DEMOCRACY, POVERTY AND THE SEARCH FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA by Morris K.O. EDOGIAWERIE, E.O. Bello

“… This paper sets out to examine why there is poverty in Nigeria despite the reality that the country is presently practicing and enjoying democracy which is globally adjudged to be the best system of government owing to it progressive and inclusive nature. …”
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Preparation of flavonoids from Amomum tsaoko and evaluation of their antioxidant and α-glucosidase inhibitory activities by Zelin Huang, Yan Zhao, Weixing Yang, Lu Lang, Jun Sheng, Yang Tian, Xiaoyu Gao

“…HPD300 was identified as the best resin for the purification of ATF, as it exhibited a Freundlich model-conformative adsorption isotherm. …”
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KAB-Newsletter-Issue-4-2023 by Sempungu, Godfrey J.

“…We shall continue to make the best out of all we get to inform our wider stakeholder community. …”
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Housing Price Forecasting Using AI (LSTM) by Hossein Ziyadi, Erfan Salavati, Mohammad Mahdi Lotfi Heravi

“…Besides that, being confronted with real estate price shocks and price fluctuations in alternative markets, determining the best time for the investment may come up as a big challenge for any investor. …”
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Dietary tea tree (Melaleucae Aetheroleum) oil fortifies growth, biochemical, immune-antioxidant trait, gene function, tissue reaction, and Aeromonas sobria resistance in Nile tilap... by Mohamed Shaalan, Heba H. Mahboub, Ahmed Hosny Abdelgawad, Abdelwahab A. Abdelwarith, Elsayed M. Younis, Ahmed A. Elnegiry, Asmaa W. Basher, Walaa El-Houseiny, Sherif M. Shawky, Sahar H. Orabi, Simon J. Davies, Yasmina K. Mahmoud

“…Supplementing TTO at 2.0-mL /kg diet revealed the best results for elevating CAT, SOD, and GSH activities plus declining MDA value in hepatic homogenate. …”
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Network Meta-Analysis of Once Weekly Selinexor-Bortezomib-Dexamethasone in Previously Treated Multiple Myeloma by Michael Dolph, Gabriel Tremblay, Adrienne M Gilligan, Hoyee Leong

“…For 2L PFS, OS and ORR, XVd had, on average, out of all iterations, the 6th (out of 21), 4th (out of 15), and 5th (out of 20) best result, respectively, versus Vd. For 3L+ PFS, OS and ORR, XVd had the 12th (out of 24), 11th (out of 22), and 8th (out of 25) best result, respectively, versus Vd. …”
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Exogenous organic acids promoted phytoremediation by Hydrangea macrophylla in cadmium‑contaminated soil by Yunjing Song, Qian Cheng, Bing Zhao

“…In particular, 5 mmol·kg−1 CA had the best effect on improving the Cd tolerance of H. macrophylla. …”
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Agreement Between Provider-Completed and Patient-Completed Preoperative Frailty Screening Using the Clinical Risk Analysis Index: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study by Mehraneh Khalighi, Amy C Thomas, Karl J Brown, Katherine C Ritchey

“…Future studies will need to explore the differences between and accuracy of RAI-C screening approaches to inform best practices for preoperative RAI-C assessment implementation.…”
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An opportunistic observational study of hospital switchboard hold messages, hold music and time spent waiting by Jordan P. Skittrall, Mary D. Fortune

“…Calling a hospital switchboard is a common, non-biomedical task that would benefit from substantial effort to establish and promote best practice.…”
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Accessible model predicts response in hormone receptor positive HER2 negative breast cancer receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy by Luca Mastrantoni, Giovanna Garufi, Giulia Giordano, Noemi Maliziola, Elena Di Monte, Giorgia Arcuri, Valentina Frescura, Angelachiara Rotondi, Armando Orlandi, Luisa Carbognin, Antonella Palazzo, Federica Miglietta, Letizia Pontolillo, Alessandra Fabi, Lorenzo Gerratana, Sergio Pannunzio, Ida Paris, Sara Pilotto, Fabio Marazzi, Antonio Franco, Gianluca Franceschini, Maria Vittoria Dieci, Roberta Mazzeo, Fabio Puglisi, Valentina Guarneri, Michele Milella, Giovanni Scambia, Diana Giannarelli, Giampaolo Tortora, Emilio Bria

“…The machine learning (ML) models were trained to predict pCR (n = 463), evaluated in an internal validation cohort (n = 109) and validated in an external validation cohort (n = 151). The best model was an Elastic Net, which achieved an area under the curve (AUC) of respectively 0.86 and 0.81. …”
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Jere COVID-19 : Pi bon Pratik pou Agribiznis by Tom Maddox, Laurel Dunn, Michelle Danyluk, Emmanuel Duvalsaint

“…This new 2-page publication of the UF/IFAS Food Science and Human Nutrition Department is the Haitian Creole translation of FSHN20-27/FS369: Handling COVID-19: Best Practices for Agribusiness. Written by Natalie Seymour, Mary Yavelak, Candice Christian, and Ben Chapman (all of NCSU) and translated by Emmanuel Duvalsaint. …”
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Using Crop Models and Climate Forecasts to Aid in Peanut Crop Insurance Decisions by Clyde W. Fraisse, James L. Novak, Axel Garcia y Garcia, James W. Jones, Charles M. Brown, Gerrit Hoogenboom

“… Crop insurance is one of the strategies producers can use to reduce risk of income loss due to climate variability. The best approach for reducing risks involves a combination of crop insurance with a pre-harvest marketing plan that includes strategies like hedging and forward contracting. …”
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The Measurement of different mechanical components using Machine Vision and digital image processing by Ram Prakash T, M.Rishidev, N. Vignesh, S.A Vishnu Bahavath

“…A plethora of sensors and a myriad of lighting has been used to enhance the best possible way to acquire the image.  Enumeration of the dimensions is made through MATLAB software.  …”
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Performance evaluation and application of second-generation environmentally-friendly composite dust suppressant in dust control by Yong Xu, Yanghaoxu Wu, Ben Ma, Yingda Zhang, Yujie Fan, Xin Huang, Zihao Liu

“…In soil impact tests, the second-generation suppressant demonstrates the best solidification effect, with soil parameters meeting standards and outperforming both commercial suppressants and water. …”
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Comparison of different drying processes of Morchella sextelata: Changes in volatile and non-volatile components, color and texture by Yaxuan Liao, Mengdi Xin, Hao Dong, Yuxing Liu, Lingling Li, Xinyong Guo, Shaobo Cheng, Guogang Chen

“…The results showed that VFD best maintains the color, texture, and flavor of M. sextelata, while HAD-MVD yields dehydrated M. sextelata having a color and dense cellular microstructure similar to that achieved with VFD but in less time. …”
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Porous Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework Loaded Mn as an Efficient Catalyst for the Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOx with NH3 by Yongliang Chen, Meiqing Yu, Rui Wang

“…The results indicated that SCR activity of the catalysts was related to the addition amount of Mn species, the Mn@ZIF-8(0.8) showed the best NO conversion of over 90% ranging from 225°C–400°C with good stability in a long-time test. …”
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Principals' intellectual stimulation and teachers’ job satisfaction in public secondary schools by Olaolu Paul Akinnubi, Moses Adeleke Adeoye

“…It suggests that teachers who perceive their principals as intellectually stimulating are more likely to be satisfied with their jobs, motivated to perform at their best, and more committed to their professional roles. …”
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Strawberries: Main Pests and Beneficials in Florida by Silvia I. Rondon, James F. Price, Daniel J. Cantliffe

“…The ability to recognize these pests, their damage, and their natural enemies is important in determining the best control methods for each situation. Keep in mind that miticide or insecticide choices are limited if you participate in a biological control program. …”
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A crossover operator for objective functions defined over graph neighborhoods with interdependent and related variables by Jaume Jordan, Javier Palanca, Victor Sanchez-Anguix, Vicente Julian

“…The results suggest that the new crossover operator is statistically better or at least as good as the best-performing crossover in 75% of the families of problems tested.…”
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An adjoint feature-selection-based evolutionary algorithm for sparse large-scale multiobjective optimization by Panpan Zhang, Hang Yin, Ye Tian, Xingyi Zhang

“…Specifically, the paper introduces the sequential forward selection approach to investigate independent sparse distribution, denoting it as the best sequence of decision variables for generating a high-quality initial population. …”
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