Supercritical Coexistence Behavior of Coupled Oscillating Planar Eccentric Rotor/Autobalancer System by DaeYi Jung

“…Specifically, it is described that the unified AB/rotor unit is attached to a foundation via a symmetric support and the foundation is also mounted on the spring-damper isolator which allows oscillating only vertically. …”
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Exam and knowledge-based educations in Uganda: A comparison of concepts. A case of Lango sub region, Northern Uganda by Eton, Rehema, Andrew Peter Yiga, Solomon Asiimwe Muchwa, Fabian, Mwosi, Eton, Marus

“…National examination boards should stop recycling questions, a practice that has made students and learners to correctly hypothesize what is likely to appear in an external examination. Education institutions should shift from handouts that promote cram work to handouts that promote understanding.…”
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Food Safety Analysis of Milk and Beef in Southwestern Uganda by Phyllis Candy, Natabo, Keneth Iceland, Kasozi, Sarah, Namubiru, Dickson Stuart, Tayebwa, Andrew, Tamale, Pwaveno H., Bamaiyi

“…In this study, we established levels of lead (Pb), zinc (Zn), cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu), and iron (Fe) in milk and beef and obtained the estimated daily intake (EDI) and incremental lifetime cancer risk (ILCR) as measures of risk to the Ugandan population. …”
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Mobile Banking and Financial Performance of Commercial Banks in Uganda: A Case Study of Stanbic Bank Rukungiri Branch. by Kinembabazi, Cynthia

“…The study recommended that mobile payment service providers should pay attention to improving the quality of services they provide that is, increasing the bandwidth so as to facilitate speed and advanced hardware installations as mobile payment methods appear to improve economic welfare and the banks should pay special attention to convenience by providing the customers with electronic banking service at points which can easily be accessible. …”
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Social Administration and Societal Transformation in Uganda Today. by Mugavu, George

“…Validity and reliability were guaranteed by paying much attention to critical conceptual clarity and interpretative rigor. In this paper I reviewed the genesis, the roles of Social Administrators, the challenges that hamper the activities the discipline of Social Administration drawing substantiations from the Ugandan experience. …”
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Access of Women to Higher Education in Uganda: An Analysis of Inequalities, Barriers and Determinants by Kwesiga, Joy Constance

“…Lower status within the family structure, lower perceived social value, exacerbated by general economic constraints and inadequate educational structures make girls' education, particularly higher education, appear less profitable than that of boys. This obscures the indirect benefits that families and society would reap from higher rates of female participation in education.…”
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De Novo Assembly of the Pea (Pisum sativum L.) Nodule Transcriptome by Vladimir A. Zhukov, Alexander I. Zhernakov, Olga A. Kulaeva, Nikita I. Ershov, Alexey Y. Borisov, Igor A. Tikhonovich

“…The large size and complexity of the garden pea (Pisum sativum L.) genome hamper its sequencing and the discovery of pea gene resources. …”
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Lidocaine could promote the cuproptosis through up-regulating the long noncoding RNA DNMBP-AS1 in Hep-2 cells by Wei Liu, Yi Yu, Yi He, Meihong Lv

“…Abstract Background Lidocaine is a traditional local anesthetic, which has been reported to trigger apoptosis through the mitochondrial pathway, independent of death receptor signaling. Cuproptosis is a copper triggered mitochondrial cell death mode. In this study, we explored the biological effects of lidocaine on cuproptosis in Hep-2 cells and studied the relevant mechanisms. …”
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Evaluation of PM2.5 Surface Concentrations Simulated by NASA’s MERRA Version 2 Aerosol Reanalysis over India and its Relation to the Air Quality Index by Chimurkar D. Navinya, V. Vinoj, Satyendra K. Pandey

“…However, limited surface measurement and the lack of monitoring with adequate spatial resolution hamper studies related to air pollution and its impact on various societally relevant issues. …”
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Trimetallic ferrite functionalized by guaninium tartrate ionic liquid (Co0.2Zn0.6Cu0.2Fe2O4-SiO2@[GuaH]+[Tar]2‒[GuaH]+) as a novel inorganic-bioorganic nanostructure to promote aqu... by Zahra Khademi, Kobra Nikoofar, Mansoureh Zahedi-Tabrizi

“…In this work, a Cobalt-Zinc-Copper ferrite (Co0.2Zn0.6Cu0.2Fe2O4, CZCF) was synthesized and functionalized with silica and guaninium tartrate ionic liquid (Co0.2Zn0.6Cu0.2Fe2O4-SiO2@[GuaH]+[Tar]2‒[GuaH]+). …”
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High-performance electrochemical sensor based on Pt-Ag@Cu-BDC MOF composite modified glassy carbon electrode for detection of imidacloprid in citrus juice and water samples by Fariba Hasani, Jahan Bakhsh Raoof, Reza Ojani, Milad Ghani

“…Accordingly, we prepared Pt-Ag@Cu-metal organic framework (MOF) as a novel nanocomposite to construct a sensitive electrochemical sensor for voltammetric determination of imidacloprid (IMI). The copper benzene-1,4-dicarboxylate framework (Cu-BDC MOF) was used as support for bearing the metal nanoparticles (NPs) including Ag and Pt. …”
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Determination of Crack Resistance of the Cover and Slide Glass by Indentation Method with the Visualization Using Atomic Force Microscopy by V. A. Lapitskaya, T. A. Kuznetsova, S. A. Chizhik

“…Atomic force microscope images of deformation region after indentation with a Vickers pyramid show that the first cracks appear at a load of 1 N on the slide glass, and at 2 N on the cover glass. …”
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Integrating Individual-Based Indices of Contaminant Effects by Christopher L. Rowe, William A. Hopkins, Justin D. Congdon

“…Behavioral changes in swimming activities and responses to stimuli appear to influence predation risk in the contaminant-exposed population. …”
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Processing streams in a monitoring cloud cluster by Alexey N. Nazarov

“…The need to use service monitoring plays an important role in the cloud computing industry, especially for SLA/QoS assessment, as the application or service may experience problems even if the virtual machines on which the work is taking place appear to be operational. This requires to study the methodological possibilities of organization to study of parallel processing high-speed streaming services with the processing of huge amounts of bit data, and, simultaneously, to estimate the necessary computational resource. …”
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Selection of In Vivo Relevant Dissolution Test Parameters for the Development of Cannabidiol Formulations with Enhanced Oral Bioavailability by Nathan Koch, Quentin Bourcy, Olivier Jennotte, Patrice Chiap, Anna Lechanteur, Jean-Michel Cardot, Brigitte Evrard

“…Therefore, we need to develop in vitro tests that can predict what will happen in vivo. <b>Methods:</b> Comparisons in terms of dissolution were made especially by using different media (FaSSGF, FaSSIF, FeSSIF, HCl 0.1N with or without SLS, phosphate buffer pH 6.8 with or without SLS) and different conditions (sink or non-sink conditions). …”
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Fabrication of highly efficient quartz crystal microbalance ammonia sensor based on Cu-BTC nanocomposites by Kobra Vazirinezhad, Fatemeh Shariatmadar Tehrani, Sedigheh Zeinali, Maryam Tohidi

“…In this work, nanocomposite films of Cu-BTC (MOF containing copper as a metal node and 1,3,5-benzene tricarboxylic acid as an organic linker) with different carbon nanotube (CNT) weight percentages are fabricated on a QCM for the detection of low amounts of ammonia at room temperature. …”
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Applicability of Pulse Pressure Variation during Unstable Hemodynamic Events in the Intensive Care Unit: A Five-Day Prospective Multicenter Study by Bertrand Delannoy, Florent Wallet, Delphine Maucort-Boulch, Mathieu Page, Mahmoud Kaaki, Mathieu Schoeffler, Brenton Alexander, Olivier Desebbe

“…Although these exclusion criteria appear to be profound, they likely represent an absolute contraindication of use for only a minority of critical care patients.…”
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Current Status of Comprehensive Chromosome Screening for Elective Single-Embryo Transfer by Ming-Yih Wu, Kuang-Han Chao, Chin-Der Chen, Li-Jung Chang, Shee-Uan Chen, Yu-Shih Yang

“…As the cost is lowering while the scale of genome characterization continues to be up over the recent years, the contemporary technologies on trophectoderm biopsy and freezing-thaw, comprehensive chromosome screening (CCS) with eSET appear to be getting more and more popular for modern IVF centers. …”
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The Role of Complement System in Septic Shock by Jean Charchaflieh, Jiandong Wei, Georges Labaze, Yunfang Joan Hou, Benjamin Babarsh, Helen Stutz, Haekyung Lee, Samrat Worah, Ming Zhang

“…Both the classical and alternative pathways appear to be activated in septic shock, but the alternative pathway may be activated earlier than the classical pathway. …”
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