Describing Point of Entry into Care and Being Lost to Program in a Cohort of HIV Positive Pregnant Women in a Large Urban Centre in Uganda by Rachel Musomba, Frank Mubiru, Shadia Nakalema, Hope Mackline, Ivan Kalule, Agnes N. Kiragga, Rosalind Parkes Ratanshi, Barbara Castelnuovo

“…In the multivariate analysis older women (HR: 0.80 per five-year increase, CI: 0.64–1.0, and P=0.060) and women on ART at the time of pregnancy (0.58, CI: 0.34–0.98, and P=0.040) were more likely not to be LTP. …”
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A novel paradigm for fast training data generation in asynchronous movement-based BCIs by Markus R. Crell, Kyriaki Kostoglou, Kathrin Sterk, Gernot R. Müller-Putz, Gernot R. Müller-Putz

“…To address this, we propose a novel experimental paradigm that enables the collection of 300 cued movement trials in 18 min.MethodsBy obtaining measurements from ten participants, we demonstrate that the data produced by this paradigm exhibits characteristics similar to those observed during self-paced movement.Results and discussionWe also show that classifiers trained on this data can be used to accurately detect executed movements with an average true positive rate of 31.8% at a maximum rate of 1.0 false positives per minute.…”
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An empirical analysis of keystroke dynamics in passwords: A longitudinal study by Simon Parkinson, Saad Khan, Alexandru‐Mihai Badea, Andrew Crampton, Na Liu, Qing Xu

“…This is explored in this work, where the authors collected timings for 65 participants, when typing 40 passwords with varying characteristics, 4 times per week for 8 weeks. A total of 81,920 timing samples were processed using an instance‐based distance and threshold matching approach. …”
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Anesthesiologists’ Preferences regarding Visitor Presence during Placement of Neuraxial Labor Analgesia by Sangeeta Kumaraswami, Suryanarayana Pothula, Mario Anthony Inchiosa, Keshar Paul Kubal, Micah Alexander Burns

“…Essentially no bias was found in the responses; there was statistical uniformity regardless of procedures done per week, years in practice, professional certification, geographic region (rural, urban, or suburban), or academic, private, or government responders. …”
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Production of Palmitoleic and Linoleic Acid in Oleaginous and Nonoleaginous Yeast Biomass by Irena Kolouchová, Olga Maťátková, Karel Sigler, Jan Masák, Tomáš Řezanka

“…The content of dietary fatty acids of interest, namely, palmitoleic acid and linoleic acid, reached in Kluyveromyces and Trichosporon strains over 50% of total fatty acids and the highest yield, over 280 mg per g of dry cell weight of these fatty acids, was observed in Trichosporon with ammonium sulfate as nitrogen source at C/N ratio 70.…”
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Global Patterns of Prostate Cancer Incidence, Aggressiveness, and Mortality in Men of African Descent by Timothy R. Rebbeck, Susan S. Devesa, Bao-Li Chang, Clareann H. Bunker, Iona Cheng, Kathleen Cooney, Rosalind Eeles, Pedro Fernandez, Veda N. Giri, Serigne M. Gueye, Christopher A. Haiman, Brian E. Henderson, Chris F. Heyns, Jennifer J. Hu, Sue Ann Ingles, William Isaacs, Mohamed Jalloh, Esther M. John, Adam S. Kibel, LaCreis R. Kidd, Penelope Layne, Robin J. Leach, Christine Neslund-Dudas, Michael N. Okobia, Elaine A. Ostrander, Jong Y. Park, Alan L. Patrick, Catherine M. Phelan, Camille Ragin, Robin A. Roberts, Benjamin A. Rybicki, Janet L. Stanford, Sara Strom, Ian M. Thompson, John Witte, Jianfeng Xu, Edward Yeboah, Ann W. Hsing, Charnita M. Zeigler-Johnson

“…We report a higher proportion of T1 stage prostate tumors in countries with greater percent gross domestic product spent on health care and physicians per 100,000 persons. We also observed that regions with a higher proportion of advanced tumors reported lower mortality rates. …”
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The Comparison and Modeling of the Driving Factors of Urban Expansion for Thirty-Five Big Cities in the Three Regions in China by Tian Guangjin, Xu Xinliang, Liu Xiaojuan, Kong Lingqiang

“…Through the panel analysis, population growth, road construction, salary increment per capita, and secondary industry product increment were proven to be the major driving factors for national-scale urban expansion. …”
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Cost Effectiveness of TNF-α Inhibitors in Rheumatoid Arthritis by Cynthia Said, Bernard Coleiro, Maurice Zarb Adami, Lilian M. Azzopardi, Anthony Serracino Inglott

“…Statistically significant improvements (P<0.05) were noted for the SF-36 and HAQ after 3 months and for the DAS-28 after 6 months of TNF-α inhibitor therapy. The mean ICER per 10% improvement in the HAQ, DAS-28, and SF-6D were €1976.5, €2086.5, and €2316.4, respectively, following 6 months of TNF-α intervention. …”
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Analysis of crack response on structures due to blasting and non-blasting factors by Vojinović I., Stojadinović S., Svrkota I., Stojanović M., Šabaz D.

“…The strain energy and the stress intensity factor per unit time are much higher under the influence of blasting factors. …”
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A time-domain finite element formulation of the equivalent fluid model for the acoustic wave equation by Maurerlehner Paul, Mayrhofer Dominik, Kaltenbacher Manfred, Schoder Stefan

“…The order of the rational function approximation defines the number of additionally introduced auxiliary variables per nodal degree of freedom. The presented FE formulation includes a narrow-band non-reflecting boundary condition (NRBC) for normal incidence. …”
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Optimisation of Dairy Soiled Water as a Novel Duckweed Growth Medium by Cian Redmond, Neil E. Coughlan, Aine Purcell, Marcel A. K. Jansen

“…The physicochemical properties of DSWs are highly variable as per individual farmer practices and seasonality. …”
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Measurement of Degree of Compaction of Fine-Grained Soil Subgrade Using Light Dynamic Penetrometer by Junhui Zhang, Yongsheng Yao, Jianlong Zheng, Xiangqun Huang, Tian Lan

“…Then, a prediction equation of the penetration ratio (PR) defined as the depth per drop of the hammer of LDP, degree of compaction (K), and water content (ω) was built. …”
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A Case of Severe Hydroxychloroquine-Induced Retinal Toxicity in a Patient with Recent Onset of Renal Impairment: A Review of the Literature on the Use of Hydroxychloroquine in Rena... by Rajen Tailor, Ibrahim Elaraoud, Peter Good, Monique Hope-Ross, Robert A. H. Scott

“…Our patient developed severe retinal toxicity despite being on the recommended daily dose (400 mg per day). Although retinal toxicity at this dose has been documented, the development of renal impairment without dose adjustment or close monitoring of visual function is likely to have potentiated retinal toxicity. …”
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The proline-rich antimicrobial peptide Api137 disrupts large ribosomal subunit assembly and induces misfolding by Simon Malte Lauer, Jakob Gasse, Andor Krizsan, Maren Reepmeyer, Thiemo Sprink, Rainer Nikolay, Christian M. T. Spahn, Ralf Hoffmann

“…This study investigates the additional effect of Api137 on the assembly of ribosomes using an Escherichia coli reporter strain expressing one ribosomal protein per 30S and 50S subunit tagged with mCherry and EGFP, respectively. …”
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Increasing the Red Fraction in Light-emitting Diode Supplemental Light Enhances Yield Without Affecting the Quality of Greenhouse-grown Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) by Annalisa Somma, Ying Liu, Lorenzo B.A. Nielen, Sebastian Olchowski, Ep Heuvelink, Leo F.M. Marcelis

“…The results indicated that a high red fraction in supplemental LED light enhances lettuce yield, light use and energy efficiency, and yield per kWh while preserving quality.…”
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A simple model of HIV epidemic in Italy: The role of the antiretroviral treatment by Federico Papa, Francesca Binda, Giovanni Felici, Marco Franzetti, Alberto Gandolfi, Carmela Sinisgalli, Claudia Balotta

“…A further compartment is added to represent infected people under antiretroviral therapy. The per capita exit rate from treatment, due to voluntary interruption or failure of therapy, is assumed variable with time. …”
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Valorization of Biomass Through Anaerobic Digestion and Hydrothermal Carbonization: Integrated Process Flowsheet and Supply Chain Network Optimization by Sanja Potrč, Aleksandra Petrovič, Jafaru M. Egieya, Lidija Čuček

“…The results show a great potential for the utilization of organic biomass with an annual after tax profit of 23.13 million USD per year, with the production of 245.70 GWh/yr of electricity, 298.83 GWh/yr of heat, and 185.08 kt/yr of hydrochar. …”
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The Properties of Red Blood Cells from Patients Heterozygous for HbS and HbC (HbSC Genotype) by A. Hannemann, E. Weiss, D. C. Rees, S. Dalibalta, J. C. Ellory, J. S. Gibson

“…Patients heterozygous for HbS and HbC (HbSC) constitute about a third of SCD cases, making this the second most common form of SCD, with approximately 80,000 births per year worldwide. Disease in these patients shows differences from that in homozygous HbSS individuals. …”
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The Epidemiology of Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacteria: Data from a General Hospital in Athens, Greece, 2007–2013 by Marios Panagiotou, Andriana I. Papaioannou, Konstantinos Kostikas, Maria Paraskeua, Ekaterini Velentza, Maria Kanellopoulou, Vasiliki Filaditaki, Napoleon Karagiannidis

“…The incidence of pulmonary NTM infection and disease was 18.9 and 8.8 per 100.000 inpatients and outpatients, respectively. …”
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Potential of Cyanobacteria as biological agents to improve sweet corn (Zea mays saccharate) germination and growth by Sulistyowati Dwiwanti, Hartono Rudi, Tasrif Arifin, Purwani Jati, Wati Cheppy, Kasno Antonius

“…Surface-sterilized corn seeds (20 per treatment) were placed in sterile Petri dishes lined with sterile rice paper and cotton fibre. …”
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