Characterization of Natural Organic Matter in Conventional Water Treatment Processes and Evaluation of THM Formation with Chlorine by Kadir Özdemır

“…The NOM fractions with AMW values less than 1 K had lower SUVA values (<3 L/mg·m) for all treatment stages and also they had higher yield of TTHM per unit of DOC. The NOM fraction with AMW < 1 K for chlorinated raw water samples has the highest yield coefficient (42 μg-TTHM/mg-DOC).…”
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Mathematical Modeling for Pharmaco-Kinetic and -Dynamic Predictions from Controlled Drug Release NanoSystems: A Comparative Parametric Study by Grigorios P. Panotopoulos, Ziyad S. Haidar

“…We employed the χ2 minimization method and concluded that the Korsmeyer–Peppas model (or power-law model) provides the best fit, in all cases (the minimum value of χ2 per degree of freedom; χmin2/d.o.f. = 1.4183, with 2 free parameters or m = 2). …”
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Probiotics in the Prevention and Treatment of Periodontal Diseases: A Systematic Review by Nishath Sayed Abdul, Lara Ghassan Odeh, Asma Awadh Alenazi, Jumana Abdullah Alzahrani, Aldanah Tawfiq Almutib, Cristalle Soman

“…Methodology: Various databases were searched using appropriate MeSH keywords as per the PRISMA protocol. Studies were included only if they met certain criteria. …”
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Minori su Internet: profili di responsabilità by Domiziano Pierantoni

“…Da ultimo, si vuole sottolineare l’importanza di un’adeguata azione preventiva volta a incrementare nei genitori, cui è affidato il delicato compito di accompagnare i figli nell’utilizzo della rete, quelle specifiche competenze tecniche necessarie per assolvere al meglio ai loro doveri di educazione e vigilanza. …”
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White Garden Snail, Theba pisana (Mueller) (Gastropoda: Helicidae) by Jane E. Deisler, Lionel A. Stange

“…Theba pisana is capable of explosive reproductive rates where it has been introduced, and can be found in densities of up to 3000 snails per tree (Mead 1971) after periods of less than 5 years (Chace 1915, Orcutt 1919). …”
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Record Keeping Systems and Service Delivery in Uganda: Case Of Kabale District Local Government by Turyasingura John Bosco, agaba moses, Kabagambe Jesse David, Barigye Godfrey

“…Record keeping systems (R=889) has a favorable influence on the capacity of the local administration of the Kabale District, per the research findings from the regression model. …”
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Contamination Potentials of Household Water Handling and Storage Practices in Kirundo Subcounty, Kisoro District, Uganda by Alexander, Agensi, Julius, Tibyangye, Andrew, Tamale, Ezera, Agwu, Christine, Amongi

“…A cross-sectional and descriptive study in which 344 water samples were collected randomly and analysed for bacteriological contamination, total coliforms (TCs) and Escherichia coli per 100 ml, using the Most Probable Number (MPN) technique and reported in terms of CFU/100 ml. …”
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Effect of Public Health Care Expenditure on Malaria Incidence in Uganda. by Mugabe, Andrew

“…On the contrary, malaria incidence is increased in the long term by female-headed households and GDP per capita, though both factors lead to a short-term decrease, albeit at a slower initial rate. …”
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Financial accountability mechanisms in local governments in Uganda: a case of Kabale District Local Government by Perpetua, Arinaitwe, Eton, Marus, Moses, Agaba, Abanis, Turyahebwa, Benard, Patrick Ogwel, Fabian, Mwosi

“…This paper suggests that the local government should ensure that the district’s budget demonstrates community preference; salaries and wages should be paid in accordance with the district’s approved budget; expenditures on development should always be as per the approved budget, and the mode of financial reporting, particularly on liabilities should be standardized.…”
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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

“…This paper suggests that the local government should ensure that the district’s budget demonstrates community preference; salaries and wages should be paid in accordance with the district’s approved budget; expenditures on development should always be as per the approved budget, and the mode of financial reporting, particularly on liabilities should be standardized.…”
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Physiotherapy Management and Technology Use for Parkinson’s Disease: A Survey Among Greek Physiotherapists by Despoina Papageorgiou, Vasiliki Sakellari, George A. Koumantakis, Viktoria Gkoraki, Nikolaos Chrysagis

“…Out of all the participants, 65% had over 10 years of work experience and treated 1–9 patients with PD per year. Additionally, 84.7% of participants communicated with health scientists as part of the interdisciplinary collaboration, and 23.2% used assessment tools/scales frequently. …”
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Asymptomatic Ileal Neuroendocrine “Carcinoid” Tumor Incidentally Diagnosed on Colorectal Cancer Screening Colonoscopy: Does Routine TI Intubation Matter? by Ali Zakaria, Lynna Alnimer, Gregory Byrd, Marc Piper, Michael Raphael, Bradley Warren, Michael Piper

“…Gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors (GINETs) (also known as “carcinoids”) are rare tumors with reported incidence of up to 6.98 per 100,000 which has increased significantly due to the increased detection on imaging and endoscopy. …”
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Onboard Person Retrieval System With Model Compression: A Case Study on Nvidia Jetson Orin AGX by Jay N. Chaudhari, Hiren Galiyawala, Paawan Sharma, Pancham Shukla, Mehul S. Raval

“…The study reveals that the PRS utilising EfficientNet-B0, with 32-bit quantisation, achieves the best performance, delivering a throughput of 22 frames per second and a True Positive Rate of 71% on Nvidia Jetson Orin AGX matching the performance of a model implemented using GPU.…”
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Necrotizing Fasciitis in Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria by Pusem Patir, Yakup Isik, Yigit Turk, Mehmet Can Ugur, Cengiz Ceylan, Gulnur Gorgun, Nihal Mete Gokmen, Guray Saydam, Fahri Sahin

“…He was subsequently started on eculizumab therapy, with starting and maintenance doses set as per drug labelling. Progression of the patient’s leg ulcers during follow-up, with fulminant tissue destruction, purulent discharge, and necrotic patches, led to a later diagnosis of necrotizing fasciitis due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumonia infection. …”
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Examining consumer preferences for basic foodstuffs in a highly inflationary economic environment: The case of price-capped chicken breast fillet in Hungary by Zalán Márk Maró, Áron Török, Péter Czine

“…Chicken breast fillets are classified among these officially priced products, and based on per capita consumption in Hungary, poultry can be considered the most popular meat. …”
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A Comparative Study of Ground and Underground Vibrations Induced by Bench Blasting by Xiuzhi Shi, Xianyang Qiu, Jian Zhou, Dan Huang, Xin Chen, Yonggang Gou

“…According to the maximum allowable peak particle velocities for different objects, the permitted maximum charges per delay are obtained to reduce damage to these objects at different distances.…”
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A medium-throughput protease assay for screening green plant material by Christina Stonoha-Arther, Andrew Molodchenko, Andrew Molodchenko, Kevin Panke-Buisse

“…This method will allow higher-throughput phenotyping of plant protease activity than is currently feasible: one person can process approximately 120 samples per day, compared to approximately 25 with previous methods. …”
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Improved Method for the Detection and Quantification of Naegleria fowleri in Water and Sediment Using Immunomagnetic Separation and Real-Time PCR by Bonnie J. Mull, Jothikumar Narayanan, Vincent R. Hill

“…When one liter of lake water was seeded with N. fowleri strain CDC:V212, the method had an average recovery of 46% and detection limit of 14 amebas per liter of water. The method was then applied to sediment and water samples with unknown N. fowleri concentrations, resulting in positive direct detections by real-time PCR in 3 out of 16 samples and confirmation of N. fowleri culture in 6 of 16 samples. …”
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COMBATING WEEDS IN MEADOWS WITH REFERENCE TO CIRSIUM VULGARE SPECIES by Lisena Piscoran, Gabriela Calatan, Stefan Bakos, Ioan Lupuț, Teodor Rusu

“…From the results obtained after experimentation, we notice that through agrotechnical methods of correcting the properties of the soil, a reduced number of plants per m2 was obtained, and among the chemical methods used, herbicides based on acid 2.4 D, dicamba and clopilarid were the most effective in combating invasive weeds such as Cirsium vulgare.…”
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Gut Microbial Translocation in Critically Ill Children and Effects of Supplementation with Pre- and Pro Biotics by Paola Papoff, Giancarlo Ceccarelli, Gabriella d'Ettorre, Carla Cerasaro, Elena Caresta, Fabio Midulla, Corrado Moretti

“…Predisposing factors include intestinal obstruction, obstructive jaundice, intra-abdominal hypertension, intestinal ischemia/reperfusion injury and secondary ileus, and immaturity of the intestinal barrier per se. Despite good evidence from experimental studies to support the theory of bacterial translocation as a cause of sepsis, there is little evidence in human studies to confirm that translocation is directly correlated to bloodstream infections in critically ill children. …”
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