Predictive instrument for rupture of intracranial aneurysms in patients from Sancti Spiritus, Cuba by Jorge Félix Companioni Rosildo, Gretel Mosquera Betancourt, Carlos Rafael Sebrango Rodríguez, Juan Carlos Lage Barroso

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> the instrument was made up of five predictors that were statistically significant associated with breakage in the multivariate analysis: female sex, aspect ratio, the greatest width of the dome, volume, and non-sphericity index. The nomogram showed good calibration and discrimination (training group: area under the curve = 99%; validation group area under the curve = 99% ).…”
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Process Optimization and Wear Performance of Plasma-Cladding Fe5 Coatings on Rotary Tillage Blades by Jiang Zeng, Yinggang Ma, Zhichao Fang, Mingliang Wu, Zhili Wu, Mingkai Lei

“…Results: The results indicate that the interface of the cladding layer is clean and free from significant porosity or defects, exhibiting good metallurgical bonding with the substrate. The primary phases identified in the cladding layer include α-Fe, Cr₇C₃, Cr₂Fe₁₄C, and Cr-Ni-Fe-C solid solutions. …”
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Safety, Efficacy, and Predictive Factors of Conventional Epithelium-Off Corneal Crosslinking in the Treatment of Progressive Keratoconus by Rebecca Farhat, Mohamad Khaled Ghannam, Georges Azar, Joseph Nehme, Marwan Sahyoun, Najib Georges Hanna, Mariana Abi Karam, Charbel El Haber, Alexandre Schakal, Alexandre Jalkh, Ameed Samaha

“…Further studies to identify predictors of postoperative progression prior to the procedure could help sort out good responders to treatment.…”
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Prospective analysis of CKM element |Vcd| and D+-meson decay constant from leptonic decays D+ → ℓ+ν by Ya-Xiong Wang, Hai-Jiang Tian, Yin-Long Yang, Tao Zhong, Hai-Bing Fu

“…Consequently, we obtain the QCD sum rule expression for fD+ up to dimension-six condensates, yielding fD+=203.0±1.5MeV. Our result is in good agreement with BESIII measurements and theoretical predictions. …”
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Prediction Models for Return of Spontaneous Circulation in Patients with Cardiac Arrest: A Systematic Review and Critical Appraisal by Pengfei Cheng, Pengyu Yang, Hua Zhang, Haizhen Wang

“…A total of 8 relevant prediction models were included, and 6 models reported the AUC of 0.662–0.830 in the modeling population, which showed good overall applicability but high risk of bias. …”
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Raw Cured Poultry Meat Fortified with Bee Pollen: Biomedical Research on Laboratory Animals by Maksim A. Sukhov, Tatiana M. Giro, Sergey V. Kozlov, Irina V. Ziruk

“…As a result, it possesses numerous therapeutic and prophylactic properties. Bee pollen has good prospects as a fortifying agent for jerky meat, i.e., lean and dehydrated trimmed meat cut into strips. …”
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Analysis of Multifactor Influence Model on Energy Dissipation Rate of Rough-Strips Energy Dissipator in the Spillway Bend by Honghong Zhang, Zhenwei Mu, Fan Fan, Fanqi Li

“…The maximum relative error between the predicted value of the multifactor model and the measured value of the validation group was 6.28%, indicating good agreement. In the orthogonal tests, scenario 5 had the highest energy dissipation rate (44.83%) with k = 0.023; scenario 16 had the largest k value (0.043), with an energy dissipation rate of 40.78%. …”
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Indoor Air Quality and Indoor Environmental Quality: The role of occupational health surveillance and the cooperation between public and occupational health stakeholders by Francesco Chirico, Gaetano Settimo, Nicola Magnavita

“…Furthermore, the paper explores the interconnection between IAQ and global health crises, such as climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, and emphasizes the importance of maintaining good IAQ and visual and thermal comfort in workplaces. …”
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Taking risky actions as a basis for prosecuting the officials of the business company by V. H. Zhornokui

“…It is the specific definition of the rights and obligations of persons performing the functions of the bodies of a business company, and their activities on behalf of the company in good faith and reasonably and without exceeding their powers that forms the basis for the stability of property and non-property corporate relations within the corporate governance of a business company. …”
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Relationship between renal ultrasonographic, CD4 cell count and proteinuria findings in HIV infected adult patients in Jos, Nigeria by P. M., Gwom, D., Atsukwei, E. D., Eze, E. O., Igoh, E. A., Gabkwe, M. D., Adams, K. M., Rabiu, I., Ezekiel

“…Sonographically based determination of renal size and echogenicity/echopattern combined with proteinuria are good determinants of renal parenchymal disease and may have diagnostic usefulness as a non-invasive procedure in the identification of HIVAN in HIV-positive subjects with renal disease.…”
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Design of Arduino Computer Numerical Control Machine. by Mujurizi Frank

“…CNC machines are able to produce accurate work of good quality, and in a short period of time, but these machines are quite expensive for small scale manufacturers, students and innovators. …”
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Inventory Management and Service Delivery in Government Hospitals: A Case Study of Kabale Regional Referral Hospital. by Muhindo, Patience

“…The major challenges that KRRH was facing in IM processes included: Late delivery by the suppliers; Inadequate tools and equipment to use in inventory management like computer software; Manual documentation; Inconsistent tracking of ordered goods and services; Lack of collaboration between the Procurement and Inventory department and other departments; Poor inventory management process; Lack of Transparency amongst the store staff: and Entrance of unauthorized personnel among others. …”
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Spatio‑temporal variations in physicochemical water quality parameters of Lake Bunyonyi, Southwestern Uganda by Saturday,Alex, Lyimo,Thomas J., Machiwa, John, Pamba,Siajali

“…According to these values, the water quality of Lake Bunyonyi gener ally belongs to the ‘good’ class in terms of drinking water quality based on the WQI classifcation. …”
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Teacher Transfers and Academic Performance of Learners in Uganda: A Case of Government Aided Primary Schools In Kalaki District. by Okello, George William

“…Routine transfer of teachers is generally a good policy in terms of performance and that the MOES is justified to transfer teachers who have overstayed. …”
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Impact of Land Degradation on Irish Potato Production in Hamurwa Sub-County Rubanda District. by Ahimbisibwe, Columbus

“…This should be done along with good husbandry practices such as crop rotation, and rotational grazing to avoid exhausting a particular plot of land in a short period, which in most cases forces people to exhaust land, there is a need for policymaking concerning land use through a forestation thus discouraging or reducing deforestation and there should education of masses should be encouraged relating to the efficient use of land use practices on Irish potato production through sensitizing people on dangers of destroying agricultural and its related effects.…”
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Budgetary Control and Organizational Performance in Municipal Local Governments in Uganda: A Case of Kabale Municipal Council. by Akankwasa, Fidelis

“…This will help Kabale Municipal Council to excel in the effective implementation of government programs at Kabale Municipal Council, there is a need to understand the contributions of good budgeting practices on the organizational performance. …”
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Analysis of the Impact of Media on Premarital Sex in Central Division Kabale Municipality. by Kamusiime, Phabith

“…The study results on the causes of premarital sex in the Central Division in Kabale Municipality, the highest number of the respondents mentioned a lack of good sex education among many youth while the lowest number of the respondents mentioned the influence of electronic media. …”
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Investigating the Effect of Wood Ash–Lime Blend in the Stabilization of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement for Road Construction. by Byamugisha, Mark

“…RAP was classified as A-2-4 using the AASHTO classification system and the general rating as sub-grade in accordance with AASHTO (1986) is excellent too good. The values of Maximum dry density (MDD) increased at 0% and 2% wood ash treatment and decreased furthermore with an increase in the percentage of wood ash-lime while the optimum moisture content (OMC) increased with an increase in wood ash-lime content in the RAP +wood ash-lime mixes. …”
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Assessing the Effects of Solid Waste Dump Sites on the Quality of Water Resources: A Case Study of Kabale Municipality Dumpsite by Mutaawe, Bob Wamala

“…This therefore makes the leachate easily carried away by the runoff from the rainwater and the water from the roof of the dump site structures and these get deposited in the stream of water and this is likely to the aquatic life in the stream as well as the other users such as the livestock farms in very close proximity as well as irrigation schemes. …”
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Development Projects of Non-Governmental Organisations towards Social-Economic Welfare in Kisoro Municipality. by Pius, Ngarama

“…The study came up with recommendations among which were that: NGOs should behave in a manner that they can justify or defend; and the need to develop a system for monitoring and evaluating NGOs’ development project work and activities as well as enhancing information and dissemination on the effectiveness of this source of assistance for public good.…”
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