A Conversational Agent for Empowering People with Parkinson’s Disease in Exercising Through Motivation and Support by Patricia Macedo, Rui Neves Madeira, Pedro Albuquerque Santos, Pedro Mota, Beatriz Alves, Carla Mendes Pereira

“…Technical Performance Evaluation, conducted with three physiotherapists, assessed domain coverage, coherence response capacity, and dialog management capacity, achieving 100% accuracy in domain coverage and coherence response capacity and 89% in dialog management capacity. …”
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Patterns of claims and determinants of claim rejections in Kuwait's National Health Insurance for Retirees (AFYA): a comprehensive analysis by Abdullah I. Alibrahim, Abdullah I. Alibrahim, Abdullah I. Alibrahim, Abdullah I. Alibrahim, Hisham Kelendar, Abdulaziz Alhenaidi

“…AFYA's experience offers transferable lessons for high-income countries seeking to expand private-sector purchasing while containing cost.…”
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Future cost-effectiveness and equity of the NHS Health Check cardiovascular disease prevention programme: Microsimulation modelling using data from Liverpool, UK. by Chris Kypridemos, Brendan Collins, Philip McHale, Helen Bromley, Paula Parvulescu, Simon Capewell, Martin O'Flaherty

“…Optimal implementation is likely to be cost-saving but not equitable, while targeted implementation is likely to be both. …”
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The impact of retail-sector delivery of artemether-lumefantrine on malaria treatment of children under five in Kenya: a cluster randomized controlled trial. by Beth P Kangwana, Sarah V Kedenge, Abdisalan M Noor, Victor A Alegana, Andrew J Nyandigisi, Jayesh Pandit, Greg W Fegan, James E Todd, Simon Brooker, Robert W Snow, Catherine A Goodman

“…This study in western Kenya aimed to evaluate the impact of providing subsidized artemether-lumefantrine (AL) through retail providers on the coverage of prompt, effective antimalarial treatment for febrile children aged 3-59 months.…”
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Sustainability of opioid agonist therapy programmes in Belarus, the Republic of Moldova, Tajikistan and Ukraine in the context of transition from Global Fund support during 2020–20... by Raminta Stuikyte, Ivan Varentsov, Naimdzhon Malikov, Sergii Dvoriak, Myroslava Filippovych, Alisher Latypov, Aleksei Kralko, Ala Iatco, Catherine Cook

“…In 2022, Ukraine had a substantial degree of sustainability, followed by Belarus and Moldova with a moderate degree, while Tajikistan’s sustainability was at moderate-to-high risk. …”
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The 2024 resurgence of Bordetella pertussis in Brazil and a decade-long epidemiological overview by Nathália Mariana Santos Sansone, Nathália Mariana Santos Sansone, Nathália Mariana Santos Sansone, Matheus Negri Boschiero, Matheus Negri Boschiero, Fernando Augusto Lima Marson, Fernando Augusto Lima Marson, Fernando Augusto Lima Marson

“…Despite a slight improvement in vaccination coverage, it remains below the World Health Organization’s recommended threshold of 90%. …”
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Deep learning enhanced road traffic analysis: Scalable vehicle detection and velocity estimation using PlanetScope imagery by Maciej Adamiak, Yulia Grinblat, Julian Psotta, Nir Fulman, Himshikhar Mazumdar, Shiyu Tang, Alexander Zipf

“…Conventional methods such as stationary sensors and mobile systems like UAVs are limited in coverage and constrained by high costs and legal restrictions. …”
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Technology and Continuous Glucose Monitoring Access, Literacy, and Use Among Patients at the Diabetes Center of an Inner-City Safety-Net Hospital: Mixed Methods Study by Gaëlle Sabben, Courtney Telfort, Marissa Morales, Wenjia Stella Zhang, Juan C Espinoza, Francisco J Pasquel, Kate Winskell

“…ResultsMost participants were African American (66/75, 88%), over half (39/75, 52%) were unemployed or working part time, and 29% (22/75) had no health insurance coverage, while 61% (46/75) had federal coverage. Smartphone ownership and use were near universal; texting and email use were common (63/75, 84% in both cases). …”
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Real-world phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer treatment patterns in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a claims-based analysis by Shannon Grabich, Brian Ung, Aalok Nadkar, Kathryn DeYoung, James Signorovitch, Aravindhan Veerapandiyan

“…This study assessed treatment patterns among patients with DMD receiving PMOs using administrative claims data while accounting for limitations in claims data for these therapies. …”

HawkEars: A regional, high-performance avian acoustic classifier by Jan Huus, Kevin G. Kelly, Erin M. Bayne, Elly C. Knight

“…Existing options for avian classifiers include small custom models for focal species or large models that attempt to classify the entire global avian community, which suggests a possible tradeoff between classifier performance and species coverage. We argue that building domain-specific classifiers for particular geographic regions provides improved performance in exchange for reduced species coverage and present HawkEars, a regional avian classifier for Canada that includes 314 bird and 13 amphibian species. …”
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How does asymmetric sibling rivalry respond under environmental metal pollution? A case study of the Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) by Jian Ding, Shengnan Wang, Wenzhi Yang, Huijie Zhang, Ni Wang, Yingmei Zhang

“…Fledgling rate was significantly positively related to the incubation period and nestling period, while negative relationship with mean spotting coverage ratio was found at the polluted site. …”
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Iceberg-like pyramids in industrially textured silicon enabled 33% efficient perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells by Daoyong Zhang, Tao Wu, Biao Li, Degong Ding, Ruilin Li, Jiyao Wei, Hengyu Zhang, Chenxia Kan, Yuxin Yao, Pengjie Hang, Zhiguo Yu, Zhenyi Ni, Kaifu Qiu, Deren Yang, Xuegong Yu

“…This architecture facilitates the complete coverage of solution-processed perovskites on ITS substrates while substantially reducing interfacial recombination losses and enhancing charge carrier transport. …”
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Validation of Cross-Calibration for the Time-Series of HJ-2A/B CCD Sensor Based on Baotou Sandy Site by Yidan Chen, Jie Han, Yutong Li, Yong Xie, Wen Shao, Aonan Hao

“…High resolution and wide coverage are important development directions for optical sensors on satellites. …”
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A novel soil moisture evaluation framework incorporating brightness temperature and a high-resolution 1 km summer brightness temperature dataset by Ziyue Zhu, Runze Zhang, Bin Fang, Hyunglok Kim, Hoang Hai Nguyen, Venkataraman Lakshmi

“…Coarser resolution SM products, although beneficial for broader area coverage, often struggle to capture fine-scale variations influenced by local hydrological processes, land use, vegetation cover, and microclimates. …”
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Behavioural and Social Drivers of Seasonal Influenza Vaccination (BeSD IN) in Jordan by Ayman Bani Mousa, Nizar Maswadi, Zaid Al-Hamdan, Mohammad Alhawarat, Lora Al Sawalha, Raid Anwar Al-Shboul, Feras Ibrahim Hawari

“…Healthcare workers had the highest vaccination rates (65 %), while pregnant women (30 %) and the elderly (25 %) exhibited lower rates, primarily due to concerns about vaccine safety and accessibility challenges. …”
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Unveiling biodiversity: The current status of marine species barcoding in Red Sea Metazoans by Carlos Angulo-Preckler, Christopher Hempel, Sofia Frappi, Kah Kheng Lim, Tullia Terraneo, Dirk Steinke, Lotfi J. Rabaoui, Francesca Benzoni, Carlos M. Duarte

“…While over 6000 metazoan species from 22 phyla are known to inhabit the Red Sea, only 49.77 % appear to be barcoded. …”
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The New ‘Golden Age’ of Dentistry: A Highly Desirable Profession with Unprecedented Global Opportunities in Industry Settings by Artemiz Seif, Christian R. Jarry, Amélie Michèle Chauvel

“…While there is a growing and aging global population, the majority of dentists serve only a minority of the human population. …”
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Automated VMAT planning for short-course radiotherapy in locally advanced rectal cancer. by Qiong Zhou, Liwen Qian, Chong Shen, Xinyan Bei, Gaojie Liu, Xiaonan Sun

“…<h4>Results</h4>Compared to MPs, the APs achieved similar target coverage and conformity, while providing more rapid dose fall-off. …”
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Effects of economic globalization and trade on forest transitions: Evidence from 76 developing countries by Lingchao Li, Jinlong Liu, Baodong Cheng, Ashwini Chhatre, Jiayun Dong, Wenyuan Liang

“…The results suggest that the total export value has a significant negative effect on forest area and volume, while the percentage of non-primary products has a significant positive impact on forest volume and density in the 76 developing countries studied. …”
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Systematic review on irrational use of medicines in China and Vietnam. by Wenhui Mao, Huyen Vu, Zening Xie, Wen Chen, Shenglan Tang

“…Irrational use of medicines was found in both the countries but issues with polypharmacy as well as overuse of antibiotics were more severe in Vietnam while overuse of injections was unique to China. …”
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