Impact of Gender-Based Violence on Social Wellbeing in Rukiga District: A case Study of Muhanga Town Council Rukiga District. by Amanya, Grace

“…., domestic violence has also resulted in women losing time needed for productive work, gender violence also has an impact on girls' education, domestic violence often sabotages women’s efforts to gain employment, acquire job skills. …”
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Assessing the Impact of Social Media Usage and Performance of the Selected Small and Medium Businesses in Ntungamo District. by Nyamwija, Bonitah

“…The study findings further assessed the challenges encountered when small business owner-managers in the Ntungamo district use social media in their business and these included time constraints, limited expertise, Negative feedback and online reputation management, and keeping up with algorithm changes. …”
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Influence of Mobile Money Crowding and Financial Service Delivery in Kabale Municipality: A Case Study of Mtn Uganda Kabale Branch. by Ahimbisibwe, Blair

“…The study findings revealed the challenges faced by mobile money transfer services and this included security of financial transactions being executed from some remote locations, money transfer relies entirely on the strength of the network, compliance with diverse regulations can be complex and time-consuming, lack of interoperability between different mobile money platforms and financial institutions. …”
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Role of Social Factors in Social Economic Status of Families in Kabale Municipality Kabale District. by Atukunda, Brian

“…., the results of the study have revealed that some conciliators do not know the law related to inheritance and succession, that is why we recommend them to learn that law and other rules and regulation in force in the country; the findings of the study have proven that some conciliators are biased, so we recommend them to be impartial in order to mediate parts on family based conflicts caused by alcohol up take fairly and the study concluded that it has been revealed by the findings that social factors have a negative impact on economic prosperity of families where dealing with these alcoholic beverages bring about spending and consumes time that could be devoted in generating income activities. …”
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The Effect of Delegation of Responsibilities on Teachers’ Performance in Selected Secondary Schools in Kabale Municipality, Kabale District. by Seth, Ahumuza

“…They also develop the willingness to work beyond normal time, putting in more effort and have better attitudes towards their jobs. …”
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A Mobile Based Technology to Improve Male Involvement in Antenatal Care. by Gloria, Muhoza B., Mukasa, Ssemaluulu Paul, Mabirizi, Vicent

“…Mobile health could be a potential approach to improving male involvement in antenatal care through sending timely SMS reminders to both the expectant mother and her male partner remaining them of their next antenatal visit. …”
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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

“…Moreover, adherence increased over time consecutively from 62.5 to 72.5% in 4 years. …”
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An HST Transmission Spectrum of the Closest M Dwarf Transiting Rocky Planet LTT 1445Ab by Katherine A. Bennett, David K. Sing, Kevin B. Stevenson, Hannah R. Wakeford, Zafar Rustamkulov, Natalie H. Allen, Joshua D. Lothringer, Ryan J. MacDonald, Nathan J. Mayne, Guangwei Fu

“…Some atmospheric retrievals weakly favor (∼2 σ ) an atmosphere, but it remains challenging to discern between stellar contamination, an atmosphere, and a featureless spectrum at this time. We do, however, confidently rule out ≤100× solar metallicity atmospheres. …”
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HCG 57: Evidence for Shock-heated Intergalactic Gas from X-Rays and Optical Emission Line Spectroscopy by Ewan O’Sullivan, P. N. Appleton, B. A. Joshi, Lauranne Lanz, Katherine Alatalo, Jan M. Vrtilek, Andreas Zezas, Laurence P. David

“…We also confirm the previously reported ∼1 keV intra-group medium and find it to be relaxed with a low central entropy (18.0 ± 1.7 keV cm ^2 within 20 kpc) but a long cooling time (5.9 ± 0.8 Gyr).…”
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Relativistic Electron Model in the Outer Radiation Belt Using a Neural Network Approach by Xiangning Chu, Donglai Ma, Jacob Bortnik, W. Kent Tobiska, Alfredo Cruz, S. Dave Bouwer, Hong Zhao, Qianli Ma, Kun Zhang, Daniel N. Baker, Xinlin Li, Harlan Spence, Geoff Reeves

“…The Outer RadIation belt Electron Neural net model for Relativistic electrons (ORIENT‐R) uses only solar wind conditions and geomagnetic indices as input. For the first time, we show that the state of the outer radiation belt can be determined using only solar wind conditions and geomagnetic indices, without any initial and boundary conditions. …”
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Multinational retrospective analysis of bridging therapy prior to chimeric antigen receptor t cells for relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children and young adult... by Maike Breidenbach, Peter Bader, Andishe Attarbaschi, Claudia Rossig, Roland Meisel, Markus Metzler, Marion Subklewe, Fabian Mueller, Paul-Gerhardt Schlegel, Irene Teichert von Lüttichau, Jean-Pierre Bourquin, Gabriele Escherich, Gunnar Cario, Peter Lang, Ramona Coffey, Arend von Stackelberg, Semjon Willier, Brigitte Strahm, Christina Peters, Tobias Feuchtinger

“…Patients receiving a high-intensity bridging therapy had a significantly higher tumor burden at time of eligibility compared to patients treated with a low-intensity or no systemic bridging therapy. …”
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Assessment of the safety of priority carcinogenic substances at the level of hygienic regulations in atmospheric air by I.O. Chernychenko, O.M. Lytvychenko, V.F. Babii, O.Ie. Kondratenko, O.P. Rudnytska, D.O. Hlavachek

“…The results were obtained on the basis of the collection and analysis of data on chemical carcinogenic compounds that are included in the national regulatory base of permissible content in the atmospheric air of populated areas, as well as the base of Directives of EU countries and the International Agency for the Study of Cancer using bibliosemantic, bibliographic and hygienic research methods. At the same time, the chemical substances classified by experts from International Agency for Research on Cancer in terms of carcinogenicity to humans were taken into consideration: definitely carcinogenic (group 1), probably (group 2A) and possibly carcinogenic to humans (group 2B). …”
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Refractory myasthenia gravis treated with autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation by Benjamin Beland, Jan Storek, Liam Quartermain, Christopher Hahn, C. Elizabeth Pringle, Pierre R. Bourque, Michael Kennah, Natasha Kekre, Christopher Bredeson, David Allan, Kareem Jamani, Christopher White, Harold Atkins

“…The primary efficacy outcome was achieving clinically stable remission or minimal manifestations without treatment and remaining as such until most recent follow‐up. Results The median time from MG diagnosis to HSCT was 4.0 years. The primary outcome was reached in 16 of 18 evaluable patients (89%) at a median of 1.7 years and maintained with a median follow‐up of 6.7 years (range 1.0–21.9 years). …”
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Spirituality as predictor of psychological well-being at work in the Moroccan context: A cross-sectional study by Mohamed MAKKAOUI, Fatima-Zahra HANNOUN, Khalid OUAZIZI, Amelia RIZZO, Driss AIT ALI, Abdelhalim CHERQUI, Kaoutar KHABBACHE, Murat YILDIRIM, Mahmood BAHRAMIZADEH, Sefa BULUT, Łukasz SZARPAK, Michal PRUC, Kavita BATRA, Gabriella NUCERA, Francesco CHIRICO, Hicham KHABBACHE

“…Among the dimensions of workplace spirituality, meaningful work emerged as a key predictor of well-being with a beta coefficient of 0.893. At the same time, a sense of community also showed a strong correlation with well-being at 0.724. …”
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Ethyl Pyruvate Ameliorates Hepatic Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury by Inhibiting Intrinsic Pathway of Apoptosis and Autophagy by Miao Shen, Jie Lu, Weiqi Dai, Fan Wang, Ling Xu, Kan Chen, Lei He, Ping Cheng, Yan Zhang, Chengfen Wang, Dong Wu, Jing Yang, Rong Zhu, Huawei Zhang, Yinqun Zhou, Chuanyong Guo

“…All serum and liver tissues were obtained at three different time points (4 h, 8 h, and 16 h). Results. Alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), and pathological features were significantly ameliorated by ethyl pyruvate (80 mg/kg). …”
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Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio, Monocyte-to-Lymphocyte Ratio, Platelet-to-Lymphocyte Ratio, and Mean Platelet Volume-to-Platelet Count Ratio as Biomarkers in Critically Ill and Inj... by Dragan Djordjevic, Goran Rondovic, Maja Surbatovic, Ivan Stanojevic, Ivo Udovicic, Tamara Andjelic, Snjezana Zeba, Snezana Milosavljevic, Nikola Stankovic, Dzihan Abazovic, Jasna Jevdjic, Danilo Vojvodic

“…NLR and MPV were very good independent predictors of lethal outcome. For the first time, we demonstrate that nature of bacteremia influences MPV/PC, MLR, and PLR. …”
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Difference of clinical characteristics in patients with reinfection and primary infection variants of SARS-CoV-2: a retrospective study in China by Chao-Chao Qiu, Xiao-Qing Lin, Qiang Zhang, Ya-Long Chen, Xiao-Qiao Su, Ming-Ying Zhang, Le-Fei Zhu, Zhi-Ruo Lin, Fang Cheng, Shang-Ren Xie, Ji-Chan Shi, Xian-Gao Jiang

“…The observation group exhibited a shorter clinical symptom recovery time than that did the control group (median, 5 days vs. 7 days, Log rank p<0.001, HR = 1.907(95% CI 1.669–2.178). …”
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State Estimation in Power Systems Under Random Data Attack Using Correlation Matching, Semidefinite Relaxation, and Truncated Eigenvalue Decomposition by Bamrung Tausiesakul, Krissada Asavaskulkiet, Chuttchaval Jeraputra, Ittiphong Leevongwat, Thamvarit Singhavilai, Supun Tiptipakorn

“…Regarding the complexity, our proposed techniques consume more computational time than two former works due to iterative computation style, yet lower than a previous sophisticated work.…”
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Prognostic Impact of Adjuvant Immunotherapy in Patients With Resectable NSCLC After Neoadjuvant Chemoimmunotherapy: A Brief Report by Yichen Dong, MD, Long Xu, MD, Jialiang Wen, MD, Haojie Si, MD, Juemin Yu, MD, Tao Chen, MD, Huikang Xie, MD, Xinjian Li, MD, Minglei Yang, MD, Junqiang Fan, MD, Junqi Wu, MD, Yunlang She, MD, Deping Zhao, MD, Chang Chen, MD, PhD

“…Methods: A total of 438 patients who received neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy between August 2019 and June 2022 across four hospitals were enrolled in this study, with a median follow-up time of 31.3 months. Recurrence-free survival (RFS) and overall survival (OS) were estimated using Kaplan-Meier methods and tested by log-rank test. …”
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Irisin reshapes bone metabolic homeostasis to delay age-related osteoporosis by regulating the multipotent differentiation of BMSCs via Wnt pathway by Shangman Xing, Yifan Ma, Bing Song, Bing Song, Min Bai, Kexin Wang, Wenjing Song, Tingting Cao, Chao Guo, Yanying Zhang, Zhandong Wang, Yongfeng Wang, Yongfeng Wang

“…Nonetheless, the targeting effect of irisin on age-related osteoporosis and its underlying molecular biological mechanisms remain unclear.MethodsThe specific role of irisin in osteogenic-adipogenic differentiation in young or aging BMSCs was evaluated by multiple cells staining and quantitative real-time PCR (RT-qPCR) analysis. RNA-seq and protein Western blotting excavated and validated the key pathway by which irisin influences the fate determination of aging BMSCs. …”
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