Costs of community-wide mass drug administration and school-based deworming for soil-transmitted helminths: evidence from a randomised controlled trial in Benin, India and Malawi by Judd Walson, ROBIN BAILEY, Katya Galactionova, Maitreyi Sahu, Samuel Paul Gideon, Saravanakumar Puthupalayam Kaliappan, Chloe Morozoff, Sitara Swarna Rao Ajjampur, Khumbo Kalua, Euripide Avokpaho, Moudachirou Ibikounle, Arianna Rubin Means, James Simwanza, Wongani Lungu, Parfait Houngbegnon, Adrian J F Luty, Rachel Pullan

“…Costs may be lower outside of a trial setting, given a reduction in supportive costs used to drive higher treatment coverage and economies of scale.Trial registration number NCT03014167.…”
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The Impact of Contracted Family Doctors Services on the Cognitive, Behavioral, and Health Outcomes of Diabetes Patients by LONG Chao, LI Jia, YANG Zhikai, HEI Luping, LI Zhansheng, YUAN Beibei

“…Methods From February 22 to 25, 2023, a multi-stage stratified random sampling method was used to survey 716 registered diabetic patients in a city in Shandong Province. …”
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Time interval distribution of hepatitis B vaccine immunization among infants in China from 2017 to 2021 by Sihui Zhang, Xiaoling Tian, Li Wang, Ming Liu, Chao Wang, Tianshuo Zhao, Xianming Cai, Xiyu Zhang, Mingting Wang, Juan Du, Yaqiong Liu, Qingbin Lu, Jiang Wu, Ninghua Huang, Fuqiang Cui

“…Infant hepatitis B vaccine coverage in China is high, with over 95% of infants immunized; however, high vaccine coverage can often mask low timeliness. …”
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Strategic Lessons Learned from The Management of Covid-19 That Can Influence Better Management of Future Pandemics in Nigeria. by Basiru, A. , Erhabor, O. 1 , Erhabor, T.

“…The Nigerian government have tried to curb the spread of the virus by enacting enabling laws like the total lockdown, curfew, closure of schools, ban on religious, social gatherings, implementing the use facemask, social distancing, effective hand washing and sanitization. …”
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A Multicenter Study on the Challenges and Real-World Utilization of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Resource-Constrained Settings: Insights and Implications from India by Ashwin Oommen Philips, Sunu Cyriac, P. Unnikrishnan, Anil T. Jose, Krishnakumar Rathnam, S.V. Saju, Smita Kayal, Soumya Surath Panda, Lalatendu Moharana, Sindhu Kilaru, Amit Sehrawat, Deepak Sundriyal, Puneet Dhamija, Deepak Jain, Pamela Alice K., Jaineet Sachdeva, Nishant Batta, Raman Arora, Yogesh Arora, Harpreet Singh, Mridul Anand, Ishu Sharma, Prasanth Ganesan

“…Using immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has revolutionized cancer treatment, but access and affordability remain significant challenges, particularly in resource-constrained settings. …”
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Disparities in Postoperative Pain Management: A Scoping Review of Prescription Practices and Social Determinants of Health by Aidan Snell, Diana Lobaina, Sebastian Densley, Elijah Moothedan, Julianne Baker, Lama Al Abdul Razzak, Alexandra Garcia, Shane Skibba, Ayden Dunn, Tiffany Follin, Maria Mejia, Panagiota Kitsantas, Lea Sacca

“…<b>Methods</b>: This study utilized The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) and was used as a reference checklist. The Arksey and O’Malley methodological framework was used to guide the review process. …”
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Incidence of PJI in Total Knee Arthroplasty Patients Following Expanded Gram-Negative Antibiotic Prophylactic Protocol by Anzar Sarfraz, Cameron Bussey-Sutton, Emily M. Ronan, Farouk Khury, Joseph A. Bosco, Ran Schwarzkopf, Vinay K. Aggarwal

“…This study investigates the effects of using prophylactic Gram-negative antibiotics prior to TKA and shows that though it is safe to use, Gram-negative bacterial coverage may have no impact on postoperative infection incidence.…”
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Observational operator for fair model evaluation with ground NO₂ measurements by L. Fang, J. Jin, A. Segers, K. Li, J. Xia, W. Han, B. Li, H. X. Lin, H. X. Lin, L. Zhu, L. Zhu, L. Zhu, S. Liu, H. Liao

“…This study develops a new land-use-based representative (LUBR) observational operator to generate spatially representative gridded observations for model evaluation. …”
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Conceptual mapping of geography textbook content on the example of the desert biome by Petr Trahorsch, Jan Daniel Bláha, Kristýna Ryčlová

“… The aim of this study is to identify the key terms used by textbook authors when presenting desert biomes and, subsequently, to visualise the relationships between them using a conceptual map. …”
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A universal testing and treatment intervention to improve HIV control: One-year results from intervention communities in Zambia in the HPTN 071 (PopART) cluster-randomised trial. by Richard Hayes, Sian Floyd, Ab Schaap, Kwame Shanaube, Peter Bock, Kalpana Sabapathy, Sam Griffith, Deborah Donnell, Estelle Piwowar-Manning, Wafaa El-Sadr, Nulda Beyers, Helen Ayles, Sarah Fidler, HPTN 071 (PopART) Study Team

“…The main limitation of the study was the need for assumptions concerning knowledge of HIV status and ART coverage among adults not consenting to the intervention or HIV testing, although our conclusions were robust in sensitivity analyses.…”
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A multi-omics CRC screening practice combined primary medical accessible SDC2 methylation and home self-test stool hemoglobin/transferrin test: a prospective, real world, community... by Xiaojun Kuang, Donghua Wei, Junrui Xia, Hongchen Gu, Hong Xu

“…A WeChat mini-program is used to collect CRC-related questionnaire responses, FIT/TF test results, and SDC2 methylation loci status closely related to colorectal cancer, as well as to notify participants of their screening outcomes. …”
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Exploring cortical excitability in children with cerebral palsy through lower limb robot training based on MI-BCI by Weihang Qi, Yi Zhang, Yuwei Su, Zhichong Hui, ShaoQing Li, HaoChong Wang, Jiamei Zhang, Kaili Shi, Mingmei Wang, Liang Zhou, Dengna Zhu

“…Clustering analysis was used to analyze EEG microstates and extract EEG microstate temporal parameters. …”
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Featuring Software Defined Radio in Airports for Finding Automatic Descendants Surveillance by Ardian Arief Epti Nur Putra, Wahyu Pamungkas, Agung Wicaksono

“…The system spotted four airplanes in Wirasaba and nine at YIA, indicating that the latter location has broader coverage. These findings show that RTL-SDR is a dependable and cost-effective option for ADS-B signal reception, with the potential to replace more expensive conventional receivers used in airports.…”
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Assessment of Knowledge on the Mode of Transmissions and Preventions of Hepatitis-B Among Undergraduate Students in Nigeria by Afolabi Fasoranti Joseph

“…Hepatitis B Knowledge Questionnaire with a reliability index of 0.74 was used for data collection. The descriptive statistics of frequency count and percentages was used to analyse the demographic characteristics of respondents while the chi-square test was used to determine associations between categorical variables. …”
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Some hypotheses regarding the mobile telecommunications services marketing and consumers rights from Romania by Nicu Marcu, Georgeta-Mădălina Meghişan

“…The marketing research used a questionnaire based survey during January - March 2013 on a sample of 85 users/ subscribers from Romania. …”
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Microwave-Photonic Radiometer for Atmospheric Sensing by Hannah I. Sinigaglio, Janusz Murakowski, Dennis W. Prather

“…For many years, microwave radiometers (MWRs) have contributed to the accuracy of atmospheric models, which are used for weather forecasting and climate-change monitoring. …”
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Benchmarking uncertainty quantification for protein engineering. by Kevin P Greenman, Ava P Amini, Kevin K Yang

“…We compared results across different degrees of distributional shift using metrics that assess each UQ method's accuracy, calibration, coverage, width, and rank correlation. …”
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Environmental friendly decorative electroless copper plating on Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene plastics by Aung Than Htwe, Thet Mar Wint, Zayar Lin Myint

“…In the present research work, a new environment friendly electroless copper plating process, copper coating has been successfully achieved on acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plastics by using a typical alkaline bath solution. A durable bright copper deposition on the ABS plastic was studied by the non-electrolytic process using alkaline copper(II) nitrate bath and gold chloride activator. …”
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When Public Opinion Left Behind: The Case Rejection of Visa on Arrival for Russian Tourists by Hetri Pima Anggara

“…This qualitative research used social media analysis to deconstruct the public opinion on issue salience and causal process tracing was used to analyse the context and development of the case. …”
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Parameter Estimation of the Lomax Lifetime Distribution Based on Middle-Censored Data: Methodology, Applications, and Comparative Analysis by Peiyao Ren, Wenhao Gui, Shan Liang

“…Finally, both simulation data and real data are used to compare the accuracy of the various estimation methods.…”
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