TAX ADMINISTRATION STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE OF STATE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICES IN SOUTH-WEST NIGERIA by Mubaraq Sanni, Samuel Kayode Adekunle, Abdul Garba

“…To achieve this objective, quantitative method was employed to obtain survey data from randomly selected 382 revenue officers out of the total population of 8,734 staff of state internal revenue services in South-West Nigeria. …”
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Health Communication and Behavioural Practice towards Ending Hepatitis B Virus in Southwest Nigeria by Evaristus Adesina, Davies Adeloye, Hezekiah Falola, Babatunde Adeyeye, Darlynton Yartey, Tolulope Kayode-Adedeji

“…Data were gathered through a survey from a total of 600 respondents of Southwest Nigeria randomly selected through the multistage sampling technique. …”
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Biomedical Waste Management: A Study on the Awareness and Practice among Dental Healthcare Workers in India by Ankit Mahajan, Madhura Pawar, Amol Namdeorao Patil, Sumitra Behera, Samarjeet J. Pattnaik, Jagadish Prasad Rajguru

“…Materials and Methods: This randomized cross-sectional study was carried out on a total of 450 dental undergraduate students after obtaining the institutional ethical committee clearance. …”
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A Multi-ingredient Supplement Reduced Markers of Muscle Damage after a Rugby Match in Collegiate Male Players by Chang-Li Hsueh, Wang-Shiang Huang, Chen-Kang Chang

“…A position-matched, double-blind, randomized, and crossover design was employed in this study. …”
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Effect of Central Pattern Generators Depended Different Walking Strategies on Gait Ability of Patients after Stroke by Hua WU, Zaihua RU, Congying XU, Xudong GU, Jianming FU

“…Objective:To investigate the effects of central pattern generators (CPG) based different walking strategies on gait ability and the fMRI appearance of patients after stroke, make sure that the effective connection in which CPG based different walking strategies could promote neural network recovery, and optimize the intervention strategies of gait reconstruction for stroke patients.Methods:Twenty stroke hemiplegic patients were randomized into the treatment group and the control group, ten patients for each group. …”
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A Characteristics of Milk Caramel Candy with the Addition of Stevia (Stevia Rebaudiana Bertoni) Extract Leaf Powder by Yola Andriani, Daimon Syukri, Rini Rini

“…This study used a completely randomized design (CRD) with 5 treatments and 3 replications. …”
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IPV Screening and Readiness to Respond to IPV in Ob-Gyn Settings: A Patient-Physician Study by Katherine M. Jones, Laura H. Taouk, Neko M. Castleberry, Michele M. Carter, Jay Schulkin

“…Methods. 400 ob-gyns were randomly selected from American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ (ACOG) Collaborative Ambulatory Research Network. …”
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Reading comprehension beliefs of Mexican pre-service language teachers: a Likert scale study by Moisés Damián Perales-Escudero, Mizael Garduño Buenfil, Vilma Esperanza Portillo Campos

“… This paper aims to report the adaptation of a new version of the Scale of Implicit Theories of Reading Comprehension (ETICOLEC as per its Spanish acronym) with a sample of 77 randomly chosen English majors at a peripheral campus of a small university in the Southeast of Mexico. …”
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Human Placental Mesenchymal Stem Cells for the Treatment of ARDS in Rat by Zurab Kakabadze, Nicholas Kipshidze, Teona Paresishvili, Nodar Kipshidze, Zurab Vadachkoria, David Chakhunashvili

“…All animals have received intratracheal injection of 6 mg/kg of lipopolysaccharide (LPS). The rats were randomly divided into five groups: I: LPS, II: LPS+dexamethasone, III: LPS+HPMSCs, IV: HPMSC, and V: saline. …”
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Exponential Stability and ℒ₁-Gain Performance for Positive Sampled-Data Control Systems by Ping Zhao, Ben Niu

“…Subsequently, combined with <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mi mathvariant="script">L</mi><mn>1</mn></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula>-gain theory, we propose a sufficient condition for PMJSs with a prescribed <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mi mathvariant="script">L</mi><mn>1</mn></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula>-gain performance level, which ensures the robustness and satisfaction of performance indicators of the system in a randomly switching environment. From the sufficient conditions we have given, we can indeed see the effect of the sampling period on the system performance. …”
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Validity and Reliability of the Thai Version of the Gait Assessment and Intervention Tool (G.A.I.T.) by Jittima Saengsuwan, Patpiya Sirasaporn

“…Interrater reliability was assessed using videos of 68 patients analysed by two independent raters. Each rater was randomly assigned to rescore the Thai G.A.I.T. for each patient over at least two weeks to assess intrarater reliability. …”
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The Analysis of Spatial Pattern and Hotspots of Aviation Accident and Ranking the Potential Risk Airports Based on GIS Platform by Yafei Li, Chen Liang

“…However, aviation accident severity index was randomly distributed for each year separately. At the level of significance of 0.01, there were a total of 75 accident hotspots in the Florida region, mainly in the north and southwest. …”
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A network dynamic nomogram for predicting overall survival and cancer-specific survival in patients with breast cancer liver metastases: an analysis based on the SEER database by Mengxiang Tian, Kangtao Wang, Ming Li

“…After meticulously filtering out cases with incomplete data, a total of 3179 patients were enrolled and randomly divided into training and validation cohorts at a ratio of 2:1. …”
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Leaf-Methanolic Extract of Pseudopanax arboreus (Araliaceae) (L. F. Phillipson) Reverses Amitriptyline-Induced Sexual Dysfunction in Male Rats by Egbe B. Besong, G. Ateufack, Smith B. Babiaka, Albert Kamanyi

“…Sexually impaired male rats were randomly divided into 4 groups of 8 rats each. Group 1 received 10 ml/kg distilled water, while group 2 was given 6 mg/kg Viagra. …”
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Application of formative evaluation system of Mini-CEX and DOPS in clinical internship teaching in periodontology by GENG Ying, LI Lu, WANG Xiaoqian, CHEN Xu, ZHOU Yi, SUN Ying, XU Yan

“…Methods Fifty-six undergraduates, who were interning in the Department of Periodontics, were selected and randomly divided into the control group and the teaching reform group. …”
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Effects of aerobic and resistance training on walking and balance abilities in older adults with Parkinson's disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Huishan Song, Sheng Ge, Ji Li, Chendao Jiao, Linghua Ran

“…<h4>Result</h4>Research from 15 randomized controlled trials, comprising 792 older patients with a diagnosis of PD, was included in the analysis. …”
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The Anti-Cytokine Storm Activity of Quercetin Zinc and Vitamin C Complex by Hayder B. Sahib, Omer Abid Kathum, Rafal Shakeeb Alanee, Rehab A. M Jawad, Ahmed Majeed Al-Shammari

“…This study aimed at evaluating the prophylaxis effect of quercetin complexes with zinc and buffered ascorbic acid upon cytokine storm induction in mice and identifying the complex’s acute toxicity. Mice were randomly divided into three groups: group A, control group, received 0.9% normal saline; group B received 100 mg/kg of the complex one hour before lipopolysaccharide (LPS) administration; and group C received the LPS IP 5 mg/kg. …”
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Ethnographic Study of Perspective and Attitude of Breastfeeding Mothers Towards the use of Elaeis Guineensis Sap As Galactagogue Among Igbo Women of Southeastern Nigeria by Okamkpa Jude Chikezie, Anibeze Ikechukwu Chike, Ozor Ikemefuna Ignatius, Ikenna Kingsely Ndu, Uchenna Anthony Umeh

“…CONCLUSION: The use of Elaeis guineensis sap by mothers following parturition is common in south-eastern Nigeria. However, randomized control studies are needed to provide evidence for the efficacy and safety of this plant product. …”
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Bonding Effectiveness of Two Adhesive Luting Cements to Glass Fiber Posts: Pull-Out Evaluation of Three Different Post Surface Conditioning Methods by Lorenzo Graiff, Laura Rasera, Marco Calabrese, Paolo Vigolo

“…Sixty glass fiber posts (RelyX Fiber Post) were randomly divided into 3 groups (n=20) and were luted with a dual-polymerizing self-adhesive universal resin cement (RelyX Unicem) and with a dual-polymerizing resin cement (RelyX ARC). …”
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The effects of vibration frequency variation on volleyball players’ drop jump ability and postural control performance by Deniz Sımsek, Hayri Ertan, Izzet Kırkaya

“…The aim of the performed study is to present the acute effect of the whole body vibration (WBV) stimuli on drop jump (DJ) and postural control performance. 13 athletes who play in Turkish Women Volleyball Second League voluntarily attended to the study (22.3±2.6 age; 60.72kg ±1.74kg; 1.79cm±6.4cm). Athletes were randomly divided into three groups (group 1: n=4: 30Hz; group 2: n=5: 35; group 3: n=4: 40Hz). …”
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