Evaluation of a short training course of chest X-ray interpretation for the diagnosis of paediatric TB by B. F. Melingui, E. Leroy-Terquem, M. Palmer, J-V. Taguebue, A. P. Wachinou, J. Gaudelus, A. Salomao, D. Bunnet, T. C. Eap, L. Borand, C. Chabala, C. Khosa, R. Moh, J. Mwanga-Amumpere, M. T. Eang, I. Manhiça, A. Mustapha, S. Beneteau, L. Falzon, J. A. Seddon, L. Berteloot, E. Wobudeya, O. Marcy, M. Bonnet, P. Y. Norval

“…METHODS: Within the TB-Speed Decentralization Study, we developed a three half-day training course to identify normal CXR, CXR of good quality and identify six TB-suggestive features. …”
Get full text

Comparative Assessment of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice of Breast Self-Examination among Female Secondary and Tertiary School Students in Ghana by Linda Ahenkorah Fondjo, Osei Owusu-Afriyie, Samuel Asamoah Sakyi, Akua Addo Wiafe, Bright Amankwaa, Emmanuel Acheampong, Richard K. D. Ephraim, William K. B. A. Owiredu

“…Of these, more secondary students had never practiced BSE as compared to the tertiary students. 22.3% indicated they would wait for a change in a detected breast lump before seeking medical attention. 96.3% of the participants agree BSE is a good practice which must be encouraged. Conclusion. …”
Get full text

Experimental and Numerical Simulation to Validate Critical Perforation Velocity on a Flat Plate Aluminium Alloy 6061 by Bharosh Kumar Yadav, Mehdi Jahangiri, Dalbir Singh

“…The specimen of the square flat plate was prepared with side 205 mm and 2 mm thickness (205 × 205 × 2 mm3). A good correlation for critical perforation velocity of experimental acquisition data and numerical simulation results has been found. …”
Get full text

Antioxidant Properties and Characterization of Heterotrigona itama Honey from Various Botanical Origins according to Their Polyphenol Compounds by Sharina Shamsudin, Jinap Selamat, Mukramah Abdul Shomad, Muhamad Faris Ab Aziz, Md. Jahurul Haque Akanda

“…Stingless bee honey is a good source of antioxidants, which is attributed to the phenolic compounds. …”
Get full text

HPLC Fingerprint Analysis of Rana chensinensis Eggs from Different Habitats and Their Antitussive Effect by Yang Xu, Fangfei Xu, Yuejie Wang, Xu Wang, Huiwei Bao

“…High dose and middle dose of the RE group can significantly prolong the cough latent periods of mice (P < 0.05 or P < 0.01) and inhibit the cough times of mice (P < 0.01), indicating RE had a good antitussive effect. HPLC fingerprint combined with multicomponent determination can be an efficient and useful method for monitoring the quality of RE. …”
Get full text

Advertisement Synthesis Network for Automatic Advertisement Image Synthesis by Qin Wu, Peizi Zhou

“…Finally, we inject the acquired features into the pretrained diffusion model and reconstruct them in the preliminary generated target goods scene. Extensive experiments have shown that the method achieves better results in all three performance metrics related to the quality of the synthesised image compared to other methods. …”
Get full text

Weighted and Well-Balanced Nonlinear TV-Based Time-Dependent Model for Image Denoising by Khursheed Alam, Alka Chauhan, Santosh Kumar

“…Numerical experiments demonstrate that the proposed model yields good performance compared with the previous time-dependent model.…”
Get full text

RBD-displaying OMV nanovaccine boosts immunity against SARS-CoV-2 by Rang Feng, Ruo-Yi Xue, Chang Liu, Guo-Cheng Li, Yan Deng, Zhe Jin, Jing-Yi Liu, Shan-Shan Zhang, Hao Cheng, Man-Ying Guo, Quan-Ming Zou, Hai-Bo Li

“…We successfully prepared a ‘plug-and-display’ nanovaccine OMV-RBD, which demonstrated good safety profiles and promoted the uptake of antigens by DCs and the maturation of BMDCs by activating TLR3 and NOD2 signaling pathways. …”
Get full text

Building a near-infrared (NIR) soil spectral dataset and predictive machine learning models using a handheld NIR spectrophotometerZenodo by Colleen Partida, Jose Lucas Safanelli, Sadia Mannan Mitu, Mohammad Omar Faruk Murad, Yufeng Ge, Richard Ferguson, Keith Shepherd, Jonathan Sanderman

“…An example of detailed code used to produce these models is hosted at the Open Soil Spectral Library, a free service of the Soil Spectroscopy for the Global Good Network (soilspectroscopy.org), enabling broad use of these data for multiple soil monitoring applications.…”
Get full text

A Two-Phase Numerical Model of Well Test Analysis to Characterize Formation Damage in Near-Well Regions of Injection Wells by Jia Zhang, Shiqing Cheng, Shiying Di, Zhanwu Gao, Rui Yang, Pengliang Cao

“…With this methodology, we compared the resulting solutions with a commercial simulator. Our results keep a good agreement with the solutions from the simulator. …”
Get full text

Cross-Domain Person Re-Identification Based on Multi-Branch Pose-Guided Occlusion Generation by Pengnan Liu, Yanchen Wang, Yunlong Li, Deqiang Cheng, Feixiang Xu

“…Additionally, the algorithm achieved 51.6% and 41.3% on DukeMTMC-reID→Occluded-Duke, demonstrating good recognition performance on the occlusion dataset.…”
Get full text

A Parametric Study of Performance of Two Solar Wind Velocity Forecasting Models During 2006–2011 by Sandeep Kumar, Nandita Srivastava

“…As SC 24 began, this decreasing trend vanished due to an increase in the coronal hole (CH) area at the low and mid‐latitudes, suggesting a good correlation between the performance of the framework and the variation in the CH area.…”
Get full text

Mid‐Latitude Study of Ionospheric Variation Over Iran Associated With Equatorial Ionization Anomaly (EIA), and Artificial Neural Networks Model Development by M. Vazifehkhah Hafteh, A. Mahmoudian, A. Yoshikawa, K. Girgis

“…The results demonstrate that ROTI exhibits good agreement with TEC in terms of latitude penetration and the detected gradient in TEC. …”
Get full text

INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO ENSURING THE QUALITY OF GAS TURBINE ENGINE PARTS PRODUCED BY SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING FOR UAV by Yevhen VYSHNEPOLSKYI, Dmytro PAVLENKO, Larysa TUMARCHENKO

“…Implementing the elaborated technological recommendations will permit broadening the range of goods produced by additive manufacturing and enhancing their capacity and dependability during operation under conditions of cyclical loads and extreme temperatures.…”
Get full text

Predictors of massive transfusion protocols activation in patients with trauma in Korea: a systematic review by Dongmin Seo, Inhae Heo, Juhong Park, Junsik Kwon, Hye-min Sohn, Kyoungwon Jung

“…Among them, ROTEM, rSIG, MEWS, SI, and lactate level showed good effects for predictions of MTPs activation. …”
Get full text

A tannic acid-based intumescent flame retardant for improving flame retardancy of epoxy composites by Xiaosui Chen, Yaoting Ma, Shuzheng Liu, Aiqing Zhang, Wei Liu, Shengchao Huang

“…This work provides a sustainable biomass flame retardant with good flame-retarding efficiency based on TA.…”
Get full text

Synthesis of Calcium Phosphate by Microwave Hydrothermal Method by Ana Elisa Vilicev Italiano, Ricardo Luis Tranquilin, Danny Omar Mendoza Marin, Márcio Luiz dos Santos, Luís Geraldo Vaz

“…Calcium phosphate is a biomaterial that has good properties such as biocompatibility and bioactivity, making it a reference in bone replacement treatments. …”
Get full text

Pengembangan panduan konseling kognitif behavioral teknik self management untuk meningkatkan motivasi belajar siswa di sekolah menengah pertama by Cokorda Oka Wibhawa Putra, Nyoman Dantes, Kadek Ari Dwi Arwati

“…All instrumeints useid in thei asseissmeint by eixpeirts of thei counseiling manual consist of 20 iteims, and all of theim havei good validity. Baseid on this asseissmeint, thei conteint validity indeix (CVI) of thei counseiling manual is cateigorizeid as veiry appropriatei. …”
Get full text

Analyzing the Origin of Low Resistivity in Gas-Bearing Tight Sandstone Reservoir by Yanjiao Jiang, Jian Zhou, Xiaofei Fu, Likai Cui, Chao Fang, Jiangman Cui

“…The numerical simulation results indicated that a formation with good permeability and high overbalance pressure has a deep invasion depth. …”
Get full text

Dynamic Evolution Law of Overburden Rock in Shallow-Buried Super-High Fully Mechanized Working Face and Determination of Support Strength by Yingjie Liu, Haijun Wang, Qingjie Qi, Anhu Wang, Youxin Zhao

“…The phenomenon of stress recovery exists in the goaf. With the increase in the advancing range of the working face, the degree of stress recovery gradually increases, and the degree of maximum principal stress recovery is higher than that of the minimum principal stress recovery. …”
Get full text