AN ANALYSIS OF FACILITY ASSESSMENT OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE IN NIGERIA: A MICRO-EVIDENCE FROM KADUNA SATE by Gimba Victor Kyari, Micah Dogara, Selbyen Evelyn Gimba

“… This survey was conducted on facility readiness at the selected 239 facilities to determine the level of site preparedness with respect to human resource (health providers and volunteer community mobilizers), equipment availability and rate of service utilization.The survey of program data spanned over a 3-day period with visits to 115 facilities (40 in the Southern and Northern Zones each and 35 in the Central Zone of the state) and questionnaires administered to 2 Healthcare workers and 5 Clients per facility on their ANC days. 23 enumerators were recruited for data collection. …”
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The Histopathology of Labial Salivary Glands in Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome: Focusing on Follicular Helper T Cells in the Inflammatory Infiltrates by Krisztina Szabo, Gabor Papp, Balazs Dezso, Margit Zeher

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MEASUREMENT OF RADIATION EXPOSURE IN FACILITIES FOR RADIOLOGY DIAGNOSTIC AT THE COVID-19 EMERGENCY HOSPITAL IN WISMA ATLET JAKARTA by Muhammad Irsal, Firdha Adlia Syuhada, Yolanda Pangestu Ananda, Andre Galih Pratama Putra, Muhammad Rizky Syahputera, Syahputera Wibowo

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Facile Preparation and Photoinduced Superhydrophilicity of Highly Ordered Sodium-Free Titanate Nanotube Films by Electrophoretic Deposition by Minghua Zhou, Huogen Yu

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Transmission of Genetic Variation from the Adult Generation to Naturally Established Seedlings of Fagus orientalis in the Hyrcanian Forest by Hamed Yousefzadeh, Malek Nasiri, Narjes Amirchakhmaghi, Seyedeh Alemeh Sabbagh, Łukasz Walas, Gregor Kozlowski

“…Oriental beech (Fagus orientalis) is distributed from Turkey to northern Iran. …”
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Development of an expectation management intervention for patients with Long COVID: A focus group study with affected patients. by Manuel Funk, Max Reinke, Bernd Löwe, Petra Engelmann

“…<h4>Methods</h4>Twenty-two patients affected by Long COVID participated in one of four focus groups in June and July 2023. Participants were presented with the draft content of a four-session expectation management intervention. …”
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Compass, oceans and world politics. Book review of the collective monograph ‘International relations: Facets of the present and the future’ by A. V. Belinsky

“…The book under review is a collective monograph by the Russian International Affairs Council ‘International relations: Facets of the present and the future’, published in 2023. …”
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Assessment of antenatal care quality in Ethiopia: Facility-based study using service provision assessment data by Addisu Alehegn Alemu, Alec Welsh, Theodros Getachew, Marjan Khajehei

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Preventing Escape of Non-Native Species from Aquaculture Facilities in Florida, Part 4: Operational Strategies by Quenton M. Tuckett, Carlos V. Martinez, Jared L. Ritch, Katelyn M. Lawson, Jeffery E. Hill

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Automatic Measurement Techniques for Compositional Properties of Fresh Concrete: Focus on Water/Cement Ratio and Air Content by Ojala Teemu, Punkki Jouni

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Evaluation of Biocoagulant “Opuntia ficus-indica and Chitosan” to Improve the Removal of Contaminants in Dairy Effluents through Electrocoagulation by Naysha Y. M. Elguera, Stephanie E. S. Pulcha, Edgar M. M. Ballon, Miriam R. F. Castro, Lilia M. M. Ramos, Victor L. A. Tohalino, Pavel K. D. Sarmiento, Vitor C. Almeida, Hugo G. J. Pacheco

“…It is concluded that the use of the biocoagulant composed of chitosan and Opuntia ficus-indica mucilage (Q-M-5) as the primary treatment of whey wastewater provides evidence for the literature, showing that it is also a low-cost, ecological, and easy-to-apply natural coagulant.…”
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A Gauss-Kuzmin Theorem for Continued Fractions Associated with Nonpositive Integer Powers of an Integer m≥2 by Dan Lascu

“…We consider a family {τm:m≥2} of interval maps which are generalizations of the Gauss transformation. For the continued fraction expansion arising from τm, we solve a Gauss-Kuzmin-type problem.…”
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Optimization and Modeling of Optical Emission Spatial Coverage from Underwater Multi-Faceted Optical Base Stations by Junjie Shi, Chunbo Ma, Xu Tian, Hanjun Guo, Jun Ao

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Intellectual property rights vs. public access rights: ethical aspects of the DeCSS decryptation program by Robert Vaagan, Wallace Koehler

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Microplastic and human health with focus on pediatric well-being: a comprehensive review and call for future studies by Rogers Wainkwa Chia, Ntegang Venant Atem, Jin-Yong Lee, Jihye Cha

“…Hence, here we identified and reviewed original research papers published in 2017–2023 across 11 database categories in PubMed, Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science to improve our understanding of MPs with a focus on pediatric well-being. These studies found that milk and infant formulas are common sources of MP exposure in infants. …”
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Maternal F1 antibodies and cytokines in mother-neonate dog pairs in the Marmota himalayana plague focus by Deming Tang, Asaiti Bukai, Shuai Qin, Ran Duan, Dongyue Lyu, Zhaokai He, Xiaojin Zheng, Weiwei Wu, Junrong Liang, Haifu Qu, Aidai Bieke, Peng Zhang, Dan Zhang, Haonan Han, Qun Duan, Huaiqi Jing, Xin Wang

“…In this study, we investigated the F1 antibody against Yersinia pestis in the sera of mother-neonate shepherd dog pairs in the Marmota himalayana plague focus of the Altun-Qilian Mountains, Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China. …”
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Effectiveness of Ascophyllum nodosum and Fucus vesiculosus on Metabolic Syndrome Components: A Real-World, Observational Study by Antonio Nicolucci, Maria Chiara Rossi, Massimiliano Petrelli

“…Gdue is a nutraceutical obtained from the association of two marine algae, Ascophyllum nodosum and Fucus vesiculosus, in addition to chromium picolinate, which could be useful for the treatment of dysglycemia, overweight, and the other components of the metabolic syndrome. …”
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Formulation and Effectiveness of Herbal Hair Dye from Ethanol Extract of Banyan Bark (Ficus benjamina L) by Dewi Safitri, Siti Aisyah Tanjung, Enny Fitriani, Cut Fatimah

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Standardised packaging, minimum excise tax, and RYO focussed tax rise implications for UK tobacco pricing. by Rosemary Hiscock, Nicole H Augustin, J Robert Branston, Anna B Gilmore

“…RYO price increases did not close the gap to FM pricing levels despite RYO focussed tax increases. Tax changes following the implementation of standardised packaging and the MET were more widely and quickly passed on to smokers in the form of higher prices than the tax change pre-implementation. …”
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Evaluations of Auto-Focusing Methods under a Microscopic Imaging Modality for Metaphase Chromosome Image Analysis by Yuchen Qiu, Xiaodong Chen, Yuhua Li, Wei R. Chen, Bin Zheng, Shibo Li, Hong Liu

“…Background: Auto-focusing is an important operation in high throughput imaging scanning. …”
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