EXCLUSION OF CONTRACTORS IN CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS: AN UNREVEALED RISK IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY by Geraldine J. KIKWASI

“…A selfadministered questionnaire, interviews, document reviews and literature review were used to collect data from randomly and purposely selected respondents. Quantitative data were analyzed by Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) through descriptive statistics mainly frequencies and descriptive, and Relative Frequency Index (RFI). …”
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Mineralization Rates of Soil Forms of Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium as Affected by Organomineral Fertilizer in Sandy Loam by Ayeni Leye Samuel, Adeleye Omotayo Ebenezer

“…The treatments were replicated three times and arranged in a completely randomized design. The determined forms of N were total N, NH4–N, and NO3–N; the forms of P were total P, solution P, and available P while the forms of K were total K, solution K, and exchangeable K. …”
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Problems Faced by Tribes in Collection and Marketing of Tendu (Diospyros melanoxylon Roxb.) Fruit in Jhalawar District of Rajasthan by Shirish Sharma, Sourabh Dadhich

“…From each selected block 50 respondents were selected randomly thus making total sample size to 150. The result of the study show that the marketing pattern of respondents shows that the weekly market was respondents’ first choice. …”
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In vivo regeneration efficiency of enset (Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman) as affected by age of parent plant and corm proportion by Fikadu Bora, Bewuketu Haile

“…This study was conducted using corms in the range of 12–18, 20–28, 29–38, and 40–50 cm diameter, corresponding to four age classes (1, 2, 3 & 4 years old) and three corm treatments (whole, half and quarter) were arranged in 3 × 4 factorial combination and layout in randomized complete block design with three replications. …”
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Pulmonary sarcoidosis by Deepak Talwar, Dhruv Talwar, Hariharan Iyer

“…This is due to a lack of randomized controlled trials as well as a dissimilar natural course of the disease among patients with a similar clinicoradiological presentations. …”
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Efficacy of neem and basil leaf extracts in controlling whitefly (Bemisia Tabaci) infestations and enhancing yield in curly red chili peppers (Capsicum annuum L.) by Moses Graciano Diputra, Andree Wijaya Setiawan

“…This study evaluated the efficacy of neem and basil leaf extracts at three different concentrations for controlling whitefly infestations on chili plants. A randomized complete block design (RCBD) was employed with 8 treatments and 2 controls: PA (Neem 1%), PB (Neem 2%), PC (Neem 3%), PD (Basil 1%), PE (Basil 2%), PF (Basil 3%), PKM (commercial pesticide as positive control), and P0 (distilled water as negative control). …”
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Epidural Dexamethasone for Postoperative Analgesia in Patients Undergoing Unilateral Inguinal Herniorrhaphy: A Comparative Study by M. R. Razavizadeh, MR. Fazel, N. Heydarian, F. Atoof

“…Forty-four patients were enrolled in this double-blind, clinical trial study. Patients were randomly allocated into dexamethasone or control group. …”
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The effects of sprint interval training and detraining on aerobic fitness in young adults by Zubeyde Aslankeser, Cebrail Altinsoy

“…The subjects (n=26) completed the baseline measurements of the 20-m shuttle run test and then were randomized as training and control groups. The control group continued their daily routine and the training group ran SIT for 4 weeks. …”
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Monitoring the Number of Pedestrians in an Area: The Applicability of Counting Systems for Density State Estimation by D. C. Duives, W. Daamen, S. P. Hoogendoorn

“…This paper studies the impact of one specific type of detection error on the functionality of counting camera systems for density state estimation, namely, a randomly occurring “false negative” detection error. …”
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Effects of single dose of beta alanine on performance in weight lifters by Gaurav Shorı, Ravinder Bachal

“…The aim of present study is to see the effects of single dose of beta alanine on performance in weight lifters. 20 male weight lifters (age 23.95±1.23 years) were selected based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. Subjects were randomly divided into two groups. After pretest measurements, group A (n=10) ingested beta alanine beverage and group B (n=10) consumed placebo drink (glucon D plain). …”
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Comparison Of Epidural Analgesia Vs Intraoperative Peri-Articular Injection For Pain Management Following Total Knee Arthroplasty by Rahman Rasool Akhtar, Riaz Ahmed, Waqas Ali, Hira Waris

“… Objective: To compare epidural analgesia vs intraoperative peri-articular injection for pain management following Total Knee Arthroplasty. Method: This randomized controlled trial was conducted on 54 patients undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty and divided into two groups equally, group A received epidural analgesia while group B received peri-articular injection. …”
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Effect of Mild Hypothermia after Craniotomy on the Function of Related Organs in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury by Shu Cai, Zheng Lu

“…A total of 240 patients with craniocerebral injury from January 2017 to December 2020 were retrospectively analyzed. Patients were randomly divided into a control group and an experimental group, with 120 cases in each group. …”
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Effect of Preoperative Intravitreal Bevacizumab on the Surgical Outcome of Neovascular Glaucoma at Different Stages by Junki Kwon, Kyung Rim Sung

“…Further prospective randomized studies controlling the extent of PAS are warranted.…”
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Treatment of Functional Dyspepsia in Outpatients after COVID-19 Infection by M. S. Turchina, Yu. M. Morozov, T. I. Obolenskaya

“…All patients were divided in 2 groups by randomization: Group 1 received omeprazole at a dose of 80 mg/day, Group 2 received a combination of omeprazole and Kolofort® (a combined action drug product containing technologically processed antibodies to S100, TNF-alpha, and histamine) at a dose of 80 mg/day. …”
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Effect of Knee Arthritis Therapeutic Apparatus on Structure and NF-κB Inflammatory Pathway in Articular Cartilage of Rabbits with Knee Osteoarthritis by Guangwen WU, Jun CHEN, Caibin PAN, Mingxia WU

“…Objective:To observe the effect of knee arthritis therapeutic apparatus (KATA) on the morphosis of articular cartilage and NF-κB inflammatory pathway in rabbits with knee osteoarthritis (KOA).Methods:24 New Zealand White rabbits were randomly divided into normal group, model group and experiment group, and each group had eight rabbits. …”
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Study of a Pathological E-Learning via Content Analysis on the Campus of the University of Tehran by Fatemeh Bahrami, Ali Rashidi

“…This research was conducted using a qualitative method by conducting semi-structured interviews with 8 randomly selected virtual students of the University of Tehran. …”
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Pathogenesis and Rehabilitation Therapy of Sleep Disorder after Stroke by HAN Xu, XIE Hongyu, TANG Xinwei, WU Yi

“…In addition, more high-quality, large-sample, multicenter clinical randomized controlled trials are needed to provide references for the rehabilitation treatment of post-stroke sleep disorder.…”
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Evaluation of Effectiveness of Vitamins C and E on Prevention of Renal Scar due to Pyelonephritis in Rat by Fatemeh Emamghorashi, Seyed Mohamad Owji, Mohammad Motamedifar

“…The rats were arranged randomly in 3 groups of 20 rats each. Rats in groups 1 and 2 were given once-daily intraperitoneal injections of gentamicin for ten consecutive days, beginning on the third day after inoculation. …”
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Telediagnosis of Transbronchial Fine Needle Aspirations – A Feasibility Study by K. Kayser, G. Kayser, H. D. Becker, F. Herth

“…Material and Methods: A double blind study was performed on cytological slides of 54 randomly selected cases with transbronchial fine needle aspirations. …”
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Rapid preparation of bioactive composites for transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion by Baozhi Ding, Xin Wang, Changqing Zhao, Jie Zhao

“…To solve this problem, the bone mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) screen-enrich-combine circulating system (SECCS) was created to rapidly enrich stem cells and combined with β-tricalcium phosphate (β-TCP) to immediately produce bioactive MSCs/β-TCP composites. 37 patients who underwent transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) surgery were included in this study and randomly divided into two groups. One group uses laminal bone grafts (LBG) for intervertebral fusion, and another group uses MSCs/β-TCP composites. …”
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