THEORETICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE CURRENT STATE OF THE METAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE WEIGHT VERIFICATION CAR

In this article, theoretical investigations of the metal structure of the scale-testing railway car are carried out. These investigations primarily involve the development of a computational finite element model of the body of the scale-testing railway car and the study of the stressed-deformed s...

weight-checking wagon body wagon finite element method railway
THE DIACHRONIC FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF KINSHIP TERMS: A LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE

Kinship terms constitute one of the most ancient and culturally loaded lexical fields in human language. Their persistence across centuries, combined with continuous semantic and functional change, makes them a valuable object of diachronic linguistic research. This article investigates the forma...

diachrony kinship terms historical linguistics semantic change
TEACHING ENGLISH IN THE 21ST CENTURY: METHODS, CHALLENGES, AND SOLUTIONS

Teaching English in the 21st century is shaped by rapid technological change, shifting learner needs, globalization, and increasingly diverse classrooms. This article explores contemporary methods of English Language Teaching (ELT), identifies major challenges teachers face today, and proposes pr...

ELT EFL communicative approach
DEPLOYMENT OF EFFECTIVE ECONOMICS TEACHING METHODS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ECONOMICS IN NIGERIAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS

The deployment of effective teaching methods is vital for the successful implementation of Economics in Nigerian secondary schools. This study explores how diverse instructional strategies influence students’ understanding, engagement, and performance in Economics a subject characterized by abstr...

deployment economics teaching methods
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS AI ON MICROCONTROLLERS LIGHTWEIGHT AI MODELS FOR REAL-TIME INFERENCE ON RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED MICROCONTROLLERS IN EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

This paper addresses the efficacy and significance of using bare-bones AI frameworks in the detection of wear, tear and malfunctions that affects the embedded system. By employing pruning, quantum transformation, knowledge extraction mechanisms, we were able to adapt deep learning models to incre...

Edge-enabled Artificial Intelligence TinyM Machine learning
FUNDAMENTALS OF EVALUATING THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYMER MATERIALS BASED ON INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS

This article presents an analytical review of the principal testing methods used to evaluate the mechanical properties of polymer materials. The viscoelastic nature of polymers, along with their sensitivity to strain rate, temperature, and time, plays a critical role in the selection of appropria...

polymer materials mechanical properties mechanical testing ASTM and ISO standards viscoelasticity