Does instruction through mother tongue impede students’ English proficiency? public skepticism on the instructional language policy in the state of Amhara by Melaku Gebremeske

“…Rather, lack of carrying out valid instructional language planning, government reluctance to consult necessary stakeholders during policy formulation and poor implementation procedures have resulted in lack of realizing the intended goals of the instructional language policy. Apart from lack of resource supply the defects in its formulation procedure have lingering effects on the realization of instructional language policy. …”
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Oral dydrogesterone versus oral micronized progesterone in threatened miscarriage: protocol paper for a randomized controlled trial by Alka Kriplani, Gouri Shankar Kamilya, T Ramani Devi, Ashima Taneja, Amol Pawar, Gayathri Karthik Nagesh, Tapan Pattanaik, Tanusree Gupta, Mahima Jain, Monjori Mitra

“…Secondary endpoints include the ongoing pregnancy rate at 24 weeks, treatment-induced changes in serum levels of cytokines and time to symptom resolution. Apart from the incidence of treatment-emergent adverse events, safety endpoints include changes in complete blood count and the results of liver and kidney function tests from baseline to 14 and 24–26 weeks of gestation. …”
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Cytotoxic evaluation of a mixture of four commonly used pesticides on mammalian cell lines by Prudence Agnandji, Eugène S. Attakpa, Fabrice Cazier

“…The cytotoxicity of the four insecticides and their mixture in the same concentration ratio as they had been detected in the blood (27% Cyp, 31% Cyf, 15% β-HCH, and 27% β-End) was tested on the arylhydrocarbon receptor-chemically activated luciferase expression (AhR-CALUX) assay using H4L7.5c2 cells derived from H4IIe. Apart from Cyf, none of the test compounds activated the AhR, but they exhibited cytotoxicity. …”
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Impacts of data consistency levels in cloud-based NoSQL for data-intensive applications by Saulo Ferreira, Júlio Mendonça, Bruno Nogueira, Willy Tiengo, Ermeson Andrade

“…However, DBMSs’ inner characteristics and external factors, such as the replication strategy and network latency, can affect system performance when dealing with data replication, especially when the replicas are deployed far apart from the others. Thus, it is essential to comprehend how achieving high data consistency levels in geo-replicated systems can impact systems performance. …”
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Stability of parenteral drugs in hospital circuit by Sarah BOUAMEUR, Aicha BRAHMI, Mimouna BOUNAB, Aicha KHELLIFI

“… Introduction- Drug stability in healthcare establishments is a recurring problem in practice of hospital pharmacists. Apart from the expired drugs, instabilities are often confirmed by changes in appearance or color observed during drug’s period of validity. …”
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Sing A Song for Home: How Displaced Iranian Song-Writers in LA Conceive of Home and Homeland by Pouya Morshedi, Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott

“…We ask how being apart from home impacts the very definition of home. …”
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Placental Location Affects Cesarean Complications in Patients with Placenta Previa by Gulsen Dogan Durdag, Hakan Kalayci, Safak Yilmaz Baran, Seda Yuksel Simsek, Songul Alemdaroglu, Serdinc Ozdogan, Esra Bulgan Kilicdag

“…Aim of this study is to assess factors increasing intraoperative complications in patients with placenta previa and investigate the significance of anterior placenta location apart from other factors. Study Design: This is a retrospective cohort study which was conducted in one center including 83 patients followed with placenta previa in three years’ duration. …”
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Analisis Ramalan Siri Masa Hujan menggunakan Aplikasi ramalHujan by Azlarul Ikhmal Hakim Mohd Puad, Zuraini Zainol, Ummul Fahri Abdul Rauf

“…Keputusan ramalan hujan divisualisasikan dalam bentuk carta interaktif untuk memudahkan analisis lebih lanjut. …”
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Dynamics of perceived threat and media exposure during the COVID-19 pandemic by Talia Morstead, Nancy L. Sin, Anita DeLongis

“…Drawing on a transactional model of stress and coping to frame our investigation, we hypothesized that increases from one's typical level of media exposure, COVID-19 thought frequency, or perceived threat of COVID-19 in a given month would predict increases in these variables in the subsequent month. Apart from the effect of media exposure on perceived threat of COVID-19, results from random intercept cross-lagged panel models supported our hypotheses, revealing cyclical effects at the within-person level. …”
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Prospective evaluation of the impact of repeated whole prison testing for hepatitis C by Stuart McPherson, Naw April Phaw, Manoj Valappil, Carolyn Miller, Craig Thompson, Francesca McCullough, Caroline Allsop, Kate McQue, Ryan Jelley, Jenna Kerry, Jodi Aldridge, Tony Jefferson, Colin Lawton, Lee Christensen, Aung Min Thant

“…We aimed to assess the outcomes of HITTs conducted in a prison 4 years apart with ongoing reception testing.Methods A prospective observational evaluation of the impact of HITTs was conducted in January 2020 and February 2024 at Low Newton, a female prison. …”
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Efeitos do Orforglipron no tratamento da obesidade by Marcelo José da Silva de Magalhães, Pedro Henrique Martins de Souza, Victória Toledo Oliva Ferreira Silva

“…Para a confecção da metanálise, foi utilizado modelo de efeito fixo e testes de heterogeneidade e para a análise de heterogeneidade, foi utilizado o teste Q de Cochran e o I². …”
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The Public Signs of Vilnius: Languages and Genres by Inga Daraškienė

“…Lithuanian is used in all types of signs, and the only monolingual Lithuanian signs are road signs and street names, apart from decorative plaques with foreign languages on them. …”
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Efficiency of Packaging Design as a Marketing Tool: A Case Study Of Elite Bakery Limited Kabale Branch. by Muhweezi, Moses

“…The findings of the study concluded that apart from the packaging which affects the market volume, but there are other factors such as research and development, good customer care, price reduction, good after sales service and wide coverage which also influence consumption behavior of customers in the market. …”
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The Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Women: A Case Study of Northern Division Kabale Municipality Kabale District. by Ankunda, Tomson

“…According to the study findings, it was found out gender violence is a major cause of low household incomes in most homesteads for instance beating of women, and denying women the rights to access education, land, and property which often undermines their income earnings hence leading to low household incomes in most homesteads. However, apart from gender-based violence, other several factors contribute to low household incomes such as Political stability, and natural calamities. …”
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Characterization of microbiota signatures in Iberian pig strains using machine learning algorithms by Lamiae Azouggagh, Noelia Ibáñez-Escriche, Marina Martínez-Álvaro, Luis Varona, Joaquim Casellas, Sara Negro, Cristina Casto-Rebollo

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Effects of exercise training on the nigrostriatal glutamatergic pathway and receptor interactions in Parkinson’s disease: a systematic review by Shahid Ishaq, Iqbal Ali Shah, Shin-Da Lee, Shin-Da Lee, Bor-Tsang Wu

“…In addition, the exercise training downregulated the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors, Arc, Cav1.3, CaMKII, and p-CaMKII in the nigrostriatal pathway in PD animal models.ConclusionExercise training exerted a neuroprotective effect on the glutamatergic pathway in Parkinson’s disease (PD) animal models by limiting excess glutamate in the synaptic cleft. …”
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Gender Inequality and Elite Working Women in Kirima Sub-County Kanungu District. by Namanya, Precious

“…Using Krejicie and Morgan's table of determination of sample size from a given study population (1970), the Study population was put into strata namely 56 elite rural working women and 10 local leaders. …”
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Indoor and Outdoor Exposure to PM2.5 during COVID-19 Lockdown in Suburban Malaysia by Eliani Ezani, Peter Brimblecombe, Zulfa Hanan Asha’ari, Amirul Aiman Fazil, Sharifah Norkhadijah Syed Ismail, Zamzam Tuah Ahmad Ramly, Md Firoz Khan

“…The implementation of the MCOs slightly reduced daily average of outdoor PM2.5 concentrations (median of 12.63 µg m–3 before and 11.72 µg m–3). In the Malaysian apartment considered here, cooking led to a substantial increase in exposure from increasing concentrations in PM2.5 during a COVID-19 lockdown (maximum average concentration at 52.2 µg m–3). …”
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The Taking Charge After Stroke (TaCAS) study protocol: a multicentre, investigator-blinded, randomised controlled trial comparing the effect of a single Take Charge session, two Ta... by Mark Weatherall, Harry McNaughton, Vivian Wai Yin Fu

“…Participants will be randomly assigned to one Take Charge session, two Take Charge sessions 6 weeks apart or control.Outcomes The primary outcome will be the Physical Component Summary score of the Short-Form 36 at 12 months post stroke. …”
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Contributions of Indoor Household Activities to Inhalation Health Risks Induced by Gaseous Air Pollutants in Hong Kong Home by Lewei Zeng, Kaimin Li, Hai Guo, Beining Zhou, Xiaopu Lyu, Yunxi Huo, Erik Uhde, Jin Yang, Yangzong Zeren, Haoxian Lu, Dawen Yao, Zhe Qian

“…Abstract To understand inhalation health risks at home, a comprehensive sampling campaign was conducted in a Hong Kong residential apartment from October to December 2019. Emissions of nine typical household activities, household background release and outdoor pollution were continuously monitored using a suite of the state-of-the-art instruments. …”
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