Compensation and Retention of Civil Servants in Uganda: A Case of Rubanda District Local Government. by Tubenawe, Akileo

“…The study found that a significant and strong positive relationship existed between performance incentives and the retention of civil servants (p = < 0.01, rho .741**). …”
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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

“…The results showed that there was a strong and positive relationship between motivation and employee performance in ODPP; that 90% of those who mentioned monetary incentives either strongly agreed (65.6%) that this affects their performance which indicated that motivation improves performance and, that despite the low monetary incentives 20.6%, promotion at work places 40.3 %, continued job training at 58.5% and good relationship with supervisors 82% was one of the ways in which employees were motivated at the ODPP. …”
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Use of Hospital Patient and Family Advisory Councils: A Scoping Study by Barbara Lewis MBA, Chris Cochran PhD, Erika Marquez PhD, MPH, Neeraj Bhandari PhD, Jennifer Pharr PhD, Soumya Upadhyay PhD, Stowe Shoemaker PhD

“…With the aim of fostering patient-centered care, Patient and Family Advisory Councils (PFACs) have emerged as a way for hospitals to garner input for initiatives and programs from patients and patients’ families who have used the hospitals’ services. Despite their inception in the early 1980s, only 54% of United States hospitals field a PFAC. …”
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Infiltration of the liver by cells of innate and adaptive immunity and their destruction in development of experimental immune concanavalin-A-induced hepatitis by S. I. Pavlovich, T. M. Bryzgina, N. V. Makogon, L. I. Aleksyuk, T. V. Martynova, R. I. Yanchy, I. N. Alekseyeva

“…In the early terms after ConA injection destruction of thymic cells was amplified mainly by apoptotic pathway, and spleen cells – by necrotic pathway.Conclusions. Obtained data assume, that infiltration of the liver by leukocytes, in particular neutrophiles, in combination to ascending necrotic destruction of peripheral cells of innate and adaptive immunity can be the essential pathogenic mechanism at inflammatory liver diseases of T-cell origin.…”
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Employee Compensation and Retention of Civil Servants In Uganda: A Case Of Rubanda District Local Government. by Tubenawe, Akileo

“…The study found that a significant and strong positive relationship existed between performance incentives and the retention of civil servants (p = &lt; 0.01, rho .741**). …”
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SOLID PARTICLE CHARACTERIZATION. SOME ASPECT RELATED TO THE SHAPE EVALUATION BY USING SOFTWARE CORRELATIONS by EMILIAN-FLORIN MOSNEGUTU, VALENTIN NEDEFF, ALEXANDRA-DANA CHITIMUS, MARCIN JASIŃSKI, NARCIS BARSAN

“…To verify this methodology 15 anthracite particles were inserted in the working file, the shape of which is different, to determine the analyzed characteristic. …”
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Abdominal wall hematoma as a complication of drainage after laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a case report by Juntao Li, Zixiong Liu, Jia Li, Wei Cheng

“…On the first postoperative day, a hematoma developed at the site of the abdominal drainage tube insertion. Despite initial attempts at hemostasis through abdominal wall compression, these measures proved ineffective, necessitating the use of a urinary catheter balloon for effective compression hemostasis.Case presentationWe treated a patient who had undergone laparoscopic cholecystectomy for gallstones complicated by cholecystitis. …”
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An Overview of the Florida Bull Test by G. Cliff Lamb

“…Cliff Lamb, describes this test designed as an educational aid for the improvement of beef cattle, its history since inception in 2000, and summarizes the consignors, bulls, breeds, performance, and sale averages of all previous Florida Bull Tests. …”
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The boundary disorder correlation for the Ising model on a cylinder by Rafael Leon Greenblatt

“…I give an expression for the correlation function of disorder insertions on the edges of the critical Ising model on a cylinder as a function of the aspect ratio (rescaled in the case of anisotropic couplings). …”
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Increasing the uptake of long-acting reversible contraception in general practice: the Australian Contraceptive ChOice pRoject (ACCORd) cluster randomised controlled trial protocol by Danielle Mazza, Angela Taft, Kevin McGeechan, Kirsten Black, Heather McKay, Marion Haas, Jayne Lucke, Jeffery F Peipert

“…The primary outcome will be the number of LARCs inserted; secondary outcomes include the women's choice of contraceptive method and quality of life (Short Form Health Survey, SF-36). …”
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Comparison of Nasopharyngeal Airway with Endoscopic Respiratory Mask for Hypoxemia in Painless Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in Obese Outpatients: Study Protocol for a Randomized Cont... by Xiang D, Deng L, Zhou R, Zhang X, Tian L, Jiang W, Zhou Y, Chen W, Peng Y

“…The secondary outcomes will be the incidence of epistaxis, suspended examination due to hypoxemia, manual ventilation, the times of attempt to nasopharynx airway insertion, duration of insertion of nasopharyngeal airway, tracheal/laryngeal mask intubation, adverse cardiovascular events, gastrointestinal complications, VAS score of nasopharynx pain after removing the nasopharyngeal airway, satisfaction score of patients, endoscopist and anesthesiologists.Discussion: This study evaluates the effects of nasopharyngeal airway insertion on hypoxemia caused by procedural sedation in obese patients undergoing gastrointestinal endoscopy. …”
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Impact of measles vaccination strategies on vaccination rates in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Andrew Hayen, Kiddus Yitbarek, Mirkuzie Woldie, Firew Tekle Bobo, Jane Frawley, Abela Mahimbo, Meru Sheel

“…The meta-analysis indicated that vaccination-targeting interventions such as vaccination reminders, cash incentives, community engagement and health education activities increase measles vaccination coverage (RR 1.19, 95% CI 1.10 to 1.27). …”
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Pengamanan Citra Digital Menggunakan Kriptografi DnaDan Modified LSB by Sabrina Adela Br Sibarani, Andreas Munthe, Ronsen Purba, Ali Akbar Lubis

“…Optimal stego-image quality is achieved with a single bit insertion in the RGB channels, resulting in PSNR ≥ 50dB. …”
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Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) Distribution from PCB Waste and Vitrification by Reacting with Flux Agents by Raynard Christianson Sanito, Sheng-Jie You, Hsi-Hsien Yang, Ya-Fen Wang

“…A longer duration of the pyrolysis, a higher flux agent ratio and flux agent types can be recommended for plasma pyrolysis applications even though they have no significant impact on the inertization of the elements statistically. Shell powder is thus suggested as a cost-less flux agent which can create vitrification and inertization of the contaminants from resin in plasma discharges.…”
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FISCAL BALANCE AND SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA by Okwuchukwu Odili, Okoro Kelechi Okoro, Nwannediya Faith Oti-Ibiam

“…Domestic debt to domestic investments ratio and recurrent expenditure to GDP ratio exerted negative and non-significant effect on GDPgr. …”
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DESIGN ANALYSIS OF AN AUTOMATIC PHASE SELECTOR by ADEDOTUN O. OWOJORI, ABIODUN M. AKINBOLADE, KAYODE F. AKINGBADE

“… Power instability in Nigeria caused by overbearing demand of power by consumers and lack of proper maintenance of the power system devices among others has brought about the need for alternative power sources such as generators, solar, typical inverters and other alternative supplies which requires one form of switching or the other to achieve phase selection during power failure. …”
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Growing Gardenias in Florida by Joan Bradshaw, Sydney Park Brown

“…Circular 1098, a 7-page illustrated fact sheet by Joan Bradshaw and Sydney Park Brown, provides guidelines for growing this evergreen shrub known for the sweet scent of its wax-like blossoms — site selection, planting, maintenance practices, pests and other problems, cultivars, and propagation. …”
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Evaluation of Schneiderian First-rank Symptoms in Patients of Psychosis Attending a Tertiary Care Center from North India by Aditi Jain, Abbas Mehdi

“…Conclusions: Only somatic passivity, delusional perception, and thought insertion were extremely specific in distinguishing the patients of schizophrenia from nonschizophrenic patients.…”
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