DIVIDEND POLICY AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF QUOTED OIL AND GAS COMPANIES IN NIGERIA by Ajose Kehinde Gabriel

“…The study recommended that, the company would pay no dividend. They would retain all earnings to maximise market price per share since they can earn more on investment than share holder expectation. …”
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Early-Onset Neonatal Sepsis: Role of C-Reactive Protein, Micro-ESR, and Gastric Aspirate for Polymorphs as Screening Markers by Sukhdeep Kaur, Kunwarpal Singh

“…Neonatal sepsis screening is required for the detection of infection as the blood culture report may not be positive in all the cases, and even if positive, the result takes few hours. …”
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Typhus epidemic in Kuibyshev during the Great Patriotic War by O. Yu. Igoshina

“…The epidemic spread to the population of all ages. Renovation of the health system, strict sanitary control, improvement of living conditions of the population, as well as sanitary and educational work were able to stop the infection and prevent it from entering the front…”
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Les services écologiques des bonobos (Pan paniscus) by David Beaune, François Bretagnolle, Loïc Bollache, Chloé Bourson, Gottfried Hohmann, Barbara Fruth

“…Bonobos were mainly frugivores (66% of all feeding sessions), spending about 3.5 h d-1 swallowing seeds that were transported for an average of 24 h in the gut. …”
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Mineralization Rates of Soil Forms of Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium as Affected by Organomineral Fertilizer in Sandy Loam by Ayeni Leye Samuel, Adeleye Omotayo Ebenezer

“…Organomineral fertilizer significantly increased N, NH4–N, NO3–N, total P, solution P, exchangeable P, solution K, and exchangeable K at all rates with different values. The rate of ammonification of N was higher than the rate of nitrification of NH4 + N to NO3 + N especially at 10 and 20 t ha−1 OMF. …”
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பெரியபுராணத்தில் நாயன்மார்களின் பண்பாட்டு மரபுகள் / Cultural Traditions of the Nayanmars in Periyapuranam... by முனைவர் க. முத்துமாரியம்மாள் / Dr. K. Muthumariammal

“…Culture refers to the overall lifestyle of a particular society. All age-old cultural practices that are universally accepted can be considered common to the whole world. …”
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The ILO Convention No. 190 concerning the elimination of violence and harassment at work: Reasons for ratification by Dragićević Marija, Obradović Goran

“…Its aim is to provide protection to employees and other persons against violence and harassment at work in all sectors, either private or public, in the formal or informal economy, in urban or rural areas. …”
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Microstructural and Mechanical Characteristics of Pure-Cu/brass Dissimilar Joints Welded by Friction Stir Welding Using Various Process Parameters by Ramesh C, Mohammed Tharwan, P. Manoj Kumar, Dawit Tafesse Gebreyohannes

“…FSW (friction stir welding) is a solid-state joining method that attracts interest from all industries. The influence of various tool rotational speeds on the microstructure and mechanical characteristics of dissimilar pure Cu-brass joints has been investigated. …”
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Discovery of ianthelliformisamines D–G from the sponge Suberea ianthelliformis and the total synthesis of ianthelliformisamine D by Sasha Hayes, Yaoying Lu, Bernd H. A. Rehm, Rohan A. Davis

“…Compounds 4–7 were fully characterised following 1D/2D NMR, MS and UV data analyses. All compounds were assessed for their inhibition on planktonic growth of P. aeruginosa PAO1 in addition to their ability to inhibit the formation of biofilms. …”
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Medical Device-Associated Candida Infections in a Rural Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital of India by Sachin C. Deorukhkar, Santosh Saini

“…Approximately, about half all cases of HCAIs are associated with medical devices. …”
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Trends and Progress on Antibiotic-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Genes in relation to Human Immunodeficiency Virus by N. G. Mbewana Ntshanka, T. A. M. Msagati

“…The spread and control of the MDR-TB pandemic due to unsuccessful treatment is one of the most serious public issues of concern, and this challenge is of international interest. Despite all measures that have been executed to overcome the challenge of MDR-TB in recent decades, the global MDR-TB trends have kept on accelerating with more and more people becoming victims. …”
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Outcomes of OCT imaging-based reoperations in strabismus by Savleen Kaur, Jaspreet Sukhija, Srishti Raj, Shweta Chaurasia, Shubhi Singh M. Optom

“…Methods Patients with strabismus requiring reoperation with/without previous surgical records at the Advanced Eye Centre, PGIMER, Chandigarh were recruited. All patients underwent a thorough clinical examination and imaging of extraocular muscle insertions on the Swept Source Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography. …”
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Inclusion and Well-Being Among National and Immigrant University Students in Portugal: Avenues for Participatory Research by Maria Odília Teixeira, Márcia Laranjeira

“…Furthermore, structural equation modeling analysis revealed that inclusive practices of teachers and institutions are significantly associated with the well-being of all students (β = 0.33, <i>p</i> = 0.032). These results highlight the need to implement inclusive educational strategies in both intervention and research. …”
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Evaluation of Service Life of Polystyrene in Tropical Marine Environment by Principal Component Analysis by Dongdong Song, Jin Gao, Lin Lu, Xiaogang Li

“…Herein, PCA was applied to obtain a specific property (Z) which can represent all properties of PS. Z of PS degradation showed a slight decrease for the initial two months of exposure after which it increased rapidly in the next eight months. …”
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Synthetic studies of Alkoxy isoindole-1,3-diones tetra-azabenzo[f]azulenes and their Antibacterial activity by M. Ahmed, R. Sharma, D. P. Nagda, V. K. Salvi, G. L. Talesara

“…3-Methylpyrazol-5-one 3 reacts with substituted benzaldehydes 4a-d in the presence of anhydrous sodium acetate to produce the corresponding 4-arylidene-5-methyl-2,4-dihydro-pyrazol-3-ones 5a-d and the condensation of 5a-d with 2-bromoalkoxy-1H-isoindole-1, 3-(2H)-diones 2a-c furnished corresponding 2-[2-(4-arylidene-3-methyl-5-oxo-4,5-dihydro-pyrazol-1-yl)alkoxy]-isoindole-1,3-diones 6a-l, which on cyclisation with o-phenylendiamine give titled compounds 7a-l. All the synthesized compounds have been characterized by elemental analysis and spectral data and screened for their antibacterial properties against various bacterial strains in order to obtain chemotherapeutic properties.…”
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Organic Nitrogen in Precipitation: Real Problem or Sampling Artefact? by J.N. Cape, A. Kirika, A.P. Rowland, D.R. Wilson, T.D. Jickells, S. Cornell

“…., from the Cairngorms to Dorset, all operating to the same protocol, and including a biocide. …”
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Plasmonic Titania Photocatalysts Active under UV and Visible-Light Irradiation: Influence of Gold Amount, Size, and Shape by Ewa Kowalska, Sven Rau, Bunsho Ohtani

“…It has been thought that spherical/hemispherical shape of gold NPs, in comparison with rod-like ones, is beneficial for higher level of photoactivity under visible light irradiation. For all tested systems and regardless of deposited amount of gold, each rutile Au/TiO2 photocatalyst of large gold and titania NPs exhibited much higher photoactivity than anatase Au/TiO2 of small gold and titania NPs.…”
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Effectiveness of virtual laboratory in engineering education: A meta-analysis. by Jiaxing Li, Wenhong Liang

“…Among these, the effect sizes for "learning motivation" and "learning engagement" are the highest across all types of results, at 3.571 (95% CI 3.042-4.099) and 2.888 (95% CI 2.419-3.357), respectively; this suggests that virtual labs are a key factor in motivating engineering students to engage in learning activities and pursue knowledge and skills. …”
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Atherogenic index of plasma and cardiovascular outcomes in female patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: insights from a retrospective cohort study by Yan Jiang

“…MACCEs were defined at 29.8 months as a composite of all-cause mortality, AMI, repeat revascularization and stroke. …”
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Naturally derived efflux pump inhibitor among tetracycline-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates by Ruqaya Kareem Abass Al-ammery, Zainab Adil Ghani Chabuck

“…Efflux pump was detected in all cases, water extract of chamomile showed a significant inhibitory effect especially at 80 mg/mL concentration. …”
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