Ever-increasing solid waste production has been threatening natural environment and human safety in recent years. With increasing urbanization worldwide, municipal solid waste (MSW) has increased significantly. The integrated management of MSW is an effective method, but the accurate prediction of MSW generation is a complex problem. Some traditional prediction models
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The National Assembly has promised to fast-track the passage of the Data Protection Bill within 30 days upon receiving it from the executive arm of government. The Chairman, Senate Committee on Information Communication Technology (ICT) and Cybercrime, Yakubu Useni, gave the promise during a one-day sensitisation workshop on data protection organised
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Timber is growing in popularity as a sustainable construction material, but its increasing use is focusing attention on the need for fire retardants that don’t pose a threat to human health. The UK saw record temperatures this summer, causing widespread wildfires and droughts. This extreme weather could become a regular seasonal
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Neutralising carbon emissions is a universal concern. Be it aviation companies or start-ups, organisations are doing their bit for the environment. Aviation contributes about 2-2.5 per cent of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions worldwide. As for India, the country is a leading importer of edible oil. Now here lies an opportunity. Probably
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The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has granted Approved Training Organisation (ATO) certificate to Aviatrix Hub, an aviation training institute based in Lagos to carry out Basic and Advanced Flight Dispatcher training. ATO certificate is an approval granted by the NCAA to an organisation established to conduct aviation training courses. Director General
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The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has continued to display its commitment to the sustainability of a digitally transformed Nigeria by engaging the workforce of various Federal Public Institutions (FPIs) in capacity development programmes to create a digitally formidable federal public service toward the realization of a digital Nigeria. Dr.
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A solar 'destruction event' earlier this year destroyed 38 of Elon Musk's Starlink satellites - costing his company tens of millions of dollars in losses. SpaceX launched 49 its low-latency internet satellites into space from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on February 3 - seemingly without incident at first. Around that same time,
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TikTok’s popularity continues to rise, while other social media networks have seen a decline. In September, the Wall Street Journal reported that Instagram is faltering in its bid to keep up with TikTok, the wildly popular Chinese-owned video-sharing app. But it is not just Instagram fretting over TikTok's meteoric rise—a Google exec
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Researchers from HSE University and Moscow Polytechnic University have discovered that AI models are unable to represent features of human vision due to a lack of tight coupling with the respective physiology, so they are worse at recognizing images. The results of the study were published in the Proceedings of
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Digital transformation is about change, but what is a leader to do when faced with ubiquitous resistance? Expecting workers, managers, and organizations as a whole to make significant changes in the way they work is often a big risk because people are reluctant to change. However, there is no denying
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