Treatment completion of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Ethiopia: A perspective from healthcare users. by Ahmed Reshid Tusho, Sheila Theresa Mokoboto-Zwane

“…Addressing these factors demands policy-level decisions and programmatic guidance at the national level based on best practices, as well as good programmatic implementation from actors through regional and health facility-level structures.…”
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Body image of men and women with congenital heart disease over a 15 years observational period by Siegfried Geyer, Claudia Dellas, Elmar Brähler, Johannes Beller

“…The control group consisted of the same number of cases matched by age, gender and education drawn from a national survey designed to examine body image in the general population. …”
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Cognitive profile in mild cognitive impairment with Lewy bodies by Shuai Liu, Chunyan Liu, Xiao-Dan Wang, Huiru Lu, Yong Ji

“…As for memory, ‘velvet’ and ‘church’ in MoCA and ‘ball’ and ‘national flag’ in MMSE had lower scores in MCI-AD than in MCI-LB. …”
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Addressing Healthcare Access Inequalities in South Africa: Evaluating Legislative and Human Rights Obligations and Proposing Strategies for Improvement by Mlondolozi Mvikweni

“…A comprehensive review of legislative documents, including the National Health Act, the Promotion of Access to Information Act, and the Protection of Personal Information Act, was conducted to assess their impact on healthcare access. …”
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Analysis of new varieties adoption behavior of Chinese turbot farmer based on the perspective of heterogeneity by Qilei Ding, Zhengyong Yang, Renjie Xu, Yifei Chen

“…China is the largest turbot farming in the world, where germplasm source security is closely related to national security. To further promote the sustainable development of the turbot aquaculture industry, the China Marine Fish Industry Technology System team has developed a new variety of fast-growing turbot (hereinafter referred to as new varieties) in 2012. …”
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Anticipating climate change-related mobility in Karachi and Ho Chi Minh City: lessons from a hybrid foresight approach by Aaron Martin, Boukje Kistemaker, Beth Allen, Bryan Jones

“…In response to these gaps, the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Predictive Analytics, Human Mobility, and Urbanization Project employed a hybrid approach that combined predictive analytics with participatory foresight to explore climate change-related mobility in Pakistan and Viet Nam from 2020 to 2050. …”
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Addressing the Rural and Underserved Healthcare Workforce Needs: Residency Specialty Selection and Workforce Outcomes of the WWAMI AHEC Scholars Program by Kenya Morales-Luna, Stacey Morrison, Toby Keys

“…The Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Scholars program, funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), is a national effort to address these persistent healthcare shortages through a health professional student certificate program. …”
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A patrimonialização da memória social: uma forma de domesticação política das memórias dissidentes ou indígenas? by Alejandra Aguilar Pinto

“…The definition of history and memory (Popular memory group, 1982) has played a key-role during the construction of national identities and political domination, through the imposition of specific and partial versions as universal and shared ones, and through the occlusion, exclusion and silencing of the meanings of the past for subaltern groups. …”
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Evaluating the Effect of Monetary Incentives on Web Survey Response Rates in the UK Millennium Cohort Study by Charlotte Booth, Erica Wong, Matt Brown, Emla Fitzsimons

“…The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) is the largest on-going nationally representative study of young people in the UK (N = 18,818). …”
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“Arming half-baked people with weapons!” Information enclaving among professionals and the need for a care-centred model for antibiotic use information in Uganda, Tanzania and Mala... by Susan Nayiga, Eleanor E MacPherson, John Mankhomwa, Fortunata Nasuwa, Raymond Pongolani, Rita Kabuleta, Mike Kesby, Russell Dacombe, Shona Hilton, Delia Grace, Nicholas Feasey, Clare I.R. Chandler

“…Results Participants reported that the general public had been provided information on medicine use in all three countries by national drug authorities, health care providers and in package inserts. …”
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Islamic Movement In Malaysia: History And Tradition by Ahmad Nabil Amir, Tasnim Abdul Rahman

“…This was developed from two underlying bases; the ideal of reform and Islamic vision that was meant to awaken national consciousness and revitalised aspiration of pan-Islamism envisioned under the formidable authority of the Ottoman Caliphate. …”
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Personality and education: associations between personality dimensions, academic field of study, and performance in upper secondary school and higher education by Mikkel M. Thørrisen, Talieh Sadeghi

“…In this cross-sectional retrospective study, data on Big Five personality dimensions, students’ chosen academic field of study, and their academic performance (average grades) were collected from 4409 master’s graduates in Norway by means of a national survey. Data were collected in 2019, approximately three years after participants had graduated. …”
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Shedding light on development: Leveraging the new nightlights data to measure economic progress. by Prachi Jhamb, Susana Ferreira, Patrick Stephens, Mekala Sundaram, Jonathan Wilson

“…Specifically, we analyze the accuracy of the new NTL data in predicting socio-economic outcomes obtained from two sources: 1) nationally representative surveys, i.e., the household Wealth Index published by Demographic and Health Surveys, and 2) indicators derived from administrative records such as the gridded Human Development Index and Gross Domestic Product per capita. …”
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Futures thinking becomes a priority for all globalized societies by Roland Benedikter

“…This text presents the most central buzz words, framings, concepts and overall style prevalent in contemporary global future fora and initiatives, taking them as symptomatic for an ongoing renaissance of approaches towards “futuring” in the advanced forms of “futures staging”, “futures casting” and “futures design” which, if this trend continues, could eventually lead to a more stable, post-conventional and wide-spread trans-national implementation of the discipline of “critical futures studies” in academia, policy and practice.…”
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KEY MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF GOVERNMENT DEBT – THE CASE OF NORTH MACEDONIA by Filip Taskovski

“…This research paper is based on secondary data from relevant sources such as the Ministry of Finance and the National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia, the State Statistics Office and the IMF.  …”
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Yoruba Culture in a Changing World by Arinpe G. Adejumo

“…In other word, human activities in Yorùbá culture should be tailored in positive direction to enhance national and social-economic development. Hence, the revitalization, documentation and preservation of culture should be of interest to the government and policy makers. …”
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Dansk Kan Kan tosprogede elever være ordblinde? by Hatice Filikci

“…from 2009, I apply this methodological strategy to analyse national policies on dyslexia and bilingual students as represented on the Danish Ministry of Children and Education's digital platform emu.dk. …”
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DIGITALIZED ACCOUNTING PRACTICES AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF MDAs IN NIGERIA: MODERATING EFFECT OF INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY by Abdulrahman KADIR, Mubaraq Sanni

“…It recommends among others that the National Assembly develops comprehensive regulatory frameworks that support digital innovations and provides standards for their implementation, including guidelines for integrating digital accounting systems into existing processes to ensure consistency and reliability. …”
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Age of detection of congenital hearing loss in South Africa: A systematic review by Mukovhe Phanguphangu, Khomotjo Kgare, Andrew J. Ross

“…Conclusion: These findings show that congenital or early-onset HL in SA is identified later than the national and international standards, that is, 1 month of age. …”
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Health profile assessment of school children of Jodhpur District of Rajasthan by Shazia Shafi, Pankaja Raghav, K H Naveen, Yachana Chowdhary, Ashish Pundhir

“…Background: The health and nutritional status of young children is an index of national investment within the development of its future manpower. …”
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