Credit Risk Management Practices and Loan Performance of Commercial Banks in Uganda. A Case Study of Commercial Banks in Mbarara City by Agaba, Francis

“…Stringent credit controls take the form of pledging collateral securities that are equivalent to the loans granted, limiting the ceiling of the loan an individual client can take, and ensuring borrowers have the capacity to pay their loans Commercial Banks should ensure proper credit risk assessment are done will register superior loan performance. …”
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Preference learning based deep reinforcement learning for flexible job shop scheduling problem by Xinning Liu, Li Han, Ling Kang, Jiannan Liu, Huadong Miao

“…Furthermore, the Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC) is used to evaluate the performance of the preference model. …”
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SECURITY OF LIVES, RIGHTS TO PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY AND THE ENDSARS PROTEST IN NIGERIA by Olufunmilayo Oyelude, Oyedamade Opakunbi, Jacob Babajide, Jude Ilodibe

“…In conclusion, this empirical study established the facts in the literature about the inability of government and its various agencies to secure the fundamental human rights of each individual in its jurisdiction leading to the violations of such human rights, Thus, relevant authorities such as; National Human Right Commission (NHRC), Public Complaints Commission (PCC) should continuously educate the masses of their rights and limits. > …”
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Characterisation of the Aerodynamic Aerosol Classifier Transfer Function for Particle Sizes up to 5 Micrometres by Simon D. Payne, Tyler J. Johnson, Jonathan P. R. Symonds

“…While this approach was previously used to characterise the AAC’s transfer function for particle aerodynamic diameters up to 2.4 µm using a nebuliser and a Condensation Particle Counter (CPC), the current study expands the AAC’s characterisation up to 5 µm using a condensation aerosol generator and an Optical Particle Counter (OPC). …”
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Digital mapping of soil organic carbon in a plain area based on time-series features by Kun Yan, Decai Wang, Yongkang Feng, Siyu Hou, Yamei Zhang, Huimin Yang

“…Introducing the time-series features of ecological factors resulted in a decrease in the mean error (ME) and root mean square error (RMSE), whereas the coefficient of determination (R2) and concordance correlation coefficient (CCC) showed increasing trends across the different models. …”
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Ресурсы современного материнства: систематическое обзорное исследование зарубежной литературы by Мария Александровна Коргожа

“…Осуществлено систематическое обзорное исследование публикаций за 2004– 2024 годы по методологии scoping review с применением русскоязычного чек-листа PRISMA-ScR и критериев соответствия по модели PCC. Проведен двухэтапный поисковый запрос с использованием ключевого словосочетания “maternal personal resources” и связанных ключевых слов, определенных дополнительно посредством библиометрического анализа. …”
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Remote sensing-based maize growth process parameters revel the maize yield: a comparison of field- and regional-scale by Minghan Cheng, Xiuliang Jin, Chenwei Nie, Kaihua Liu, Tianao Wu, Yuping Lv, Shuaibing Liu, Xun Yu, Yi Bai, Yadong Liu, Lin Meng, Xiao Jia, Yuan Liu, Lili Zhou, Fei Nan

“…Considering this, we extracted four maize growth process parameters using Leaf Area Index (LAI) obtained from UAV (equipped with multispectral sensor, centimeter-level) and satellite (MODIS, 1 km) observations: PP_a (representing the duration of the crop growth period), PP_b (representing the peak growth stage of the crop), PP_c (representing the initial state of the crop), and LAImax (maximum LAI). …”
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Evaluation of three remineralizing agents on surface roughness of enamel. by Vian O. Majeed, Hemn M. Sarmamy, Rebin A. Mohammedamin

“… Background and Objective: This study aimed to assess and compare, in vitro, the efficacy of Casien phosphopeptide-Amorphous calcium phosphate fluoride (CPP-ACP F), Sodium fluoride (NaF) mouth rinse and orthokin tooth paste in treatment of white spot lesions (WSLs) by examining changes in surface roughness of the enamel teeth following pH cycling. …”
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