Financial Accountability and Service Delivery In Kabale District Uganda. by Biryomumisho, Fadison, Turyasingura, John Bosco, Agaba, Moses, Kabagambe, Jess Davi

“…The predictor variables under study were funds disbursement, auditing process, and record-keeping systems, while service delivery was the outcome variable. …”
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Effect of Catalytic Cylinders on Autothermal Reforming of Methane for Hydrogen Production in a Microchamber Reactor by Yunfei Yan, Hongliang Guo, Li Zhang, Junchen Zhu, Zhongqing Yang, Qiang Tang, Xin Ji

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TAS Scheduling With Grouping Flows by Hironao Abe, Yuhei Kawakami, Hideo Kawata, Takashi Nakanishi, Tomoaki Yoshida

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Metabolic Dysfunction in the Regulation of the NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation: A Potential Target for Diabetic Nephropathy by Wenli Zhao, Le Zhou, Petr Novák, Xian Shi, Chuang Biao Lin, Xiao Zhu, Kai Yin

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Network properties of the global waste trade by Filippos K. Zisopoulos, Brian D. Fath, Xin Tong, Martin de Jong

“…Focus was given on the distribution of monetary and material flows, on policy recommendations, and on future research avenues which we think are relevant for obtaining a more comprehensive understanding of socio-economic systems such as trade networks. This work provides a solid example of the application of network-based methods as an eco-mimicry approach for assessing the sustainability and fragility of socio-economic systems which can be of relevance to researchers and policy makers interested on transitions towards regenerative circular economies.…”
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Amplitude Death in Extended Time-Delay Coupled Oscillator Networks by Shinsuke Mizukami, Keiji Konishi, Koki Yoshida, Yoshiki Sugitani, Naoyuki Hara

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Enhanced Carrier Injection Across S/D Contacts in Selenium-Based TMD FETs Using KI and Metal Induced Gap-States Engineering by Kuruva Hemanjaneyulu, Jeevesh Kumar, Utpreksh Patbhaje, Mayank Shrivastava

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Multi-order optical spatial vortex filters for simultaneous contour extraction of various parts of an object by S.N. Khonina, A.P. Porfirev, P.A. Khorin, A.P. Dzyuba, D.P. Serafimovich, R.V. Skidanov

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Large Scale Near-Duplicate Celebrity Web Images Retrieval Using Visual and Textual Features by Fengcai Qiao, Cheng Wang, Xin Zhang, Hui Wang

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A Hybrid Lumped Parameters/Finite Element/Boundary Element Model to Predict the Vibroacoustic Characteristics of an Axial Piston Pump by Shaogan Ye, Junhui Zhang, Bing Xu, Wei Song, Shiqiang Zhu

“…The presented approach can be extended to other types of fluid power components and contributes to the development of quieter fluid power systems.…”
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Fabrication of GaN vertical junction barrier Schottky diode by Mg diffusion from shallow N/Mg ion-implantation segment by Woong Kwon, Yuta Itoh, Atsushi Tanaka, Hirotaka Watanabe, Yoshio Honda, Hiroshi Amano

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Dynamically induced spatial segregation in multispecies bacterial bioconvection by Oscar Gallardo-Navarro, Rinat Arbel-Goren, Elias August, Gabriela Olmedo-Alvarez, Joel Stavans

“…Despite significant advances in understanding the behavior of homogeneous systems, little is known about the self-organization and dynamics of heterogeneous active matter, such as complex and diverse bacterial communities. …”
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Towards understanding the character of quality sampling in deep learning face recognition by Iurii Medvedev, João Tremoço, Beatriz Mano, Luís Espírito Santo, Nuno Gonçalves

“…Such inconsistency between the training data and deploy scenario may lead to a leak in performance in biometric systems, which are developed specifically for dealing with ID document compliant images. …”
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Augmenting flexibility: mutual inhibition between inhibitory neurons expands functional diversity by Belle Liu, Alexander James White, Chung-Chuan Lo

“…Summary: Recent advances in microcircuit analysis of nervous systems have revealed a plethora of mutual connections between inhibitory interneurons across many different species and brain regions. …”
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A machine-learning-based hardware-Trojan detection approach for chips in the Internet of Things by Chen Dong, Jinghui Chen, Wenzhong Guo, Jian Zou

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Isolation and Thermal Stabilization of Bacteriocin Nisin Derived from Whey for Antimicrobial Modifications of Polymers by Pavlina Holcapkova, Zuzana Kolarova Raskova, Martina Hrabalikova, Alexandra Salakova, Jan Drbohlav, Vladimir Sedlarik

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Histopathology and proteomics are synergistic for high-grade serous ovarian cancer platinum response prediction by Oz Kilim, Alex Olar, András Biricz, Lilla Madaras, Péter Pollner, Zoltán Szállási, Zsofia Sztupinszki, István Csabai

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Coplanar Waveguide Fed Compact Wide Circular-Slotted Antenna for Wi-Fi/WiMAX Applications by M. Samsuzzaman, T. Islam, N. H. Abd Rahman, M. R. I. Faruque, J. S. Mandeep

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Genome-Wide Analysis, Characterization, and Expression Profile of the Basic Leucine Zipper Transcription Factor Family in Pineapple by Yanhui Liu, Mengnan Chai, Man Zhang, Qing He, Zhenxia Su, S. V. G. N. Priyadarshani, Liping Liu, Guanxi Dong, Yuan Qin

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HIGH-PERFORMANCE SIMULATIONS OF POPULATION-GENETIC PROCESSES IN BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES USING THE HAPLOID EVOLUTIONARY CONSTRUCTOR SOFTWARE by Z. S. Mustafin, Yu. G. Matushkin, S. A. Lashin

“…These high-performance versions are to be run on systems with shared and distributed memory, using CPU and/or GPU. …”
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