SARS-Cov-2 Incidence Monitoring and Statistical Estimation of the Basic and Time-Varying Reproduction Number at the Early Onset of the Pandemic in 45 Sub-Saharan African Countries. by Oduro, Michael Safo, Arhin‐Donkor, Seth, Asiedu, Louis, Kadengye, Damazo T., Iddi, Samuel

“…An accurate assessment of the transmissibility of the coronavirus remained a public health priority for many countries across the world to fight this pandemic, especially at its early onset. In this paper, we estimated the transmission potential of COVID-19 across 45 countries in sub-Saharan Africa using three approaches, namely, R0 based on (i) an exponential growth model (ii) maximum likelihood (ML) estimation, and (iii) a time-varying basic reproduction number at the early onset of the pandemic. …”
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Effect of Population Growth on Climate Change in Nyakishenyi Sub-County Rukungiri District Uganda. by Arinda, Nicholus

“…Conducted through a descriptive research design, data collection took place in February using questionnaires and interviews with a sample of 156 respondents from a target population of 256. …”
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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. …”
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Transitioning health workers from PEPFAR contracts to the Uganda government payroll by Everd, Bikaitwoha Maniple

“…We conducted a multiple case study of 10 (out of 87) districts in Uganda which received PEPFAR support between 2013 and 2015 to expand their health workforce. …”
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Temporal and Spatial Seasonal Variations in Quality of Gravity Flow Water in Kyanamira Sub-County, Kabale District, Uganda by Hannington, Ngabirano, Denis, Byamugisha, Emmanuel, Ntambi

“…Statistical presentations of data including cluster analysis, dendrograms and principal component analysis were used with the assistance of PAST software. Temperature, pH, TDS dissolved oxygen, cations, anions (chemical parameters) and salmonella, faecal coliforms were the major contributing parameters to gravity flow water’s quality variations during both seasons. …”
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Evaluation of the efficiency of Russian universities: Do we need to change the paradigm? by E. V. Romanov

“…It was found that the majority of “peripheral” technical universities have an “innate” sign of “inefficiency” - the average USE score of incoming applicants is less than 60, which was recorded during almost all monitoring measurements in 2013-2019. …”
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Prospective Single-Arm Study of Remifentanil-Propofol Anesthesia with Manual Right Hypochondrial Compression for Painless Gastroscopy in Obese Patients by Wang M, Tang J, Pan Z, Jiang H, Hu D, Zhu B, Liang Z, Zhao X, Li Y

“…We also identified severe OSA and diabetes as independent predictive risk factors for hypoxemia. …”
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Foreign Direct Investment and Violent Crimes: Evidence from the Iranian Provinces by gholamreza zamanian, Frnaz Dehghan, foruzan falahati, ali davari

“…As a result, the aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between foreign investment and crimes committed in 31 provinces of the country during 2001-2021 using panel data regression models and unit root stationarity tests of Levin, Lin and Chu, Im, Pesaran and Shin, Fisher and Fisher. …”
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Feasibility, Usability, and Pilot Efficacy Study of a Software-Enabled, Virtual Pulmonary Rehabilitation with Remote Therapeutic Monitoring by Flynn S, Mosher CL, Cornelison S, Rao E, Metzler KA, Pu W, Davies J, Paladenech C, Doyle D, MacIntyre N, Ohar J

“…Feasibility was measured using qualitative analysis of adherence, reasons for withdrawal, and self-reported barriers to using the software at home. …”
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Hameaux et villages paysans de la période romaine en plaine d’Alsace by Antonin Nüsslein, Pascal Flotté, Mathias Higelin, Muriel Roth-Zehner

“…In some cases a clustered rural settlement developed in the same location during the 6th-7th c. AD, after an apparent hiatus of several decades. …”
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Identifying the educational components of technology commercialization of universities with metacombination method by Mohammad Khorasani, Hassanali Aghajani, Abdolhamid Safaei Ghadikolaee, HamidReza Fallah Lajimi

“…The statistical population of this research includes 110 documented articles, which were adjusted to 86 and 30 during three stages of screening and refinement, and finally to 15 articles related to the educational components of commercialization of technology in universities, and were identified by the method of metacombining the components related to commercialization of technology of Universities. …”
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Optimizing injection accuracy for Baxter’s nerve entrapment: an ultrasonography-guided approach based on anatomical surface landmarks by Jung-woo Choi, Hyung-Jin Lee, Yong-Seok Nam, Mi Young Shin, Sang-Hyun Kim, Jun-Ho Kim, In-Beom Kim

“…For entrapment site 2, the out-of-plane approach (90% success) outperformed the in-plane approach (20% success).Conclusion Using two specific landmarks provides reliable guidelines for optimal transducer placement during injections targeting compressive neuropathy at proximal and distal entrapment sites.…”
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Turkish suicide patterns: Longitudinal analysis of suicide trends in Turkiye (2000 -2022) by Ayhan Tabur, Feruza Turan Sonmez

“…A retrospective analysis was conducted using data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) and other national databases. …”
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Drug administration errors among anaesthesia providers in South Africa: a cross-sectional descriptive study by René van Wyk, Ryan Alroy Davids

“…Method A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted using a peer-reviewed survey questionnaire, circulated to 2217 anaesthetists via a national communication platform. …”
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MCPA: multi-scale cross perceptron attention network for 2D medical image segmentation by Liang Xu, Mingxiao Chen, Yi Cheng, Pengwu Song, Pengfei Shao, Shuwei Shen, Peng Yao, Ronald X. Xu

“…However, the integration of the Transformer modules may result in the loss of local contextual information during the global feature fusion process. In this work, we propose a 2D medical image segmentation model called multi-scale cross perceptron attention network (MCPA). …”
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The Serum High-Sensitive C Reactive Protein and Homocysteine Levels to Evaluate the Prognosis of Acute Ischemic Stroke by Tahir Yoldas, Murat Gonen, Ahmet Godekmerdan, Fulya Ilhan, Ednan Bayram

“…Ischemic stroke is one of the most common causes of death worldwide and is most often caused by thrombotic processes. We investigated the changes in hsCRP and homocysteine levels, two of these risk factors, during the acute period of ischemic stroke and evaluated the relationship between these levels and the short-term prognosis. …”
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التخطیط الاستراتیجى فى مؤسسات المعلومات فى دولة الکویت by د. عبد الله حمود مویهان

“…The researcher recommended that the InformationInstitutions in the State of Kuwait should determine the purposes of strategicplanning and correlate them to the purposes of Information Institution, alteringfrom the performance form to new performance form and involve all the institutionstaff in the planning process.Results1- Clarity of the concept of strategic planning for employees andcoaches in information institutions at Kuwait University.2- (20.4%) of the respondents believe that strategic planning is amethod for making crucial decisions within the library.3- A percentage (44.9%) of the respondents believe that strategicplanning achieves the goals of the information institution.4- It turns out that (55.1%) of the sample members support that there isto provide capabilities in university libraries and equipment toimplement strategic planning commensurate with the organizationalstructure.5- Library buildings at Kuwait University are appropriate in terms of areaand capabilities for implementing strategic planning.6- He sees (53.1%) of the study sample view that a senior managementbelieves in strategic planning and sees the readiness of theinformation institution in terms of all material and human resources.7- It is clear to us that the percentage (46.9%) of the communitymembers believe that those who carry out strategic planning within  the information institution are the efforts of the work teams, as thesenior management supports the work teams.8- Community members confirm that the study percentage (63.3%)indicates that the requirements for strategic planning requireparticipatory work within the information institution.9- (40.8%) believe that one of the benefits of strategic planning withinthe information institution is that it leads to improvement anddevelopment of workers' performance and works to rationalize thecorrect course during work.…”
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Tigers in their new territory: intraspecific interactions among the reintroduced tiger population in Panna Tiger Reserve, Central India by Supratim Dutta, Ramesh Krishnamurthy

“…To investigate spatial interactions, we used Autocorrelated Kernel Density Estimator methods. …”
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The Predictive Role of Lactate in the Emergency Department in Patients with Severe Dyspnea by Maciej Niczewski, Szymon Gawęda, Paulina Kluszczyk, Mikołaj Rycerski, Daria Syguła, Anna Danel, Szymon Szmigiel, Konrad Mendrala, Aleksandra Oraczewska, Czarosław Kijonka, Monika Nowicka, Michał Wita, Tomasz Cyzowski, Grzegorz Brożek, Maciej Dyrbuś, Szymon Skoczyński

“…The primary endpoint was short-term, all-cause mortality during the follow-up of median (quartile 1–quartile 3) 2 (1–4) months. …”
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The use of molecular-genetic and phytopathological methods to identify genes for effective leaf rust resistance in Aegilops accessions by L. G. Tyryshkin, M. A. Kolesova

“…The purpose of this work was a comparison between molecular-genetic and phytopathological methods to identify leaf rust resistance genes Lr9 and Lr41 in three Aegilops species.Materials and methods. We identified leaf rust resistance genes Lr9 and Lr41 in forty Aegilops accessions using PCR with J13 and GDM35 primers, respectively. …”
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