Evaluation of Non-Timber forest Products (NTFPs) In Bronze Casting Enterprise at Egun Street, Benin City, Edo state by C Kalu, EN Aigbobo

“…Evaluation of NTFPs input in bronze casting at Igun Street in Benin City was carried out with the use of measurement of inputs and questionnaires. …”
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FINANCING INNOVATION ACTIVITY IN UKRAINE: REALITIES AND PERSPECTIVES by Nataliia Marynenko, Iryna Fedyshyn, Natalia Garmatiy, Iryna Kramar

“…The correlation between the influence of the total amount of expenditures for financing innovation activity of industrial enterprises and gross domestic product of Ukraine in actual prices is calculated and forecasting of these expenditures by applying the theory of Markov chains is carried out. The research on the basis of correlation-regression analysis between the total amount of expenditures for financing innovation activity of industrial enterprises and gross domestic product of Ukraine in actual prices for the period of 2013-2017 made it possible to establish a sufficiently strong correlation between the indicators (the correlation coefficient is 1), which indicates that the positive dynamics of the increase in the total amount of expenditures for financing innovation activity of industrial enterprises will lead to a positive dynamics of Ukraine’s gross domestic product in actual prices. …”
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Harmonization of the Long-term PM2.5 Carbon Data from the CSN Sites in New York State by Hesham Hassan, James Schwab, Jie Zhang

“…A second comparison between the retired method and Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) network data was carried out at two sites (one urban and one rural) with co-located samplers. …”
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Thyroid Dysfunction following Radiotherapy and Combined Therapy in Non-Thyroid Head and Neck Cancers by Rais Ahmad Bhat, Om Prakash, Shabab Lalit Angurana

“…Thyroid function tests were done before and at the end, 3 months and 6 months following treatment. RESULTS: Out of 51 patients, 47 (92.15 %) were males and 4 (7.8 %) were females. …”
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AUDIT FEE, AUDITOR’S EXPERIENCE, AND EARNINGS MANAGEMENT: EVIDENCE FROM LISTED MANUFACTURING COMPANIES IN NIGERIA by Muhammed Kamaldeen Usman, Adeoluwa Victoria Adekanye

“…Descriptive and inferential statistics were employed in the analysis of the data collected from the annual reports and accounts of the chosen companies for the period of five years (2013-2017). The study found out that audit fee has a significant negative effect on the level of earnings management of listed manufacturing companies in Nigeria at 5% significant level (t-value of -0.3409 with p-value of 0.001). …”
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SOCIO-CULTURAL DETERMINANTS OF ADOLESCENTS SEXUALAND REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOUR IN KEFFI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, NASARAWA STATE-NIGERIA by Deborah Gwom Dung, Mamman Matthew Samuel, Umar Haruna Yashim

“…Descriptive and inferential statistics of the data were carried out using a statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) Windows version 25.0. …”
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Calibration of miniature air quality detector monitoring data with PCA–RVM–NAR combination model by Bing Liu, Yirui Zhang

“…First, correlation analysis is used to find out the main factors affecting pollutant concentrations. …”
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FINANCING INNOVATION ACTIVITY IN UKRAINE: REALITIES AND PERSPECTIVES by Nataliia Marynenko, Iryna Fedyshyn, Natalia Garmatiy, Iryna Kramar

“…The correlation between the influence of the total amount of expenditures for financing innovation activity of industrial enterprises and gross domestic product of Ukraine in actual prices is calculated and forecasting of these expenditures by applying the theory of Markov chains is carried out. The research on the basis of correlation-regression analysis between the total amount of expenditures for financing innovation activity of industrial enterprises and gross domestic product of Ukraine in actual prices for the period of 2013-2017 made it possible to establish a sufficiently strong correlation between the indicators (the correlation coefficient is 1), which indicates that the positive dynamics of the increase in the total amount of expenditures for financing innovation activity of industrial enterprises will lead to a positive dynamics of Ukraine’s gross domestic product in actual prices. …”
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Magnitude and pattern of usage of contraception and counselling services in an urban health centre in East Delhi: A secondary data analysis by Garima Singh, Subham Kansal, Arihant Jain, Kanishka Garg, Manan Tayal, Boyana T. Tejaswi, Anita S. Acharya, Ananya R. Laskar, Jyoti Khandekar

“…The usage of condoms was reported by 40.6% of the participants. Out of the total participants, 58.6% received counselling for permanent methods. …”
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Taxi Violence in South Africa: A Review of Literature and Critical Analysis by Mmakwena Modipa

“…This study therefore set out analyse the causes of taxi violence in South Africa. …”
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Investigation of the Incidence of Coital Incontinence in Incontinent Women by Omer Demir, Cihan Comba

“…Study Design: All sexually active women with urinary incontinence (diagnosed as self-reported) attending the out-patient gynecology clinic of a regional state hospital were interviewed consecutively between September 2017 and September 2018 about their experience with regards to coital incontinence. …”
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Microenvironment modulation of TiO2 nanosheets for highly selective photocatalytic CO2 reduction by Xingxing Zheng, Jun Yang

“…As a result, TiO2+PO43- stands out as a strong candidate for CO2 reduction, thanks to better charge transfer and more active sites.…”
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GEOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATION OF GROUNDWATER POTENTIALS USING RESISTIVITY METHOD: A CASE STUDY OF ABU PHASE II STUDENTS’ HOSTEL by FRANCIS JAMES OGBOZIGE, SADIQ MUHAMMAD SANI

“…However, four VES points (two in each hostel) were identified to be suitable for borehole drilling though, three out of these four VES points have single aquifer in each with resistivity and thickness ranging from 34.4 Ωm – 40.57 Ωm and 2.02 m – 7.49 m respectively. …”
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SEDIMENT RUNOFF AND WATER TURBIDITY OF THE MAIN TRIBUTARIES OF THE LAKE LADOGA by Marina V. Shmakova, Sergey A. Kondratyev

“…Observations of sediment runoff of the main tributaries the Lake Ladoga were not carried out. In this regard, for each tributary were selected rivers-analogues the main criteria in the selection was the slope, the grain size of sediments and the catchment area (water availability). …”

Bladder Horn Appearance on Ultrasonographic Examination Prior to Cesarean Section: Does it Predict High Cranial Attachment of the Bladder? by İnci Kahyaoğlu, Fulya Kayıkçıoğlu, Serhan Kahyaoğlu, Sezin Ertürk Akasakal, Leyla Mollamahmutoğlu

“…STUDY DESIGN: The study was carried out in delivery unit of a teaching hospital. Two hundred pregnant women, 66 with and 134 without ultrasonographic appearance of bladder horn with at least one previous CS delivery beyond 37 weeks of gestation were enrolled in the study. …”
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A HISTORY OF THE AGILA IN ADO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF BENUE STATE by OCHOGA EDWIN OCHOGA, Imanah Sunday Omoafena

“…And as such, if Agila history must be told by mirroring image of realities, with these and other cultural correspondence with the Igala ‘Chieftaincy Model’, and Arekwu mystery; tracing the genealogy of Agila as a whole to Idah is by no means out of place. Thus, conclusion was reached that: Firstly, Agila is a product of the mystical efforts of both Ago and Osilagama and their descendants that have over the centuries made Agila unique culturally wise in Idomaland. …”
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Miserable victims or Troublesome delinquents? A Critical perspective on the news media coverage of Chinese rural left-behind children by Ruixia Sun, Wei Han

“…We collected 110 news reports published in China Daily during 2004–2023 and sorted the data out with the software Nvivo 11. We employed the discourse-historical approach and the concept of agency to analyze the data and found that China Daily has constructed three major images of LBC: victims, problem-plagued group, beneficiaries. …”
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Acoustic Characteristics of Coconut Leaf Beetle, Brontispa Longissima (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) by Ganeshwari Selvaraj, Johari Jalinas

“…Acoustic recording activities were carried out at the Applied Entomology Laboratory using an AED-2010 sensor-preamplifier module. …”
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INFLUENCE OF BOARD FINANCIAL EXPERTISE ON TAX COMPLIANCE OF NON- FINANCIAL LISTED FIRMS IN NIGERIA by Mathias Gboyega OGUNDEJI

“…The study explored data from 68 firms out of 116 non-financial listed firms in Nigeria from 2004 to 2018 while qualitative data was obtained through semi structured interviews on 17 corporate governance agents. …”
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Transnational Coalition Building: The Role of The Yes I Do Alliance in Preventing Child Marriage Practices in Kediri Village, West Lombok by St. Amaliah Ramli

“…Traditional Sasak marriages, known as Merariq, are carried out by the abduction of the prospective bride by the prospective groom. …”
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