Financial health and well-being of rural female caregivers of older adults with chronic illnesses by Nasreen Lalani, Evans Appiah Osei, Siqi Yang, Bhagyashree Katare, Sampada Wagle

“…Participants reported losing jobs, experiencing caregiving stress and poor wellbeing, time constraints, financial losses, using pension plan and health coverage benefits to support themselves and their family. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 on maternal and perinatal outcomes in Harare, Zimbabwe: a comparative maternal audit by Yemurai Bikwa, Grant Murewanhema, Mufaro Kanyangarara, Mugove G Madziyire, Zvavahera M Chirenje

“…Based on changes in coverage of interventions, LiST was used to estimate the impact of COVID-19 related disruptions on maternal and neonatal mortality at the national level…”
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A Self-Sovereign Identity-Based Authentication and Reputation Protocol for IoV Applications by Victor Emanuel Farias da Costa Borges, Alvaro Sobrinho, Danilo F. S. Santos, Angelo Perkusich

“…RepuAuth-IoV empowers vehicles to autonomously manage identities and reputations using verifiable credentials, eliminating dependence on centralized authorities. …”
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A Novel Voronoi-Driven Optimization Approach for Point-Based Sensor Network Deployment by Saeid Doodman, Mir-Abolfazl Mostafavi, Raja Sengupta, Ali Afghantoloee

“…Its performance is evaluated using the root mean square error (RMSE), calculated via an interpolation process that reconstructs the field from sensor positions. …”
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A method for quantifying uncertainty in spatially interpolated meteorological data with application to daily maximum air temperature by C. T. Doherty, C. T. Doherty, W. Wang, H. Hashimoto, H. Hashimoto, I. G. Brosnan

“…Finally, we examine spatial correlation in predictions and errors using conditional Gaussian simulation to sample from the joint spatial predictive distribution. …”
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Factors associated with tetanus toxoid vaccine utilization among reproductive-age women in Debre Markos town, Ethiopia, 2021: a cross-sectional study by Yihunnie Dessie Tamiru, Endalew Gemechu Sendo, Jembere Tesfaye Deressa

“…In Ethiopia, however, low immunization coverage levels, mostly due to missed opportunities, are a concern. …”
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FOXF2 rs41300825 and NOTCH3 rs1043994 as risk loci for cerebral small vessel disease in Egyptian ischemic stroke patients by Fatma Salama Hussein, Soha Saad Eldin Sayed, Hossam Shokri Mohammed, Maha Moustafa Kamal

“…Genotyping was conducted for FOXF2 rs41300825 (G/C) and NOTCH3 rs1043994 (A/G/T) using RFLP-PCR, with results confirmed through Sanger sequencing and multiple alignments of sequencing using the MEGA X program. …”
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Dual function NiMo/MgO catalyst for biogas valorization to syngas and carbon nanotubes by Pichawee Aieamsam-Aung, Narissara Simma, Sornsawan Juntala, Atthapon Srifa, Wanida Koo-Amornpattana, Prasert Reubroycharoen, Phorndranrat Suchamalawong, Choji Fukuhara, Sakhon Ratchahat

“…The tip-growth process of CNTs limits the coverage of the catalyst’s active sites while maintaining constant reaction efficiency. …”
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Modelling the drivers of outbreak communication in online media news for improved event-based surveillance. by Solene Rodde, Pachka Hammami, Asma Mesdour, Sarah Valentin, Bahdja Boudoua, Paolo Tizzani, Lina Awada, Carlene Trevennec, Paulo Pimenta, Andrea Apolloni, Elena Arsevska

“…Our results also suggest that EI practitioners may use other means to collect EI information in countries and regions that are not well-represented in the data.…”
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Mind the perception gap: Identifying differences in views among stakeholder groups of shared mobility services through bayesian best-worst method by Ehsan Amirnazmiafshar, Marco Diana

“…Operators undervalue travel comfort and service availability, while overestimating travel distance, especially compared to users.Managerial Insights: For car-sharing, policy-makers should expand service coverage and incentivize vehicle deployment, while operators should use dynamic fleet management and offer flexible booking options. …”
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Determinants of outpatient healthcare-seeking behaviors among the rural poor affected by chronic conditions in India: a population-based cross-sectional study in seven states by David Grossmann, Swati Srivastava, Volker Winkler, Stephan Brenner, Keerti Jain Gupta, Amit Paliwal, Kavita Singh, Manuela De Allegri

“…Predictors of formal private care were higher socioeconomic status (RRR = 2.441, 95% CI [1.61, 3.70]) and health insurance coverage (RRR = 1.478, 95% CI [1.12, 1.95]). Residents of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Gujarat were more likely to use formal public care (RRR = 23.915, 95% CI [9.01, 63.44]). …”
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Utilisation of eight or more antenatal care visits and its associated socio-economic-related inequalities in sub-Saharan Africa: A decomposition analysis. by Richard Gyan Aboagye, Augustus Osborne, Anayochukwu Edward Anyasodor, Sharon Vera Yikindi, Qorinah Estiningtyas Sakilah Adnani, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah

“…All the analyses were conducted using Stata version 17.0 (Stata Corporation, College Station, TX, USA).…”
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Randomized trial of piperaquine with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine or dihydroartemisinin for malaria intermittent preventive treatment in children. by Badara Cisse, Matthew Cairns, Ernest Faye, Ousmane NDiaye, Babacar Faye, Cecile Cames, Yue Cheng, Maguette NDiaye, Aminata Collé Lô, Kirsten Simondon, Jean-Francois Trape, Oumar Faye, Jean Louis NDiaye, Oumar Gaye, Brian Greenwood, Paul Milligan

“…<h4>Background</h4>The long terminal half life of piperaquine makes it suitable for intermittent preventive treatment for malaria but no studies of its use for prevention have been done in Africa. We did a cluster randomized trial to determine whether piperaquine in combination with either dihydroartemisin (DHA) or sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) is as effective, and better tolerated, than SP plus amodiaquine (AQ), when used for intermittent preventive treatment in children delivered by community health workers in a rural area of Senegal.…”
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Restorative Environment Design Drives Well-Being in Sustainable Elderly Day Care Centres by Yuting Li, Xiayan Lin, Shimin Li, Min Huang, Zhipeng Ren, Qi Song

“…Through keyword network visualization analysis, this paper identifies eight main clusters: physical literacy, public preschool services, social support, elderly day care centers, hospice use, designing leisure products, risk factors, and communicative skills. …”
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Sartorius and Gracilis Muscle Flaps as Adjuncts for the Management of Complicated Femoral Wounds in Vascular Surgery by Jhanvi Dholakia, Anantha Narayanan, Qiantai Hong, Manar Khashram

“…While various institutions have published results on sartorius and rectus femoris muscle flaps for arterial reconstruction coverage, there are limited data on the use of gracilis muscle flaps. …”
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Benchmarking the Cost per Person of Mass Treatment for Selected Neglected Tropical Diseases: An Approach Based on Literature Review and Meta-regression with Web-Based Software Appl... by Christopher Fitzpatrick, Fiona M Fleming, Matthew Madin-Warburton, Timm Schneider, Filip Meheus, Kingsley Asiedu, Anthony W Solomon, Antonio Montresor, Gautam Biswas

“…Regression results were used to "predict" country-specific unit cost benchmarks.…”
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LC-MS determination of Nicotiana benthamiana host plant proteins in the drug products of recombinant plant-produced pembrolizumab by Ratama Daduang, Pipob Suwanchaikasem, Kaewta Rattanapisit, Sarocha Vitayathikornnasak, Theerakarn Srisangsung, Christine Joy I. Bulaon, Waranyoo Phoolcharoen

“…Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) has been successfully used to characterize protein species down to nanogram levels in various types of samples. …”
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Local Climate Zones and urban morphology dataset to support numerical modelling in Greece, utilizing GIS, multispectral, and SAR dataZenodo by Ilias Agathangelidis, Christos Giannaros, Constantinos Cartalis, Vassiliki Kotroni, Kostas Lagouvardos

“…These data were developed using a hybrid GIS-based and remote sensing-based framework that incorporates ultra-high-resolution elevation models (0.8 m), supported by Copernicus Earth Observation and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) datasets. …”
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HealthTech in ensuring the resilience of communities in the post-pandemic period by Olena Pakhnenko, Tomasz Pudło

“…The article purpose is to summarise the current directions of HealthTech development, analyse main patterns of the global and Ukrainian digital health market development and study possibilities of HealthTech use to increase the resilience of communities and healthcare systems to natural and man-made emergencies. …”
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Methodology of Organizing and Conducting Distance Olympiads in Korean as a Second Foreign Language in the Process of Professional Training of Future Foreign Language Teachers by I. Yu. Larionova

“…The requirements to the second foreign language Olympiad tasks implied: possibility of mass coverage of students with Olympiad tasks; compliance of the tasks with the curriculum; time limit; relying on the students’ experience, including their native language skills and abilities; increasing tasks complexity; variety of tasks forms and content, the tasks contents and novelty; problem nature tasks to stimulate students thinking, language guess; using authentic material for the Olympiad tasks; the use of local history and extralinguistic material. …”
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