A Deep Learning Enabled Chest X-Ray Abnormality Detection Model for Radiology Assistance. by Ssempeebwa, Phillip, Ainembabazi, Patience

“…Therefore, there is a critical need for innovative solutions to improve the efficiency and accuracy of chest X-ray diagnosis. …”
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Experiences and Challenges of the Integrated Development Model on Job Creation in Rwanda’s Gasabo District. by Rutarindwa, Alphonse, Ocan, Johnson, Adyanga, Francis Akena

“…High approval ratings were noted for health centre establishment (M = 4.90, SD = 0.43) and infrastructure improvements (M = 4.70, SD = 0.71), underscoring their critical roles in economic development. Job creation showed promise, with small-scale business initiation with a mean score of 4.66 although challenges in income diversification persisted (Mean = 3.84, St. dev = 1.26). …”
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Tea Growing and Socio-Economic Development of Small Holder Farmers: A Case Study of Rushoroza Kabale District. by Byamukama, Hillary

“…The objectives of the study were to find out the contributions of tea growing to the socio-economic development of farmers, to identify challenges faced by tea farmers towards socio-economic development, and to suggest possible strategies to the challenges faced by tea farmers socio-economic development, was a critical review of tea growing on socio-economic development and studied both theoretically and empirically in the existing literature on tea growing as an independent variable and socio-economic development as the dependent variable. …”
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Designing and Construction of a Traditional Hand Bellow Device. by Olwal, Dunoish

“…The combination of bellows and burners plays a critical role in generating heat for metalworking processes globally. …”
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Impact of Smallholder Tea Production in Buhunga Sub-County Rukungiri District. by Kyarisiima, Leticia

“…By supporting smallholder tea farmers and investing in critical areas like education and healthcare, stakeholders can contribute to sustainable community development in Buhunga Sub-county and beyond.…”
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Employee Motivation and Job Performance in the Public Service of Uganda: The Case of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions by Batson, Baguma

“…The study concluded that overall, ODPP is expected to provide an appropriate salary for the employees as promised by the government; the current salary is considered disproportional compared with other institutions in the justice law and order sector; limited career path in the ODPP; ODPP still has to handle appropriation of their rewarding recognition for employees’ performance in the form of financial incentives, a recognition certificate, direct verbal compliments; there is big criticism regarding work-life balance factors. Most employees argued that the workload and working hours are too high. …”
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Effects of Absenteeism on Academic Performance of Pupils in Rubuguri Town Council Kisoro District. by Alfred Safari, Ruteisire

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Enhancement of anti‐sarcoma immunity by NK cells engineered with mRNA for expression of a EphA2‐targeted CAR by Pui Yeng Lam, Natacha Omer, Josh K. M. Wong, Cui Tu, Louisa Alim, Gustavo R. Rossi, Maria Victorova, Hannah Tompkins, Cheng‐Yu Lin, Ahmed M. Mehdi, Amos Choo, Melissa R. Elliott, Elaina Coleborn, Jane Sun, Timothy Mercer, Orazio Vittorio, Lachlan J. Dobson, Alexander D. McLellan, Andrew Brooks, Zewen Kelvin Tuong, Seth W. Cheetham, Wayne Nicholls, Fernando Souza‐Fonseca‐Guimaraes

“…EphA2, a receptor overexpressed in multiple paediatric sarcomas, is identified as a viable target for CAR‐based immunotherapy due to its critical role in tumour progression and angiogenesis. …”
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Comments on: “Early High-Titer Convalescent Plasma Therapy in Patients with Moderate and Severe COVID-19” [Transfusion and Apheresis Science 61 (2022) 103321] by Seyed Reza Hosseiniara

“…Until more robust evidence becomes available, we recommend that this critical topic remains open for further discussion.…”
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Diseño de losas de hormigón con geometría optimizada Design of concrete pavement with optimized slab geometry by Juan Pablo Covarrubias V.

“…The core principle of this design method consists of designing a slab size, so that no more than one wheel set stays on a given slab, thus minimizing the critical tensile stress on the surface. Test segments have been built on a large scale and they have been tested under accelerated loads, with concrete thickness of 8, 15 and 20 cm, all of them having a gravel base and non-adhered asphaltic layers. …”
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Genetic evidence for the causal effects of air pollution on the risk of respiratory diseases by Yanjuan Wu, Yuting Zhang, Jingcun Wang, Qiming Gan, Xiaofen Su, Sun Zhang, Yutong Ding, Xinyan Yang, Nuofu Zhang, Kang Wu

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Role of a key microphysical factor in mixed-phase stratocumulus clouds and their interactions with aerosols by S. S. Lee, S. S. Lee, S. S. Lee, C. H. Jung, J. Choi, Y. J. Yoon, J. Um, J. Um, Y. Zheng, J. Guo, M. G. Manoj, S.-K. Song

“…It is found that ICNC <span class="inline-formula"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M2" display="inline" overflow="scroll" dspmath="mathml"><mo>/</mo></math><span><svg:svg xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="8pt" height="14pt" class="svg-formula" dspmath="mathimg" md5hash="527256ea34e0af356380afd605ccefc0"><svg:image xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="acp-25-705-2025-ie00002.svg" width="8pt" height="14pt" src="acp-25-705-2025-ie00002.png"/></svg:svg></span></span> CDNC plays a critical role in causing differences in cloud development with respect to the relative proportion of liquid and ice mass between the cases by affecting in-cloud latent-heat processes. …”
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Microbial metabolites and immune modulation by Hassan Ghasemi

“…SCFAs further boost immunoglobulin A (IgA) secretion, a critical component of mucosal immunity that fortifies the first line of defense against pathogens. …”
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Intraoperative evaluation of the intestinal wall viability by Nikita A. Adamenkov, Andrian V. Mamoshin, Viktor V. Dremin, Elena V. Potapova, Valery V. Shupletsov, Yuri V. Ivanov, Dmitry N. Panchenkov, Andrey V. Dunaev

“…Impaired mesenteric blood supply is often the consequence of a number of reasons of developing critical conditions (mesenteric thrombosis, acute adhesive intestinal obstruction, incarcerated hernia etc.), also representing a high risk factor for lethal outcomes. …”
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Electrochemically stable and ultrathin polymer-based solid electrolytes for dendrite-free all-solid-state lithium-metal batteries by Fenghua Yu, Yongbiao Mu, Meisheng Han, Jie Liu, Kunxiong Zheng, Zhiyu Zou, Hengyuan Hu, Quanyan Man, Wenjia Li, Lei Wei, Lin Zeng, Tianshou Zhao

“…Due to the formation of the LiCN layer on the surface of the lithium metal and the Li-ion transport pathways induced by the dehydrocyanation reaction at the LLZTO/PAN interfaces, the PCSE exhibits a high critical current density of 1.8 mA cm ^−2 and a low energy barrier of 0.278 eV for Li-ion transfer, accommodating the fast Li-ion migration to avoid Li-dendrite growth. …”
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RETRACTED: Modern Subtype Classification and Outlier Detection Using the Attention Embedder to Transform Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis by S. M. Nuruzzaman Nobel, S M Masfequier Rahman Swapno, Md. Ashraful Hossain, Mejdl Safran, Sultan Alfarhood, Md. Mohsin Kabir, M. F. Mridha

“…This research explores the complex field of Ovarian Cancer Subtype Classification and the crucial task of Outlier Detection, driven by a progressive automated system, as the need to fight this unforgiving illness becomes critical. This study primarily uses a unique dataset painstakingly selected from 20 esteemed medical institutes. …”
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The Differential Expression of Mitochondrial Function-Associated Proteins and Antioxidant Enzymes during Bovine Herpesvirus 1 Infection: A Potential Mechanism for Virus Infection-I... by Xiaotian Fu, Xinyi Jiang, Xinye Chen, Liqian Zhu, Gaiping Zhang

“…The virus infection significantly increased the expression of subunit SDHB (succinate dehydrogenase) and MTCO1 (cytochrome c oxidase subunit I), critical components of RC complexes II and IV, respectively. …”
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Prompt Conditioned Batik Pattern Generation Using LoRA Weighted Diffusion Model With Classifier-Free Guidance by Rahmatulloh Daffa Izzuddin Wahid, Novanto Yudistira, Candra Dewi, Irawati Nurmala Sari, Dyanningrum Pradhikta, Fatmawati

“…The fine-tuning process was critical in enhancing the model&#x2019;s capability to generate high-quality and user-specific batik patterns. …”
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Protocol for a Phase 2 randomized controlled patient-assessor blinded study: efficacy and safety of combined cortical and cerebellar dual-target transcranial magnetic stimulation f... by Jing Xu, Na Cao, Yan Qu, Suhang Shang, Xincheng Liu, Xuexin Wang, Fangfang Hu, Xuerong Bai, Qiumin Qu, Meng Zhang, Hongmei Cao

“…BackgroundEssential tremor (ET) is the most common neurological movement disorder with few treatments and limited therapeutic efficacy, research into noninvasive and effective treatments is critical. Abnormal cerebello-thalamo-cortical (CTC) loop function are thought to be significant pathogenic causes of ET, with the cerebellum and cortex are common targets for ET treatment. …”
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Barriers and Predictors of Lyme Disease Vaccine Acceptance: A Cross-Sectional Study in Poland by Dawid Lewandowski, Artur Sulik, Filip Raciborski, Milena Krasnodebska, Joanna Gebarowska, Aleksandra Stalewska, Kacper Toczylowski

“…Still, addressing vaccine hesitancy remains critical, particularly among undecided or neutral respondents. …”
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