 2022: A randomized control trial
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Atalel Fentahun Awedew, Eyob Girma Abera
BACKGROUND: Evidence based medicine (EBM) is a newly emerged philosophy of medical education and health care service which brings quality of health service, efficient use …
IMPACT OF LEADERSHIP STYLES ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE SUSTAINABILITY IN SELECTED SMALL AND MEDIUM SCALE ENTERPRISES (SMEs) IN NORTH-CENTRAL NIGERIA
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Friday Isah Iyaji, Akeem Adewale Bakare
The importance of leadership to the expected growth and development of organisations cannot be emphasised owing to the attendant consequences of not having a leader …
Factors associated with anaesthetic complications in bariatric surgery at the Delafontaine Saint-Dénis Hospital
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Wilfrid Mbombo
Background and objective. Anaesthesia during bariatric surgery is a high-risk procedure. This study investigated factors associated with anaesthetic complications in patients undergoing this type of …
Teacher-team reflections on the quality and modes of thinking in Writing Intensive courses at the University of the Witwatersrand during the first year of the global COVID-19 pandemic
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Pamela Nichols, Avril Joffe, Roshini Pillay
Writing Intensive (WI) courses depend on student engagement and continuous responses to student work. The sudden move to online learning in the face of COVID-19 …
Lalela uLwandle (Listen to the Sea): Interdisciplinary approaches and embodied engagements in thinking with ocean/s
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Abigail Wiese
This article is a self-reflexive engagement on the performance, Lalela uLwandle (Listen to the Sea, 2019) created by the South African collective, Empatheatre. I engage …
“Rêrag pragtag”: A sociophonetic exploration of the vowel quality of the -ig suffix in Kaaps
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Yolandi Ribbens-Klein