Using Unmanned Aerial Systems Technology to Characterize the Dynamics of Small-Scale Maize Production Systems for Precision Agriculture by Andrew Manu, Joshua McDanel, Daniel Brummel, Vincent Kodjo Avornyo, Thomas Lawler

“…Significant variations in field conditions showed Yendi had 34% of its field as bare, Tilli had the highest weed coverage at 22%, and Sombolouna had the highest maize crop coverage at 73.9%. …”
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Prediction of Power System Ramping Demand Using Meteorological Features by Kuan Lu, Song Gao, Jun Li, Kang Chen, Chunhao Yu

“…Validation using 2024 and 2025 operational data from Shandong, China, indicates that the proposed model improves prediction accuracy by 18.4%, achieves a 92.5% interval coverage rate, and produces narrower prediction interval bandwidths under equivalent coverage rates.…”
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Health inequities in medical crowdfunding: a systematic review by Yingying Cai, Syafila Kamarudin, Xiaoyu Jiang, Baiyu Zhou

“…Abstract Background Medical crowdfunding has emerged as a popular strategy to offset healthcare expenses in contexts of limited insurance coverage. While often framed as a democratizing and accessible financial tool, growing evidence indicates that success is unevenly distributed, raising concerns about its role in exacerbating health inequities. …”
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Women’s preferences for testing to predict breast cancer risk – a discrete choice experiment by Yi Wang, Peh Joo Ho, Langming Mou, Jingmei Li

“…Among non-cost attributes, the potential to reduce late-stage breast cancer diagnosis was the most influential factor. Insurance coverage increased willingness to undergo testing. …”
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Parents' Negative Attitudes towards Childhood Immunization: What is the Basis and What Steps are Needed to Change them by L. V. Rubis, P. I. Gilina

“…Before make a decision to refuse vaccination, 36.9 ± 1.5% of parents consulted doctors, while 19.2 ± 0.9% of parents who refuse vaccination received negative information from doctors. …”
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Acceptability of test and treat with doxycycline against Onchocerciasis in an area of persistent transmission in Massangam Health District, Cameroon. by Rogers Nditanchou, Ruth Dixon, Kareen Atekem, Serge Akongo, Benjamin Biholong, Franklin Ayisi, Philippe Nwane, Aude Wilhelm, Sapana Basnet, Richard Selby, Samuel Wanji, Didier Bakajika, Joseph Oye, Joseph Kamgno, Daniel Boakye, Elena Schmidt, Laura Senyonjo

“…People moving away between testing and treatment impacted treatment coverage. Some participants noted mismatch between symptoms and test result; and that ivermectin is better than doxycycline, while others favoured doxycycline. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Interpolation Models for IoT-Enabled RF-EMF Exposure Mapping in Urban Areas by Theodor Panagiotakopoulos, Yiannis Kiouvrekis, Agapi Ploussi, Ellas Spyratou, Efstathios P. Efstathopoulos

“…Manual collection of RF-EMF measurements is a time-consuming and labor-intensive task, while IoT-based monitoring systems still have quite limited coverage. …”
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Time trend and clinical pattern of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Serbia, 1993-2007 by Pešut Dragica P., Bulajić Milica V., Lešić Aleksandar R.

“…Serbia is a country in socio-economic transition period with lowmiddle HIV prevalence and intermediate-to-low tuberculosis (TB) incidence rate, 100% directly observed treatment (DOT) coverage, and mandatory BCG vaccination at birth. …”
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Countries' progress towards Global Health Security (GHS) increased health systems resilience during the Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic: A difference-in-difference study... by Tyler Y Headley, Sooyoung Kim, Yesim Tozan

“…World Bank governance indicators were employed for robustness tests. While countries with overall GHSI scores of 57 and above prevented declines in childhood immunization coverage rates from 2020-2022 (coef: 0.91; 95% CI: 0.41-1.41), this safeguarding effect was strongest in 2021 (coef: 1.23; 95% CI: 0.05-2.41). …”
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MRI-based image-guided adaptive brachytherapy for locally advanced cervical cancer in clinical routine: a single-institution experience by Zoltán Végváry, Renáta Kószó, Zsófia Együd, Linda Varga, Viktor Róbert Paczona, Adrienn Cserháti, Viorica Gal, Zoltán Varga, Zoltán Nagy, Bence Deák, Ferenc Borzák, Julianna Bontovics, Emese Fodor, Judit Oláh, Zsuzsanna Kahán

“…At BT, however, while the High-Risk Clinical Target Volumes (CTVHR) did not differ the D90 dose coverage was significantly higher in the MRI-based IGABT group than in the non-MRI-based group (7.37 ± 0.55 Gy vs. 6.87 ± 0.84 Gy, p = 0.015). …”
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A discrete-time split-state framework for multi-state modeling with application to describing the course of heart disease by Ming Ding, Haiyi Chen, Feng-Chang Lin

“…Abstract In chronic disease epidemiology, the investigation of disease etiology has largely focused on an endpoint, while the course of chronic disease is understudied, representing a knowledge gap. …”
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Exposure of Skin Homografts from Related Living Donors to Radiotherapy and Its Effects on Acute Rejection and Wound Healing in Children with Deep Burns: A Randomized Controlled Tri... by Mohammed Ahmed Megahed, Sherief Mohamed El Kashty, Ahmed Tharwat Nassar, Mohamed Aboulfetouh, Mohammed Saad AboShaban

“…It was immediately used for coverage of the prepared bed after the irradiation was completed. …”
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Community Engagement in the Management of Urban Green Spaces: Prospects from a Case Study in an Emerging Economy by Adriano Bressane, Anna Isabel Silva Loureiro, Ricardo Almendra

“…Utilizing survey data from 33 municipal environmental departments across the MRSP, this research applied correlation tests, generalized linear models, and a non-parametric analysis of variance to evaluate the relationships between community engagement, UGS coverage, and inequality. The findings reveal a moderate positive correlation between community engagement and UGS coverage, alongside a negative correlation with socio-environmental inequality. …”
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Macroscopic bubble generation promoted by nanobubble seeds as a traceless anti-fluctuation strategy for water splitting by Sheng Yang, Jing Yuan, Pengpeng Xie, Bo Li, Mengxuan Li, Daojin Zhou, Liang Luo, Xiaoming Sun

“…The enhancement depends on nanobubble coverage and size, with higher coverage and larger sizes favoring macrobubble growth. …”
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Habitat selection and occupancy of feral horses in comparison to cattle and elk in the Rocky Mountain Foothills of Canada by Paul M. Boyce, Philip D. McLoughlin

“…Summer probability of occupancy for horses was highest with increasing coverage of cutblocks in contrast to cattle where occupancy probability decreased strongly with the latter. …”
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Equity in Health Care Financing in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review of Evidence from Studies Using Benefit and Financing Incidence Analyses. by Augustine Asante, Jennifer Price, Andrew Hayen, Stephen Jan, Virginia Wiseman

“…In the majority of cases, the distribution of benefits at the primary health care level favoured the poor while hospital level services benefit the better-off. …”
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Large language model-driven natural language interaction control framework for single-operator bimanual teleoperation by Haolin Fei, Tao Xue, Yiyang He, Sheng Lin, Guanglong Du, Yao Guo, Ziwei Wang

“…Experimental evaluations in bimanual object manipulation tasks demonstrate that BTLA increased task coverage by 76.1% and success rate by 240.8% relative to solo teleoperation, and outperformed dyadic control with a 19.4% gain in coverage and a 69.9% gain in success. …”
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Analyzing the observational capabilities of a Moon-based platform for monitoring Earth’s outgoing radiation by Guang Liu, Runbo Dong, Yin Jin, Mengxiong Zhou, Hanlin Ye, Rui Song, Jan-Peter Muller, Huadong Guo

“…The results show that: 1) the lowest daily ground coverage rate is about 88.8% and global coverage including polar regions can always be achieved within a month; 2) the sampling interval needs to be less than 4 hours to ensure the accuracy of reconstruction; 3) the image captured by a multi-spectral camera is capable of reconstructing the distribution of the Earth’s outgoing radiation, while the data obtained from a radiometer facilitates the reconstruction of the global Earth’s outgoing radiation, thereby enabling a comprehensive assessment of the Earth’s outgoing radiation. …”
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Reconfigurable Wireless Passive Sensor for Highly Sensitive Crack Detection by Jiahui Cai, Liu Tao, Huijuan Gu, Jun Zhang, Bei Huang, Xiangyu Xie, Lihong Dong, Haidou Wang

“…Traditional electromagnetic resonant sensors, while simple and sensitive, are limited in coverage. …”
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Differential Effects of Lichens versus Liverworts Epiphylls on Host Leaf Traits in the Tropical Montane Rainforest, Hainan Island, China by Lingyan Zhou, Fude Liu, Wenjie Yang, Hong Liu, Hongbo Shao, Zhongsheng Wang, Shuqing An

“…Our results found that the colonization of lichens significantly decreased leaf water content (LWC), chlorophyll (Chl) a and a + b content, and Chl a/b of P. prunifolia but increased Chl b content, while that of liverworts did not affect them as a whole. …”
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