Scoping review on the perceptions and attitude of women on methods for collecting cervicovaginal samples for Human Papillomavirus testing in Sub-Saharan Africa. by Uduak Ima Andrew-Bassey, Deborah Olamiposi Oke, Michael A Okunlola, Imran Morhason-Bello

“…Self-sampling for Human Papillomavirus (HPV) test for CC screening is increasingly used globally to accelerate wide coverage but some have reported barriers against its use. …”
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Comparison of Two Inoculation Methods for Evaluating Maize for Resistance to Aspergillus flavus Infection and Aflatoxin Accumulation by W. Paul Williams, Michael N. Alpe, Gary L. Windham, Seval Ozkan, J. Erik Mylroie

“…The side-needle technique is a widely used inoculation technique: an A. flavus conidial suspension is injected underneath the husks into the side of the ear. …”
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Integrated Methodologies for the 3D Survey and the Structural Monitoring of Industrial Archaeology: The Case of the Casalecchio di Reno Sluice, Italy by Gabriele Bitelli, Giorgia Gatta, Valentina Alena Girelli, Luca Vittuari, Antonio Zanutta

“…Along with the detailed investigations performed on individual portions of the structure, an analysis of the whole sluice, carried out at a regional scale, was done via the use of aerial photogrammetry, using both recently acquired images and historical photogrammetric coverage. …”
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Genotypic analysis of meningococcal factor h-binding protein from non-culture clinical specimens. by Stephen A Clark, Jay Lucidarme, Lynne S Newbold, Ray Borrow

“…A panel of 96 diverse, patient-matched clinical specimen/isolate pairs from invasive disease cases was used to illustrate the breadth of strain coverage for the assay. …”
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A Bayesian approach to quantifying the effects of mass poultry vaccination upon the spatial and temporal dynamics of H5N1 in Northern Vietnam. by Patrick G T Walker, Simon Cauchemez, Raphaëlle Métras, Do Huu Dung, Dirk Pfeiffer, Azra C Ghani

“…This was coupled with a significant increase in the time from infection to detection of the outbreak. Using a cladistic approach we estimated that, according to the posterior mean effect of pruning the reconstructed epidemic tree, two thirds of the outbreaks in 2007 could be attributed to this decrease in the rate of reporting. …”
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Events supposedly attributable to COVID-19 vaccination in children from a family health strategy by Sheila Ilda Eler Mourão, Cláudio Luiz Ferreira Júnior, Leandro Pinheiro Cintra, Josiane Moreira da Costa, Renata Aline de Andrade

“…Data were collected via telephone for 260 children vaccinated between January and July 2022 using the Ministry of Health's adverse events investigation form associated with the use of vaccines, serums, or immunoglobulin. …”
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A rare case of a metastatic neuroendocrine tumor of the pancreas by O. I. Kit, V. S. Trifanov, N. N. Timoshkina, E. N. Kolesnikov, D. Y. Gvaldin, N. S. Karnaukhov, D. S. Kutilin, M. Y. Meshcheryakova

“…., USA) with the mean coverage of at least 100× using the AmpliSeq target panel for Illumina Comprehensive Cancer Panel for studying exons of 409 genes, mutations in which are associated with oncopathology.Results. …”
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Conventional Antimicrobial and Medicinal Plants from a Traditional Medicine Market in South Africa: An Interactive Antimicrobial and Toxicity Study by Zelna Booth, Sabiha Essack, Sandy van Vuuren

“…Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) has proposed the use of integrative medicine to achieve extended healthcare coverage in developing countries facing high morbidity. …”
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Ambulance Crash During Emergency Operation in Iran: A Qualitative Study by Rahim Ali Sheikhi, Mohammad Heidari, Hamid Jafari, Sadegh Heydarpoor, Salman Yadollahi

“…Data analysis and code extraction were carried out using MAXQDA software, version 10. The codes were extracted using both deductive and inductive methods. …”
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Financial Support for Information Protection Measures: Problems and Solutions by E. A. Perminova

“…Practical ways of solving the problem of financing information protection measures in order to ensure economic security are proposed, using both the possibility of expanding public-private partnership in this area and other measures that organizations can directly use.Conclusions . …”
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Comparison of HLA allelic imputation programs. by Jason H Karnes, Christian M Shaffer, Lisa Bastarache, Silvana Gaudieri, Andrew M Glazer, Heidi E Steiner, Jonathan D Mosley, Simon Mallal, Joshua C Denny, Elizabeth J Phillips, Dan M Roden

“…We performed four-digit HLA sequencing for HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB1, -DPB1, and -DQB1 using long-read 454 FLX sequencing. All samples were genotyped using both the Illumina HumanExome BeadChip platform and a GWAS platform. …”
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Hardware‐assisted remote attestation design for critical embedded systems by Munir Geden, Kasper Rasmussen

“…To reveal attack scenarios exploiting the memory regions and time windows left unattested, we propose an attestation scheme that can continuously monitor both static and dynamic memory regions with better spatial and temporal attestation coverage. Our monitoring mechanism is designed to be performed in real time using a novel hardware security module (HSM) connected to the prover's system bus. …”
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Efficiency of Inter-Budgetary Regulation of Heavily Subsidized Budgets at the Subnational Level by М. Р. Tashtamirov

“…The main conclusion of the study is that the existing mechanism of inter-budgetary regulation and the existing instruments for equalizing budgetary provision do not contribute to a significant change in the fiscal and socio-economic parameters of the development of heavily subsidized budgets at the subnational level. The nature of the use of the gratuitous aid received for this category of subjects of the country is reduced to short-term coverage of the gap in financing expenditure obligations but does not change the model of either the organization of budget regulation or the regional economy. …”
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Navigating challenges and bridging gaps: Evaluating the 95-95-95 targets of UNAIDS in Northeast India’s seven sister states by Arushi Arya, T. P. Sherin Raj, Vijay Kumar Tiwari

“…Conclusion: The main causes of high prevalence of HIV/AIDs may be higher percentage of injectable drug use, less ART coverage, and less comprehensive knowledge. …”
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HISTORICAL NARRATIVE: CONSTITUENT FEATURES AND LINGUISTIC PROPERTIES by Olga A. Leontovich, Anna A. Khanova

“…While historians extensively research narrative and use a significant number of concepts that linguists traditionally see as their own, the properties of historical narrative have not received sufficient coverage in linguistics yet. …”
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EXPERIENCE OF APPLICATION AND SAFETY ASSESSMENT OF THE 13-VALENT PNEUMOCOCCAL CONJUGATE VACCINE IN UNDER-5 CHILDREN by M. V. Fedoseenko, D. A. Novikova, N. E. Tkachenko, M. I. Broeva, T. A. Grechukha, A. G. Gaivoronskaya, V. V. Chernikov

“…Compulsory use of the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in the framework of national pediatric immunization schedules of the developed countries resulted in significant decrease in the prevalence of the pneumococcal infections induced by the vaccinal serotypes. …”
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Factors Influencing Undergraduate Nursing Students’ Perception of Educational Quality by Sahar A. A. Ahmed, Sanaa M. Ahmed, Lamia A. Awad

“…The study recommended that all institutions and departments should use self-evaluation as an essential tool in striving to educational quality, and also should consider the students’ perception of factors that might affect their educational quality. …”
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The impact of household size on measles transmission: A long-term perspective by Subekshya Bidari, Wan Yang

“…In addition, simulations of endemic transmission of measles within a hypothetical population formulated using aggregated world demographic data suggest the decline in household size (driven by changing fertility rates of the population), in addition to increasing vaccination coverage, could have had a significant impact on the incidence of measles over time.…”
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Co-occurrence of malaria and Chagas disease in the Brazilian Amazon: the need for integrated health surveillance by Izabel Cristina dos Reis, Raquel Martins Lana, Cláudia Torres Codeço, Ana Paula Dal’Asta, Milton Barbosa, Diego Ricardo Xavier

“…The analysis explored 19 environmental indicators and two socioeconomic indicators related to habitat loss, land use and cover, climate anomalies, and the multidimensional poverty index. …”
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The Spatiotemporal Evolution of Ecosystem Health and Its Driving Factors in Karst Rocky Desertification Areas A Case Study of Guizhou Province, China by Beibei Zhang, Zhongfa Zhou

“…Precipitation, relative humidity, and nighttime lights mainly have a positive driving effect on ecosystem health in Guizhou Province, while temperature, vegetation coverage, and land use intensity are the dominant factors with a negative driving effect on ecosystem health. …”
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