Multi-Media Tools and Service Delivery in Academic Libraries: A Case Study of Bishop Berham University. by Barigye, Damas

“…The study was guided by objectives namely; To Investigate the current multi-media tools available in the library of Bishop Berham University, to find out how multi-media tools are utilized within the library of Bishop Berham University, to Identify challenges faced while utilizing multi-media tools in the library in Bishop Barham university, to establish the challenges of accessing credit by SME’s in Bishop Barham university, and to identify the strategies to improve Credit Accessibility in Bishop Barham university. …”
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Impact of Small-Scale Businesses on Provision of Employment to Informal Labor Force in Kabale Municipality. by Uwibanze, Frank

“…The collected data was analyzed using quantitative analysis which majorly involved six major activities namely, data preparation, counting, grouping, relating, predicting, and statistical testing. …”
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RETRACTION Ilham, I., Sari, A. P., Bafirman, B., Rifki, M.. S., Alnedral, A., Welis, W., Umar, U., Kurniawan, R., Putra, R. A., Prasetyo, T., Car, B., Pavlovic, R., Makadada, F. A.... by RETOS RETOS

“…The accepted Word document was sent with the names of the authors that appeared in the “Corrections for the edition” message so that they could only make the orthographical corrections that were necessary. …”
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Genome-wide identification and characterization of the bZIP family in the Mangrove Plant Kandelia obovata and its role in response to stress by Yuchong Yi, Yuting Qiu, Hongyao Hu, Dandan Qin, Hechen Huang, Taiping Chen, Wenqi Zha, Yingjia Shen

“…Results In the K. obovata genome, 66 bZIP genes were identified and named KobZIP1 to KobZIP66, categorized based on their chromosomal locations. …”
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Characteristics and Health Risks of PM2.5-bound Metals in a Central City of Northern China: A One-year Observation Study by Jinhe Wang, Shuang Zhang, Xiaoguo Qiu, Kai Li, Jiarong Li, Yangang Ren, Chao Zhu, Xi Zhang

“…Four sources could be extracted using the positive matrix factorization (PMF) model, namely resuspended dust (51.9%), oil combustion (19.9%), factories (16.5%), and traffic emissions (11.7%). …”
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Characteristics of climate resource utilization and economic benefits in new planting pattern for fresh faba bean and fresh maize in Yangtze River Delta by Bo Li, Qingming Ren, Xiaoxu Shi, Wenyuan Shen, Yafeng Wei, Fei Xiong

“…We incorporated relay intercropping in two triple-crop planting patterns, namely faba bean/maize-maize and faba bean/maize-soybean. …”
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Molecular Alterations of KIT Oncogene in Gliomas by Ana L. Gomes, Jorge S. Reis-Filho, José M. Lopes, Olga Martinho, Maryou B. K. Lambros, Albino Martins, Fernando Schmitt, Fernando Pardal, Rui M. Reis

“…Tumour cell immunopositivity was detected in 15.6% (28/179) of cases, namely in 25% (1/4) of pilocytic astrocytomas, 25% (5/20) of diffuse astrocytomas, 20% (1/5) of anaplastic astrocytomas, 19.5% (15/77) of glioblastomas and one third (3/9) of anaplastic oligoastrocytomas. …”
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Plant Disease Classifier: Detection of Dual-Crop Diseases Using Lightweight 2D CNN Architecture by Hasibul Islam Peyal, Md. Nahiduzzaman, Md. Abu Hanif Pramanik, Md. Khalid Syfullah, Saleh Mohammed Shahriar, Abida Sultana, Mominul Ahsan, Julfikar Haider, Amith Khandakar, Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury

“…The purpose of this work is to categorize 14 classes for both cotton and tomato crops, with 12 diseased classes and two healthy classes using a deep learning-based lightweight 2D CNN architecture and to implement the model in an android application named “Plant Disease Classifier” for smartphone-assisted plant disease diagnosis system, the results of the experiments reveal that the proposed model outperforms the pre-trained models VGG16, VGG19 and InceptionV3 despite having fewer parameters. …”
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Paucity of viral infection symptoms in patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases by Carola Berking, Georg Schett, Andreas Ramming, Raja Atreya, Markus F Neurath, Bernhard Manger, Filippo Fagni, Arnd Kleyer, Milena L Pachowsky, Axel J Hueber, Stefan Kleinert, Karin Manger, Florian Schuch, Monika Ronneberger, David Simon, Michael Sticherling, Koray Tascilar, Christine Meder, Moritz Leppkes, Peter Dietrich, Verena Schoenau, Daniela Bohr, Fabian Hartmann, Selahattin Alp Temiz, Ioanna Minopoulou, Louis Schuster, Melek Yalcin Mutlu, Gerhard Kroenke, Till Orlemann, Johanna Mößner

“…This study aimed to investigate the symptom pattern of common viral infections in patients with IMID and compare it with controls without IMIDs.Design A cross-sectional study conducted between 1 February and 30 April 2020, using a questionnaire.Setting Seven tertiary regional care centers in Germany, which specialised in the care of patients with IMID (namely, in gastroenterology, dermatology, rheumatology and immunology clinical care).Participants One thousand nine hundred nine participants completed the survey (757 patients with IMID; 1152 non-IMID controls).Primary outcome measure The occurrence of 11 common viral illness symptoms within the preceding 3 months in patients with IMID and non-IMID controls.Results Symptom data were clustered, based on number and co-occurrance, into 3 major clusters and 2 subclusters ranked by the average number of symptoms. …”
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Genetic Mutations of Tim-3 Ligand and Exhausted Tim-3+ CD8+ T Cells and Survival in Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma by Tingting Zhang, Tianyuan Ren, Zheng Song, Jing Zhao, Lei Jiao, Zhenzhen Zhang, Jin He, Xianming Liu, Lihua Qiu, Lanfang Li, Shiyong Zhou, Bin Meng, Qiongli Zhai, Xiubao Ren, Zhengzi Qian, Xianhuo Wang, Huilai Zhang

“…Furthermore, we defined a novel subtype of exhausted T cells, named as exhausted Tim-3+ CD8+ T cells, and found that patients with exhausted Tim-3+ CD8+ T cells (median survival, 62.8 months, 95% CI: 50.0–75.6) exhibited shorter survival than those with nonexhausted Tim-3- CD8+ T cells (median survival, 82.5 months, 95% CI: 72.0–92.9; p=0.034). …”
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First Measurements of Ambient PM2.5 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo and Brazzaville, Republic of Congo Using Field-calibrated Low-cost Sensors by Celeste McFarlane, Paulson Kasereka Isevulambire, Raymond Sinsi Lumbuenamo, Arnold Murphy Elouma Ndinga, Ranil Dhammapala, Xiaomeng Jin, V. Faye McNeill, Carl Malings, R. Subramanian, Daniel M. Westervelt

“…Employing two calibration models, namely, multiple linear regression and random forests, decreased the MAE to 3.4 µg m−3 and increased R2 to 0.96. …”
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Renal Dysfunction after Living-Donor Liver Transplantation: Experience with 500 Cases by Ehab E. Abdel-Khalek, Alrefaey K. Alrefaey, Amr M. Yassen, Ahmed Monier, Hesham M. Elgouhari, Mohamed Samy Habl, Gehad Tawfik, Thuraya Elzayat, Reham Adly Zayed, Mohamed Abdel-Wahab

“…In the multivariate regression analysis, only 2 variables remained as independent predictors of chronic kidney disease at 1 year, namely, operative time with a cutoff value of ≥714 minutes and graft-to-recipient weight ratio as a negative predictor with a cutoff value of <0.91. …”
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Retinal Protection of New Nutraceutical Formulation by Luca Rosario La Rosa, Veronica Pepe, Francesca Lazzara, Giovanni Luca Romano, Federica Conti, Erika Giuffrida, Claudio Bucolo, Santa Viola, Giuseppe De Pasquale, Maria Cristina Curatolo, Cristina Zappulla

“…This study assessed the neuroprotective, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory effect of a new nutraceutical formulation named Epicolin, based on citicoline, homotaurine, epigallocatechin-3-gallate, forskolin, and vitamins, through in vitro and in vivo studies. …”
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Protocol for a feasibility study and process evaluation of a psychosocially modelled diabetes education programme for young people with type 1 diabetes: the Youth Empowerment Skill... by Nick Sevdalis, Khalida Ismail, Tayana Soukup, Trevor Murrells, Dulmini Kariyawasam, Stephen Thomas, Judith Parsons, Angus Forbes, Rita Forde, Maria Baldellou Lopez, Marie Jones, Martha Ford-Adams, Nardos Yemane, Siobhan Pender, Alex Silverstien

“…To address this limitation, we codesigned with young people a psychosocially modelled programme of diabetes education, named ‘Youth Empowerment Skills’ (YES). The programme aims to facilitate a positive adaptation to life with diabetes and engagement with diabetes care through peer-based learning, immersive simulations and support from an outreach youth worker. …”
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A prognostic signature of Glutathione metabolism-associated long non-coding RNAs for lung adenocarcinoma with immune microenvironment insights by Junxi Hu, Junxi Hu, Shuyu Tian, Shuyu Tian, Qingwen Liu, Qingwen Liu, Jiaqi Hou, Jiaqi Hou, Jun wu, Jun wu, Xiaolin Wang, Xiaolin Wang, Yusheng Shu, Yusheng Shu

“…Quantitative PCR and experimental studies confirmed the role of lnc-AL162632.3 in LUAD.ResultsOur model included a total of nine lncRNAs, namely AL162632.3, AL360270.1, LINC00707, DEPDC1-AS1, GSEC, LINC01711, AL078590.2, AC026355.2, and AL096701.4. …”
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Prevalence of and factors associated with symptoms consistent with a diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome among resident physicians in standardised training in China: a cross-sect... by Xin Wang, Ning Li, Xia Li, Zhigang Li, Jun Zhao, Xuefei Wang, Xin Hao, Jiayi Yang, Junjian Tian

“…Objectives This study aims to investigate the incidence of and factors associated with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) among resident physicians in standardised training at eight traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) hospitals in China.Design A cross-sectional survey was administered to resident physicians in their first to third years of standardised training at eight TCM hospitals.Participants and setting A total of 514 resident physicians in standardised training were included.Measures The questionnaire consisted of two sections, namely: section A collected basic information, and section B included the four-item Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-4), the Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4), the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and the Rome IV criteria for IBS. …”
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Predicting High-Grade Acute Urinary Toxicity and Lower Gastrointestinal Toxicity After Postoperative Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy for Cervical and Endometrial Cancer Using a No... by Tianyu Yang, Zhe Ji, Runhong Lei, Ang Qu, Weijuan Jiang, Xiuwen Deng, Ping Jiang

“…Three candidate predictors, namely the small intestine V_30Gy, colon D_45%, and rectum D_55%, were identified to develop the NTCP model of ALGIT, and the mean AUC was 0.71 (CI: 0.61–0.80). …”
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Supra-Annular Versus Intra-Annular Self-Expanding Valves in Small Aortic Annulus: A Propensity Score-Matched Study by Michel Pompeu Sá, MD, MSc, MHBA, PhD, Danial Ahmad, MD, MPH, Yisi Wang, MPH, Floyd Thoma, BS, Amber Makani, MD, Dustin Kliner, MD, Catalin Toma, MD, David West, MD, Derek Serna-Gallegos, MD, Ibrahim Sultan, MD

“…We aimed to evaluate outcomes between different SEVs, namely SAVs (CoreValve/Evolut R/PRO/PRO+/FX) vs. IAVs (Portico/Navitor). …”
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Ferula communis leaf extract: antioxidant capacity, UHPLC–MS/MS analysis, and in vivo and in silico toxicity investigations by Imad Ed-Dahmani, Mohamed El Fadili, Ghizlane Nouioura, Fahd Kandsi, Yassine El Atki, Hatem A. Abuelizz, Raffaele Conte, Fatima Zahra Lafdil, Abdeslam Taleb, Abdelfattah Abdellaoui, Mustapha Taleb

“…The major compound of the studied extract, namely, p-hydroxybenzoic acid, was chosen for a molecular docking technique to discover the inhibition mechanism toward antioxidant proteins. …”
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Cognitive Performance in Hot-Humid Environments of Non-Air-Conditioned Buildings: A Subjective Evaluation by Hui Zhu, Yichao Wang, Da Yuan, Kun Gao, Quanna Liao, Masanari Ukai, Fan Zhang, Songtao Hu

“…The results showed that five items of NASA-TLX, namely mental demand, physical demand, temporal demand, effort, and frustration, were negatively related to air temperature (<i>p</i> < 0.05), and they were also observed to have quasi-inverted-U relationships with exposure time. …”
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