Debt Management and Financial Performance of SACCOs in Karamoja Region: A Case of Kamukoi, Thurr and Lotuke SACCOs. by Apio, Brenda

“…This study’s objectives were to establish factors that affect debt management and to examine the benefits of debt management and the relationship between debt management and financial performance in selected SACCOs in Karamoja Region a case of Kamukoi, Thurr, and Lotuke Saccos. The study followed a cross-sectional survey design. Data from 92 respondents was collected and analyzed quantitatively complemented with qualitative analysis. …”
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An Assessment of The Contribution of Community Social Support System in Promoting to the Wellbeing of the Elderly in Hamurwa Sub-County. by Atuheire, Enid

“…Quantitative data from the questionnaires were sorted and edited in the field by research assistants and the researcher, followed by centralized analysis after all responses were collected. …”
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Modeling the Relationship of Concrete Strength with Aggregate Size Using Quarry Dust as Fine Aggregates for Rigid Pavements. by Ahebwa, Chrispus

“…A regression analysis also shows that the relationship between the maximum coarse aggregate size and the compressive strength follows a linear equation with R2 = 0.990308; indicating that the model is reliable. …”
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Board of Governors’ roles and students’ academic Performance in Secondary Schools in Kikagate Sub-County, Isingiro District. by Wilson Mukombe, Bagarukayo

“…The study findings indicated that Kamubeizi secondary school performs lower (μ=18.08) than the other schools, while Kyezimbire secondary school performs better (μ=22.18) than the other three secondary schools, followed by Kikagate secondary school (μ=22.11) and Rwamurunga community secondary school (μ=22.07), with students’ scores ranging from 8 (Minimum) to 48 (Maximum) aggregates. …”
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Internal Control Systems and Financial Accountability in Government Business Enterprises: A Case of National Water and Sewerage Corporation Ntungamo Area. by Alexander, Kujuna

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Correlates of Family Size and Household Farm Units in Kisoro District, Uganda by Ainembabazi, Ealyne

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Deep Learning-Based Speech Emotion Recognition Using Multi-Level Fusion of Concurrent Features by Samuel, Kakuba, Alwin, Poulose, Dong, Seog Han, Senior Member, Ieee

“…Spatial and temporal features have been extracted sequentially in deep learning-based models using convolutional neural networks (CNN) followed by recurrent neural networks (RNN) which may not only be weak at the detection of the separate spatial-temporal feature representations but also the semantic tendencies in speech. …”
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Anxiety, Anger and Depression Amongst Low-Income Earners in Southwestern Uganda During the COVID-19 Total Lockdown by Archibong, Victor, Usman, Ibe Michael, Keneth Iceland, Kasozi, Osamudiamwen, Eric Aigbogun Jr., Josiah, Ifie, Monima, Ann Lemuel, Ssebuufu, Robinson, Chekwech, Gaudencia, Terkimbi, Swase Dominic, Owoisinke, Okon, Mbiydzenyuy, Ngala Elvis, Adeoye, Azeez, Aruwa, oshua Ojodale, Afodun, Adam Moyosore, Odoma, Saidi, Ssempijja, Fred, Ayikobua, Emmanuel Tiyo, Ayuba, John Tabakwot, Nankya, Viola, Onongha, Comfort, Sussan, Henry, Matama, Kevin, Yusuf, Helen, Nalugo, Halima, MacLeod, Ewan, Welburn, Susan Christina

“…Results: Severe anxiety (68.8%) followed by moderate depression (60.5%) and moderate anger (56.9%) were the most common mental health challenges experienced by low-income earners in Bushenyi district. …”
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Real-world outcomes with tisagenlecleucel in aggressive B-cell lymphoma: subgroup analyses from the CIBMTR registry by Frederick L Locke, Grant Schofield, Marcelo Pasquini, Matthew J Frigault, Cameron J Turtle, Stephen Lim, Brian Hill, Samantha Jaglowski, Caron A Jacobson, Gunjan Shah, Daniel J Landsburg, Michael Heim, Stephen Ronan Foley, Ron Ram, Peter A Riedell, Leslie L Popplewell, Ranjan Tiwari, Marta Majdan, Aisha Masood

“…The overall response rate was 59.5%, and the complete response rate was 44.5%. With a median follow-up of 23.2 months in the efficacy set (n=968), the 24 month rates of progression-free survival, ongoing response and overall survival were 28.4%, 52.6% and 43.6%, respectively. …”
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Le sanctuaire romain du Vigneau à Pussigny (Indre-et-Loire) : un lieu de mémoire, de vie et d’accueil by Arnaud Coutelas, Sébastien Lepetz

“…Their structure does not follow the usual codes of the villae of Roman Gaul, whether they are centred or U-shaped. …”
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Combining a WT1 Vaccine (Galinpepimut-S) With Checkpoint Inhibition (Nivolumab) in Patients With WT1–Expressing Diffuse Pleural Mesothelioma: A Phase 1 Study by Prashasti Agrawal, MD, Michael Offin, MD, Victoria Lai, MD, Michelle S. Ginsberg, MD, Prasad S. Adusumilli, MD, FACS, Valerie W. Rusch, MD, Jennifer L. Sauter, MD, Teresa Ho, BS, Phillip Wong, PhD, Marjorie G. Zauderer, MD

“…Patients received two doses of GPS followed by six doses of GPS with intravenous nivolumab every 2 weeks, and up to six additional cycles until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. …”
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Enhanced recovery after surgery society’s recommendations for liver surgery reduces non surgical complications by Robert Oehring, Eriselda Keshi, Karl-Herbert Hillebrandt, Pia F. Koch, Matthäus Felsenstein, Simon Moosburner, Wenzel Schöning, Nathanael Raschzok, Johann Pratschke, Jens Neudecker, Felix Krenzien

“…The ERAS program strictly followed the official ERAS society recommendations. …”
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Impact of a cardio‐oncology unit on prevention of cardiovascular events in cancer patients by Alessandra Cuomo, Valentina Mercurio, Gilda Varricchi, Maria Rosaria Galdiero, Francesca Wanda Rossi, Antonio Carannante, Grazia Arpino, Luigi Formisano, Roberto Bianco, Chiara Carlomagno, Carmine De Angelis, Mario Giuliano, Elide Matano, Marco Picardi, Domenico Salvatore, Ferdinando De Vita, Erika Martinelli, Carminia Maria Della Corte, Floriana Morgillo, Michele Orditura, Stefania Napolitano, Teresa Troiani, Carlo G. Tocchetti

“…Nevertheless, these patients showed the greatest benefit from our cardiovascular assessments, as witnessed by a small, but significant improvement in ejection fraction during follow‐up (Type 2b: from 50 [20; 67] to 55 [35; 65]; P = 0.04). …”
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Influence of different rolling processes on microstructure, texture and anisotropy of the Al–Cu–Li alloy by Fengman Li, Xiangyu Chen, Lipeng Ding, Chenglin Wang, Ke Zhang, Yaoyao Weng, Zhihong Jia

“…As the number density of Al7Cu2Fe phase in the four samples follow: HR + IA + CR > CR > HR + CR > HR. The HR + IA + CR sample with the highest PSN particles density exhibits highest level of recrystallization and random texture distribution, giving rise to the low anisotropy of the alloy. …”
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Feasibility and staff acceptability of implementing Xpert HIV-1 viral load point-of-care testing: a pilot study in San Francisco by Kelvin Moore Jr., Noelle Le Tourneau, Jasmin Alvarez, Santos Rodriguez, Janessa Broussard, Pierre-Cédric Crouch, Jorge Roman, Patricia Defechereux, Jason Bena, Kimberly A. Koester, Lissa Moran, Christopher Pilcher, Robert Grant, Katerina A. Christopoulos

“…Respondents noted that this testing would be particularly beneficial for individuals in whom barriers to care engagement may complicate follow-up. Challenges in implementation included machine errors as well as concerns related to staff workload, testing logistics, and the need for comprehensive equipment training. …”
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Cardiac Tamponade Caused by Cutibacterium acnes: An Updated and Comprehensive Review of the Literature by Ghina Fakhri, Christelle Tayeh, Ghassan Dbaibo, Omar El Sedawy, Nour Abdul Halim, Fadi Bitar, Mariam Arabi

“…The patient received 3 weeks of IV penicillin followed by 3 weeks of oral amoxicillin along with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents and colchicine with no recurrence. …”
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Consensus-Based Guidelines for Best Practices in the Selection and Use of Examination Gloves in Healthcare Settings by Jorge Freitas, Alexandre Lomba, Samuel Sousa, Viviana Gonçalves, Paulo Brois, Esmeralda Nunes, Isabel Veloso, David Peres, Paulo Alves

“…Disposal protocols should follow local clinical waste management regulations, promoting sustainability through recyclable or biodegradable materials whenever feasible. …”
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Multi-environmental traits selection and farmer's participatory assessment of mean performance and stability of orange-fleshed sweet potato genotypes in Benin by Idrissou Ahoudou, Nicodeme V. Fassinou Hotegni, Dêêdi E.O. Sogbohossou, Tania L.I. Akponikpè, Charlotte O.A. Adjé, Françoise Assogba Komlan, Ismail Moumouni-Moussa, Enoch G. Achigan-Dako

“…The genotypes preferred by farmers were ACAB and Apomuden, generally followed by BF59xCIP, indicating excellent concordance between the genotypes selected with the MTPMPS and those selected by farmers during the PVS. …”
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Current applications and challenges in large language models for patient care: a systematic review by Felix Busch, Lena Hoffmann, Christopher Rueger, Elon HC van Dijk, Rawen Kader, Esteban Ortiz-Prado, Marcus R. Makowski, Luca Saba, Martin Hadamitzky, Jakob Nikolas Kather, Daniel Truhn, Renato Cuocolo, Lisa C. Adams, Keno K. Bressem

“…Results We show that most studies investigate Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT)-3.5 (53.2%, n = 66 of 124 different LLMs examined) and GPT-4 (26.6%, n = 33/124) in answering medical questions, followed by patient information generation, including medical text summarization or translation, and clinical documentation. …”
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The Effect of Vitamin D3 on Serum Creatine Phosphokinase Level in Patients with Multiple Trauma: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial by Mehran Kouchek, Niloufar Taherpour, Mahya Farasat, Mirmohammad Miri, Sara Salarian, Seyedpouzhia Shojaei, Rezvan Hassanpour, Hossein Amini, Mohammad Sistanizad

“…This study was designed to evaluate the effect of vitamin D3 on the serum CPK level and the incidence of rhabdomyolysis-induced AKI in patients with multiple trauma.Methods: Patients with serum CPK levels <1000 IU/L were followed as the control 1 group. Subjects with serum CPK levels ≥1000 IU/L were randomly allocated to the control 2 or intervention group at Imam Hossein Medical Center, Tehran, Iran in 2020. …”
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