INFLUENCE OF INTEGRATED FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (IFMIS) ON THE PERFORMANCE OF GOVERNMENT ENTITIES IN NIGERIA by Salaudeen Ibrahim, Abdul-Hakeem Shuaib, Muhammed Basiru Mustapha, Benuh Adama Idris, Tunde Saka Abdulsalam

“… Public Sector Performance has been a contemporary discourse among researchers in Nigeria. …”
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Quantitative Evaluation of Display Contrast of Gd-EOB-DTPA-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Images: Effects of the Flip Angle and Grayscale Gamma Value by Yusuke Inoue, Hirofumi Hata, Ai Nakajima, Keiji Matsunaga, Yusuke Ohzeki, Tetsuya Hashimoto, Hiroki Haradome

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Tolerability and efficacy of Mycobacterium avium complex pulmonary disease treatment in elderly patients by Kyota Shinfuku, Hiromichi Hara, Keitaro Okuda, Hanae Miyagawa, Naoki Takasaka, Takeo Ishikawa, Jun Araya

“…However, reduced organ function in elderly patients makes it often difficult to continue or complete multidrug treatment due to adverse drug reactions (ADRs). …”
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Nitroglycerin for Management of Retained Placenta: A Multicenter Study by Maria Bullarbo, Hans Bokström, Håkan Lilja, Elisabeth Almström, Nina Lassenius, Agneta Hansson, Erling Ekerhovd

“…The other midwives and all the participating obstetricians had no clinical experience of the method. In the treatment group, detachment of placenta following nitroglycerin occurred in 37.3% of the women compared to 20.4% in the placebo group (P=0.056). …”
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Apelin Serum Level in Egyptian Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C by Hala O. El-Mesallamy, Nadia M. Hamdy, Hanan H. Rizk, Abdel-Rahman El-Zayadi

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Endogenous sex hormone levels are associated with the revised Framingham Stroke Risk Profile in postmenopausal women: a longitudinal study in a Swedish cohort by Kristin Ottarsdottir, Åsa Tivesten, Claes Ohlsson, Ying Li, Margareta Hellgren, Ulf Lindblad, Bledar Daka

“…Abstract Background Endogenous sex hormones in postmenopausal women have been associated with risk of cardiovascular diseases. …”
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Plasma Granzyme B in ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction versus Non-ST Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome: Comparisons with IL-18 and Fractalkine by Hala O. El-Mesallamy, Nadia M. Hamdy, Adel K. El-Etriby, Eman F. Wasfey

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Implementation of a Cost and Variation Reduction Program for Hemostasis Products at a Large Academic Medical Center: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective by Shah T, Brethauer S, Danker III WA, Doshi I, O'Hara M, Silber A, Vasileff WK

“…Tejen Shah,1 Stacy Brethauer,1 Walter A Danker III,2 Ishita Doshi,2 Matthew O’Hara,3 Abigail Silber,3 William K Vasileff4 1Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA; 2Ethicon, Inc., Raritan, NJ, USA; 3Trinity Life Sciences, Waltham, MA, USA; 4Department of Orthopaedics, Sports Medicine Research Institute, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USACorrespondence: Stacy Brethauer, Email Stacy.Brethauer@osumc.eduGoal: Cost-saving initiatives targeting surgical supplies management have become increasingly common to address rising healthcare costs. …”
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Diabetic ketoacidosis treatment outcomes and its associated factors among adult patients with diabetes mellitus admitted to public hospitals in Nekemte Town, Ethiopia: a cross-sect... by Daniel Mitiku Yigazu, Matiyos Lema, Firomsa Bekele, Dawit Tesfaye Daka, Dagim Samuel, Nigatu Addisu

“…A P-value < 0.05 was considered significant in the multivariable analysis.ResultComplete data was available for 201 patients admitted with DKA. …”
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Vector borne disease control interventions in agricultural and irrigation areas in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review. by Levi Kalitsilo, Leila Abdullahi, Nyanyiwe Mbeye, Lily Mwandira, Hleziwe Hara, Collins Mitambo, Rose Oronje

“…Irrigation farming has raised concerns about the steady transmission and introduction of new vector-borne infectious diseases (VBD) in the areas involved. …”
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Bladder Cancer Invading the Prostate and Penis and Multiple Bone Metastases Showing Significant Improvement after a Short-Term Pembrolizumab Therapy following Radiation and Gemcita... by Kyohei Ishida, Akira Ogose, Gen Kawaguchi, Go Hasegawa, Yohei Ikeda, Noboru Hara, Tsutomu Nishiyama

“…CT four weeks after starting pembrolizumab therapy showed that both the primary and metastatic lesions had notably reduced in size, and no new lesion was detected. …”
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Combined Use of Excimer Laser and High-Speed Rotational Atherectomy to Overcome a Severely Calcified Lesion in Endovascular Therapy by Keisuke Nakabayashi, Shinya Hata, Nobuhito Kaneko, Akihiro Matsui, Kazuhiko Tanaka, Hiroshi Ando, Minoru Shimizu

“…However, these devices in EVT section are considered off-label use in Japan. Therefore, we have to refrain from frequent use of this strategy; however, this method provides an option for severely calcified lesions.…”
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Familial Abdominal and Intestinal Lipomatosis Presenting with Upper GI Bleeding by Yilmaz Bilgic, Hasan Baki Altinsoy, Nezahat Yildirim, Ozkan Alatas, Burhan Hakan Kanat, Abdurrahman Sahin

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Routing and scheduling optimization for urban air mobility fleet management using quantum annealing by Renichiro Haba, Takuya Mano, Ryosuke Ueda, Genichiro Ebe, Kohei Takeda, Masayoshi Terabe, Masayuki Ohzeki

“…Abstract The growing integration of urban air mobility (UAM) for urban transportation and delivery has accelerated due to increasing traffic congestion and its environmental and economic repercussions. …”
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Guided Discovery with Socratic Questioning by M. Hakan Türkçapar, Melis Sedef Kahraman, A. Emre Sargýn

“…In this method the goal is to make the client rediscover, with a series of questions, a piece of knowledge which he could otherwise know but is not presently conscious of. …”
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Lipid Storage Myopathy in Behçet's Disease: A Rare Cause of Elevated Serum Creatine Kinases Levels by Sedat Yilmaz, Muhammet Cinar, Yıldırım Karslioglu, Ismail Simsek, Hakan Erdem, Salih Pay, Ayhan Dinc

“…The causes of elevated muscle enzymes in a patient with Behcet’s disease are many, including myositis, drug-induced myopathy, metabolic myopathy, and the disease itself. We herein have defined an algorithmic approach to a patient with Behcet’s disease and elevated muscle enzymes and report a case of coexisting of lipid storage myopathy.…”
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Perjumpaan dan penggunaan habitat oleh rusa timor (Rusa timorensis) di Pulau Menjangan, Taman Nasional Bali Barat by Stephanie Regina, I Made Saka Wijaya, I Gede Sukrasena, Luh Putu Eswaryanti Kusuma Yuni

“…Pada setiap tipe habitat, rusa timor lebih sering dijumpai pada habitat antropogenik dibandingkan pada habitat alami. …”
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The Perceived Effectiveness of Supervision In Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Training by Erkan Kuru, Kadir Ozdel, S.Olga Guriz, Yasir Safak, Ilker Ozdemir, M.Hakan Turkcapar

“…Besides, results of this study suggests that although theoretical training is of perceived value, supervision has been perceived as had given extra contribution. …”
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Effects of Protective Resin Coating on the Surface Roughness and Color Stability of Resin-Based Restorative Materials by Bora Bagis, Tamer Tüzüner, Sedanur Turgut, Fatih Mehmet Korkmaz, Özgül Baygın, Yıldırım Hakan Bağış

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Wild Boar Attacks on Hunting Dogs in Czechia: The Length of the Hunting Season Matters by Jana Adámková, Karolína Lazárková, Jan Cukor, Hana Brinkeová, Jitka Bartošová, Luděk Bartoš, Kateřina Benediktová

“…., the length of the hunting season (2.68 ± 0.76 months, mean ± standard deviation), the number of driven hunts per season (3.99 ± 0.43), the intervals between hunts (17.85 ± 4.83 days), the number of wild boars harvested per season (14.46 ± 13.10), and the number of participants (23.8 ± 10.69) and dogs (4.56 ± 2.66) involved per hunt. The data were collected via a retrospective questionnaire survey. …”
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