BEHAVIOUR AMONG FEMALE MIGRANTS IN MAKURDI, BENUE STATE by ONYEMA ANGELA ABEL

“…Conflict and unemployment are the major causes of risky sexual behavior (29.3%and23.4%respective). 20.5% had multiple sexual pattern, 25 9% had casual sex without the use of condom. Pattern of movement was largely rural–urban. …”
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Sources of Bias in Common Diagnosis of Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Diseases by O. A. Svatkova, A. A. Sheptulin

“…Aim. Causal analysis of a late diagnosis of chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (CIBD) in general medical practice.Materials and methods. …”
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Fluctuations in Seminal Quality throughout the Year: How do Temperature, Humidity and Atmospheric Pressure Impact on Human Sperm Quality? by Nicolás David Ramírez, Andrea Tissera, Rosa Molina, Jose Olmedo, Héctor Guillermo Molina, Arnaldo Mangeaud, Ana Carolina Martini

“…Background: Most studies evaluating the possible seasonal variation of semen quality have considered temperature as the only causal factor. Aims: To assess possible seasonality in sperm quality and associations between semen parameters and several meteorological variables (temperature, humidity, apparent temperature and atmospheric pressure) in a large cohort of andrological patients. …”
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Examining the Impact of Women's Savings Groups on Socio¬economic Welfare of Families in Northern Division Kabale Municipality. by Namara, Brenda

“…The government of Uganda through its programmes like the "bonabagagawale" scheme, the microfinance movement schemes, the parish development model and other government programmes strongly emphasises that the poor people including women participate in savings and self-help groups, not as individuals if they are to benefit from such programmes (Hassan, 2018). These savings groups, help women to own projects, and train their members, they offer soft loans, act as collateral to fellow members and are more often associated with the improvement of individual members both economically and socially. …”
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Role of Micro Finance Institutions on the Social Economic Wellbeing of its Customers: A Case Study of Pride Microfinance Kabale Branch. by Natuhwera, Evas

“…This involve case study to establish a causal relationship based on the results from some of the data collection tools which are questionnaire, participant observation and oral interviewing. …”
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What is the near-natural catchment? An application of hydrological signatures assessment by Huan Xu, Hao Wang, Pan Liu, Xiaojing Zhang, Weibo Liu, Chutian Zhou, Hao Ye, Hongxuan Lei, Yang Liu

“…The sensitivity of the eight signatures to HA are calculated using a causal inference method instead of directly calculating linear correlation coefficients to avoid spurious relationships. …”
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The impact of land transfer on food security: the mediating role of environmental regulation and green technology innovation by Ming Xu, Ming Xu, Zhaoyang Lu, Xinyue Wang, Guangwei Hou

“…In this context, the study of the impact of land transfer (TF) on food security (FS) provides a new perspective for land resource optimization.MethodsBased on the empirical data of 30 provinces and regions in China from 2010 to 2022, this paper used the two-way fixed effect model to explore the causal relationship and the intermediary relationship between the two. …”
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The influence of credits and stigmas in volunteering on depression, the modulating effects of volunteer personality and motivation by Juntao Chen, Yifan Zhang, Suhua Zhou, Chenlu Yang, Lianghua Li, Lu Ma, Shuzhen Zhu

“…Although the large sample size strengthens the study, the cross-sectional design limits causal inference. Overall, the study underscores the importance of understanding personality traits and motivations in developing effective volunteer support measures, thereby enhancing service quality and community well-being.…”
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A organização do trabalho e a busca por autonomia das famílias produtoras de queijo de coalho artesanal do Agreste Pernambucano by Inã Cândido de Medeiro

“…No estado pernambucano, constata-se que, independentemente da grande importância socioeconômica do queijo de coalho artesanal, muitos produtores familiares estão, segundo as normas, na “clandestinidade” e vivem sob constante ameaça de apreensão porque suas mercadorias passam a ser consideradas ilegais pela vigilância sanitária. …”
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Mimosa diplotricha (Fabaceae) Recruits Native Pollinators, But Does it Matter? by I.N. Egbon, O.P. Nzie, J. Rotimi

“…That the floral resources of M. diplotricha supported high abundance of few species and some species with low abundance indicate that those of the latter case were casual visitors. In sum, that the population of M. diplotricha is still  expanding in Nigeria against the backdrop of their utilisation by native pollinators is suggestive of a continual recruitment of the pollinators, which may prefer the novel host within a mosaic of widely scattered native flowering plants. …”
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IT GOVERNANCE IN THE BANKING SECTOR: EVIDENCE FROM ITALY, GERMANY, FRANCE AND SPAIN by Ida Claudia Panetta, Sabrina Leo, Fabrizio Santoboni, Gianfranco Vento

“…Recurring to IT governance transparency, as a key mechanism of corporate governance, we: i) elaborate an original IT governance framework; ii) perform a content analysis on banks public disclosure and a selected number of supervisors’ official documents (2008-2015) to build up IT governance indices; iii) run a multidimensional analysis to detect causal relationships between variables. Our analysis indicates that differences in the level of IT governance disclosure are bank specific and not related to country’s institutional settings; we also observed an increasing consistent attention  of both supervisors and banks to IT issues starting from 2013. …”
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IT GOVERNANCE IN THE BANKING SECTOR: EVIDENCE FROM ITALY, GERMANY, FRANCE AND SPAIN by Ida Claudia Panetta, Sabrina Leo, Fabrizio Santoboni, Gianfranco Vento

“…Recurring to IT governance transparency, as a key mechanism of corporate governance, we: i) elaborate an original IT governance framework; ii) perform a content analysis on banks public disclosure and a selected number of supervisors’ official documents (2008-2015) to build up IT governance indices; iii) run a multidimensional analysis to detect causal relationships between variables. Our analysis indicates that differences in the level of IT governance disclosure are bank specific and not related to country’s institutional settings; we also observed an increasing consistent attention  of both supervisors and banks to IT issues starting from 2013. …”
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A cross-tissue transcriptome-wide association study identified susceptibility genes for age-related macular degeneration by Hongfan Yang, Haofei Huang, Kunlin Pu

“…Multi-marker Analysis of Genomic Annotation (MAGMA) was employed to validate results and identify reliable susceptibility genes, followed by summary data-based Mendelian randomization (SMR) and colocalization analyses to explore causal associations. The cross-tissue and single-tissue TWAS analyses identified 12 reliable AMD-associated genes. …”
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Association between living arrangements, social support, and depression among middle-aged and older adults: a mediation analysis from the CHARLS survey by Fenghua Jin, Yixuan Hu

“…Associations between living arrangements and social support or depression were assessed by multivariable logistic regression models. Causal mediation analysis under a counterfactual framework was employed to evaluate the mediation effect of social support in the association between living arrangements and depression, which was performed by fitting two logistic regression models. …”
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A systematic literature review on combined seawater desalination and reverse electrodialysis: Evaluating its technological readiness and potential for full-commercialization by Marijn T. van Geet, Janina Fuchs

“…The technological immaturity of combined seawater desalination and reverse electrodialysis technology is one of the prime reasons for the low power density and energy efficiency, which in turn has a causal relationship with the high costs associated with the technology. …”
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The Impact of Stokvel and Banking Sector Efficiency: an Econometrics Model using (ARDL) Approach to Cointegration by Ngcobo, Lindiwe

“…The negative and statistically significant coefficient of the error correction model (ECM) also confirmed the prevalence of a causal relationship between stokvel and banking sector efficiency. …”
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Serum alpha-1 acid glycoprotein and gallstone risk in US adult women: a cross-sectional analysis of the NHANES by Xiaocheng Li, Peiling He

“…Further research is needed to elucidate the underlying mechanisms and potential causal relationships.…”
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Compressive strength of different tricalcium silicate–based materials used for primary teeth: in vitro study by Avin Nanakali, Sazan Sh. Salem

“…The load was recorded in mega Pascal. Statistical package for the social science (SPSS version 23) program was used to perform the statistical. …”
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PISA 2012: Inmigración y etapa de llegada al Sistema Educativo Español by Esperanza Bausela Herreras

“…No experimental o ex post facto, diseño comparativo- causal. Análisis de datos. Análisis de regresión logística binaria.  …”
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HABITUS COMO ASSUNTO E FERRAMENTA: reflexões sobre tornar-se um boxeador by Loïc Wacquant

“…O aprendizado por parte do sociólogo é um espelho metodológico daquilo que os sujeitos empíricos do estudo tem que passar no seu processo de aprendizado. O sociólogo é levado a se aprofundar na compreensão daquilo que acontece com o sujeito nesse processo, trazendo à tona sua lógica interna e propriedades subterrâneas, tornando assim possível que sejam testadas tanto a robusteza quanto a fecundidade do habitus como guia para a investigação das fontes  da conduta social.   …”
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