Adherence to Viral Load Testing Guidelines, Barriers, and Associated Factors Among Persons Living with HIV on ART in Southwestern Uganda: a Mixed-Methods Study. by Lubega, Polly, Nalugya, Sylivia Juliet, Kimuli, Angella Namyalo, Twinokusiima, Majoreen, Khasalamwa, Mercy, Kyomugisa, Richard, Kabami, Jane, Owaraganise, Asiphas

“…Strategies that target young PLHIV and lower-level health facilities, increase the stock of consumables, and Shorten VL results turnaround time are needed to improve adherence to VL testing guidelines.…”
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Assessing the Suitability of Snail-Shell Powder as a Partial Replacement of Cement in Concrete Production. by Mukundane, Ivan

“…Blended pastes containing OPC and SSP at different percentage replacements, 0%, 5%, 7.5%, 10%, and 12.5% were investigated for workability, and compressive strength of grade 20 Concrete at different days ie 7. 14 and 28 days It was found that 10% replacement of SSP gave the maximum concrete and the desired strength of 19.1MPa at 28 days while an increase in the % replacement lowered the workability of concrete.…”
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Child Abuse and Intention to Dropout Among Secondary School Students in Rubanda District. by Ninsiima, Patience

“…The study reaffirmed that addressing child abuse was crucial to lowering dropout rates.…”
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¬¬Effect of Soil and Moisture Conservation Technologies on Growth and Grain Yields of Climbing Beans in Lake Mulehe Sub-catchment South-Western Uganda. by Kushaba, Laban Katende

“…These practices notably influenced soil physicochemical properties with mulching having the most significant impact, with plots exhibiting higher average soil pH (6.46), organic matter (4.65%), phosphorus (15.96 ppm), and lower bulk density (1.06 g/cm3) compared to those with no soil and moisture conservation measures (control plots). …”
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Precise Construction of Dual-Promising Anticancer Drugs Associated with Gold Nanomaterials on Glioma Cancer Cells by P. Baby Shakila, Abdurahman Hajinur Hirad, Abdullah A. Alarfaj, Samer Hasan Hussein-Al-Ali, Beza Mulugeta

“…The AO-EB and nuclear staining results reveal that the NPs effectively killed cancer cells. Furthermore, the flow cytometry analysis examined the mode of cell death. …”
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Assessment of greenness, blueness, and whiteness profiles of a validated HPLC-DAD method for quantitation of Donepezil HCl and Curcumin in their laboratory prepared co-formulated n... by Mennah M. Abd Elwahab, Samar Saad, Zeinab A. Sheribah, Nahed El-Enany

“…Optimum seperation was accomplished by utilising Zobrax Eclipse Plus C18 column (4.6*100 mm,5 μm) with gradient elution of the mobile phase composed of 0.02 M phosphate buffer at pH 3.2 and ethanol at flow rate of 1.5 ml/min. A diode array detector (DAD) was implemented for detection at 273 nm and 435 nm for DPZ and CUR, respectively, with the column oven set at 40 °C. …”
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Uric Acid to High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Ratio is a Novel Marker to Predict Functionally Significant Coronary Artery Stenosis by Fanqi Li, Donghui Zhao, Qiuyu Li, Xiaolong Lin, Haoxuan Sun, Qian Fan

“…Whether to perform percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for these lesions is a challenge in clinical practice. The fractional flow reserve (FFR) can guide treatment by determining the functional significance of ICS. …”
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Cross Layer Optimization and Simulation of Smart Grid Home Area Network by Lipi K. Chhaya, Paawan Sharma, Adesh Kumar, Govind Bhagwatikar

“…Smart Grid is characterized by bidirectional flow of electricity and information. Smart Grid is a complex network with hierarchical architecture. …”
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Fluid structure Interaction analysis for rupture risk assessment in patients with middle cerebral artery aneurysms by Jozsef Nagy, Wolfgang Fenz, Stefan Thumfart, Julia Maier, Zoltan Major, Harald Stefanits, Maria Gollwitzer, Johannes Oberndorfer, Nico Stroh, Michael Giretzlehner, Michael Sonnberger, Andreas Gruber, Philip-Rudolf Rauch, Matthias Gmeiner

“…While computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has provided critical insights into aneurysmal hemodynamics, most analyses focus on blood flow patterns, neglecting the biomechanical properties of the aneurysm wall. …”
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Long-term effect of island industrial construction on groundwater health risk by Yong Huang, Daqing Wang, Haoli Xu, Zhao Lu, Zijian Cheng, Zhibin Ding, Yi Wang, Yue Shi, Huiru Cui, Xiaoying Lian

“…The DRCSTLV model, which includes seven indicators along with associated potential health risks, is based on groundwater flow fields and pollutant transport models. The results of the comprehensive groundwater health risk assessment from 2015 to 2022 revealed that the annual maximum normalized health risk of groundwater in the study area show an overall fluctuating upward trend. …”
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Characterization of pre-alloyed NiTi powders produced by electrode induction-melting inert gas atomization for additive manufacturing by Wang J.-W., He D.-Y., Wu X., Guo X.-Y., Tan Z., Zhou Z., Shao W.

“…According to the requirements of the characteristics of the metal powder material used for AM, the powders are sieved into three categories, P1 (15-63 μm), P2 (63-150 μm), and P3 (>150 μm), respectively. The flow rates of P1 and P2 are 19.3 and 17.5 s·(50 g)-1, respectively. …”
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Study on the vibration characteristics and influence range of buried dam pipeline by Lihui Gao, Jing Xu, Shuai Xing

“…This model is then used to analyze the site response induced by flow-induced vibration in buried pipeline levee structures. …”
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Plantar sensation associates with gait instability in older adults by Jason R. Franz, Andrew D. Shelton, Kota Z. Takahashi, Jessica L. Allen

“…Methods We measured plantar sensation using Semmes-Weinstein monofilaments and quantified margins of stability (MoS) and whole-body angular momentum (WBAM) during habitual walking and in response to optical flow perturbations, lateral waist-pull perturbations, and treadmill-induced slips. …”
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Study on Dynamics of Hydraulic Control System for Automatic Loading and Unloading of Drill Pipe of Geological Drilling Rig by Zhijian Liu, Yunlong Chen, Hailong Ruan

“…By installing a small flow load sensing valve, the displacement of an asymmetric hydraulic cylinder can be accurately controlled, and then, the displacement of the drilling rig powerhead can be controlled. …”
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Cyclopiazonic acid suppresses the function of Leydig cells in prepubertal male rats by disrupting mitofusin 1-mediated mitochondrial function by Hang Lin, Ming Su, He Zhu, Yang Yu, Jianmin Sang, Yiyan Wang, Qiqi Zhu, Yang Zhu, Xiaoheng Li, Xingwang Li, Ren-Shan Ge, Huitao Li

“…In vitro, rat R2C cells were treated with CPA (0.1, 1, 10 μM) alone or in combination with 100 μM leflunomide to assess PLC development through testosterone measurements, Western blotting, flow cytometry, and Mito-Tracker Green Staining. …”
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« Histoires perturbées, passés retrouvés », une introduction by Sian Sullivan, Michèle Baussant, Lindsey Dodd, Olivette Otele, Irène Dos Santos

“…In the post- conflict and colonial contexts of our cases, we see “disruption” as present in three senses: as the productive ways in which multiple experiences retrieved through oral histories may refract and revise historical analysis; as the happening histories of objectively disruptive events break the flow of individual and collective experience; and as a strategy for cross-disciplinary research to disrupt and democratise conventional understanding by drawing attention to occluded experiences. …”
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GREEN FINANCE: CASE OF LITHUANIA by Giedrė Lapinskienė, Gitana Mečėjienė, Laima Steiblienė

“…The financial system being the allocator of financial flow, the economy is able to boost the green modernisation process, and green finance is the key term in the context of sustainable development. …”
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Sulforaphane Ameliorates the Intestinal Injury in Necrotizing Enterocolitis by Regulating the PI3K/Akt/GSK-3β Signaling Pathway by Zhong-Kun Bao, Yan-Hong Mi, Xiao-Yu Xiong, Xin-Hong Wang

“…ELISA, immunohistochemical staining, and flow cytometry assays were used to detect the levels of inflammatory factors, including TNF-α, IL-6, and IL-17, the expression of Bax, Bcl-2, TLR4, and NF-κB, and the percentages of the Th17 and Treg cells, respectively. …”
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Enhanced Suppressive Activity of Regulatory T Cells in the Microenvironment of Malignant Pleural Effusions by Joanna Budna, Mariusz Kaczmarek, Agata Kolecka-Bednarczyk, Łukasz Spychalski, Piotr Zawierucha, Joanna Goździk-Spychalska, Michał Nowicki, Halina Batura-Gabryel, Jan Sikora

“…The percentage of Tregs was determined by means of multicolor flow cytometry system. TGF-β and IL-10 concentrations were measured using human TGF-β1 and IL-10 ELISA kit. …”
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Implications of a Narrow Automated Vehicle-Exclusive Lane on Interstate 15 Express Lanes by Sahar Ghanipoor Machiani, Alidad Ahmadi, Walter Musial, Anagha Katthe, Benjamin Melendez, Arash Jahangiri

“…Microsimulation findings indicated an AV-exclusive lane may increase traffic flow and density by up to 14% and 24%, respectively. …”
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