ALTERNATIVE PARADIGM TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: THE INFLUENCE OF COMMUNITY BASED ORGANISATION ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN OYO STATE, NIGERIA by Lawal Ayofe BAKARE, Victoria Olubukola OGUNYEMI

“…It was equally revealed that the people expressed high satisfaction with CBOs projects in the following areas; provision of electric poles, provision of transformer(s), provision of borehole/pipe-borne water or community well, construction of town hall and construction of drainage facility. …”
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Digitalisation factors influencing the dynamic capabilities of small and medium enterprises in the healthcare sector by P. Makelana, R. Kekwaletswe, M. A. Segooa

“…Subsequently, digitalization is a people-driven transformation journey.…”
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Accelerating and decelerating flow of radiatively Casson fluid between two permeable disks under convective boundary conditions by A. Naeem, Z. Abbas, M.Y. Rafiq

“…Jacobi elliptic sine square function is used to derive the solution of non-linear differential equations by transforming the equations into an elliptic integral form and then by using a change of variables which simplifies the governing equations so that the solution can be derived easily. …”
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Micro-characterization of Dust and Materials of Dust Origin at a Cement Industry Located in Bangladesh by Zerin Binte Alam, Kazi A. B. M. Mohiuddin

“…Scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDS), X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), and fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) were performed for the characterization. …”
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Evolution of the Macrophage CD163 Phenotype and Cytokine Profiles in a Human Model of Resolving Inflammation by Betsy J. Evans, Dorian O. Haskard, Gregory Sempowksi, R. Clive Landis

“…In contrast, immunoregulatory transforming growth factor- (TGF-) β, macrophage-derived chemokine (MDC/CCL22), and interferon-inducible protein (IP-10/CXCL10) were significantly elevated at 40 h. …”
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Flexible Model Predictive Control for Bounded Gait Generation in Humanoid Robots by Tianbo Yang, Yuchuang Tong, Zhengtao Zhang

“…The flexible C-T model’s inversion derivation allows it to be effectively transformed into the predictive equation for the FMPC, therefore enriching its flexible dynamic behavior representation. …”
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The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf: History, Key Achievements and Development Prospects by E. S. Melkumyan

“…Particularly, the author focuses on the differences of opinion among the GCC countries on military cooperation and transformation of the organization into a full-fledged alliance. …”
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Optical tuning of polymer functionalized zinc oxide quantum dots as a selective probe for the detection of antibiotics by Awadhesh Kumar Verma, G. B. V. S. Lakshmi, Tarun Kumar Dhiman, S. Z. H. Hashmi, Anil Kumar, Pratima R. Solanki

“…The formation of capped QDs was confirmed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). Charge on the synthesized QDs was obtained with the help of ZETA potential. …”
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THE SPECIFICS OF TRANSLATING THE FICTIONAL LANGUAGE "NADSAT" INTO FRENCH by Margarita N. Sadovnikova

“…The paper examines various lexical and stylistic transformations, as well as techniques of cultural adaptation and localization of the text. …”
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An Analysis of the Concept of Water in Secondary School Biology Textbooks by Musa Dikmenli, Vedat Kadir Ozkan, Selda Kilic, Osman Cardak

“… As a result of human beings' activities to dominate nature and transform it for their own benefit as they continue to advance in science and technology, environmental problems such as climate change have become the biggest threat faced by the biosphere in the current century. …”
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EUS Morphology Is Reliable in Selecting Patients with Mucinous Pancreatic Cyst(s) Most Likely to Benefit from Surgical Resection by Siddharth Javia, Satish Munigala, Sushovan Guha, Banke Agarwal

“…Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) surveillance of patients with mucinous pancreatic cysts relies on the assessment of morphologic features suggestive of malignant transformation. These criteria were derived from the evaluation of surgical pathology in patients with pancreatic cysts who underwent surgery. …”
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Prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency among individuals with Fontan palliation: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Firyal Khansa, Chairul Ichwan, Muhammad Haneef Ghifari, Muhammad Brilliant Daffa, Farah Rizky Nadia, Putri Oktaviani Zulfa, Derren David Christian Homenta Rampengan, Amanda Yufika, Naufal Gusti, Muhammad Iqhrammullah

“…The pooled estimates were carried out using a restricted maximum-likelihood model and Freeman–Tukey double-arcsine transformation (FTT). Results: Six studies were included, comprising 255 individuals with the Fontan circulation. …”
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Study of the Windowing and Overlap-Add Operation for a Super-Gaussian Random Vibration Test by Yiming Peng, Yang Li

“…A window function is recommended for zero-memory nonlinear (ZMNL) transformation to move the positions of the high-excursion peaks of a super-Gaussian signal, providing a novel way of adjusting kurtosis when WOA method is applied. …”
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Green Synthesis of Gold and Iron Nanoparticles for Targeted Delivery: An In Vitro and In Vivo Study by Beenish Khanzada, Nosheen Akthar, Muhammad Zeeshan Bhatti, Hammad Ismail, Mohammed Alqarni, Bushra Mirza, Gomaa Mostafa-Hedeab, Gaber El-Saber Batiha

“…The synthesized nanoparticles were characterized by different techniques including UV-visible spectrophotometry, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). Furthermore, the activities of green synthesized nanoparticles were screened in vitro using, for example, antibacterial, antioxidant, cytotoxic, and DNA protection assays. …”
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Identification of robust RT-qPCR reference genes for studying changes in gene expression in response to hypoxia in breast cancer cell lines by Jodie R. Malcolm, Katherine S. Bridge, Andrew N. Holding, William J. Brackenbury

“…To understand hypoxia-driven breast cancer progression, RT-qPCR is a widely used technique to quantify transcriptional changes that occur during malignant transformation. Reference genes (RGs) are endogenous RT-qPCR controls used to normalise mRNA levels, allowing accurate assessment of transcriptional changes. …”
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Nitrous oxide emissions from wetland soil amended with two types of cattle manure by Johnson Masaka, Justice Nyamangara, Menas Wuta

“…Conclusions Given that N2O in agricultural soil is produced predominantly through the microbial transformations of inorganic N, the potential of a soil to emit N2O increases with the increasing availability of N and consequently the N content in applied manure. …”
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Functionalized Magnetite Nanoparticles Using Two New Ionic Liquids for Efficient Oil Spill Cleanup by Noorah A. Faqihi, Mahmood M. S. Abdullah, Mohd Sajid Ali, Hamad A. Al‐Lohedan, Zainab M. Almarhoon

“…GO-MNPs and GD-MNPs were characterized using Fourier transform infrared, X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, dynamic light scattering, contact angle, and vibrating sample magnetometer. …”
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Role of Injectable Platelet-Rich Fibrin in the Management of Soft and Hard Tissue Periodontal Regeneration in Dentistry: Protocol for a Systematic Review by Unnati Shirbhate, Pavan Bajaj, Mayur Wanjari, Manoj Patil

“… BackgroundInjectable platelet-rich fibrin (i-PRF) has the capacity to release great amounts of several growth factors, as well as to stimulate increased fibroblast migration and the expression of collagen, transforming growth factor β, and platelet-derived growth factor. …”
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IDTransformer: Infrared image denoising method based on convolutional transposed self-attention by Zhengwei Shen, Feiwei Qin, Ruiquan Ge, Changmiao Wang, Kai Zhang, Jie Huang

“…To surmount these obstacles, we introduce the Infrared image Denoising Transformer (IDTransformer), encapsulated in a symmetrical encoder–decoder architecture. …”
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Probing the Hepatic Progenitor Cell in Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Shu-Qin Jia, Jian-Jun Ren, Pei-De Dong, Xing-Kai Meng

“…Human hepatocellular carcinogenesis may be based on transformation of HPCs, not HSCs, through the formation of the transitional cells (hepatocyte-like cells and bile ductal cells).…”
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