Plastic products, e.g., plastic bags, plastic bottles, and other plastic materials are widely used in people’s daily life and industrial production world-wide since they are cheap, easy to get, and convenient for all-purpose of transportation or movemen...
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ABSTRACT The main objective of establishing the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is to protect the poor and pu t health in the hands of the people. It also aims to provide health services for all by abolishing the "cash and carry" system in which pa...
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Fluoride concentration in drinking water has become a global challenge due to its effects on the human body. While small level (1–1.5 mg L 1) strengthens enamel and bone formation, higher concentration (>1.5 mg L 1) leads to den...
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This article presents 15 autoethnographical texts detailing student experiences at Beijing Normal University in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Contributions have been collected over 6 weeks between 15 February and 1 April 2020, edited by Hejia Wang (assis...
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Leadership has been distinguished as one of the key components related with the achievement and failure of any institution or organization. Leadership style is the way whereby individuals are guided and persuaded by a leader to accomplish organizational or ins...
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The purpose of this paper is to present a research-based discussion of high-stakes test accountability system controversy in literature. This paper presents scholarly discourse based on testing systems and school accountability, along with a presentation of th...
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Mathematics is seen as the bedrock for scientific, technological and economic advancement of any country. The study explored the perceived causes of low academic performance of Senior High School students in core mathematics in the Kumasi Metropolis of Ghana...
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Cervical cancer has become prevalent in this 21st century and women living with it must adopt coping strategies to remediate such conditions. The study sought to ascertain the relationship between religious coping and self-esteem of women living with cervical ...
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The purpose of the study was to explore the school-related factors that affect girls’ access to education at the basic school level in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality of the Western Region of Ghana. The study used the descriptive survey design with quant...
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The aim of this paper is to use the three “stage theory proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) or the “information processing approach” to explain the cognitive processes or the mysteries of the “black box” and its implication ...
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The employment of advanced technology in sustaining South African humanitarian organizations and business logistics firms has been a crucial concern for many years. The aim of this study is to examine the propensity of senior executives to use, diffuse, and ad...
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This study assesses the spatiotemporal development of land use systems and climate variability in Southwestern Ghana over the past five decades using integrated remote sensing techniques and existing literature. We demonstrated the relationship between Normali...
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Leadership and motivation are inseparable. Principals’ transformational leadership has been a focus in education over a decade because of the crucial role it plays in influencing the performance of teachers and students. There is a call for principals w...
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In the area of project construction industry, risk management has become an indispensable index of concern which needs to be focused on in order to ensure effective and successful execution of projects in the construction industry. This paper focuses on ris...
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We assess the impact of corruption on firm growth using the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) data on Nigerian firms for the periods 2006 and 2008. We measure corruption as firms’ informal payments to get things done faster and bypass due process. Fir...
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Background: Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a major global public health issue. The gold standard for diagnosing UTI is urine culture. This is however labour intensive and time consuming. Many prescribers therefore rely on urinalysis in diagnosing UTI. This s...
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Background: Salmonella infections are of serious public health concern since these bacteria frequently cause foodborne illness, human gastroenteritis and bacteremia worldwide. Though invasive salmonella are uncommon in developed nations it is still common in ...
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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) can be caused by a variety of factors, including hereditary and environmental influences, that lead to dysfunction of the intestinal immune system. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) exhibit important regulatory roles in relieving...
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Background: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of chronic intestinal inflammation that is a risk factor formany gastrointestinal cancers. Exosomes are gradually gaining attention as an emerging treatment method for IBD due to their important biologica...
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Extracellular vesicles (EVs), which are the main paracrine components of stem cells, mimic the regenerative capacity of these cells. Stem cell-derived EVs (SC-EVs) have been used for the treatment of various forms of tissue injury in preclinical trials throug...
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