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Topics can include but are not limited to: 1-The Importance of Linguistic Diversity 2-Causes of Language Endangerment 3-Consequences of Language Loss 4-Historical and Political Influences on Language Decline 5- Methods of Language Documentation 6-Creating Linguistic Archives and Digital Resources 7-The Role of Oral Traditions in Language Preservat...

Distributed manufacturing and fine-manufacturing are two typical scenarios of modern manufacturing industries in the context of globalization and customization. The distributed differentiation flowshop integrated scheduling problem (DDFISP) is a novel model that deals with the integrated scheduling problem of these two manufacturing scenarios. In t...

Background E-portfolios are evolving electronic/online resources that record, store, and archive the artifacts of learning and reflection for an individual learner. They have become more popular nowadays. This study aimed to evaluate the knowledge and attitudes of dental students regarding the use of e-portfolios as a tool for assessment, learning,...

Global climate variations (e.g., during glacial-interglacial transitions) induce local climatic effects such as temperature and precipitation changes, significantly impacting the chemical and physical degradation of volcanic islands. Conversely, the weathering of volcanic rock, especially on volcanic islands, consumes CO2 , thus impacting its conce...

From May 16 to May 23, 1991, I traveled to Istanbul to examine the condition of the Süleymaniye Library, which housed 110 other Turkish libraries. This library contained valuable information about Ottoman relations with Syria, particularly the Alawites along the coast. Understanding these materials could provide a clearer picture of the Alawite com...

Background Lateral mass screw and rod fixation is widely used for posterior cervical arthrodesis and stabilization in cases of cervical instability, trauma, neoplasm, decompression, and deformity correction. However, clinical and radiological data on its outcomes, especially in our setting, remain limited. Objective Clinical and radiographic evalu...

This study examines twelve (12) bibliometric research published in Naunyn–Schmiedeberg’s Archives of Pharmacology and offers suggestions to improve future bibliometric analyses. By reviewing twelve influential studies, the research focuses on identifying trends in methodologies, databases, and bibliometric indicators. The reviewed studies span dive...

Time series classification (TSC) is a critical task with applications in various domains, including healthcare, finance, and industrial monitoring. Due to privacy concerns and data regulations, Federated Learning has emerged as a promising approach for learning from distributed time series data without centralizing raw information. However, most FL...

This research highlights the analysis of data drawn from police report narratives, focusing on the technical words and jargon utilized within these reports. The study examines archival crime investigation documents, employing quantitative content analysis (QCA) to categorize and interpret the language used by law enforcement officers. By defining a...

Memoirs, situated at the intersection of autobiography and literature, serve as crucial spaces where memory and reflective thought converge to shape a coherent sense of self. This paper explores how personal narratives utilize memory as both archive and invention, and how thought-through introspection, interpretation, and re-evaluation-constructs t...

Translation of the article published in the journal State and Religion 01(75). https://www.dovlet-din.az/az/article/1/ermeni-kilsesinin-azerbaycanda-fealiyyetinin-siyasi-aspektleri-1944-1964 Based on archival materials, the article discusses the political aspects of the Armenian Church's activities in Azerbaijan at the intersection of the Stalinis...

This study highlights the statements by the belated Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan: May his soul rest in peace, underpinning the speech acts theory. It is a novel approach to examine a leader’s statements on tolerance especially in the Arabian Gulf nations. This study aims to analyze Sheikh Zayed’s statements on tolerance in terms of their meani...

The Passo Fundo/RS railway complex, implemented from the 1890s onwards in response to the need to connect the center ofthe state with Santa Catarina and, consequently, the rest of Brazil, was analyzed. In particular, the small railway village built on the outskirts of the Railway Station was discussed, observing its location and architectural chara...

Ads' use of speech plays a crucial role in persuasion. The current study focuses on the linguistic technique employed in Lux beauty soap advertisements. The researchers aimed to study the language strategies employed by advertising to capture consumers' attention and the persuasive language techniques that influence consumers to make purchases. Fai...

This essay reexamines the final writings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira after the Grossaktion Warsaw, challenging the claim—most prominently advanced by Shaul Magid—that Shapira’s faith was “broken” at the end of 1942. Through a close analysis of two post-deportation sermon addenda and two letters buried in the Ringelblum Archive, I argue that R...

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New crop disease outbreaks can occur when phytopathogenic bacterial pathogens acquire new traits, switch to a new host plant or are introduced into new geographic areas. Therefore, the rapid detection of a pathogen in a new environment and/or in a new host plant is essential to mitigate disease outbreaks. However, bacteria with a wide plant host ra...

This research uses the third edition of the Gaia Data Release (DR3) to re-investigate the open star cluster NGC 2509. We employed the pyUPMASK Python package and HDBSCAN algorithms to identify the cluster member stars. The current analysis introduces a new method that connects the membership probability of stars in the cluster (using the pyUPMASK t...

Brain tumor segmentation remains challenging in medical imaging with conventional therapies and rehabilitation owing to the complex morphology and heterogeneous nature of tumors. Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have advanced medical image segmentation, they struggle with long-range dependencies because of their limited receptive field...

University archives sit in a unique space within the Australian archives landscape, with many serving a dual purpose. Archives may be collected and maintained as the historical memory of an institution. Others also act as archives for their local community or the state. Most Australian universities have a dedicated archive, and the Australian Socie...

Обсуждается советско-французское научное сотрудничество в области авиационной орнитологии в 1960–1970-е годы. Особое внимание уделено научным связям В.Э. Якоби, сотрудника Института эволюционной морфологии и экологии животных им. А.Н. Северцова АН СССР, с французскими специалистами в области орнитологического обеспечения безопасности полетов. На ос...

Halifax was known as the least favourite wartime Atlantic port for sailors and roundly received criticism for the treatment of sailors ashore. The fate of the Ajax Club became a much-cited example of that belief. In May 1945 that displeasure would infamously come to a head in the V-E Day riots. The Ajax Club story and the naval badges received from...

The purpose of this study is to find trends, influential works, key contributors, and emerging issues in the field of manuscript preservation. The study gives a comprehensive quantitative and visual bibliometric analysis of research on manuscript preservation. A number of measures, including publication growth, citation trends, authorship networks,...

This book takes the reader on a journey to discover the diverse landscape of minority languages which are spoken in China, Vietnam, and Myanmar. Coming from different language families, it explores Austroasiatic, Turkic, Mongolic, Hmong-Mien, Tibeto-Burman, and Tai-Kadai languages, highlighting their cultural significance and geographical spread an...

The missionary Jerome Xavier, as well as English diplomats accredited to Emperor Jahangir, spread a festive, yet intriguing story about the divinatory qualities of a Bengali ape who always selected the religion of Christ. This episode of entertainment generated more notoriety in Europe than in India, being interpreted as a miraculous action or as a...

The concept of concurrent mental health and substance use (MHSU) status and its detection in patients has garnered growing interest among psychiatrists and healthcare policymakers over the past four decades. Researchers have proposed various diagnostic methods, including the Data-Driven Diagnostic Method (DDDM), for the identification of MHSU. Howe...

The development of large wind turbines and airborne wind energy (AWE) systems requires reliable wind speed datasets at heights above the atmospheric surface layer. Traditional measurement approaches relying on met masts (meteorological masts) fall short of addressing these needs. In this study, we validate three different model-based datasets, name...

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable capabilities but are susceptible to adversarial prompts that exploit vulnerabilities to produce unsafe or biased outputs. Existing red-teaming methods often face scalability challenges, resource-intensive requirements, or limited diversity in attack strategies. We propose RainbowPlus, a novel red-team...

The article is devoted to the issue of ransom and exchange of prisoners on the Azov border of Russia in the late 17th – early 18th centuries. The authors show the features and specifics of this process, restore the mechanisms of interaction between the warring parties on this issue, and study the mentality of a person in a border society. Most docu...

The National Diet Library maintains a digital archive of approximately 400,000 historical texts from the Meiji to early Showa periods (1868–1935), representing a significant corpus of Japanese cultural heritage. While these materials are digitally preserved as high-resolution images, the lack of machine-readable text severely constrains their acces...

Students undertaking a close reading and scholars studying the practice ask the same question: What exactly is “close reading”? While we now associate the phrase with literary critics of the 1930s–1950s, they themselves infrequently invoked it as a term of art. Since then, scholars have struggled to define close reading beyond the vague notion of r...

The article is devoted to migration from Central Asia to the Russian regions on the border with Kazakhstan in 1992-2002. The article aims to characterize migration processes in the regions of the Russian-Kazakh border in the first post-Soviet decade. The source base consists of documents from the State Archives of the Russian Federation (SARF), the...

The influence of Alexander Pushkin on the creative method of the great Russian and Soviet architect I.V. Zholtovsky is considered for the first time. Judging by the records of the architect’s students, the name of Pushkin very often occurs in conversations with him. The poet seems to be constantly present in his conversations on various topics as a...

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, there were young girls from China and those born locally who were indentured as bondservants in British colonies in Asia such as Hong Kong and British Malaya. Often due to poverty, female children and teenagers—better known as mui tsais (“little sisters” in Cantonese)—were either sold or transferred...

As humanity reaches the threshold of interstellar capability, a profound question emerges: what moral legacy, if any, should we leave behind for the distant future or for intelligences we may never meet? This paper proposes a framework for encoding Christ-like archetypes—patterns of moral, ethical, and spiritual intelligence—into durable digital fo...

Globalization and contemporary development have threatened indigenous sustainable construction techniques, which were naturally environmentally friendly and material conserving. The building sector has adopted modern construction techniques that are ecologically harmful, and there is a need to rediscover conventional construction techniques that ar...

How can the use of metaphors promote sustainable resilience in an educational process? How can educators and pastoral workers facilitate transformative learning by promoting strategies for coping with challenges? The paper answers these questions from a religious and psychological perspective by applying a biographical approach. By evaluating the r...

This paper applies the Oscillatory Dynamics Transductive-Bridging Theorem (ODTBT) to the historiographical reconstruction presented in A Study of al-Muqtafi on Kitab al-Rawdatayn by Ibn al-Barzali. Al-Barzali's text, revisited methodologically by Al-Bahadli and Flayeh, is shown to reflect recursive epistemological structures that mirror the oscilla...

Advances in self-distillation have shown that when knowledge is distilled from a teacher to a student using the same deep learning (DL) architecture, the student performance can surpass the teacher particularly when the network is overparameterized and the teacher is trained with early stopping. Alternatively, ensemble learning also improves perfor...

A 16-yr (2007–22) climatology of drylines is presented. Constructed using NOAA Weather Prediction Center (WPC) surface analyses, this climatology addresses the limitations of season, time of day, and region of previous dryline studies by using the full surface analysis archive to include drylines throughout the entire day at 3-h increments for the...

This current study shows that the effect of different concentrations of zinc on different strawberry cultivars, an experiment was carried out at Lovely Professional University during 2019-20 and 2020-21. This study was used with two-factor randomized complete block design (RCBD). Four quantities of zinc sulphate (0, 2.5mg/ 2L, 5mg/2L and 7.5mg/2L)...

This article focuses on documentary materials in the State Archive of Venice that are related to the King of Kartli, Simon I (1556-1569, 1578-1600), a dominant figure in Caucasian history and the historiography of the second half of the sixteenth century. During his reign, Simon first struggled for the political independence of his Kingdom against...

Considering archives as instruments of power, whatever that may be, with or without a question mark, is probably one of the most classic of all the facets of archives. Archives are associated with power and especially State power, even while power can take many forms, whether religious, economic, social, gender-based, etc., whether it is the power...

This paper is a lightly revised version of a talk that I gave as part of the seminar cycle Rethinking the Archive(s) / Repensar o(s) Arquivo(s) in Lisbon in March 2024. The organisers of the seminar asked me to speak about three terms that are central to our professional discourse: archives, records, and information. These terms give rise to a numb...

Both historical and archival theorists use the concept of “context,” but with significantly different referents. Historical context generally refers to circumstances surrounding events or actors of interest, and can range from the local details of events to global trends. Archival context, in contrast, was rigorously defined during the emergence of...

This article examines the evolving and complex relationships between core concepts in Archival and Information Sciences, as analyzed by Geoffrey Yeo in his paper, “Archives, Records, and Information: Terms, Concepts, and Relationships across Linguistic Cultures”. Yeo underscores the need for a historical and cross-cultural examination of terms such...

During the First World War, a criminalization process started in Hungary and economic crimes began to be regulated. Due to the financial crisis and the economic recession, the function of criminal law changed because it had to protect the national economy and its main institutions, which led to the adoption of Act IX of 1916 on overpricing misdemea...

This article proposes a close reading of Rivers Solomon’s 2019 novella The Deep, a recent eco-story about water, memory, and survival. Solomon’s work is inspired by a song called “The Deep” from experimental hip-hop group clipping, a dark science fiction tale about the underwater-dwelling descendants of African women thrown off slave ships during t...

In 2024 University of Amsterdam’s launched a new research priority area, "Decolonial Futures," which centers on transforming archives, museums, and cultural institutions to address colonial legacies. This article focuses on colonial archives managed by archival institutions. The central question is what forms of injustice are embedded within these...

You can find this and the other manuscripts in the special issue in the IJTS advanced publication archive: https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/advance-archive/

Usually, historians in France recognize that their task is to “make the sources speak”. What might appear to be a simple question of a technical nature (making known what is contained in the sources), however, conceals a balance of power that is certainly inherent to the historical academic field. Indeed, “making the sources speak” poses a problem...

Purpose Extracting image features can predict the prognosis and treatment effect of non-small cell lung cancer, which has been increasingly confirmed. However, the specific operation using 3D-Slicer still lacks standardization. For example, image segmentation is manually performed based on the lung window or automatically performed through the medi...

Despite green innovation receiving more attention as an aspect of global sustainable development, there is little thorough research about factors that promote it, especially the contributions of financial technology (Fintech), information and communication technology (ICT), and natural resources. To close this void, the study focuses on the global...

This study investigates the interplay between Realistic Job Preview (RJP) and counterproductive work behavior (CWB). The provision of realistic job preview has been a dearth in the education sector as the job in education sector specifically at higher level is not less than a challenging one. The population of the study were the faculty members emp...

يرتبط مفهوم الأرشيف والممارسات الأرشيفية ارتباطًا وثيقًا ببناء المعرفة التاريخية والذاكرة الجمعية، حيث اعتمد المؤرخون على الوثائق المكتوبة والشفوية كمصادر لتوثيق الأحداث وتسجيل الذاكرة. ظهرت مع مطلع التسعينيات اهتمامات بحثية جديدة تبحث في العلاقة بين الأرشيف والفنون المسرحية، خصوصًا في السينما والدراما مما جعلها منافسًا للكتابة التاريخية التقليدية....

High-resolution gridded precipitation data is scarce, especially at time intervals shorter than daily. However hydrological applications for example benefit from a finer temporal resolution of rainfall information. In this context, we introduce an hourly precipitation dataset for Belgium, featuring a resolution of 1 km. An hourly high-resolution gr...

The article contemplates the process of developing a language by Irkutsk officials to describe migration in the early 1990s. Drawing on the archive they collected, which includes internal documents of the city administration, migration service and police, the authors trace how local self-government bodies and lower structures of federal departments...

This article examines the challenges in implementing victim support in Czechia and highlights discrepancies between legislative frameworks and practical applications. The study employs a mixed-methods approach, including a focus group conducted in 2017 with experts in victim support and an expert survey in 2022. While the 2013 adoption of the Act o...

We describe the Archive of Interwar Europe Election Data and Assemblies (AIEEDA), a new multi-level dataset of parliamentary elections in interwar Europe (1919-1939). The data contains electoral results for all parties that ran in 137 national parliamentary elections in 25 interwar European democracies. It further offers detailed time-invariant ide...

Research on metaphor has steadily increased over the last decades, as this phenomenon opens a window into a range of processes in language and cognition, from pragmatic inference to abstraction and embodied simulation. At the same time, the demand for rigorously constructed and extensively normed experimental materials increased as well. Here, we p...

Objective: In the era of digital transformation, libraries play a pivotal role in facilitating access to information. This research aims to develop a comprehensive framework for enhancing digital information dissemination services at the National Library and Archives of Iran. By addressing the limitations of existing studies, this work contributes...

Soil and its biotic and abiotic components have a huge impact on human well-being, but, on the other hand, they are often neglected in scientific studies or by policy and society in comparison to other ecosystem components. In this study, we provide an overview of the direct and indirect positive and negative influences of soil and soil biodiversit...

Financial markets are considered as a main base for economic growth. Due to the rapid development of these markets, the portfolio optimization problem has become one of the most complex problems in finance. This paper addresses the multi-objective portfolio optimization problem (MOPOP) with three different objectives, which maximize the return, min...

The Ottoman geography became a center where many travelers visited in order to explore, observe or trade. The focus of these travelers was not only the imperial center but also sovereign regions such as Egypt. The works they wrote are important sources for understanding the history, culture and geography of the Ottoman Empire and the regions under...

Objective This study aims to explore HPV genotyping in the cervical specimen using VirCapSeq by comparing the results with the reverse blot hybridization assay (REBA). Methods A secondary cross-sectional data of HPV genotypes in 35 cervical specimens was obtained from VirCapSeq and REBA methods. The .FASTQ files were downloaded from the NCBI Seque...

Undead examines the visual culture of war, broadly understood, through the lens of animation. Focusing on works in which relational, intermedial, and variably paced practices of “(inter)(in)animation” generate aesthetic tactics for thinking about, feeling, and reframing war, Karen Redrobe analyzes works by artists including Yael Bartana, Nancy Dave...

This paper presents TSRF-Dist, a novel distance between time series based on Random Forests (RFs). We extend to the time-series domain concepts and tools of RF distances, a recent class of robust data-dependent distances defined for vectorial representations, thus proposing the firstRF distance for time series. The distance is determined by (i) cre...

This paper examines the use of image-to-image translation models to colorize grayscale satellite images for improved built-up segmentation of Agadir, Morocco, in 1967 and Les Sables-d’Olonne, France, in 1975. The proposed method applies advanced colorization techniques to historical remote sensing data, enhancing the segmentation process compared t...

Accurate and accessible classification of anti-nuclear antibodies (ANA) through indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) imaging is crucial for diagnosing autoimmune diseases. However, many laboratories, particularly those with limited resources, lack access to expensive commercial systems for automated analysis. This study evaluates the performance of an...

Dowry has been a historically significant practice across various cultures and religious traditions, including the Abrahamic faiths—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This paper explores the role of dowry through feminist theological and socio-cultural lenses, critically analyzing how the practice has evolved within these religious frameworks. It ex...

Cloud services are critical to society. However, their reliability is poorly understood. Towards solving the problem, we propose a standard repository for cloud uptime data. We populate this repository with the data we collect containing failure reports from users and operators of cloud services, web services, and online games. The multiple vantage...

Artikel ini menyajikan rekonstruksi sejarah Kabupaten Karawang dari masa prasejarah hingga era kemerdekaan Indonesia dengan menekankan analisis terhadap arsip-arsip kolonial Eropa dan narasi lokal. Melalui pendekatan historiografi kritis, penelitian ini memadukan sumber-sumber primer seperti laporan administrasi Belanda dan Inggris, peta agraria, c...

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Recent research suggested authentic picture books as an alternative to the conventional bottom-up adult foreign language teaching and learning approach. This paper distinguishes between: (1) trend of methods and its methodological contexts; (2) principles for picture book utilisation; and (3) theoretical interrelationships between methods and princ...

Historically, songlines of the indigenous communities have played a pivotal role in remembering, re-membering, and archiving their ancestral intercultural sociocultural practices, especially during the European colonial era, when indigenous knowledge systems were demonized, marginalized, and sterilized as metaphors of non-civilization. The devaluat...

Background In evidence-based medicine, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trials are considered the ‘gold standard’ of study design. Efforts must be made to advance evidence-based balneology in a similar manner. The objective of this scoping review was to assess the intervention types of experimental and control groups used in cl...

Pedro de Medina, treasurer of the Church of Cartagena, had houses built in the Renaissance style for the incumbent canons of the Church of Santiago in Villena after 1522. This study, based on previously unpublished sources, expands the information available on this project with details on the timeline, patrons, master builders and tradespeople invo...

This study explores how the formation and characteristics of the sociodemographic structure of Vila Rica during the first third of the 18th century, marked by profound imbalances and the zenith of gold mining, fostered a sufficiently flexible relational universe sufficiently flexible to allow a minority yet significant portion of the enslaved popul...

Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran's Cinematic Archive (2023) by Parisa Vaziri offers an in-depth exploration of the intersection of Blackness and slavery within Iranian historical and cinematic contexts. The book critically examines how Iranian cinema portrays African enslavement and marginalized narratives, particularly through fīlmf...

The paper explores the historical reconstruction of diseases and the mechanisms employed in the control of these diseases in Colonial Lagos. The aim of this paper is the documentation of the pattern of origin, diffusion and the control of diseases in Colonial Lagos. The work examines the impact of the diseases, especially dysentery and government i...

The paramo ecosystem is vital for biodiversity conservation and water regulation. Despite fire being a known disturbance agent in this ecosystem, little is known about the frequency and trends in these high-elevation landscapes. To address this knowledge gap, we generated a novel burned area database, the Paramo Fire Atlas, spanning from 1985 to 20...

This study explores how the formation and characteristics of the sociodemographic structure of Vila Rica during the first third of the 18th century, marked by profound imbalances and the zenith of gold mining, fostered a sufficiently flexible relational universe sufficiently flexible to allow a minority yet significant portion of the enslaved popul...

Objective Investigate how private equity (PE) acquisitions shape the otolaryngology workforce. Study Design Cross‐sectional. Setting Private outpatient clinics. Methods A comprehensive market database, Pitchbook (Seattle, WA), was queried utilizing keywords for outpatient otolaryngology practices acquired by PE firms from 2010 to 2023. Acquisiti...

This article presents and contextualizes a selection of bindings belonging to the Pergaminos collection of the Archivo de la Real Chancillería de Valladolid. Sixty bindings have been selected and examined from the total number of documents in this collection. Once the selection has been made, the context in which the documents were created is prese...

Integrating human rights into Internet infrastructure shapes how people exercise their rights online. Prior literature has provided qualitative evidence on how rights are (or are not) considered in technical organizations. However, few examine these processes at a large scale. We analyze a novel dataset of emails sent by Internet Engineering Task F...

The aim of the following study was to assess dental, skeletal and dental to skeletal measurements of Ricketts parameter using PA cephalogram in Saudi male population. Standard PA cephalographs of 100 esthetically pleasing faces without any craniofacial deformity were taken from the radiology archive and digitally analysed for the Ricketts analysis...

We present tilsotua, a code that calculates sky positions of the slits from Low-Resolution Imaging Spectrograph (LRIS) slitmasks used in multislit observations. Raw data for the Keck/LRIS spectrograph does not include information about the sky positions of the slitmask targets, making it difficult to use beyond the scope of the original programs. t...

This article draws attention to the archive generated by the programme of hydroelectric construction in the Scottish Highlands between the 1940s and the 1960s. As well as minutes and reports, the archive consists of a large amount of visual material, including ‘general impressions’ depicting proposed infrastructure in its setting. This significant...

Background Monitoring and responding to the sexual health needs of migrants is crucial, given their vulnerability during migration. Therefore, this study aimed to develop socio-epidemiological indicators related to sexual health and communicable diseases among the migrant population in Chile, including dimensions of the contexts of vulnerability an...

Multi-objective optimization is a cornerstone of modern engineering and management, tackling challenges in complex system design, resource allocation, and financial portfolio optimization. Effective multi-objective optimization algorithms must strike a balance between convergence and diversity, a process that inherently reflects the symmetry in obj...

This study examines the jurisdictional disputes between the bishop of Malta and the grand masters of the Order of St John during the first half of the seventeenth century, specifically from 1563 to 1650, in the wake of the Council of Trent. It focuses on conflicts concerning ecclesiastical immunities—personal, real (material), and local—as key poin...

Chronology of the Swine Flu Pandemic: Main Events of 2009-2010. A collection of articles, documents, news, and remarks on the history of the Swine Flu Pandemic, which 'affected' Humanity in 2009-2010. //-// Contents 1. Introduction: Some events before the Declaration of Pandemic 2. Chronology of the False Bird Flu Pandemic 3. Anti-Flu vaccine Cont...

Understanding global livestock dynamics is essential for global food security, public health, socio-economic and sustainable development. This study developed an automated global livestock mapping framework that integrated Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database (FAOSTAT) and the Random Forest regression model. By implement...

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has enabled the development of vision foundation models for Earth Observation (EO), demonstrating strong transferability across diverse remote sensing tasks. While prior work has focused on network architectures and training strategies, the role of dataset curation, especially in balancing and diversifying pre-trainin...

This technical report inaugurates the field of Quantum Sociological Science (QSS) through real-world application. It documents the re-alignment of systemic, legal, and emotional misinterpretation using the Tri-Lens Alignment Theory, developed to restore meaning in disrupted environments through curiosity, adaptation, and alignment. This case study...

The composition and function of the human gut microbiome has been linked to multiple health outcomes across all world regions, often with region-specific associations. Unfortunately, the extent to which microbiomes from different populations are characterised is limited by their economic resources. Over 70% of the sequenced human microbiomes come f...

This paper explores the ways in which, in the absence of banks, guilds and religious foundations of the Ottoman Empire formed capital and lent it in the form of credit to its members and others, thereby creating credit markets in what might be called as proto-bank financial environment and establishing what can be seen as an ancestral form of co-op...