Supplier Selection and Service Quality in Public Entities: A Case Study Kabale District Local Government. by Mukamayebare, Rogers

“…The study findings further revealed that the majority of respondents strongly agree with recognizing the need for supplier selection, determining the method of Supplier evaluation and selecting the supplier and reaching the agreement, identifying the key sourcing requirements, determining the sourcing strategy, identifying the potential supply sources and reducing the supplier's number in the selection pool. The study findings revealed that most of the respondents strongly agree with cost criteria, technical capability, quality assessment, service levels and ease of communication, price, and risk factors affecting supplier selection and service quality among PDUs Kabale district local Government. …”
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VRU-YOLO: A Small Object Detection Algorithm for Vulnerable Road Users in Complex Scenes by Yunxiang Liu, Yuqing Shi

“…Second, the YOLOv8 network’s Spatial Pyramid Pooling Fast (SPPF) module is replaced with a novel Feature Pyramid Convolution Fast (FPCF) module based on dilated convolution, effectively mitigating feature loss in small target processing. …”
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The mechanisms of fiber flax adaptation to high soil acidity (a review) by N. V. Kishlyan, N. V. Melnikova, T. A. Rozhmina

“…Using fiber flax, the effect of soil acidity on the yield and fiber quality of various samples representing the world gene pool of this crop is shown. The optimum acidity for fiber flax is within a narrow range – pHKCl 5.3–5.6. …”
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Development and validation of a Malay version questionnaire for assessing risk perception of type 2 diabetes (RPDM). by Miaw Yn Jane Ling, Norfazilah Ahmad, Mohd Firdaus Mohd Radi, Azimatun Noor Aizuddin

“…<h4>Methods</h4>The questionnaire (RPDM) was developed based on the Health Belief Model and previous literature. A 59-item question pool was initially developed, reviewed by experts for content validity and pretested on five respondents. …”
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Frontier machine learning techniques for melanoma skin cancer identification and categorization: An in-Depth review by Viomesh Singh, Kavita A. Sultanpure, Harshwardhan Patil

“…I took a deep dive into the pool of relevant studies, offering you an insider's look into the performance of the friendly neighborhood the k-nearest neighbor approach, the robust SVM, and the sophisticated CNN. …”
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Electrophoretic patterns of gliadin as markers of genotypes in the analysis of the durum wheat landrace Kubanka by T. I. Peneva, O. A. Lyapunova

“…Studying the genetic diversity of such wheat accessions according to their gliadin bands as markers of genotypes is important for identification and conservation of their gene pool authenticity.Materials and methods. For the first time, molecular markers were used to differentiate among 38 accessions of the local durum wheat variety known under the name of “Kubanka”, collected and placed into the VIR collection in the 1910–1940s, and five accessions from the seed genebanks of the USA and Canada. …”
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Are Firms in Corporate Groups More Resilient During an Economic Crisis? Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector in Poland by Barbara Jankowska, Katarzyna Mroczek-Dąbrowska, Marian Gorynia, Marlena Dzikowska

“…They allow corporates to reduce costs, develop the pool of resources and increase the flexibility of operations and responses to external shocks among others. …”
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Improving the predictive capability of Framingham Risk Score for the risk of myocardial infarction based on coronary artery calcium score in healthy Singaporeans by Ching Yee Ivory Yeo, John Carson Jr Allen, Weiting Huang, Wei Ying Tan, Siew Ching Kong, Khung Keong Yeo

“…Recalibrating existing risk functions and utilising wearable metrics that provide a large pool of objective health data can improve existing risk prediction tools. …”
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Social media as dialogue platforms for citizens and authorities of the Central Federal District's entities by V. V. Zotov, A. V. Gubanov

“…Monitoring data make it possible to confirm the presence in the network space of public communications of a fully developed pool of government accounts in popular social media users among domestic Internet users of social media. …”
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Detection of new regulatory SNPs associated with colorectal cancer predisposition by E. Yu. Leberfarb, L. O. Bryzgalov, I. I. Brusentsov, T. I. Merkulova

“…To start out with, we used raw sequence data of 15 independent ChIP-seq experiments run on colorectal cancer cell line HCT-116, which allowed us to generate the initial pool of 7985 SNPs located in regulatory regions. …”
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Ag–Cu solid–liquid interface velocity and growth morphology dependence on material data variations under rapid solidification conditions by D. Cietek, R. J. Hebert

“…These predictions based on the KGT model are combined with experimental laser glazing of arc-melted buttons to identify melt-pool microstructures. Button cross-sections were glazed at 400 W with scan speeds of 0.1–0.3 m/s to demonstrate the accuracy of the model. …”
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Review of how we should define (and measure) adherence in studies examining older adults' participation in exercise classes by C Todd, H Hawley-Hague, M Horne, D A Skelton

“…Adherence is poor and reporting of adherence differs considerably between studies.Objective To explore how adherence to exercise classes for older people is defined in the literature and devise a definition for pooling data on adherence in future studies.Design Methodological review of the approaches used to measure adherence.Methods A review of the literature was carried out using narrative synthesis, based on systematic searches of MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL and PsychINFO. 2 investigators identified eligible studies and extracted data independently.Results 37 papers including 34 studies were identified. 7 papers (7 studies) defined adherence as completion (retention). 30 papers (27 studies) identified adherence using attendance records. 12 papers (11 studies) based adherence on duration of exercise and 5 papers (4 studies) specified the intensity with which participants should exercise. …”
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Patient Satisfaction and Visual Performance in Patients with Ocular Pathology after Bilateral Implantation of a New Extended Depth of Focus Intraocular Lens by Laureano A. Rementería-Capelo, Pilar Lorente, Virginia Carrillo, José M. Sánchez-Pina, Javier Ruiz-Alcocer, Inés Contreras

“…Binocular defocus curves were similar for both groups and there were no differences in contrast sensitivity values. Pooling the refractive results, 96% of eyes were within ±0.50 D of target refraction. …”
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Drug-Coated versus Uncoated Balloon for Side Branch Protection in Coronary Bifurcation Lesions Treated with Provisional Stenting Using Drug-Eluting Stents: A Meta-analysis by Zhi-Ming Jiang, Le Liu

“…We used a random-effect model to pool the data by incorporating the heterogeneity between the included studies. …”
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Prevalence, Associated Risk Factors, and Identification of the Genera of Equine Strongyles in Horses and Donkeys in and Around Bishoftu, Ethiopia by Asnakew Mulaw Berihun, Feyisa Bizu, Moges Maru, Seid Kassaw

“…A total of 364 equines were randomly selected from five different areas and subjected to coprological examination using the floatation technique to detect strongyle-type eggs. A pooled faecal sample was cultured and subjected to modified Baerman techniques to identify the genus of strongyles. …”
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Application value of different imaging methods in the early diagnosis of small hepatocellular carcinoma: a network meta-analysis by Jian Dong, Zhen Wang, Si-Rui Wang, Huan Zhao, Jun Li, Ting Ma

“…The methodological quality of the included studies was good and there was no obvious publication bias. The pooled DOR of all diagnostic methods was 19.61, which was statistically significant (I2 = 76.0%, P &lt; 0.01, 95% CI:13.30 - 28.92). …”
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The Efficacy and Treatment Fidelity of Kinesiology Taping in Conjunction With Conservative Treatment Interventions Among Individuals With Shoulder Pain: A Systematic Review with M... by Paul A Salamh, Christopher S Cory, William J Hanney, Haley E Condon, Xinliang Liu, Morey J Kolber

“…Overall effect size (pooled random effects) was estimated for studies with acceptable clinical homogeneity…”
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The Role of Phospholipase C Signaling in Macrophage-Mediated Inflammatory Response by Liqian Zhu, Clinton Jones, Gaiping Zhang

“…Macrophages are crucial members of the mononuclear phagocyte system essential to protect the host from invading pathogens and are central to the inflammatory response with their ability to acquire specialized phenotypes of inflammatory (M1) and anti-inflammatory (M2) and to produce a pool of inflammatory mediators. Equipped with a broad range of receptors, such as Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), CD14, and Fc gamma receptors (FcγRs), macrophages can efficiently recognize and phagocytize invading pathogens and secrete cytokines by triggering various secondary signaling pathways. …”
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A Universal Analysis Pipeline for Hybrid Capture-Based Targeted Sequencing Data with Unique Molecular Indexes by Min-Jung Kim, Si-Cho Kim, Young-Joon Kim

“…Sequencing libraries were prepared and pooled together, and an 8-plexed capture library was processed to the enrichment step before 150-bp paired-end sequencing with Illumina HiSeq series. …”
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Tuberculosis commodities supply chain performance in the WHO African region: A scoping review. by Alison T Mhazo, Stanford Miyango, Lifton Palani, Charles C Maponga

“…The strengths we found included the existence of pooled procurement mechanisms [PPM], availability of funding through external sources, existence of logistics management information systems [LMIS] and integration of PSM systems into primary health care. …”
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