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The question of African agency in international relations
The subject of agency in Africa’s international relations (IR) is often shrouded in generalised accounts of Africa as a supplicant actor. Utilising examples from a variety of African states, this article makes the argument that African actors are able to
Ronald Chipaike, Matarutse H Knowledge
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Background Evidence has shown that private industry-sponsored randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and meta-analyses are more likely to report intervention-favourable results compared with other sources of funding.
Areti Angeliki Veroniki+6 more
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Effects of weekly pain monitoring on back pain outcomes: a non-randomised controlled study
Background Disease monitoring is an important element of self-management of several chronic diseases. Pain monitoring has become very easily available, but the role in musculoskeletal pain conditions is not clear.
Alice Kongsted+3 more
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Value-at-risk for the USD/ZAR exchange rate: The Variance-Gamma model
A country’s level of exchange risk is closely linked to its financial stability, on a macro-economic scale. South African exchange rates, in particular, have a significant impact on imports, inflation, consumer prices and monetary policies. Consequently,
Lionel Establet Kemda+2 more
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Background The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the spread of misinformation worldwide. The purpose of this study was to explore perceptions of misinformation and preferred sources of obtaining COVID-19 information from those living in Canada. In particular,
Suvabna Theivendrampillai+6 more
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Knowledge Graphs: Opportunities and Challenges [PDF]
With the explosive growth of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data, it has become vitally important to organize and represent the enormous volume of knowledge appropriately. As graph data, knowledge graphs accumulate and convey knowledge of the real world.
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Text mining to support abstract screening for knowledge syntheses: a semi-automated workflow
Background Current text mining tools supporting abstract screening in systematic reviews are not widely used, in part because they lack sensitivity and precision.
Ba’ Pham+11 more
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Knowledge Engineering using Large Language Models [PDF]
Knowledge engineering is a discipline that focuses on the creation and maintenance of processes that generate and apply knowledge. Traditionally, knowledge engineering approaches have focused on knowledge expressed in formal languages. The emergence of large language models and their capabilities to effectively work with natural language, in its ...
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A Comprehensive Survey on Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction [PDF]
Automatic knowledge graph construction aims to manufacture structured human knowledge. To this end, much effort has historically been spent extracting informative fact patterns from different data sources. However, more recently, research interest has shifted to acquiring conceptualized structured knowledge beyond informative data.
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Economic Community of West African State’s (ECOWAS) Controversy: Wither a Need for Single Currency by 2021? [PDF]
The business cycles in the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) as well as West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) using real GDP growth within 1980-2019, detrended by Hodrick–Prescott filters were analyzed.
Agba, Opue Job, Madueme, Ifeoma Stella
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