Emergence of Non-Serotype b Encapsulated Haemophilus influenzae as a Cause of Pediatric Meningitis in Northwestern Ontario by Pouya Sadeghi-Aval, Raymond SW Tsang, Frances B Jamieson, Marina Ulanova

“…At that time, no cases of pediatric meningitis caused by H influenzae were recorded in the region. Continued surveillance identified 12 new cases of invasive non-Hib between January 2009 and July 2011. …”
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Modeling and prediction of HIV in China: transmission rates structured by infection ages by Yicang Zhou, Yiming Shao, Yuhua Ruan, Jianqing Xu, Zhien Ma, Changlin Mei, Jianhong Wu

“…Despite the large variation in this statistical data attributable to theknowledge of HIV, surveillance efforts, and uncertain events, and although thereported data counts individuals who might have been infected many yearsago, our analysis shows that the model structured on infection age can assistus in extracting from this data set very useful information about transmissiontrends and about effectiveness of various control measures.…”
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Integrated Pest Management for Mosquito Reduction around Homes and Neighborhoods by C. Roxanne Rutledge Connelly, Elizabeth Bolles, D. Culbert, James DeValerio, Michael Donahoe, K. Gabel, R. Jordi, J. McLaughlin, Anita Neal, Sally Scalera, E. Toro, Joseph Walter

“…Modern mosquito control emphasizes source reduction to eliminate areas where mosquitoes thrive; surveillance to determine whether pesticide applications are necessary; screening; sanitation; and other techniques described in this document. …”
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Studying Impacts of Urban Impermeability on Fear of Crime Using the Space Syntax Method; The Kuruçeşme Neighborhood as the Case Study by Meysam Soleimani, Maryam Golabi

“…The former suffers from a lack of “natural surveillance” and physical disorders, while the latter engenders extreme “territoriality”, resulting in social incivilities. …”
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The Natural History and Outcomes of the Patients with Carcinosarcoma Involving Kidney and Renal Pelvis by Jue Wang, Fen Wei Wang, Anne Kessinger

“…Forty-three patients with CSKP, diagnosed between January 1973 and December 2007, were identified from the national Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database and reviewed. …”
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Clinical Accuracy of Instrument-Read SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Rapid Diagnostic Tests (Ag-IRRDTs) by Ali Umit Keskin, Pinar Ciragil, Aynur Eren Topkaya

“…Pooled sensitivity and specificity of SARS-CoV-2 Ag-IRRDTs did not demonstrate a significant superiority over SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen tests which do not require a reader instrument, even in the case where surveillance and screening datasets were excluded from the analysis. …”
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Epigenetic Alterations in Bladder Cancer and Their Potential Clinical Implications by Han Han, Erika M. Wolff, Gangning Liang

“…Since certain epigenetic alterations precede histopathological changes, they can serve as excellent markers for the development of diagnostic, prognostic, and surveillance tools. In addition, their dynamic nature and reversibility with pharmacological interventions open new and exciting avenues for therapies. …”
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Integrated Pest Management for Mosquito Reduction around Homes and Neighborhoods by C. Roxanne Rutledge Connelly, Elizabeth Bolles, D. Culbert, James DeValerio, Michael Donahoe, K. Gabel, R. Jordi, J. McLaughlin, Anita Neal, Sally Scalera, E. Toro, Joseph Walter

“…Modern mosquito control emphasizes source reduction to eliminate areas where mosquitoes thrive; surveillance to determine whether pesticide applications are necessary; screening; sanitation; and other techniques described in this document. …”
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Costa cantábrica (Santillana del Mar, España) (2019) by Alberto Cabrerizo

“…Human activity has resulted in buildings either on the upper clear part for observation and surveillance, or protected by the direction and power of the strata, a space for shelter and religious activity. …”
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Gastric Pouch Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour Post-Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass: A First Reported Case by Wissam Dib, Melissa Kyriakos Saad, Georges El Hachem, Bassim Sawan, Elias Saikaly

“…From here, combining the observations of clinicians treating and following up patients post-bariatric surgery in an international database will be beneficial to patients, and aid in development of surveillance guidelines.…”
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Service Time-Based Region Division in OVSF-Based Wireless Networks with Adaptive LTE-M Network for Machine to Machine Communications by Vipin Balyan, Davinder S. Saini, Bhasker Gupta

“…The IoT applications are usually short-lived applications like smart sensing, surveillance systems for home or businesses, and data uploading applications like metering. …”
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Optimal Adaptive Antijamming in Wireless Sensor Networks by Yanmin Zhu, Xiangpeng Li, Bo Li

“…Wireless sensor networks have been widely applied to various application domains such as environmental monitoring and surveillance. Because of reliance on the open transmission media, a sensor network may suffer from radio jamming attacks, which are easy to launch but difficult to defend. …”
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COVID-19: An Update on the Latest Therapeutic Agents by Ke-Yan Loo, Loh Teng-Hern Tan, Jodi Woan-Fei Law, Kar-Wai Hong, Kok-Gan Chan, Vengadesh Letchumanan

“…Nevertheless, continuous surveillance is imperative in ensuring that these treatment methods maintain efficacy and safety profiles in treating COVID-19 caused by different variants of the virus. …”
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Improving person re-identification based on two-stage training of convolutional neural networks and augmentation by S. A. Ihnatsyeva, R. P. Bohush

“…The main goal is to improve person re-identification accuracy in distributed video surveillance systems.Methods. Machine learning methods are applied.Result. …”
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Prosthetic Aortic Valve Stenosis in End-Stage Renal Failure by Michael Mao, Mirelle El Ters, Sunil Mankad, Mira Keddis, Soon Park, Qi Qian

“…More frequent clinical followup and surveillance echocardiogram for dialysis patients with bioprosthetic aortic valve may facilitate timely management of valvular stenosis.…”
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Online multi‐object tracking based on time and frequency domain features by Mahbubeh Nazarloo, Meisam Yadollahzadeh‐Tabari, Homayun Motameni

“…Its application can be found in video motion analysis, smart interfaces, and visual surveillance. It is a challenging issue due to difficulties made by a variable number of objects and interaction between them. …”
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Global Fluoroquinolone Resistance Epidemiology and Implictions for Clinical Use by Axel Dalhoff

“…This paper on the fluoroquinolone resistance epidemiology stratifies the data according to the different prescription patterns by either primary or tertiary caregivers and by indication. Global surveillance studies demonstrate that fluoroquinolone resistance rates increased in the past years in almost all bacterial species except S. pneumoniae and H. influenzae, causing community-acquired respiratory tract infections. …”
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Physical Activity among Veterans and Nonveterans with Diabetes by Erin D. Bouldin, Gayle E. Reiber

“…Data from the 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System were used in this study. Respondents were classified as having diabetes if they reported ever being diagnosed with diabetes except during pregnancy. …”
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Infectious disease phylodynamics with occurrence data by Leo A. Featherstone, Francesca Di Giallonardo, Edward C. Holmes, Timothy G. Vaughan, Sebastián Duchêne

“…With the increasing genomic surveillance of pathogens, especially during the SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic, new practical questions about their use are emerging. …”
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“It’s about finding and knowing myself”: Why Johannesburg-based South African Millennials consume self-help media by Simphiwe Emmanuel Rens

“…The article presents evidence to demonstrate that self-help media texts are consumed by the interviewees to gratify a psychosocial need for self-knowledge where they engage self-help media texts as surveillance mediums on which they rely to better “find” and “know” themselves in relation to others, as far as socially “acceptable” interpersonal behaviour is concerned. …”
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