BORDER MANAGEMENT, ARMED BANDITRY AND TERRORISM MITIGATION IN NIGERIA by ODE AGI OKO

“…The study is concluded by recommending among others;  that the country should in fact evolve a sustainable border management, and social security system which will discourage public office holders from engaging in corrupt practices of sponsoring of banditry, kidnapping, e.t.c as economic gains, and with good information network sharing techniques, and by providing gainful employment opportunities to the citizenry of which will curb, reduce or eradicate the social habits of armed bandit, cross-border security challenge and mores as enshrined in the work. …”
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Optimal Hemoglobin A1c Levels for Screening of Diabetes and Prediabetes in the Japanese Population by Masanori Shimodaira, Shinji Okaniwa, Norinao Hanyu, Tomohiro Nakayama

“…ROC analysis demonstrated that HbA1c was a good test to identify diabetes and prediabetes, with areas under the curve of 0.918 and 0.714, respectively. …”
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A core set of risk factors in individuals at risk of rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic literature review informing the EULAR points to consider for conducting clinical trials and... by Daniel Aletaha, Kulveer Mankia, Paul Emery, Deshire Alpizar-Rodriguez, Andreas Kerschbaumer, Andrea Di Matteo, Heidi Siddle, Joel Kerry

“…Risk factors were dependent on the at-risk population. There was good evidence for serum anticitrullinated protein antibodies (ACPA) levels, as risk factors for arthritis in all at-risk populations (n=13 articles). …”
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Complement protein and Immunoglobulins Serum levels in Normal Pregnant and Spontaneous Aborted Women by Hiwa Abdulrahman Ahmad, Mehri Mirhaj Muhammd salih, Kamal Ahmed Khidir

“…Concluded that complement proteins (C3 andC4) are a good defense line during normal pregnancy, sometime activation (hyper-consuming) of complement elements may provoke spontaneous abortion, while immunoglobulins are a little role in inducing of miscarriage in pregnant women.  …”
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Adaptatıon Of Sport Fanatıcısm Scale Into Turkısh by Erkan Faruk Şirin, Ali Erdoğan

“…It was observed that the values of fit indices are at good or excellent level in all parameters (χ²/sd= 2.81); RMSEA=.058; GFI=.96; CFI=.95; IFI=.95; AGFI =.93). …”
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On The New Russian Eastern Policy by A. V. Torkunov

“…Its main goal is to establish Eurasian economic union by 2015 which will open boarders of the member states for unrestricted movement of goods, services, capital and workers within the emerging regional market with the total volume of 170-180 million people. …”
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Diagnostic Performance of Soluble Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid Cells-1 in Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia of Patients with Ischemic Stroke by Yuetian Yu, Cheng Zhu, Chunyan Liu, Yuan Gao, Rong Yin, Jianguo Cao

“…Conclusions. sTREM-1 in EBC and BALF had good diagnostic performance in differentiating patients with and without VAP.…”
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AGILE APPROACHES, FOR E-BUSINESS SOLUTIONS STRATEGY, AT THE GOVERNMENT LEVEL by Cristian Brancu, Oana Turcu, Marius Stefan, Madalina Popp

“…The Information Society is the model of society in which the main good is information itself. Although the accelerated development of information and communication technologies (ICT) is the process behind the evolution of the information society, the new model of society means much more than technological progress. …”
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Solar Flare X‐Ray Impacts on Long Subionospheric VLF Paths by Samuel R. G. Belcher, Mark A. Clilverd, Craig J. Rodger, Sophie Cook, Neil R. Thomson, James B. Brundell, Tero Raita

“…Using a wider selection of solar flares, including M‐class flares for the first time, the best‐fit equations and root mean square (RMS) errors are computed with improved standard deviation (SD) uncertainty estimates for the peak fluxes. Good agreement is found between peak long X‐ray wavelength fluxes (XL, 0.1–0.8 nm) derived for M‐class and X‐class flares and those measured by the GOES satellites. …”
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TAXPAYERS’ AWARENESS, TAX PENALTIES AND TAX ADMINISTRATION IN NIGERIA by Benuh Adama Idris

“…The study therefore concluded that taxpayers’ awareness and tax penalties are good predictors of tax administration in Nigeria. …”
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Prediction model, risk factor score and ventilator-associated pneumonia: A two-stage case-control study by Hua Meng, Yuxin Shi, Kaming Xue, Di Liu, Xiongjing Cao, Yanyan Wu, Yunzhou Fan, Fang Gao, Ming Zhu, Lijuan Xiong

“…RFS was significantly linearly associated with VAP risk [odds ratio and 95 % confidence interval = 2.699 (2.347, 3.135)], and showed good discriminations for VAP both in discovery stage [area under the curve (AUC) = 0.857] and validation stage (AUC = 0.879). …”
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Children's Motor Skills Based on Geographical Location by Gusril Gusril, Felia Rahmadhani Saputri, Nurul Ihsan, Ahmad Chaeroni, Mohd Firdaus Abdullah, Mohd Salleh Aman, Abdul Halim Mokhtar, Anton Komaini, Toho Cholik Mutohir

“…Conclusions:  (1) children from the highland region showed good motor skill levels; (2) children from the lowland region displayed sufficient motor skills; (3) children in the highlands engaged in more motor skill activities compared to those in lowland and coastal areas; and (4) there were notable differences in motor skills between children in coastal areas  and lowland areas. …”
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Internal Fixation of Type I Capitellum Fracture with Headless Screws: A Case Report by Charlie Sanjaya, I Ketut Gede Arta Bujangga

“…Accurate reduction, stable fracture fixation, and early postoperative mobilization were reported to provide good results with a MEPI score of 100.…”
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Water Quality Suitability and Sanitary Inspection of Hand-Dug Wells of Merawi Town, Ethiopia by Selamawit Tadele, Andinet Kebede Tekile

“…According to the WAWQI, only 14.29% of the samples waters were good for domestic use in both wet and dry seasons. …”
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Valorization of sawdust by co-composting with food waste using a small-scale composter by Hadi Bello, Akeem Jimoh

“…Parameters examined throughout the composting process include temperature, moisture content, pH, electrical conductivity, organic matter content, and organic matter losses.Results The results indicated that all the compost trials exhibit good development of composting process, with the highest solid organic degradation reached in a shorter period in compost trial 3. …”
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Impact of single versus dual arterial supply on perfusion and function in finger replantation after complex hand injuries by Martynas Tamulevicius, Malte David Steinbach, Florian Bucher, Nadjib Dastagir, Doha Obed, Peter M. Vogt, Khaled Dastagir

“…In conclusion, reconstructing both arteries in finger replantation following CHI isn’t essential for good outcomes if one artery provides adequate perfusion, but dual reconstruction may improve perfusion and temperature sensation.…”
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Rapid Determination of 26 Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids in Milk Power and Liquid Milk by Solid Phase Extraction Combined with Ultra-high Performance Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spe... by CHEN Yankai

“…The calibration curves for the 26 PA compounds showed good linearity in the range of 1.0–40 ng/mL with determination coefficients (R2) greater than 0.992. …”
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Application of various methods in design for control of bed erosion and river modification aiding numerical simulation by Aref Kohzadi, Kamran Mohammadi, Afshin Eghbalzadeh

“…Maynard's formula (1989) in the design of ripe rap is in good agreement with the real conditions. The height of check dams was considered to be 1.8 m and D65 was 89 cm for all sections. …”
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Experimental Study on Optimization of Polymer Preslug Viscosity of ASP Flooding in Interlayer Heterogeneous Well Group Artificial Sandstone Core by Qiji Sun, Kesen Yang, Guomin Xu, Shunde Yin, Chunsheng Wang

“…If the viscosity is too small, the high-permeability area cannot be effectively blocked by the injected chemical agent, and if the viscosity is too large, the injected chemical agent cannot produce good elastic displacement relationship, which will lead to ineffective chemical agent flow. …”
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Evaluating the Nexus Between Exports, Imports, GDP, and Gross Capital Formation in South Africa by Ahmed Oluwatobi Adekunle

“…The findings suggest that robust policies should be implemented, including tax cuts, increased infrastructure development, the promotion of manufactured goods, and advancements in domestic technologies. …”
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