Despite a spectacular expansion of the higher education sector in Sub-Saharan Africa, the supply of tertiary education has generally failed to keep pace with demand and the region continues to lag all other regions in terms of access to tertiary education. This is in part a consequence of deeply...

The Chinese government aims to use environmental policy measures to improve society's overall green total factor productivity (GTFP) and create a new development pattern in which the economy and the environment are equally important. Based on the perspective of indirect financing, this study...

The Anoxic/Oxic (A/O) process involves recirculating mixed liquor between its A and O tanks so that nitrate produced in the O tank can be used to for denitrification with influent COD in the A tank. Because biomass is recirculated along with nitrate, A/O operation leads to similar microbial...

Based on the physical characteristics of the light reflection on the inner wall surface of such parts, this paper proposes a high-dynamic online detection method for small-diameter internal wall surface defects. The reflective fringes are used to enhance and magnify the minor surface defects of...

Denitrification is an important step in domestic wastewater treatment, but providing bioavailable electron donors is an expense. However, some industrial wastewaters contain organic compounds that could be a no-cost electron donor. In this work, quinoline was used as an electron donor to drive...

With the rapid development of China’s economy, the problem of environmental pollution has become increasingly serious. Given that China’s current environmental quality threatens its long-term sustainable economic development, certain attention must be paid to curb environmental pollution in...

Epidemics, such as COVID-19, have serious consequences globally, of which the most effective way to control the infection is contact tracing. Nowadays, research releated to privacy-preserving epidemic infection control for has been conducted, nevertheless, current researches do not regard the...

In this paper, we experimentally evaluate the zero-shot performance of a preliminary version of GPT-4 against prior generations of GPT on the entire Uniform Bar Examination (UBE), including not only the multiple-choice Multistate Bar Examination (MBE), but also the open-ended Multistate Essay...

Purpose This paper aims to propose a conceptual model of policy components for software that supports modularizing and tailoring of information security policies (ISPs). Design/methodology/approach This study used a design science research approach, drawing on design knowledge from the field of...