Analysis of management indicators for type 2 diabetes mellitus patients in Urumqi City from 2017 to 2021 by WANG Yingjie，SUN Gaofeng，ZHAO E，TIAN Yuan

“…Methods: Data on the rates of record establishment, health management and standardized management for T2DM patients, and blood glucose control rate in managed patients in Urumqi City from 2017 to 2021 were collected through the quarterly reports on basic public health service management from the Weining Health Platform System. The trends in the four management indicators, and the differences between urban and rural areas were analyzed. …”
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Stability Analysis of a Weathered-Basalt Soil Slope Using the Double Strength Reduction Method by Xiaoliang Liu, Xin Chen, Mei Su, Shilin Zhang, Dengfeng Lu

“…Then, based on the redevelopment platform in the ABAQUS finite element software, a user subroutine to specify predefined field variables (UFIELD) was written to numerically simulate the stability of the Jichang slope before the landslide. …”
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Social media in undergraduate teaching and learning: A scoping review protocol. by Richard Hayman, Erika E Smith

“…In addition to including concepts and terms related to social media broadly, based on global social media usage, we include within our search the most commonly used social media platforms. We excluded items from the grey literature (such as reports, dissertations, and theses), and studies that focus on groups outside of the undergraduate population of interest (e.g., in elementary, secondary, or graduate settings, etc.).…”
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Information Communication Technology and Performance of Commercial Banks in Uganda: A Case Study of Equity Bank In Kabale Municipality. by Sabiiti, Ignatius

“…The study results on ICT platforms used by Equity bank Kabale branch, responses were obtained from automated teller machine, Mobile banking and PC banking, the study went ahead to find the effect of ICT on performance of Equity bank Kabale branch, responses were obtained from information technology has helped in easing enquiry, saving time and improving service delivery, information and communication technology has provided self-service facilities, it helps customer to validate their account numbers and receive instruction on when and how to receive their cheque books, credit and debit cards, it offers retail banking services to customers at their offces/homes and saves customers time, and gives more convenience for higher productivity and the study results further on challenges facing ICT use by Equity bank Kabale branch, the responses were obtained from in adequate ICT infrastructure, technophobia among the ICT bank officials due to inadequate skills in information technology, the cost demands of ICT gadgets, lack of digital preservation knowledge and network problem. …”
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Training and Employee Performance in Uganda: A Case of National Water and Sewarage Corporation by moses Agaba

“…The study also suggested that the corporation should adopt the use of role acting, simulation, and case challenges and embrace a variety of training modalities, such as individualised digital platforms, online instruction, and feedback on training outcomes to identify any training gaps that future initiatives should fill.…”
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Assessing the Impact of Covid19-Pandemic on the Household Income in Kamuganguzi Sub-County Kabale District. by Arinda, Redeemer Present

“…Additionally, the government should establish a physical and automated platform for coordination and resource mobilization to support poor students and the most vulnerable groups affected by COVID-19-related lockdowns.…”
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A descriptive-multivariate analysis of community knowledge, confidence, and trust in COVID-19 clinical trials amongst Ugandans working in healthcare settings. by Keneth Iceland, Kasozi, Lawrence Obado, Osuwat

“…Methods: A rapid exploratory survey with questions was conducted over 5 weeks at multiple health care centers across the country using an online platform. Questions assessed knowledge, confidence, and trust scores on COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials (KCTCOVacTrials), and the social demographics in the community. …”
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An Automatic Approach for the Identification of Offensive Language in Perso-Arabic Urdu Language: Dataset Creation and Evaluation by Salah Ud Din, Shah Khusro, Farman Ali Khan, Munir Ahmad, Oualid Ali, Taher M. Ghazal

“…With the advent of various social media platforms, offensive language usage has been widely reported, thus developing a toxic online environment that has real-life endangers within society. …”
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Rapid assessment of main agronomic indicators in the grain of winter and spring forms of triticale using infrared spectroscopy by V. S. Popov, N. G. Konkova, T. V. Shelenga, V. I. Khoreva, I. A. Kibkalo, M. Kh. Gadjimagomedova, L. G. Suvaryan

“…Calibration models for the assessment of the said agronomic characters in triticale grain were developed on the platform of the MATRIX-I IR analyzer (Bruker Optics, Germany) and based on the values obtained by classical methods of biochemical analysis adopted at VIR. …”
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Barriers and facilitators to data-based decision making in Australian early childhood education and care: A qualitative study by Shauna Sherker, Karen Villanueva, Ruth Beatson, Caitlin M. Macmillan, Wan Yi Lee, Olivia Hilton, Carly Molloy, Sharon Goldfeld

“…Early childhood education and care (ECEC) provides a critical platform for children's development in the early years. …”
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Facilitation of Tumor Stroma-Targeted Therapy: Model Difficulty and Co-Culture Organoid Method by Qiu-Shi Feng, Xiao-Feng Shan, Vicky Yau, Zhi-Gang Cai, Shang Xie

“…<b>Conclusions:</b> PDTO-based co-culture systems offer a promising platform for stroma mimicry and personalized anti-cancer therapy development. …”
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Harnessing the potential of chloroplast-derived expression elements for enhanced production of cellulases in Escherichia coli by Ayesha Siddiqui, Muhammad Mudassar Iqbal, Asad Ali, Iqra Fatima, Hazrat Ali, Aamir Shehzad, Sameer H. Qari, Ghulam Raza, Muhammad Aamer Mehmood, Peter J. Nixon, Niaz Ahmad

“…Our finding underscores the potential of this approach to meet industrial demands for efficient enzyme production employing E. coli as a robust biomanufacturing platform.…”
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Evaluation of Antimicrobial and Wound Healing Effects of Gold Nanoparticles Containing Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Aqueous Extract by Shahla Korani, Khodabakhsh Rashidi, Mona Hamelian, Ali R. Jalalvand, Ahmad Tajehmiri, Mitra Korani, Thozhukat Sathyapalan, Amirhossein Sahebkar

“…Nanotechnology has been increasingly proposed as a novel platform to treat wounds and skin regeneration. The aim of this study was to evaluate the antibacterial, antioxidant, cytotoxic, and cutaneous wound healing activities of phytosynthesized Au NPs using Abelmoschus esculentus (okra) and synthesized Au NPs by using the citrate synthesis method. …”
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Comprehensive multi-omics analysis showed that CDC6 is a potential prognostic and immunotherapy biomarker for multiple cancer types including HCC by Chenxuan Li, En-di Zhang, Rui Yu, Bo Yuan, Yunxin Yang, Zhong Zeng, Hanfei Huang

“…The role of CDC6 in cancer was analyzed using multiple web platforms and software, including R, cBioPortal, UALCAN, SangerBox and others. …”
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Low Birth Weight, Child Gender, Number of Children, and Maternal Education as Risk Factors for Stunting in Palu City - Indonesia by Fahmi Hafid, Nasrul Nasrul, Amsal Amsal, Kadar Ramadhan, Taufiqurahman Taufiqurahman, Sarina Sariman

“…Data collection is carried out through the Cobocollect platform. Results: Logistic regression analysis shows several important findings. …”
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Precision fetal cardiology detects cyanotic congenital heart disease using maternal saliva metabolome and artificial intelligence by Ray Bahado-Singh, Nadia Ashrafi, Amin Ibrahim, Buket Aydas, Ali Yilmaz, Perry Friedman, Stewart F. Graham, Onur Turkoglu

“…Metabolomic analyses using Ultra-High Performance Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry identified 468 metabolites in the saliva. Six different AI platforms were utilized for the detection of CCHD and CHD overall. …”
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Robotic pedicle screw placement for minimal invasive thoracolumbar spine surgery: a technical note by Luthfi Gatam, Luthfi Gatam, Luthfi Gatam, Phedy Phedy, Phedy Phedy, Syafruddin Husin, Harmantya Mahadhipta, Asrafi Rizki Gatam, Asrafi Rizki Gatam, Asrafi Rizki Gatam, Mitchel Mitchel, Karina Sylvana Gani, Erica Kholinne, Erica Kholinne

“…This technical note describes the steps involved in performing robotic assistance pedicle screw insertion in thoracolumbar spine surgery using the ExcelsiusGPS platform.MethodsThis paper outlines the surgical techniques and intraoperative workflow for pedicle screw placement using the ExcelsiusGPS system. …”
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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 one hand, photonics system can introduce artificially-constructed gain and loss to study non-Hermitian physics. Photonics platform is an important methods and ways to verify novel physical phenomena and promote the development of non-Hermitian physics. …”
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Study of Long-term Spectral Evolution and X-Ray and γ-Ray Correlation of Blazars Seen by HAWC by R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, A. Andrés, J.C. Arteaga-Velázquez, D. Avila Rojas, H.A. Ayala Solares, R. Babu, E. Belmont-Moreno, A. Bernal, K.S. Caballero-Mora, T. Capistrán, A. Carramiñana, F. Carreón, S. Casanova, U. Cotti, J. Cotzomi, S. Coutiño de León, E. De la Fuente, D. Depaoli, N. Di Lalla, R. Diaz Hernandez, B.L. Dingus, M.A. DuVernois, M. Durocher, J.C. Díaz-Vélez, K. Engel, C. Espinoza, K.L. Fan, N. Fraija, S. Fraija, J.A. García-González, F. Garfias, A. Gonzalez Muñoz, M.M. González, J.A. Goodman, S. Groetsch, J.P. Harding, S. Hernández-Cadena, I. Herzog, D. Huang, F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, A. Iriarte, V. Joshi, S. Kaufmann, D. Kieda, A. Lara, W.H. Lee, J. Lee, H. León Vargas, J.T. Linnemann, A.L. Longinotti, G. Luis-Raya, K. Malone, O. Martinez, I. Martinez-Castellanos, J. Martínez-Castro, J.A. Matthews, P. Miranda-Romagnoli, J.A. Montes, E. Moreno, M. Mostafá, A. Nayerhoda, L. Nellen, M.U. Nisa, R. Noriega-Papaqui, N. Omodei, M. Osorio, Y. Pérez Araujo, E.G. Pérez-Pérez, C.D. Rho, D. Rosa-González, E. Ruiz-Velasco, H. Salazar, D. Salazar-Gallegos, A. Sandoval, M. Schneider, J. Serna-Franco, A.J. Smith, Y. Son, R.W. Springer, O. Tibolla, K. Tollefson, I. Torres, R. Torres-Escobedo, R. Turner, F. Ureña-Mena, E. Varela, L. Villaseñor, X. Wang, I.J. Watson, K. Whitaker, E. Willox, S. Yun-Cárcamo, H. Zhou, C. de León, HAWC collaboration, Abraham D. Falcone, Fredric Hancock

“…The HAWC Observatory collected 6 yr of extensive data, providing an ideal platform for long-term monitoring of blazars in the very high energy (VHE) band, without bias toward specific flux states. …”
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Social media use is associated with body image concern in young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic by Marina de Sá Azevedo, Brenda Esper-Pereira, Larissa Vaz-Gonçalves, Raquel Machado Schincaglia, Marília Mendonça Guimarães, Karine Anusca Martins, Luciana Bronzi de Souza

“…Instagram (93.71%) was the most popular social media platform. An association between social media use and a greater chance of developing body image concerns was observed in the following outcomes (p<0.05): body comparison (OR:157.22), social media influence on perception/body relation (OR:56.31), influence to "cut out" foods considered "unhealthy" (OR:10.66), follow diets (OR:7.13), follow profiles of diet (OR:6.46), and felt motivated to change aspects of their body (OR:6.14). …”
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