Effect of Household Income on Household Welfare in Kitumba Sub-County Kabale District. by Kakuru, Richard

“…A cross-sectional study design was used and data was collected using interviews and questionnaires. …”
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Role of Media in Promoting Civil Education and Awareness of Government Programs: A Case Study of Buyanja Sub-County Rukungiri District. by Ahumuza, Charity

“…Both quantitative and qualitative techniques were used during data analysis. The findings who participants in the study revealed that dissemination of Information is one of the primary ways in which the media promotes civil education in Buyanja Sub-County, Rukungiri District and Uganda by disseminating accurate and relevant information to the public. …”
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Design of a Solar Dryer for Tomatoes. by Bwire, Samlex Sibagaya

“…The project budget will cover instrumentation for data collection during testing and potential travel for field testing. …”
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Career Guidance and Academic Performance in Secondary Schools in Kisoro District; A case Study of Namirembe and Nyanamo Comprehensive Secondary Schools in Bukimbiri Sub-County. by Robert, Mwesigwa

“…To gather primary data for the study during the field, the researcher used, questionnaire, interview observation guides and focused group discussion guide and the documentary review for secondary data respectively. …”
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Performance Management Innovations and Local Government Employees Performance in Kabale District: A case Study of Kabale District Local Government Administration. by Alex, Museveni

“…The study found out that performance management innovations employed to improve employee’s performance include Various Acts and statutory guidelines ,Local governments need for constant feedback from service-users , The White Paper on Local Government, conforming to Integrated Development Plan (IDP) framework , broader framework in place to improve financial management in local government and development of a guide, that performance management innovations have improved employee’s performance in the following ways: Review of the performance of staff, regular review meetings have increased, targets have been maintained, submission of reports, that the Challenges met during the implementation of performance management innovations are, Difficulty in measuring performance, The lack of clear roles and responsibilities, Political factors, non-performance culture and Organizational factors. …”
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Influence of Omega-3 and Green Tea Extract on Alcohol-Induced Liver Injury in Rats by Ridha Hassan Hussein, Zana Hassan Ibrahim

“…Fatty liver (steatosis) was induced in male albino rats by alcohol 40% orally (3.76gm/kgm BW/day) for the period of 4 weeks, then green tea extract (GTE) and omega-3 (OMG-3) fish oil were used as treatments for improvement and investigating their comparison potential role for the next 4 weeks. …”
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Establishment of a rapid and quantitative method for detecting the range of infection exposure in preclinical dental education by Ayaka Ueda, Yuki Shinoda-Ito, Kazu Takeuchi-Hatanaka, Takashi Ito, Shintaro Ono, Kimito Hirai, Kazuhiro Omori, Tadashi Yamamoto, Shogo Takashiba

“…The mixed liquid of yogurt and hand lotion was used as artificial saliva. Second, we used this artificial saliva in preclinical education. …”
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Combined effects of alginate based active edible coatings and irradiation treatment on the quality characteristics of Beef Meat at 2°C by Samir Smeti, Souha Tibaoui, Hayet Ben Haj Koubaier, Atef Lakoud, Naziha Atti

“…The addition of myrtle extract and the use of irradiation treatment have significantly delayed (P<0.001) the lipid oxidation of meat by lowering TBARS values to 0.39, 0.58, and 0.52 mg MDA/kg for MYRT, IRR and IRAC groups, respectively, whereas it reaches 1.14 mg of MDA/kg for CON group. …”
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Dihydroquercetin attenuated Prevotella copri-caused intestinal injury by modulating gut microbiota and bile acids in weaned piglets by Long Wang, Ruizhi Hu, Siqi Ma, Xizi Yang, Jiatai Gong, Hongkun Xiang, Mingkun Shi, Xupeng Yuan, Liang Chen, Hongfu Zhang, Bie Tan, Xi He, Jianhua He, Shusong Wu

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Normative Parameters of Gastrocnemius Muscle Stiffness and Associations with Patient Characteristics and Function by Larisa R Hoffman, Shane L Koppenhaver, Cameron W MacDonald, Johnny M Herrera, Joshua Streuli, Zachary L Visco, Nicole Wildermuth, Stephanie R Albin

“…Differences based on muscle state (resting vs contracted) and sex (female vs male) were assessed using a 2 X 2 analysis of variance (ANOVA). Associations between muscle stiffness and sex, age, BMI, race, exercise frequency, exercise duration, force production, and step length were assessed using correlation analysis…”
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Agreement between 2D Visual- and 3D Motion Capture-based Assessment of Foot Strike Pattern by Haruhiko Goto, Toshinao Kamikubo, Ryota Yamamoto, Toshiharu Tsutsui, Suguru Torii

“…The visual, SI, and SA methods were used, and the kappa values for each method were calculated…”
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CONSTRUCTIVE GEOMETRY IN IMPLEMENTATIONS OF MODERN 3D GRAPHICS by Ivan G. Lenchuk, Oleksandr O. Mosiiuk

“…Engineering and manufacturing, architecture, design, cinematography, education, and the game industry are an incomplete list of industries where it is actively used. …”
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Treatment Patterns of Follicular Lymphoma in the United States: A Claims Analysis by Scott F. Huntington, Sreevalsa Appukkuttan, Wenyi Wang, Yuxian Du, Sari Hopson, Svetlana Babajanyan

“…**Methods:** A retrospective cohort of patients with newly diagnosed FL was identified from June 2008 to September 2016 using the IBM MarketScan® database. …”
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International norms for adult handgrip strength: A systematic review of data on 2.4 million adults aged 20 to 100+ years from 69 countries and regions by Grant R. Tomkinson, Justin J. Lang, Lukáš Rubín, Ryan McGrath, Bethany Gower, Terry Boyle, Marilyn G. Klug, Alexandra J. Mayhew, Henry T. Blake, Francisco B. Ortega, Cristina Cadenas-Sanchez, Costan G. Magnussen, Brooklyn J. Fraser, Tetsuhiro Kidokoro, Yang Liu, Kaare Christensen, Darryl P. Leong, Mette Aadahl, Edimansyah Abdin, Julian Alcazar, Aqeel Alenazi, Bader Alqahtani, Cledir De A. Amaral, Thatiana L.M. Amaral, Alex Andrade Fernandes, Peter Axelsson, Jennifer N. Baldwin, Karin Bammann, Aline R. Barbosa, Ameline Bardo, Inosha Bimali, Peter Bjerregaard, Martin Bobak, Colin A. Boreham, Klaus Bös, João Carlos Bouzas Marins, Joshua Burns, Nadezda Capkova, Lilia Castillo-Martínez, Liang-Kung Chen, Siu Ming Choi, Rebecca K.J. Choong, Susana C. Confortin, Cyrus Cooper, Jorge E. Correa-Bautista, Amandine Cournil, Grace Cruz, Eling D. de Bruin, José Antonio De Paz, Bruno De Souza Moreira, Luiz Antonio Dos Anjos, María Cristina Enríquez Reyna, Eduardo Ferriolli, Gillian Forrester, Elena Frolova, Abadi K. Gebre, Atef M. Ghaleb, Tiffany K. Gill, Yasuyuki Gondo, M. Cristina Gonzalez, Citlali Gonzalez Alvarez, Mary K. Hannah, Nicholas C. Harvey, Jean-Yves Hogrel, Marie-Theres Huemer, Toshiko Iidaka, Lewis A. Ingram, Dmitri A. Jdanov, Victoria L. Keevil, Wolfgang Kemmler, Rose Anne Kenny, Dae-Yeon Kim, Tracy L. Kivell, Ingirid G.H. Kjær, Alexander Kluttig, Rumi Kozakai, Danit Langer, Lisbeth A. Larsen, Wei-Ju Lee, David A. Leon, Eric Lichtenstein, Bertis B. Little, Roberto Alves Lourenço, Rahul Malhotra, Robert M. Malina, Kiyoaki Matsumoto, Tal Mazor-Karsenty, Marnee J. McKay, Sinéad McLoughlin, Abhishek L. Mensegere, Mostafa Mohammadian, Virgilio Garcia Moreira, Hiroshi Murayama, Anne Murray, Anita Liberalesso Neri, Claudia Niessner, Gabriel Núñez Othón, Gabriel Olveira, Suzanne G. Orchard, Andrezj Pajak, Chan Woong Park, Julie A. Pasco, Maria E. Peña Reyes, Leani Souza Máximo Pereira, Annette Peters, Eric Tsz-Chun Poon, Margareth C. Portela, Jedd Pratt, Robinson Ramírez-Vélez, Wendy Rodríguez-García, Joanne Ryan, Mauricio A. San-Martín, Francisco José Sánchez-Torralvo, Mahnaz Saremi, Arno Schmidt-Trucksäss, Satoshi Seino, Shamsul Azhar Shah, Marc Sim, Bjørn Heine Strand, Mythily Subramaniam, Charlotte Suetta, Sophia X. Sui, Jonas S. Sundarakumar, Koya Suzuki, Abdonas Tamosiunas, Maw Pin Tan, Yu Taniguchi, Barbara Thorand, Anna Turusheva, Anne Therese Tveter, Jonathan Wagner, Dao Wang, Stuart J. Warden, Julia Wearing, Shiou Liang Wee, Leo D. Westbury, Agnieszka Wiśniowska-Szurlej, Alexander Woll, Noriko Yoshimura, Ruby Yu

“…Background: Muscular strength is a powerful marker of current health status and robust predictor of age-related disease and disability. Handgrip strength (HGS) using isometric dynamometry is a convenient, feasible, and widely used method of assessing muscular strength among people of all ages. …”
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Prediction of growth and feed efficiency in mink using machine learning algorithms by A. Shirzadifar, G. Manafiazar, P. Davoudi, D. Do, G. Hu, Y. Miar

“…The main objectives of this study were to (1) evaluate the application of machine learning (ML) algorithms to predict the average daily gain (ADG), feed conversion ratio (FCR), and residual feed intake (RFI) values during the whole growing and furring period (15 weeks from August 1st to November 14th) using less expensive features such as sex, color type, age, BW and length; (2) find the most significant contributing feature within the growth and furring period to predict the ADG, FCR and RFI. …”
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Hip Adduction and Abduction Strength Profiles Among Bantam, High School, Juniors, and Collegiate American Ice Hockey Players by Morgan L. Olson, Gary Schindler

“…The mean of three reps of maximal hip isometric adduction and abduction strengths were quantified using a handheld dynamometer with external belt-fixation. …”
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Two decades of recipient and donor referrals for heart transplantation to Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa: A retrospective study by R Kanyongo, G Calligaro, B Cupido, J Scherman, A Brooks, C Ofoegbu, N Da Silva, A Ryan, M Mofamadi, K Seele, P Human, J Brink, P Zilla, T Pennel

“…Forty-nine patients (7.8%) died during work-up, while 130 (85.0%) of the listed patients received a heart transplant. …”
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Side-Stream Based Marine Solubles From Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua) Modulate Appetite and Dietary Nutrient Utilization in Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar L.) and can Replace Fish Meal by Hanne Jorun Sixten, Ivar Rønnestad, André S. Bogevik, Tone Aspevik, Åge Oterhals, Ana S. Gomes, Floriana Lai, Ingvill Tolås, Virginie Gelebard, Marie Hillestad, Katerina Kousoulaki

“…Besides general performance, gut and brain gene expression for selected hormones and key neuropeptides involved in the control of appetite and digestive processes were studied during feeding and postprandial, and possible reference levels for Atlantic salmon were established. …”
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Effects of moss restoration on surface runoff and initial soil erosion in a temperate vineyard by C. Gall, S. Oldenburg, M. Nebel, T. Scholten, S. Seitz

“…The effects of moss restoration on surface runoff and sediment discharge were examined compared to bare soil and cover crops using rainfall simulation experiments (45 mm h<span class="inline-formula">⁻¹</span> for 30 min) with small-scale runoff plots at three measurement times during 1 year (April, June, and October).…”
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The protective role of SGLT2 inhibitors on aortic aneurysm mediated by oxidative stress and inflammation in type 2 diabetes mellitus by Rujie Zheng, Wenjuan Song, Jie Lu, Mingyue Yuan, Xiaotong Sun, Chengzhi Lu

“…Abstract Background Sodium-glucose transport protein 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) have been widely used to treat patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and have demonstrated protective effects against certain cardiovascular diseases. …”
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