Creative Marketing and Financial Performance of Small Medium Enterprises in Rwanda: A Case Study of Selected Businesses in Nyamata Town. by Tenywa, Bashir

“…The study employed a mixed research approach, combining quantitative and qualitative methods. A sample of 69 respondents was selected using simple random and purposive sampling techniques, and data was collected through questionnaires and interviews. …”
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Examining the Challenges Faced by Women Employees in Tourism Industry in Kabale District. by Kamugisha, Serestine

“…Both simple random and purposive sampling techniques in identifying the study sample population. …”
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Fiscal Decentralization and Health Service Delivery in Itojo Sub-County, Ntungamo District, Uganda by Rosette, Kiconco

“…The study used a case study design which and incorporated both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The sample for this study was 136 respondents and these were selected by use of purposive sampling. …”
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Unified Calibration-Based Failure Prediction Quantization for Automatic Target Recognition by Sihang Dang, Yunlong Zhang, Zhaoqiang Xia, Xiaoyue Jiang, Shuliang Gui, Xiaoyi Feng

“…For inference, it employs a quantification method based on similarity and dissimilarity to evaluate unknown samples. The proposed framework not only enhances model generalization to boost recognition performance but also generates identifiability scores to guide recognition decision-making. …”
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Ecological and health risks assessment of heavy metal in soils and leaves around CIMTOGO cement factory, Lomé, Togo by Yawovi Mignanou Amouzouvi, Koffi Sagna, Kossi Tepe, Kosi Sesime, Kossivi B. R. Afoudji, Milohum Mikesokpo Dzagli, Messanh A. Mohou, Jérémie T. Zoueu

“…The amount of heavy metals in the samples as well as the pollution indices were investigated. …”
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Evaluation of Fluorescein Diacetate Viability Staining during Treatment Follow-up Examinations of Smear Positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients by Ujjwala Nitin Gaikwad, Padma Das, Anudita Bhargava, Ajoy Kumar Behera, Tushar Bharat Jagzape, Sachin Chandraker

“…This delays the therapeutic decision and increases the work load on the TB laboratories. …”
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Hydrological and chemical characteristics of karst groundwater and carbon flux estimation by Qing Wang, Yin Zhang, Ningtao Wang, Mengru Li, Yu Zhang

“…The pH value of the water sample is mainly between 7.28 and 8.16, showing weak alkalinity. …”
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Difference in life skills of young volleyball athletes (gender orientation) and identification of supporting factors for their improvement: A mixed method study by Muhamad Ilham, Amung Ma’mun, Yunyun Yudiana, Mustika Fitri, Jusuf Blegur

“…The quantitative study sample totaled 51 young athletes (23 males and 28 females). …”
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Predicting rare drug-drug interaction events with dual-granular structure-adaptive and pair variational representation by Zhonghao Ren, Xiangxiang Zeng, Yizhen Lao, Zhuhong You, Yifan Shang, Quan Zou, Chen Lin

“…Our model outperforms existing methods in few-sample and zero-sample settings. Furthermore, we verify that knowledge transfer from DDIE can improve drug synergy predictions, surpassing existing models. …”
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How do critical care staff respond to organisational challenge? A qualitative exploration into personality types and cognitive processing in critical care. by K E Grailey, E J Murray, J Billings, S J Brett

“…We identified that some individuals strongly tended to either a perfectionist or pragmatic style of cognitive processing for the majority of their decisions; however most adapted their style of processing according to the nature of the decision. …”
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Difference in life skills of young volleyball athletes (gender orientation) and identification of supporting factors for their improvement: A mixed method study by Muhamad Ilham, Amung Ma’mun, Yunyun Yudiana, Mustika Fitri, Jusuf Blegur

“…The quantitative study sample totaled 51 young athletes (23 males and 28 females). …”
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Characterization and Botanical Differentiation of Monofloral and Multifloral Honeys Produced in Cyprus, Greece, and Egypt Using Physicochemical Parameter Analysis and Mineral Conte... by Ioannis K. Karabagias, Artemis P. Louppis, Stavros Kontakos, Chryssoula Drouza, Chara Papastephanou

“…The majority of honey samples analyzed met the quality criteria set by the European directive and national decision related to honey. …”
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Thyroid differentiation profile for differentiated thyroid cancer by Anthony J McGoron, Jose M Garcia, Burulça Uluvar, Seza A Gulec

“…Fifty-nine papillary thyroid cancer samples from the TCGA project with matched tumor-normal tissue samples were analyzed. …”
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IMPACT OF AUDIT QUALITY ON EARNINGS MANAGEMENT OF CONSUMER GOODS FIRMS IN NIGERIA by Sirajo Bappah, Awwal Saad, Saidu Adamu, Shehu Usman Hassan

“…This will impede the users of financial information to take an informed decision. …”
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A competitive-collaborative nonnegative representation method and its application for face recognition in smart campus by Tingting Guo, Ziqi Li, Jun Sun, Yonghong Zhang, Qingfeng Xia, Ke Ren

“…This approach enables training samples from different classes to compete in representing the query sample, significantly improving classification performance. …”
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A Search-Based Domain Adaptation Network for Fault Diagnosis of Rotating Machinery Under Cross-Operating Conditions by Jiaqi Zhang, Hua Sun, Tong Yuan

“…The Searcher Mechanism learns domain-invariant features and inter-class discrepancy by round trip search for homogeneous samples between different domains. The Supervisor regularization mechanism improves generalization and prevents overfitting by ensuring that the searcher explores all target domain samples with equal probability. …”
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Propensity score methods for comparative-effectiveness analysis: A case study of direct oral anticoagulants in the atrial fibrillation population. by Giorgio Ciminata, Claudia Geue, Olivia Wu, Manuela Deidda, Noemi Kreif, Peter Langhorne

“…Covariate adjustment with PS in the outcome model performed well when applied to subgroups with smaller sample sizes (dabigatran versus warfarin), as this method does not require further reduction of sample size, and trimming or truncation of extreme weights.…”
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Methodological Support for Applying the Method of Majority Reservation in Measuring Channels by N. V. Minchev

“…The use of nonparametric rank criteria for processing small samples, as well as diagnostic situations for various combinations of these criteria, supports statistically grounded decision on the state of measuring channels. …”
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A Topsoil Salinity Observatory for Arable Lands in Coastal Southwest Bangladesh by Showmitra Kumar Sarkar, Mafrid Haydar, Rhyme Rubayet Rudra, Tanmoy Mazumder, Md. Sadmin Nur, Md. Shahriar Islam, Shakib Mohammad Sany, Tanzim Al Noor, Shakil Ahmed, Myisha Ahmad, Annajmus Sakib, Sai Ravela

“…Abstract The research assesses soil salinity in the southwest coastal region of Bangladesh, collecting a total of 162 topsoil samples between March 1 and March 9, 2024, and processing them following the standard operating procedure for soil electrical conductivity (soil/water, 1:5). …”
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Justification of the methodical approaches to the assessment of the doses of the public residing in the zone of influence of the facilities of the nuclear and radiation legacy by I. K. Romanovich, T. A. Kormanovskaya, N. A. Koroleva, K. A. Saprykin

“…The number of control measurement points and samples for the radiation survey of the territories of the limited scale should be sufficient for the representative assessment of the doses to the public.…”
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