Access of Women to Higher Education in Uganda: An Analysis of Inequalities, Barriers and Determinants by Kwesiga, Joy Constance

“…Although focus is on the higher education level, lower levels are investigated to provide insight into causes of diminishing numbers of female students as one climbs the educational ladder. …”
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The Impact of Private Education Sector to The Development of Bukimbiri Sub-County, Kisoro District. by Tibesigwa, David

“…Rural have cited primary fees as one of the major challenges and other institutional challenges mentioned include but not limited to: limited funding. stringent government policies; primary taxation. poverty. poor infrastructural development, corruption, unrest and population explosion (where infrastructure cannot handle the numbers). In recommendations, if some of these challenges are addressed Africa may surely rise up like china and other Asian tigers that have become an education destination. …”
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Tumor Necrosis Factor Induces Developmental Stage-Dependent Structural Changes in the Immature Small Intestine by Kathryn S. Brown, Huiyu Gong, Mark R. Frey, Brock Pope, Matthew Golden, Katerina Martin, Mitchel Obey, Steven J. McElroy

“…Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) has been shown to acutely alter goblet cell numbers and villus length in adult mice. In this study we tested the effects of TNF on villus architecture and epithelial cells at different stages of development of the immature small intestine. …”
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5-Lipoxygenase-Dependent Recruitment of Neutrophils and Macrophages by Eotaxin-Stimulated Murine Eosinophils by Ricardo Alves Luz, Pedro Xavier-Elsas, Bianca de Luca, Daniela Masid-de-Brito, Priscila Soares Cauduro, Luiz Carlos Gondar Arcanjo, Ana Carolina Cordeiro Faria dos Santos, Ivi Cristina Maria de Oliveira, Maria Ignez Capella Gaspar-Elsas

“…Significant recruitment of eosinophils by eotaxin in BALB/c, up to 24 h, was accompanied by much larger numbers of recruited neutrophils and monocytes/macrophages. …”
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SARS-CoV-2 Evolution: Implications for Diagnosis, Treatment, Vaccine Effectiveness and Development by Fabrizio Angius, Silvia Puxeddu, Silvio Zaimi, Serena Canton, Sepehr Nematollahzadeh, Andrea Pibiri, Ilenia Delogu, Gualtiero Alvisi, Meng Ling Moi, Aldo Manzin

“…Despite several strategies, from rapid vaccine development and administration to the design and availability of antivirals, including monoclonal antibodies, already having been employed, the persistent circulation of the virus and the emergence of new variants continue to result in high case numbers and fatalities. In the past four years, immense research efforts have contributed much to our understanding of the viral pathogenesis mechanism, the COVID-19 syndrome, and the host–microbe interactions, leading to the development of effective vaccines, diagnostic tools, and treatments. …”
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Improving clinical care of patients in Nipah outbreaks: moving beyond ‘compassionate use’ by Md Zakiul Hassan, Amanda Rojek, Piero Olliaro, Peter Horby

“…To improve NiVD care, we propose four key strategies: 1) Enhance early case detection, 2) optimize supportive care to improve outcomes and create a standard for future trials, 3) adopt a syndromic approach centered on encephalitis, and 4) explore innovative trial designs tailored to low case numbers as an alternative to ‘compassionate use’. …”
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A Low-Power DNN Accelerator With Mean-Error-Minimized Approximate Signed Multiplier by Laimin Du, Leibin Ni, Xiong Liu, Guanqi Peng, Kai Li, Wei Mao, Hao Yu

“…At the same time, we explored the PPM truncation method, found out the impact of different partial product (PP) truncation numbers on circuit benefit and error, and achieved a more ideal performance-error tradeoff through a reasonable error compensation method. …”
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Complex Inflammation mRNA-Related Response in ALS Is Region Dependent by Sara Berjaoui, Mónica Povedano, Paula Garcia-Esparcia, Margarita Carmona, Ester Aso, Isidre Ferrer

“…Inflammatory changes are analyzed in the anterior spinal cord and frontal cortex area 8 in typical spinal-predominant ALS cases. Increased numbers of astrocytes and activated microglia are found in the anterior horn of the spinal cord and pyramidal tracts. …”
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Advanced neural network modeling with Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm for optimizing tri-hybrid nanofluid dynamics in solar HVAC systems by A. Aziz, S.A.H. Shah, H.M.S. Bahaidarah, T. Zamir, T. Aziz

“…Reference data for the LMA-TNN solver are generated for various HVAC scenarios, with a focus on key parameters including Reynolds and Deborah numbers, radiation, temperature slip, and activation energy. …”
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Dynamic Tracking Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Tropism following Smoke Inhalation Injury in NOD/SCID Mice by MeiJuan Song, Qi Lv, XiuWei Zhang, Juan Cao, ShuLi Sun, PeiXin Xiao, ShiKe Hou, Hui Ding, ZiQuan Liu, WenLong Dong, JinQiang Wang, Xue Wang, ZhiGuang Sun, Man Tian, HaoJun Fan

“…Compared with the uninjured control group treated with hBMSCs, higher numbers of hBMSCs were found in the lungs of the SII NOD/SCID mice. …”
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Analyzing covid-19 outbreak for turkey and eight country with curve estimation models, box-jenkins (arima), brown linear exponential smoothing method, autoregressive distributed la... by Mustafa Agah Tekindal, Harun Yonar, Aynur Yonar, Melike Tekindal, Mustafa Bahadır Çevrimli, Hasan Alkan, Zekeriya Safa İnanç, Burak Mat

“…<p> <b>Materials and Methods: </b>For this purpose, the numbers of the COVID-19 epidemic after the 100th case up to 7/19/2020 for selected countries have been estimated by using Curve Estimation Models, Box-Jenkins (ARIMA), Brown Linear Exponential Smoothing Method, Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) and SEIR Models.…”
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Anti-colon cancer activity of water-soluble polysaccharides extracted from Gloeostereum incarnatum via Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway by Jiawei He, Anhui Yang, Xuyu Zhao, Yang Liu, Shuyan Liu, Di Wang

“…Eight-week administration with GIPS at doses of 30 or 90 mg/kg strongly inhibited tumor growth including the reduction on numbers and the suppression of the size without influencing the animals’ body weight and organ functions. …”
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Attempted Depletion of Passenger Leukocytes by Irradiation in Pigs by Hao-Chih Tai, Xiaocheng Zhu, Yih Jyh Lin, Hidetaka Hara, Mohamed Ezzelarab, Michael Epperley, Mubina A. Quader, David K. C. Cooper

“…Neither regimen was entirely successful in depleting all leukocytes, although remaining T and 8 cell numbers were negligible. Study 2 was aimed at providing an indication of whether near-complete depletion of leukocytes had any major impact on kidney allograft survival. …”
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<i>Garcinia brasiliensis</i> Leaves Extracts Inhibit the Development of Ascitic and Solid Ehrlich Tumors by Lucas Sylvestre Silva, Eduardo Cavallini, Rafael André da Silva, Monielle Sant’Ana, Ariane Harumi Yoshikawa, Thiago Salomão, Bianca Huang, Paula Craice, Luiz Philipe de Souza Ferreira, Heitor Pedro Della Matta, Cristiane Damas Gil, Maria de Lourdes Gomes Pereira, Ana Paula Girol

“…Furthermore, both treatments were effective in inhibiting tumor growth in EA and ES by modulating the levels of interleukin (IL)-6 and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, decreasing mast cells numbers and inducing apoptosis. <b>Conclusions</b>: This research indicates that both CE and EAF from <i>G. brasiliensis</i> leaves have potential antitumor effects with low cytotoxicity.…”
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Neutrophil Migration and Adhesion Molecule Expression after Acute High-Intensity Street Dance Exercise by Leandro Borges, Alexandre Dermargos, Stuart Gray, Maysa B. Barros Silva, Vinicius Santos, Tania Cristina Pithon-Curi, Renata Gorjão, Elaine Hatanaka

“…The physical demands of street dancing may result in inflammation and changes in leukocyte numbers/function, impairing the health of dancers. …”
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Self-Assembled Multilayer Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Thin Film Transistors and Doping Regulation by Xiangxiang Gao, Zhenhua Lin, Jincheng Zhang, Yue Hao, Jingjing Chang

“…The thickness of SWCNTs thin film is linearly dependent on the bilayer numbers. Thin film transistors (TFTs) fabricated from SWCNTs thin films showed prominent device performance with a mobility of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\rm 15.3 cm_{2} \cdot V_{1}\cdot s_{1}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. …”
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Anthelmintic Activity of Crude Extract and Essential Oil of Tanacetum vulgare (Asteraceae) against Adult Worms of Schistosoma mansoni by Loyana Silva Godinho, Lara Soares Aleixo de Carvalho, Clarissa Campos Barbosa de Castro, Mirna Meana Dias, Priscila de Faria Pinto, Antônio Eduardo Miller Crotti, Pedro Luiz Silva Pinto, Josué de Moraes, Ademar A. Da Silva Filho

“…Quantitative analysis on the schistosomes tegument showed that TV caused changes in the numbers of tubercles of S. mansoni male worms in a dose-dependent manner. …”
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High trophic similarity between non-native common carp and gibel carp in Turkish freshwaters: Implications for management by Sadi Aksu, Özgür Emiroğlu, Paride Balzani, J. Robert Britton, Esengül Köse, Irmak Kurtul, Sercan Başkurt, Oğuzcan Mol, Emre Çınar, Phillip J. Haubrock, Pinar Oztopcu-Vatan, Ali Serhan Tarkan

“…Although the detrimental ecological and economic effects of introducing freshwater fish species have been extensively documented, non-native freshwater fishes continue to be introduced in large numbers globally to enhance fisheries and aquaculture. …”
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Human Suprapatellar Fat Pad-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Induce Chondrogenesis and Cartilage Repair in a Model of Severe Osteoarthritis by Ignacio Muñoz-Criado, Jose Meseguer-Ripolles, Maravillas Mellado-López, Ana Alastrue-Agudo, Richard J Griffeth, Jerónimo Forteza-Vila, Ramón Cugat, Montserrat García, Victoria Moreno-Manzano

“…In addition, the suprapatellar SVF exhibited increased numbers of colony formation units and a higher population doubling in culture compared to the infrapatellar fraction. …”
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The impact of self-reported burnout and work-related quality of life on nurses' intention to leave the profession during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study by Susan McGrory, John Mallett, Justin MacLochlainn, Jill Manthorpe, Jermaine Ravalier, Heike Schroder, Denise Currie, Patricia Nicholl, Rachel Naylor, Paula McFadden

“…These findings highlighted that significant numbers of nurses considered leaving their profession during and shortly after the pandemic and the need for interventions to improve nurses' wellbeing and reduce burnout to improve their retention.…”
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