INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC SECTOR ACCOUNTING STANDARD (IPSAS 24): ITS EFFECT ON PUBLIC SECTOR BUDGET PERFORMANCE IN KWARA STATE, NIGERIA by Salaudeen Ibrahim, Abdul-Hakeem Shuaib, Mubaraq Sanni

“…The targeted population were 50 made up of all 24 members of the Kwara State House of Assembly and 26 Controllers of finance in the state. …”
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Development of Chatbot-Based Oral Health Care for Young Children and Evaluation of its Effectiveness, Usability, and Acceptability: Mixed Methods Study by Kittiwara Pupong, Jaranya Hunsrisakhun, Samerchit Pithpornchaiyakul, Supawadee Naorungroj

“…Participants had a mean age of 34.5 (SD 8.6) years. The frequency of tooth brushing among caregivers significantly improved, increasing from 72.4% at baseline to 93.1% two months post baseline (PP ConclusionsThe 30-Day FunDee chatbot effectively enhanced caregivers’ perceptions of oral health care and improved tooth-brushing practices for children aged 6‐36 months. …”
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Unfolding insights about resilience and its coping strategies by medical academics and healthcare professionals at their workplaces: a thematic qualitative analysis by Salman Yousuf Guraya, Jacqueline Maria Dias, Mohamed Ahmed Eladl, Ayah Mohammad Rajai Rustom, Fatima Audi Saleem Alalawi, Majid Hassan Saleh Alhammadi, Yusra Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed, Amna Ali Omran Taryam Al Shamsi, Sarah Juman Bilalaga, Alfred Nicholson, Hani Malik, Shaista Salman Guraya

“…The guide was validated by content experts and was piloted on a small group of MHAs of the University of Sharjah (UoS) and HCPs from different hospitals of the United Arab Emirates to test its relevance, internal consistency, and inter-observer validity. …”
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Evolution Characteristics of Soil and Water Conservation Carbon Pool and Its Carbon Sink Potential in Typical Small Watershed of the Loess Plateau by HE Guokai, WANG Kaibo, REN Zongping, XU Guoce, DONG Pengbei, WANG Pu

“…Terraced grassland, terraced woodland, slope grassland, channel grassland, slope woodland and dam land increased by 318.1%, 255.3%, 150.0%, 130.9%, 103.9% and 73.9%, respectively. (3) Soil and water conservation carbon storage in the study area increased from 264.5 t in 1977 to 332.8 t in 2022, with an increase of 25.8%, of which only 3.5% increased from 1977 to 2004, 22.4% increased from 2004 to 2015, and it then tended to be stable after 2015. (4) Under the condition that the soil below the ridge crest line remained unchanged, the soil organic carbon sequestration potential was the highest when the terraced grassland measures were adopted above the ridge crest line, with an increase of 20.5% compared with 2022. …”
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Gruppenbild mit Dame: »Au juste poids véritable balance« (Amiens, 1518/19), Gerechtigkeitsfiguration im Licht politischer Marienfrömmigkeit by Erk Volkmar Heyen

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Uniwersalizm grzechu i misja Ducha Świętego... w świetle encykliki św. Jana Pawła II Dominum et Vivificantem by Liubov Derdziak

“…Dlatego autorka niniejszego artykułu podejmuje próbę przybliżenia papieskiej nauki o grzechu i zbawczej roli Ducha Świętego. W swoich rozważaniach na temat grzechu Jan Paweł II ukazuje go w perspektywie dzieła Zbawienia, którego dokonał Jezus Chrystus oraz w świetle działania Ducha Świętego w sercu każdego człowieka. …”
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Multimorbidity in Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease and Its Associations With Adverse Cardiovascular Events and Healthcare Costs: A Real-World Evidence Study by Dingwei Dai, Joaquim Fernandes, Xiaowu Sun, Laura Lupton, Vaughn W. Payne, Alexandra Berk

“…**Results:** Of 223 923 patients with ASCVD (mean \[SD\] age, 73.6 \[10.7\] years; 42.2% female), 98.5% had ≥2, and 80.2% had ≥5 comorbid conditions. …”
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The effect of prednisolone ingestion and acute exercise on lipocalin-2 and its variants in young men: a pilot randomised crossover study by Carlie Bauer, Rhiannon K. Patten, Qiyang Sun, Haoyun Li, Daniels Konja, Mary Woessner, Xuzhu Lin, Andrew Garnham, David L. Hare, Peter R. Ebeling, Marc Sim, Joshua R. Lewis, Yu Wang, Lewan Parker, Itamar Levinger

“…In a randomised crossover design, nine young healthy men (aged 27.8 ± 4.9 years; BMI 24.4 ± 2.4 kg/m2) completed 30 min of high-intensity aerobic exercise (90–95% heart rate reserve) after glucocorticoid or placebo ingestion. …”
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A systematic literature review on combined seawater desalination and reverse electrodialysis: Evaluating its technological readiness and potential for full-commercialization by Marijn T. van Geet, Janina Fuchs

“…Based on a structured literature review including 70 recent publications on the topic, the current study identified four main techno-economic barriers that stand in the way of this eco-innovation progressing to wide-scale adoption: (1) a low power density and energy efficiency; (2) a high levelized cost of energy; (3) technological immaturity; and (4) a lack of competitiveness. …”
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A review of design factors in steam and gas push for eco-friendly oil sands production and its field application in Canada by Sunghyun Kim, Hyundon Shin, Changhyup Park, Zhuoheng Chen, Kyungbook Lee

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Serum High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Concentrations in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma and Its Association With Histological Grade in a Chinese Population by Ying-Ying Cao PhD, Xiao-Jing Lv MD, Hui Li PhD, Li-Chao Qian PhD, Hai-Peng Si MD, Yuan Li PhD, Kai Guo PhD, Shuai Ren PhD, Zhong-Qiu Wang MD

“…Clinical data, blood biochemical results, imaging features, and pathological details of the patients were collected, such as age, gender, diabetes, hypertension, tumor grade, tumor size and location, high-density lipoprotein (HDL-c), low-density lipoprotein (LDL), total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9), and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA). …”
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Suicidal ideation and its associated risk factors among students of a medical college in Chennai—A cross-sectional study by M Koushik, Prarthana Veeramani, L Pooja Mary Vaishali, B Charumathi, Timsi Jain

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Incorporation of kiwifruit peel improved the property of carboxymethyl cellulose-gum Arabic active film and its effects on the quality of beef sausages by Evans Frimpong Boateng, Ziyi Yang, Jian Zhang, Lei Zhou, Lujuan Xing, Wangang Zhang

“…Subsequently, sliced-beef sausages were packaged with CG-CT, CG-KPE1, CG-KPE2, and CG-KPE3 (respective to CT, TI, T2, and T3) and stored for 12 d (4 ± 1 °C). …”
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Air Pollutant Levels during the Large-scale Social Restriction Period and its Association with Case Fatality Rate of COVID-19 by Muhammad Rendana

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Black rice (Oryza sativa L.) and its anthocyanins: mechanisms, food applications, and clinical insights for postprandial glycemic and lipid regulation by Thavaree Thilavech, Tanyawan Suantawee, Charoonsri Chusak, Phim On Suklaew, Sirichai Adisakwattana

“…Based on in vitro studies, black rice anthocyanins exhibit a variety of mechanisms, including the inhibition of carbohydrate and fat digestive enzymes, binding to bile acids, interference with cholesterol micellization, and the inhibition of glucose and cholesterol uptake in enterocytes. …”
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The role of the TAPSE/sPAP ratio as a predictor of mortality in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Its value for patient risk stratification by Paul Palacios-Moguel, MD, Guillermo Cueto-Robledo, MD, Héctor González-Pacheco, MD, Jorge Ortega-Hernández, MD, María Berenice Torres-Rojas, MD, Dulce Iliana Navarro-Vergara, MD, Marisol García-Cesar, MD, Cinthia Alejandra González-Nájera, MD, Carlos Alfredo Narváez-Oríani, MD, Julio Sandoval, MD

“…Integration with the ESC/ERS risk score improved predicted mortality (AUC: 0.87 vs. 0.75, p = 0.002) and risk stratification, reclassifying 14.28% of events and 36.92% of non-events, with an NRI of 39.4% (P < 0.001). …”
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Remnant cholesterol and its variability independent of low density lipoprotein cholesterol predict metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease by Yuting Sun, Xinlei Miao, Manling Hu, Xiaoling Xie, Shuang Liu, Ziping Song, Jiayi Deng, Fei Xu, Meng Li, Yangxuan He, Song Leng

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Development of a novelly selective HPLC-chemiluminescence method by targeting degradation intermediates of nitroimidazoles and its application in animal food products by Mengdie Cai, Xinyu Wang, Kun Lu, Bixiao Zhou, Lijun Wei, Xianglei Cheng

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Transferring Transnationally, Transforming Locally, Imagining Transnationally: The Transference of Interwar Poland’s Popular Culture to Israel and Its Rediscovery in the Last Decades by Marcos Silber

“…In contemporary Israel, references to interwar Polish popular culture and its local adaptations serve a subversive and critical function in relation to the state’s identity politics. …”
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Shared decision-making competency and its associated factors among palliative care nurses: a cross-sectional study in China by Junchen Guo, Sishan Jiang, Yunyun Dai, Xianghua Xu, Chaoyi Liu, Yongyi Chen

“…The Chinese palliative care nurses had a high level of SDM competency (mean total SDMCS 211.72 ± 25.75) and high empathic ability (EA), (mean total EAS 132.63 ± 20.30). …”
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