Fiscal Decentralisation and the Performance of Health Sector in Kabale District, Uganda. by Ali Khamis, Hashir

“…Those methods that helped the researcher to collect data from the field of study.196 respondents were selected for the study whereby, 84 were male and 112 were females. From the findings most respondents agreed on factors that influence fiscal decentralisation on health service delivery; such as supportive supervision, sensitization, administrative and management systems, revenue collection and administration. …”
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Estimating and forecasting daily reference crop evapotranspiration in China with temperature-driven deep learning modelsMendeley Data by Jia Zhang, Yimin Ding, Lei Zhu, Yukuai Wan, Mingtang Chai, Pengpeng Ding

“…Accurately estimating and forecasting short-term daily reference crop evapotranspiration (ETo) is crucial for real-time irrigation decision-making and regional agricultural water management. Although the Penman-Monteith formula shows high accuracy, the requirement for excessive meteorological factors by this formula restricts its practical application. …”
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Ação cultural digital nos arquivos públicos das capitais da região Nordeste do Brasil by Ana Cássia Soares Teixeira, Manuela Eugênio Maia

“…As ações culturais em âmbito editorial, educativo e de difusão cultural poderiam ocorrer de modo virtual, ampliando o seu escopo quanto ao seu papel social, educacional e cultural no tocante à função arquivística. Essa investigação teve como objetivo geral analisar os serviços de ação cultural digital nos arquivos públicos das capitais, localizados naregião nordeste doBrasil. …”
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Polos de Irrigação no Nordeste do Brasil by Antonio Marcio Buainain, Junior Ruiz Garcia

“…O Estado Brasileiro há décadas tem investido na instalação de polos de produção agropecuária baseados em sistemas complexos e custosos de irrigação na região do Semiárido nordestino. Entretanto, em função das restrições hídricas e de solo da região Nordeste do Brasil estima-se que menos de 2% da área total sejam passíveis da implantação de sistemas de irrigação. …”
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ESD-YOLOv8: An Efficient Solar Cell Fault Detection Model Based on YOLOv8 by Lingyun Zhang, Xu Wu, Zihan Liu, Panlin Yu, Mingfen Yang

“…The detection of small defects is enhanced by optimising the YOLOv8 architecture, removing the P5 layer, introducing the small target sensitive P2 layer, and integrating the EMA attention mechanism and the C2f_EMA module. Meanwhile, guided by the CloAttention mechanism, a feature fusion layer has been designed to focus the model’s attention on small target defect features in the P2 layer, thereby improving the accuracy of defect location. …”
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Evaluasi Kapasitas Seismik Gedung Beton Bertulang dengan Metode Pushover Analysis by Ghina Pricillia Darmansyah, Maidiawati Maidiawati, Leli Honesti

“…Berdasarkan hasil kinerja struktur berdasarkan FEMA 356 didapatkan level kinerja struktur tanpa pengaruh dinding arah X dan Y serta dengan pengaruh dinding arah X dan Y yaitu Immediate Occupancy (IO).  …”
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带不同顶底连接件高强螺栓连接铝合金梁柱节点抗震性能研究 by 张铮, 陈培旭, 廖仁生, 张其林

“…结果表明：三类节点变形性能良好，最大层间位移角均超过0.03 rad，满足美国规范FEMA 350的延性设计要求；节点SL和节点ST的延性系数均大于3.0，破坏形态为连接件发生断裂，二者在保证充分耗能后应按连接件的极限承载力进行设计；节点SC发生梁端净截面破坏前累积耗能良好；节点SL的初始刚度最小，节点ST和SC与节点SL相比，初始刚度分别提高了36.7%和77.4%。…”
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Correlation between Neutrophil Gelatinase Associated with Lipocaline and Beta-2 Microglobulin with Other Renal Markers in Iraqi Patients with Multiple Myeloma by Inas Nazeeh Abed, Usama Salman Al-timari, Hiba Abid Al-Hussein hassan, Abbas Thamer Dwayyikh

“…The present study found that the male patients in the age range (60-69) and (50-59) years had a higher percentage (30%, 20% and 36%,16.7%) than female patients in both studied groups. The multiple myeloma disease patients with urea and creatinine above normal had a highly significant increase (p= 0.000) in the mean ± SD of urea, creatinine, total protein, globulin, Beta 2 microglobulin, and Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (57.83±30.92 mg/dl, 2.09±1.38 mg/dl, 77.95±13.08 g/l, 42.52±11.16 g/l, 39.14±16.20, 452.50±188.83) respectively. …”
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Does Health Education Through Videos and E-Leaflet Have a Good Influence on Improving Students’ Reproductive Health Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices? an Intervention Study... by Yuliasih ND, Sari P, Bestari AD, Martini N, Sujatmiko B

“…Purposive sampling was used to select participants from four universities in the Jatinangor District. 166 female first-year university students were divided into the study group through video (n = 83) and the control group through e-leaflet (n = 83). …”
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Robotic-assisted left thoracic small-incision minimally invasive coronary artery bypass grafting: a case series report by HE Peiling, SONG Yi, YUAN Ye

“…Results‍　‍There were 23 patients subjected， including 21 males and 2 females， with a mean age of 58.17±7.49 years， and a body mass index （BMI） of 23.99±3.25 kg/m2. …”
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First report of Haemaphysalis bispinosa, molecular-geographic relationships of Ixodes granulatus and a new Dermacentor species from Vietnam by Sándor Hornok, Jenő Kontschán, Gergő Keve, Nóra Takács, Dat Van Nguyen, Khanh Ngoc Phuong Ho, Tamás Görföl, Yuanzhi Wang, Róbert Farkas, Thanh Thi Ha Dao

“…In addition, three Ixodes sp. ticks were collected from pygmy slow lorises (Xanthonycticebus pygmaeus), and a Dermacentor female had been previously collected from the vegetation. …”
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Stomatitis sub-prosthesis in patients with superior dental prosthesis by Antonia Martina Francisco Local, Yoel González Beriau, Ana Gloria Vázquez de León

“…</span><strong><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Tahoma;">Results</span></strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><strong>:</strong> 89 patients were attended, more 50% of them had superior dental prosthesis and presented stomatitis sub-prosthesis; the group between 35 and 59 years was the most affected, mainly females. Sub-prosthesis stomatitis type II was the most common and the main causes included constant use of the prosthesis and loose prosthesis. …”
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Duration of Disease and Long‐Term Outcomes in Patients With Difficult‐To‐Treat Recurrent Pericarditis: A Chronic Condition Treated With Nonsteroidal Anti‐Inflammatory Drugs, Colchi... by Elisa Ceriani, Francesco Agozzino, Silvia Berra, Antonio Gidaro, Paolo Bindi, Alberto Pavarani, Silvia Macchi, Letizia Vena, Francesco Moda, Ludovico Luca Sicignano, Celeste Ambra Murace, Laura Gerardino, Elena Verrecchia, Caterina Chiara De Carlini, Silvia Maestroni, Gabriella Marinaro, Emanuele Bizzi, Antonio Brucato, Massimo Imazio

“…Methods This was a multicenter, longitudinal, observational study including 370 patients (51.4% female). The remission rate was the proportion of patients who stopped all pericarditis‐related therapies for at least 6 months without recurrences. …”
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Meta-analyses of the effects of high-intensity interval training in elite athletes—part I: mean effects on various performance measures by Hans-Peter Wiesinger, Hans-Peter Wiesinger, Hans-Peter Wiesinger, Thomas Leonard Stöggl, Thomas Leonard Stöggl, Nils Haller, Nils Haller, Julia Blumkaitis, Tilmann Strepp, Francesca Kilzer, Anna Schmuttermair, Will G. Hopkins

“…The level of evidence for effect magnitudes was evaluated based on the effect uncertainty and the smallest important change of 1%.ResultsCompared with control training, HIIT showed good to excellent evidence for the substantial enhancement of most measures for some athlete subgroups in practically important study settings defined by effect moderators (maximum of 12.6%, for endurance female athletes after 6 weeks of aerobic traditional long intervals). …”
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The effect of 12-week combined balance and plyometric training on dynamic balance and lower extremity injury risk in college dancers by Yuqi Yan, Park Seoyoung, Heo Seomyeong, Yi Zhao

“…Improving dynamic balance through training can potentially enhance performance and reduce injury risk.ObjectiveThis study aimed to investigate the effects of a 12-week combined balance and plyometric training program (BP) compared to plyometric training alone (PL) on dynamic balance and lower extremity injury risk among college dancers.MethodsA total of 30 female college dancers were randomly assigned to either the BP group (n = 15) or the PL group (n = 15). …”
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SUCCESSFUL REGISTRATION OF DOMESTIC BIOANALOGUE OF BEVACIZUMAB – NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR EFFECTIVE TREA TMENT OF PATIENTS WITH NON-SQUAMOUS CELL NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER by S. V. Orlov, S. N. Fogt, M. S. Shustova

“…The study included 138 patients, male and female aged 18 to 75 years with newly diagnosed inoperable or widespread metastatic NSCLC (except squamous cell NSCLC), relevant eligibility criteria. …”
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Persistent depressive symptom trajectory is associated with cognitive impairment: a population-based longitudinal study of aging in Taiwan by Hsiao-Chen Lin, Wai-Lam Lao, Te-Chia Tseng, Chih-Jung Yeh

“…The rate of cognitive decline was more rapidly in the persistent depressive symptom trajectory, nearly twofold to no depressive symptom trajectory, which the corresponding β values (score/year) were − 0.0862, − 0.1020, − 0.1192, − 0.1206, and − 0.1683 for the no, mild, decreasing, increasing, and persistent depressive symptom trajectories, respectively. Female sex, older age, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and coronary heart disease were significant moderators on the risk of cognitive impairment. …”
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Risk factors associated with poor pain outcomes following primary knee replacement surgery: Analysis of data from the clinical practice research datalink, hospital episode statisti... by Hasan Raza Mohammad, Rachael Gooberman-Hill, Antonella Delmestri, John Broomfield, Rita Patel, Joerg Huber, Cesar Garriga, Christopher Eccleston, Rafael Pinedo-Villanueva, Tamer T Malak, Nigel Arden, Andrew Price, Vikki Wylde, Tim J Peters, Ashley W Blom, Andrew Judge

“…<h4>Results</h4>Information was available for 4,750 patients from 2009 to 2016, with a mean age of 69, of whom 56.1% were female. 10.4% of patients had poor pain outcomes. …”
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The association between sleep duration and myopia among Chinese school-age students: mediation effect of physical activity by Haiqing Feng, Yuexia Gao, Na An, Yitong Lu, Jianping Huang, Weiping Yang, Qingyun Lu

“…The mediating effects of physical activity on sleep duration and myopia were analyzed using the AMOS model.ResultsIn this study, the incidence of myopia was higher in females than in males, it also increased with age. …”
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Comparison of the two treatment methods in primary hyperparathyroidism due to solitary parathyroid adenoma, Ultrasound-guided percutaneous alcohol ablation vs. parathyroidectomy: a... by Mohammad Eslamian, Babak Tavakoli, Alireza Firouzfar, Alireza Pouramini, Bijan Iraj, Mohsen Kolahdouzan, Marjan Mansourian

“…Result The final sample comprised 68 patients in each group which 113 of whom were female (83.0%). Complete response was observed in 91.1% (n = 62) of the PEA group and 98.5% (n = 67) of the PTx group. …”
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