A Two-echelon Model of Location-routing Problem for Optimizing Relief Operations in Natural Disasters by Hossein Jamali, Mehdi Kabiri Naeini, Zeynab Elahi

“…One of the most significant limitations in this context is the effective coverage of relief bases and the ability to provide timely aid to the affected area. …”
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Socio-demographic and economic profile of households with catastrophic health expenditures in Muanda, Boma and Matadi in 2022: a household cross-sectional study by Bijou Masokolo, Marie Claire Muyer, Marcelo Kalonji, Branly Mbunga, Landry Egbende, Steve Botomba, Fulbert Kwilu

“…A Clustered Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) was used through a 3-stage sampling process. Data were entered into SPSS version 26 and analyzed using the same software. …”
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The catastrophic and impoverishing effects of out-of-pocket healthcare payments in Kenya, 2018 by Paola Salari, Laura Di Giorgio, Stefania Ilinca, Jane Chuma

“…Introduction Progress towards effective service coverage and financial protection—the two dimensions of Universal Health Coverage (UHC)—has been limited in Kenya in the last decade. …”
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Simulation Design of an Elliptical Loop-Microstrip Array for Brain Lobe Imaging with an 11.74 Tesla MRI System by Daniel Hernandez, Taewoo Nam, Eunwoo Lee, Yeji Han, Yeunchul Ryu, Jun-Young Chung, Kyoung-Nam Kim

“…Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful medical imaging technique used for acquiring high-resolution anatomical and functional images of the human body. …”
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Analysis of Age Appropriate Measles Immunisation among the Eligible Children in India: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of National Family Health Survey–5 by Avijit Debnath, Niranjan Roy, Dipankar Roy, Munmi Sarma, Dipanjan Roy, Kinnor Das, Deepmala Deb

“…Cox Proportional Hazard regression analysis was used to determine the significant influencing factors on age-appropriate measles immunization in India. …”
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An Intelligent Method for C++ Test Case Synthesis Based on a Q-Learning Agent by Serhii Semenov, Oleksii Kolomiitsev, Mykhailo Hulevych, Patryk Mazurek, Olena Chernyk

“…This paper presents an intelligent method for test case synthesis using a Q-learning agent. The agent learns to construct compact test cases by interacting with an execution environment and receives rewards based on branch coverage improvements and simultaneous reductions in test case length. …”
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Effects of Diffusion Film Hole Exit Area on the Film Cooling Effectiveness by Fan Yang, Mohammad E. Taslim

“…However, different interior corner radii were used to blend the metering hole to the exit area, creating three different expansion geometries with almost the same exit areas. …”
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Whole-genome sequencing and assembly with high-throughput, short-read technologies. by Andreas Sundquist, Mostafa Ronaghi, Haixu Tang, Pavel Pevzner, Serafim Batzoglou

“…We describe a variation on hierarchical sequencing with two crucial differences: (1) we select a clone library from the genome randomly rather than as a tiling path and (2) we sample clones from the genome at high coverage and reads from the clones at low coverage. …”
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Assessment of Oral Health Disparities and Barriers to Care among Underserved Populations in Urban and Rural Settings by Digvijaysinh Parmar, Jenny Lalmalsawmi Sailo, Sahithya Sakhamuri, Chandan Dalapati, Smita Durga Dutta, Shivam Arya, Heena Dixit

“…The data were analyzed using Chi-square tests, with statistical significance determined at a P value of < 0.05. …”
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Inter-comparison and evaluation of global satellite XCO2 products by Hongji Yang, Tongwen Li, Jingan Wu, Lingfeng Zhang

“…Satellite remote sensing is an efficient way to monitor CO2 in the atmosphere, and several satellites are already used for CO2 monitoring. It is imperative to investigate the spatial coverage and spatio-temporal trends of satellite products, as well as identify the satellites with higher levels of accuracy. …”
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Barriers to Routine Gynecological Care in Young Adult Females in the United States by Anne M. Clark, Mireya C. Long, Brianna M. Magnusson

“…Differences between groups were assessed using t-test and analysis of variance, and logistic regression was used to examine the association between barriers and delayed care. …”
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Correlates of antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation among HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) in China by Liying Wang, Chenglin Hong, Jane M. Simoni, Na He, Chenxing Li, Lingxiao Chen, Frank Wong

“…Given the high vulnerability of and limited research on ART coverage in China, we describe the ART initiation rate and correlates of ART initiation using Anderson’s health service utilization model…”
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Leak detection and localization in water distribution systems via multilayer networks by Daniel Barros, Ariele Zanfei, Andrea Menapace, Gustavo Meirelles, Manuel Herrera, Bruno Brentan

“…The localization process uses a multi-graph approach that combines sensor data and network topology to determine the sensor coverage area. …”
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Underutilized Feature Extraction Methods for Burn Severity Mapping: A Comprehensive Evaluation by Linh Nguyen Van, Giha Lee

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Drug related harm reduction in the eu and candidate countries - success and gaps by Martin Busch, Alexander Grabenhofer-Eggerth, Charlotte Klein, Di Marion Weigl

“…</p><p><span> Conclusions : </span>The increase of coverage of substitution treatment and of the availability of nee-dle exchange programs in most countries can be seen as successes of harm reduction policy although the coverage especially of the latter still needs improvement. …”
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Simulation-based assessment of digital twin systems for immunisation by Leonardo de Oliveira El-Warrak, Claudio Miceli de Farias, Victor Hugo Dias Macedo De Azevedo Costa

“…Additionally, it analyses patient vaccination coverage based on the official immunisation schedule. …”
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Adjuvants for Drone-Based Aerial Chemical Applications to Mitigate Off-Target Drift by Narayanan Kannan, Daniel Martin, Rajani Srinivasan, Weiqiang Zhang

“…Droplet spectrum and on-target coverage were collected using a VisiSize P15 image analyzer and kromekote cards, respectively. …”
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Spaceborne active-passive optical fusion bathymetry in coastal waters: the implications of ICESat-2 photons by Jinchen He, Shuhang Zhang, Tinghui Zhang, Wei Feng

“…In this study, the southeast coastal waters of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands are used as the study area to assess the impacts of ICESat-2 photons on fusion bathymetry. …”
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AGTS: Novel automated generation of smart contract test suites for Hyperledger Fabric by Lixue Liu, Qiqi Gu, Wei Ke

“…The project is implemented in C#, and uses three test cases: CoCoME, LibraryMS and LoanPS, with their requirements as input, and generates their closely related test cases. …”
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Stochastic modeling of sea ice concentration fields for assessment of navigation conditions along the Northern Sea Route by R. I. May, R. B. Guzenko, O. V. Tarovik, A. G. Topaj, A. V. Yulin

“…To identify the parameters of the stochastic generator, satellite data from the OSI SAF project for the period 1987–2019 were used. The generator takes into account seasonal, interannual and climatic variability. …”
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