Performance of food–feed maize and cowpea cultivars under monoculture and intercropping systems: Grain yield, fodder biomass, and nutritive value
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Abroulaye Sanfo, Nouhoun Zampaligré, Abalo Kulo
Livestock feeding in Burkina Faso is characterized by a recurrent deficit in both the quality and the quantity of fodder during the dry season, which …
External cephalic version success rate and associated factors: Experience from a tertiary center in Sub-Saharan Africa: A cross-sectional study
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Abraham Fessehaye Sium, Wondimu Gudu, Tadesse Urgie
OBJECTIVE: To determine the success rate of external cephalic version (ECV) and its associated factors in an Ethiopian setting. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A total of …
Incidence and predictors of loss to follow-up among women on option B+ PMTCT program in northwest Ethiopia. A retrospective follow-up study
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Habtamu Geremew, Awraris Wolde, Getachew Mullu Kassa
BACKGROUND: Loss to follow-up from lifelong antiretroviral therapy continued to be a major challenge affecting virtual elimination of mother-to-child transmission of human immunodeficiency virus, especially …
The Effect of Different Processing Methods on the Behavior of Minerals Content in Food Products
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Khalid S. Alshallash, Mohammed Shahat, Mohamed Ibrahim
The goal of the current study was to determine the mineral content of different fruit varieties (Na, K, Ca, P, Mg, Fe, Zn, and Cu), …
The Effectiveness of Teaching Derivatives in Vietnamese High Schools Using APOS Theory and ACE Learning Cycle
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Nguyễn Thị Ngà, Lê Thái Bảo Thiên Trung, Tien‐Trung Nguyen
The actions, processes, objects, and schemas (APOS) theory is a constructivist learning theory created by Dubinsky based on Piaget's epistemology and used to teach math …
Case-control study on determinants of uterine rupture among mothers who gave birth at Hawassa University comprehensive specialized hospital
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Getnet Feleke, Temesgen Tantu, Dereje Zewdu
BACKGROUND: Uterine rupture is defined as tearing of the uterine wall during pregnancy or delivery. It can occur during pregnancy or labor and delivery. Rupture …
Meningitis-associated pneumococcal serotype 8, ST 53, strain is hypervirulent in a rat model and has non-haemolytic pneumolysin which can be attenuated by liposomes
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Annelies Müller, Cebile Lekhuleni, Sabrina Hupp
Introduction Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria cause life-threatening invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD), including meningitis. Pneumococci are classified into serotypes, determined by differences in capsular polysaccharide and both …
Piecewise differential equations: theory, methods and applications
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Abdon Atangana, Seda İğret Araz
Across many real-world problems, crossover tendencies are seen. Piecewise differential operators are constructed by using different kernels that exhibit behaviors arising in several real-world problems; …
Can Retriever-Augmented Language Models Reason? The Blame Game Between the Retriever and the Language Model
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Parishad BehnamGhader, Santiago Miret, Siva Reddy
Augmenting pretrained language models with retrievers has shown promise in effectively solving common NLP problems, such as language modeling and question answering.In this paper, we …
Antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial stewardship in South Africa: a survey of healthcare workers in academic and nonacademic hospitals
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Kessendri Reddy, Yogandree Ramsamy, Khine Swe Swe-Han
Abstract Objective: Antimicrobial stewardship programmes (ASPs) facilitate appropriate antimicrobial use and require contextualization for optimal functioning. We aimed to investigate perceptions of and antimicrobial resistance …
Investigating Sentiment-Bearing Words- and Emoji-based Distant Supervision Approaches for Sentiment Analysis
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Ronny Mabokela, Mpho Roborife, Turguy Celik
Sentiment analysis focuses on the automatic detection and classification of opinions expressed in texts.Emojis can be used to determine the sentiment polarities of the texts …
Remittances as a Game Changer for Climate Change Adaptation Financing for the Most Vulnerable: Empirical Evidence from Northern Ghana
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Justice Issah Musah-Surugu, Samuel Weniga Anuga
Abstract Emerging discourses in the field of climate change adaptation finance contend that remittances could complement other sources of financing adaptation given their propensity to …
Cardiovascular Care in Africa – Cost Crisis and the Urgent Need for Contextual Health Service Solutions
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Florence Akumiah, Abdul-Subulr Yakubu, Dzifa Ahadzi
Simplicity Bias in Transformers and their Ability to Learn Sparse Boolean Functions
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Satwik Bhattamishra, Arkil Patel, Varun Kanade
Despite the widespread success of Transformers on NLP tasks, recent works have found that they struggle to model several formal languages when compared to recurrent …
A novel workflow for streamflow prediction in the presence of missing gauge observations
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Rendani Mbuvha, Julien Adounkpè, Mandela C M HOUNGNIBO
Abstract Streamflow predictions are vital for detecting flood and drought events. Such predictions are even more critical to Sub-Saharan African regions that are vulnerable to …
The Study of the Heterogeneity of the Qualities of Argan Oils and Pomaces from Different Cooperatives in the Essaouira Region (Morocco)
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Karima El Kabous, Khadija Atfaoui, Asmaa Oubihi
In this study, a comparison of the intra-regional variation in the quality of Argan oil and pomace collected from 12 cooperatives in the Essaouira region …
Effects of social determinants of health on obesity among urban women of reproductive age
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Dickson A Amugsi, Zacharie Tsala Dimbuene
Obesity is a major global public health problem. It is spreading very fast in low- and middle-income countries and has reached world record levels in …
Euclasta condylotricha flowers essential oils: A new source of juvenile hormones and its larvicidal activity against Anopheles gambiae s.s. (Diptera: Culicidae)
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Roméo Barnabé Bohounton, Oswald Djihinto, Oronce Sedjro-Ludolphe Dedome
The essential oil (EO) of plants of the Poaceae family has diverse chemical constituents with several biological properties. But, data on the chemical constituents and …
Numerical simulation of heat and mass transfer of a wall containing micro-encapsulated phase change concrete (PCC)
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Nour Lajimi, Nour Ben Taher, Noureddine Boukadida
Before planning to equip buildings with energy systems, it is essential to first understand and control the behavior of the premises (via control of heat …
Qualitative study of practices and attitudes towards physical activity among prediabetic men and women in urban and rural Malawi
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Jethro Banda, Christopher Bunn, Amelia C. Crampin
OBJECTIVES: Given the decline in physical activity levels in Malawi, like other sub-Saharan African countries, and its implication for non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention, this study …