Sport values and sustainability? by Tess Kate Schweizer, Nicolas Margas

“…These papers comprised empirical qualitative and quantitative studies on sport values and their development in sport. …”
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Exploring how graft length shapes root system architecture and morphology in grapevine rootstocks by Mathieu Larrey, Jean-Pascal Tandonnet, Clément Saint Cast, Sarah Jane Cookson, Philippe Vivin

“…The latter allowed for non-invasive, time-lapse 2D imaging of early root system development providing quantitative data on adventitious and lateral roots, including their number, length, diameter and branching patterns. …”
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PENGEMBANGAN KIT PRAKTIKUM ELEKTRONIKA DASAR II BERBASIS SIMULATOR PROTEUS UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN MAHASISWA DALAM PEMECAHAN MASALAH by Suwardi Suwardi, Erik Ayatullah, Haidul Haidul

“…Data collection was carried out using observation methods and questionnaires which were analyzed quantitatively descriptively. The results showed that the practicum kit that was successfully developed consisted of eight experiments namely common drain amplifier, common source, ground emitter, pushpull, low frequency response, inverting and non-inverting, integrators and differentiators, and active filters. …”
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Assessing the Factors Influencing Attrition of Health Workers in Government Health Units in Lyantonde District, Uganda. by Kansiime, Benon

“…Methodology Across sectional study of collecting qualitative and quantitative data was conducted on 171 study participants including health workers, Chief Administrative Officer, the District Health Officer, the District Principal Human Resource Officer, Secretary District Service Commission, the Chairperson District Service Commission, the District Principal Internal Auditor, and Secretary for Health, Medical superintendent Lyantonde Hospital, District Planner and the Chief Finance Officer. …”
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Production of Biogas from Bio-Degradable Municipal Solid Waste – A Way of Resource Recovery. by Atatiru, Faiza

“…A Vario Macro cube elemental analyser was used for the quantification of Carbon, C (52.83 Wt %), Hydrogen, H (5.73 Wt %), Oxygen, O (33.23 Wt %), Nitrogen, N (1.68 Wt %) and Sulphur, S (0.87 Wt %) while Calorific Value (2388 Kcal/kg) was done by the bob calorimeter method. …”
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Management Control System and Financial Performance of Micro Finance Institutions in Central Region Uganda by Arthur, Sunday, Caleb, Tamwesigire, Caroline Masiko, Murezi, George Stanley, Kinyata, Godfrey, Barigye, Keneth, Nuwagira, Moses, Agaba

“…The study adopted positive-phenomenological, epistemology and quantitative-qualitative methodology dimension with cross sectional and correlation designs, the unit of analysis was Microfinance Institutions registered with Association of Microfinance Institutions, and employees were the units of inquiry. …”
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Human Resource Practices and Employee Retention in Local Governments in Uganda: A Case of Kabale District Local Government. by Baingana, Alex

“…A case study research design was used considering utilizing both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The study targeted 134 participants, but 119 managed to respond, including 117 who filled out the questionnaire and 02 who were interviewed. …”
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Human Resource Practices and Employee Retention in Local Governments in Uganda: A Case of Kabale District Local Government. by Baingana, Alex

“…A case study research design was used considering utilizing both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The study targeted 134 participants, but 119 managed to respond, including 117 who filled out the questionnaire and 02 who were interviewed. …”
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Information Communication Technology and Service Delivery in Nyagatare District Local Goverment, Rwanda. by Wellars, Kanamugire

“…The study was both qualitative and quantitative in nature. Both simple random and purposive sampling techniques were used to select one hundred and twenty (120) respondents for study. …”
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Community Work Participation and Outcomes in Nyagatare District, Rwanda. by Jean Marie Vianney, Ruzindana

“…The study was both qualitative and quantitative in nature. It reviewed literature for the study in the same arrangement with the study objectives was extracted from different textbooks, manuals, reports, journals and internet from different libraries and computer laboratories as presented in chapter two of this dissertation. …”
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Value-creating factors in the professional relationship between the auditor and the employer in the auditing profession by Alireza Vaziri, keihan Azadi, Mojtaba Maleki choubari

“…The current research is applicative in terms of purpose, and quantitative in terms of execution method. The statistical population of the research includes 303 people, including financial experts, executive directors, auditors or legal inspectors, CEOs or members of the board of directors, university faculty members, and etc.; selected through a targeted sampling method. …”
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Insights from a Pilot Study of Naloxone Education

“…A further aim was to test the potential of education to reduce barriers to administering Naloxone and barriers to calling 999 (UK Emergency services). Methods: We used quantitative methods to gather and analyze data from both control (overdose education, n=15) and experimental (overdose and Naloxone education, n=57) participants, facilitated by educators in the North West of England and London, for opioid users (n=5), former users (n=19), carers/support workers (n=29), family members (n=31) or friends (n=12) (multiple response item). …”
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Presenting a model based on media and social networks in the management of intelligent electricity consumption by Ahmad shojaee arzaneee, Mohamad Hemati, Ali akbar Amin beydokhti

“…According to its purpose, the research method is applicable, and quantitative in terms of implementation, exploratory in terms of nature, and cross-sectional in terms of time. …”
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Designing an entrepreneurial model in the banking network with a digital technology approach by Afshin Nobakht, majid nasiri, parviz Saeedi

“…The research method is applicable according to its purpose, quantitative in terms of execution method, and exploratory research in terms of nature. …”
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Real life experience of a screening strategy for latent tuberculosis before treatment with biologicals in indian patients with rheumatic diseases by Anand N Malaviya, Ravita Thakaran, Roopa Rawat, Sanjiv Kapoor, Shriram Garg, Sadhana S Baghel, Christy Messi, Vivekanand, Qamar Zaheer

“…Screening strategy included screening with “4S symptom complex (current cough, fever, weight loss, and night sweats) for TB,” augmented Mantoux test using ten tuberculin unit (TU) strength simultaneously with QuantiFERON®-TB Gold (QFTG) test. Those with a Mantoux test reading of ≥10 mm induration at 48–72 h and/or with a positive QFTG test, were given TB prophylaxis before initiating bDMARDs. …”
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Real-world clinical utility of Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra in the assessment of tuberculosis in a low-TB-incidence, high-resource setting by Robert C Free, Manish Pareek, Hemu Patel, Pranabashis Haldar, Jee Whang Kim, Richard Halliwell, Nelun Perera, Gerrit Woltmann, Alison Glimour-Caunt, Raman Verma

“…Diagnostic sensitivity and specificity were calculated using positive MTB culture and clinical TB diagnosis as reference standards. The QuantiFERON (QFT) positive proportion of pulmonary TB (PTB) contacts was used as a metric of transmitted infection to evaluate Xpert-Ultra and smear grade as markers of infectiousness.Results 251 samples (188 respiratory) from 231 patients (86 TB) were analysed. …”
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CircUCK2(2,3) promotes cancer progression and enhances synergistic cytotoxicity of lenvatinib with EGFR inhibitors via activating CNIH4–TGFα–EGFR signaling by Xindong Wei, Anfeng Si, Shuai Zhao, Yi Fu, Jilei Li, Kedeerya Aishanjiang, Yujie Ma, Chang Yu, Bo Yu, Chunhong Cui, Hui Wang, Xianming Kong, Shibo Li, Xiaoni Kong, Ying Tong, Hailong Wu

“…CircUCK2(2,3) levels were measured in two independent HCC cohorts using quantitative real-time PCR (qRT–PCR). We explored the functions of circUCK2(2,3) using gain- and loss-of-function assays. …”
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Finding the right dose: a scoping review examining facilitation as an implementation strategy for evidence-based stroke care by Oyebola Fasugba, Heilok Cheng, Simeon Dale, Kelly Coughlan, Elizabeth McInnes, Dominique A. Cadilhac, Ngai W. Cheung, Kelvin Hill, Kirsty Page, Estela Sanjuan Menendez, Emily Neal, Vivien Pollnow, Julia Slark, Eileen Gilder, Anna Ranta, Christopher Levi, Jeremy M. Grimshaw, Sandy Middleton

“…Accompanying publications (quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods or process evaluation papers) from eligible studies were also included. …”
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Rh-relaxin-2 attenuates oxidative stress and neuronal apoptosis via ERK-nNOS-NO pathway after germinal matrix hemorrhage in rats by Jun Liu, Yonghua Cai, Khalil ur Rahman, Qixiong Zhou, Guangjie Liu, Huibin Kang, Mingzhou Li, Shichao Zhang, Gang Wang, Wenfeng Feng, Xi’an Zhang, Guozhong Zhang, Ye Song, Peng Li

“…Co-immunoprecipitation, immunofluorescence, TUNEL, Fluoro-Jade C, DHE staining, western blot, Nitrix Oxide (NO) quantification and side effect experiments were performed to evaluate post-GMH. …”
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Low Expression of FFAR2 in Peripheral White Blood Cells May Be a Genetic Marker for Early Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction by Jianjun Ruan, Heyu Meng, Xue Wang, Weiwei Chen, Xiaomin Tian, Fanbo Meng

“…Real-time fluorescence quantitative polymerase chain reaction was used to detect the expression of the FFAR2 gene. …”
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