Exploring the burden of cholera in the WHO African region: patterns and trends from 2000 to 2023 cholera outbreak data by Joseph Okeibunor, Saliou Diallo, Abdou Salam Gueye, Etien Luc Koua, Jean Paul Kimenyi, Vincent Dossou Sodjinou, Fleury Hybriel Moussana, Freddy Kambale

“…We cross-referenced several WASH indicators, and generated a similarity matrix to categorise countries or subnational units into groups using principal component analysis and K-means clustering. …”
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The Muscadine Grape (Vitis rotundifolia Michx) by Peter C. Andersen, Ali Sarkhosh, Dustin Huff, Jacque Breman

“… The muscadine grape is native to the southeastern United States and was the first native grape species to be cultivated in North America. …”
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Geology of the Tabakoto gold deposit, Kédougou-Kéniéba Inlier, West African Craton, Mali by Diallo Mahamadou, Salvi Stefano, Baratoux Lenka, Béziat Didier, Vanderhaeghe Olivier, Labou Ibrahima, Baratoux David, Ly Saïdou

“…The gold-bearing V2 quartz-pyrite veins developed in dikes and metasedimentary units, are parallel to the S2 schistosity of the DT2 deformation event. …”
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Dengue vector control in high-income, city settings: A scoping review of approaches and methods. by Anna Durrance-Bagale, Nirel Hoe, Jane Lai, Jonathan Wee Kent Liew, Hannah Clapham, Natasha Howard

“…<h4>Methods</h4>Studies of any design or year were included if they reported effects on human DENV infection or Aedes vector indices of dengue-specific vector control interventions in high-income, city settings.…”
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Effect of L-carnitine on lipid biomarkers of oxidative stress in chronic hemodialysis patients: a randomized controlled trial by Shokoh Shayanpour, Seyyed Seyfollah Beladi Mousavi, Hossain Karimpourian, Khojasteh Hoseinynejad, Kambiz Ahmadi Angali

“…The dose consumption of erythropoietin decreased far more in the intervention group (from; 8000±520 to 3750±418 unite/week) than in the control group (from; 8000±318 to 6000±528) after 5 months of follow-up (p=0.029). …”
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The Protective Role of Ambient Ultraviolet Radiation Against Dementia: An Ecological Analysis of Global Data by Wenpeng You

“…Subgroup analyses were performed to explore differences across income classifications, regional groupings, and developmental statuses, based on World Bank and United Nations criteria. Results A significant inverse correlation between UVR and dementia incidence was identified (r = −0.764, p < 0.001), which persisted after adjusting for confounding factors. …”
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Cost of introducing and delivering malaria vaccine (RTS,S/AS01E) in areas of seasonal malaria transmission, Mali and Burkina Faso by Jean Bosco Ouédraogo, Alassane Dicko, Ranju Baral, Clint Pecenka, Halimatou Diawara, Fadima Yaya Bocoum, Ann Levin, Cynthia Lee, Fatoumata Koita, Rosemonde Guissou, Seydou Yabré, Seydou Traoré, Winthrop Morgan

“…Resource use data are informed by previous new vaccine introductions, supplemented with primary data from a sample of health facilities and administrative units.Findings At an assumed vaccine price of US $5 per dose, the economic cost per dose administered ranges between $7.73 and $8.68 (mass campaign), $7.04 and $7.38 (routine EPI) and $7.26 and $7.93 (mixed delivery). …”
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Small Magnets, Big Future: Low-Field MRI Technology and Clinical Utility by Mohamamdreza Elhaie, Abolfazl Koozari, Iraj Abedi, Mahmoud Mohammadi-Sadr, Abbas Monsef

“…Low-field MRI (LF-MRI) has both advantages and disadvantages over high-field units. It enables the scanning of anxious patients and children who cannot tolerate enclosed high-field scanners due to discomfort. …”
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Progress on HIV and other sexually transmitted infections elimination among youth and adults across BRICS-plus countries: Results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Rizhen Wang, Yinuo Sun, Huan Wang, Xiaoran Yu, JiYan Ma, Zuokun Liu, Jing Li, Zhiyong Zou, Yangmu Huang

“…We aim to assess HIV and other STIs morbidity trends from 1992 to 2021 across BRICS-plus (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates), which accounts for nearly half of the world population. …”
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Prevalence, risk factors, and prognostic implications of intraoperative bleeding during CF-LVAD implant by Ibrahim Mortada, MD, Christos Kourek, MD, PhD, Rupesh Kshetri, MD, Arun Singhal, MD, Anthony Panos, MD, Alexandros Briasoulis, MD, PhD, Mohammed Mhanna, MD, MPH, Shareef Mansour, MD, Kristine Yumul, MD, Paulino Alvarez, MD, Ernesto Ruiz Duque, MD

“…Our study aims at identifying potential predictors of intraoperative bleeding, defined as 4 or more units of packed red blood cells transfused during surgery. …”
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The Republics of the Southern Caucasus on their way to the ‘Socialist federation’ (1917–1922) by L. S. Gatagova

“…Contemporary historians point to the fact that the unification process was imposed artificially, and even forcefully, according to some assessments, by Moscow, and its unifying effect was rather mixed. …”
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Performance of Cementless Hip Arthroplasty Stem Types Based on Consolidated Large Registry Data by Logan E. Finger, MD, Matthew F. Gong, MD, Asher Mirvish, BS, Alexandra S. Gabrielli, MD, Ahmad P. Tafti, PhD, Michael J. O’Malley, MD, Brian A. Klatt, MD, Johannes F. Plate, MD, PhD

“…The most utilized stem models were the (1) Corail stem (B2), (2) Accolade II (type A), and (3) Taperloc 133 (type A). …”
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Solar Irradiance Ramp Classification Using the IBEDI (Irradiance-Based Extreme Day Identification) Method by Llinet Benavides Cesar, Oscar Perpiñán-Lamigueiro

“…The strength of the proposed method relies on that it allows its generalization to any dataset. We assessed it on three datasets from distinct geographic regions—Oregon (northwestern United States), Hawaii (central Pacific Ocean), and Portugal (southwestern Europe)—each with varying temporal resolutions of five seconds, ten seconds, and one minute. …”
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Food access interventions in American Indian and Alaska Native communities by Danya Carroll, Lynn Mad Plume, Nicole Redvers

“… American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) com­munities in the United States represent culturally rich food landscapes and traditions. …”
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Spatio‐Temporal Changes in Effective Population Size in an Expanding Metapopulation of Eurasian Otters by Nia Evelyn Thomas, Elizabeth A. Chadwick, Michael W. Bruford, Frank Hailer

“…Analyses that did not account for spatial genetic structuring yielded strong spurious signals of United Kingdom‐wide population expansion, and Ne estimates from these analyses were suppressed by a factor of 3–4. …”
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Intratumor microbiome-derived butyrate promotes chemo-resistance in colorectal cancer by Linsheng Xu, Linsheng Xu, Bingde Hu, Jingli He, Xin Fu, Na Liu

“…Notably, Roseburia and Fusobacteria emerged as prominent biomarkers for the resistance group, whereas Bifidobacterium, Helicobacter, and Akkermansia were identified as biomarkers for the non-resistant group. Utilizing a Lasso regression model, we identified six genera-Roseburia, Helicobacter, Gardnerella, Flavonifractor, Coprococcus, and Anaerostipes-that significantly correlated with recurrence-free survival. …”
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Voxel Volumes and Biomass: Estimating Vegetation Volume and Litter Accumulation of Exotic Annual Grasses Using Automated Ultra‐High‐Resolution SfM and Advanced Classification Techn... by Josh Enterkine, Ahmad Hojatimalekshah, Monica Vermillion, Thomas Van Der Weide, Sergio A. Arispe, William J. Price, April Hulet, Nancy F. Glenn

“…ABSTRACT In much of the northern Great Basin of the western United States, rangelands, and semi‐arid ecosystems invaded by exotic annual grasses such as cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) and medusahead (Taeniatherum caput‐medusae) are experiencing an increasingly short fire cycle, which is compounding and persistent. …”
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Reinforcement learning based route optimization model to enhance energy efficiency in internet of vehicles by Quadeer Hussain, Ahmad Shukri Mohd Noor, Muhammad Mukhtar Qureshi, Jianqiang Li, Atta-ur Rahman, Aghiad Bakry, Tariq Mahmood, Amjad Rehman

“…By incorporating a diverse set of parameters and utilizing RL techniques, OptiE2ERL provides a robust solution for the challenges faced in IoV networks. …”
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Leveraging ChatGPT to Produce Patient Education Materials for Common Hand Conditions by George Abdelmalek, MD, Harjot Uppal, MBA, Daniel Garcia, BS, Joseph Farshchian, MD, Arash Emami, MD, Andrew McGinniss, MD

“…Purpose: Many adults in the United States possess basic or below basic health literacy skills, making it essential for patient education materials (PEMs) to be presented at or below a sixth-grade reading level. …”
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Comprehensive Research of Scaling Prediction for Gas Reservoir Fluid considering Phase State by Heng Zheng, Chunsheng Pu

“…For the complexity of the direct solution for a phase equilibrium system with a chemical reaction, a simplified method for calculating the phase change and chemical equilibrium in a multiphase equilibrium system with chemical reactions is proposed based on the conservation of materials and the unification of the physical properties of components. …”
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