The prevalence and associated factors of the minimum acceptable diet among children aged 6-23 months in Ethiopia: A community-based cross-sectional study. by Girma Cheru Bikila, Godana Arero, Sultan Kalu, Kedir Teji Roba, Tesfaye Getachew Charkos

“…Hosmer and Lemeshow's goodness-of-fit test at a P-value > 0.05 is considered the model fit. …”
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A descriptive analysis of a medical humanitarian aid initiative for quality perinatal management in war-torn Ukraine by Iryna Mogilevkina, Dmytro Dobryanskyy, Rhona MacDonald, Diane Watson, David Southall

“…Mothers reported their experience with self-monitoring as great or good in 79%. Preterm deliveries were less frequent where fetal monitoring was provided by both staff and mothers jointly. …”
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Evaluation of Intraperitoneal [18F]-FDOPA Administration for Micro-PET Imaging in Mice and Assessment of the Effect of Subchronic Ketamine Dosing on Dopamine Synthesis Capacity by Els F. Halff, Sridhar Natesan, David R. Bonsall, Mattia Veronese, Anna Garcia-Hidalgo, Michelle Kokkinou, Sac-Pham Tang, Laura J. Riggall, Roger N. Gunn, Elaine E. Irvine, Dominic J. Withers, Lisa A. Wells, Oliver D. Howes

“…Our results demonstrate that intraperitoneal [18F]-FDOPA administration resulted in good brain uptake, with no significant effect of administration route on KiMod estimates (intraperitoneal: 0.024±0.0047 min−1, intravenous: 0.022±0.0041 min−1, p=0.42) and similar coefficient of variation (intraperitoneal: 19.6%; intravenous: 18.4%). …”
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A nomogram for predicting bladder dysfunction in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a retrospective study by Yingjie Hu, Fengming Hao, Ying Wang, Ling Chen, Lihua Wen, Jue Li, Wei Ren, Wenzhi Cai

“…Both internal and external validations demonstrated the good predictive performance of the nomogram. The area under the curve (AUC) for the training and validation datasets was 0.897 and 0.862, respectively. …”
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Atherogenic Index in Type 2 Diabetes and Its Relationship with Chronic Microvascular Complications by Zhen Li, Qi Huang, Li Sun, Tengfei Bao, Zhe Dai

“…AIP represents a clinically convenient indicator for the detection of T2DM with high risk of complications and associated diseases and thus is a good predictor and indicator for follow-up monitoring in the treatment of patients with high-risk type 2 diabetes.…”
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Intra-articular Glenoid Fracture Managed by Arthroscopic Fixation and Open Reduction and Internal Fixation Techniques: An Analytical Study by Prahalad K Singhi, Sivakumar Raju, Chidambaram Muthu, Gopi Kumarasamy, Vinoth Thangamani, Muthukishore Marichamy

“…At the end of 2 years’ follow-up, all these patients had good to excellent outcome. One patient had shoulder stiffness; clavicle elastic nail was removed in two cases as it caused irritation at entry site and no other major complications. …”
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Novel Models for the Prediction of Left Atrial Appendage Thrombus in Patients with Chronic Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation by Do Van Chien, Pham Thai Giang, Pham Truong Son, Le Van Truong, Pham Nguyen Son

“…The following parameters had good diagnostic performance for LAAT: LA volume index >57 mL (area under the curve (AUC), 0.72; sensitivity, 77.1%; specificity, 64.2%), LA positive strain ≤6.7% in the four-chamber view (AUC, 0.84; sensitivity, 77.1%; specificity, 77.1%), and LA negative strain rate >−0.73 s−1 in the four-chamber view (AUC, 0.83; sensitivity, 85.7%; specificity, 70.6%). …”
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Allergen immunotherapy in Italy: How, when, and why—A real-world study conducted through a patient association by Giovanni Paoletti, MD, Emanuele Nappi, MD, Maria Chiara Bragato, MD, Paola Valli, MD, Mattia Giovannini, MD, Domenico Gargano, MD, Luca Pecoraro, MD, Deborah Diso, MSc, Simona Barbaglia, MSc, Giorgio Walter Canonica, MD, Enrico Heffler, MD, PhD

“…Also, we noted a significant reduction in work/school days lost in patients who completed AIT and a good patient-reported safety and efficacy profile. …”
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Improved gas separation performance of PMMA/Matrimid@5218/graphene oxide (GO) mixed matrix membranes by Amirali Salehi, Mohammadreza Omidkhah, Abtin Ebadi Amooghin, Mohammad Mehdi Moftakhari Sharifzadeh

“…Comparing these results to the pure PMMA membrane with CO2 permeability of 1.08 Barrer, CO2/N2 selectivity of 31.76, and CO2/CH4 selectivity of 83.07, PMMA/Matrimid/GO MMM series were good candidates for further investigation in industrial gas separations.…”
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Testing the acceptability and feasibility of video observational methodology to measure parent-adolescent communication and interaction by Fortunate Lekhuleni, Rachana Desai, Bronwyne Coetzee, Rebecca Pearson, Tamsen Jean Rochat, Tamsen Jean Rochat

“…The Matching pairs card game stimulated excellent interaction and communication with good video and audio quality. Some feasibility limitations were identified in the operations (switching on/off and starting recording), the ability of the device to cope with the movement of the participants, and the lighting conditions of the room, all of which resulted in poor coding and analytic output from FaceReader. …”
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A retrospective multicenter study on the efficacy and safety of disitamab vedotin monotherapy versus combination with anti-PD-1 immunotherapy in advanced gastric cancer by Shuailei Dong, Chen Wei, Xueting Wang, Xinyi Yang, Wei Shen, Shuyi Li, Jiye Xu, Yijie Ma, Liangyu Bie, Wenyue Yu, Ning Li

“…In sum, the RC48 and anti-PD-1 IT combination showed good efficacy and a manageable safety profile, indicating its strong potential as an advanced GC therapeutic option.…”
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Application of Minimally Invasive Oral Swab Samples for qPCR-Based Sexing in Neognathae Birds by Maria-Carmen Turcu, Anamaria Ioana Paștiu, Lucia-Victoria Bel, Anca-Alexandra Doboși, Dana Liana Pusta

“…A total of 34 samples were included in this study from the following 17 bird species: domestic pigeon (<i>Columba livia domestica</i>), domestic chicken (<i>Gallus gallus domesticus</i>), domestic goose (<i>Anser anser f domesticus</i>), domestic duck (<i>Anas platyrhynchos domesticus</i>), Mute swan (<i>Cygnus olor</i>), Budgerigar (<i>Melopsittacus undulatus</i>), Lovebird (<i>Agapornis roseicollis</i>), Cockatiel (<i>Nymphicus hollandicus</i>), Red-rumped parrot (<i>Psephotus haematonotus</i>), Rose-ringed parakeet (<i>Psittacula krameri</i>), African grey parrot (<i>Psittacus erithacus</i>), domestic Canary (<i>Serinus canaria forma domestica</i>), Goldfinch (<i>Carduelis carduelis major</i>), Gouldian Finch (<i>Chloebia gouldiae</i>), Red Siskin (<i>Carduelis cucullata</i>), Australian Zebra Finch (<i>Taeniopygia castanotis</i>), and Common buzzard (<i>Buteo buteo</i>). …”
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The Effect of Early Marriages on Social Development in Kakabara Town Council, Kyegegwa District. by Birungi, Beatrice

“…This will encourage many girls to study instead of them involved in worthless activities such as early marriage and there should be continued offering of Counseling and Guidance services; this should be done by parents and school administrators on the advantages or importance of good morals among girl child students in the community. …”
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Political Interference and Social Service Delivery in Kanaba Sub-County Kisoro District. by Tumushime, Bosco

“…The study concluded that political interference in social service delivery could be solved by the intervening strategies in place to reduce the rate of interference with social service delivery by political leaders like Leader's commitment, Good governance, Intuitional arrangement, Distribution of costs and benefits, and Secularism in a multi-religious society. …”
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Effectiveness of Non-Governmental Organizations on Social Service Delivery: A Case Study of Uganda Red Cross Society Kabale District. by Aharizira, Zackaria

“…On challenges faced by NGOs in the study area the study mentioned a barrage of laws, poor governance, unsuccessful projects, cultural dorms, and beliefs, lack of enough finance, and staffing the study also Suggested possible strategies for challenges faced by the nongovernmental organizations on service delivery as provisional of equal relationships between donors NGO, funding of the NGO, employment of trained and strong staff and provision of good governance. It concludes with recommendations like environmental protection should be ensured in the study area as it has backward and forward linkages with development like boosting agriculture and improving health conditions, ensuring the health of the population is the basement for development. …”
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Evaluation of Local Organic Materials as Source of Organic Pesticides for Pest Control in Carrots. by Kanyesigye, Arozious

“…Generally the use of organic pesticides provided good results in controlling pests and reducing weed and yield.…”
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Impact of Divorce on Girl Child Education in Nyakinama Sub-County Kisoro District. by Niyobyose, Sarah

“…They concluded that divorce and girl child education is attributed to several socioeconomic factors among which they include; Poverty encompasses income and non-income dimensions of deprivations, Poor parents are often unable to meet school costs such as uniforms, exercise books and other contributions for school equipment’s and buildings, Lack of adequate sanitation and good hygiene at school, Teachers, Headteachers and other people who manage the school always have negative attitudes towards girl’s education. …”
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Role of Government Projects and Youth Employment in Kisoro District: A Case Study of Youth Livelihood Program. by Zaninka, Esther

“…The study also showed that lack of training of the youth and policy implementers was the major challenge affecting the YLP in the provision of quality service delivery among people in Kisoro district, YLP put more emphasis on multiple areas, namely to provide capital to young entrepreneurs, avail business development services, facilitate linkages in supply chain and create market opportunities for goods and services produces by youth services such as training and mentorship, business plan competition and developing partnership with public and private institutions. …”
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Exploring the Role of Social Workers in Addressing Health Disparities Among Maginalised Population in Kabale District. by Asasira, Precious

“…According to objective three, it was found that respondents from Kabale district Local government that the possible measures to the challenges faced by social workers in addressing the health disparities among marginalized populations include; stopping Family Violence, advancing long and Productive Lives, Create Social Responses to a Changing Environment, eradicate Social Isolation, harness Technology for social good, reduce Extreme Economic Inequality and others .…”
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Electronic Commerce and the Success of Projects. A case study of the Entrepreneurship promotion project of the University of Rwanda. by Principe, Camake

“…Various levels of embezzlement have been found where project employees deviated the target people because of favoritism, project beneficiaries also deviated the business from the planning where some of them submitted very good project proposal, won the competition and after getting the sponsorship they replaced it by another one which might not have won the competition, simply because it is easier to implement or because of conflict of interests. …”
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