Cost Analysis of Reclaimed Asphalt Concrete for Rigid Pavement Construction. by Ariho, Dan

“…Concrete samples of nominal mixes1:3:6 and 1:2:4 at varying water cement ratios of 0.4, 0.5 and 0.6 were prepared and tested for slump. 15 concrete cubes of 150mm x 150 mm x 150 mm per concrete mix per w/c ratio were cast and subjected to curing under water after 24 hours of casting. The cubes were then tested for compressive strength after 3, 7, 14, 28 and 56 days of curing and a minimum of 3 cubes were crushed and results recorded. …”
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Financial Inclusion and Refugees’ Self-Reliance: An Assessment for Women’s Economic Empowerment at Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Southwestern Uganda. by Mugisha, Abbas, Kaaya, Siraje

“…The study recommends that creating credit facilities to enterprising women refugees will encourage trade within and outside the settlement and this could reduce vulnerability while improving the economy of the refugees and host community. The study concludes that since the majority of the refugees women are involved in agriculture, more land be allocate to them and their skills enhanced through training .…”
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Access to Primary Education By Children With Physical Disabilities in Bwambara Sub-County Rukungiri District. by Akatukunda, Faith

“…The recommendations that came out of the study were that schools should give admission to CWPD at a free cost, and Schools should put up a special desk for CWD so that when they come for admission they don't wait for long hours. …”
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Employee Compensation and Retention of Civil Servants In Uganda: A Case Of Rubanda District Local Government. by Tubenawe, Akileo

“…On the impact of employee compensation on civil servants, the majority 100% of respondents agreed that their pay was low compared to the positions they held; on receiving overtime pay when they put in long hours, 23.6% of the respondents agreed with the assertion, compared to 76.4% of them who disagreed. …”
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Performance of Sisal Fabre as Natural Geotextile to Reinforce Soil Layers on Unpaved Road. by Kyomugasho, Lilian

“…The soil sample was obtained from Nyamkana road in Ntungamo district and the laboratory tests were carried out at Mbarara Regional laboratory. The tests carried out included; field density compaction, maximum dry density and California bearing ratio. …”
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Assessing the Suitability of Snail-Shell Powder as a Partial Replacement of Cement in Concrete Production. by Mukundane, Ivan

“…They were oven-dried under conditions of 150oc for 2 hours and sieved through the 0.075mm sieve to obtain the required powder. …”
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Investigating the Effect of Heavy Metals in Water Used for Concrete Production: A Case Study of Kabale. by Bwengye, Felix

“…Water absorption was determined in accordance with (BS 1881: Part: 108 1983), the water absorbed by cubes of each water sample on the 28th day when completely soaked in water for 24 hours. indicated that the existence of heavy metal in water used in concrete works increases cubes’ rate of water absorption. …”
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Investigating Escherichia Coli (E. Coli) Contamination of Street Foods in Manjari Kabale District. by Unasi, Daniel

“…It is typically offered for quick consumption and served out of a food truck, cart, or portable booth. In general, street foods are less expensive than restaurant meals and fall under the categories of both finger food and fast food. …”
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Employee Motivation and Job Performance in the Public Service of Uganda: The Case of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions by Batson, Baguma

“…Most employees argued that the workload and working hours are too high. The study recommends that the ODPP needs to consider practical measures to improve on the motivation of its employees and enhance performance through Salary policy review for overtime rate for all employees; there is a need for a workload and job description review. …”
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Penerapan Logika Fuzzy Dan Metode Profile Matching Pada Sistem Pakar Medis Untuk Diagnosis Covid-19 Dan Penyakit Lain by Rusliyawati Rusliyawati, Agus Wantoro, Erliyan Redy Susanto

“…Diagnosis using CT-Scan produces radiation that can increase the risk of cancer because the patient receives doses of substances containing iodine which can cause allergic reactions such as metallic taste in the mouth, itching, and shortness of breath. The purpose of this research is to build a medical expert sistem using different methods, namely by using Fuzzy-Profile Matching logic for the diagnosis of COVID-19 and other diseases based on the patient's clinical symptoms such as fever, dry cough, cough with phlegm, lethargy, shortness of breath, pain. joints, headache, sneezing, runny nose, nasal congestion, watery eyes, sore throat, and diarrhea. …”
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The Art and life of Alàgbà Fálétí – A Pic torial, Art and Artifacts Exhibition in Honor of Alàgbà Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí (1921- 2017) curated by Akinsola Adejuwon and Seyi Ogunjobi... by Akinsola Adejuwon

“…Represented also are years of adolescence and expressions of early youthful forays under various tutelary influences, variegated working periods, writing and acting plus public service careers. …”
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Analisis Perubahan Luas Lahan Hijau Di Kota Bogor Dengan Citra Landsat 8 Menggunakan Normalized Difference Vegetation Index by Asep Denih, Irma Anggraeni, Runanto

“…The process of classifying NDVI values for vegetation and non-vegetation classes is carried out using the threshold method. Based on the research process that has been carried out for the area of vegetation in Bogor City from 2015 - 2020, it has increased by 4,46 Km2 with a land change rate of 14.4%. …”
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Projeto de extensão universitária ‘SaúHDe renal’: Efeitos na qualidade de vida e na aptidão física by Jordana Letícia Buratti, Thaís Severo Dutra, Moane Marchesan Krug, Clara Suemi da Costa Rosa, Paulo Ricardo Moreira, Robelius De-Bortoli, Rodrigo de Rosso Krug

“…For that, patients at the Renal Unit Therapy from the south of Brazil were divided into a control group (CG), composed of patients with a frequency lower or equal to 75% in TF, and an experimental group (EG), composed of patients with a frequency greater than 75% in TF. …”
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Evaluation of Southern African wild edible plants for potential herb-drug interactions through ex vivo p-glycoprotein and in vitro cytochrome P450 3A4 inhibitory effects by P.S. Kheoane, K.C. Mokhetho, S. Mokhele, K.C. Mbara, C.M. Leonard, T.H. Gadaga, C. Tarirai

“…Methods: Ethanolic extracts of 30 wild edible plants sourced from Lesotho, Eswatini and the Limpopo province of South Africa were used for the study. Drug transport studies using propranolol, a P-glycoprotein substrate, across porcine intestinal tissue were conducted using intestinal sacs with test solutions in Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate buffer (pH 7.4) under a 95 % O2/5 % CO2 atmosphere. …”
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LEGAL AND ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES OF THE FOREIGN POLICY OF INDEPENDENT AZERBAIJAN IN RELATION TO NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES by Katana Gafarova

“…The economic principles that underpin Azerbaijan's relations with neighbouring countries are predicated on geographical and geopolitical factors, which exert an indirect influence on relations in the oil and gas industry, the construction of transport routes and ways of moving goods, and the ensuring of the region's energy security and other geopolitical formations. …”
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The Identification of FN1 as an Early Diagnostic Marker for Recurrent Abortion by Single-Exosome Profiling by Wang C, Lu Z, She G, Chen K, Zhou H, Zhan X, Yu H, Pi L, Zuo L, Che D

“…Chenlu Wang,1,* Zhaojin Lu,1,* Guangpeng She,2 Kaining Chen,1 Huazhong Zhou,1 Xueli Zhan,3 Hongyan Yu,1 Lei Pi,1 Liandong Zuo,4 Di Che1 1Department of Clinical Biological Resource Bank, Guangzhou Institute of Pediatrics, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Research in Structural Birth Defect Disease, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510620, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510180, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Pediatric Surgery, Guangzhou Institute of Pediatrics, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Research in Structural Birth Defect Disease, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510620, People’s Republic of China; 4Department of Andrology, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510620, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Di Che, Department of Clinical Biological Resource Bank, Guangzhou Institute of Pediatrics, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Research in Structural Birth Defect Disease, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, No. 9 Jinsui Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510620, People’s Republic of China, Email chedi@gwcmc.org Liandong Zuo, Department of Andrology, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, 9 Jinsui Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510620, People’s Republic of China, Email zuold@163.comPurpose: Recurrent abortion(RA) is a prevalent adverse pregnancy event. …”
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Estimating the Cost-Effectiveness of Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) Therapy with an Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor or Docetaxel in Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer by Furnback W, Wu E, Koh CYC, Nino de Rivera Guzman JF, Kruhl C, Kotecha R, Wang BC

“…Wesley Furnback,1 Elizabeth Wu,1 Cloe Ying Chee Koh,2 Jorge Fernando Nino de Rivera Guzman,2 Christian Kruhl,3 Rupesh Kotecha,4 Bruce CM Wang3 1Real Chemistry, New York, NY, USA; 2Novocure, Inc, Portsmouth, NH, USA; 3Novocure GmbH, Root, Switzerland; 4Department of Radiation Oncology, Miami Cancer Institute, Baptist Health South Florida, Miami, FL, USACorrespondence: Bruce CM Wang, Novocure GmbH, Neuhofstrasse 21, Baar, 6340, Switzerland, Email bcwang@novocure.comPurpose: Lung cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related mortality. …”
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Smartphone-Based Telemonitoring for Better Oral Health With Toothbrushes: 6-Month Randomized Controlled Trial by Jaeyeon Kim, Yiseul Choi, Yoolbin Song, Wonse Park

“…MethodsParticipants were recruited offline from the Department of Advanced General Dentistry at Yonsei University Dental Hospital, South Korea. A total of 150 participants were randomly assigned to 3 groups (50 participants each): (1) an ITT connected to a smartphone app providing real-time feedback and weekly dental professional reviews, (2) an ORT with smartphone-based guidance requiring participants to send weekly brushing records via screenshots, and (3) an MT with a brushing diary for review. …”
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Consecutive prediction of adverse maternal outcomes of preeclampsia, using the PIERS-ML and fullPIERS models: A multicountry prospective observational study. by Guiyou Yang, Tünde Montgomery-Csobán, Wessel Ganzevoort, Sanne J Gordijn, Kimberley Kavanagh, Paul Murray, Laura A Magee, Henk Groen, Peter von Dadelszen

“…These women, admitted to maternity units in the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Europe, and Oceania, were diagnosed with preeclampsia at a median gestational age of 35.79 weeks between year 2003 and 2016. …”
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Translation and Validation of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale for Eritrea: A Screening Tool for Postpartum Depression in Primary Health Care Facilities by Gebregziabher NK, Netsereab TB, Alazar FA, Fessaha YG, Sium AH, Ghebrehiwet NK

“…Recognizing the need for practical screening tools tailored to specific cultural contexts, researchers set out to adapt and validate the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS).Why was the study done?…”
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