Challenges of COVID-19 Case Forecasting in the US, 2020-2021. by Velma K Lopez, Estee Y Cramer, Robert Pagano, John M Drake, Eamon B O'Dea, Madeline Adee, Turgay Ayer, Jagpreet Chhatwal, Ozden O Dalgic, Mary A Ladd, Benjamin P Linas, Peter P Mueller, Jade Xiao, Johannes Bracher, Alvaro J Castro Rivadeneira, Aaron Gerding, Tilmann Gneiting, Yuxin Huang, Dasuni Jayawardena, Abdul H Kanji, Khoa Le, Anja Mühlemann, Jarad Niemi, Evan L Ray, Ariane Stark, Yijin Wang, Nutcha Wattanachit, Martha W Zorn, Sen Pei, Jeffrey Shaman, Teresa K Yamana, Samuel R Tarasewicz, Daniel J Wilson, Sid Baccam, Heidi Gurung, Steve Stage, Brad Suchoski, Lei Gao, Zhiling Gu, Myungjin Kim, Xinyi Li, Guannan Wang, Lily Wang, Yueying Wang, Shan Yu, Lauren Gardner, Sonia Jindal, Maximilian Marshall, Kristen Nixon, Juan Dent, Alison L Hill, Joshua Kaminsky, Elizabeth C Lee, Joseph C Lemaitre, Justin Lessler, Claire P Smith, Shaun Truelove, Matt Kinsey, Luke C Mullany, Kaitlin Rainwater-Lovett, Lauren Shin, Katharine Tallaksen, Shelby Wilson, Dean Karlen, Lauren Castro, Geoffrey Fairchild, Isaac Michaud, Dave Osthus, Jiang Bian, Wei Cao, Zhifeng Gao, Juan Lavista Ferres, Chaozhuo Li, Tie-Yan Liu, Xing Xie, Shun Zhang, Shun Zheng, Matteo Chinazzi, Jessica T Davis, Kunpeng Mu, Ana Pastore Y Piontti, Alessandro Vespignani, Xinyue Xiong, Robert Walraven, Jinghui Chen, Quanquan Gu, Lingxiao Wang, Pan Xu, Weitong Zhang, Difan Zou, Graham Casey Gibson, Daniel Sheldon, Ajitesh Srivastava, Aniruddha Adiga, Benjamin Hurt, Gursharn Kaur, Bryan Lewis, Madhav Marathe, Akhil Sai Peddireddy, Przemyslaw Porebski, Srinivasan Venkatramanan, Lijing Wang, Pragati V Prasad, Jo W Walker, Alexander E Webber, Rachel B Slayton, Matthew Biggerstaff, Nicholas G Reich, Michael A Johansson

“…We evaluated approximately 9.7 million forecasts of weekly state-level COVID-19 cases for predictions 1-4 weeks into the future submitted by 24 teams from August 2020 to December 2021. We assessed coverage of central prediction intervals and weighted interval scores (WIS), adjusting for missing forecasts relative to a baseline forecast, and used a Gaussian generalized estimating equation (GEE) model to evaluate differences in skill across epidemic phases that were defined by the effective reproduction number. …”
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Spray volume distribution pattern and droplet size spectrum from ceramic nozzles by Mateus P. Massola, Vandoir Holtz, Marcos P. de O. Martins, Anderson da S. Umbelino, Elton F. dos Reis

“…Contrastingly, the percentage of droplets with diameter smaller than 100 μm increased with increasing working pressure; the target coverage presented the same trend, with 8.4% of coverage when using ATR nozzles with working pressure of 700 kPa.…”
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Overcoming practical challenges to pilot Sierra Leone’s first school-based distribution of piperonyl butoxide-synergist ITNs: findings from a 2023 assessment in Kono district by Keith Esch, Fredrick Yamba, Kevin Opondo, Musa Sillah-Kanu, David Schnabel, Prince Owusu, Raymond Sudoi, Malia Skjefte, Wani Lahai, Mohamed G. Sheku, Mariama Kabba Jibatteh, Augustine Ngegbe, Jenny Carlson, Temitayo Labor, Djenam Jacob, Charlene Youseff, Elisabeth Tyler, Prince Nallo, Dennis Marke, Stephen Poyer

“…However, intervention population ITN use, and access were still below the NMCP’s 80% target. …”
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Droughts and media: when and how do the newspapers talk about the droughts in England? by I. Kong, J. Seibert, R. S. Purves

“…We constructed a corpus of more than 800 newspaper articles related to droughts in England for the last 24 years (2000–2023) and analysed the temporal alignment of newspaper coverage with hydroclimatic anomalies and seasonality using a negative binomial regression model. …”
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Fleet‐Based Degradation State Quantification for Industrial Water Electrolyzers by Xuqian Yan, Lennard Helmers, Kunyuan Zhou, Astrid Nieße

“…This method was validated using both synthetic data and operation data from 12 industrial electrolyzers with 1–3 years of operation history, including in‐depth sensitivity analyses on the data coverage, fleet–target discrepancy, and fleet size. …”
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Reverse posterior interosseous flap of the forearm for the surgical treatment of electric hand trauma: Case report by Rodolfo Costa Lobato, Wellington Menezes Mota, Paulo Tuma, Dimas André Milcheski, Hugo Alberto Nakamoto, Rolf Gemperli

“…Introduction: Lesions affecting the hands with significant skin loss often require flaps for early coverage, as these permit faster healing. Among the various options, the reverse posterior interosseous flap of the forearm is most commonly used for defects involving the back of the hand and wrist due to low complication rates. …”
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Design and Experimental Operation of a Swing-Arm Orchard Sprayer by Zhongyi Yu, Mingtian Geng, Keyao Zhao, Xiangsen Meng, Hongtu Zhang, Xiongkui He

“…Firstly, the structural principles of a crawler-type traveling system and swing-arm sprayer were simulated using finite element software design. The combination of a diffuse reflection photoelectric sensor and Arduino single-chip microcomputer was used to realize real-time detection and dynamic spray control in the pear canopy, and the sensor delay compensation algorithm was used to optimize target recognition accuracy and improve the utilization rate of liquid agrochemicals. …”
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Hepatitis C virus notification rates in Australia are highest in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas. by Samuel W Hainsworth, Paul M Dietze, David P Wilson, Brett Sutton, Margaret E Hellard, Nick Scott

“…<h4>Methods</h4>We performed an Australia-wide cross-sectional analysis of 2015 HCV notification rates using local government areas (LGAs) as our unit of analysis. …”
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Magnetic resonance imaging of posterolateral plica of the elbow joint: Asymptomatic vs. symptomatic subjects. by Sang-Hee Choi, Suk Kyeong Ji, Seung Ah Lee, Min Jong Park, Moon Jong Chang

“…However, using the coverage criteria, the prevalence of posterolateral elbow plica was significantly greater in the plica group than the asymptomatic group (64% vs. 18%; p < 0.001).…”
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Quantifying the burden of cardiovascular diseases among people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: findings from a modeling study for Uganda by Alexander Kintu, David Sando, David Guwatudde, Silver Bahendeka, Peter C Kawungezi, Gerald Mutungi, Winnie Muyindike, Nicolas Menzies, Samson Okello, Goodarz Danaei, Stéphane Verguet

“… # Methods We estimated the proportion of PLWH in Uganda with raised blood pressure and high total cholesterol, and used a modified cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk prediction model (Globorisk) to assess the 10-year risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease using individual-level data on cardiometabolic risk factors, population-level data on HIV prevalence and ART coverage, and the impact of HIV on blood pressure and cholesterol…”
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Fractional Fourier Transform-Based Signal Separation for Ultrasonic Guided Wave Inspection of Plates by Chengxiang Peng, Paul Annus, Marek Rist, Raul Land, Madis Ratassepp

“…Array transducers are typically used for more efficient coverage, but conventional excitation methods require sufficient time delays between the excitation of array elements that prolong inspection time, necessitating data acquisition time optimization. …”
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A new method for a priori practical identifiability. by Peter Thompson, Benjamin Jan Andersson, Nicolas Sundqvist, Gunnar Cedersund

“…An alternative could be using structural identifiability methods, since they do not need such coverage. …”
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Robust ordered mRNA differential display: an improved method for global gene expression profiling by Honggao Liu, Jihong Hu, Lei Pan, Shuzhen Wang, Ying He, Yi Ding

“…Redundancy was minimized by bead-based isolation and coverage was improved by using restriction enzymes that recognized 4-bp sites. …”
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Awareness of doctors and epilepsy patients about preferential drug provision by A. S. Romanov, E. F. Sharakhova, N. I. Shova, V. A. Mikhailov

“…The study was conducted by using empirical data retrieved from questionnaire survey of epilepsy patients and epileptologists. …”
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Examining Media Ownership and its Effects on Journalism Practices: A Study of Electronic Private Media Houses in Lusaka District of Lusaka Province by Leya Namonje, Sycorax Ndhlovu

“…The research uses both qualitative and quantitative methods. A sample of 50 respondents is used to collect data. …”
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Systematic Review of Willingness to Pay for Health Insurance in Low and Middle Income Countries. by Shirin Nosratnejad, Arash Rashidian, David Mark Dror

“…The findings demonstrate that in moving towards universal health coverage in LMICs, governments should not rely on households' premiums as a major financing source and should increase their fiscal capacity for an equitable health care system using other sources.…”
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The relationship between democracy and corruption and the global physician workforce. by Amrit Kirpalani, Eray Yilmaz

“…<h4>Methods</h4>A cross-sectional study was conducted using a global dataset from 2020 to 2022. The primary outcome was Physician Density (medical doctors per 10000 people). …”
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Soil Fauna-Indicators of Ungrazed Versus Grazed Grassland Ecosystems in Romania by Minodora Manu, Raluca Ioana Băncilă, Marilena Onete

“…The community status of these soil invertebrate faunas was mainly evaluated using three parameters: numerical abundance, taxa richness, and Shannon–Wiener index of diversity. …”
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Hybrid optimization for efficient 6G IoT traffic management and multi-routing strategy by J. Logeshwaran, Shobhit K. Patel, Om Prakash Kumar, Fahah Ahmed Al-Zahrani

“…Simulation results were implemented using the ns-3 simulation tool, and the proposed model outperformed the traditional methods in deployment coverage (95%), cluster stability index (0.97), and CH selection efficiency (95%). …”
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Usability of existing alcohol survey data in South Africa: a qualitative analysis by Mayara Fontes Marx, Leslie London, Nadine Harker Burnhams, John Ataguba

“…Objective This paper assesses the usability of existing alcohol survey data in South Africa (SA) by documenting the type of data available, identifying what possible analyses could be done using these existing datasets in SA and exploring limitations of the datasets.Settings A desktop review and in-depth semistructured interviews were used to identify existing alcohol surveys in SA and assess their usability.Participants We interviewed 10 key researchers in alcohol policies and health economics in SA (four women and six men). …”
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