Natural variation of OsWRKY23 drives difference in nitrate use efficiency between indica and japonica rice by Siyu Zhang, Zhe Ji, Wu Jiao, Chengbo Shen, Yaojun Qin, Yunzhi Huang, Menghan Huang, Shuming Kang, Xuan Liu, Shunqi Li, Zulong Mo, Ying Yu, Bingyu Jiang, Yanan Tian, Longfei Wang, Qingxin Song, Shaokui Wang, Shan Li

“…Abstract Between the two major rice subspecies, indica varieties generally exhibit higher nitrate (NO3 ‒) uptake and nitrogen (N)-use efficiency (NUE) than japonica varieties. …”
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Milking frequency effect on rumination daily profile of dairy cows by Amanda Uliana Manfio, Maria Eduarda Pieniz Hamerski, Pamela Itajara Otto, Tiago Antonio Del Valle

“…Diurnal rumination (from 7 to 19 h) generally represents 46.3% of daily rumination. Cows milked twice daily showed a significant decrease in rumination rate, especially during the second daily milking, compared to cows milked three times daily. …”
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Multi-level high utility-itemset hiding. by Loan T T Nguyen, Hoa Duong, An Mai, Bay Vo

“…However, available PPUM methods do not consider the generalization of items in databases (categories, classes, groups, etc.). …”
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OUTSOURCING OF R&D AND INNOVATION ACTIVITIES IN SMEs: EVIDENCE FROM SLOVENIA by Barbara Bradač Hojnik, Miroslav Rebernik

“…As the results of these activities enable companies to achieve and sustain competitive advantage, it is crucial to manage them properly. As SMEs generally lack internal resources to perform R&D and innovation activities internally, is the outsourcing of these activities a viable solution for them? …”
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Impact of Urbanization Process on Extreme Precipitation Events Based on Non-Stationary GEV Model by WU Haoran, LAN Tian, CHEN Yongqin, WU Yanrui, QIAO Tianling, LI Minglin

“…Urbanization indicators were integrated into the generalized extreme value (GEV) distribution model by using four parameter extension methods. …”
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YouTube as an information source in deep margin elevation: Reliability, accuracy and quality analysis. by Zeyneb Merve Ozdemir, Sevim Atılan Yavuz, Derya Gursel Surmelioglu

“…The findings indicated that YouTube videos related to DME generally exhibited high-quality content but only moderate accuracy and poor reliability.…”
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Effect of Breed on the Composition of Cow Milk under Traditional Management Practices in Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria by K Adesina

“…The result showed that breed of cow has no significant effect on the mineral and amino acids composition of the milk. Generally, the compositional variation of milk under study typified those of dairy herds earlier reported. …”
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LIQUIDITY AND PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM THE DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA by Celestine Toluwa Oladele, Rihanat I Abdulkadir, Peters Ade Sanni

“…The analytical method employed to analyze the data was the System Generalized Method of Movement (GMM) estimator. The empirical results showed that among the proxies for liquidity (liquidity ratio, cash reserve ratio, loan to deposit ratio), only cash reserve ratio was significant and consistent on both dimensions of performance. …”
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YOUTHS PROTEST IN NIGERIA: THE ENDSARS IN PERSPECTIVE by Felix Ikalewumi

“…While many researches had looked into youth protests mostly in the advanced countries, Africa generally, only a few assessed youth protests in Nigeria so far. …”
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OUTSOURCING OF R&D AND INNOVATION ACTIVITIES IN SMEs: EVIDENCE FROM SLOVENIA by Barbara Bradač Hojnik, Miroslav Rebernik

“…As the results of these activities enable companies to achieve and sustain competitive advantage, it is crucial to manage them properly. As SMEs generally lack internal resources to perform R&D and innovation activities internally, is the outsourcing of these activities a viable solution for them? …”
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A SYSTEM DYNAMICS MODEL TO DETERMINE THE VALUE OF INVENTORY HOLDING COST by BABATUNDE OMONIYI ODEDAIRO, EMILOLA HELEN ALABA, INYENEOBONG EDEM

“…However, due to the absence of a generally acceptable methodology, many practitioners still determine this percentage based on estimates, benchmarks and intuition. …”
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Small Scale Enterprises (SSES) on Employment Opportunities in Kabwohe Municipality. by Niwagaba, Innocent

“…The findings revealed the following: From the findings of the study, on respondents' background information the researcher concluded that the majority of respondents in this sample were in their early adulthood age, that is, 30-39 years, there are more males than females in Kabwohe municipality employed in these Enterprises, majority of individuals in Kabwohe municipality are generally not well educated; It can also be concluded that the effects of small scale enterprise on employment opportunities is significant at 05 percent because the probability value is less than 05 level of significance. …”
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Analysis of the Variation of Vitamin C Content in Different Varieties of Passion Fruits from Kabale Central Market by Ssenoga, Regan

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Measuring absenteeism as a precondition of quality management of absenteeism by Ilić Đurđijana

“…Therefore, employers generally declare the costs of absenteeism immeasurable, minor and difficult to manage without affecting the organization and cost of labor. …”
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Advancing risk stratification in kidney transplantation: integrating HLA-derived T-cell epitope and B-cell epitope matching algorithms for enhanced predictive accuracy of HLA compa... by Matthias Niemann, Matthias Niemann, Benedict M. Matern, Benedict M. Matern, Gaurav Gupta, Bekir Tanriover, Fabian Halleck, Klemens Budde, Eric Spierings, Eric Spierings

“…We have statistically evaluated their co-dependency and synergistic effects between models systematically on 400,935 kidney transplantations using Cox proportional hazards and XGBoost models.ResultsMultivariable models of histocompatibility generally outperformed univariable predictors, with a combined model of HLA-A, -B, -DR matching, Snow and PIRCHE-II yielding highest AUC in XGBoost and lowest BIC in Cox models. …”
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Failure of Colorectal Anastomosis: Risk Factors, Prevention, Diagnosis, Therapeutic Tactics by M. F. Cherkasov, A. V. Dmitriev, V. S. Groshilin, S. V. Pereskokov, M. A. Kozyrevskiy, A. A. Urupina

“…Aim. To analyse and generalize available literature data on the problem of colorectal anastomotic leakage after rectal resection. …”
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Moments of axial-vector GPD from lattice QCD: quark helicity, orbital angular momentum, and spin-orbit correlation by Shohini Bhattacharya, Krzysztof Cichy, Martha Constantinou, Xiang Gao, Andreas Metz, Joshua Miller, Swagato Mukherjee, Peter Petreczky, Fernanda Steffens, Yong Zhao

“…Abstract In this work, we present a lattice QCD calculation of the Mellin moments of the twist-2 axial-vector generalized parton distribution (GPD), H ~ x ξ t $$ \overset{\sim }{H}\left(x,\xi, t\right) $$ , at zero skewness, ξ, with multiple values of the momentum transfer, t. …”
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Thermodynamic, diffusion and precipitation behaviors in Cu–Ni–Si–Co alloys: Modeling and experimental validation by Haoyue Ling, Ying Tang, Jing Zhong, Xiangpeng Meng, Min Zhang, Lijun Zhang

“…It is anticipated that the presently obtained quantitative composition-process-microstructure relation can be directly used for efficient design of Cu–Ni–Si–Co alloys, and the developed approaches for establishing thermodynamic/kinetic database as well as quantitative precipitation simulation framework is generally applicable to other multicomponent alloys.…”
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The effects of kangaroo care on delirium management in neonates under non-invasive mechanical ventilation: A randomized control trial by Kayvan Mirnia, Jason W. Osborne, Hamid Sharif-Nia, David Sánchez-Teruel, Fatemeh Khoshnavay Fomani, Nasim Mirzaei

“…Repeated measures modeling (linear mixed models and generalized linear mixed models) indicated significant differences in change curves for both Cornell Assessment of Pediatric Delirium scores and the incidence of delirium. …”
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PUBLIC AWARENESS OF DEPOSIT INSURANCE AND INVESTOR COMPENSATION SCHEMES IN BULGARIA by Irina Kazandzhieva, Elena Ralinska

“… The purpose of deposit insurance and investor compensation schemes is to protect the clients of banks and investment intermediaries by providing compensation in the case of unavailability of clients’ deposits or assets. Generally, knowledge about the activities of both schemes is rather limited by the public. …”
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