Resources for oral health in Africa by Moréniké Oluwátóyìn Foláyan, Moréniké Oluwátóyìn Foláyan, Ahmed Bhayat, Ahmed Bhayat, Sara S. Mikhail, Nicaise Ndembi, Maha El Tantawi, Maha El Tantawi

“…In addition, limited infrastructure and funding have resulted in significant oral health disparities, leaving large portions of the population without adequate access to oral health services. …”
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Dog Bites and Rabies in the Eastern Region of Ghana in 2013–2015: A Call for a One-Health Approach by Boakye-Yiadom Adomako, Frank Baiden, Samuel Sackey, Donne Kofi Ameme, Fred Wurapa, Kofi Mensah Nyarko, Ernest Kenu, Edwin Afari

“…A parallel and uncoordinated system of rabies surveillance is maintained by the health and veterinary services, with gross disparities in the number of reported events and overall impression of underreporting. …”
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Role of the androgen receptor in melanoma aggressiveness by Marzia Di Donato, Costanza Maria Cristiani, Mariaelena Capone, Cinzia Garofalo, Gabriele Madonna, Lucia Carmela Passacatini, Margaret Ottaviano, Paolo Antonio Ascierto, Ferdinando Auricchio, Ennio Carbone, Antimo Migliaccio, Gabriella Castoria

“…As such, the discovery of new targets and drugs for advanced melanoma still remains a difficult task. Gender disparities, with a female advantage in melanoma incidence and outcome, have been reported. …”
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COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Dose Fails to Enhance Antibody Response to Omicron Variant in Reinfected Healthcare Workers by Leire Fernández-Ciriza, Álvaro González, José Luis del Pozo, Alejandro Fernandez-Montero, Francisco Carmona-Torre, Paula Martínez de Aguirre, María del Mar Sarasa, Silvia Carlos, Gabriel Reina

“…Moreover, these groups showed the most pronounced disparity in antibody titers ratios between infected and uninfected individuals. …”
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Towards Privacy in Decentralized IoT: A Blockchain-Based Dual Response DP Mechanism by Kai Zhang, Pei-Wei Tsai, Jiao Tian, Wenyu Zhao, Xinyi Cai, Longxiang Gao, Jinjun Chen

“…Adversaries can exploit this weakness, collaborating to inject a substantial volume of queries simultaneously into disparate blockchain nodes to extract more precise results. …”
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Global and regional burden of bloodstream infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacteria in 2019: A systematic analysis from the MICROBE database by Lei Zha, Shirong Li, Jun Guo, Yixin Hu, Lingling Pan, Hanli Wang, Yun Zhou, Qiancheng Xu, Zhiwei Lu, Xiang Kong, Xinzhao Tong, Yusheng Cheng

“…Conclusions: Our findings underscore the significant global burden of bloodstream infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacteria, with notable regional disparities. There is an urgent need for enhanced surveillance, improved infection prevention and control measures, and better access to first-line antibiotics, particularly in high-burden regions.…”
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Identification of dominant species of submerged vegetation based on Sentinel-2 red-edge band: A case study of Lake Erhai, China by Xiaohan Wang, Yu Zhang, Yanhong Yu, Yunmei Li, Heng Lyu, Junda Li, Xiaolan Cai, Xianzhang Dong, Gaolun Wang, Jianzhong Li, Mengmeng Song, Lanlan Chen

“…In this study, Sentinel-2 satellite data was employed to examine and compare the spectral attributes of three preeminent species, Potamogeton maackianus, Vallisneria natans, and Ceratophyllum demersum, within the confines of the Lake Erhai study area. Using the disparities in the red-edge band, red-edge chlorophyll index (CIedge), and red-edge normalized vegetation index (NDVIedge), a carefully designed decision tree model was instituted for remote sensing-driven identification of SAV. …”
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Training for tomorrow: Establishing a worldwide curriculum in online adaptive radiation therapy by Meegan Shepherd, Elizabeth Joyce, Bethany Williams, Siobhan Graham, Winnie Li, Jeremy Booth, Helen A. McNair

“…Moreover, geographical disparities limit access to advanced training programs, leaving RTTs and their patients in underserved regions at a disadvantage. …”
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Erosive Esophagitis in the Obese: The Effect of Ethnicity and Gender on Its Association by Albin Abraham, Seth Lipka, Rabab Hajar, Bhuma Krishnamachari, Ravi Virdi, Bobby Jacob, Prakash Viswanathan, Paul Mustacchia

“…Normal weight Black patients were less likely to have ErE as compared to Caucasians (OR 0.46; 95% CI 0.27–0.79; p=0.005), while the odds ratio comparing normal weight Hispanics to normal weight Whites was not statistically significant. …”
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Effect of the Lipoxygenase Inhibitor Baicalein on Muscles in Ovariectomized Rats by D. Saul, J. H. Kling, R. L. Kosinsky, D. B. Hoffmann, M. Komrakova, M. Wicke, B. Menger, S. Sehmisch

“…Eight weeks after ovariectomy, three disparate concentrations (1 mg/kg body weight (BW), 10 mg/kg BW, and 100 mg/kg BW) of baicalein were applied subcutaneously daily in three OVX groups. …”
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Reporting and representation of participant race and ethnicity in phase III clinical trials for solid tumors by Tianyi Wang, Dinorah J Villanueva, Ambily Banerjee, Dina Gifkins

“…Participants were predominantly White (76.3%), followed by Asian/Pacific Islander (14.1%), Black/African American (4.5%), and American Indian/Alaska Native (0.6%). Hispanic/Latino constituted 6.4% of participants. The proportion of non-White groups increased from 19.4% in trials started before 2011 to 26.2% after 2015. …”
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Early childhood weight trajectory differences in twins, singletons, and gestational-age matched singletons by Anna Booman, Byron A. Foster, Kristin Lyon-Scott, Miguel Marino, Jonathan M. Snowden, Janne Boone-Heinonen

“…Objective: Understanding of twin growth in the United States (US) is based on outdated or predominantly non-Hispanic White samples, and the age at which twins catch up to singletons is unclear. …”
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Impact of Business Planning for Mini Oil Refineries to Enhance Socio-Economic Landscape by Violetta Roshchupkina, Natalia Dimurina, Viktoriya Manuylenko, Natalia Gryzunova, Elena Drannikova, Mukhamed Khamukov

“…This research contributes to the field by offering a practical solution to regional oil refining disparities, promoting economic development, and providing a model for similar contexts. …”
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Bioelectrical Impedance and Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry Assessments of Changes in Body Composition Following Exercise in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Masae Miyatani, Pearl Yang, Scott Thomas, B. Catharine Craven, Paul Oh

“…However, Bland-Altman plot(s) indicated that there were systematic errors in the assessment of the changes in body composition using LBIA compared to DXA such that, the greater the changes in participant body composition, the greater the disparity in body composition data obtained via LBIA versus DXA data (FFM, P=0.013; %FM, P<0.001; FM, P<0.001). …”
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Structural Competency: A Faculty Development Workshop Series for Anti-racism in Medical Education by Shani R. Scott, Cristina M. Gonzalez, Chenshu Zhang, Iman Hassan

“…Introduction In response to accreditation bodies requiring health disparities curricula, medical educators are tasked with incorporating structural competency, the understanding of how social and structural barriers like structural racism impact health, into their teaching. …”
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Possible Superconductivity Transition in Nitrogen‐Doped Lutetium Hydride Observed at Megabar Pressure by Xingbin Zhao, Yu Huang, Shuailing Ma, Hao Song, Yanwei Cao, Hao Jiang, Yanping Huang, Tian Cui

“…The temperature‐dependent resistance measurements reveal that two possible superconductivity transition are observed at 95 GPa, with Tc1 ≈6.5 K for high‐Tc phase and Tc2 ≈2.1 K for low‐Tc phase, arising from the disparate phases in the sample. Resistivity measurements in the Fm3¯m‐LuH3±xNy phase under varying magnetic fields exhibited characteristics consistent with superconductivity, with an upper critical field μ0Hc2(0) of 3.3 T measured at 163 GPa. …”
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Information and Communication Technology Application and the Provision of Reference Services in Selected University Libraries in Western Uganda. by Nabukenya, Judith

“…Inadequate power supply is the most significant challenge, reported by 71% (37 respondents).The study recommended that, given less used platforms like Myspace, web forms and RSS libraries should focus on providing continuous training and support for these and other emerging ICT platforms. …”
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Desain Head-Up Display Berbasis Refleksi untuk Aplikasi Navigasi pada Mobil Menggunakan Metode Human-Centered Design by Andrian Riza Hermawan, Herman Tolle, Sabriansyah Rizqika Akbar

“…Informasi navigasi direfleksikan pada kaca depan mobil menggunakan ponsel pintar sebagai proyektor informasi navigasi. …”
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Penegakan Hukum Ekonomi Syari’ah Di Pengadilan Agama dalam Wilayah Pengadilan Tinggi Agama Bandung by Mia Lasmi Wardiyah

“…Dalam hal hukum acara perdata meru­pakan peraturan hukum yang mengatur bagaimanakah proses seseorang untuk berperkara perdata di depan sidang pengadilan serta bagaimana proses lembaga pengadilan dalam menerima, memeriksa, mengadili, dan memutus perkara serta bagaimana proses pelaksanaan-putusan dalam rangka memper­tahankan eksistensi hukum perdata materil. …”
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Pengambilan Keputusan Pendidikan dan Karir pada Anak Pertama dengan Orang tua Berpreferensi by Rifdah Imtyaaz, Rudi Cahyono

“…Pengambilan keputusan karir adalah representasi gabungan dari pemahaman individu atas alternatif karir dan manifestasi atas apa yang ingin dilakukan di masa depan. Langkah pertama yang umum ditempuh adalah mengambil pendidikan yang sejalan dengan karir yang dituju. …”
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