Community Health Insurance Schemes and Access to Quality Health Services in Rural Areas: A Case of Kasaana Sub-County, Sheema District, Uganda by Nuwagaba, Ronald, Moses, Agaba

“…The government should ensure that laboratories at all heath facilities that are well equipped with facilities such that patients can access laboratory related services easily…”
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Distance Learning and the Quality of Teacher Education in Rwanda: A Case Study of Byumba Distance Learning by Anastase, Mvuyekure

“…The rationale for selecting this intake is that the students were still following the program and were familiar with it based on the time they had already covered. All of these make them good sources of information about the program. …”
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University Lecturers and Students Could Help in Community Education About SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Uganda. by Echoru, Isaac, Keneth Iceland, Kasozi, Usman, Ibe Michael, Mukenya Mutuku, Irene, Ssebuufu4, Robinson, Decanar Ajambo, Patricia, Ssempijja, Fred, Mujinya, Regan, Matama, Kevin, Musoke, Grace Henry, Tiyo Ayikobua, Emmanuel, Ninsiima, Herbert Izo, Dare, Samuel Sunday, Ejike, Daniel Eze, Eriya Bukenya, Edmund, Keyune Nambatya, Grace, Ewan, MacLeod, Welburn, Susan Christina

“…Lecturers and students were all willing to continue using personal protective equipment like masks, and personal practices such as covering the mouth while sneezing and coughing, no handshaking, and washing of hands with no significant differences in the responses. …”
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Participatory Project Implementation and Sustainability of Government Funded Projects a Case study of Parish Development Model in Kabale District, Uganda by Moses, Agaba, Turyasingura, John Bosco

“…Descriptive, bivariate, and multivariate methodologies were all used in the analysis, which was carried out on three different levels. …”
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Trifluridine-tipiracil in previously treated patients with oestrogen receptor-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer (BOOG 2019-01 TIBET trial): a single-arm, multicentre... by Niels A.D. Guchelaar, Ron H.J. Mathijssen, Maaike de Boer, Marlies L. van Bekkum, Joan B. Heijns, Birgit E.P.J. Vriens, Mandy M. van Rosmalen, Lonneke W. Kessels, Lisanne Hamming, Karin J. Beelen, Peter Nieboer, Susan M. van den Berg, Esther Oomen-de Hoop, Rhodé M. Bijlsma, Monique E.M.M. Bos

“…Secondary endpoints included progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS), safety, and quality of life and were performed in all patients that received at least one dose of trifluridine-tipiracil. …”
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Analysis of the Effect of Social Capital on Brand Performance with the Mediating Role of Employees’ Brand Citizenship Behavior by Naser Seifollahi

“…Brand citizenship behavior includes all behaviors that are performed by the organization's internal stakeholders and to empower the organization's brand personality. …”
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Child mortality in England after national lockdowns for COVID-19: An analysis of childhood deaths, 2019-2023. by David Odd, Sylvia Stoianova, Tom Williams, Peter Fleming, Karen Luyt

“…<h4>Methods and findings</h4>Deaths of all children (occurring before their 18th birthday) occurring from April 2019 until March 2023 in England were identified. …”
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Screening 215 Lentil Genotypes under Salinity Stress During the Seedling Stage in Greenhouse Conditions by Ahmad Nezami, jafar Nabati, Mohammad Kafi, Elahe Boroumand Rezazadeh

“…Conclusion: Generally, genotypes MLC25, MLC47, MLC64, and MLC77 had the highest values for all studied traits, including survival percentage, growth stage, plant height, the number of lateral branches, the percentage of remaining leaves, fresh and dry weights of shoot, tissue water content, and potassium concentration, while they had the lowest percentage of leaf shedding, sodium concentration, and the Na/K ratio. …”
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Phosphorus-solubilizing fungi promote the growth of Fritillaria taipaiensis P. Y. Li by regulating physiological and biochemical reactions and protecting enzyme system–related gene... by Yueheng Wang, Lin Yuan, Lin Yuan, Yuhan Wang, Jiaqi Lang, Mingyan Ye, Qingqiu Liu, Qiang Ma, Nong Zhou

“…In addition, the malondialdehyde (MDA) content in all inoculation groups was lower than that in the CK group. …”
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Multiple large language models versus experienced physicians in diagnosing challenging cases with gastrointestinal symptoms by Xintian Yang, Tongxin Li, Han Wang, Rongchun Zhang, Zhi Ni, Na Liu, Huihong Zhai, Jianghai Zhao, Fandong Meng, Zhongyin Zhou, Shanhong Tang, Limei Wang, Xiangping Wang, Hui Luo, Gui Ren, Linhui Zhang, Xiaoyu Kang, Jun Wang, Ning Bo, Xiaoning Yang, Weijie Xue, Xiaoyin Zhang, Ning Chen, Rui Guo, Baiwen Li, Yajun Li, Yaling Liu, Tiantian Zhang, Shuhui Liang, Yong Lv, Yongzhan Nie, Daiming Fan, Lina Zhao, Yanglin Pan

“…The diagnoses by Claude 3.5 Sonnet covered the highest proportion (95% confidence interval [CI]) of instructive diagnoses (76.1%, [70.6%–80.9%]), significantly surpassing all the gastroenterologists (p < 0.05 for all). …”
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Prevención de eventos trombóticos en pacientes sometidos a cirugía de artrodesis lumbar por vía posterior: experiencia en nuestro centro. Estudio retrospectivo de casos by M. Desviat Ruiz, P. Jordà Gómez, K. Ramón López, J.M. Romero Martínez, J.J. Valls Vilalta, N. Fernández Fernández, Á. Chulvi Gimeno, L. Cuñat Navarro, J. Poyatos Campos

“…Mechanical thromboprophylaxis measures consisting of compression stockings were applied in all of them. Anticoagulant drugs were also applied whenever risk factors for thrombosis were observed. …”
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Protocol for Home-Based Solution for Remote Atrial Fibrillation Screening to Prevent Recurrence Stroke (HUA-TUO AF Trial): a randomised controlled trial by Jing Tan, Yan Liang, Yong Liu, Wei Jiang, Duo Huang, Ning Tan, Chung-Wah Siu, Jo Jo Hai, Xiaoyu Huang, Jianfeng Ye, Ji-yan Chen, Chun Ka Wong, Mi Zhou, Li-Xue Yin, Ming-Liang Zuo, Kui Kai Lau, Zhen Lei, Yingqing Feng, Bryan P Yan, Wen-Sheng Yue, Wen-Jun Zhang, Yuk-Ming Lau, Hin-Wai LUI, Koon-Ho Chan, Toi Meng Mok, Weng-Chio Tam, Kun-Chong Tam, Xiuhua Feng, Xiaofei Jiang, Guanming Tan, Mario Alberto Evora

“…Patients randomised to the home-based AF group will record a 30 s single-lead ECG using a specially designed handheld ECG device every morning or when symptomatic. All remotely obtained data will be automatically transmitted in real-time through the study smartphone application to a secured cloud hosting and analysed using an artificial intelligence-based diagnostic system. …”
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Multiomics analysis reveals the involvement of NET1 in tumour immune regulation and malignant progression by Jian Pang, Xiaoyan Huang, Ya Gao, Xinyu Guan, Lejia Xiong, Lun Li, Nana Yin, Mei Dai, Tong Han, Wenjun Yi

“…We also discovered that NET1 expression was positively correlated with the expression of genes related to epigenetic modification in almost all types of cancer and was related to the expression levels of numerous oncogenes. …”
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Association of extreme high temperature weather with non-accidental deaths among residents of Yichang city: a time-stratified case-crossover analysis by Xiaoyan MING, Yang HAN, Zhongcheng YANG, Zaoxia WANG, Shuguang XIE, Chuangang FAN

“…The maximum effect values for all nine extreme high temperature events were at lag day 0, with odds ratios (OR) and their 95% confidence intervals (CI) of 1.09 (1.04 – 1.14) for P92.5-1 d, 1.08 (1.03 – 1.14) for P92.5-2 d, 1.11 (1.05 – 1.16) for P92.5-3 d, 1.15 (1.09 – 1.22) for P95.0-1 d, 1.17, (1.10 – 1.24) for P95.0-2 d, 1.17 (1.10 – 1. 25) for P95.0-3 d, 1.23 (1.15 – 1.32) for P97.5-1 d, 1.27 (1.18 – 1.38) for P97.5-2 d, and 1.31(1.19 – 1.43) for P97.5-3 d. …”
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A hepatocellular carcinoma model with and without parenchymal liver damage that integrates technical and pathophysiological advantages for therapy testing by Karina Benderski, Paul Schneider, Panayiotis Kordeves, Michael Fichter, Jenny Schunke, Federica De Lorenzi, Feyza Durak, Barbara Schrörs, Özlem Akilli, Fabian Kiessling, Matthias Bros, Mustafa Diken, Stephan Grabbe, Jörn M. Schattenberg, Twan Lammers, Alexandros Marios Sofias, Leonard Kaps

“…Our model uniquely combines all the above-mentioned features, promoting its use towards HCC therapy testing.…”
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Rural Management Development: Understanding Future Scenarios for Villages in Jiroft County by Mahmoud Falsolayman, Mohammad Hajipour, Atiyeh Salari

“…These include establishing collaborative agreements with both internal and external institutions and organizations to effectively coordinate and organize all rural affairs, drawing upon the experiences and successful management practices of accomplished village administrators in the region, and preparing comprehensive documents for rural employment and economic development that leverage local capacities. …”
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The Multicentre Acute ischemic stroke imaGIng and Clinical data (MAGIC) repository: rationale and blueprint by Hakim Baazaoui, Stefan T. Engelter, Stefan T. Engelter, Stefan T. Engelter, Henrik Gensicke, Henrik Gensicke, Henrik Gensicke, Lukas S. Enz, Lukas S. Enz, Marios Psychogios, Marios Psychogios, Matthias Mutke, Matthias Mutke, Patrik Michel, Davide Strambo, Alexander Salerno, Henk A. Marquering, Paul J. Nederkoorn, Nabila Wali, Stephanie Tanadini-Lang, Björn Menze, Ezequiel de la Rosa, Kaiyuan Yang, Gian Marco De Marchis, Gian Marco De Marchis, Tolga D. Dittrich, Tolga D. Dittrich, Francesco Valletta, Francesco Valletta, Manon Germann, Carlo W. Cereda, João Pedro Marto, Lisa Herzog, Patrick Hirschi, Zsolt Kulcsar, Susanne Wegener, Susanne Wegener

“…A formal data transfer agreement (DTA) is signed by all contributing centres. The centres then share their data, and files are stored centrally on a safe server at the University Hospital Zurich. …”
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Prevalence of abnormal bone mineral density and its influencing factors among adult residents in Jiangsu province: a cross-sectional survey by Weihao WANG, Huijing HE, Yaoda HU, Xingming CHEN, Tan XU, Ji TU, Ang LI, Binbin LIN, Qihang LIU, Zhiming LU, Tianshu XI, Haibo HUANG, Da XU, Zhili CHEN, Zichao WANG, Guangliang SHAN

“…The prevalence rates of abnormal BMD, osteopenia, and osteoporosis were all significantly higher in male participants than in female participants (χ2 = 63.625, 55.792, and 4.944, all P < 0.05). …”
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Alimentation et gestion de l’eau sur la colline de Fourvière à Lyon : les aménagements hydrauliques, la ville et ses monuments by Aldo Borlenghi, Éric Leroy

“…The wells, both Republican and Augustan, are almost all concentrated in sectors above 280 m NGF. The analysis of the remains, and in particular the imposing size of some of the wells, allows us to deduce their public or semi-public function and, for the first time, the existence of hydraulic water drawing devices. …”
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Navigating Ethical Dilemmas Of Generative AI In Medical Writing by Qurrat Ulain Hamdan, Waleed Umar, Mahnoor Hasan

“…Moreover, their correct grammar and comprehension skills make them a very attractive writing tool, especially for non-native English speakers. However, all of these benefits are not without their pitfalls. …”
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