Food Availability, Accessibility, and Affordability through the Scope of Food Security Level and Food Environment Perception in Mexico City’s Marginated Area by Vianey Camacho-Vallejo, Alfonso Totosaus

“…Food availability implies the adequate supply of healthy food and food accessibility complements and builds on food availability by ensuring that households are able to obtain that food, and that food affordability is limited by incomes and food prices. …”
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Damage symptoms, development, and reproductive performance of the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on fodder maize and cob by Hend O. Mohamed, Hassan F. Dahi, Azza A. Awad, Walaa E. Gamil, Bassam F. Fahmy

“…The results exhibited that the FAW larvae were able to feed on and infest both fodder maize and corn cobs, causing significant damage particularly to the cobs making them unsuitable for marketing and human consumption. …”
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First-year Class Instills Confidence in Nontechnical Skills for Collegiate Success by Anna Levina, Katy Guthrie, Leah Cook, Marvin Pritts

“…We also were able to examine differences in responses based on gender and matriculation status (freshmen admits vs. transfers) and found that differences were minor across years. …”
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International Experience of Innovative Development of the Forest Industry in the Post-War Period and Its Adaptation for Ukraine by Petrashchuk Mykola V.

“…However, despite the urgent problems that harrow both our country in general and the forest industry in particular, the State was able to adapt to the realities of wartime, and the forest industry continues to be profitable for the country and does not stop fulfilling its regular tasks.…”
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Record Keeping and Financial Performance of Small-Scale Enterprises in Uganda: A Case Study of Kabale Municipality. by Tumwebaze, Editor

“…The study recommended that the owners of small-scale enterprises should ensure that they use better records management practices which can help them to easily retrieve the documents when needed for reference easily, there is a need for business owners to have enough storage space for expansion to facilitate proper records management so that they can be able to achieve their intended objectives and there should be proper financial recordings in records of the business enterprise to use them as source of reference for better accountability of the business progress.…”
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Effect of Financial Literacy on the Profitability of Small-Scale Enterprises in Rubaare Town Council Ntungamo District. by Tugumisirize, Fiona

“…These programs should also be able to motivate and encourage positive attitudes toward the future orientation and growth of the businesses. …”
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Monitoring and Evaluation System for Performance Contracts in Nyanza District, Rwanda by Marie Christine, Umurerwa

“…In view of the above, Imihigo had set in motion development processes that were significantly contributing to accelerating the achievement of national development priorities. …”
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Training and Development on the Performance of Administrative Staff in Ministry of Infrastructure and Communication- Zanzibar. by Ali Mohammed, Saada

“…The study concluded that the training and development activities equipped administrative staff with new skills and technical knowledge of doing work as compared to the untrained administrative staff; the trained staffs are able to perform their job better.…”
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A study on climate change impacts using lumped versus distributed hydrological models in a semi-arid basin by Farahnaz Baharvand, Ali Reza Massah Bavani, Mohammad Mahdavi, Massoud Goodarzi

“…Results indicated that both hydrological models were able to simulate the observed stream flow successfully in the study catchment. …”
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Exploring benefits of a collaborative Scottish university-organization alternative credentials approach to re-skilling by Christopher J. M. Smith, Constantinos Choromides, Alicia Clyde, Fiona Stewart-Knight

“…Nine semi-structured interviews (with both learning providers and university employees) were inductively analyzed using a two-cycle thematic analysis approach to determine themes.ResultsThe SCQF guidance and the business-orientated nature of Scottish universities in credit-rating of learning were highlighted as an important enabler for this alternative form of credentialed learning to being possible. …”
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A risk prediction score to identify patients at low risk for COVID-19 infection by Wui Mei Chew, Chee Hong Loh, Aditi Jalali, Grace Shi En Fong, Loshini Senthil Kumar, Rachel Hui Zhen Sim, Russell Pinxue Tan, Sunil Ravinder Gill, Trilene Ruiting Liang, Jansen Meng Kwang Koh, Tunn Ren Tay

“…Results: Of the 1,228 patients analysed, 52 (4.2%) were diagnosed with COVID-19. Two prediction models were derived, the first based on age, presence of sore throat, dormitory residence, blood haemoglobin level (Hb), and total white blood cell counts (TW), and the second based on presence of headache, contact with infective patients, Hb and TW. …”
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Revealing the differences in bicycle theft and motorcycle theft: spatial patterns and contributing factors by Lin Liu, Heng Liu, Dongping Long, Xinhua Huang

“…A uniform strategy would not be able to prevent and reduce both bicycle thefts and motorcycle thefts. …”
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FPF@FCC: neutrino, QCD, and BSM physics opportunities with far-forward experiments at a 100 TeV Proton Collider by Roshan Mammen Abraham, Jyotismita Adhikary, Jonathan L. Feng, Max Fieg, Felix Kling, Jinmian Li, Junle Pei, Tanjona R. Rabemananjara, Juan Rojo, Sebastian Trojanowski

“…We fingerprint the BSM sensitivity of the FPF@FCC for a variety of models, including dark Higgs bosons, relaxion-type scenarios, quirks, and millicharged particles, finding that these experiments would be able to discover LLPs with masses as large as 50 GeV and couplings as small as 10 −8, and quirks with masses up to 10 TeV. …”
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Investigation of Enterotoxigenic Coagulase-negative Staphylococci Isolated from Local and Imported Dairy Products; a Microbiological Study by Niyaz Sirwan Ali, Huner Hiwa Arif

“…S. vitulinus behaviour was almost the same as S. saprophyticus but, S. vitulinus was able to tolerate different NaCl concentrations and overall had higher bacterial activity in all parameter’s interactions than S. saprophyticus. …”
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Analysis of Air Quality and Health Co-Benefits under Low Carbon Pathway in Taiwan by Hsin-Chih Lai, Shih-Ming Chung, Li-Ling Li, Wen-Yinn Lin, Min-Chuan Hsiao

“…Abstract Climate change has been proven to have adverse effects on human health and ecosystems, especially, the continuous increase in greenhouse gas emissions that are able to drive extreme weather events around the world. …”
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Single-Use Flexible Bronchoscope in Facilitating Endobronchial Valve Treatment in Severe Emphysema by Sakaguchi T, Slebos DJ

“…We were able to easily solve the problem by placing the final RB1 valve using a single-use therapeutic bronchoscope with a greater angulation range than conventional reusable bronchoscopes. …”
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Nano-delivery platform with strong protection and efficient delivery: preparation of self-assembled RNA pesticide with dual RNAi targets against Apolygus lucorum by Heng Qiao, Qinhong Jiang, Jing Zhao, Liubin Xiao, Keyan Zhu-Salzman, Dejin Xu, Guangchun Xu, Jie Shen, Aiguo Gu, Dejun Hao, Shuo Yan, Yongan Tan

“…Then, dsECR-A and dsTre-1 fragments were individually screened, and the dsECR-A and dsTre-1 fragments with good control effects were co-expressed in pET28-BL21 (DE3) RNase III − system to prepare the dsECR-A + Tre-1/SPc complex. …”
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Impact of Small and Medium Enterprises to Peoples’ Household Income in Kabale District: A Case Study of Kabale Municipality Kabale District. by Kule, Enock

“…The study findings on the possible solutions to the limitation of Small and Medium Enterprises in Kabale municipality were; improved infrastructure and market enlargement through government help, forming groups with a common cause to raise capital and also being able to borrow money from the bank, carrying out market and business research and ensuring business security, employing experts and training other employees while at work for management purposes and establishment of entrepreneurship trainings and learning centers, providing modern technology to SMEs owners. …”
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Development Projects of Non-Governmental Organisations towards Social-Economic Welfare in Kisoro Municipality. by Pius, Ngarama

“…The study revealed that (98%) were able to identify the various development projects carried out by NGOs in the study area. …”
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Effective Facial Expression Recognition System Using Artificial Intelligence Technique by Imad S. Yousif, Tarik A. Rashid, Ahmed S. Shamsaldin, Sabat A. Abdulhameed, Abdulhady Abas Abdullah

“…This paper presents an improved performance of the Facial Expression Recognition (FER) systems via augmentation in Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms, two renowned artificial intelligence techniques possessing disparate strengths. …”
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