Paediatric one-day admission: why and is it necessary? by Jing Zhan Lock, Zi Xean Khoo, Jen Heng Pek

“…An unnecessary admission was defined as one with no diagnostic test ordered, intravenous medication administered, therapeutic procedure performed or specialty review made in the inpatient unit. Data were captured in a standardised form and analysed. Results: There were 13,944 paediatric attendances — 1,160 (8.3%) paediatric patients were admitted. …”
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Assessment of bias correction methods for high resolution daily precipitation projections with CMIP6 models: A Canadian case study by Xinyi Li, Zhong Li

“…QDM and SDM substantially enhance the performance of individual GCMs, which reduces RMSE by 26 % and 21 %, and shows satisfactory skill in capturing seasonal cycle and spatial variability as well as reproducing probability distribution of daily series and extreme events. …”
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Positividad y negatividad: una comparación entre Byung Chul Han y René Girard by Gustavo Adolfo Sanabria Galvis

“…Ambas perspectivas, negativa y positiva del deseo, ofrecen una comprensión profunda de las dinámicas sociales y psicológicas actuales. …”
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Numerical Investigation on Head and Brain Injuries Caused by Windshield Impact on Riders Using Electric Self-Balancing Scooters by Shi Shang, Yanting Zheng, Ming Shen, Xianfeng Yang, Jun Xu

“…Impact kinematic postures of the head-windshield contact under various impact conditions are captured. Then, the processes during head-windshield contact are reconstructed using validated FE head/laminated windshield models to assess the severity of brain injury caused by the head-windshield contact. …”
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Planning for the Pandemic by Joanne Embree

“…One major difficulty is that we do not actually know how soon, if at all, the pandemic will occur. …”
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Walking coral: Complex phototactic mobility in the free-living coral Cycloseris cyclolites. by Brett M Lewis, David J Suggett, Peter J Prentis, Luke D Nothdurft

“…High-resolution time-laps captured the biomechanics of forward motion that appeared driven by three key factors: tissue inflation, which increased contact surface area for lift and friction; the ventral foot/pads, adjusting substrate interaction/friction; and the contraction and twisting of lateral peripheral tissues, which propelled the coral forward in a coordinated manner resembling the pulsed swimming motion of jellyfish. …”
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Natural resources heterogeneity and environmental sustainability in G20 nations: post-COP28 analysis by Abdulrahman Alomair, Ridwan Lanre Ibrahim, Ridwan Lanre Ibrahim, Abdulaziz S. Al Naim

“…For easy trackability of the empirical evidence, environmental sustainability is captured by carbon emissions and ecological footprint in selected G20 economies with ta running from 1995 to 2019. …”
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France in the Vienna System of International Relations (the First Half of The 19^th Century) by I. V. Ignatchenko

“…Leading French politicians defined quite clearly exclusive spheres of influence of France, and in 1832 the French troops invaded Central Italy, capturing the city of Ancona. In 1840, during the second Oriental crisis, the French government has opposed themselves to the rest of Europe for the first time since the Napoleonic wars. …”
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Novel measures to assess work-life balance: A systematic review of last 5 years (2018-2023) by Amelia RIZZO, Murat YILDIRIM, Maria Grazia MAGGIO, Hicham KHABBACHE, Juan GOMEZ-SALGADO, Mahmood BAHRAMIZADEH, Driss AIT ALI, Lukasz SZARPAK, Pietro CRESCENZO, Giada IUELE, Nicola BRAGAZZI, Livio TARCHI, Francesco CHIRICO

“…All newly developed tools focused on overcoming the limitations of previous instruments, and how to best capture the multidimensional nature of WLB. These novel assessments also offer a theoretical contribution on how to best operatize WLB in the clinical or research setting. …”
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Who Puts the ‘Open’ in Open Knowledge? by Montgomery Lucy, Neylon Cameron, Wilson Katie, Huang Chun-Kai (Karl), Hosking Richard, Ozaygen Alkim, Handcock Rebecca

“…However, open knowledge aspirations are being stymied by comparative rankings that are built on data that excludes the work of entire disciplines, continents and languages; and are not capable of capturing important aspects of the value universities create. …”
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Role of Small and Medium Enterprises on Employment Provision in Uganda. A Case of Kabale Municipality. by Namanya, Moreen

“…Out of 127 target samples expected to participate in the study, a total of 90 respondents actually participated giving a response rate of 70.8%. from objective one, the correlation coefficient r = .572** shows that there is a positive relationship between the Financial capacity of SMEs and Employment Provision in Kabale municipality. …”
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Child Abuse and Pupils’ Academic Performance in Primary Schools of Kayonza Sub-County Kanungu District. by Turyahabwa, Alex

“…Qualitative data was analyzed to capture respondents' stories and experiences related to the research questions. …”
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An Examination of the Challenges Faced in the Implementation of the Competence Based Curriculum in Secondary Schools in Uganda. by Kukundakwe, Ruth

“…The study examined the challenges faced in the implementation of the competence-based curriculum in secondary schools in Uganda; A case study of Rukiga district following the objectives of the study which were to identify the methods used by secondary teachers in teaching the CBC, to examine the availability of materials (financial, library, physical, and instructional) used in competency-based curriculum in schools and to capture teachers’ suggestions for improvement. The study adopted descriptive research design using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. …”
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Application of the Natural Decomposition Method to Strongly Coupled Partial Differential Equations: The Gray-Scott Model. by Nsingwire, Godwin

“…The results show that the natural decomposition method effectively captures the intricate dynamics of the Gray-Scott model, demonstrating good convergence for specified initial conditions and parameter values. …”
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Commercial Banks and Socio Economic Wellbeing of the People: A case study of Equity Bank Kabale Branch. by Timothy, Begambagyedo

“…The study further recommends that the Commercial Banks should introduce and those that have maintain and upgrade the information technology to capture and control the history and progress on the loans that have been given out so as to reduce on the default rates of these commercial Banks The study also recommends that Banks should use Credit Reference Bureau as it provides information about the credit history of clients seeking facilities from the Bank.…”
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Operation Wealth Creation and Poverty Reduction in Kabale District: A Case Study of Rubaya Sub-County by Katusiime, Marion

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The influence of uterine leiomyomatosis on the onset of psoriasis: a nationwide population-based study of 2.5 million Korean females by Yeong Ho Kim, Hyun Jee Kim, Jee Yun Doh, Kyung Do Han, Ji Hyun Lee

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The Lomax-Claim Model: Bivariate Extension and Applications to Financial Data by Jin Zhao, Humaira Faqiri, Zubair Ahmad, Walid Emam, M. Yusuf, A. M. Sharawy

“…Among them, the two-parameter Lomax distribution is one of the prominent models that can be used quite effectively for modeling data in management sciences, banking, finance, and actuarial sciences, among others. In the present article, we introduce a new three-parameter extension of the Lomax distribution via using a class of claim distributions. …”
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The long-term effects of cardiometabolic risk factors on mortality and life expectancy: evidence from a health check-up cohort study by Ping-Chen Chung, Tsuey-Hwa Hu, Chih-Hua Chiao, Jing-Shiang Hwang, Ta-Chien Chan

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Dying to be famous: retrospective cohort study of rock and pop star mortality and its association with adverse childhood experiences by Mark A Bellis, Karen Hughes, Olivia Sharples, Tom Hennell, Katherine A Hardcastle

“…We examine relationships between fame and premature mortality and test how such relationships vary with type of performer (eg, solo or band member) and nationality and whether cause of death is linked with prefame (adverse childhood) experiences.Design A retrospective cohort analysis based on biographical data. An actuarial methodology compares postfame mortality to matched general populations. …”
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