The Influence of Budgeting and Financial Reporting on Financial Accountability in Primary Education Programs in Uganda by John Nakabago, Costa Hofisi

“…Financial statements enable delegated institutions like schools, to provide financial information to users (who include central governments, donors and citizens) as the principals, to evaluate how funds have been used to deliver services. …”
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Assessment and Quantification of Methane Emission from Indian Livestock and Manure Management by Anuja Samal, Saroj Kumar Sahu, Ashirbad Mishra, Poonam Mangaraj, Shantanu Kumar Pani, Gufran Beig

“…Initial findings suggest that changing livestock population patterns plays an important role in governing methane emissions in rural India. The information generated could be important tools for policymakers to control CH4 emissions across the country.…”
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A comparative analysis of height trend and nutrition among 1983 to 2005 birth cohort of Ilorin metropolis, Kwara State, Nigeria by Ade Stephen Alabi, Peace Eyitayo Olagunju, Adeola Alabi, Joshua Abidemi Owa, Yetunde Elizabeth Owa, Abosede Mary Ayoola, Dare Ezekiel Babatunde, Oluwatoyin Ezekiel Olasehinde, Titilayo Temitope Adeoye

“…Their height was obtained using the Tape stadiometer, information about dietary history (nutritional factors) that may affect height were gotten via the use of Questionnaires. …”
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Crochet increases attention through a requiring motor skill learning by Davide Rossi Sebastiano, Cristina Muscio, Dunja Duran, Deborah Bonfoco, Sara Dotta, Paola Anversa, Elisa Pellencin, Pietro Tiraboschi, Elisa Visani

“…Increased global BCmax in the beta band after the crochet activity correlated with better performance (reduced reaction times), suggesting that the brain has become more efficiently integrated, thus increasing the information exchange between different brain areas. …”
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Effects of uncertainty in the design parameters during the design of horizontal gravity oil, gas and water separators by Abubakar Juma Chilala, Milan Stanko, Oras J. Mkinga

“…However, owing to time, personnel, and information integration constraints in the design phase, design evaluation, and validation are often limited to performing comprehensive sensitivity studies. …”
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VULNERABLITY OF RURAL LIVELIHOODS IN NINH THUAN PROVINCE TO DROUGHT by Tan Luc Chau, Ha Anh Hoang, Thai Hiep Vo, Thanh Ha Dang

“…There is a need to establish an early warning system for climate change and extreme weather events while simultaneously disseminating information widely to farmers so that they can take timely measures to cope. …”
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Instance-level semantic segmentation of nuclei based on multimodal structure encoding by Bo Guan, Guangdi Chu, Ziying Wang, Jianmin Li, Bo Yi

“…The framework incorporates: (1) A multi-scale feature fusion and knowledge distillation module utilizing the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) model’s image encoder; (2) A method to transform morphological features of cells into textual descriptions for semantic representation; and (3) A graph neural network approach to learn spatial relationships and contextual information between cell nuclei. Results Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method significantly improves the accuracy of cell nucleus segmentation and classification compared to existing approaches. …”
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Building digital platform ecosystems: A synthetization of fundamental design topics from a literature review by Thomas Goertler, Marcel Papert, Isabel Fischer, Malou Schmidt

“…In practical terms, our findings provide valuable guidance to practitioners to help them make informed design and resource allocation decisions in the context of complex transformation projects. …”
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Self-care in nursing: A bibliometric analysis (1976–2023) by Mahsa Hosseini, Soheila Shamsikhani, Masoomeh Noruzi Zamengani, Sediqullah Ahmadi, Ali Jadidi

“…Conclusions: Due to the lack of research in the field, there is a concern to produce information and research in this field. The importance of research in this field is related to the role of nurses in the health system. self-care can help improve global health by improving the physical and mental health of nurses. …”
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Assessing low-back loading during lifting using personalized electromyography-driven trunk models and NIOSH-based risk levels by Mohamed Irfan Refai, Tiwana Varrecchia, Giorgia Chini, Alberto Ranavolo, Massimo Sartori

“…Advances in musculoskeletal models have enabled the estimation of physiologically valid person-specific musculoskeletal models (pEMS) driven by surface electromyography and joint angle information. These models offer realistic estimates of objective parameters such as moments and compressive and shear loads at the lumbosacral joint. …”
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Spatial autocorrelation and host anemone species drive variation in local components of fitness in a wild clownfish population by Marrot, Pascal, Fauvelot, Cécile, Berumen, Michael L, Srinivasan, Maya, Jones, Geoffrey P, Planes, Serge, Pujol, Benoit

“…Because of a long-term sampling effort, such information is available for the population of wild orange clownfish, Amphiprion percula, from Kimbe Island (Papua New Guinea). …”
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Deciphering TCOF1 mutations in Chinese Treacher Collins syndrome patients: insights into pathogenesis and transcriptional disruption by Zhuoyuan Jiang, Ke Mao, Bingqing Wang, Hao Zhu, Jiqiang Liu, Ruirui Lang, Baichuan Xiao, Hailin Shan, Qi Chen, Ying Li, Shouqin Zhao, Qingguo Zhang, Huisheng Liu, Yong-Biao Zhang

“…Conclusions Our findings establish TCOF1 as the primary pathogenic gene in this Chinese TCS cohort, with mutations predominantly in the CRD and CTD, thereby expanding the known mutation spectrum of TCS and informing its prevention strategies.…”
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Using deep learning model integration to build a smart railway traffic safety monitoring system by Chin-Chieh Chang, Kai-Hsiang Huang, Tsz-Kin Lau, Chung-Fah Huang, Chun-Hsiung Wang

“…Finally, the LINE bot was applied to notify the related operators, including the above information, such as time of intrusion, locations, classes of intruding objects, sizes and the image of intrusion. …”
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Parity-Driven Disparities in Placenta Previa: A Comprehensive Analysis of Obstetric and Perinatal Factors by Fikriye Karanfil Yaman, Sukran Dogru, Huriye Ezveci, Fatih Akkus, Ali Acar

“…CONCLUSION: This study provides valuable information on maternal and neonatal outcomes associated with placenta previa in multiparous and nulliparous women. …”
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Study of GaN Hall Effect Magnetic Sensors by Vlad Marsic, Soroush Faramehr, Isha Maini, David A. J. Moran, Petar Igic

“…Since even when properly using the most suitable scientific equipment, errors may occur from insufficient information regarding the relative angle between the magnetic field and the active area of the sensor or, data records affected by imperceptible equipment vibrations, this work provides a practical solution on how to detect and mitigate these shortcomings: magnetic quasi-static sources alternatives are discussed and transient recordings of different intensities and polarities of the magnetic field are separated and interpreted similar with the spectrometry diagrams. …”
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Safety of Dupilumab Therapy for Atopic Dermatitis during Pregnancy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Verónica Sánchez-García, Eva de-Miguel-Balsa, José-Manuel Ramos-Rincón, Isabel Belinchón-Romero

“…However, there is limited information on the safety of biologicals during pregnancy. …”
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Medication use and potential drug-drug interactions in a general surgery clinic: A descriptive studyMain points by Sevgi Teker Yıldırım, Şevket Cumhur Yeğen, Songül Tezcan

“…The patients who were admitted for any surgical procedure and stayed for a minimum of 24 h were included in the study. Information on prior medication use as well as pre- and post-operative medications was documented. pDDIs were assessed using the Lexicomp database. …”
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Survey of Indoor Air Pollution Health Literacy among Community-dwelling Adults in Taiwan by Jia-Ling Wu, Yu-Han Huang, Yi-Chin Huang, Chien-Cheng Jung, Pei-Chen Lee, Ming-Yeng Lin, Wen-Hsuan Hou, Chung-Yi Li

“…To improve the IAPHL level of adults, we might need to focus on characteristics such as indoor air pollution information provision and health risk perceptions.…”
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New Prospects of Cytoprotection in the Treatment and Prevention of Gastric and Intestinal Diseases (Resolution of an Expert Council and Literature Review) by A. I. Martynov, A. A. Sheptulin, I. V. Mayev, A. N. Kazyulin, A. Ye. Karateev, A. V. Melekhov, L. K. Pal’gova, K. L. Raikhel’son

“…To generalize up-to-date information on the possibilities of cytoprotection in the treatment and prevention of gastric and intestinal diseases, as well as to present the materials of an Expert Council meeting held on February 8, 2020 in Moscow under the support of the Alium company.General provisions. …”
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Simple shell measurements do not consistently predict habitat in turtles: a reply to Lichtig and Lucas (2017) by Evers, Serjoscha W., Foth, Christian, Joyce, Walter G., Hermanson, Guilherme

“…The origin and ancestral ecology of turtles is debated and various shell or limb proportions have been reported to correlate with habitat ecology among extant turtles, such that they may be informative for inferring the ecology of fossil turtles, including early shelled stem turtles. …”
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