Information Communication Technology and Performance of Commercial Banks in Uganda: A Case Study of Equity Bank In Kabale Municipality. by Sabiiti, Ignatius

“…The study also recommended that the ICT infrastructure of the bank in the form of cables, switches, and routers should be improved to the desired standards to enable the clients to be provided with adequate and timely services, the bank officers especially the older employees should be trained on the use of technological gadgets to remove technological phobia among them to equip the entire bank staff with the required skills to to perform their duties effectively, the bank officers should be trained on the process of ensuring digital preservation to equip them with knowledge of digital preservation, there should be better vertical communication to enable the provision of effective feedback that leads to better organizations performance and there should be strong coordination across functions of the bank to achieve the desired and intended goals for success.…”
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Family Economic Status and Education Attainment in Selected Secondary Schools Buhara Sub-County Kabale District. by Kanyesigye, Evasy

“…Key findings revealed that 72.5% of respondents showed a strong positive significant impact between family economic status and students’ academic attainment in Buhara Sub-Cunty, Kabale district. …”
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E-Procurement and Procurement Performance of Central Government Procuring and Disposing Entities in Uganda: A Case Study of Kabale Regional Referral Hospital. by Kekitinisa, Privas

“…The strength of the relationship, as indicated by the standardized Beta coefficient, is moderate to strong, implying that efforts to improve e-procurement practices can have a substantial positive impact on procurement performance…”
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Allium Cepa (Onion) Extract Enhances and Protects Testicular Function and Architecture against Paraquat Induced Oxidative Damage. by Uzozie Chikere, Ofoego, Ejike, Daniel Eze

“…It can be concluded that A. cepa exerts strong antioxidant effects in a dose-dependent manner in ameliorating testicular toxicity induced by paraquat in animal models.…”
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Transcriptome analysis and cytochrome P450 monooxygenase reveal the molecular mechanism of Bisphenol A degradation by Pseudomonas putida strain YC-AE1 by Adel, Eltoukhy, Yang, Jia, Imane, Lamraoui, M. A., Abo‑Kadoum, Omar, Mohammad Atta, Ruth, Nahurira, Junhuan, Wang, Yanchun, Yan

“…Pseudomonas putida YC‑AE1 was isolated in our previous study and exerted a strong degradation capacity toward BPA at high concentrations; however, the molecular degradation mechanism is still enigmatic. …”
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Integrated single-cell and bulk transcriptome analysis of R-loop score-based signature with regard to immune microenvironment, lipid metabolism and prognosis in HCC by Long Chen, Houzhi Yang, Xianfu Wei, Xianfu Wei, Jianchao Liu, Xiuxin Han, Chao Zhang, Yongheng Liu, Yan Zhang, Yao Xu, Yiqin Li, Guowen Wang, Jinyan Feng

“…Dysregulated R-loops, three-stranded nucleic acid structures associated with genome instability, play a key role in the malignant characteristics of various tumors. …”
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A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of the BTK inhibitor zanubrutinib in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 respiratory distress: immune biomarker and clinical findings by Steven P. Treon, Camille N. Kotton, David J. Park, Giorgia Moranzoni, Camilla K. Lemvigh, Joseph C. Gathe, Tilly A. Varughese, Christopher F. Barnett, Johnny M. Belenchia, Nina M. Clark, Charles M. Farber, Muhammad Bilal Abid, Gulrayz Ahmed, Christopher J. Patterson, Maria L. Guerrera, Jacob D. Soumerai, Vipheaviny A. Chea, Isabel P. Carulli, Jackson Southard, Shuqiang Li, Catherine J. Wu, Kenneth J. Livak, Eric Holmgren, Pil Kim, Carrie Shi, Holly Lin, Vanitha Ramakrishnan, Ying Ou, Scott Olszewski, Lars Rønn Olsen, Derin B. Keskin, Derin B. Keskin, Zachary R. Hunter, Christopher Tankersley, Todd Zimmerman, Binod Dhakal

“…Concurrent administration of steroids and antiviral therapy to most patients may have contributed to these results. …”
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Improved cardiac and venous pressures during hospital stay in patients with acute heart failure: an echocardiography and biomarkers study by Eiichi Akiyama, Raphaël Cinotti, Kamilė Čerlinskaitė, Lucas N.L. Van Aelst, Mattia Arrigo, Rui Placido, Tahar Chouihed, Nicolas Girerd, Faiez Zannad, Patrick Rossignol, Marc Badoz, Jean‐Marie Launay, Etienne Gayat, Alain Cohen‐Solal, Carolyn S.P. Lam, Jeffrey Testani, Wilfried Mullens, Gad Cotter, Marie‐France Seronde, Alexandre Mebazaa

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LA CRITIQUE IRONIQUE DE L’ACQUISITION DE LA DOCTRINE DE LIBERTE ABSOLUE DANS “L’IMMORALISTE” D’ANDRE GIDE / ANDRE GIDE’İN AHLAKSIZ ADLI ROMANINDA MUTLAK ÖZGÜRLÜK DOKTRİNİN EDİNİMİN... by Fuat BOYACIOĞLU, Hülya KOL

“…Onun sapık ilişkilerinden duyduğu pişmanlığı, dostlarından yardım istemesi, mutlak özgürlük doktrinin ironik şekilde bir eleştirisidir.</strong></p>…”
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A new species of Semisulcospira O. Boettger, 1886 (Gastropoda, Cerithoidea, Semisulcospiridae) from Fujian, China with mitochondrial genome and its phylogenetic implications by Yi-Bin Xu, Yuan-Zheng Meng, Sheng Zeng, Hang-Jun Wang, Shen Zhong, De-Yuan Yang, Xi-Ping Zhou, Christopher J. Glasby

“…., is characterized by its thin and smooth shell, retaining about 0.5 mm long embryonic shells in its brood pouch, and by distinctive features of its radular morphology. …”
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Performance of Lac Insect Kerria lacca Kerr on Bushy Host Flemingia semialata (Roxb.) by P. Bhagyapriya, S. R. Koteswara Rao, Sanyasidhurua, D. Ramesh

“…Mean fecundity (Number of young ones produced by the female insect) recorded was 389.60. Mean yield (kg) of brood lac obtained was 0.76 kg and mean yield (kg) of scrapped lac obtained was 0.35 kg. …”
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Jiedu Xiaozheng Decoction Augments 5-fluorouracil Induced Anti-hepatic Carcinoma Effect <italic>in Vitro</italic> and <italic>in Vivo</italic> by Zhiyun CAO, Liangpu ZHENG, Wei LIN, Xuzheng CHEN, Xiaoqin ZHU, Jiumao LIN, Wei LIN, Jian DU

“…Therefore, there is a strong demand to find some new drugs of low side-effect for HCC treatment. …”
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Expression of EZH2 and H3K27me3 predicts tumor biology of urothelial carcinoma by Rasheeda Mohamedali, Suvradeep Mitra, Swarnendu Mandal, Prasant Nayak, Amit K. Adhya, Suvendu Purkait

“…Conclusions: This study establishes an important role of the key epigenetic regulators EZH2 and H3K27me3 in the pathobiology of urothelial carcinomas. Strong expression of EZH2 and weak expression of H3K27me3 are associated with higher grade, proliferative index and invasive behavior.…”
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DEVELOPMENT OF MELTED EXPANDED POLYSTYRENE AS ΒITUMEN MODIFIER FOR PAVEMENT CONSTRUCTION by AREMU TAJUDEEN ORIAJE, BAMIDELE IBUKUNOLU OLUGBEMI DAHUNSI, KAZEEM ADEKUNLE ADEYEMO

“…The results also showed that with correlation coefficients ranging from r = 0.658-0.999, there is a strong positive correlation between the improvement exhibited in the specimen tested properties and melted EPS used in bitumen. …”
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Self-assembled Human Serum Protein-based Core-shell Nanoparticles to inhibit key oncogenic signalling in Drug-Resistant Leukemia by Archana Payickattu Retnakumary, Lekshmi G Kumar, Neeraj Sidharthan, Pavithran Keechilat, Giridharan L. Malarvizhi, Prasanna L Hanumanthu, Madhavan V Thampi, Deepthy Menon, Krishnakumar Menon, Shantikumar V Nair, Manzoor Koyakutty

“…Furthermore, in vivo testing on a human xeno-graft model with a BCR-ABL+/+/STAT5+/+/TfR+/+ phenotype showcased a strong anti-tumor response. These results underscore the potential of a molecular-diagnosis-based rational design approach for protein-protein core-shell nanoparticles to simultaneously inhibit multiple oncogenic pathways, thereby overcoming resistance to targeted molecular therapies.…”
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A mechanistic-statistical approach to infer dispersal and demography from invasion dynamics, applied to a plant pathogen by Saubin, Méline, Coville, Jérome, Xhaard, Constance, Frey, Pascal, Soubeyrand, Samuel, Halkett, Fabien, Fabre, Frédéric

“…Dispersal, and in particular the frequency of long-distance dispersal (LDD) events, has strong implications for population dynamics with possibly the acceleration of the colonisation front, and for evolution with possibly the conservation of genetic diversity along the colonised domain. …”
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Two-dimensional cell membrane chromatography guided screening of myocardial protective compounds from Yindan Xinnaotong soft capsule by Si-Min Shao, Xuan Ji, Xing Wang, Run-Zhou Liu, Yu-Ru Cai, Xiaobing Lin, Ze-Jie Zeng, Ling Chen, Liu Yang, Hua Yang, Wen Gao

“…Furthermore, all 24 screened compounds exhibit strong binding affinities with FOXO3 evaluated by molecular docking. …”
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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

“…We evaluated 23 male*female dyads and found moderate to strong dynamic interactions between individuals. Spatial interaction largely depends on home-range shape and size and does not necessarily affect dynamic interaction. …”
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Integrating machine learning with mendelian randomization for unveiling causal gene networks in glioblastoma multiforme by Lixin Du, Pan Wang, Xiaoting Qiu, Zhigang Li, Jianlan Ma, Pengfei Chen

“…MR analysis provided strong evidence of a causal relationship between the expression levels of the identified genes and GBM risk. …”
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Repairable electronic products for the circular economy: a review of design for repair features, practices and measures to contrast obsolescence by Nataliia Roskladka, Gianmarco Bressanelli, Nicola Saccani, Giovanni Miragliotta

“…Against this trend, product repairability is a preferred Circular Economy strategy to extend product lifespan and contrast obsolescence. It is strongly advocated by consumer movements (“Right to Repair”) and supported by environmental policies, such as the European Union Circular Economy Action Plan. …”
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