Solution Algorithms for the Capacitated Location Tree Problem with Interconnections by Nidia Mendoza-Andrade, Efrain Ruiz-y-Ruiz, Suemi Rodriguez-Romo

“…In this problem, the required facilities picked from a set of potential facilities must be opened to serve customers using a tree-shaped network. …”
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THE RELATIONSHIP OF ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS AND COMPLIANCE LEVEL IN THE APPLICATION OF STANDARD PRECAUTIONS by Moch. Sahri, Ramdhoni Zuhro, Octavianus Hutapea, Warsiki Dwimarisiana

“…Background: Infection prevention around health care facilities is one of the efforts to minimize infection in patients, officers, visitors, and communities. …”
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Improvement of Fatigue in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis Receiving Tofacitinib: Analyses of a Phase 3 Randomized Controlled Trial by Laure Gossec, Jessica A. Walsh, Raj Sengupta, Andrew G. Bushmakin, Joseph C. Cappelleri, Arne Yndestad, Oluwaseyi Dina, David Cella

“…The rapidity of improvement was assessed by time-to-event analyses (nonparametric Kaplan–Meier models); initial improvement events (i.e., time to first week of FACIT-F improvement) and stable improvement events (i.e., time to first week of FACIT-F improvement, sustained to 16 weeks) were examined. …”
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A global scoping review of the circumstances of care seeking for abortion later in pregnancy. by Laura E Jacobson, Blair G Darney, Heidi Bart Johnston, Bela Ganatra

“…Facility studies reported a wide variety of populations and number of facilities. …”
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The Role of Thoracic Medial Branch Blocks in Managing Chronic Mid and Upper Back Pain: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Active-Control Trial with a 2-Year Followup by Laxmaiah Manchikanti, Vijay Singh, Frank J. E. Falco, Kimberly A. Cash, Vidyasagar Pampati, Bert Fellows

“…The prevalence of thoracic facet joint pain has been established as 34% to 42%. …”
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A Blueprint for the Problem Formulation Phase of EPA-Type Ecological Risk Assessments for 316(b) Determinations by Webster Van Winkle, William P. Dey, Steve M. Jinks, Mark S. Bevlhimer, Charles C. Coutant

“…Regardless of how the generic analysis plan is modified to develop a facility-specific analysis plan, the resulting plan should be viewed as a tool for comparing representative species and alternative CWIS options by focusing on relative changes (i.e., proportional or percent changes) in various measures. …”
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Analyzing the Variances in Perspectives on BIM Implementation among Korea AEC Participants by Min Ho Shin, Seong-Ah Kim

“…The goals and benefits of implementing building information modeling (BIM) in different facilities are comparable, although there are variations in the employed technologies. …”
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The scoping, design, and plasma physics optimization of the Eos neutron source stellarator by C.P.S. Swanson, D.A. Gates, S.T.A. Kumar, M.F. Martin, T.G. Kruger, D.W. Dudt, P.J. Bonofiglo, the Thea Energy team

“…In this paper, a set of 1D plasma physics models are coupled and used to design the operating point of the facility and predict performance. At this foundational stage of the design, analytic and approximate models are sufficient to capture the leading-order effects, and fast enough to run in the inner loop of an optimizer. …”
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Need factors for utilisation of institutional delivery services in Nepal: an analysis from Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, 2011 by Vishnu Khanal, Andy H Lee, Rajendra Karkee

“…Logistic regression with complex sample analysis was performed to evaluate the effects of antenatal care visits and birth preparedness activities on facility delivery.Outcome measures Facility delivery.Results Overall facility delivery rate was low at 36.9% (95% CI 33.5% to 40.2%, SE 1.69). …”
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An Analysis of Tourists’ Use and Assessment of Tourist Infrastructure in the Ivano-Frankivsk and Transcarpathian Regions of Ukraine by Olena Pobihun, Liudmyla Arkhypova, Yaroslava Korobeinykova, Sofiia Kachala, Victoria Hryniuk

“…The main tasks of the study were to analyse and assess the state of infrastructure near tourist facilities based on the results of a survey, as well as identify problems and prospects of infrastructure development. …”
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Emergency Resource Location and Allocation in Traffic Contingency Plan for Sports Mega-Event by Ling Shen, Jian Lu, Ling Deng, Manman Li

“…Given that the requirement on safeguards in the sports mega-events is temporary and stringent, we first divide the facilities into temporary emergency facilities and fixed emergency facilities and the resources into material resources and human resources. …”
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Preparedness for and impact of COVID-19 on primary health care delivery in urban and rural Malawi: a mixed methods study by Tracy Morse, Kondwani Chidziwisano, Gift Kawalazira, Mackwellings Maganizo Phiri, Eleanor Elizabeth MacPherson, Mindy Panulo, Khumbo Kalua, Chawanangwa Mahebere Chirambo, Zaziwe Gundah, Penjani Chunda

“…These facilities have limited infrastructure and capacity but are the most accessible and play a crucial role in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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What enabled the successful implementation of a quality certification initiative in Bhavnagar, Gujarat? A policy analysis case study. by K Shruti Lekha, Sudha Ramani, Harsha Joshi, Preet Verma, Sumit Malhotra, Tapasvi Puwar, Chandramani Kumar, Ankita Shah, Anish Sinha, Deepak Saxena

“…In India, the National Quality Assurance Standards (NQAS) is a certification policy adopted by the government to improve the quality of care in public health facilities. This policy aims to assess public health facilities through a set of comprehensive, pre-defined standards derived from global best practices. …”
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Developing a Predictive Tool for Hospital Discharge Disposition of Patients Poststroke with 30-Day Readmission Validation by Jin Cho, Krystal Place, Rebecca Salstrand, Monireh Rahmat, Misagh Mansouri, Nancy Fell, Mina Sartipi

“…After short-term, acute-care hospitalization for stroke, patients may be discharged home or other facilities for continued medical or rehabilitative management. …”
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How does trade, financial, social, and political globalization influence malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa?Google drive by Shujaat Abbas

“…This study examines the influence of desegregated de facto and de jure trade globalization, financial globalization, social globalization, and political globalization on the prevalence of malnourishment in 35 sub-Saharan African countries from 2000 to 2021. …”
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PERCEPT Indoor Navigation System for the Blind and Visually Impaired: Architecture and Experimentation by Aura Ganz, James Schafer, Siddhesh Gandhi, Elaine Puleo, Carole Wilson, Meg Robertson

“…Access to healthcare facilities is crucial for this population due to the multiple health conditions that they face such as diabetes and its complications. …”
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Modeling Spatial Riding Characteristics of Bike-Sharing Users Using Hotspot Areas-Based Association Rule Mining by Chao Sun, Jian Lu

“…The results show that the most significant influencers on bike-sharing demand include financial insurance facilities, dining facilities, and landscapes. As for characteristics of riding destination, the combinations between landscapes and financial insurance facilities, between landscapes and companies/enterprises, and between companies/enterprises and financial insurance facilities are more likely to be visited simultaneously. …”
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The psychometric properties of the Thai version of the Zuckerman–Kuhlman-Aluja personality questionnaire by Tinakon Wongpakaran, Nahathai Wongpakaran, Zsuzsanna Kövi

“…In pursuit of a more nuanced understanding, facet-level assessments like the Zuckerman–Kuhlman–Aluja Personality Questionnaire (ZKA-PQ) offer more profound insights into their facets. …”
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Women’s Perspectives on Influencers to the Utilisation of Skilled Delivery Care: An Explorative Qualitative Study in North West Ethiopia by Biruhtesfa Bekele Shiferaw, Lebitsi Maud Modiba

“…This study was carried out to identify factors that influenced or motivated women to give birth in a health facility in their previous, current, and future pregnancies. …”
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Supervision, performance assessment, and recognition strategy (SPARS) – a multipronged strategy to strengthen medicines management in Nepal: pilot study methods and baseline result... by Nirajan Bhusal, Anup Bastola, Reekesh Shrestha, Narendra Kumar Khanal, Birna Trap

“…Background: Nepal piloted a multipronged supervision, performance assessment, and recognition strategy (SPARS), to improve medicines management (MM) in public health facilities. This paper describes the SPARS pilot intervention and reports on MM performance at baseline.Methods: To build MM capacity at public sector health facilities, health workers were trained as MM supervisors to visit and supervise government health facilities, assess MM performance, and use the findings to provide support in MM practices. …”
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