Perennial crop farming and food security in Kigezi: a case study of Kigezi highland tea by Julius, Chama

“…This study establishes that the tea sector has not in any way affected food security in the region of Kigezi and has instead improved household incomes, been a source of employment and boosted revenue for households. The sector has however registered some challenges like limited faith among the out growers who prefer their own traditional crops. …”
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Food Security in the Wake of Perennial Crop Farming. Paradoxes Underlying Commercial Agriculture in Kigezi. by Chama, Julius

“…This study establishes that the tea sector has not in any way affected food security in the region of Kigezi and has instead improved house hold incomes, been a source of employment and boosted revenue for households. The sector has however registered some challenges like limited faith among the out growers who prefer their own traditional crops. …”
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Leadership styles, talent management and employee performance in the hotel industry in Uganda by Abanis, Turyahebwa, Moses, Agaba, Arthur, Sunday, Eliab Mpora, Byamukama, Sylvia, Kalembe

“…It is also recommended that the managers in hotel industry should improve their interpersonal skills which enables them to build good relationship among themselves and the employers as this boosts high morale and greater job satisfaction which eventually improve their performance.…”
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Antithrombotic Medication for Cardioembolic Stroke Prevention by M. Àngels Font, Jerzy Krupinski, Adrià Arboix

“…The later exhibit stable pharmacokinetics obviating the need for coagulation monitoring or dose titration, and they lack clinically significant food or drug interaction. …”
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A decision framework for cloud migration: A hybrid approach by Mirsaeid Hosseini Shirvani, Gholam R. Amin, Sara Babaeikiadehi

“…To have sustainable decision and obviating the shortcomings of the existing approaches on the cloud service adoption, a deep understanding of organisation's business process requirements and cost implications is required. …”
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<i>Salmonella</i> bacteria in farm animal feeds. Review by N. B. Shadrova, O. V. Pruntova, G. S. Skitovich, О. А. Akulich

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A case report of atrial enlargement and transitory electrocardiographic changes during labour by Antonio VILLA, Donatella RODEGHER, Valeria BARBERA, Carlo TURRI

“…Emergency physicians, gynecologists and obste- tricians should be aware of these physiological electrocardiographic changes during pregnancy in order to obtain a correct and an appropriate diagnosis in emergency room.…”
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Potential role of dietary white poplar (Populus alba L.) in stimulating growth, digestion, and antioxidant/immune status of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) by Rowida E. Ibrahim, Mohamed Shaalan, Mohamed ElHady, Hanan A. Ghetas, Faten I. Elsayed, Elsayed M. Younis, Abdelwahab A. Abdelwarith, Mohamed F. Badran, Simon J. Davies, Afaf N. Abdel Rahman

“…The results revealed that WP diets substantially boosted the growth (final body weight, weight gain, and specific growth rate) with an improvement of feed conversion ratio of Nile tilapia in a level-dependent manner with the WP6 group attaining the best outcomes. …”
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Beta-variant recombinant SARS CoV-2 vaccine induces durable cross-reactive antibodies against Omicron BA variants by Odile Launay, Rachna Gupta, Tifany Machabert, Eleine Konate, Alexandra Rousseau, Claire Vigne, Francois Beckers, Louis Devlin, Elisabeth Botelho-Nevers, Marine Cachanado, Christian Chidiac, Dominique Deplanque, Bertrand Dussol, Inès Ben Ghezala, Marie Lachatre, Karine Lacombe, Fabrice Laine, Liem Binh Luong Nguyen, Patricia Pavese, Catherine Schmidt-Mutter, Marie-Pierre Tavolacci, Roman M. Chicz, Bogdana Coudsy, Saranya Sridhar, Amel Touati, Eric Tartour, Tabassome Simon

“…The persistence of cross-neutralizing antibodies, including against Omicron BA.1 and BA.4/5, up to 3 months after boosting was evaluated using a validated pseudovirus neutralization assay. …”
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DeepAptamer: Advancing high-affinity aptamer discovery with a hybrid deep learning model by Xin Yang, Chi Ho Chan, Shanshan Yao, Hang Yin Chu, Minchuan Lyu, Ziqi Chen, Huan Xiao, Yuan Ma, Sifan Yu, Fangfei Li, Jin Liu, Luyao Wang, Zongkang Zhang, Bao-Ting Zhang, Lu Zhang, Aiping Lu, Yaofeng Wang, Ge Zhang, Yuanyuan Yu

“…DeepAptamer can efficiently identify high-affinity aptamers against various targets, enhancing its potential to discover promising sequences in initial screening stages and obviating the 20–30 iterative selection rounds required for full enrichment of selection pools. …”
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Additively-Manufactured, Magnetically Controlled, Frequency and Polarization Reconfigurable Phased Array Antenna by Ulan Myrzakhan, Farhan A. Ghaffar, Mohammad Vaseem, Atif Shamim

“…An additively manufactured phased array antenna is presented in this work that provides simultaneous reconfiguration in frequency, polarization, and beam direction solely in response to magnetic tuning of the underlying ferrite substrate. This design obviates the need for integrated active components, which have been fundamental elements enabling tuning operation in traditional reconfigurable array antennas. …”
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Evaluasi Kinerja MLLIB APACHE SPARK pada Klasifikasi Berita Palsu dalam Bahasa Indonesia by Antonius Angga Kurniawan, Metty Mustikasari

“…Algoritma klasifikasi yang diterapkan adalah Naïve Bayes, Gradient-Boosted Tree, SVM dan Logistic Regression. Keempat algoritma dipilih karena kemampuannya yang sudah terbukti baik dalam melakukan klasifikasi dan beberapa algoritma yang jarang digunakan namun memiliki kemampuan yang baik juga dalam hal klasifikasi. …”
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Enhancing Credit Risk Decision-Making in Supply Chain Finance With Interpretable Machine Learning Model by Guanglan Zhou, Shiru Wang

“…Specifically, we applied Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), Random Forest (RF), Least Squares Support Vector Machine (LSSVM) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models for risk assessment. …”
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Machine learning based prediction of specific heat capacity for half-Heusler compounds by Laxman Chaudhary, Keshab Chaudhary, Ambika Shahi, Kedar Nath Jaiswal, Dipendra Prasad Kalauni, Se-Hun Kim, Madhav Prasad Ghimire

“…The stacked model, which incorporates gradient boosting and random forest as baseline models, was meticulously tuned for parameter optimization. …”
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Packed bed optofluidic microreactors with Au decorated TiO2 nanoflowers for visible light photocatalytic water purification by Yujiao Zhu, Pui Hong Yeung, Tsz Wing Lo, Yao Chai, Yat Lam Wong, Ying Chen, Huaming Yang, Weixing Yu, Anatoly V. Zayats, Fengjia Xie, Xuming Zhang

“…Compared to TNFs in slurry-mode, the Au/TNFs achieve 46-fold enhancement in photodegradation efficiency due to the plasmonic effect, further boosted to 2,700-fold enhancement in the PPOM configuration by improving surface area, light harvesting, and mass transfer. …”
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The Effectiveness of Digitalization in Family Caregiver Empowerment Model (FCEM) for Reducing Diabetes Incidence in Rural Areas: An App-Based Literature Review Study by Fahmi Wildana, Lutfian Lutfian, Aufa Azizah, Izdihar Javier Wardika, Fariza Barika Ramadhani, Wahyu Dwi Utomo

“…Additionally, it raises health literacy, which boosts psychological support, increases adherence to blood sugar management, and lessens disease-related anxiety. …”
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A non-electrical pneumatic hybrid oscillator for high-frequency multimodal robotic locomotion by Genliang Chen, Yongzhou Long, Siyue Yao, Shujie Tang, Junjie Luo, Hao Wang, Zhuang Zhang, Hanqing Jiang

“…This design creates a stiffness gradient through a soft-elastic-rigid coupling mechanism, which substantially boosts the oscillator’s frequency and broadens its versatility in robotic applications. …”
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Efficient optical parametric amplification in the thin film lithium niobate waveguides by Yuanqiang Peng, Shunxing Yang, RuiHuan Wu, Weiyi Hong

“…Abstract Prominent platforms based on thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) are superior integrated-photonics platforms for efficient optical parametric amplification (OPA), however, previously few studies have been systematically reported the gain-boosting performance of TFLN waveguides compared to bulk LN waveguides. …”
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Room temperature ethanol sensors using V2O5 nanoparticles annealed at different temperatures by Amiri Vahid, Mirzaei Ali, Roshan Hossein, Sheikhi Mohammad Hossein

“…The sensor annealed at 450°C, indicated the highest sensing response of ~37% to 1600 ppm ethanol vapour along with good selectivity and repeatability. The boosted sensing properties of the optimized gas sensor were related to the optimization of crystallinity and particle size after annealing at 450°C. …”
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Unlocking academic success: the impact of teaching strategies, instructor support, and student innovation on learning outcomes in public administration by Waiphot Kulachai, Khwanta Benchakhan, Patipol Homyamyen

“…Results indicate that diverse teaching methods, including simulations and group work, foster student creativity, while strong instructor support boosts creative problem-solving. These approaches lead to practical engagement, bridging theory with practice and fostering student-led innovation. …”
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