TitleExperimental Open Educational Resources Adoption Barriers Among Mid-Career University Lecturers for Decision Support
Paper IDqws6O
Keywordsopen educational resources; higher education; faculty adoption; instructional design; digital materials
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OER policies stall when mid-career lecturers lack time to adapt materials. Workload, quality uncertainty, and promotion incentives dominate barriers; adaptation grants and peer review raise reuse more than mandates alone.

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TitleLongitudinal Semantic Segmentation of Informal Settlements From High-Resolution Aerial Imagery Under Resource Constraints
Paper IDzGuth
Keywordssemantic segmentation; informal settlements; aerial imagery; deep learning; urban planning
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Municipal maps lag informal growth. Segmentation models trained on aerial tiles improve roof and pathway delineation for service planning relative to manual digitizing alone.

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TitleField-Based Experimental Study of Microfinance Group Liability and Repayment Discipline
Paper IDKVEfO
Keywordsmicrofinance; group liability; repayment; field experiment; development finance
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Group liability is debated as both insurance and social pressure. A field experiment varies liability rules and tracks repayment and new membership under identical loan products.

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TitleData-Driven Social Network Analysis of Knowledge Diffusion in Community Health Worker Programs With Uncertainty Quantification
Paper IDzfNGk
Keywordssocial network analysis; community health workers; knowledge diffusion; public health; training
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Training cascades often stall at peripheral workers. Mapping advice ties identifies bridging nodes whose reinforced coaching raises protocol adherence more than uniform refresher workshops.

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TitleMultiscale Low-Cost Spectrophotometry for Rapid Screening of Aflatoxin Risk in Stored Maize Using Open Data Streams
Paper IDG5uf3
Keywordsaflatoxin; maize storage; spectrophotometry; food safety; rapid screening
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Laboratory chromatography is too slow for village buying points. A portable spectrophotometer triage protocol flags high-risk lots for confirmatory testing while keeping false negatives low.

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TitleIntegrated Phytoremediation Potential of Native Grasses on Mine-Impacted Soils With Organic Amendments During Seasonal Transitions
Paper IDSNixu
Keywordsphytoremediation; mine soils; native grasses; organic amendments; heavy metals
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Abandoned mine spoils limit revegetation when metal stress and low organic matter coincide. Native grass accessions under compost and biochar amendments stabilize cover without excessive shoot metal accumulation.

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TitleEmpirical Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Named Entity Recognition in Administrative Texts in Emerging Economies
Paper IDfui8K
Keywordstransfer learning; named entity recognition; low-resource NLP; administrative texts; information extraction
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Local-language administrative corpora lack labeled entities. Cross-lingual transfer with domain adapters improves place and organization recognition relative to scratch training.

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