Investigation of Black Carbon Wet Deposition to the United States from National Atmospheric Deposition Network Samples by Piyaporn Sricharoenvech, Ross Edwards, Müge Yaşar, David Gay, James J. Schauer

“…These aerosols are relatively short-lived in the troposphere and are returned to the surface by wet and dry deposition processes. …”
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Physicochemical kinetics of rapid soil stabilization using calcium sulfoaluminate-based cements by Nicholas Benjamin Petersen, Ashish Bastola, Pavan Akula, John Rushing

“…This study investigates the physicochemical effects of using Calcium Sulfoaluminate (CSA) cement-based stabilizers for rapid stabilization of weak clays, focusing on early age (<1 day) reaction kinetics and its effect on the short-term and long-term engineering characteristics. …”
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Study of Gaming Disorder and Its Association with Depressive Disorder and Anxiety among Medical Students in India by Hanee Patel, Niraj Pandit, Rudra Patel, Ishita Gupta, Dhairya Jain, Shreya Katoch

“…The Internet GD Scale-Short Form (IGDS9-SF) was used to assess the intensity of gaming disorders, while patient health questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and generalized anxiety disorder assessment (GAD-7) were used to assess the severity of depression and anxiety, respectively. …”
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Expert review of AI-generated responses to the top ten patient complaints in primary care by Monica Gillie, George Kent

“…Unanimously, the response to treatment of shortness of breath was regarded as not useful and inappropriate due to lack of emphasis on seeking medical care and life-threatening conditions. …”
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Evaluation of Fetuses Diagnosed with Megacystis During Prenatal Period by Kemal Sarsmaz, Busra Kanyildiz, Gokcen Orgul, Gokhan Karakoc, Hasan Eroglu, Dilek Sahin, Aykan Yucel

“…The data were analyzed in terms of diagnostic methods, fetal interventions (vesicosynthesis (VS), vesicoamniotic shunt (VAS)), potential prognostic markers and short/long-term prognostic results. Results: A total of 15 megacystis patients were detected. …”
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AI-driven video summarization for optimizing content retrieval and management through deep learning techniques by Deepali Vora, Payal Kadam, Dadaso D Mohite, Nilesh Kumar, Nimit Kumar, Pratheeik Radhakrishnan, Shalmali Bhagwat

“…To address these limitations, a novel approach is proposed, where convolutional neural networks and long short-term memory networks are utilized to extract both frame-level and temporal video features. …”
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THE IMPACT OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ON BANK PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIA by Ibrahim Yinka Agbeyinka

“…The study concluded that the dual-edged nature of corporate social responsibility engagement, where the benefits to profitability and long-term value must be balanced against the potential short-term financial drawbacks. The study therefore recommended that firms should strategically integrate corporate social responsibility initiatives with their core business objectives to maximize the positive impact on profitability. firms should carefully evaluate the timing and scale of their corporate social responsibility investments. …”
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What Do Gases in the Large Intestine Have to Do with Health? by Klaudia Pawełek, Patrycja Kinga Marta, Filip Maciej Huzarski, Gabriela Monika Ferfecka, Magdalena Rosa-Bończak, Agata Ossolińska, Weronika Kłosowicz, Oliver Carlton, Lucyna Stolarska, Natalia Morawiecka

“…Gut microorganisms produce short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), which play a significant role in regulating energy homeostasis and enteroendocrine hormone secretion. …”
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Design of Arduino Computer Numerical Control Machine. by Mujurizi Frank

“…CNC machines are able to produce accurate work of good quality, and in a short period of time, but these machines are quite expensive for small scale manufacturers, students and innovators. …”
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Negotiation and Procurement Performance in Uganda: A Case Study of Kabale Municipality. by Tayebwa, Newbold

“…The study results from findings on the effects of competitive negotiations on the procurement performance of Kabale Municipal Council were; a competitive negotiation is more focused on a short-term win, competitive negotiation strategies are less likely to concede, and competitive tactics often seek to use intimidation and aggressive threats to drive the other party to make concessions. …”
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Archiving of Records in Kanungu Local Government Registry. by Atuhaire, Catherine

“…The challenges faced by records officers in archiving records included; lack of enough data capture tools, inadequate training skills for record staff, integration of records systems, risk of fire, water, and rats, uncoordinated officers working in a similar co-operation, short retention periods for archiving records, costs associated with maintaining records, limited storage space of the achi val repository. …”
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Graphological Deviation: A Defamiliarizing Trope in Timothy Wangusa’s Poetry by Arineitwe, Evaristo

“…Some studies are on Wangusa’s novels and short stories, and as such, they focus on aspects like themes and narrative techniques but not graphological deviation. …”
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A Comparative Analysis on the Effect of Poultry Manure and Pig Manure on Cabbage Yield Around Kabale University. by Amanya, Pride

“…The pig manure treatment produced a moderate average cabbage weight of 2.86 kg, outperforming the control but falling short of poultry manure. The control group yielded the lowest average cabbage weight of 1.8 kg. …”
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Citrus fruit farmers’ adaptation capacities to climate variability in Ngora district, Eastern Uganda by Simon Peter, Achuu, Sarah, Nachuha, Joweria, Nakizito, Henry Musoke, Semakula, Hosea Enos, Opedes

“…Conclusively, citrus growing provided an option to poverty eradication, however climate variability threatens farmer’s efforts. In a short-run farmers may be encouraged to work in groups. …”
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Capital Structure, Investment Decision and Financial Performance of SMEs in Uganda A Case of Central Uganda by Turyahebwa, Abanis

“…From the results, we confirm that capital structure, investment decision, predict up to 66.2% of the change in financial performance of Small and Medium Enterprises in Central Uganda The results show good model fits and fig.2 defines the model of capital structure and investment decisions on financial performance of SMEs in Uganda and is encompassed of 4 proportions of capital structure in terms of Equity, Long term Debt, Short term debt as well as investment decisions and their predictive power on financial performance of SMEs in Uganda. …”
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Citrus Fruit Farmers’ Adaptation Capacities to Climate Variability in Ngora District, Eastern Uganda. by Achuu, Simon Peter, Nachuha, Sarah, Nakizito, Joweria, Musoke, Semakula Henry, Opedes, Hosea Enos

“…Conclusively, citrus growing provided an option to poverty eradication, however climate variability threatens farmer’s efforts. In a short-run farmers may be encouraged to work in groups. …”
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Analisis Performa Ekstraksi Konten GPT-3 Dengan Matrik Bertscore Dan Rouge by Yetti Yuniati, Kaira Milani Fitria, Melvi, Sri Purwiyanti, Emir Nasrullah, Meizano A Muhammad

“…This research utilises the ‘few-shot learning’ approach inherent to the GPT-3 model. …”
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Physiological impact of Trichoderma viride agents on the quality and production of melon that is grown on soils continuously cropped to melon by Jingyi Liu, Hua Lian, Jingwei Dou, Jingjing Li, Guangliang Zhu, Jiatong Wang, Guangshu Ma, Mei Li

“…The treatment of 6.4 × 105 CFU/g had the best promoting effect on the morphology of melon seedlings, and the plant height, stem diameter, leaf area, fresh weight of whole plant, dry weight of whole plant, root shoot ratio, and strong seedling index of melon seedlings increased by 90.39, 46.30, 37.55, 81.35, 100.62, 51.47, and 240.00%, respectively, compared with CK. …”
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Jasmonic acid improves cadmium tolerance in rice (Oryza sativa) by reducing the production of nitric oxide by Ji Bo Yang, Hao Yu Wang, Jing Huang, Chuan Jin Shan, Jing Yan, Chong Wei Zhong, Die Hu, Qiang Zhang, Ren Fang Shen, Xiao Fang Zhu, Da Li Zeng

“…JA mitigated Cd toxicity by decreasing Cd absorption in root cell wall and shoot, which was achieved by up-regulating the expression of the Cd-chelation and efflux-related genes such as OsHMA3, OsABCG36 and OsCAL1; down-regulating the transcript level of the Cd uptake and translocation-related genes, including OsHMA2, OsCCX2, OsNRAMP1/5, and OsZIP5/7. …”
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Editorial by Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche

“…We have invited several health experts, politicians and scholars alike to share their perspectives in short opinion pieces (instead of regular peer-reviewed articles). …”
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