Girl-Child Empowerment and Socio-Economic Welfare in Urban Southwestern Uganda: A Case of Kanungu Town Council, Kanungu District by Adebayo, Sanni T.

“…More specifically, it intended to identify the forms of girl-child empowerment in Kanungu Town Council from 2005 to 2015, to establish the extent to which girl-child empowerment has improved the socio-economic welfare in Kanungu Town Council from 2005 to 2015, to identify and explain the challenges faced by stakeholders in their efforts to empower the girl-child in Kanungu Town Council, and to generate strategies for enhanced girl-child empowerment in Kanungu Town Council. The study adopted a case study research design using a cross-sectional survey. …”
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The Practice of Accounting Standards And Performance Of Commercial Banks In Kabale Municipality, South Western Uganda by Mbabazi, Mannex, Moses, Agaba

“…Probing into the relationship between the two will unearth the key necessary to impact management capacity Objective: To determine the influence of accounting techniques, accountability, and transparency on the performance of selected representative commercial banks in Kabale Municipality, Uganda Methods : The cross-sectional retrospective study design adopted was quantitative and descriptive with a sample that comprised 118 respondents selected by both simple and purposive random sampling. …”
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Financial accountability mechanisms in local governments in Uganda: a case of Kabale District Local Government by Eton, Marus, Moses, Agaba, Abanis,Turyahebwa, Perpetua, Arinaitwe, Fabian, Mwosi, Bernard, Patrick Ogwel

“…A cross-sectional research design, which used both quantitative and qualitative approaches to collect and analyze data, was adopted. Both simple random and purposive sampling techniques were used to select 117 respondents from 174 subjects. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Blast Vibration and Crack Forming Effect of Rock-Anchored Beam Excavation in Deep Underground Caverns by XinPing Li, JunHong Huang, Yi Luo, Qian Dong, YouHua Li, Yong Wan, TingTing Liu

“…Aiming at surrounding rock damage induced by dynamic disturbance from blasting excavation of rock-anchored beam in rock mass at moderate or far distance in underground cavern, numerical model of different linear charging density and crustal stress in underground cavern is established by adopting dynamic finite element software based on borehole layout, charging, and rock parameter of the actual situation of a certain hydropower station. …”
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Spectral Quantitative Analysis Model with Combining Wavelength Selection and Topology Structure Optimization by Qian Wang, Boyan Cai, Yajie Yu, Hui Cao

“…For the proposed method, backpropagation neural network is adopted for building the component prediction model, and the simultaneousness optimization of the wavelength selection and the topology structure of neural network is realized by nonlinear adaptive evolutionary programming (NAEP). …”
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Methodology for predicting material performance by context-based modeling: A case study on solid amine CO2 adsorbents by Shuangjun Li, Zhixin Huang, Yuanming Li, Shuai Deng, Xiangkun Elvis Cao

“…The results show that context-based modeling can reduce prediction error in comparison to traditional ML models in the prediction task. We adopted Sapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) to further elucidate the importance of various input features. …”
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Experimental and Numerical Studies on the Mechanical Properties of Columnar Jointed Basalt by Shiyi Zhu, Changdi He, Fei Peng, Anchi Shi, Dongyang Yuan, Weikang Zhang

“…Besides, the small material property difference is helpful for the compressive strength of rock masses. After adopting the most unfavorable joint angle and width to model the tunneling process in CJB, it suggests that it is easily damaged along the directions of rock joints in CJB when constructing in tunnels.…”
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Sign Prediction on Unlabeled Social Networks Using Branch and Bound Optimized Transfer Learning by Weiwei Yuan, Jiali Pang, Donghai Guan, Yuan Tian, Abdullah Al-Dhelaan, Mohammed Al-Dhelaan

“…Due to the insufficiency of labeled data, transfer learning has been adopted to leverage the auxiliary data to improve the prediction of signs in target domain. …”
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Gender-Leadership in the Ivory Tower: A Case Study of Institutions of Higher Education in Taraba State by Salama Bako, Abigail Karfe, Godswill Moses

“…Objective: This study investigated Gender-Leadership in the ivory tower, a survey of higher education institutions in Taraba State, Nigeria.Methods: A descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. A simple random sampling method was used to select a sample size of 372 academic and non-academic staff for this study. …”
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Dynamic urban morphology mapping in Chinese cities based on local climate zone approach by Hanguang Yu, Yang Yang, Jiyao Zhao, Meng Cai, Ran Wang, Guangzhao Chen, Chunxiao Zhang, Le Yu

“…In 2012, the Local Climate Zone (LCZ) classification was proposed to address this issue and has since been widely adopted in urban climate studies globally. Despite its prevalence, literature on dynamic mapping of urban morphology remains sparse, making it difficult to delve into the study of urban renewal year by year. …”
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Reprogramming of Mouse Calvarial Osteoblasts into Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells by Yinxiang Wang, Jessica Aijia Liu, Keith K. H. Leung, Mai Har Sham, Danny Chan, Kathryn S. E. Cheah, Martin Cheung

“…Previous studies have demonstrated the ability of reprogramming endochondral bone into induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, but whether similar phenomenon occurs in intramembranous bone remains to be determined. Here we adopted fluorescence-activated cell sorting-based strategy to isolate homogenous population of intramembranous calvarial osteoblasts from newborn transgenic mice carrying both Osx1-GFP::Cre and Oct4-EGFP transgenes. …”
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Freezing Method for Rock Cross-Cut Coal Uncovering: Aging Characteristic of Effective Freezing Distance on Injecting Liquid Nitrogen into Coal Seam by Heyi Ma, Chuanqu Zhu, Pengtao Zhao, Binbin Wang

“…The periodic method with 8h intervals can be adopted to inject liquid nitrogen into coal seam, and the freezing wall is formed around the injection hole. …”
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Dynamic Shift Coordinated Control Based on Motor Active Speed Synchronization with the New Hybrid System by Ting Yan, Lin Yang, Bin Yan, Wei Zhou, Liang Chen, Wei Zhou

“…A new hybrid system with superior performances is applied to present the validity of the adopted control algorithm during upshift or downshift, which can represent planetary gear system and conventional AMT shift procedure, respectively. …”
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Carboxymethyl cellulose assisted reforming of poly acrylic acid co methyl methacrylate composite for wastewater treatment and effective hosting of antimicrobial silver by Ahmed Hamdy, Hassan Nageh, S. A. Hassan, Mohamed A. Mekewi, Atef S. Darwish

“…Langmuir and pseudo-first-order kinetic models best describe safranine dye removal from wastewater, adopting exothermic adsorption progression with elevated capacity (~ 59.47 mg/g) and accelerated rate (~ 1.06 h− 1). …”
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Discovery of bicyclic borane molecule B14H26 by Xiaoni Zhang, Tomoko Fujino, Yasunobu Ando, Yuki Tsujikawa, Tianle Wang, Takeru Nakashima, Haruto Sakurai, Kazuki Yamaguchi, Masafumi Horio, Hatsumi Mori, Jun Yoshinobu, Takahiro Kondo, Iwao Matsuda

“…This borane molecule, analogous to cyclic hydrocarbons, adopts a unit configuration with a three-center two-electron (3c-2e) bonding, akin to diborane. …”
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A Signal Based Triangular Structuring Element for Mathematical Morphological Analysis and Its Application in Rolling Element Bearing Fault Diagnosis by Zhaowen Chen, Ning Gao, Wei Sun, Qiong Chen, Fengying Yan, Xinyu Zhang, Maria Iftikhar, Shiwei Liu, Zhongqi Ren

“…Mathematical morphology (MM) is an efficient nonlinear signal processing tool. It can be adopted to extract fault information from bearing signal according to a structuring element (SE). …”
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Research on integrated 3D geological modeling of vector grid ——taking the core area of Tianfu New Area as an example by Ming Hao, Peiyao Xie, Huan Liu, Bo Wang, Fang Zhou, Xianglong Zeng, Yang Lei, Deng Pan, Guokun Liao

“…To solve this problem, this paper takes the core business district of Tianfu New District of Chengdu city as the research area and the urban geological survey of Chengdu city as the data base, adopts the borehole-based rapid modelling technology to build the urban 3D geological structure model, uses the grid segmentation and attribute interpolation to realise the model integration, and builds the vector grid integrated 3D geological model of ‘one model, multiple expressions’. …”
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Mechanistic Studies with DNA Polymerases Reveal Complex Outcomes following Bypass of DNA Damage by Robert L. Eoff, Jeong-Yun Choi, F. Peter Guengerich

“…One of these pathways supports DNA replication events by in a sense adopting the mantra that one must “make the best of a bad situation” and tolerating covalent modification to DNA through less accurate copying of the damaged region. …”
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Attenuation Correction of Weather Radar Reflectivity with Arbitrary Oriented Microwave Link by Peng Zhang, Xichuan Liu, Zhaoming Li, Zeming Zhou, Kun Song, Pinglv Yang

“…It is demonstrated that arbitrary oriented microwave link can be adopted to optimize the attenuation correction of radar reflectivity.…”
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Research on Nonpoint Source Pollution Assessment Method in Data Sparse Regions: A Case Study of Xichong River Basin, China by Xing Liu, Donglong Li, Hongbo Zhang, Shixiang Cai, Xiaodong Li, Tianqi Ao

“…Thus the ECM and BTOPMC were, respectively, adopted to develop an easy and practical assessment method, and a comparison between the outputs of them is then conducted in this paper. …”
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