Participatory Budgeting in Local Governments:The case of kabale district local government, uganda by Eton, Marus, Perpetua, Arinaitwe, Fabian, Mwosi, Benard, Patrick Ogwel, Arthur, Sunday, Labson, Turyamushanga

“…However, it was undermined by the absence of clear rules and procedures that govern budget consultative meetings. Since all the constructs used in measuring the contribution of participatory budgeting in Kabale were above average, it was concluded that participatory budgeting is practiced in Kabale district local government and is generally important. …”
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The experiences and challenges of Doctoral Education in Public Universities compared by Ocan, Johnson, Marus, Eton, Adyanga, Akena Francis, Ayiga, Natal

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Presenting the internal evaluation model on the performance of the banking industry based on the data theory method of the foundation by Zahra Ramzanpour Osmavandani, mehdi Rouholamini, Shahrbanoo Gholipour

“…An important issue in marketing management is the relationship between internal marketing and business success; internal marketing as a construct or concept is not universally accepted. One of the key features of internal marketing is its connection with the performance of the organization (Tahmasbi et al, 2019). …”
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Indoor Air Pollutant (PM 10, CO₂) Reduction Using a Vortex Exhaust Ventilation System in a Mock-Up Room by Yong-Woo Song, Seong-Eun Kim, Jin-Chul Park

“…The experiment was carried out by constructing a mock-up room with a limited indoor environment, and performances were compared based on the following two tests. …”
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What do the CEOs’ LinkedIn posts reveal about their mindsets towards organisational culture? A discourse analysis of LinkedIn posts by the CEOs of Swedish unicorn startups by Ona Žeimytė, Giedrė Lapinskienė

“…By discussing the process of how CEOs use various textual tools to construct their posts explicitly, the study helps CEOs and their stakeholders gain a better understanding of the effects of these choices and the implicit meanings that are created in this process for improving organisational culture. …”
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VRU-YOLO: A Small Object Detection Algorithm for Vulnerable Road Users in Complex Scenes by Yunxiang Liu, Yuqing Shi

“…First, we redesign the neck structure and construct a Detail Enhancement Feature Pyramid Network (DEFPN) to enhance the extraction and fusion capabilities of small target features. …”
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Usage of Optimized Least Square SVR to Volume Expansion Estimation of Cement Paste Including Fly Ash and Mgo Expansive Additive by Mazharul Islam, Sadia Afrin

“…Nonetheless, utilizing these two procedures in hydraulic mass concrete applications is a frequently used approach that yields favorable outcomes. To construct and assess machine learning-based algorithms to assess the volume expansion (𝑉𝑒) of cement paste, which consists of 𝐹𝐴 and 𝑀𝐸𝐴, 170 experimental findings from published studies are employed. …”
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Identifying preeclampsia-associated key module and hub genes via weighted gene co-expression network analysis by Jie Li, Lingling Jiang, Haili Kai, Yang Zhou, Jiachen Cao, Weichun Tang

“…All samples were obtained from gene expression omnibus (GEO), then we used a package named “WGCNA” to construct a scale-free co-expression network and modules related to PE. …”
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Flexural and Shear Strengthening of High-Strength Concrete Beams Using near Surface Basalt Fiber Bars by Ahmed Ashteyat, Ala’ Taleb Obaidat, Ahmad Al-Khreisat, Mu’tasime Abdel-Jaber

“…Twelve beams were designed, constructed, and tested under four-point loads. Six of them were designed to have insufficient longitudinal steel reinforcement to make sure that the failure would be a flexural failure in the control beam. …”
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Exploring the Occurrence of Clogging in Highly Permeable Coarse Soils of Dam Foundations by Jianquan Ma, Hao Peng, Shibo Li, Zhao Duan, Xinshe Zhang, Donghe Ma

“…Seven replicate experiments were constructed using soil media with PS ranges of 32–64 mm, 16–32 mm, 8–16 mm, 4–8 mm, 2–4 mm, 1-2 mm, and 0.5–1 mm to observe clogging after feeding the soil media with sediments of different PSs. …”
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Automated deobfuscation and family classification system for Excel 4.0 macros by LI Chenguang, YANG Xiuzhang, PENG Guojun

“…Finally, a dataset comprising 2346 samples from five distinct sources was constructed for both deobfuscation and family classification experiments. …”
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Effect of written corrective feedback in research writing competence of non-education students by Michelle Joy Gutierrez, Sheila Mae Dabu, Alcera Mary Joy, Nest Lene Banogon, Janice R. Carambas

“…Furthermore, results indicate that students value reflective learning facilitated by teachers' written corrective feedback, especially in error recognition and constructive feedback responses, as non-education students displayed positive attitudes toward receiving feedback. …”
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THE THEORY OF CIVILIZATIONS THROUGH THE LENS OF CONTEMPORARY HUMANITIES by T. V. Danylova

“…We need to unite our efforts for the sake of human survival. It is only by a constructive and respectful dialogue that humanity will truly overcome mutual misunderstanding, controversy, and aggressiveness. …”
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Identification of Mutations that Encode Drug Resistance in the Polymerase Gene of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus by Zhengxian Gu, Hengsheng Fang, Horacio Salomon, Qing Gao, Mark A Wainberg

“…When the 65 and 184 mutations were combined into HXB2-D, the resultant construct did not possess higher levels of resistance lo any of these drugs than observed with the site 65 or 184 mutation alone. …”
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The necessity of cell banks by A. G. Menzorov, O. L. Serov

“…It is possible to turn off any gene or genes as well as to insert a genetic construct into a selected genomic region to temporarily turn on and off genes and remove chromosomal regions. …”
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Insights into the diverse roles of the terminal oxidases in Burkholderia cenocepacia H111 by Sarah Paszti, Olivier Biner, Yilei Liu, Kim Bolli, Sarah Dorothy Jeggli, Gabriella Pessi, Leo Eberl

“…In this study, we identified six terminal oxidases of B. cenocepacia H111 and constructed reporter strains to monitor their expression in different environments. …”
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Building Bridges in a Divided Society: Addressing Hindutva and Muslim Conflicts in India by Mehmet Masatoğlu

“…It is important to note that this research continually highlights the necessity of open and constructive conversation, policy changes, and balanced media portrayal in the process of revising the dominant narrative. …”
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Russia and the West: Contradictory Dialogue by T. V. Zonova, A. Giannotti

“…The authors conclude that recent constructive Russian-American meetings and the 2019 meeting in the Normandy Format which contributes to conflict resolution in the South-East of Ukraine can facilitate positive developments of Russia’s relations with the West.…”
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Non-Concentric Differential Model with Geographic Information-Driven Weights Allocation for Enhanced Infrared Small Target Detection by Lingbing Peng, Zhi Lu, Tao Lei, Ping Jiang

“…To address these issues, we have identified the positional correlation differences between the local background location and whether the target can be perceived by the human eye, thereby introducing geographic information weights to represent this correlation difference. We first constructed a non-concentric Gaussian difference structure to prevent the central target energy loss caused by traditional concentric filters. …”
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Urbanized lands degrade surrounding grasslands by deteriorating the interactions between plants and soil microbiome by Mengchao Fang, Guang Lu, Shuping Zhang, Wei Liang

“…To mitigate overgrazing on grasslands, towns were constructed in some pastoral regions of China to relocate pastoralists. …”
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