Budgetary Factors and the Quality of Education Service Delivery in Public Secondary Schools in Northern Division Kabale District. by Atwongyeire, Redeemer

“…Schools should adopt more sophisticated budget planning and management tools to ensure efficient allocation and utilization of resources. …”
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Unit Quaternion Description Method for Detecting High-Temperature Geothermal Well Drilling Conditions by Hongyan Li, Pengtao Wang, Bin Liu, Xianyu Zhang, Hai Huang, Zhipeng Chen, Bao’an Xian

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Unraveling landslide failure mechanisms with seismic signal analysis for enhanced pre-survey understanding by J.-M. Chang, J.-M. Chang, C.-M. Yang, W.-A. Chao, W.-A. Chao, C.-S. Ku, M.-W. Huang, M.-W. Huang, T.-C. Hsieh, C.-Y. Hung

“…Geohazard location further constrained the source location, indicating that Events 1 and 2 likely originated from the same slope. …”
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Immobilization of FDH on carbon felt by affinity binding strategy for CO2 conversion by Diego Maureira, Sady Roberto Rodriguez, Oscar Romero, Marina Guillén, Gregorio Álvaro, Lorena Wilson, Carminna Ottone

“…Enzymatic conversion is a promising option for utilizing CO2 as a renewable C1 source for high-value chemicals due to the high selectivity and specificity of enzymes, their environmental friendliness, and their ability to operate under mild conditions. …”
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EMHD flow and heat transport in cross ternary nanofluid with gyrotactic microorganisms: A case study on thermophoretic particle deposition by Saleh Chebaane, A.M. Obalalu, Amir Abbas, Fizza Anwar, Adnan, Mouloud Aoudia, Badr M. Alshammari, Mohamed Bouzidi, Lioua Kolsi

“…The spectral collocation method based on Appell-Changhee polynomials was utilized to solve ODEs. The results show that the thermal distribution improves for growing values of exponential heat source and thermal radiation parameter. …”
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AI-powered segmentation of bifid mandibular canals using CBCT by Ismail Gumussoy, Kardelen Demirezer, Suayip Burak Duman, Emre Haylaz, Ibrahim Sevki Bayrakdar, Ozer Celik, Ali Zakir Syed

“…These DICOM files were then imported into the 3D Slicer® open-source software, where bifid canals and mandibular canals were annotated. …”
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Transgenic poplar for resistance against pest and pathogen attack in forests: an overview by Swati Sharan, Amrita Chakraborty, Amit Roy, Indrakant K. Singh, Archana Singh, Archana Singh

“…These plants provide wood, which can be utilized as raw resources for the paper industry and as a potential source of biofuel. …”
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Application of Supervised Learning Methods and Information Gain Methods in the Determination of Asbestos–Cement Roofs’ Deterioration State by Manuel Saba, David Valdelamar Martínez, Leydy K. Torres Gil, Gabriel E. Chanchí Golondrino, Manuel A. Ospina Alarcón

“…Additionally, the random forest model demonstrated strong performance across various band groups, further validating its utility. Utilizing the open-source software Weka (version 3.8.6), this study adeptly executed relevance evaluation and model implementation, providing a practical and scalable solution for material characterization, especially in regions where resources for spectral and hyperspectral image analysis are limited. …”
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Scalable temporal multiplexing of telecom photons via thin-film lithium niobate photonics by Çağın Ekici, Yonghe Yu, Jeremy C. Adcock, Alif Laila Muthali, Mujtaba Zahidy, Heyun Tan, Zhongjin Lin, Hao Li, Leif K. Oxenløwe, Xinlun Cai, Yunhong Ding

“…Abstract Efficient single-photon generation remains a big challenge in quantum photonics. …”
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Synergistic co-metabolism enhancing the crude oil degradation by Acinetobacter oleivorans DR1 and its metabolic potential by Lairenjam Paikhomba Singha, Renuka Kumari, Keisam Malabika Singha, Piyush Pandey, Pratyoosh Shukla

“…This study added Acinetobacter oleivorans DR1's strength towards hydrocarbon utilization and proposed it as an effective agent for bioremediation.…”
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Citrate Supplementation Modulates Medium Viscosity and Poly‐γ‐Glutamic Acid Synthesis by Engineered B. subtilis 168 by Frederik Völker, Kyra Hoffmann, Birthe Halmschlag, Sandra Maaß, Jochen Büchs, Lars M. Blank

“…ABSTRACT The industrially attractive biopolymer poly‐γ‐glutamic acid (γ‐PGA) is commonly produced by species of the genus Bacillus by co‐feeding different carbon‐ and nitrogen‐sources. Recent studies have highlighted the pivotal role of co‐metabolization of a rapidly degradable carbon source such as glycerol together with citrate for γ‐PGA production, independently fueling biomass generation as well as tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle precursor supply. …”
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How much timber from Norway spruce (Picea abies L.) is left on the harvesting site as treetops? A study on scaling and grading yields of harvesters by Jiří Dvořák, Marcel Štolc, Martin Jankovský, Pavel Natov, Arkadiusz Stańczykiewicz, Michal Allman, Andrej Liška

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Sustainable Lipase Immobilization: Chokeberry and Apple Waste as Carriers by Karina Jasińska, Maksym Nowosad, Aleksander Perzyna, Andrzej Bielacki, Stanisław Dziwiński, Bartłomiej Zieniuk, Agata Fabiszewska

“…The findings highlight the potential of utilizing fruit pomaces not only as a source of bioactive compounds but also in enhancing enzyme stability for industrial applications.…”
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MCT-CNN-LSTM: A Driver Behavior Wireless Perception Method Based on an Improved Multi-Scale Domain-Adversarial Neural Network by Kaiyu Chen, Yue Diao, Yucheng Wang, Xiafeng Zhang, Yannian Zhou, Minming Gu, Bo Zhang, Bin Hu, Meng Li, Wei Li, Shaoxi Wang

“…This model captures both the spatial features and the temporal dependencies from the input radar signal. Subsequently, an Efficient Channel Attention (ECA) module is utilized to allocate adaptive weights to the feature channels that carry the most relevant information. …”
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Simulation of Solar Energetic Particle Events Originated from Coronal Mass Ejection Shocks with a Data-driven Physics-based Transport Model by Lei Cheng, Ming Zhang, Ryun Young Kwon, David Lario

“…The model includes an SEP source term aligned with the theory of diffusive shock acceleration by the CME-driven shock. …”
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Structural characteristics, multifunctional applications, and research prospects of ferritin: a case study of sturgeon ferritin by Nida Maqsood, Zuoliang Tang, Abu Zar Ghafoor, Shuhong Li, Zhiqing Zhang, Anjun Chen, Zhiyong Zou, Man Zhou, Meiliang Li

“…In biomedicine, ferritin is utilized in tumor imaging, targeted therapy, and inflammation biomarker detection. …”
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Parameterization and quantification of two key operando physio-chemical descriptors for water-assisted electro-catalytic organic oxidation by Bailin Tian, Fangyuan Wang, Pan Ran, Luhan Dai, Yang Lv, Yuxia Sun, Zhangyan Mu, Yamei Sun, Lingyu Tang, William A. Goddard, Mengning Ding

“…Abstract Electro-selective-oxidation using water as a green oxygen source demonstrates promising potential towards efficient and sustainable chemical upgrading. …”
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Optimized Extraction of Polyphenols from Kiwifruit Peels and Their Biological Activities by Batoul Shkeir, Nada El Darra, Bilal Azakir, Salma Khazaal, Elie Salem Sokhn, Mohamed Koubaa, Richard G. Maroun, Nicolas Louka, Espérance Debs

“…This indicates that IR was more efficient in extracting phenolics from kiwi peels. …”
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Individual Tree Segmentation Based on Region-Growing and Density-Guided Canopy 3-D Morphology Detection Using UAV LiDAR Data by Shihua Li, Shunda Zhao, Zhilin Tian, Hao Tang, Zhonghua Su

“…Airborne laser scanning is an efficient and rapid method for acquiring 3-D point cloud data of forests, making up for the shortcomings of optical remote sensing. …”
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SynAdult: Multimodal Synthetic Adult Dataset Generation via Diffusion Models and Neuromorphic Event Simulation for Critical Biometric Applications by Muhammad Ali Farooq, Paul Kielty, Wang Yao, Peter Corcoran

“…To validate the robustness and utility of the generated dataset, we perform a comprehensive evaluation using Kernel Inception Distance (KID), BRISQUE, CLIP score, and identity similarity metrics. …”
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