Assessment and Predictive Modeling of Bilberry Cactus Extracts as Green Corrosion Inhibitor for Mild Steel surface protection from hydrogen evolution
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Nsikan Etim Dan, OO Taiwo, C I Nwoye
This paper presents an evaluation of the corrosion behavior of mild steel in hydrochloric acid solution. Mild steel corrosion rates were predicted within the range …
REFRAMING OF PRODUCTIVE PEDAGOGIES FOR EVALUATING CURRICULA IN AFRICAN CONTEXTS
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Grames Wellington Chirwa, Precious Nyoni
This study set out to conduct an informed assessment of Malawi's curriculum for the expressive arts. The study was conducted in six schools. Twelve Expressive …
PRIMARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS’ KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
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Habtamu Wodaj, Desta Gebeyehu, M. M. Hagos
This study aimed at investigating primary and middle school students’ knowledge and practices with regards to environmental pollution in some selected cities of Ethiopia. A …
OPTIMIZING THE ALLOCATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES TO MAXIMIZE PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS' MATHEMATICAL LEARNING OUTCOMES USING LINEAR PROGRAMMING
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Philiph Kipkosgei Saina
This study investigates the optimization of instructional technology resource allocation in primary schools to enhance students' mathematical learning outcomes using Linear Programming (LP). With a …
Design and Construction of an Ultrasonic Level Measurement Device Using Arduino Uno
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Caleb Kambai, Mathew N Agu
Accurate and reliable level monitoring is essential in many industrial and scientific applications, including water storage, oil and gas processing, agricultural systems, and automated processes. …
DeepSemantics at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Label-Wise Optimization with Adaptive Focal Loss for Polarization Manifestation Identification
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Eliasse Tiao, Josue Edou, Mahugnon Gohouede
In this paper, we present our system for SemEval-2026 Task 9, which focuses on the fine-grained identification of polarization manifestations in multilingual social media content.Our …
Creative Catalysts at #SMM4H-HeaRD 2026: XLM-RoBERTa for Task 1 Binary Classification of Social Media Posts Containing Adverse Drug Events
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Radja Afren, Hichem Rahab, Imane Guellil
Adverse drug events (ADEs) automatic detection from social media posts has become an important task for healthcare systems with real-world, patient-collected data.The current work deals …
REGLAT at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Enhancing Arabic Online Polarization Detection Using AraBERT and Synonym Replacement Augmentation
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Ahmed Megahed Fetouh, Mariam Labib Francies, Nsrin Ashraf
In this paper, we present our system, which was submitted to SemEval-2026 Task 9 (Subtask 1: Polarization Detection) and focuses on binary classification of polarized …
HausaNLP at SemEval-2026 Task 7: Prompt-based Hausa Cultural Question Answering
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Faisal Adam, Lukman Aliyu, Sani Aji
We describe HausaNLP's submission to SemEval-2026 Task 7 Track 1 (short-answer cultural question answering).Our system is a training-free, prompt-based pipeline targeting native Hausa (ha-NG).Two design …
Aaron at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Multilingual Polarization Detection using Transformer-Based Models with Class Weighting and Threshold Tuning
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Aaron Bundi Anampiu
This paper describes our submission to SemEval-2026 Task 9 on detecting multilingual, multicultural, and multievent online polarization.We address all three subtasks: binary polarization detection, polarization …
GCCLA: Graph-Conditioned Cross-Lingual Adaptation of Large Language Models Under Extreme Data Scarcity (A Case Study in Tigrigna)
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Hagos Gebremedhin Gebremeskel, Chong Feng, Asefa Mebrahtu Abera
Adapting large language models (LLMs) to extremely low-resource languages remains challenging due to severe data scarcity and the lack of structured linguistic supervision.We introduce GCCLA, …
Gum Arabic-Assisted TiO₂ Photoanode Fabrication for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Sensitized with Natural Dye Extracted from Bicolor Sorghum
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Isa M Mukhtar, Aliyu Kabiru Isiyaku, Nicodemus Kure
The stability and efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are often limited by the degradation of key components, including dyes, electrolytes, and electrodes. This study …
Energy Reliability and Its Implications for Translational Research Capacity in Nigeria’s Tertiary Institutions
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Taibat Ibrahim, Abdullahi Shuaibu Adamu, Idris Mohammed Mustapha
This study investigated the implications of electricity reliability for translational research capacity in Nigerian tertiary institutions using a cross-sectional survey and quantitative laboratory energy assessment. …
REGLAT at SemEval-2026 Task 12: Multi-Strategy Ensemble Reasoning for Event Causality Identification
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Mariam Labib Francies, Nsrin Ashraf, Ahmed Megahed Fetouh
This paper describes the multi-strategy ensemble approach that has been used to develop the model submitted to the Abductive Event Reasoning shared task.The proposed model …
Morphological and Textural Characterization of Activated Carbon Derived from Microwave-Assisted KOH Activation of Banana Peels
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Mary E Oni, John Chidowerem Agomuo, Samuel Michael Udeh
Banana peel biomass was converted into activated carbon through microwave-assisted KOH activation at a constant microwave power of 800 W and a KOH/precursor mass ratio …
Candidate-Aware Retrieval and Reranking for Multiple-Choice Question Answering: Arabic as a Case Study
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Yassine BOUZIANE, Youness Moukafih, Mounir Ghogho
Large language models (LLMs) have recently achieved impressive results on multiple-choice question answering (MCQA), with retrievalaugmented generation (RAG) emerging as an effective strategy for improving …
Whose Pragmatics? Cultural Grounding as a Bottleneck for Stereotype Detection in Egyptian Arabic Social Media
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Samar A. Assem
Stereotype detection benchmarks assume that stereotyping occurs through what is said -via lexical co-occurrence between demographic terms and stereotypical attributes.We argue that stereotyping is often …
Team HausaNLP at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Narratives via Semantic Embeddings
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Faisal Adam, Lukman Aliyu, Sani Aji
This paper presents Team HausaNLP's submission to SemEval-2026 Task 4 (Track A), which requires identifying the more narratively similar of two candidate stories relative to …
Data Contamination in Neural Hieroglyphic Translation: A Reproducibility Study
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Ammar Toutou, Abdelrahman Harb, Christine Basta
Ancient and endangered languages pose a unique challenge for NLP: their datasets are inherently scarce, difficult to expand, and built from formulaic corpora-making data-quality issues …
Formation of Conjugated Polyenes, Malondialdehyde and Methylglyoxal in French Fries Produced with Four Different Types of Oils
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Kevin Omondi Aduol, Arnold N. Onyango, Beatrice Nyanchama Kiage
Lipid peroxidation products in French fries are a potential risk factor for non-communicable diseases. Malondialdehyde and methylglyoxal are among the most pathophysiologically-relevant lipid peroxidation products, …