Understanding the unique role of community-based para-professionals delivering early childhood development in low-resource contexts: a Delphi study by Emma Claire Pearson, Maxwell Peprah Opoku

“…In response, the study reported here aimed to gather expert views on essential knowledge, skills and competencies for this workforce, to contribute to strengthened recognition of their unique role in supporting ECD. …”
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Variable domain mutational analysis to probe the molecular mechanisms of high viscosity of an IgG1 antibody by Jing Dai, Saeed Izadi, Jonathan Zarzar, Patrick Wu, Angela Oh, Paul J. Carter

“…The methods described here may be useful in the optimization of other antibodies to facilitate their therapeutic administration at high concentration.…”
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Spatially-implicit modelling of disease-behaviour interactions in the context of non-pharmaceutical interventions by Notice Ringa, Chris T. Bauch

“…The pair approximation methodology developed here illustrates how analytical approaches for studying interactions between social processes and disease dynamics in a spatially structured population should be further pursued.…”
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Time-course of antipredator behavioral changes induced by the helminth Pomphorhynchus laevis in its intermediate host Gammarus pulex: the switch in manipulation according to parasi... by Rigaud, Thierry, Balourdet, Aude, Bauer, Alexandre

“…All these behavioral changes were observed mostly when animals were tested in water scented by potential predators (here brown trout), suggesting condition-dependent manipulation. …”
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A statistical approach to the use of control entropy identifies differences in constraints of gait in highly trained versus untrained runners by Rana D. Parshad, Stephen J. McGregor, Michael A. Busa, Joseph D. Skufca, Erik Bollt

“…Specifically, CE develops response time series of individuals descriptive of the control effort; a group analysis of these shapes developed here uses Karhunen Loeve Analysis (KL) modes of these time series which are compared between groups by application of a Hotelling $T^{2}$ test to these group response shapes. …”
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Effect of seasonality on the dynamics of an imitation-based vaccination model with public health intervention by Bruno Buonomo, Giuseppe Carbone, Alberto d'Onofrio

“…We focus here on three important features. First, we consider a SEIR-type disease. …”
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Analysis methods for covariate-constrained cluster randomized trials with time-to-event outcomes by Amy M. Crisp, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Matt D. T. Hitchings, Ira M. Longini, Natalie E. Dean

“…The permutation test developed here was more robust to inflation of type I error compared to model-based tests. …”
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Amine Analysis Using AlexaFluor 488 Succinimidyl Ester and Capillary Electrophoresis with Laser-Induced Fluorescence by Christian G. Kendall, Amanda M. Stockton, Stephen Leicht, Heather McCaig, Shirley Chung, Valerie Scott, Fang Zhong, Ying Lin

“…Alexa Fluor 488 N-hydroxysuccinimidyl ester (AF488 NHS-ester) is an amine-specific fluorescent probe. Here, we demonstrate low limit of detection of long-chain (C9 to C18) primary amines and optimize AF488 derivatization of long-chain primary amines. …”
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Intestinal Giardiasis Disguised as Ulcerative Colitis by Yu Zhen, Lin Liao, Hu Zhang

“…Parasite-associated colitis is quite rare in clinical practice of Ulcerative Colitis (UC). Here we reported an intestinal giardiasis case that has been diagnosed with UC. …”
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Urban Forest Management: A Primer to Strategic Planning for Municipal Governments by Michael Andreu, Robert Northrop, Wayne Zipperer

“… This publication is an introduction to Urban Forest Management: A Primer to Strategic Planning for Municipal Governments, available in full for free here: https://ffgs.ifas.ufl.edu/urbanforestmanagementbook/. …”
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Acute infectious diseases and immunologic responses. Some stories from clinical practice apropos the Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic by Alfredo Darío Espinosa Brito

“…Apropos of the appearance of some unusual clinical pictures in the course of the recent epidemic of Influenza A (H1N1), and with the intention of sharing controversial ideas related to the immunologic responses of the patients to the infectious agents, we expose here a group of stories arisen from a clinical practice of almost five decades.…”
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Y a-t-il analogie entre les opérations sous-jacentes aux constructions V ØNs et VPA ? by Sophie Dufossé-Sournin

“…The question here is to know whether the structure V ØNs (he was taking Ønotes) corresponds with the traditional scheme V + C1 or whether it can be compared with a phrasal verb (go up). …”
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Predatory Stink Bug, Alcaeorrhynchus grandis (Dallas) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) by David B. Richman, Frank W. Mead

“…The stages in the life cycle are presented here so that they can be identified in the field. …”
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Fenestrated membrane of the left atrial appendage orifice; an incidental finding of a rare congenital anomaly by Faeze Keihanian, Leila Bigdelu

“…Abstract Membrane of the left atrial appendage (LAA) is a rare congenital anomaly, which is reported in few cases, to date. Here, we reported an incidental finding of LAA obstructive membrane in patients with previous history of cerebrovascular event and newly diagnosed rheumatismal mitral stenosis (MS) in echocardiography.…”
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Prise en compte de l’occupant dans une démarche interdisciplinaire de réhabilitation durable by Maxime Quentin, Éric Henry, Patrizia Laudati

“…An interdisciplinary approach based human and social sciences can lead to a better understanding of the householder concerning the process of rehabilitation. The one described here insists on the informative and communicative analysis established between the user and his environment. …”
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As «Leis Jacobinas». Estudo e transcrição by Margarida Garcez Ventura

“…As in another realms of Christianity, also the portuguese king, using both the theological reasons as the roman law, considered his right and duty to exercise jurisdiction over many cases that the clergy had as exclusively theirs. Here is a brief comment on the so called “Leis Jacobinas” (Nov. 1418-Dec. 1419), simultaneously trigger and witness of the controversy between the Church and the royal power in the late Middle Age. …”
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Global attractor for the lattice dynamical system of a nonlinear Boussinesq equation by Ahmed Y. Abdallah

“…As far as we are aware, our result here is the first concerning the lattice dynamical system corresponding to a differential equation of second order in time variable and fourth order in spatial variable with nonlinearity involving the gradients.…”
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Le film de mobilisation centrasiatique by Valérie Pozner

“…This little set of motives was recycled in various genra (feature shorts, musicals, documentaries) which are analyzed here on the example of the production of the main Soviet studio during the World War II, that of Alma-Ata.…”
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Philosophy in Engineering Systems of Action: Analysis and Interpretation of the Selected Ontological Aspects of Józef Konieczny’s Theory of Action by Smolnik Maksymilian

“…As a philosophically remarkable and practically useful approach to actions the theory of action proposed by the Polish philosopher, scientist and military specialist Józef Konieczny undergoes here further considerations.…”
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New Bilateral Type Generating Function Associated with I-Function by Praveen Agarwal, Jessada Tariboon, Shilpi Jain

“…We aim at establishing a new bilateral type generating function associated with the I-function and a Mellin-Barnes type of contour integral. The results derived here are of general character and can yield a number of (known and new) results in the theory of generating functions.…”
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