Impact of food and beverage management on customer satisfaction in the hospitality sector: A case study of White Horse Inn Hotel, Kabale District by Tumusiime, Cosmas Bwambale

“…Researching on customer satisfaction is important because satisfied customers become loyal customers. Therefore, it is crucial to measure customer satisfaction towards food and beverage management because satisfied customers make repetitive purchasing and recommendations to others that will make profits of that particular hospitality establishment. …”
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Cost and Management Accounting Practices, ICT Usage and Performance of Secondary Schools in Uganda: A Case of South Western Uganda by Abanis, Turyahebwa, Natwijuka, Crispus, Sunday, Arthur, Byamukama, Eliab Mpora

“…Without steadfast cost and management systems to guarantee stable financial performance, the secondary schools must, as any other enterprise throughout the world, become financially autonomous, their survival is in doubt.…”
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Creation of national regions as a means of ensuring rights and freedoms of Russian Germans: on the example of Azovsky Nemetsky (German) National District by M. S. Novikov

“…Maintaining political stability and unity of the territory of the state is an important task for any government. It becomes especially relevant in cases where different territories of the state have ethnically different populations. …”
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Hair Follicle Morphogenesis in the Treatment of Mouse Full-Thickness Skin Defects Using Composite Human Acellular Amniotic Membrane and Adipose Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Wu Minjuan, Xiong Jun, Shao Shiyun, Xu Sha, Ni Haitao, Wang Yue, Ji Kaihong

“…Early repair of skin injury and maximal restoration of the function and appearance have become important targets of clinical treatment. In the present study, we observed the healing process of skin defects in nude mice and structural characteristics of the new skin after transplantation of isolated and cultured adipose derived mesenchymal stem cells (ADMSCs) onto the human acellular amniotic membrane (AAM). …”
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Hybrid Vibration Control under Broadband Excitation and Variable Temperature Using Viscoelastic Neutralizer and Adaptive Feedforward Approach by João C. O. Marra, Eduardo M. O. Lopes, José João de Espíndola, Walter Antônio Gontijo

“…The need for more knowledge and domain of such phenomena increases more and more, especially in the modern society where the human-machine integration becomes closer day after day. In that context, this work deals with the development and practical implementation of a hybrid (passive-active/adaptive) vibration control system over a metallic beam excited by a broadband signal and under variable temperature, between 5 and 35°C. …”
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Analysis of the Unsteady Flow Field in a Centrifugal Compressor from Peak Efficiency to Near Stall with Full-Annulus Simulations by Yannick Bousquet, Xavier Carbonneau, Guillaume Dufour, Nicolas Binder, Isabelle Trebinjac

“…At near stall condition, the interface between the two flow structures becomes unstable leading to vortices development. …”
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Study on the rheological properties of nano-SiO2 composite modified basalt mineral fiber asphalt mortar by Haiwei Gao, Nanxiang Zheng, Xiang Zhang, Zhihui Li, Zhuohong Cong

“…The high-temperature stability of fiber asphalt mastic improves with increasing fiber dosage, but the improvement becomes negligible beyond a 2.6% dosage. The interfacial bonding layer formed by asphalt on the fiber surface enhances the high-temperature performance and stress dissipation at low temperatures, thereby improving low-temperature cracking resistance.…”
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Trichostatin A Promotes the Generation and Suppressive Functions of Regulatory T Cells by Cristian Doñas, Macarena Fritz, Valeria Manríquez, Gabriela Tejón, María Rosa Bono, Alejandra Loyola, Mario Rosemblatt

“…Here we show that the foxp3 gene promoter becomes hyperacetylated in in vitro differentiated Tregs compared to naïve CD4+ T cells. …”
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Chemical Activation of the Hypoxia-Inducible Factor Reversibly Reduces Tendon Stem Cell Proliferation, Inhibits Their Differentiation, and Maintains Cell Undifferentiation by Alessandra Menon, Pasquale Creo, Marco Piccoli, Sonia Bergante, Erika Conforti, Giuseppe Banfi, Pietro Randelli, Luigi Anastasia

“…However, adult stem cells are usually limited in number and difficult to be expanded in vitro, and they usually tend to quickly lose their potency with passages, as they differentiate and become senescent. Culturing stem cells under reduced oxygen tensions (below 21%) has been proposed as a tool to increase cell proliferation, but many studies reported opposite effects. …”
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Usefulness of Double-Balloon Endoscopy in the Postoperative Gastrointestinal Tract by Masaki Endo, Yukito Abiko, Syuhei Oana, Norihiko Kudara, Takashi Kosaka, Toshimi Chiba, Yasuhiro Takikawa, Kazuyuki Suzuki, Tamotsu Sugai

“…In recent years, many imaging modalities have become available, such as CT enterography, MR enterography, capsule endoscopy (CE), and double-balloon endoscopy (DBE). …”
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Optimization of Seed-Receiving Mechanism in Belt-Driven Seed Guide Tube Based on High-Speed Videography Experiment by Chengcheng Ma, Zhihuan Zhao, Xiaomei Chen, Youyuan Tang, Ning Song, Yanfeng Xiao, Xu Yang

“…When the seed-receiving angle is set at 85°, the seed speed fluctuation becomes less apparent, resulting in a smoother seed displacement trajectory. …”
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Receptivity of Boundary Layer over a Blunt Wedge due to Freestream Pulse Disturbances at Mach 6 by Jianqiang Shi, Xiaojun Tang, Zhenqing Wang, Mingfang Shi, Wei Zhao

“…In general, the amplitudes of both fundamental mode and harmonics become larger with the decreasing of freestream disturbance frequency. …”
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Targeting Herpetic Keratitis by Gene Therapy by Hossein Mostafa Elbadawy, Marine Gailledrat, Carole Desseaux, Diego Ponzin, Stefano Ferrari

“…Ocular gene therapy is rapidly becoming a reality. By November 2012, approximately 28 clinical trials were approved to assess novel gene therapy agents. …”
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Predictors of Staphylococcus aureus Colonization and Results after Decolonization by Tennison L. Malcolm, Le Don Robinson, Alison K. Klika, Deepak Ramanathan, Carlos A. Higuera, Trevor G. Murray

“…Protocols for the screening and decolonization of Staphylococcus aureus prior to total joint arthroplasty (TJA) have become widely adopted. The goals of this study were to determine: (1) whether implementation of a screening protocol followed by decolonization with mupirocin/vancomycin and chlorhexidine reduces the risk of revision compared with no screening protocol (i.e., chlorhexidine alone) and (2) whether clinical criteria could reliably predict colonization with MSSA and/or MRSA. …”
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A Systematic Review of the Causes and Management of Ischaemic Stroke Caused by Nontissue Emboli by Ciaran Judge, Sarah Mello, David Bradley, Joseph Harbison

“…Air and gaseous embolism are becoming more common with increased use of interventional medical procedures and increased popularity of sports such as diving. …”
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How Big Data Has Changed Technology Roadmapping: A Review on Data-Driven Roadmapping by Jinhong Kim, Gamunnarbi Park, Myoungkyun Woo, Youngjung Geum

“…With the rise of data mining and predictive technologies, systematic data analytics has become popular in business practices. As data analysis can contribute to technology planning in various ways, previous studies have attempted to integrate data analysis and technology planning tools. …”
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Competitive Heavy‐Atom Tunneling Reactions Controlled Through Electronic Effects by José P. L. Roque, Cláudio M. Nunes, Fumito Saito, Bastian Bernhardt, Rui Fausto, Peter R. Schreiner

“…As the electron‐donating strength of the substituent increases, the QMT ring‐opening to nitrene starts to compete with the QMT ring‐expansion to ketenimine, becoming the dominant process for the strongest electron‐donating substituent [N(CH2)4]. …”
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Research on Impact Process of Lander Footpad against Simulant Lunar Soils by Bo Huang, Zhujin Jiang, Peng Lin, Daosheng Ling

“…Accordingly, landing characteristics have become an important research focus. Described in this paper are model tests carried out using simulated lunar soils of different relative densities (called “simulant” lunar soils below), with a scale reduction factor of 1/6 to consider the relative gravities of the Earth and Moon. …”
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VNR_CCP: A New Approach to Congestion Control Using Virtualization Technique and Switch Migration in SDN by Mohammad Reza Jenabzadeh, Vahid Ayatollahitafti, Mohammad reza Mollakhalili, Mohammad Reza Mollahoseini Ardakani

“…When an SDN switch node is subjected to many requests, the network becomes congested, and to solve this problem, the controller can use network virtualization and switch migration, taking into account the free resources available in the switches and links.  …”
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Microstructures and mechanical properties of a 30CrNi2MoV steel/GH4098 joint produced by hot-compression bonding by Shengqing Wu, Sheng Liu, Hexin Wang, Shaofei Ren, Bin Xu, Xiaopeng Zhang, Mingyue Sun

“…Owing to the mutual diffusion of GH4098 and 30CrNi2MoV, the bonding interface becomes an interface band where Al2O3/Ti(C, N) is distributed on the side near GH4098 and Ti(C, N)/M23C6 is distributed on the side near 30CrNi2MoV. …”
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