Financial accountability mechanisms in local governments in Uganda: a case of Kabale District Local Government by Eton, Marus, Moses, Agaba, Abanis,Turyahebwa, Perpetua, Arinaitwe, Fabian, Mwosi, Bernard, Patrick Ogwel

“…Both simple random and purposive sampling techniques were used to select 117 respondents from 174 subjects. Questionnaires and personal interviews were used to collect data from respondents. …”
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Are bacterial communities and aggregation in fragile soils influenced by the management system? by Tiago Paula da Silva, Caio Simões dos Santos Nicolau, Carlos Wagner Ribeiro Junqueira, Gustavo Souza Lima Sant’Anna, Everaldo Zonta, Nivaldo Schultz, Irene da Silva Coelho, Marcos Gervasio Pereira

“…Two management systems (NT and CT) and three cover crops were evaluated: CJ: Crotalária (Crotalaria juncea (40 ​kg ​ha−1); M: Millet (Pennisetum glaucum - 60 ​kg ​ha−1); and C: Cocktail (Crotalária - Crotalaria juncea - 10 ​kg ​ha−1, Jack bean - Canavalia ensiformis - 75 ​kg ​ha−1, and Millet - Pennisetum glaucum - 30 ​kg ​ha−1). …”
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A 5-transcript signature for discriminating viral and bacterial etiology in pediatric pneumonia by Sandra Viz-Lasheras, Alberto Gómez-Carballa, Jacobo Pardo-Seco, Xabier Bello, Irene Rivero-Calle, Ana Isabel Dacosta, Myrsini Kaforou, Dominic Habgood-Coote, Aubrey J. Cunnington, Marieke Emonts, Jethro A. Herberg, Victoria J. Wright, Enitan D. Carrol, Stephane C. Paulus, Werner Zenz, Daniela S. Kohlfürst, Michiel Van der Flier, Ronald de Groot, Luregn J. Schlapbach, Philipp Agyeman, Andrew J. Pollard, Colin Fink, Taco T. Kuijpers, Suzanne Anderson, Cristina Calvo, María del Carmen Martínez-Padilla, Ana Pérez-Aragón, Esteban Gómez-Sánchez, Juan Valencia-Ramos, Francisco Giménez-Sánchez, Paula Alonso-Quintela, Laura Moreno-Galarraga, Ulrich von Both, Marko Pokorn, Dace Zavadska, María Tsolia, Clementien L. Vermont, Henriëtte A. Moll, Michael Levin, Federico Martinón-Torres, Antonio Salas

“…Initial validation using combined definitive and probable cases yielded an AUC of 0.87 [0.77–0.97], while full validation in a new prospective cohort of 32 patients achieved an AUC of 0.92 [0.83–1.00]. …”
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Intravenous versus subcutaneous tocilizumab in Takayasu arteritis: multicentre retrospective study by Patrice Cacoub, Arsène Mekinian, David Saadoun, Pavel I Novikov, Savino Sciascia, Corrado Campochiaro, Olivier Fain, Ilya Smitienko, Nicolas Schleinitz, Patrick Jégo, Francesco Muratore, Carlo Salvarani, Elena Galli, Sabine Berthier, Marc Lambert, François Maurier, Isabelle Kone-Paut, Sergey Moiseev, Masataka Kuwana, Alexandre Belot, Martin Michaud, Francis Gaches, Achille Aouba, Xavier Puechal, Karim Sacre, Tiphaine Goulenok, Alessandro Tomelleri, Thomas Sené, Elena Marina Baldissera, Luigi Boiardi, Abid Awisat, Ygal Benhamou, Vahan Mukuchyan, Mathieu Vautier, Azeddine Dellal, Lucie Biard, Julie Seguier, José Hernández-Rodríguez, Olivier Espitia, Sebastien Humbert, Guillaume Denis, Nolan Hassold, Dagna Lorenzo, Helene Munoz Pons, Jean Baptiste Gaultier, Le Mouel Edwige, Antoinette Perlat, Bertrand Lioger, Jonathan Broner, Virginie Dufrost, Faten Frikha, Alexandra Audemard-Verger, Pascal Woaye-Hune, Pierre Zeminsky, Moya Alvarado, Matheus Vieira, Alberto Lo Gullo

“…The factors associated with complete response to tocilizumab at 6 months in multivariate analysis, only age <30 years (OR 2.85, 95% CI 1.14 to 7.12; p=0.027) and time between TAK diagnosis and tocilizumab initiation (OR 1.18, 95% CI 1.02 to 1.36; p=0.034). …”
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Research Progress in Effect of Freezing Treatment on Gelation and Emulsification Properties of Soy Protein and Improvement of Its Freezing Stability by ZHU Xiuqing, SONG Yihan, GUO Ruqi, ZHU Ying, HUANG Yuyang, LIU Linlin

“…Freezing, as one of the effective ways to extend the storage period of products, is widely used in the food and medicine industries. However, freezing can cause changes in the secondary and tertiary structures of soy protein and further affect the functional properties of soy protein such as emulsification and gelation properties, limiting the application of soy protein in frozen foods. …”
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ВЛИЯНИЕ МОДИФИКАЦИИ ПОВЕРХНОСТИ УГЛЕРОДНЫХ ВОЛОКОН НА ФИЗИКО-МЕХАНИЧЕСКИЕ ХАРАКТЕРИСТИКИ УГЛЕПЛАСТИКОВ... by Сергей Валерьевич Морозов, Сергей Владимирович Ананьин

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Yield Responses of Black Spruce to Forest Vegetation Management Treatments: Initial Responses and Rotational Projections by Peter F. Newton

“…Lawrence and Canadian Boreal Forest Regions, the resultant mean effect size (response ratio) and associated 95% confidence interval for basal diameter, total height, stem volume, and survival responses, were respectively: 54.7% (95% confidence limits (lower/upper): 34.8/77.6), 27.3% (15.7/40.0), 198.7% (70.3/423.5), and 2.9% (−5.5/11.8). …”
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Impact of internal business communication on the employees commitment in tourist enterprises by Novaković-Božić Nataša, Perić Goran, Cogoljević Vladan

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Flexibilité alimentaire de bonobos en parc zoologique : consommation opportuniste d’espèces végétales autochtones et complément nutritionnel by Caroline Gérard, Flora Pennec, Jean-Pascal Guéry, Sarah Depauw, Geert Janssens, Mélissa Anne, Victor Narat, Bruno Simmen

“…The aim of this study was to characterize the opportunistic food consumption of a community of 17 bonobos housed at La Vallée des Singes (Romagne, France) with access to a 0.8-hectare outdoor enclosure covered of local vegetation, in order to study the nutritional and ecological determinants of this behavior. …”
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Length–weight relations and condition factors of several endemic and native fish species from Anatolian freshwater by Onay Hatice, Kurtul Irmak, Kaya Cüneyt, Turan Davut, Bayçelebi Esra

“…This study addresses gaps in LWR and CF information for a number of ecologically important freshwater fish species. …”
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Corneal Astigmatism Alteration after Combined Silicone Oil Removal and Cataract Surgery with Intraocular Lens Implantation by Zhenyu Ji, Ting Su, Lu Li, Tao He, Yu Su

“…Meanwhile, IOP decreased significantly at 3 days postoperatively (P<0.001), 1 week (P=0.005), and 1 month (P=0.007). Similarly, axial length decreased at all follow-up time points (all P<0.001). …”
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Heavy metals in sediments and fishery catches from the Beibu Gulf, China: Bioaccumulation, potential risks, and human by Zhao Shuwen, Huang Liangliang, Wang Caiguang, Yang Yiheng, Yang Xi

“…In this study, 3 species of fishey catches (Pennahia macrocephalus, Saurida tumbil, and Upeneus sulphureus) and sediments were collected from the Beibu Gulf to identify the residual levels, human health risk, and ecological risk of HMs (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg, Mn, Ni, Pb, and Zn). The average concentrations (dry weight) of As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb, and Zn in the three species of fish were recorded as follows: 10.94, 0.11, 0.55, 2.00, 5.80, 0.47, 0.39, and 41.70 mg/kg, respectively. …”
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Dog Bite Injuries: Primary and Secondary Emergency Department Presentations—A Retrospective Cohort Study by Carmen A. Pfortmueller, Anastasios Efeoglou, Hansjakob Furrer, Aristomenis K. Exadaktylos

“…Thirty-one patients had already been treated with antibiotic; coamoxicillin was the most common primary antibiotic therapy (27/47 patients, 57.4%). Patients with injuries to the hand were at increased risk of secondary presentations (OR 2.08, 95% CI 1.21–3.55, P<0.006). …”
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Research Hotspot and Trend Analysis of Earth-Rockfill Dam Stability Based on Knowledge Map by WANG Luoxi, HAN Peifeng, LI Yan'ang, YANG Guocheng, QIU Hongzhi

“…In order to quantitatively and visually analyze the research hotspots and trends of Chinese and foreign scholars on the instability of earth-rockfill dam, CiteSpace was used to analyze 1 197 papers on the stability of earth-rockfill dam in CNKI and Web of Science in the past 15 years from 2009 to 2023, and the research dynamics of the field in the past 15 years were comprehensively and visually analyzed according to the author groups, research institutions, and keyword clustering. …”
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Quantitative Influence Analysis of the Development Scale of Market Economy on the Level of Music Innovation by Yang Li, Qiuyi Zhang, Tianzhuo Gong

“…The error is reduced by 0.27%. For the prediction of innovative forms of music, the largest prediction error is only 2.93%, which is closely related to the variability of popular music. …”
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Vehicle Detection for Vision-Based Intelligent Transportation Systems Using Convolutional Neural Network Algorithm by Othman O. Khalifa, Muhammad H. Wajdi, Rashid A. Saeed, Aisha H. A. Hashim, Muhammed Z. Ahmed, Elmustafa Sayed Ali

“…Results from the simulated and evaluated algorithm showed that the proposed model was able to achieve a mAP of 97.8 in the daytime dataset and 95.1 in the nighttime dataset.…”
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مروری بر مواد رنگزای آلی بر پایه ایندولین برای استفاده در ابزارهای اپتوالکترونیک by مژگان حسین نژاد

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COMPUTER ANALYSIS OF DATA ON GENE EXPRESSION IN BRAIN CELLS OBTAINED BY MICROARRAY TESTS AND HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING by I. V. Medvedeva, O. V. Vishnevsky, N. S. Safronova, O. S. Kozhevnikova, M. A. Genaev, A. V. Kochetov, D. A. Afonnikov, Y. L. Orlov

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Factor structure of the Jefferson Scale for Empathy among medical undergraduates from South India by Samir Kumar Praharaj, Santosh Salagre, Podila Sathya Venkata Narasimha Sharma

“…Methods: This was a secondary analysis of baseline data obtained from the Stigma, Empathy and Attitude module study among medical undergraduates (N = 157). The scores obtained on the 20-item JSE Medical Student Version were subjected to principal component analysis with varimax rotation. …”
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Explorando la relación entre los métodos de diseño lean y la reducción de residuos de construcción y demolición: tres estudios de caso de proyectos hospitalarios en California... by Burcu Salgin, Paz Arroyo, Glenn Ballard

“…Estos tres casos demostraron que la reducción de residuos de construcción y demolición (por ej., reciclar desperdicios de la construcción, reducir el uso de materiales y promover la recuperación después del uso) se puede lograr indirectamente a través de la reducción del desperdicio económico. …”
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