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Annual versus biannual azithromycin mass drug administration for the elimination of infectious trachoma in Africa: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis using data from individual communities
Published 2025-02-01“…Although no specific frequency of antibiotic distributions has been recommended, several randomised trials have compared annual with biannual mass azithromycin distributions. This review aims to synthesise the available data to assess the effectiveness of biannual azithromycin MDA relative to annual MDA.Methods and analysis PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar will be searched for studies comparing annual and biannual mass azithromycin distributions for trachoma. …”
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Effect of biannual azithromycin on respiratory pathogens among symptomatic children: results from the randomised Macrolides Oraux pour Réduire les Décès avec un Oeil sur la Résistance (MORDOR) I trial
Published 2025-02-01“…Introduction Biannual (ie, every 6 months) mass drug administration of azithromycin has reduced childhood mortality in Niger, but its effects on specific respiratory pathogens are not fully elucidated.Methods Across 2 years of the Macrolides Oraux pour Réduire les Décès avec un Oeil sur la Résistance (MORDOR) study in Niger, we evaluated 1468 nasopharyngeal swabs from children who presented for care with respiratory symptoms. …”
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Reclaiming the Narrative: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Donald Trump's 2024 Super Tuesday Campaign Speech
Published 2024-12-01“…K@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature…”
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Personal Branding Strategy in LinkedIn Profile Summary: A Rhetorical Move Analysis
Published 2024-12-01“…K@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature…”
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Agentive and Independent Older Female Adult in Strong Woman Gang Nam-Soon: Going Against Prevalent Gendered Ageism in K-Dramas
Published 2024-12-01“…K@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature…”
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Revealing the Utilization of Pragma-dialectics and Fallacies in BongBong Marcos Supporters' Facebook Argumentations
Published 2024-12-01“…K@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature…”
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Narratives of Male Struggle Against Patriarchy in Select Filipino Literary Works
Published 2024-12-01“…K@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature…”
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Dignity in The Remains of the Day from the Lens of Ontology, Ethics, and Liberalism
Published 2024-12-01“…K@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature…”
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Advanced characterization of deforestation frontiers in Nigeria utilizing deep learning and Bayesian approaches with sentinel-1 SAR imagery
Published 2025-12-01“…Addressing these challenges, we propose an innovative approach that integrates spatial and temporal features for biannual deforestation mapping using synthetic aperture radar data in hotspots, study site 1 (Akure) and study site 2 (Okomu) forest reserve (First and second halves of 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023). …”
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Modelling the health, financial protection and equity impacts of upscaling the ACT NOW early intervention breast cancer pilot program in the Philippines: an extended cost-effective...
Published 2025-02-01“…This study aims to model the health and economic impacts of ACT NOW (a pilot breast cancer programme that navigates women through free early detection to treatment) through an extended cost-effectiveness analysis.Methods A microsimulation decision tree model was used to model the ACT NOW intervention (including annual clinical breast examination (CBE) and biannual breast ultrasound for women at high risk of breast cancer) over 5 years for healthy women 40–69 years old. …”
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Prevalence and Related Risk Factors of Intestinal Parasitosis among Private School-Going Pupils of Dharan Submetropolitan City, Nepal
Published 2021-01-01“…Therefore, integration of control measures such as provision of clean and safe drinking water, improved sanitation and hygiene, with biannual administration of drugs are necessary for effective eradication of parasitic infections.…”
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Developing Global Leaders through International Partnership: A Collaborative Model for Graduate Nursing Programs
Published 2024-12-01“…Evaluation data from the cohorts in the biannual programs in 2022 and 2024 (n=55) showed high satisfaction rates, with more than 90% of students rating the course as good or very good. …”
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Developing Global Leaders through International Partnership: A Collaborative Model for Graduate Nursing Programs
Published 2024-12-01“…Evaluation data from the cohorts in the biannual programs in 2022 and 2024 (n=55) showed high satisfaction rates, with more than 90% of students rating the course as good or very good. …”
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Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Silver Diamine Fluoride in Arresting Caries in Primary Teeth
Published 2024-12-01“…Over the course of a year, the carious lesions received biannual applications of the SDF. The main result was the stoppage of caries, ascertained by monitoring the change of an active lesion to an inactive one using standardized digital radiographs and clinical evaluations. …”
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Effects of environmental variability on population dynamics of golden carpet shell clam (Polititapes aureus)
Published 2023-10-01“…The condition factor and mortality showed a clear annual periodicity, while growth rate G30 was biannual. Growth was fitted to a seasonal von Bertalanffy function, with L∞ = 43.6 mm; K = 0.360 y−1; C = 0.65 and ts = 1.21, with a confidence interval determined by bootstrapping. …”
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Long-Term Outcome of an HIV-Treatment Programme in Rural Africa: Viral Suppression despite Early Mortality
Published 2011-01-01“…We performed a retrospective observational cohort study, including 735 patients who initiated ART. Biannual monitoring, including HIV-RNA testing, was performed. …”
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Engagement and Preparedness of Urban Accredited Social Health Activists (U-ASHAs) for Delivery of Tuberculosis (TB) Care: Findings From two Cities in Maharashtra, India
Published 2025-01-01“…They were mainly involved in a biannual active case finding (ACF) and were recently envisioned as TB treatment supporters with poor clarity about other roles in TB care. …”
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Occult metastases and survival of lung cancer by clinical diagnosis and CT screening: A simulation study.
Published 2025-01-01“…In a comparative analysis of two simulated groups of individuals: (1) clinically diagnosed (2) diagnosed by screening with a varying screening frequency (quarterly, biannual, annual and biennial), it was estimated that, once the screening intervals become shorter, substantially more cancers are found, but at an expense of a higher radiation exposure. …”
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