Coverage Path Planning Based on Region Segmentation and Path Orientation Optimization by Tao Yang, Xintong Du, Bo Zhang, Xu Wang, Zhenpeng Zhang, Chundu Wu

“…Simulation results showed that a 78° segmentation yielded four regular sub-regions, achieving 99.97% coverage while reducing the number of turns, travel distance, and planning time by up to 70.42%, 23.17%, and 85.6%. …”
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Feasibility planning study of lattice radiotherapy for palliation in bulky tumors by Jayashree NP, Shreekripa Rao, Anshul Singh, Umesh Velu, Ankita Mehta, Shirley Lewis

“…Conclusion Lattice radiotherapy is feasible in large tumors using volumetric‐modulated arc therapy and achieves good coverage while meeting organ constraints. However, a prospective clinical evaluation is required to confirm its efficacy.…”
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From LLMs to Randomness: Analyzing Program Input Efficacy With Resource and Language Metrics by Gavin Black, Eric Yocam, Varghese Mathew Vaidyan, Gurcan Comert, Yong Wang

“…Security-focused program testing typically focuses on crash detection and code coverage while overlooking additional system behaviors that can impact program confidentiality and availability. …”
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Social investigation report of cVDPV2 outbreak in Dagahaley Refugee Camp, Dadaab Sub-County, Garissa County, Kenya, November 2021 by Freshia Waithaka, Fredrick Ngeno, Hillary Limo, Wickliffe Mattini, Fredrick Odhiambo, Maurice Owiny

“…Three facilities in the camp had less than 80% OPV3 and inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) coverage, while 7/61 (11.5%) families had no sanitation facilities and practiced open defecation. …”
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Community participation and contracting between state and non-state actors in primary care: A scoping review of evidence by Zoheb Khan, Frederico Haddad, Vinodkumar Rao, Jith J. R, Parvathy Breeze, Surekha Garimella, Leslie London

“…Conclusions Contracting of non-state providers in pluralistic primary care systems that incorporates the participation of communities in its governance could be a feasible policy to promote universal health coverage while also effecting democratic rights of citizens to participate in healthcare governance. …”
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Development of a Vascularized Skin Construct Using Adipose-Derived Stem Cells from Debrided Burned Skin by Rodney K. Chan, David O. Zamora, Nicole L. Wrice, David G. Baer, Evan M. Renz, Robert J. Christy, Shanmugasundaram Natesan

“…Clinically, the extent and depth of burn injury may mandate the use of allograft for temporary wound coverage while autografts are serially harvested from the same donor areas. …”
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Leveraging ResUnet, oceanic and atmospheric data for accurate chlorophyll-a estimations in the South China Sea by Weiwei Fang, Ao Li, Ao Li, Haoyu Jiang, Haoyu Jiang, Chan Shu, Peng Xiu

“…Remote sensing offers continuous and broad spatial coverage, while it is often hindered by cloud cover in the South China Sea (SCS). …”
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The Analysis of Spatiotemporal Changes in Vegetation Coverage and Driving Factors in the Historically Affected Manganese Mining Areas of Yongzhou City, Hunan Province by Jinbin Liu, Zexin He, Huading Shi, Yun Zhao, Junke Wang, Anfu Liu, Li Li, Ruifeng Zhu

“…Mining activities were the primary anthropogenic driving force behind the decrease in vegetation coverage, while effective ecological protection projects and proactive policy guidance were the main anthropogenic driving forces behind the increase in vegetation coverage in the mining area.…”
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Towards universal health coverage in the WHO African Region: assessing health system functionality, incorporating lessons from COVID-19 by Juliet Nabyonga-Orem, Regina Titi-Ofei, Felicitas Zawaira, Prosper Tumusiime, Gerard Schmets, Aminata Binetou-Wahebine Seydi

“…By focusing on the assessment on the capacities that define system functionality, each country has concrete information on where it needs to focus, in order to improve the functionality of its health system to enable it respond to current needs including achieving universal health coverage, while responding to shocks from challenges such as the 2019 coronavirus disease. …”
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Flight Parameters for Spray Deposition Efficiency of Unmanned Aerial Application Systems (UAASs) by Thiago Caputti, Luan Pereira de Oliveira, Camila Rodrigues, Paulo Cremonez, Wheeler Foshee, Alvin M. Simmons, Andre Luiz Biscaia Ribeiro da Silva

“…Treatments with slower flight speeds (4 m/s) and higher application volumes (28.10 L/ha) increased spray coverage, while droplet density was maximized at 4 m/s with the finest droplet size (150 µm), which are desirable characteristics for pesticide applications in specialty crops. …”
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Full Immunization Coverage and Associated Factors among Children Aged 12-23 Months in a Hard-to-Reach Areas of Ethiopia by Abadi Girmay, Abel Fekadu Dadi

“…Having antenatal care visit (AOR=2.75, 95%CI: 1.52-5.0), higher level of maternal education (AOR=2.39, 95%CI: 1.06-5.36), mothers’ good knowledge on immunization (AOR=3.70, 95%CI: 2.37-5.79), short distance to health facility (AOR=2.65, 95%CI: 1.61-4.36), and being born in health institutions (AOR=2.58, 95%CI: 1.66-3.99) had increased the odds of full immunization coverage while having five and more family size reduced the odds of children’s vaccine uptake (AOR=0.62, 95%CI: 0.38-0.99). …”
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Making voluntary medical male circumcision services sustainable: Findings from Kenya's pilot models, baseline and year 1. by Stephanie M Davis, Nandi Owuor, Elijah Odoyo-June, Jonesmus Wambua, Eunice Omanga, Mainza Lukobo, Catharine Laube, Zebedee Mwandi, Chutima Suraratdecha, Urbanus M Kioko, Wesley Rotich, Jacquin Kataka, Caroline Ng'eno, Diwakar Mohan, Carlos Toledo, Appolonia Aoko, John Anyango, Daniel Oneya, Kennedy Orenjuro, Elizabeth Mgamb, Kennedy Serrem, Ambrose Juma

“…Kenya is one of the first countries to achieve high population coverage and seek to transition the program to a more sustainable structure designed to maintain coverage while making all aspects of service provision domestically owned and implemented. …”
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Efficacy of Andrographis paniculata leaf extract as a green corrosion inhibitor for mild steel in concentrated sulfuric acid: Experimental and computational insights by Femiana Gapsari, Putu H. Setyarini, Khairul Anam, Saprizal Hadisaputra, Syarif Hidayatullah, Purnami, Abdul Mudjib Sulaiman, Chin Wei Lai

“…The adsorption of APLE followed the Langmuir isotherm, indicating monolayer coverage, while quantum chemical calculations validated APLE's electron-donating capability, enhancing surface stability through physisorption. …”
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Adaptive Multi-Objective Optimization-Based Coverage Path Planning Method for UUVs by Shaojing ZHAO, Songchen FU, Letian BAI, Yutong GUO, Ta LI

“…Experimental results demonstrate that compared with traditional methods, the proposed approach improves coverage while optimizing mission completion rate, trajectory length, energy consumption, and information latency. …”
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Sociodemographic characterization of domestic service workers in Colombia: a 10-year analytical-descriptive study by Oscar Espinosa, Zuly Bibiana Suárez-Morales, Valentina Álvarez, Valeria Bejarano, Mauricio Torres, Jairo Luna

“…These regions, along with the Amazon-Orinoquía, exhibit the highest informality rates. Social security coverage, while improving, remains insufficient, with less than 29% of workers affiliated with pension funds and under 25% covered by occupational risk insurance. …”
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Spatiotemporal assessment of environmental change in Kushtia, Bangladesh (1998–2023) using remote sensing-based environmental indices by Md. Anik Hossain, Md. Rahedul Islam, Tamanna Yesmin, Rabeya Sultana, Md. Kamrul Hossain, Rafiquel Islam

“…The results represent a decline in the highest NDVI value from 0.72 in 1998 to 0.47 in 2023, reflecting an 18.23 % decrease in vegetated area coverage, while water availability (NDWI) and moisture content (NDMI) declined by 57.64 % and 47.01 %, respectively. …”
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Growth Propagation of Liquid Spawn on Non-Woven Hemp Mats to Inform Digital Biofabrication of Mycelium-Based Composites by Andreas Biront, Mart Sillen, Patrick Van Dijck, Jan Wurm

“…Results showed that lower dilutions promoted faster growth with full coverage, while higher dilutions offered slower growth with partial coverage. …”
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HRMS-SCD:A High-Resolution Multi-Scene Satellite Imagery Dataset for Comprehensive Land-Cover Semantic Change Detection by P. Guo, P. Guo, S. Yang, H. Zhang, X. Huang, X. Ning, Y. Han, R. Zhang, M. Hao

“…Semantic change detection (SCD) focuses on identifying changes in surface coverage while simultaneously classifying the types of changes. …”
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Advanced Bayesian Method for Timely Small-Scale Forest Loss Detection in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado with Sentinel-1 Time-Series by M. Bottani, M. Bottani, M. Bottani, M. Bottani, L. Ferro-Famil, L. Ferro-Famil, J. Doblas, S. Mermoz, A. Bouvet, T. Koleck, T. Koleck

“…Traditional monitoring methods using optical imagery are hindered by cloud coverage, while newer Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems, although operational in all weather conditions, face challenges such as sensitivity to soil moisture and the need for spatial filtering to reduce speckle effects. …”
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Comparison of Tumor Cell Responses to Different Radiotherapy Techniques: Three-Dimensional Conformal Radiotherapy (3D-CRT), Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT), and Helical Tom... by Phanwadee Kasetthamrongrat, Rinwarat Phumsankhot, Aphidet Duangya, Anirut Watcharawipha, Wannapha Nobnop, Narongchai Autsavapromporn

“…Currently, advanced RT techniques such as VMAT and HT are being developed to optimize tumor coverage while minimizing radiation exposure to the surrounding organs that are at risk. …”
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