Positioning Male Teachers In the Foundation Phase In South Africa: A Case of One Education District by Nondwe Daphne Mariana Mtshatsha, Bunmi Isaiah Omodan

“…Observation and literature confirmed that men are unduly scarce in the count of foundation phase teachers in South Africa and the few that are presented as foundation phase teachers are often criticized and ridiculed with the argument that foundation phase teaching is for women. …”
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The Feasibility of Reducing and Measuring Sedentary Time among Overweight, Non-Exercising Office Workers by Sarah Kozey-Keadle, Amanda Libertine, John Staudenmayer, Patty Freedson

“…Twenty overweight/obese participants wore the activPAL (AP) (criterion measure) and ActiGraph (AG; 100 and 150 count/minute cut-points) for a 7-day baseline period. …”
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Seeds and vegetative propagules of all selected invasive plants in Europe do not survive industrial composting by Sabina Tomše, Marjeta Resnik, Nejc Gorjan, Simona Strgulc Krajšek

“…The composted and fresh vegetative propagules were planted in pots with soil, and the number of rooted parts was counted. None of the seeds and the vegetative propagules survived the industrial composting process, and we can conclude that it is safe to dispose of the IAPS like other organic waste or green cut.…”
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Developing an Optimization Model to Manage Unpaved Roads by Promothes Saha, Khaled Ksaibati

“…The common factors that play the most important role for identifying projects are road condition parameters, unpaved road deterioration model, treatment types, cost-factors associated with selecting treatment types, traffic counts, budget, and treatment cost. Road condition parameters include cross section, roadside drainage, rutting, potholes, loose aggregate, dust, corrugation, and ride quality. …”
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Bearing Feature Extraction Method Based on the Time Subsequence by Wang Dexue, Nie Fei, Zheng Zhifei, Yu Yongsheng

“…Then, the random forest algorithm is used to count the class votes of all subsequences in each time series, and a dictionary is constructed based on the class votes. …”
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Rapid Onset Severe Immune Thrombocytopenia following mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine in a Young Patient by Jorge Avila, Huseyin Berk Degirmenci, Pamela Contreras Chavez, Elisabeth M. Battinelli, Jorge Fleisher

“…He responded to the first-line ITP treatment with corticosteroids and intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) as evidenced by the fast recovery of platelet count and lack of recurrence of thrombocytopenia.…”
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Mechanical Damage Test and Model Study of Layered Composite Rock Based on Acoustic Emission and DIC Characteristics by Xianyin Qi, Zhen Yang, Shengwei Wang, Peng Fu

“…The corresponding law of AE ringing count and rock damage evolution was studied and the damage process of layered composite rock under uniaxial loading was divided into three stages: initial damage, stable damage development, and damage acceleration. …”
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Rebel Attentiveness by Connie Etter

“…It refuses to comply with common narratives about what counts as activism (urgency; predetermined goals) and what cycling is for (speed; fitness). …”
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Septic Arthritis of the Pediatric Shoulder: From Infancy to Adolescence by Justin W. Walker, William L. Hennrikus

“…Patients presented on average after 7 days with pain and a mean temperature of 39°C, erythrocyte sedimentation rate of 66 mm/hr, a C-reactive protein level of 11.17 g/dL, and a white blood cell count of 20.2 × 103/mcL. Staphylococcus aureus, Candida albicans, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa were cultured from the wounds. …”
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Evaluating efficacy and outcomes: comparison of laser treatment and crystallized phenol in pilonidal sinus disease by Ahmet Cihangir Emral, Merter Gülen, Bahadır Ege

“…Preoperative data including pit counts, disease stage, preoperative pilonidal abscess history, disease duration (week), treatment success, recurrence/persistent disease, postoperative complications, healing time (days), and visual analogue scale (VAS) scores on postoperative days 1 and 7, as well as return to normal life (days), were analyzed.ResultsA total of 121 patients were included in the study, with 51 receiving laser ablation and 70 receiving crystallized phenol application. …”
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Effect of onion oil on some haematological parameters in dogs with experimentally induced hypercholesterolemia by Ercan Keskin, Zafer Durgun, Mehmet Kocabatmaz, Abdullah Eryavuz

“…Plasma cholesterol levels in experimental group decreased slightly higher than control group and before onion oil administation, while plasma glucose level decreased significantly as compared to before onion oil administration and the same sampling time of control group (P<0,05) In the study, before and after hypercholesterolemia and after onion oil administration, it was not determined striking changes in respect of erythrocytes, leucocytes counts, haemoglobine amount and haematocrit values in both groups and between groups.…”
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Impacts of the olive fruit fly on the ‘Cyprus Local’ and ‘Gemlik’ olive cultivars by M. Helvaci, İ. Kahramanoğlu

“…Two hundred and fifty fruits (25 fruits/10 trees) were randomly selected from each orchard and the damaged fruits were counted. These data were compared with the environmental conditions to determine relationships among the damage rates and environmental conditions.The results showed that the damage rate of olive fruit fly had a moderate correlation with the temperature, while the temperatures above 20°C were found to provoke the highest damage rate on both cultivars. …”
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The essence and significance of ensuring the independence of the prosecutor’s office in Ukraine by O. M. Shumilo

“…This will contribute to building a strong rule-of-law state where every citizen has equal rights and can count on a fair and objective consideration of their cases. …”
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Growth and Decay of a Planktonic Microbial Culture by Alberto Schiraldi

“…The paper shows that the phenomenological trends of both growth and decay of a microbial population in a given medium are easily reproducible with simple equations that allow gathering the experimental data (plate counts) related to different microbial species, in different mediums and even at different temperatures, in a single master plot. …”
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Innovative Smart Road Stud Sensor Network Development for Real-Time Traffic Monitoring by Zhimin Tao, Wei Quan, Hua Wang

“…A vehicle detection algorithm is proposed correspondingly under different operation scenarios to count vehicles in two adjacent lanes. Its detecting accuracy can be further improved by a sensor network of multiple SRSs working cooperatively. …”
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Effect of Lorazepam on the Development of the Hairy Maggot Blow Fly, Chrysomya rufifacies (Macquart): Implication for Forensic Entomology by Sarika Annasaheb Bansode, Vitthal Ramrao More

“…Larvae of Chrysomya rufifacies were fed on the beef liver mixed with lorazepam to study the effect of lorazepam on the developmental rate of larvae and to count delay in postmortem interval. Larvae grown on the beef liver with different doses of lorazepam showed delayed development as compared to normal larvae. …”
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Assessment of the Deterioration in Physiochemical and Microbiological Quality of Shivnath River Water in Durg District, India by Seema A. Belorkar

“…The heterotrophic plate count (HPC) also increased from 1.30×104/100 mL to 1.53×104/100 mL. …”
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Factors Affecting Microbial Load and Profile of Potential Pathogens and Food Spoilage Bacteria from Household Kitchen Tables by Susheela Biranjia-Hurdoyal, Melissa Cathleen Latouche

“…The samples were collected by swabbing over an area of 5 cm by 5 cm of the tables and processed for bacterial count which was read as colony forming units (CFU), followed by isolation and identification of potential pathogens and food spoilage bacteria. …”
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E. coli Bacteriostatic Action Using TiO2 Photocatalytic Reactions by Thammasak Rojviroon, Sanya Sirivithayapakorn

“…In addition, the viable cell counts, the cell morphology, and the bioluminescence-based adenosine triphosphate (ATP) indicated that both SG-TiO2 and SP-TiO2 thin films under UVA could effectively inhibit the proliferation of the E. coli cells in both NB and 0.85% NaCl.…”
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Implementation of creative problem-solving model with RME approach on mathematics problem-solving ability by Joko Rahmadi, Yoppy Wahyu, Viscal Oktari

“…The t-test results obtained are Sig. 0.001 with a t-count of 2.387. Based on the test results that have been carried out, there is a positive influence on the implementation of the creative problem-solving model with the RME approach on students' problem-solving skills, and there is an increase in students' problem-solving skills based on the pretest-posttest value of 31.6.…”
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