Adherence to Viral Load Testing Guidelines, Barriers, and Associated Factors Among Persons Living with HIV on ART in Southwestern Uganda: a Mixed-Methods Study. by Lubega, Polly, Nalugya, Sylivia Juliet, Kimuli, Angella Namyalo, Twinokusiima, Majoreen, Khasalamwa, Mercy, Kyomugisa, Richard, Kabami, Jane, Owaraganise, Asiphas

“…Strategies that target young PLHIV and lower-level health facilities, increase the stock of consumables, and Shorten VL results turnaround time are needed to improve adherence to VL testing guidelines.…”
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MODELING AND SIMULATION OF A DUAL CHANNEL ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR POWER TRANSFORMER USING FXLMS ALGORITHM by ADETONA SUNDAY, SALAWU RAIFU, ALABI MORUF

“… Power transformers are known to generate noise, however, active noise emanating from power transformers many at time is unbearable and has been a subject of concern overtime in power engineering. …”
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Body mass index in relation to dental maturation of 10 to 14 years old school children in Erbil city. A cross-sectional prospective study by Omar Fawzi Chawshli, Yara Ismael Ameen

“…The height and the weight of each participant had been recorded in the college of dentistry / Hawler Medical University in order to calculate the body mass index of the following the guidelines of centers of disease control (CDC), at the same time an orthopantomography radiograph had been used to investigate the stage of the dental maturation using the Demirjian method, finally, the relationship between BMI and dental maturation were investigated using chi square test with P value of ≤ 0.05 was considered significant difference. …”
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Medium-term load forecasting with Power Market Survey: GEPCO case study by Sheeza Mariam Nawaz, Ubaid Ahmed, Adil Amin, Syed Afraz Hussain Shah, Anzar Mahmood

“…The PMS is trained with a bottom-up approach and its performance is validated through mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), mean absolute error (MAE), root mean square error (RMSE), mean square error (MSE), and confidence interval with 95% of probability. …”
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The effect of nursing care provided to coronary intensive care patients according to their circadian rhythms on sleep quality, pain, anxiety, and delirium: a randomised controlled... by Meryem Pelin, Havva Sert

“…Finally, the smartwatch data show no significant difference in sleep times between groups (p < 0.05), but the intervention group had more deep and total sleep, while the control group had less deep sleep. …”
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Manufacturing Export Performance: A Trend Analysis Approach by Nafiu, Lukman Abiodun, George Stanley, Kinyata

“…A graphical demonstration showing the trend of export performance in Nigeria over time was displayed. It also identifies the major determinants of manufacture exports in Nigeria using ordinary least square approach which shows that an increase in the average tariff rate would lead to a decline in the manufacturing exports and its statistically significant at the 5% level of significance. …”
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Multi-model Evaluation and Bayesian Model Averaging in Quantitative Air Quality Forecasting in Central China by Haixia Qi, Shuangliang Ma, Jing Chen, Junping Sun, Lingling Wang, Nan Wang, Weisi Wang, Xiefei Zhi, Hao Yang

“…For PM2.5 concentrations with a 24-h lead time, the root-mean-square error of BMA decreased by 35, 37, 68 and 50%, respectively, in winter, spring, summer and autumn relative to the CUACE model, whereas the normalized mean bias of BMA decreased by 67, 83, 94 and 55%, respectively, for O3 in the four seasons. …”
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THE INFLUENCE OF POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMS ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIA by Benedict Azu, Ijieh Sunday Okubor

“…The researcher employed the Ordinary Least Square Technique to measure the incidence of poverty. …”
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Contribution of Cloud Accounting to Employment and Economic Growth: An Evaluation from Nigerian Public Sector by Ayoola Azeez Olaoye

“…The data obtained were analyzed using descriptive statistics and time series data containing ordinary least square technique. …”
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Perbandingan Kinerja Inception- Resnetv2, Xception, Inception-v3, dan Resnet50 pada Gambar Bentuk Wajah by Fitriana Masruroh, Bayu Surarso, Budi Warsito

“…Thus, it can be concluded that the Inception-ResNet-V2 model using the Mish activation function and the Nadam optimizer achieves the highest value with an accuracy and f1-score of 92.00%, and a time usage of 65.0 minutes. Thus, it can be concluded that the Inception-ResNet-V2 model using the Mish activation function and the Nadam optimizer achieves the highest value with an accuracy and f1-score of 92.00%, and a time usage of 65.0 minutes.   …”
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Path Scheduling and Target Trajectory Optimization in UAVs Based on Dragonfly and Firefly Algorithm by Methaq Hadi Lafta

“…This is important because the range of some UAVs in fly time is low, and others are very high due to their fuel. …”
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Film Recommender System Menggunakan Metode Neural Collaborative Filtering by Ni’mah Khoiriyah Ayyiyah, Retno Kusumaningrum, Rismiyati Rismiyati

“…Abstract   At this time entertainment media has become available digitally. …”
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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Carbon Emission of Garden Pavement by Peiyong WANG, Ruixing LU

“…Secondly, after calculating the total amount of carbon emissions released during the life cycle of each type of garden pavement, the data are normalized by “carbon emission per square meter per year”, and the research results are obtained. …”
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MODERATING EFFECT OF RISK MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE ON BOARD ATTRIBUTES AND FIRM SURVIVAL AMONG LISTED MANUFACTURING COMPANIES IN NIGERIA by Yusuf Labija Amana, Ibrahim Magaji Barde, Aliyu Suleiman Kantudu

“… The ability of a firm to endure, adapt and prosper over time is a multifaceted outcome influenced by an interplay of internal and external factors. …”
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Empowering pastoralist women through social innovations in Somali and Afar regions of Ethiopia by Tafesse Matewos, Melisew Dejene, Semeredin Yimer

“…We used the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) to measure women's empowerment in five domains: production, resources, income, leadership, and time use. We also used the chi-square test to examine the association between women's empowerment status and involvement in the SIs. …”
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Data mining and socio-spatial patterns of COVID-19: geo-prevention keys for tackling the pandemic by Olga De Cos Guerra, Valentín Castillo Salcines, David Cantarero Prieto

“…The main goal is to analyse and contribute to knowledge of the spatial patterns of COVID-19 at neighbourhood level from a space-time perspective. To that end the research is based on data mining methods (3D bins and emerging hot-spots) and exploratory geo-statistical analysis (Global Moran’s Index, Nearest Neighbourhood and Ordinary Least Square analyses, among others). …”
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Hispanic Patients Undergoing Spinal Fusion for Neuromuscular Scoliosis Sustain Health Inequalities by Armando S. Martinez, David Momtaz, Travis Kotzur, Alexandra McLennan, Abdullah Ghali, Farhan Ahmad, Ebubechi Adindu, Alan C. Santiago-Rodriquez, Ali Seifi, Brian Smith

“…Hispanic patients undergoing spinal fusion with instrumentation had longer lengths of stay (LOS) (10.0 vs. 7.6 days, p<0.001), longer periods from admission to surgery (wait time) (1.6 vs. 1.0 days, p=0.046), and longer recovery times (8.5 vs. 6.7 days, p<0.001). …”
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ECP-IEM: Enhancing seasonal crop productivity with deep integrated models. by Ghulam Mustafa, Muhammad Ali Moazzam, Asif Nawaz, Tariq Ali, Deema Mohammed Alsekait, Ahmed Saleh Alattas, Diaa Salama AbdElminaam

“…This study combines Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit (Bi-GRU) and Time Series CNN to predict crop yield and then recommendation for further improvement. …”
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Calibration of miniature air quality detector monitoring data with PCA–RVM–NAR combination model by Bing Liu, Yirui Zhang

“…Abstract The development of miniature air quality detectors makes it possible for humans to monitor air quality in real time and grid. However, the accuracy of measuring pollutants by miniature air quality detectors needs to be improved. …”
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FIRM ATTRIBUTES AND SHAREHOLDER’S WEALTH OF LISTED DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA by A.A. Mustapha, Suleiman Salami, M.S. Tijjani

“…Multiple regression techniques using robust ordinary least square (OLS) due to the pooled nature of the data used, and estimation was employed in analyzing the data obtained from the audited annual reports and accounts of sampled firms. …”
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