Management Control System and Financial Performance of Micro Finance Institutions in Central Region Uganda by Arthur, Sunday, Caleb, Tamwesigire, Caroline Masiko, Murezi, George Stanley, Kinyata, Godfrey, Barigye, Keneth, Nuwagira, Moses, Agaba

“…The study adopted positive-phenomenological, epistemology and quantitative-qualitative methodology dimension with cross sectional and correlation designs, the unit of analysis was Microfinance Institutions registered with Association of Microfinance Institutions, and employees were the units of inquiry. …”
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Identifying the factors affecting the growth of the employees of the country's property and documents registration organization by Najmeh Ahmadi, Kolsoum Nami, Nader Ghourchian, Parivash Jafari

“…In order to achieve growth and development in this dimension, personnel are more interested in studying and increasing their scientific knowledge, and become members in Organizational teams and participate in training, specialized, and in-service courses (Rezaian et al, 2014).  …”
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Sex differences in cognition, anxiety-phenotype and therapeutic effect of metformin in the aged apoE-TR mice by Yingbin Lin, Xinqun Luo, Fangyu Wang, Huange Cai, Yuanxiang Lin, Dezhi Kang, Wenhua Fang

“…These findings identify sex-specific effects on ApoE4-based dementia, anxiety prevention, and therapy, emphasizing the importance of further sex dimension analyses in vivo and clinical studies.…”
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Feedback of aggregate patient-reported outcomes (PROs) data to clinicians and hospital end users: findings from an Australian codesign workshop process by Monique F Kilkenny, Dominique A Cadilhac, Shaun L Hancock, Violet Marion, Paulette Kelly, Sibilah Breen, Benjamin Clissold, Lauren Sanders, Olivia Francis Ryan, Penina Gunzburg, Shae Cooke, Lauren Guy

“…The aim of this study was to determine the preferred formats for reporting service-level PROs data to clinicians, researchers and managers to support greater utility of these data to improve healthcare and patient outcomes.Setting Healthcare professionals receiving PRO data feedback at the health service level.Participants An interdisciplinary Project Working Group comprised of clinicians participated in three workshops to codesign reporting templates of summarised PRO data (modified Rankin Scale, EuroQol Five Dimension Descriptive System, EuroQol Visual Analogue Scale and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) using a modified Delphi process. …”
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Machine Learning-Based Alzheimer’s Disease Stage Diagnosis Utilizing Blood Gene Expression and Clinical Data: A Comparative Investigation by Manash Sarma, Subarna Chatterjee

“…The results indicated that our multiclassification model effectively manages the imbalanced data of a high-dimension, low-sample-size (HDLSS) nature to identify samples of the minority class. …”
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Advances and applications on non-Hermitian topological photonics by Yan Qiuchen, Zhao Boheng, Zhou Rong, Ma Rui, Lyu Qinghong, Chu Saisai, Hu Xiaoyong, Gong Qihuang

“…On the other hand, the non-Hermitian topological photonics provides a new dimension for manipulating topological states. Active and dissipate materials are common in photonic systems; therefore, by using light pump and dissipation of photonic systems, it is expected to promote further development of topological photonics in device applications. …”
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Exploring multi-level factors determining social participation of students with intellectual disabilities in inclusive physical education classes by Christoffer Klenk, Matthias Buser

“…Being part of the peer group: A literature study focusing on the social dimension of inclusion in education. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 13(2), 117–140. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603110701284680 Schluchter, T., Nagel, S., Valkanover, S., & Eckhart, M. (2024). …”
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L’emploi antique des géomatériaux à Reims/Durocortorum by Gilles Fronteau, Sébastien Laratte, Alain Devos, Claire Pichard

“…And, in this area, fundamentally marked by the absence of quality dimension stone in the immediate vicinity of the city, in addition to imports, on the one hand this led builders to turn to soft, local materials, and on the other hand to search for replacements. …”
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How physical activity opportunities seized by adolescents differ between Europe and the Pacific Islands: the example of France and New Caledonia [version 1; peer review: 2 approved... by Olivier Galy, Guillaume Wattelez, Francois Potdevin, Marie-Jeanne Urvoy, Thibaut Derigny, Paul Zongo, Pierre-Yves Leroux, Christophe Schnitzler

“…This study explored the distribution of physical activity according to geographical culture and opportunity-temporal dimensions. Methods Participants were randomly selected, with individual (boys vs. girls), spatial (rural vs. urban), and geographical (FR vs. …”
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Unraveling Online Mental Health Through the Lens of Early Maladaptive Schemas: AI-Enabled Content Analysis of Online Mental Health Communities by Beng Heng Ang, Sujatha Das Gollapalli, Mingzhe Du, See-Kiong Ng

“…In addition, the EMS features extracted from our dataset averaged 13.27 (SD 3.05) negative features per schema, with 2.65 (SD 1.07) features per dimension, as supported by existing literature. …”
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L’officier de police, le checkpoint et l’interrogatoire : les spatialités des performances sécuritaires dans le centre-ville du Caire by Laura Monfleur

“…Drawing on interactionist sociology and a geography attentive to the sensorial dimension of spaces, these spatialities are linked to the notion of security performance. …”
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Evaluasi Tingket Kepuasan Pengguna Layanan Semeton Denpasar Menggunakan Metode E-Govqual by Nyoman Sutrisna Janureksa, I Made Candiasa, Komang Setemen

“…Based on the achievement of the average score of attributes that are below the average score of the e-GovQual dimension on these attributes, then it is used as a recommendation for improvement in SEMETON Denpasar services. …”
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Il luogo e il senso: creazione e significazione degli spazi nel mondo globale by Gambardella, Fabiana, Amodio, Paolo

“…These are the sober word that Victor Hugo makes the priest pronounce when, at the down of modern age, he looked on with prophetic dismay at the advent of printing with movable type, a revolution that would completely transform not only the face and features of the human being, but even the stones, the physical and material space of signification, the dimension of belonging and the sacred, that an “emancipated humanity” would change with the use of reason, undermining every form of dogmatic authority and its symbol. …”
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D’une rive à l’autre de la Méditerranée : mobilités, recompositions et adaptations des groupes juifs aux XIVe et XVe siècles by Jennifer Vanz

“…This was not a constraint imposed on them by the Islamic power on their arrival, and seems rather to have been the result of a desire to display their otherness in relation to their co-religionists from the Maghreb, who, in practice, did not distinguish themselves from Muslims by their costume. The religious dimension is therefore not the fundamental reason for the difference in dress maintained by the exiled Jews and their descendants, who seemed to invert the stigma by wearing a costume whose cost proclaimed, first and foremost, their social and economic status. …”
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Socially interactive industrial robots: a PAD model of flow for emotional co-regulation by Fabrizio Nunnari, Dimitra Tsovaltzi , Matteo Lavit Nicora , Matteo Lavit Nicora , Sebastian Beyrodt , Pooja Prajod , Lara Chehayeb , Ingrid Brdar , Antonella Delle Fave , Luca Negri , Elisabeth André, Patrick Gebhard , Matteo Malosio 

“…The results from Study 1 suggest that the Dominance dimension plays a vital role in task-related settings as it predicts the participants’ Self-Efficacy and Flow. …”
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Designing a Future Study Model: Examining Bank Employees’ Attitudes Towards Job Security in the Era of Blockchain Technology (Horizon 2031) by Saeid Ghazi Nezhad, Hasan Darvish, Mohammad Mahmoudi Meymand

“…Indicators were identified and subjected to coding and theming processes. The dimensions and indicators were then selected based on expert opinions and distributed in a questionnaire format. …”
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Surface Modification of TFC-PA RO Membrane by Grafting Hydrophilic pH Switchable Poly(Acrylic Acid) Brushes by Muhammad Asad Abbas, Shehla Mushtaq, Waqas A. Cheema, Hazim Qiblawey, Shenmin Zhu, Yao Li, Runnan Zhang, Hong Wu, Zhongyi Jiang, Rehan Sadiq, Nasir M. Ahmad

“…At these pH values, ionization of the COOH group takes place below and above pKa to influence the effective pore dimension of the modified membranes. At a lower pH value, the PAA brushes seem to permit tight structure conformation resulting in larger pore sizes and hence more flux. …”
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Effect of comorbidity classes on survival of patients with gastrointestinal tract cancer by Linna Gao, Tian Yao, Shaohua Ge, Jiuwei Cui, Wei Li, Zengqing Guo, Hongxia Xu, Min Weng, Suyi Li, Qinghua Yao, Wen Hu, Lan Zhou, Junqiang Chen, Xianghua Wu, Qingchuan Zhao, Hongli Li, Hanping Shi, Yi Ba, He Huang, The Investigation on Nutrition Status and its Clinical Outcome of Common Cancers (INSCOC) Group

“…LASSO techniques were used to reduce the dimension. The final model included the comorbidity classes and nine more predictors. …”
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Analysis of the long-range transport of the volcanic plume from the 2021 Tajogaite/Cumbre Vieja eruption to Europe using TROPOMI and ground-based measurements by P. Hedelt, J. Reichardt, F. Lauermann, B. Weiß, N. Theys, A. Redondas, A. Barreto, O. Garcia, D. Loyola

“…The particles likely had an isometric to slightly plate-like shape with an effective half of the particle maximum dimension around 0.1 <span class="inline-formula">µm</span> and a refractive index of about 1.51. …”
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La geopedologia como base para zonificar la aptitud forestal en una cuenca del noroeste de la Patagonia Argentina by Maria Cristina Frugoni, Romina González Musso, Gabriel Falbo, Dolores Zapiola

“…La geopedodogía proporciona una dimensión espacial de las relaciones suelo-paisaje, permitiendo disponer de un mapa y su leyenda que ilustran tanto las geoformas (continente) como los suelos integrantes (contenido), sobre la base de que el suelo es tanto paisaje como perfil. …”
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