Between-and within-socioeconomic groups temporal inequality in the uptake of malaria prevention strategies among pregnant women and under-five children in Ghana (2003–2022) by Denis Okova, Akim Tafadzwa Lukwa, Marian Edusei, Paidamoyo Bodzo, Christian Atta-Obeng, Plaxcedes Chiwire, Charles Hongoro

“…Despite over two decades of efforts including insecticide-treated net (ITN) distribution and intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp), universal and equitable coverage has not been achieved. In Ghana, coverage disparities persist, particularly along socioeconomic and geographic lines. …”
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A Digital Archival Lens on the First Saudi State: Uncovering Its Representation in English Newspapers by Maha Ali Alkhashil, Samia Boubaker Ghazouani, Nouf Rezeg Al-Rodhan

“…While most historical research on the FSS has analyzed travelogs and diplomatic reports, this study highlights newspapers as a contemporaneous and underexplored source. …”
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Health System Efficiency in Iran and Its Influencing Factors by Habib Ansari Samani, Malek Khabbazi Khanaghah

“…Regression estimates using the Tobit method indicated that the coverage of social insurance and the private sector share of healthcare costs have a positive effect on efficiency, while per capita production has a negative effect on the health system efficiency. …”
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Enrolee’s Knowledge and Satisfaction with State Health Insurance Scheme among Public School Teachers in Shomolu Local Government Area, Lagos State by Ezekiel Oridota Olufela, Oluwatosin Hannah Adepoju, Anirejuoritse Alero Chima-Oduko, Adaeze Elfrida Egwudo, Kalanne Ada Alexander, Rita Arodovwe Agunlanna

“…Background: To bridge the coverage gap of health insurance and the delay in achieving universal health coverage, the State Health Insurance Scheme (SHIS) was established to ensure access to affordable health care for all. …”
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On Performance of Two-Parameter Gompertz-Based X¯ Control Charts by Johnson A. Adewara, Kayode S. Adekeye, Olubisi L. Aako

“…It was found that the Gompertz exact method where the control limits are calculated through the percentiles of the underline distribution has the highest coverage probability, while the Gompertz Shewhart approach and Gompertz skewness correction method have the least CLI and ARL. …”
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Selecting the Strategic Port of “the Belt and Road” Based on the Global Network by Zihui Yang, Qingchun Meng, Chanjuan Li

“…Under “the Belt and Road” initiative, China promoted cooperation between domestic enterprises and international ports vigorously, which brought back fruitful results, while the rational selection of strategic pivots ports and the optimization of the layout of the port network are important guarantees to a further promotion to the economic development of “the Belt and Road” ports and give full play to the driving and radiation role of strategic pivots ports. …”
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Constructing the 'Foreign': Stereotypes in Western Reporting on China and India. A Content Analysis of German and U.S. Newspapers by Gianna Albrecht, Judith Gayler, Marla Hanenberg, Steven Hermanutz, Susanne Ködel

“…Both countries used political stereotypes to a similar extent, with economic stereotypes being the second most common in coverage of China, while stereotypes about the population dominated the articles on India.…”
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Non-orthogonal multiple access wireless energy harvesting cooperative system by Xiaoping JIN, Qing WU, Wenchao ZHAI, Jianrong BAO

“…Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has recently attracted wide attention as a promising multiple access technology adopted in 5G cellular networks.In order to improve the spectrum efficiency, coverage and anti-noise performance of NOMA technology, while reduce the energy consumption of the system, a simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) cooperative network uplink NOMA transmission system based on orthogonal index modulation multiple access (IMMA) technology was designed, hereafter was denoted as QIMMA-SWIPT.Specifically, the QIMMA system was formed by multiple remote users, and it improved the spectrum efficiency and anti-noise performance as well as expanded the communication coverage and reduced the energy consumption of the system by decoding and forwarding relay cooperative transmission with SWIPT technology.The theoretical upper bound of the average bit error rate of QIMMA-SWIPT was derived.Simulation and analysis demonstrate that, under the same spectrum efficiency, the bit error rate performance of the cooperative QIMMA-SWIPT system is better than that of the cooperative IMMA-SWIPT and SCMA-SWIPT systems.In addition, the effects of power cut factor and source-to-relay distance on bit error performance were also deeply analyzed.…”
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Non-orthogonal multiple access wireless energy harvesting cooperative system by Xiaoping JIN, Qing WU, Wenchao ZHAI, Jianrong BAO

“…Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has recently attracted wide attention as a promising multiple access technology adopted in 5G cellular networks.In order to improve the spectrum efficiency, coverage and anti-noise performance of NOMA technology, while reduce the energy consumption of the system, a simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) cooperative network uplink NOMA transmission system based on orthogonal index modulation multiple access (IMMA) technology was designed, hereafter was denoted as QIMMA-SWIPT.Specifically, the QIMMA system was formed by multiple remote users, and it improved the spectrum efficiency and anti-noise performance as well as expanded the communication coverage and reduced the energy consumption of the system by decoding and forwarding relay cooperative transmission with SWIPT technology.The theoretical upper bound of the average bit error rate of QIMMA-SWIPT was derived.Simulation and analysis demonstrate that, under the same spectrum efficiency, the bit error rate performance of the cooperative QIMMA-SWIPT system is better than that of the cooperative IMMA-SWIPT and SCMA-SWIPT systems.In addition, the effects of power cut factor and source-to-relay distance on bit error performance were also deeply analyzed.…”
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Comparison of the Contributions of CAPLUS and MEDLINE to the Performance of SciFinder in Retrieving the Drug Literature. by Svetla Baykoucheva

“…Test searches in which the names of two individual drugs (lisinopril and lovastatin) and a group of drugs (SSRI antidepressants) were used as keywords retrieved document sets that were analyzed for total and annual literature output, document types, journal coverage, and language of publication. While the total literature output from CAPLUS was larger than the output from MEDLINE (which was attributed to the presence of patents), MEDLINE performed significantly better than CAPLUS in retrieving the non-patent literature. …”
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Televisual Inequalities and Gender Dynamics in German News: Health Experts During the Covid-19 Crisis by Juliane Wegner

“…Despite women’s strong presence in healthcare professions, men overwhelmingly dominated medical and political discussions during this period, while women were more frequently shown in supportive or emotional roles. …”
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(De)valuing Intern Labour: Journalism Internship Pay Rates and Collective Representation in Canada by Errol Salamon

“… Unpaid journalism internships have attracted increasing media coverage, but they have received limited scholarly attention. …”
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The advantages of lexicon-based sentiment analysis in an age of machine learning. by A Maurits van der Veen, Erik Bleich

“…In addition, we illustrate the value of identifying fine-grained sentiment levels by showing, in an analysis of pre- and post-9/11 British press coverage of Muslims, that binarized valence metrics give rise to different (and erroneous) conclusions about the nature of the post-9/11 shock as well as about differences between broadsheet and tabloid coverage. …”
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Hydrogen spillover on Ni, Pd and Pt doped ZnO ultra-thin films: A density functional theory study by Ho Viet Thang

“…The calculated results show that the Ni, Pd, and Pt-doped ZnO ultra-thin films can alter the electronic properties of the undoped material from insulating to metallic characteristics. While hydrogen spillover cannot occur on undoped ZnO films, it can proceed with 50% coverage of H atoms on Pd-doped ZnO films and 100% hydrogen coverage on Ni- and Pt-doped ZnO films. …”
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Dynamics of vegetation and its responses to terrain factors with Mann-Kendall approach: a case study in Tiaoxi watershed, Taihu Lake by JIANG Zhen-lan, JING Chang-wei, LI Dan, YU Xiang, WU Jia-ping

“…The results indicated that the annual vegetation in the area fluctuated dramatically and showed a moderate trend of increase from 2000 to 2010, but in 2004, the coverage dropped to the lowest level; The variability of spatial distribution also showed a moderate trend of increase during the study period, with the spatial heterogeneity reaching the highest between 2002 and 2004; the vegetation coverage kept increasing while the spatial heterogeneity decreased with the increment of elevation and slope. …”
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Hydrogen spillover on Ni, Pd and Pt doped ZnO ultra-thin films: A density functional theory study by Ho Viet Thang

“…The calculated results show that the Ni, Pd, and Pt-doped ZnO ultra-thin films can alter the electronic properties of the undoped material from insulating to metallic characteristics. While hydrogen spillover cannot occur on undoped ZnO films, it can proceed with 50% coverage of H atoms on Pd-doped ZnO films and 100% hydrogen coverage on Ni- and Pt-doped ZnO films. …”
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Pneumococcal vaccination in older adults: A useful, but underused weapon by Filipić Brankica

“…PCVs differ from PPSV23 as capsular polysaccharides are conjugated with a carrier protein, while PPSV23 contains 23 purified capsular polysaccharides. …”
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A comparison of DNA methylation detection between HiFi sequencing and whole genome bisulfite sequencing in monozygotic twins with Down syndrome. by Kanyanee Promsawan, Chalurmpon Srichomthong, Monnat Pongpanich, Vorasuk Shotelersuk

“…HiFi WGS detected a greater number of mCs-particularly in repetitive elements and regions with low WGBS coverage-while WGBS reported higher average methylation levels than HiFi WGS. …”
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A research on spatial configuration characteristics and social performance evaluation of public sports facilities in shanghai based on geographic information system (GIS). by Haonan Li, Lun Li, Yuan Li, Qing Ji, Jianbo Zhao, Zixi Ge, Qi Zhou, Quan Sun

“…Central urban areas possess a high density of facilities, while suburban areas suffer from inadequate facility coverage, leading to uneven service radii and a pattern of high agglomeration but low coverage. 3) The social equity analysis shows that the service capacity entropy of public sports facilities exhibits a distinct spatial distribution, characterized by high values in the east and west and low values in the center. …”
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Contributions of a community health worker program in improving district health system performance in South Africa, using routine health service variables in a quasi-experimental s... by Leena Susan Thomas, Joyce Jordaan, Yogan Pillay, Eric Buch

“…Over nine years, intervention clinics showed more improved performance, statistically significant, in six health variables while controls improved in four. But importantly, intervention clinics improved proportionately better pre to post in seven of the nine (78%) variables studied compared to controls, demonstrating reduced diarrhoeal disease and pneumonia in children, better Vitamin A coverage, fewer severely malnourished children, better testing for HIV, and better screening for Tuberculosis and cervical cancer. …”
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