Doctoral Supervision in Russian Universities: to the Problem of Balancing Activity and Performance by B. I. Bednyi, N. V. Rybakov

“…The findings imply that there is a great disparity in distribution of supervisors by number of students and by performance level (number of dissertation defenses), which is found to conform to Pareto – Zipf law. …”
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Mathematical Modeling of Wax Deposition in Field-Scale Crude Oil Pipeline Systems by Francis Oketch Ochieng, Mathew Ngugi Kinyanjui, Jeconia Okelo Abonyo, Phineas Roy Kiogora

“…This study found that the deposit thickness is directly proportional to the Reynolds number and inversely proportional to the mass Grashof number, Schmidt number, and Weber number. …”
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Influence of Obesity Parameters on Different Regional Patterns of Lymph Node Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Cancer by Wan-Xiao Wu, Jia-Wei Feng, Jing Ye, Gao-Feng Qi, Li-Zhao Hong, Jun Hu, Sheng-Yong Liu, Yong Jiang, Zhen Qu

“…Female patients with high BSA had higher number of CLNM. Conclusion. BFP and BSA, possibly influenced by gender, were positively associated with the number and risk of LNM in different regions of PTC patients. …”
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Mobile Banking and Financial Performance of Commercial Banks in Uganda: A Case Study of Stanbic Bank Rukungiri Branch. by Kinembabazi, Cynthia

“…The study results on different technologies used to improve the financial performance of commercial banks, the respondents mentioned the use of the internet as a medium and mobile as the most common technologies used by Stanbic bank, the study went ahead to find the effect of mobile banking on service delivery to customers of commercial banks, the highest number of respondents mentioned that this platform allows customers to carry out transactions such as payment for goods and services, and payment of utility bills and the lowest number of respondents stated that transactions can simultaneously enhance the outreach of financial services and the study continued to find out the determinants of financial performance of commercial banks, the highest number of respondents mentioned capital adequacy, the lowest number of respondents mentioned liquidity management. …”
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Effect of High Population Growth Rate on Economic Performance in Kyanamira Sub-County Kabale District Uganda. by Aijuka, Godwin

“…The study results on causes of high population growth in Kyanamira sub-county Kabale district, the highest number of the respondents mentioned early marriage while the least number of the respondents mentioned negative attitude towards family planning. …”
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Follow-Up Study on Acoustic De-Licing of Atlantic Salmon (<i>Salmo salar</i>): <i>Lepeophtheirus salmonis</i> and <i>Caligus elongatus</i> Dynamics over Four Consecutive Production... by Albert Kjartan Dagbjartarson Imsland, Pablo Balseiro, Sigurd Handeland, Olav Rune Godø

“…This is a follow-up study to our previous work. The numbers of salmon lice treatments and of weeks until the first salmon lice treatment were also compared in the two experimental groups. …”
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Opportunities for Prevention of Complications in Intestinal Stoma Surgery by V. S. Groshilin, V. D. Kuznetsov, D. V. Kuznetsov, A. A. Pogosyan

“…The obtained results indicate the possibility of reducing the number of early (group 1 — 16 %, group 2 — 40.7 %; p &lt; 0.05) and late (group 1 — 8 %, group 2 — 29.6 %; p &lt; 0.05) paracolostomy complications, decreasing the number of repeated surgical interventions (three cases of re-creation of the stoma in the early postoperative period in group 2 and no indication for repeated interventions in group 1) and improving the quality of life in stoma patient through the application of the developed personalized algorithm. …”
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Effect of Joint Geometrical Parameters on Hydraulic Fracture Network Propagation in Naturally Jointed Shale Reservoirs by Zhaohui Chong, Qiangling Yao, Xuehua Li

“…As β reaches 75° or 90°, the step path mode is ubiquitous in all shale reservoirs, and the breakdown pressure and the number of the cracks both increase. In this case, β has a direct effect on the HFN pattern. …”
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Savi’s pipistrelle (Hypsugo savii) in Ukraine: analysis of records and evidence of expansion by Igor Polischuk, Igor Zagorodniuk

“…The paper is devoted to the records of a species that until recently has been considered to be limited to the southernmost territories of Ukraine (the southern coast of the Crimea), but for which a number of facts of expansion in the northern direction have been revealed. …”
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Association between oral microbiome diversity and all-cause mortality: a longitudinal study of NHANES, 2009–2012 by Bo Lin, Liang Zheng, Wanna Chen, Ju Yu, Zhanqiang Zhang, Weiming Lv

“…Participants with a higher ASV number were more likely to be poor, non-Hispanic black or Hispanic, uninsured and current smokers, more likely to have poor self-rated oral health and periodontitis and less likely to use dental floss. …”
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DNA Amplifications and Aneuploidy, High Proliferative Activity and Impaired Cell Cycle Control Characterize Breast Carcinomas with Poor Prognosis by Harald Blegen, John S. Will, B. Michael Ghadimi, Hesed‐Padilla Nash, Anders Zetterberg, Gert Auer, Thomas Ried

“…Of note, the number of sub‐chromosomal high‐level copy number increases (amplifications) was significantly increased in the group of short‐term survivors. …”
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Optimal µPMU Placement Considering Node Importance and Multiple Deployed Monitoring Devices in Distribution Networks by Ruifeng Zhao, Jiangang Lu, Yizhe Chen, Yifan Gao, Kai Gan, Ming Li, Chengzhi Wei, Runhong Huang, Fan Xiao, Liang Che

“…The balance of maintaining the number of micro phasor measurement units placed while ensuring the monitoring stability of the system remains a crucial challenge. …”
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The Upregulation of COX2 in Human Degenerated Nucleus Pulposus: The Association of Inflammation with Intervertebral Disc Degeneration by Chang Liu, Guoyan Liang, Zhantao Deng, Jing Tan, Qiujian Zheng, Feng-Juan Lyu

“…The total integrated COX2 optical density (IOD), number of COX2-positive cells, and total cell number of each image were counted and analyzed by Image-Pro Plus software. …”
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Asymptomatic malaria parasitaemia and seizure control in children with nodding syndrome; a cross-sectional study by Charles R J C Newton, Albert Ningwa, Kevin Marsh, Richard Idro, Rodney Ogwang, Ronald Anguzu, Pamela Akun, Edward Kayongo

“…All had standardised testing including documentation of the number of seizures in the past month, a rapid malaria test and if positive, the peripheral blood parasite density.Outcomes The primary outcome was the number of seizures in the past month (30 days).Results A total of 164/240 (68%) had malaria. …”
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Sociodemographic factors associated with prenatal care utilization in Arkansas, United States by Pearl A. McElfish, Aaron Caldwell, Donya Watson, Jonathan Langner, Jennifer Callaghan-Koru, Austin Porter, Don E. Willis, Jennifer A. Andersen, Nicola L. Hawley, James P. Selig, Amir Forati, Maria R. Alcala, Lanita White, Enrique Gomez-Pomar, Clare C. Brown

“…Primary outcomes included number of prenatal visits, fewer than the recommended number of prenatal visits, late prenatal care, and no prenatal care. …”
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Characterization of the genomic landscape of canine diffuse large B-cell lymphoma reveals recurrent H3K27M mutations linked to progression-free survival by Anna Darlene van der Heiden, Raphaela Pensch, Sophie Agger, Heather L. Gardner, William Hendricks, Victoria Zismann, Shukmei Wong, Natalia Briones, Bryce Turner, Karin Forsberg-Nilsson, Cheryl London, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Maja Louise Arendt

“…We identified 26 recurrently mutated genes, 18 copy number gains, and 8 copy number losses. Consistent with prior studies, the most commonly mutated genes included TRAF3, FBXW7, POT1, TP53, SETD2, DDX3X and TBL1XR1. …”
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Contribuții la bibliografia românească veche by Bogdan Andriescu

“…This article brings to the foreground a number of 6 titles, a part of them unknown to the Romanian bibliographic sources.…”
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Congruences involving F-partition functions by James Sellers

“…The primary goal of this note is to prove the congruence ϕ3(3n+2)≡0(mod3), where ϕ3(n) denotes the number of F-partitions of n with at most 3 repetitions. …”
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Graphs Generated by Measures by A. Assari, M. Rahimi

“…Using this construction, it is proved that given any number n (finite or infinite) there exists a nonregular graph such that its clique, chromatic, and dominating number equals n.…”
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Selection of Control Device Parameters for Electric Drive with Pulse Transducer by O. F. Opeyko

“…The paper reveals the conditions which are to be met by parameters of micro-controller accuracy and speed (a number of discharges in data word, clock frequency of a timer) and number of pulses per transducer revolution that ensure the required accuracy of the system to control position and speed. …”
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