Determinants of Credit Access to Small Scale Enterprises: A Case Study of Centenary Bank Kabale Branch-Kabale District. by Besigye, Emmanuel

“…The results indicated that several key factors significantly affect SMEs' ability to secure credit. Complex and lengthy lending processes were identified as major obstacles, with many SMEs noting that documentation requirements and processing delays discouraged them from applying for loans. …”
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Effect of Parental Care and Teenage Pregnancy in Kirima Sub-County Kanungu District. by Ariho, Syliver

“…These challenges include poverty, which affects the ability of parents to afford school-related costs like uniforms and other supplies, poor sanitation and hygiene at schools, and negative attitudes from teachers and school administrators towards girls' education. …”
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Impact of Architectural Sculpture Design on Buildings: A Case Study of Kigezi Region. by Tumwekwase, Boaz

“…The number of people involved in any communal project, from sponsors (whether states, or individuals) to designers, architects, and sculptors, was enormous. …”
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Experimental investigation of a cooking unit integrated with thermal energy storage system by Pamella, K. Kajumba, Denis, Okello, Karidewa, Nyeinga, Ole, J. Nydal

Subjects: “…Thermal, oil Efficiency Solar, cooker Storage…”
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Green Strategy–Based Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles for Antibacterial Applications by Keneth Iceland, Kasozi

“…An X-ray diffraction analysis generated four peaks for both Prunus africana extract (PAE) and Camellia sinensis extract (CSE) biosynthesized AgNPs positioned at 2θ angles of 38.2°, 44.4°, 64.5°, and 77.4° corresponding to crystal planes (111), (200), (220), and (311), respectively. …”
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Tax Administration and Performance of Business Enterprises in Uganda: A Case Study of Kabale Municipality by Hilda, Nahabwe

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Tamarindus Indica Ameliorates Behavioral and Cytoarchitectural Changes in the Cerebellar Cortex Following Prenatal Aluminum Chloride Exposure in Wistar Rats. by Usman, Ibe Michael, Adebisi, Samuel Sunday, Musa, Sunday Abraham, Iliya, Ibrahim Abdullahi, Archibong, Victor Bassey, Lemuel, Ann Monima, Keneth Iceland, Kasozi

“…Aluminium exposure has been linked with developmental neurotoxicity in humans and experimental animals.The study aimed to evaluate the ameliorative effect of Tamarindus indica on the developing cerebellar cortex, neurobehavior, and immunohistochemistry of the cerebellar cortex following prenatal aluminum chloride (AlCl3) exposure. …”
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Frozen Weights as Prior for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning by Xiaolong Ma, Peishun Liu, Haojie Gao, Zikang Yan, Ningning Ma, Wenqiang Liu, Xuefang Wang, Ruichun Tang

“…From the perspective of full fine-tuning, these approaches often fail to fully exploit the connection between incremental changes during fine-tuning and the frozen weights of the pre-trained model. …”
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Deep Brain Stimulation in the treatment of disorders of consciousness by Joanna Olszak, Karolina Zalewa, Lidia Bartoszek, Dominika Orłowska, Wojciech Kapłan, Mikołaj Poleszczuk, Karol Poleszczuk, Alicja Milewska, Anna Czuba, Marta Kaus

“…In some cases, patients in MCS have exhibited improved awareness, motor responses, and even the ability to communicate. Key factors influencing outcomes include the timing of DBS application, the extent of brain injury, and the specific brain regions targeted.  …”
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Contrast quality control for segmentation task based on deep learning models—Application to stroke lesion in CT imaging by Juliette Moreau, Juliette Moreau, Laura Mechtouff, Laura Mechtouff, David Rousseau, Omer Faruk Eker, Omer Faruk Eker, Yves Berthezene, Yves Berthezene, Tae-Hee Cho, Tae-Hee Cho, Carole Frindel, Carole Frindel

“…While the methodology was only applied to stroke lesion segmentation in CT images, it has the potential to be adapted to other tasks.…”
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Zero-day exploits detection with adaptive WavePCA-Autoencoder (AWPA) adaptive hybrid exploit detection network (AHEDNet) by Ahmed A. Mohamed, Abdullah Al-Saleh, Sunil Kumar Sharma, Ghanshyam G. Tejani

“…Additionally, a novel “Meta-Attention Transformer Autoencoder (MATA)” for enhancing feature extraction which address the subtlety issue, and improves the model’s ability and flexibility to detect new security threats, and a novel “Genetic Mongoose-Chameleon Optimization (GMCO)” was introduced for effective feature selection in the case of addressing the efficiency challenges. …”
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Barriers and facilitators to data-based decision making in Australian early childhood education and care: A qualitative study by Shauna Sherker, Karen Villanueva, Ruth Beatson, Caitlin M. Macmillan, Wan Yi Lee, Olivia Hilton, Carly Molloy, Sharon Goldfeld

“…Important facilitators related to capability (ability to use data systems, cognitive skills and interpersonal skills), opportunity (environmental context and resources or social influences) and motivation (reinforcement and professional/social role and identity). …”
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Purification, Characterization and Antibacterial Mechanism of Plantaricin 2-1 by Mengyang LI, Xiaoxue CHE, Qingshen SUN

“…Additionally, P2-1 demonstrated the ability to bind to the genomic DNA of the indicator strains, thereby disrupting their DNA structure. …”
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Validity of E-PASS Score for Evaluating Perioperative Minor Complications Associated with Carotid Endarterectomy by Yutaka MORISHIMA, Masahito KAWABORI, Yoichi ITO, Masayuki GEKKA, Koji FURUKAWA, Yoshimasa NIIYA, Miki FUJIMURA

“…To evaluate the occurrence rate of perioperative complications in various surgical domains, the E-PASS (Estimation of Physiological Ability and Surgical Stress) score is employed. This study was carried out to investigate the utility of the E-PASS score as a predictive factor for the risk of minor complications in patients undergoing CEA. …”
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Integrative analysis of immunogenic PANoptosis and experimental validation of cinobufagin-induced activation to enhance glioma immunotherapy by Yonghua Cai, Heng Xiao, Shuaishuai Xue, Peng Li, Zhengming Zhan, Jie Lin, Zibin Song, Jun Liu, Wei Xu, Qixiong Zhou, Songtao Qi, Xi’an Zhang, Ziyi Luo

“…Cinobufagin, identified as a PANoptosis activator, was evaluated for its ability to induce PANoptosis and enhance anti-tumor immune responses both in vitro and in vivo GBM models. …”
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Estimating the Torsional Capacity of Reinforced Concrete Beams Using ANFIS Models by Zhao Wenwu, Zeng Shaowu, Gong Guilin, Li Qiangqiang, Li Kexing

“…Unfortunately, semi-empirical formulae still fail to adequately predict the torsional capacity of 𝑅𝐶 beams, particularly over-reinforced and strong ones. …”
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The Impact of Bar-induced Noncircular Motions on the Measurement of Galactic Rotation Curves by Jie Liu, Zhi Li, Juntai Shen

“…The shape of the derived RC depends on the difference in position angle (Δ ϕ ) between the major axes of the bar and the disk in the face-on plane. …”
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Sentimentally enhanced conversation recommender system by Fengjin Liu, Qiong Cao, Xianying Huang, Huaiyu Liu

“…However, these methods tend to overlook the inherent incompleteness of knowledge graphs, making it challenging for models to fully capture users’ true preferences. Additionally, they fail to thoroughly explore users’ emotional tendencies toward entities or effectively differentiate the varying impacts of different entities on user preferences. …”
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Uncertainties in the finite-time Lyapunov exponent in an ocean ensemble prediction model by M. Matuszak, J. Röhrs, P. E. Isachsen, P. E. Isachsen, M. Idžanović

“…As the FTLE characterizes the flow, which may impact particle transport, we aim to investigate the uncertainty of FTLE fields at any given time using an ensemble prediction system (EPS) to propagate velocity field uncertainty into the FTLE analysis. …”
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Potential of Lactiplantibacillus Plantarum 20174 for Vitamin B12 Production in Pineapple: An Enhanced Nutritional Quality and Storage Stability of Processed Jelly by Mayuri Rastogi, Bushra Shaida, Vandana Singh, Zoobiya Islam, Saleem Siddiqui

“…Background: Vitamin B12 is the micronutrient, present naturally in animal products. The present study was conducted with the aim of developing a naturally fortified vitamin B12 rich fruit product, which can easily be consumed by vegan population. …”
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