Costs of home-delivered antiretroviral therapy refills for persons living with HIV: Evidence from a pilot randomized controlled trial in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. by Ashley S Tseng, Ruanne V Barnabas, Alastair van Heerden, Xolani Ntinga, Maitreyi Sahu

“…Average costs of home delivery further decreased when increasing the duration of refills from three-months to six- and 12-month scripts (from $183 to $177 and $135 per client, respectively). …”
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From Material to Solution: Implementing Shape Memory Behavior of Thermoplastic Polymers in Commercial FEA Software for Structural Analysis by Fabian Neumann, Ferdinand Cerbe, Michael Sinapius

“…Parameters necessary for the implementation are derived by using fully open-source Python scripts. A unidirectional shape-memory tensile test simulation is performed and compared with the experimental data from a thermo-mechanical shape-memory test. …”
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Association of Microbiome in Oral Cancer Patients and Healthy Individuals: A Metagenomic Study by Harshitkumar J. Savalia, Nimisha Patel, Krishna Mohan Singh, Manan Patel, Shomesh Chandra, Purva Gohil, Apurvasinh Puvar, Chaitanya G. Joshi, Rushika Patel

“…This research explores bacterial communities in individuals diagnosed with oral cancer, comparing them to healthy individuals to identify potential variations associated with the condition. …”
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DHPSFU: a Fiji plugin for fast and accurate double helix-PSF 3D single-molecule localisation microscopy by Ziwei Zhang, Aleksandra Ochirova, Siqi Liu, Alex D. Herbert, Yunzhao Wu, Wayne Boucher, Steven F. Lee, Ernest D. Laue, David Klenerman, Aleks Ponjavic

“…We have incorporated DHPSFU as a Fiji plugin and provide Matlab and Python scripts for user customisation.…”
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Accelerometry and the Capacity–Performance Gap: Case Series Report in Upper-Extremity Motor Impairment Assessment Post-Stroke by Estevan M. Nieto, Edaena Lujan, Crystal A. Mendoza, Yazbel Arriaga, Cecilia Fierro, Tan Tran, Lin-Ching Chang, Alvaro N. Gurovich, Peter S. Lum, Shashwati Geed

“…Participants (N = 4) with neuroimaging-confirmed chronic stroke completed matched activity scripts—comprising instrumental and basic activities of daily living—in-lab and at-home. …”
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WISTFUL: Whole‐Rock Interpretative Seismic Toolbox for Ultramafic Lithologies by William J. Shinevar, Oliver Jagoutz, Mark D. Behn

“…To assess the second source of uncertainty, we compared wave speed measurements of 40 ultramafic rocks with calculated wave speeds, finding excellent agreement (Vp RMSE = 0.11 km/s). …”
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Smart Energy Dissipation by Mauricio Beltran

“…The numerical investigations on passive damped outriggers are based on master Matlab scripts, which run combined parametric analysis within Diana.   …”
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The Impact of Cloud Versus Local Infrastructure on Automatic IoT-Driven Hydroponic Systems by Cosmina-Mihaela Rosca, Adrian Stancu, Marian Popescu

“…Agriculture is an important domain in everyday life, central to human existence. This research comparatively analyzes two proposed types of infrastructures that optimize the growth flow of plants in a hydroponic system for continuous monitoring, one full-cloud and one full-local. …”
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The Design and Optimization of Additively Manufactured Windings Utilizing Data Driven Algorithms for Minimal Loss in Electric Machines by John McKay, Jill Miscandlon, Tatyana Konkova

“…The optimal designs are then validated against 2D and 3D FEA high precision motor models within Ansys maxwell and MotorCad and compared against a benchmark winding configuration. …”
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Enhanced Offline Writer Recognition System Employing Blended Multi-Input CNN and Bi-LSTM Model on Diverse Handwritten Texts by Naresh Purohit, Subhash Panwar

“…Analytically, our findings are encouraging compared to previous studies. The model achieves accuracies of 98.78% on the IAM dataset, 98.55% on the CVL dataset, and 99% on an in-house bilingual dataset. …”
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Characterizing microbial communities and their correlation with genetic mutations in early-stage lung adenocarcinoma: implications for disease progression and therapeutic targets by Hao-Shuai Yang, Jin Zhang, Hong-Xiang Feng, Fei Qi, Fan-Jia Kong, Wei-Jie Zhu, Chao-Yang Liang, Zhen-Rong Zhang

“…Correlation analysis was performed to link microbial species with mutated genes using custom R scripts.ResultsMetagenomic analysis revealed a distinct microbial profile in IAC compared to AIS/MIA, with increased abundance of Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes in the IAC group. …”
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Recent Tools of Software-Defined Networking Traffic Generation and Data Collection by Tabarak Khudhair, Omar Athab

“…The famous tools iperf3, Ping and python scripts are used to generate network datasets from selected devices in the network. …”
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Hybrid electronic record: An error reduction strategy for diverse medical prescription formats by Carl-Heinz Kruse, Michelle T.D. Smith, Damian L. Clarke

“…Increasing levels of technology did not decrease error rates but did decrease the variety of error types. High technology scripts had the most errors but when easily correctable errors were removed, EHRs had the lowest error rates and handwritten the highest. …”
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Stability of soil-rock mixture slopes based on random field theory by Hongguang BIAN, Shun WANG, Haishan MA, Peng XIN

“…The local averaging method is used to simulate the random field, with random field parameter generation conducted in MATLAB. Python scripts are employed to map the random field parameters to the soil-rock mixture slope via finite element software, accounting for the actual shape and content of block rocks in the soil-rock mixture. …”
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Effects of ethnic attributes on the quality of family planning services in Lima, Peru: a randomized crossover trial. by Maria-Elena Planas, Patricia J García, Monserrat Bustelo, Cesar P Carcamo, Sebastian Martinez, Hugo Nopo, Julio Rodriguez, Maria-Fernanda Merino, Andrew Morrison

“…Both ethnic profiles used the same scripted scenario for seeking contraceptive advice but had distinctive cultural attributes such as clothing, styling of hair, make-up, accessories, posture and patterns of movement and speech. …”
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Potential of Sustainable Timber Modular Houses in Southern Highland, Tanzania: The Structural Response of Timber Modules Under Wind Load by Daudi Salezi Augustino

“…This instability, despite its lightweight, is mainly controlled by mechanical joints within timber members. Parametric Python scripts were developed in Abaqus (version 6.13) to have a reliable joint between timber volume modules and assess their response when subjected to wind forces. …”
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A Comparison of Responses from Human Therapists and Large Language Model–Based Chatbots to Assess Therapeutic Communication: Mixed Methods Study by Till Scholich, Maya Barr, Shannon Wiltsey Stirman, Shriti Raj

“…MethodsWe conducted a mixed methods study to compare responses from chatbots and licensed therapists to scripted mental health scenarios. …”
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Real-Time Detection and Identification of ARP Spoofing Attacks in Microgrids by Kalinath Katuri, Ha Thi Nguyen, Emmanouil Anagnostou

“…In addition, the impact analysis results indicated that for an identical malicious payload, the FDI attack is more severe when compared to MITM due to the intermittent nature of false data injection.…”
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Effect of Porosity on Nonlinear Tip Deflection of Functionally Graded Piezoelectric Actuators by Mohammad Gholami, Mansour Alizadeh

“…In addition, variation in the volume fraction index in the range 0–1 leads to the highest rate of change in actuator tip deflection. By comparing the results of the linear and nonlinear theories, It has been found that the linear theory overestimates the deformations in the case of strong electromechanical loading. …”
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Assessing the Fit of a Digitally Delivered National Diabetes Prevention Program Among Rural Living Adults: Qualitative Study by Gerit Wagner, Lyndsie M Koon, Patricia Smith, Kameron B Suire, Mary Hastert, Joseph E Donnelly, Melissa D Olfert, Paul Estabrooks, Anna M Gorczyca

“…ObjectiveThis qualitative study aimed to examine the fit of the National DPP delivered digitally using Zoom or Facebook to rural living adults at risk for type 2 diabetes. MethodsFocus group scripts assessed the characteristics and perceptions of rural adults at risk for type 2 diabetes, infrastructure supports for implementation and sustainability, and external factors that could influence program fit. …”
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