Cost and Management Accounting Practices, ICT Usage and Performance of Secondary Schools in Uganda: A Case of South Western Uganda by Abanis, Turyahebwa, Natwijuka, Crispus, Sunday, Arthur, Byamukama, Eliab Mpora

“…Without steadfast cost and management systems to guarantee stable financial performance, the secondary schools must, as any other enterprise throughout the world, become financially autonomous, their survival is in doubt.…”
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Types of Road Traffic Accidents and Emergency Medical Care by Basri Lenjani, Agron Dogjani, Luljeta Abdullahu, Arlind Zeqiri, Dardan Lenjani, Bujar Imeri

“…Conclusions: Triage is essential in managing accidental situations and strengthening the primary, secondary, and tertiary health systems. To design clinical guidelines, algorithms, and triage protocols at the three levels of health care, all healthcare professionals should be educated and trained with continuing courses in triage, communication, and Basic Life Support -AED, ACLS, PHTLS, BTLS, and ATLS. …”
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Neuroendocrine Alterations in Obese Patients with Sleep Apnea Syndrome by Fabio Lanfranco, Giovanna Motta, Marco Alessandro Minetto, Matteo Baldi, Marcella Balbo, Ezio Ghigo, Emanuela Arvat, Mauro Maccario

“…Altogether, hormonal abnormalities may be considered as adaptive changes which indicate how a local upper airway dysfunction induces systemic consequences. The understanding of the complex interactions between hormones and OSAS may allow a multi-disciplinary approach to obese patients with this disturbance and lead to an effective management that improves quality of life and prevents associated morbidity or death.…”
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Dual-Functional Additives Boost Zinc-Ion Battery Electrolyte over Wide Temperature Range by Zhiqiang Dai, Rungroj Chanajaree, Chengwu Yang, Xueqing Zhang, Manunya Okhawilai, Prasit Pattananuwat, Xinyu Zhang, Guanjie He, Jiaqian Qin

“…Traditional aqueous electrolyte systems in zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) often face challenges such as sluggish ion transfer kinetics, dendrite formation, and sudden battery failures in harsh temperature environments. …”
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Multi-Component Temporal-Correlation Seismic Data Compression Algorithm Based on the PCA and DWT by Mateus Martinez de Lucena, Josafat Leal Ribeiro, Matheus Wagner, Antônio Augusto Fröhlich

“…Industrial application data acquisition systems can be sources of vast amounts of data. The seismic surveys conducted by oil and gas companies result in enormous datasets, often exceeding terabytes of data. …”
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CONUS+ Experiment by N. Ackermann, S. Armbruster, H. Bonet, C. Buck, K. Fülber, J. Hakenmüller, J. Hempfling, G. Heusser, M. Lindner, W. Maneschg, K. Ni, M. Rank, T. Rink, E. Sánchez García, I. Stalder, H. Strecker, R. Wink, J. Woenckhaus, CONUS Collaboration

“…New data acquisition and monitoring systems were developed. A direct network connection between the experiment and the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK) makes it possible to control and monitor data acquisition in real time. …”
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Analysis of Choroidal Vascularity Index in Keratoconus Patients Using Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography-Based Binarization Techniques by Rosa Gutierrez-Bonet, Jorge Ruiz-Medrano, Marc Biarnés, Mohammed Abdul Rasheed, Kiran Kumar Vupparaboina, Jay Chhablani, José M. Ruiz-Moreno

“…Inclusion criteria were topographic diagnosis of KC using Pentacam, axial length shorter than 26 mm, good quality of the images, and no other systemic or ocular diseases. A 12 mm horizontal single-line SS-OCT b-scan was performed to create a choroidal thickness (CT) profile. …”
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Lipoic acid-boronophenylalanine-derived multifunctional vesicles for cancer chemoradiotherapy by Liqun Dai, Jie Liu, Tingyu Yang, Xiaorui Yu, Yi Lu, Lili Pan, Siming Zhou, Diyun Shu, Yuanhao Liu, Wuyu Mao, Zhiyong Qian

“…Abstract Cancer remains a major health challenge, with the effectiveness of chemotherapy often limited by its lack of specificity and systemic toxicity. Nanotechnology, particularly in targeted drug delivery, has emerged as a key innovation to address these limitations. …”
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Adrenocorticotropic Hormone Secreting Pheochromocytoma Underlying Glucocorticoid Induced Pheochromocytoma Crisis by Gil A. Geva, David J. Gross, Haggi Mazeh, Karine Atlan, Iddo Z. Ben-Dov, Matan Fischer

“…Pheochromocytoma crisis is a life threatening event in which high levels of catecholamines cause a systemic reaction leading to organ failure. Case Description. …”
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sAMDGCN: sLSTM-Attention-Based Multi-Head Dynamic Graph Convolutional Network for Traffic Flow Forecasting by Shiyuan Zhang, Yanni Ju, Weishan Kong, Hong Qu, Liwei Huang

“…Accurate traffic flow prediction plays a vital role in intelligent transportation systems, helping traffic management departments maintain stable traffic order, reduce traffic congestion, and improve road safety. …”
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Evaluating the Cause of Death in Obese Individuals: A Ten-Year Medical Autopsy Study by Jad Saab, Steven P. Salvatore

“…The primary cause of death in each group was categorized into malignancy, infection, stroke, ischemic and nonischemic heart disease, pulmonary embolism, hemorrhage, and primary nonneoplastic diseases of different organ systems. Results. Of 849 autopsies, 32.3% were obese. …”
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Clone-Specific Response in Leaf Nitrate Reductase Activity among Unrelated Hybrid Poplars in relation to Soil Nitrate Availability by Julien Fortier, Benoit Truax, France Lambert, Daniel Gagnon, Normand Chevrier

“…We also examined if leaf NRA of these clones is influenced to the same extent by different levels of soil NO3- availability in two riparian agroforestry systems located in pastures. Leaf NRA differences of more than one order of magnitude were observed between the clones, clearly showing their different abilities to reduce NO3- in leaves. …”
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The Role of Pentacyclic Triterpenoids in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: The Mechanisms of Action and Therapeutic Potential by Young-Shin Lee, Ryuk Jun Kwon, Hye Sun Lee, Jae Heun Chung, Yun Seong Kim, Han-Sol Jeong, Su-Jung Park, Seung Yeon Lee, Taehwa Kim, Seong Hoon Yoon

“…Furthermore, advances in drug delivery technologies such as nanocarriers and targeted delivery systems have improved the bioavailability and therapeutic efficacy of triterpenoids. …”
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Freeze-Drying Microencapsulation of <i>Ruellia tuberosa</i> L. Extracts: A Comparative Study Using Different Polymers as Encapsulants by Firza Rajasa Gunawan, Siti Mariyah Ulfa, Anna Safitri

“…Therefore, freeze-drying microencapsulation with biodegradable polymers is a viable method for delivering the health benefits of R. tuberosa L. extracts, yielding a convenient powder form suitable for drug delivery systems.…”
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Three Vessel Coronary Cameral Fistulae Associated with New Onset Atrial Fibrillation and Angina Pectoris by Murat Yuksel, Abdulkadir Yildiz, Mustafa Oylumlu, Nihat Polat, Halit Acet, Necdet Ozaydogdu

“…Coronary angiography revealed diffuse and multiple coronary-left ventricle fistulas originating from the distal segments of both left and right coronary arterial systems without any stenosis in epicardial coronary arteries. …”
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Daratumumab treatment for kidney-involved light chain deposition disease prevents renal function progression: a case report with 3 years of follow-up and review of the literature by Xueying Chen, Jie Sun, Pingyan Shen, Zijin Chen, Wen Zhang

“…It can affect various systems throughout the body, mainly the kidneys. Symptoms may include renal insufficiency, proteinuria, hematuria, and others. …”
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Clinicopathological Features of Cutaneous Findings of SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Bengu COBANOGLU, Filiz CEBECI, Mustafa SIMSEK, Seyma OZKANLI

“…Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) can affect different organ systems, including the skin. Recently, COVID-19 cases with skin lesions of different clinicopathological features have been published. …”
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Review on recent advancements in the role of electrolytes and electrode materials on supercapacitor performances by Ashutosh Patel, Suresh Kumar Patel, R. S. Singh, R. P. Patel

“…Abstract Supercapacitors currently hold a prominent position in energy storage systems due to their exceptionally high power density, although they fall behind batteries and fuel cells in terms of energy density. …”
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Artificial intelligence, media and journalism: Between a good servant and a bad master by Tomić Boban, Bajić Predrag Đ.

“…However, it is crucial to always keep in mind that behind everything is human input, meaning that artificial intelligence is not the creator o f something entirely new but a processor based on available data and information previously stored by humans in online systems, emphasizing the ongoing essential role o f humans in these processes. …”
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Efficient Moving Object Segmentation in LiDAR Point Clouds Using Minimal Number of Sweeps by Zoltan Rozsa, Akos Madaras, Tamas Sziranyi

“…LiDAR point clouds are a rich source of information for autonomous vehicles and ADAS systems. However, they can be challenging to segment for moving objects as - among other things - finding correspondences between sparse point clouds of consecutive frames is difficult. …”
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