TepiSense: A Social Computing-Based Real-Time Epidemic Surveillance System Using Artificial Intelligence by Bilal Tahir, Muhammad Amir Mehmood

“…To test the performance of our system, we build a dataset of Twitter Epidemic Surveillance Corpus (TESC) containing 23.9K English and 13K labelled Urdu tweets related to six diseases: COVID19, hepatitis, malaria, flu, dengue, and HIV/AIDS. Our results show that mBERT LLM achieves the highest F-measure values of 0.96 and 0.83 for topic and indication tweets classification, respectively. …”
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Evaluación de la incubabilidad del huevo fértil en aves de corral en la zona de Citlaltépetl, Veracruz by Verónica Borbolla-Pérez, Sergio Omar Nieto Rosaliano, Rigoberto Gutiérrez Molina, Gil Josué Gonzales Vicencio, Rubén de la Paz Mendo Muñoz

“…Estos mostraron una estructura densa y elevada alrededor de la yema, con buen aspecto y coloraciones desde amarillo pálido a naranja reflejando la frescura de los huevos. …”
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Kdr genotyping (V1016I, F1534C) of the Nav channel of Aedes aegypti (L.) mosquito populations in Harris County (Houston), Texas, USA, after Permanone 31-66 field tests and its infl... by Jonathan R Hernandez, Michael Longnecker, Chris L Fredregill, Mustapha Debboun, Patricia V Pietrantonio

“…Aedes aegypti (L.) is an important mosquito vector of emerging arboviruses such as Zika, dengue, yellow fever, and chikungunya. To quell potential disease outbreaks, its populations are controlled by applying pyrethroid insecticides, which selection pressure may lead to the development of insecticide resistance. …”
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Ocular infections in international travelers by Francesca F. Norman, Julio J. González-López, Diego Gayoso-Cantero, Marta Vicente-Antolin, Maria-Dolores Corbacho-Loarte, Rogelio López-Vélez, Marta González-Sanz

“…A spectrum of manifestations have been described with dengue, chikungunya and Zika infections, including conjunctivitis, anterior uveitis, posterior uveitis with chorioretinitis and macular involvement. …”
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Policy relevant crop diversity monitoring based on earth observation and farmers’ declarations by Marijn van der Velde, Martin Claverie, Raphaël d’Andrimont, Melissande Machefer, Simona Bosco, Rui Catarino, Frank Dentener, Vincenzo Angilieri

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Food Grade Nanofiber of Polylactic Acid by Electrospinning: Physicochemical Characterization of Solutions and Parameters of the Technique by Dalila Fernanda Canizales-Rodríguez, Francisco Rodríguez-Félix, José Agustín Tapia-Hernández, Carmen Lizette Del-Toro-Sánchez, Saúl Ruíz-Cruz, Santiago P. Aubourg, Daniela Denisse Castro-Enríquez, Carlos Gregorio Barreras-Urbina, Silvia Elena Burruel-Ibarra, José Luis Pompa-Ramos, Lorena Armenta-Villegas

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Ortopedia prequirúrgica en paciente de un año de vida con labio y paladar hendido no sindrómico sin queiloplastia previa: reporte de caso. by Katia Denisse Rodriguez Mena, Bejamín López Nuñez, Tatiana D. Mondragón Baéz

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ASSESSMENT OF BRACKET BOND FAILURE DURING FIXED ORTHODONTIC TREATMENT BASED ON A QUESTIONNAIRE DISTRIBUTED TO ORTHODONTISTS by Manuela Nardin, Mihaela Ionescu, Diana-Elena Vlăduțu, Anne-Marie Rauten, Luminița Dăguci, Cristina Teodora Preoteasa, Alexandra Done, Veronica Mercuț

“…Potential risk factors for bracket detachment include age and gender of the patient, type of dento-maxillary anomaly, consumption of hard foods, contact between the bracket and the opposite tooth. …”
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Estrategia de capacitación para el diagnóstico y manejo de arbovirosis en Cienfuegos by Eric Martínez Torres, Yisel Torres Rojo, Waldemar Baldoquín Rodríguez, María Octavina Rodríguez Roque, Alina Pérez Carrera

“…<p><strong>Fundamento</strong>: La introducción de dos nuevas arbovirosis (Chikungunya y Zika), además del dengue, ha creado un nuevo desafío para la salud pública en las Américas. …”
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Effectiveness of Aedes-borne infectious disease control in Latin America and the Caribbean region: A scoping review. by Vaitiare Mulderij-Jansen, Prachi Pundir, Maria E Grillet, Theophilus Lakiang, Izzy Gerstenbluth, Ashley Duits, Adriana Tami, Ajay Bailey

“…Most studies focused on dengue virus infection and data on Ae. aegypti. Entomological data were mainly used to determine the intervention's effectiveness. …”
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La necroeconomía de la generación de electricidad para la minería. El impacto comunitario del uso del petcoke en Tocopilla (Chile, 2000-2015) by Damir Galaz-Mandakovic Fernández

“…De esa manera, se jerarquiza la vulnerabilidad y la muerte y se construye la desechabilidad en algunos grupos sociales a través de violencia lenta o de estallidos densos sobre “subconjuntos” de humanidad clasificados en un nivel inferior. …”
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On the tracks of an uninvited guest, the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus in Cyprus by Riccardo Piccinno, Giulia Fiorenza, Marlen Ines Vasquez, Jeremy Bouyer, Gregoris Notarides, Ludvik Marcus Gomulski, Soteris Meletiou, Mustafa Akiner, Antonios Michaelakis, Federico Forneris, Giovanni Maga, Giuliano Gasperi, Anna Rodolfa Malacrida

“…Abstract Background Aedes albopictus, the Asian tiger mosquito, which is listed among the world's 100 most dangerous invasive species, is the main vector of chikungunya, dengue and Zika viruses. This mosquito species has rapidly dispersed and invaded much of the globe assisted by its life history traits and high propagule pressure driven by human activities. …”
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Cambios en la estructura vertical y composición florística en la Reserva Natural Madre Verde —Costa Rica— tras 15 años de restauración ecológica by Cindy Rodríguez-Arias

“…En 2005 se realizó una caracterización de las comunidades vegetales presentes: pastizal, charral, cultivo abandonado, área dominada por burío, bosque secundario denso, bosque secundario ralo y dos remanentes de bosque maduro. …”
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Comparative Study of Chikungunya Only and Chikungunya-Scrub Typhus Coinfection in Children: Findings from a Hospital-Based Observational Study from Central Nepal by Santosh Pathak, Nagendra Chaudhary, Prativa Dhakal, Sanjay Ray Yadav, Binod Kumar Gupta, Om Prakash Kurmi

“…All positive chikungunya cases were subjected to scrub typhus testing, dengue testing, leptospira testing, and malaria testing. …”
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First detection of the S989P+V1016G+D1763Y haplotype and expansion of voltage-gated sodium channel mutations in Aedes aegypti in Taiwan in 2016-2023. by Han-Hsuan Chung, Hwa-Jen Teng, Chin-Gi Huang, I-Jung Tsai, Hung-Jui Chen, Osamu Komagata, Shinji Kasai, Kun-Hsien Tsai, Shiu-Ling Chen

“…<h4>Background</h4>Aedes aegypti transmits various arthropod-borne diseases such as dengue, posing a significant burden to public health in tropical and subtropical regions. …”
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How can the buffalo carcass be used rationally? by Ricardo Alexandre Silva Pessoa

“…The animals weighed an average of 507.0 kg and were slaughtered before the first molt of the deciduous dentition, with a carcass yield of 49.0%. The carcass of each animal was divided into two half-carcasses, which were identified and weighed. …”
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Histology Assessment of Chitosan–Polyvinyl Alcohol Scaffolds Incorporated with CaO Nanoparticles by Carlos David Grande-Tovar, Jorge Ivan Castro Castro, Lemy Vanessa Barba-Rosado, Paula A. Zapata, Daniel Insuasty, Carlos-Humberto Valencia-Llano

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Effects of tongue tamers and customized bonded spurs as an early treatment of anterior open bite: a randomized clinical study by Safa B. Alawy, Shaimaa S. EL-Desouky, Ibrahim A. Kabbash, Shimaa M. Hadwa

“…Abstract Background Anterior open bite is a challenging condition for pediatric dentists and orthodontists as it causes aesthetic, speech, feeding, and psychological problems; this emphasizes the need for early diagnosis and interception of this malocclusion. …”
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Association between poor oral health and deterioration of appetite in older age: results from longitudinal analyses of two prospective cohorts from the UK and USA by Sheena E Ramsay, Olia Papacosta, S Goya Wannamethee, John C Mathers, Peter H Whincup, Lucy Lennon, Ziyi Cai, Suruchi G Ganbavale, Robert Weyant

“…In the BRHS, sustained poor/deterioration in oral health markers (self-rated oral health, dry mouth, eating or chewing difficulty, food avoidance, loose denture/s) over the follow-up were associated with sustained poor/deterioration of appetite.Conclusion Oral health is a potentially important contributor to maintaining good appetite in older age.…”
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Influencia de las condiciones ambientales de la ciudad de Bogotá sobre el comportamiento mecánicos de una mezcla asfáltica Influence of the Bogotá environmental conditions on the m... by Hugo Alexander Rondón Quintana, Fredy Alberto Reyes Lizcano

“…El artículo presenta el cambio que experimenta el módulo resiliente, la deformación permanente y la resistencia última bajo carga monotónica de una mezcla asfáltica densa en caliente cuando es expuesta al ambiente de la ciudad de Bogotá D.C. …”
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