An Examination of the Role of Social Media in Enhancing Customer Service: A Case Study of Trackers Safari Lodge by Arinaitwe, Micheal

“…The study recommends that Trackers Safari Lodge should develop and implement a comprehensive social media engagement strategy that focuses on personalized communication and timely responses to customer inquiries and feedback. …”
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A new combined analytical–numerical probabilistic method for assessing the impact of DERs on the voltage stability of bulk power systems by Wanjoli, Paul, Moustafa, Mohamed M. Zakaria, Abbasy, Nabil H.

“…It closely matches MCS voltage estimates but requires fewer iterations (500 per loading increment) compared to MCS’s 1000, leading to faster computation times (a few hours to one day versus up to three days for MCS). …”
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Decentralized Planning, Budgeting and Service Delivery in Local Governments. A Case Study of Health and Education Services in Musanze District, Rwanda. by Samson, Maniragaba

“…The recommendations were that the central government of Rwanda fund adequately and timely monitor the utilization of funds by local governments. …”
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Experimental investigation of a cooking unit integrated with thermal energy storage system by Pamella, K. Kajumba, Denis, Okello, Karidewa, Nyeinga, Ole, J. Nydal

“…With a well-insulated cooker, a very low flow rate can be used for foods that require longer cooking times.…”
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Interface between biomedical and traditional systems of treatment and care among HIV positive fisher folk in two fishing communities on Lake Victoria, Uganda by Christopher, Tumwine, Peter, Aggleton, Stephen, Bell

“…Following HIV diagnosis, the majority of participants used ART exclusively, while a smaller number used both ART and traditional care strategies, or reported times when they used alternative therapies instead of ART. …”
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Head Teachers’administrative Practices and Students’ Discipline in Selected Secondary Schools in Rushenyi County, Ntungamo District by Alex, Muganda Byaruhanga

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Tamarindus Indica Ameliorates Behavioral and Cytoarchitectural Changes in the Cerebellar Cortex Following Prenatal Aluminum Chloride Exposure in Wistar Rats. by Usman, Ibe Michael, Adebisi, Samuel Sunday, Musa, Sunday Abraham, Iliya, Ibrahim Abdullahi, Archibong, Victor Bassey, Lemuel, Ann Monima, Keneth Iceland, Kasozi

“…Aluminium exposure has been linked with developmental neurotoxicity in humans and experimental animals.The study aimed to evaluate the ameliorative effect of Tamarindus indica on the developing cerebellar cortex, neurobehavior, and immunohistochemistry of the cerebellar cortex following prenatal aluminum chloride (AlCl3) exposure. Pregnant timed Wistar rats were divided into 5 groups (n=4). …”
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Surgeons are apprehensive to use DCD lungs despite similar post-transplant outcomes: A 20-year UNOS retrospective analysis by J. Sam Meyer, MSc, Oliver K. Jawitz, MD, MHS, Yury Peysakhovich, MD, Dan Aravot, MD, Matthew G. Hartwig, MD, MHS, Yaron D. Barac, MD, PhD

“…DCD, and 2.43 [95% 1.83, 3.22, p < 0.001] times higher than patients >50 in DBD vs DCD donors. …”
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Personalized approach in the management of women with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and carbohydrate metabolism disorders by L.R. Petrovska, I.O. Kostitska, T.R. Petrovskyy, R.V. Petrovskyy

“…It is found that the risk of developing HF in women with diabetes mellitus (DM) is five times higher than in those without it. Due to both heterogeneity and syntropy of etiopathogenetic mechanisms of occurrence, the prevalence of DM and HF is increasing in the world population, and delayed treatment potentiates a poor prognosis. …”
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Combined Age with Mean Decrease Rates of Total Bilirubin and MELD Score as a Novel and Simple Clinical Predictor on 90-Day Transplant-Free Mortality in Adult Patients with Acute Li... by Di Jin, Kai Kang, Bing-zhu Yan, Jian-nan Zhang, Jun-bo Zheng, Zhi-hui Wang, Di Wu, Yu-jia Tang, Xin-tong Wang, Qi-qi Lai, Yang Cao, Hong-liang Wang, Yang Gao

“…The 90-day transplant-free mortality was 1.081, 0.908, and 0.893 times of the original value with each one-unit increase in age and mean decrease rates of total bilirubin and MELD score, respectively. …”
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Effect of Incessant Strike Actions on the Academic Performance of University of Ibadan Medical Students by Uzendu Ezinne, Babatunde Ademusire, Chibuzo Makata, Nnaemeka Ozonta, Kenechukwu Okeke, Hope Abu, Immanuella Yisa, Tobi Ogunleye, Toluwanimi Adeyanju, Oluwasomidoyin Bello

“…A total of 242 medical students participated, and 119 (49.2%) had experienced strike actions at least five times during their studies. Most students, 196 (81.0%), believed that strikes affected their motivation to study, while 38 (15.7%) had a re-sit in their examination. …”
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Clash of Drought Narratives: A Study on the Role of Small Reservoirs in the Emergence of Drought Impacts by Germano G. Ribeiro Neto, Lieke A. Melsen, Alexandre C. Costa, David W. Walker, Louise Cavalcante, Sarra Kchouk, João Paulo Brêda, Eduardo S. P. R. Martins, Pieter R. vanOel

“…Specifically, the presence of small reservoirs has the potential to boost local agricultural production by up to 5 times compared to scenarios without these structures. …”
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Heterobimetallic Zn2+/Co2+ Monocarboxylates as Precursors for ZnO Microparticles Doped with Cobalt and its Photocatalytic Activity in Methyl Orange Oxidation by Hélder Inocêncio Ferreira Correa, Ralf Ricardo Ramalho Jr, Adhimar Flávio Oliveira, Fabio da Silva Lisboa

“…The solid prepared by the laurate precursor showed a photodegradation rate of 0.00185 min-1, while the one obtained from the stearate precursor presented a photodegradation rate of 0.00860 min-1, eight times greater. These results show that the material may be very useful in removing dyes from water samples. …”
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Distributed Fiber Optic Strain Sensing Technology for Monitoring Soil Deformation Induced by Leakage in Buried Water Pipelines: A Model Test Study by Lin Cheng, Yongkang Sun, Zhaohan Wang, Wenqi Gao, Zhuolin Li, Zengguang Xu, Jiang Hu

“…Monitoring fibers below the pipeline showed mainly unimodal distribution, with peak strain coinciding with the leak location. The sequential timing of strain changes at different fiber positions enabled the determination of soil seepage direction. …”
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Highly sensitive NO2 gas sensors based on heterostructured p-rGO/n-Ga2O3 nanorods by Hsin-Ying Lee, Mu-Ju Wu, Shao-Yu Chu, Ting-Chun Chang, Yi-Feng Tung, Tsung-Han Yeh, Ching-Ting Lee

“…Additionally, the response and recovery times of the NO2 gas sensors were shortened with an increase in the amount of rGO decoration on the Ga2O3 nanorods. …”
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Balloon Cell Urethral Melanoma: Differential Diagnosis and Management by M. McComiskey, C. Iavazzo, M. Datta, R. Slade, B. Winter-Roach, G. Lambe, V. K. Sangar, M. Smith

“…Primary malignant melanoma of the urethra is a rare tumour (0.2% of all melanomas) that most commonly affects the meatus and distal urethra and is three times more common in women than men. Case. A 76-year-old lady presented with vaginal pain and discharge. …”
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Application of diagnostic methods in the verification of Lyme carditis (clinical case) by K.V. Myndziv, N.I. Yarema, N.Ya. Vereshchahina, V.I. Bondarchuk, U.P. Hevko, O.V. Vayda

“…At the second stage, the immunoblot method was applied using the EUROLINE Borrelia RN-AT test system. Due to timely diagnosis, including serological, prescribed etiotropic antibacterial treatment, the patient achieved a significant improvement in both clinical condition and positive serological and ECG dynamics with improved AV conduction. …”
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Protection against the Phytotoxic Effect of Mercury Chloride by Catechin and Quercetin by Yedda M. L. S. de Matos, Daniel L. M. Vasconcelos, Antonio C. H. Barreto, Janaína E. Rocha, José B. de Araújo-Neto, Fábia F. Campina, Maria Milene C. da Silva, Tássia T. Al Yafawi, Celestina E. Sobral-Souza, Jacqueline C. A. Pinheiro, Saulo R. Tintino, Amanda K. Sousa, Raimundo N. P. Teixeira, Juan C. Alvarez-Pizarro, João H. da Silva, Abolghasem Siyadatpanah, Bonglee Kim, Henrique D. M. Coutinho

“…When the metal was associated with catechin and quercetin, there was an increase in dry mass of almost 3 times when compared with the HgCl2 alone, demonstrating that these flavonoids act as cytoprotective agents. …”
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Genetically Modified Lactococcus lactis for Delivery of Human Interleukin-10 to Dendritic Cells by Inge L. Huibregtse, Sebatian A. Zaat, Martien L. Kapsenberg, Maria A. Sartori da Silva, Maikel P. Peppelenbosch, Sander J. H. van Deventer, Henri Braat

“…Only 130 pg/mL of bacterial-derived IL-10 and 40 times more exogenously added recombinant human IL-10 were needed during DC priming for the generation of suppressor Th-cells. …”
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Cryogenic III-V and Nb electronics integrated on silicon for large-scale quantum computing platforms by Jaeyong Jeong, Seong Kwang Kim, Yoon-Je Suh, Jisung Lee, Joonyoung Choi, Joon Pyo Kim, Bong Ho Kim, Juhyuk Park, Joonsup Shim, Nahyun Rheem, Chan Jik Lee, Younjung Jo, Dae-Myeong Geum, Seung-Young Park, Jongmin Kim, Sanghyeon Kim

“…Our devices offer a unity gain cutoff frequency of 601 GHz, a unity power gain cutoff frequency of 593 GHz, and a low noise indication factor $$\left(\sqrt{{I}_{{{\rm{D}}}}}\, {g}_{{{{\rm{m}}}}}^{-1}\right)$$ I D g m − 1 of $$0.21\sqrt{{{{\rm{Vmm}}}}}\scriptstyle\sqrt{{S}^{-1}}$$ 0.21 Vmm S − 1 at 4 K using more than 10 times less power consumption than CMOS.…”
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