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Reducing Food Scarcity: The Benefits Of Urban Farming, S.A. Claudell, Emilio Mejia Dec 2023

Reducing Food Scarcity: The Benefits Of Urban Farming, S.A. Claudell, Emilio Mejia

Journal of Nonprofit Innovation

Urban farming can enhance the lives of communities and help reduce food scarcity. This paper presents a conceptual prototype of an efficient urban farming community that can be scaled for a single apartment building or an entire community across all global geoeconomics regions, including densely populated cities and rural, developing towns and communities. When deployed in coordination with smart crop choices, local farm support, and efficient transportation then the result isn’t just sustainability, but also increasing fresh produce accessibility, optimizing nutritional value, eliminating the use of ‘forever chemicals’, reducing transportation costs, and fostering global environmental benefits.

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Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Of Movie Reviews, Samuel Onalaja, Eric Romero, Bosang Yun Dec 2021

Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Of Movie Reviews, Samuel Onalaja, Eric Romero, Bosang Yun

SMU Data Science Review

This study investigates a comparison of classification models used to determine aspect based separated text sentiment and predict binary sentiments of movie reviews with genre and aspect specific driving factors. To gain a broader classification analysis, five machine and deep learning algorithms were compared: Logistic Regression (LR), Naive Bayes (NB), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Recurrent Neural Network Long-Short-Term Memory (RNN LSTM). The various movie aspects that are utilized to separate the sentences are determined through aggregating aspect words from lexicon-base, supervised and unsupervised learning. The driving factors are randomly assigned to various movie aspects and their impact tied to …


Applying The Data: Predictive Analytics In Sport, Anthony Teeter, Margo Bergman Nov 2020

Applying The Data: Predictive Analytics In Sport, Anthony Teeter, Margo Bergman

Access*: Interdisciplinary Journal of Student Research and Scholarship

The history of wagering predictions and their impact on wide reaching disciplines such as statistics and economics dates to at least the 1700’s, if not before. Predicting the outcomes of sports is a multibillion-dollar business that capitalizes on these tools but is in constant development with the addition of big data analytics methods. Sportsline.com, a popular website for fantasy sports leagues, provides odds predictions in multiple sports, produces proprietary computer models of both winning and losing teams, and provides specific point estimates. To test likely candidates for inclusion in these prediction algorithms, the authors developed a computer model, and test …


A Localized Approach To The Origins Of Pottery In Upper Mesopotamia, Elizabeth Gibbon Nov 2015

A Localized Approach To The Origins Of Pottery In Upper Mesopotamia, Elizabeth Gibbon

The Partisan

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Statistical Section (September 1984), Central Bank Of Nigeria Cbn Sep 1984

Statistical Section (September 1984), Central Bank Of Nigeria Cbn

Economic and Financial Review

This is the statistical presentations of the developments in the Nigerian economy during the period under review.


Statistical Section (June 1984), Central Bank Of Nigeria Cbn Jun 1984

Statistical Section (June 1984), Central Bank Of Nigeria Cbn

Economic and Financial Review

Statistical tables on central banking, commercial banking, merchant banking, international liquidity, international trade, the flow of funds, money supply, national savings, production, consumer prices, public debt and public finance.


Statistical Section (September 1983), Central Bank Of Nigeria Cbn Sep 1983

Statistical Section (September 1983), Central Bank Of Nigeria Cbn

Economic and Financial Review

The statistical tables comprised of the following: Central Bank of Nigeria statement of assets & liabilities, Central Bank monthly rediscounts gross, Commercial Banks' statement of assets and liabilities, Analysis of Commercial Banks' loans and advances, Selected predominant interest rates, Ratio of loans and advances to deposits, Net external assets of Commercial Banks, and Liquidity ratios of Commercial and merchants Banks'.


Statistical Section (June 1972), Central Bank Of Nigeria Cbn Jun 1972

Statistical Section (June 1972), Central Bank Of Nigeria Cbn

Economic and Financial Review

The dataset set contains data from central banking, commercial banking, currency in circulation, external assets, international trade, money and capital, money supply, national savings, production and public debt covering 1966-1971.


Statistical Section (June 1970), Central Bank Of Nigeria Cbn Jun 1970

Statistical Section (June 1970), Central Bank Of Nigeria Cbn

Economic and Financial Review

The dataset include data for central bank and commercial banks statement of assets and liabilities, currency in circulation, external assets, international trade, money and capital markets, money supply, national savings, production, public debt and public finance.


Statistical Section (June 1969), Central Bank Of Nigeria Cbn Jun 1969

Statistical Section (June 1969), Central Bank Of Nigeria Cbn

Economic and Financial Review

The dataset for the June 1969 issue of the Economic and Financial Review contents data for central banking, commercial banking, money supply, money and capital markets, public debt, national savings, external assets, international trade, production, fuel and power and public finance, covering data from 1962 to 1969.


Statistical Section (December 1968), Central Bank Of Nigeria Cbn Dec 1968

Statistical Section (December 1968), Central Bank Of Nigeria Cbn

Economic and Financial Review

Publication of the statistics include analysis of commercial bank loans and advances, finance agricultural exports, money and capital marker, national savings, international trade, fuel and power and some new headings that are now included like transportation and communications, while some have been merged to other headings.


Statistical Section December 1966, Central Bank Of Nigeria Cbn Dec 1966

Statistical Section December 1966, Central Bank Of Nigeria Cbn

Economic and Financial Review

The statistics included in this publication for 1966 are the central bank statement of assets and liabilities, currency in circulation, commercial banking, money and capital markets, public finance, international trade, production, fuel and power among others


Statistical Section (June 1966), Central Bank Of Nigeria Cbn Jun 1966

Statistical Section (June 1966), Central Bank Of Nigeria Cbn

Economic and Financial Review

This section of the EFR reports the statistics of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from 1960 to the first half 1966. This includes the Bank’s statement of assets and liabilities as well as its rediscount operations. Other sections include: currency in circulation, money supply, commercial banking activities, money and capital markets, public finance, national savings, external assets and international trade. The remaining sections include: Production (agricultural produce, mineral production), fuel and power, electricity generation and consumption.


Statistical Section (December 1965), Central Bank Of Nigeria Cbn Dec 1965

Statistical Section (December 1965), Central Bank Of Nigeria Cbn

Economic and Financial Review

The article contains statistical section which provides data for central banking, currency, commercial banking, money and capital market, public finance, other financial institutions, national savings, foreign exchange reserves, international trade, production and fuel and power for the year 1960 - 1965.