Internal mammary node irradiation in early breast cancer – target coverage and implications on dose to organs at risk by Lovisa Berg, Jeanette Sporre, Elisabeth Kjellén, Sofie Ceberg, Elinore Wieslander, Sara Alkner

“…Dose to OAR, IMN coverage and pneumonitis incidence were investigated. …”
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Assessing Vaccination Coverage Among Healthcare Workers in Primary Healthcare Facility in Najran City, Saudi Arabia by Alqahtani NS

“…Vaccination compliance rates varied, with the highest rates observed for the third COVID-19 dose (86.3%), hepatitis B (81.2%), and influenza (78.3%), while the lowest rate was for Tdap during pregnancy (27.7%). …”
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Prevalence and determinants of child immunization coverage in Ethiopia: Evidence from the 2019 mini-demographic and health survey by Gebrecherkos Teame Gebrehiwot, Mulugeta Tilahun, Haftu Gebrehiwot, Hayelom Kahsay, Gebremicheal Gebregziabher, Senait Haddis, Mesfin Tesfay, Girmay Alemseged, Gebreselassie Alemseged, Mebrahtu Kalayu, Goitom Yisfa, Merhawi Alemu, Haileselassie Bisrat Bidre, Teshale Teklue

“…BCG had the highest coverage (34.42%), while measles-2 vaccination had the lowest (3.7%). …”
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Deep learning-based semantic segmentation for rice yield estimation by analyzing the dynamic change of panicle coverage by Hyeok-Jin Bak, Eun-Ji Kim, Ji-Hyeon Lee, Sungyul Chang, Dongwon Kwon, Woo-Jin Im, Woon-Ha Hwang, Jae-Ki Chang, Nam-Jin Chung, Wan-Gyu Sang

“…Time-series panicle coverage data, extracted from the segmented images, were fitted to a piecewise function to model their growth and decline dynamics. …”
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Coverage and distributional benefit–cost of rotavirus vaccine in Uganda: an analysis of routine health facility aggregated data by Rornald Muhumuza Kananura, Gatien de Broucker, Anthony Ssebagereka, Aloysius Mutebi, Elizabeth Ekirapa Kiracho, Bryan Patenaude

“…We also present ways in which health facility data can be used to assess subnational vaccination coverage as well as the effect of the vaccine on diarrhoea hospitalization. …”
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Economic losses due to low coverage of lipid-lowering therapy in patients with cardiovascular diseases in the Russian Federation by Yu. A. Balanova, A. V. Kontsevaya, A. E. Imaeva, O. I. Karpov, M. B. Khudyakov

“…The share of direct costs for hospitalizations is 86%, while in the presence of cerebrovascular diseases it is 76.8%. …”
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Inequalities in full immunization coverage among one-year-olds in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2007–2017 by Etienne Mwokozi Bwira, Théophane Kekemb Bukele, Paulin Beya Mutombo, John Kebela Kamwina, Dosithée Bebe Ngo

“…In 2017, for example, we recorded substantial economic (PAR = 18.1, 95% CI[ 16.3, 19.9]; PAF = 83.4, 95% CI[75.1, 91.8]), maternal education-based (PAR = 6.3, 95% CI[4.0, 8.7]; PAF = 29.1, 95% CI[18.3, 40.0]), place of residence-based (PAR = 6.7, 95% CI[5.7, 7.7]; PAF = 30.9, 95% CI[26.1, 35.7]), and regional (PAR = 20.9, 95% CI[15.2, 26.6]; PAF = 96.4, 95% CI[70.2, 122.6]) inequalities in full immunization coverage. Economic, urban‒rural, and regional relative inequalities followed a U-shaped trend, while absolute inequalities remained constant or decreased. …”
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The variation of coverage and access to palliative care for cancer patients in eight European countries: an exploratory vignette approach by Nathan Shuftan, Mark Dayan, Sarah Scobie, Bee Wee, Antoniya Dimova, Elka Atanasova, Liubove Murauskiene, Coralie Gandré, Zeynep Or, Gonçalo Figueiredo Augusto, Triin Habicht, Kristina Köhler, Kristiina Kahur, Bertil Axelsson, Madelon Kroneman, Judith de Jong, Anke de Veer, Wanda Bemelmans, Chantal Pereira, Ajay Aggarwal, Joanna Davies, Ewout van Ginneken, Dimitra Panteli

“…While responses showed countries have basic levels of coverage and access to services provided, there were variations, such as availability of specialists or the extent travel and waiting times influence care delivery. …”
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Tagging large CNV blocks in wheat boosts digitalization of germplasm resources by ultra-low-coverage sequencing by Jianxia Niu, Wenxi Wang, Zihao Wang, Zhe Chen, Xiaoyu Zhang, Zhen Qin, Lingfeng Miao, Zhengzhao Yang, Chaojie Xie, Mingming Xin, Huiru Peng, Yingyin Yao, Jie Liu, Zhongfu Ni, Qixin Sun, Weilong Guo

“…Abstract Background The massive structural variations and frequent introgression highly contribute to the genetic diversity of wheat, while the huge and complex genome of polyploid wheat hinders efficient genotyping of abundant varieties towards accurate identification, management, and exploitation of germplasm resources. …”
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Estimating Snow Coverage Percentage on Solar Panels Using Drone Imagery and Machine Learning for Enhanced Energy Efficiency by Ashraf Saleem, Ali Awad, Amna Mazen, Zoe Mazurkiewicz, Ana Dyreson

“…Compared to fixed-camera-based snow detection models, our approach leverages drone imagery to improve detection precision while offering greater scalability to be adopted for large solar farms. …”
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Framing The Iran-Israel Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of Al-Jazeera and BBC News Coverage in April 2024 by Syahirul Alim, Yusli Effendi, Agus Wahyudi

“… The Iran-Israel conflict in April 2024 attracted extensive global media coverage, with outlets like Al-Jazeera and BBC offering contrasting narratives. …”
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Influenza Vaccination Coverage Among Young U.S. Children: A Socioeconomic Analysis by Tawny Saleh, Mina Shirazi, Mary C. Cambou, Karin Nielsen-Saines

“…Influenza vaccination coverage declined significantly, from 56% in 2019 to 46% in 2022 (<i>p</i> < 0.001). …”
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Coverage, Throughput, and Energy Efficiency Enhancement in Beamspace Massive MIMO System Using Rate-Splitting and Orthogonal Precoding by David Alimo, Masanori Hamamura, Saifur Rahman Sabuj

“…In this paper, we propose the integration of rate-splitting multiple access and orthogonal random precoding into the downlink of beamspace massive multiple-input multiple-output system to support a larger number of portable user terminals than the number of available radio frequency blocks while minimizing both inter- and intra-beam interferences and extending the cell coverage percentage. …”
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Profile of Occupational Health Services in Iran: A Mixed-Methods Study with a Focus on Service Coverage and Interventions by Narmin Hassanzadeh-Rangi, Bayan Hosseini, Yeganeh Akhtari, Ehsan Farvaresh, Yahya Khosravi

“…Among the included workplaces, access to full health facilities was at 48%, while occupational exposure control was at 18%. For the covered workers, the coverage rates for occupational medical examinations, occupational health training, and utilization of personal protective equipment were 58%, 63%, and 66%, respectively. …”
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Media portrayals and social stigma surrounding COVID-19 survivors: a content analysis of Chinese media coverage by Weili Wang, Wenxuan Zhang

“…This study analyses Chinese media coverage to explore the ways in which COVID-19 survivors are portrayed and how these portrayals may contribute to the broader narrative of stigmatisation. …”
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Balancing Human Mobility and Health Care Coverage in Sentinel Surveillance of Brazilian Indigenous Areas: Mathematical Optimization Approach by Juliane Fonseca Oliveira, Adriano O Vasconcelos, Andrêza L Alencar, Maria Célia S L Cunha, Izabel Marcilio, Manoel Barral-Netto, Pablo Ivan P Ramos

“…The optimized sentinel site design, while keeping the same number of municipalities, ensures 100% coverage of all 34 DSEI regions while rearranging 108 (54.3%) of the 199 cities from the existing flu sentinel system. …”
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Vaccination Coverage and Attitudes in Children and Adults on Biologic Therapies: Cocooning Strategies, Undervaccination Factors and Predictors of Favorable Attitudes by Charikleia Kariniotaki, George Bertsias, Emmanouil Galanakis, Chrysoula Perdikogianni

“…Female gender (<i>p</i> < 0.007) and older age (by 1 year, <i>p</i> < 0.001) were associated with favorable attitudes and higher coverage in adults, while in pediatric patients, no statistically significant associations were found. …”
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Error-Tolerant and Energy-Efficient Coverage Control Based on Biological Attractor Selection Model in Wireless Sensor Networks by Takuya Iwai, Naoki Wakamiya, Masayuki Murata

“…A coverage problem is one of the important issues to prolong the lifetime of a wireless sensor network while guaranteeing that the target region is monitored by a sufficient number of active nodes. …”
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Fast and computationally efficient generative adversarial network algorithm for unmanned aerial vehicle–based network coverage optimization by Marek Ružička, Marcel Vološin, Juraj Gazda, Taras Maksymyuk, Longzhe Han, MisCha Dohler

“…Simulation results show that the proposed approach converges to the quasi-optimal solution with a negligible difference from the global optimum while maintaining a quadratic complexity regardless of the number of users.…”
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Robust UAV-Oriented Wireless Communications via Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning to Optimize User Coverage by Mahfizur Rahman Khan, Gowtham Raj Veeraswamy Premkumar, Bryan Van Scoy

“…In this study, we deploy drones as dynamic base stations to address the issue of optimizing user coverage in areas without fixed base station infrastructure. …”
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