The study investigated the roles of different stakeholders influencing the use of mobile phones in accessing agricultural information in Tanzania. While information is becoming an important ingredient in agriculture, farmers in Tanzania suffer the problem of lacking access to agricultural information. Promisingly, mobile phone technology has become the most valued infrastructure which gives peo...

The present research aims to design strategic management model in technical and vocational training. The research has qualitative design and for data analysis and classification, thematic Analysis Method (Thematic Network) was applied. The statistical population of the study consisted of experts of the Iran Technical and Vocational Training Organization. The number of 13 participants were selec...

Abstract This paper gives a philosophical outline of the importance plausible ontologies in social sciences and argues how mechanisms processes should be placed as foundation world. The argumentation is mainly based on critical appraisal use works Norbert Elias, Charles Tilly, Jon Elster. I start by elaborating inquiries scientific interest evolve to shed light cases, facts things that constitu...

Along with the massive growth of Internet from 1990s until now, various innovative technologies have been created to bring users breathtaking experiences more virtual interactions in cyberspace. Many environments developed immersive experience and digital transformation, but most are incoherent instead being integrated into a platform. In this context, metaverse has introduced as shared world t...

In this paper, we address the problem of classifying image sets for face recognition, where each set contains images belonging to the same subject and typically covering large variations. By modeling each image set as a manifold, we formulate the problem as the computation of the distance between two manifolds, called manifold-manifold distance (MMD). Since an image set can come in three patter...

The phosphatase and tensin homolog gene (PTEN) on chromosome 10q23.3 is a negative regulator of the PIK3/Akt survival pathway and is the most frequently deleted tumor suppressor gene in prostate cancer. Monoallelic loss of PTEN is present in up to 60% of localized prostate cancers and complete loss of PTEN in prostate cancer is linked to metastasis and androgen-independent progression. Studies ...

The identification of causal peer effects (also known as social contagion or induction) from observational data in social networks is challenged by two distinct sources of bias: latent homophily and unobserved confounding. In this paper, we investigate how causal peer effects of traits and behaviors can be identified using genes (or other structurally isomorphic variables) as instrumental varia...

The formation of the first stars is an exciting frontier area in astronomy. Early redshifts (z ∼ 20) have become observationally promising as a result of a recently recognized effect of a supersonic relative velocity between the dark matter and gas. This effect produces prominent structure on 100 comoving Mpc scales, which makes it much more feasible to detect 21-cm fluctuations from the epoch ...

The persistent current qubit is a superconducting ring interrupted by three Josephson junctions. Its two quantum states have circulating currents in opposite directions which can be measured by a dc SQUID magnetometer. This work examines a persistent current qubit fabricated in niobium, using Lincoln Laboratory's DPARTS process. Measurements of the niobium qubit show a promisingly high subgap r...

In this paper, a novel hybrid method named the LFDA_SVM, which integrates a new feature extraction method and a classification algorithm, has been introduced for diagnosing hepatitis disease. The two integrated methods are the local fisher discriminant analysis (LFDA) and the supporting vector machine (SVM), respectively. In the proposed LFDA_SVM, the LFDA is employed as a feature extraction to...