Hospitals early challenges and interventions combatting COVID-19 in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. by Hamid Ravaghi, Vanessa Naidoo, Awad Mataria, Merette Khalil

“…In the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR), more than half of countries are affected by emergencies, hospitals face complex challenges as they respond to humanitarian crises, maintain essential services, and fight the pandemic. While hospitals in the EMR have adapted to combat COVID-19, evidence-based and context-specific recommendations are needed to guide policymakers and hospital managers on best practices to strengthen hospitals' readiness, limit the impact of the pandemic, and create lasting hospital sector improvements towards recovery and resilience.…”
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Spatial Hydrographs of River Flow and Their Analysis for Peak Event Detection in the Context of Satellite Sampling by Arnaud Cerbelaud, Cédric H. David, Sylvain Biancamaria, Jeffrey Wade, Manu Tom, Renato Prata de Moraes Frasson, George H. Allen, Hana Thurman, Denis Blumstein

“…We propose the use of peak event spatial coverage, referred to as “length”, as an analog to event duration. …”
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Historical Land Cover Dynamics and Projected Changes in the High Andean Zone of the Locumba Basin: A Predictive Approach Using Remote Sensing and Artificial Neural Network—Cellular... by German Huayna, Victor Pocco, Edwin Pino-Vargas, Pablo Franco-León, Jorge Espinoza-Molina, Fredy Cabrera-Olivera, Bertha Vera-Barrios, Karina Acosta-Caipa, Lía Ramos-Fernández, Eusebio Ingol-Blanco

“…The results reveal a significant reduction in glaciers and lagoons throughout the Locumba basin, with notable declines from 1984 to 2023, while vegetated areas, particularly grasslands and wetlands, experienced substantial expansion. …”
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Assessment of prostate cancer radiotherapy using three-dimensional treatment planning technique by Fatima Jassim Mohammad Hassan, Haydar Hamza Obaid Alabedi

“…For bladder, a significant difference observed between the energies for 5 beams on phase one and three (p-value=<0.00001*, 0.002*), while at 7 beams only phase 3 were significant (p-value=0.041*) Conclusion: The three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy plan with 10MV energy and a higher number of beams gave a higher coverage of dose for prostate tumours and was found to be a safe dose for the rectum and bladder. …”
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THE ROLE OF PRENATAL CLASSES IN EXCLUSIVE BREASTFEEDING: EVIDENCE FROM PAPUA, INDONESIA by Leny Latifah, Agung Dwi Laksono, Rachmalina Soerachman, Donny Kristanto Mulyantoro, Marizka Khairunnisa, Hastin Dyah Kusumawardani, Taufiq Hidayat, Samarang, Muhamad Arif Musoddaq

“…Prenatal classes were an exposure variable, while EBF practice served as an outcome variable. …”
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The effect of the implementation of the health transformation plan on the health indicators of pregnant mothers in East Azerbaijan province, Iran: a longitudinal study from 2007 to... by Hossein Jabbari Beirami, Parisa Yoshari, Davood Gharekhani, Elahe Ghorbani, Rahim Khodayari-Zarnaq

“…Examination of the insurance status of pregnant mothers showed that before the reform, 6.4% of rural residents were uninsured, while after the reform, all of them were covered. …”
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Comprehensive evaluation of 5-imino-1,2,4-dithiazolidine-3-thione as a corrosion inhibitor for mild steel in hydrochloric acid solution by Ahmed A. Alamiery

“…The corrosion current density (icorr) decreased from 9.9 to 2.7 µA·cm−2 at 303 K, while polarization resistance (Rp) increased from 50.3 Ω (blank) to 149.2 Ω at 0.5 mM, indicating enhanced surface protection. …”
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Trends and inequalities in women’s use of quality antenatal care, intrapartum care, and immediate postnatal care services in Ethiopia: multivariate decomposition, secondary data an... by David Sibbritt, Angela Dawson, Melese Girmaye Negero

“…Universal coverage of quality maternal and newborn healthcare across the continuum is needed. …”
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Organized colorectal cancer screening in Serbia - the first round within 2013-2014 by Banković-Lazarević Dušica, Krivokapić Zoran, Barišić Goran, Jovanović Verica, Ilić Dragan, Veljković Marko

“…It was expected that in the forthcoming rounds even higher coverage of the target population would be accomplished. …”
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Global strategies and local implementation of health and health-related SDGs: lessons from consultation in countries across five regions by Sameen Siddiqi, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Sara Causevic, Peter Friberg, Luis Huicho, Roman Mogilevskii, Fahad Javaid Siddiqui, Johanna Lindgren-Garcia, Anil Khamis, Mashal Murad Shah

“…On the other hand, there has been limited involvement of civic society representatives and academia, relatively few capacity development initiatives were in place, a well-crafted communication strategy was missing, and there is limited evidence of additional domestic financing for implementing HHSDGs. While the momentum towards universal health coverage is notable, explicit linkages with non-health SDGs and integrated multisectoral implementation strategies are lacking. …”
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Water Body Detection Using Sentinel-2 Imagery Through Particle Swarm Intelligence: A Novel Framework for Optimizing Spectral Multi-Band Index by Baydaa Ismail Abrahim, Ammar Abd Jasim, Mohammed Riyadh Mahmood, Hassanein Riyadh Mahmood, Hayder A. Alalwan, Malik M. Mohammed

“…The results indicate that the PSO-SMBWI has the highest accuracy, which exactly coincides with the ground truth of water coverage (12.12%), while the NDWI, MNDWI, and AWEI have deviations of +1.24%, +0.53%, and +12.15%, respectively. …”
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Snow observation from space: An approach to improving snow cover detection using four decades of Landsat and Sentinel-2 imageries across Switzerland by Charlotte Poussin, Pascal Peduzzi, Gregory Giuliani

“…The results indicate that the filtering techniques are efficient in reducing cloud cover by half while still leaving an average of less than 30% of cloud cover. …”
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Optimization of OPM-MEG Layouts with a Limited Number of Sensors by Urban Marhl, Rok Hren, Tilmann Sander, Vojko Jazbinšek

“…We applied a sequential selection algorithm (SSA), originally developed for body surface potential mapping in electrocardiography, which requires a large database of full-head MFMs. While modern OPM-MEG systems offer full-head coverage, expected future clinical use will benefit from simplified procedures, where handling a lower number of sensors is easier and more efficient. …”
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Surgical treatment of posttraumatic spinal cord tethering and syringomyelia: a retrospective cohort investigation of cost, reimbursement, and financial sustainability by Phillip Jaszczuk, Denis Bratelj, Crescenzo Capone, Susanne Stalder, Marcel Rudnick, Rajeev K. Verma, Tobias Pötzel, Michael Fiechter

“…Results The mean duration of surgeries was 251.0 ± 93.5 min while 2.8 ± 1.4 vertebral segments were treated by spinal cord untethering. …”
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Performance analysis of municipal solid waste management using technical indicators by Deval Jugraj Singh, Anil Kumar Dikshit, Mohan B. Dangi, George Tchobanoglous, Sunil Kumar

“…TIs for SCM frequency (twice per day) and coverage (93 %) showed higher resource allocation in high-litter-prone areas, while less populated outskirts received limited attention and resources for daily cleaning. …”
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Estimation of Groundwater Temperatures in Paris, France by Hannes Hemmerle, Sina Hale, Ingo Dressel, Susanne A. Benz, Guillaume Attard, Philipp Blum, Peter Bayer

“…To achieve this, we combine land surface temperatures with anthropogenic and natural processes, such as downward heat transfer from buildings, insulation through snow coverage, and latent heat flux in the form of evapotranspiration. …”
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Aligning Evapotranspiration from MOD16A2.061 Product to Ground Estimates in Piemonte (NW Italy): an analysis of temporal and spatial biases by E. Ronco, E. C. Borgogno Mondino

“…Evapotranspiration (ET), and in particular Reference Evapotranspiration (ET₀), is essential for agricultural planning, irrigation management, and water resource allocation&mdash;especially in regions facing water scarcity and limited observational data. While ground-based ET₀ is typically estimated using the FAO Penman-Monteith method, satellite-derived products such as MOD16 offer broader spatial coverage, although with conceptual and methodological differences. …”
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Salvaging the Digit in Invasive Subungual Malignancies Using a Triple Technique under Awake Local Anesthesia by Samer Abdel Al, Mohamad K. Abou Chaar, Ala’a Aldeen Alkhatib, Muhamad Al-Qawasmi, Mohammad Barham, Sameer Yaser, Samer Salah, Abed Al Raheem Suleiman, Wafa Asha

“…Ensuring complete resection with negative margins while preserving the functionality of the affected digit is considered to be the optimal challenge in treating “invasive” subungual malignancies. …”
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Trends and visualization analysis of research on MASLD-Related hepatocellular carcinoma: a bibliometric analysis by Hongkun Yin, Xusheng Zhang, Qi Wang

“…China (The People’s Republic of China) is the country with the highest volume of research output, while the United States is the country with the highest number of citations. …”
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Dietary Assessment of Plant Food Intake Using Multi-Biomarker Panels by Victor Schmalle, Julia Renz, Stephanie Seifert, Selina Busch, Benedikt Merz, Achim Bub, Manuela J. Rist

“…Three of these groups will receive a diet low, medium, and high in healthful plant foods, while the fourth group will receive a diet high in unhealthful plant foods. …”
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