A combined school survey and reactive case detection reveals minimal local transmission of malaria in the Highlands Region of Papua New Guinea by Osama Seidahmed, Serah Kurumop, Elizabeth Wawaga, Melvin Kualawi, Valentine Siba, Sharon Jamea, Yangta Ura, Leo Makita, William Pomat, Manuel W. Hetzel

“…The average annual malaria incidence in the catchment areas was 3.7 cases per 1000 [95% CI 2.6, 5.3] among the general population, while children under 15 years accounted for 19% [95% CI 14, 27] of the positive cases. …”
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Second harmonic generation imaging reveals entanglement of collagen fibers in the elephant trunk skin dermis by Andrew K. Schulz, Magdalena Plotczyk, Sophia Sordilla, David C. A. Gaboriau, Madeline Boyle, Krishma Singal, Joy S. Reidenberg, David L. Hu, Claire A. Higgins

“…Additionally, when viewing individual fiber interactions of 10 μm thick collagen, we find the fiber crossings per unit volume are five times more common than in human skin, suggesting that the fibers are entangled. …”
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Performance augmentation of triangular solar still using sensible energy storage materials: thermo-exergo-economic and sustainability analyses by Sharma, Naveen, Patel, Ashutosh, Deep, Raman, Gautam, Shivam

“…The economic assessment revealed that employing SHSMs resulted in a reduction in the cost per liter of freshwater generation by up to 42.86% (for TSS-S) and a corresponding decrease in the payback period by up to 44.33% (for TSS-S) compared to TSS. …”
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Straight-Parallel Electrodes and Variable Gap for Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution Reactions by María J. Lavorante, Carla Y. Reynoso, Juan I. Franco

“…The reason why this is studied is that stoichiometry of the reaction states that two moles of hydrogen and one mole of oxygen can be obtained per every two moles of water. The proposed spaces were 10.65, 9.20, 8.25, 7.25, 6.30, 6.05, 4.35, 4.15, and 3.40 millimetres. …”
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Evaluation of the Crossbreeding Scheme and Farmers’ Perception of Awassi and Dorper Crossbred Sheep by Zeleke Tesema, Alemu Kefale, Belay Deribe, Getasew Esayas, Demlie Chanie, Getachew Worku Alebachew, Solomon Tiruneh, Mekonen Shibeshi

“…Likewise, the indigenous Wollo sheep had earlier AFL, short lambing interval, and produced a large number of lambs per lifetime than their Awassi crossbreds. Dorper crossbreds were preferred (9.30 - 72.2 times greater and P<0.001) for their growth rate, physical appearance, preference in the market or price, and milk production of ewes compared with indigenous Tumele sheep. …”
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Efficacy of a complex plant-based preparation for poultry mycotoxicosis by E. V. Kuzminova, E. P. Dolgov, M. P. Semenenko, P. V. Miroshnichenko

“…Use of fibralin in the feed (3 kg per one ton) for 10 days reduced clinical signs of intoxication, increased flock survival by 13.5% and stimulated body weight gain by 15.8%. …”
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Retrospective database analysis on the demographics and resource utilization of patients with Parkinson’s disease in Quebec, Canada by Véronique Baribeau, Shawn Mohammed, Amnah Awan, Diana Parison, Jean Lachaine

“…PD patients had a significantly higher total costs per year than the matched control group ($17,405 vs. $6,431), mainly driven by higher inpatient costs. …”
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Unlocking the potential of cacao yield with full sun cultivation by Carolina S. Benjamin, Luiz A. S. Dias, Samuel C. V. Martins, Carlos E. Aucique-Perez, Lucas B. C. Rosmaninho

“…Clones PH 16 and PS 1319 had higher net photosynthetic rates per unit of leaf area (A), transpiration rates, and lower leaf internal CO2 concentrations. …”
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Assessment of a new protocol strategy to control the ectoparasitic infestation in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) using efficient natural products by Magdy I. Hanna, Aya T. EL Sayed, Ola Hasan Abd El Megeed, Marwa A. Ibrahim, Reda M. S. Korany, Marwa M. Attia

“…The intensity of the parasite was counted per microscopic field. The treated groups showed low levels of the parameters compared to the control positive group. …”
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A Cross-Modal Tactile Reproduction Utilizing Tactile and Visual Information Generated by Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks by Koki Hatori, Takashi Morikura, Akira Funahashi, Kenjiro Takemura

“…Subsequently, we prepared 320 images of variety of materials and conducted sensory evaluation experiments with 30 participants per image to gather tactile information evoked by viewing the images. …”
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Deep Learning-Based Dynamic Stable Cluster Head Selection in VANET by Muhammad Asim Saleem, Zhou Shijie, Muhammad Umer Sarwar, Tanveer Ahmad, Amarah Maqbool, Casper Shikali Shivachi, Maham Tariq

“…The last metric is trust; this is one of the concepts that has not been included in the weighted approach to date as per the literature. An adaptive spectrum sensing is designed for evaluating the trust values specifically for the primary users. …”
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The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on outpatient visits for patients with cancer in Iran: an interrupted time series analysis by Siavash Beiranvand, Meysam Behzadifar, Aidin Aryankhesal, Seyed Jafar Ehsanzadeh, Banafshe Darvishi Teli, Masoud Behzadifar

“…Results Following the announcement of Covid-19 in Iran, outpatient visits for patients with cancer decreased immediately and sharply, with a mean of 247.08 visits per month, which has a 95% confidence interval of [-297; -197]. …”
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A Cost-Effective and Robust Cell-Based Bioassay Method for Evaluating the Bioactivity of Trastuzumab-like Antibodies by Pooja Bharali, Subhash Chand, Harish Chander

“…The biological activity of trastuzumab was determined using the inhibition of proliferation (IOP) assay on the SKBR3, which was optimized based on the parameters of cell seeding density, drug dilution range, and incubation time, and it was further validated as per the compendial guidelines and found valid for the parameters of specificity, accuracy (% relative bias = 0.0067%), precision (repeatability: % GCV = 1.21%), linearity (R2 = 0.99), and range (50% to 200%). …”
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Lifting COVID-19-associated non-pharmaceutical interventions: potential impact on notifications of infectious diseases transmitted from person to person in 2022 in Bavaria, Germany by Judith Hausmann, Judith Hausmann, Judith Hausmann, Achim Dörre, Katharina Katz, Sarah van de Berg

“…By analysing surveillance data from the federal reporting system for notifiable infectious diseases, we aimed to assess the potential impact of lifting COVID-19 associated NPIs on notifications of selected infectious diseases in Bavaria, 2022.MethodsWe compared influenza, chickenpox, norovirus gastroenteritis, rotavirus gastroenteritis weekly case numbers in a pre-pandemic period (2016–2019) and 2022 using two time series analyses approaches: (i) a predictive model forecasting weekly case numbers for the pandemic years 2020–2022, based on 2016–2019 data, (ii) interrupted time series model, based on 2016–2022 data, including a term per pandemic period.ResultsIn 2022, incidence rates were higher compared to pre-pandemic period for influenza (IRR = 3.47, 95%CI: 1.49–7.94) and rotavirus gastroenteritis (IRR = 1.36, 95%CI: 0.95–1.93), though not significant for rotavirus gastroenteritis. …”
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LOGINIŲ ŽINOJIMO PAGRINDŲ ANALIZĖ G. FREGE’S FILOSOFIJOJE by Nijolė Aukštuolytė

“…Frege’s tyrinėjimai remiasi prielaida, kad loginė minties analizė galima tik per loginę kalbos analizę. Straipsnyje norima pabrėžti, kad autoriaus dėmesys kalbai - netiesioginis. …”
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Predictive Factors of Mortality in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Subjects: A Monocenter Prospective Observational Study in Algeria by Nadia Fettal, Nadjet Siali, Mahammed Chaker, Abdelbassat Ketfi

“…A threshold of three exacerbations per year was established to identify frequent exacerbators. …”
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Retrospective clinical analysis of time to recovery from diabetic ketoacidosis in Ethiopia by Angefa Ayele, Dube Jara, Alo Edin, Digafe Hailu, Mihiret Kifle, Yohannes Fekadu

“…The overall DKA recovery rate was 23.8 per 1000 person-hours (95 % CI: 22.21–27.07), and the median recovery time was 42 hr. …”
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Rate estimation and trend analysis of new HIV infections among the international migrant population in Chile from 2013 to 2022 by Rodrigo Puentes, María Alejandra Dünner, Natalia T. Santis-Alay, Mario E. Soto-Marchant, Cecilia Canales, Janepsy Díaz

“…International migrants showed an increase in incidence rates between 2013 and 2022 (adjusted rate from 22.6 [95 % CI: 18.3 – 27.0] to 115.6 [95 % CI: 110.5 – 120.7] new HIV infections per 100,000 population). Throughout the study period, the ratio of adjusted incidence rates between international migrants and Chileans increased from 1.0 [95 % CI: 0.9 – 1.2] to 7.6 [95 % CI: 7.2 – 8.0]. …”
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Clinical Recommendations of the Russian Gastroenterological Association on Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Esophagitis by V. T. Ivashkin, N. D. Yuschuk, I. V. Maev, A. S. Trukhmanov, O. A. Storonova, A. A. Makushina, S. S. Pirogov, O. V. Zayratyants, O. P. Alekseeva, D. N. Andreyev, T. L. Lapina, A. V. Tkachev, Yu. P. Uspenskiy, A. A. Sheptulin

“…Esophagus may be affected per se or conjointly in a common gastrointestinal infection. …”
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Enterprise energy supply system design management based on renewable energy sources by S. Drobyazko, M. Skrypnyk, N. Radionova, O. Hryhorevska, M. Matiukha

“…By consuming traditional energy sources using outdated technologies for energy supply of industrial facilities, Ukraine consumes 3-4 times more fuel per unit of Gross Domestic Product compared to developed countries. …”
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