A Comparative Study on Assessing the Summative Assessments Before and After Implementing Competency-Based Medical Education in India by Arijit Datta, Preeti Tiwari, Dhara Goswami, Darshan Galoria, Prashant Verma

“…Results Most universities used unstructured questions and most marks were allocated to remember the levels of the cognitive domain. …”
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Availability of refractive error correction services in selected Zambian hospitals: a cross-sectional quantitative study by Cephas Sialubanje, Gardner Syakantu, Esnart Kapatamoyo, Kangwa I M Muma, Deon Minnies

“…Addressing these challenges is cardinal to improving RECS delivery and enhancing universal eye healthcare coverage in Zambia.…”
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Intelligent reflective surfaces in 5G and beyond: optimizing uplink satellite connectivity for IoT by Callistus Odinaka Obidiozor, Adeeb Sait, Tawfik Al-Hadhrami, Eman H. Alkhammash, Faisal Saeed

“…This article adopts a simulation-based approach, using MATLAB and Simulink to model the uplink transmission of IoT devices to satellites with and without IRS assistance. …”
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Analysis of the Structure and Dynamics of Gynecological Morbidity and Extragenital Pathology in Rural Women by K. D. Chelovechkova, A. Yu. Zherbakov, A. E. Komarova, R. S. Manueva

“…The relationship between this growth and the coverage of the population with preventive medical examination was studied. …”
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Analysis of a Malaria Transmission Model with Vaccination Proportion and Vaccine-Induced Immunity by Samuel M. Naandam, Paul Chataa, Gideon K. Gogovi

“…A sensitivity analysis using partial rank correlation coefficients highlights the influence of key parameters, such as the mosquito-to-human transmission rate and mosquito birth and death rates, on malaria transmission. …”
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Utilizing UAVs in Wireless Networks: Advantages, Challenges, Objectives, and Solution Methods by Mohammad Javad Sobouti, Amirhossein Mohajerzadeh, Haitham Y. Adarbah, Zahra Rahimi, Hamed Ahmadi

“…Analytical results, numerical simulations, or experimental tests are further discussed as the main performance metrics and evaluation methods used for UAV placement and trajectory optimization. …”
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Impact of health system governance on healthcare quality in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review by Robin Gauld, Susan Jack, Tim Stokes, Joby George, Timothy Colbourn

“…Introduction Improving healthcare quality in low-/middle-income countries (LMICs) is a critical step in the pathway to Universal Health Coverage and health-related sustainable development goals. …”
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GOD SERVANTS' KNOWLEDGE AND STIGMA OF TUBERCULOSIS IN KUPANG INDONESIA by Imelda Februati Ester Manurung, Luh Putu Ruliati, Helga J. N Ndun, Aminah H Baun, Yumiati Ke Lele, Chatarina U Wahyuni

“…The population of the study was God's servants in three areas of coverage of community health centers with the most TB cases. …”
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2 km Uncompressed HD Video Wireless Transmission at 100 GHz Based on All-Optical Frequency Up- and Down-Conversion by Shuang Gao, Yutong Jiang, Zhuoxin Li, Qing Zhong, Min Zhu, Jiao Zhang

“…This work proves that the proposed system based on the all-optical receiver is more promising for supporting future 6G scenarios requiring ultra-wideband, high capacity, and wide coverage high-speed wireless communications.…”
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Interference Mitigation and Collision Avoidance of Dynamic UAVBSs Network via Mobility Control: A Game Theoretic Approach by Omar Ali Thabet, Didem Kivanc Tureli, Ufuk Tureli

“…Mobility control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Base Stations (UAVBSs) can avoid collision and improve the power efficiency and coverage of the wireless network. In this work, UAVBS mobility control is formulated as an exact potential game. …”
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Prevalence and Determinants of Rural-Urban Utilization of Skilled Delivery Services in Northern Ghana by Mahama Saaka, Jones Akuamoah-Boateng

“…The dataset was analyzed using the chi-square test and multivariable logistic regression. …”
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An analysis of the uptake of anti-retroviral treatment among pregnant women in Nigeria from 2015 to 2020. by Akudo E Ikpeazu, Samuel E Anya, Richard N Amenyah, Olugbenga A Ijaodola, Adebobola T Bashorun, Chinwendu Daniel Ndukwe, Abiola Davies, Mojisola Mobolaji-Bello, Chioma Ukanwa, Adaoha O Anosike, Uduak Daniel, Doris A Ogbang, Koubagnine V Takpa, Olumuyiwa A Ojo, Otse Ogorry, Murphy Akpu, Gregory Ashefor, Alex Ogundipe, Gambo G Aliyu, Erasmus Morah

“…The Mann-Kendall Trend Test was used to determine the presence of time trends when the p-value was less than 0.05. …”
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Assessing the Current State of Electric Vehicle Infrastructure in Mexico by Lizbeth Salgado-Conrado, Carlos Álvarez-Macías, Alma Esmeralda-Gómez, Raúl Tadeo-Rosas

“…This study evaluates the current state of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure in Mexico, identifying strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. Using a mixed-methods approach, it combines quantitative analysis of charging station distribution with qualitative insights from government officials, expert reports, and industry sources. …”
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Hierarchical Deep Features Progressive Aggregation for Remote Sensing Images Scene Classification by Yang Zhao, Jiaqi Liang, Sisi Huang, Pingping Huang

“…High spatial resolution (HSR) remote sensing images are widely used in smart agriculture because of their wide coverage and HSR. …”
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Analysis of Land Surface Temperature Driving Factors and Spatial Heterogeneity Research Based on Geographically Weighted Regression Model by Yin Zhi, Liang Shan, Lina Ke, Ruxin Yang

“…This study explored the relationship between the spatial characteristics and driving factors of the LST by using a geographically weighted regression (GWR) model to analyze multisource data from the Xigang District of Dalian City. …”
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Computational analysis of the gut microbiota-mediated drug metabolism by Sammie Chum, Alberto Naveira Montalvo, Soha Hassoun

“…An existing tool, PROXIMAL2, is used iteratively over all drug candidates from experimental databases queried against biotransformation rules from RetroRules to predict potential drug metabolites along with the enzyme commission number responsible for that biotransformation. …”
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LSV-MAE: A Masked-Autoencoder Pre-Training Approach for Large-Scale 3D Point Cloud Data by Nuo Cheng, Chuanyu Luo, Han Li, Sikun Ma, Shengguang Lei, Pu Li

“…To verify the proposed approach, experiments are conducted on well-known datasets, showing that our method not only can avoid tedious labeling work but improve the detection accuracy by up to 18%, compared with that using the model without pre-training, across datasets of different sizes.…”
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Financing health system elements in Africa: A scoping review. by Humphrey Cyprian Karamagi, David Njuguna, Solyana Ngusbrhan Kidane, Herve Djossou, Hillary Kipchumba Kipruto, Aminata Binetou-Wahebine Seydi, Juliet Nabyonga-Orem, Diane Karenzi Muhongerwa, Kingsley Addai Frimpong, Benjamin Musembi Nganda

“…Countries that are reforming their health systems to progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) need to consider total resource requirements over the long term to plan for the implementation and sustainable financing of UHC. …”
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Widespread admixture blurs population structure and confounds Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush) conservation even in the genomic era by Thaïs A. Bernos, Julie Gibelli, Sozos Michaelides, Hari Won, Hyung-Bae Jeon, Kia Marin, David A. Boguski, Muhammad Yamin Janjua, Colin P. Gallagher, Kimberly L. Howland, Dylan J. Fraser

“…To identify management units, this paper examines intraspecific divergence of Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush) in Great Slave Lake (GSL), Canada, using low-coverage whole-genome sequencing data. …”
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Optimization Identification of wild mustard (Sinapis arvensis L.) seeds in rapeseed seed lots by morphological, chemical and Molecular methods by Bita Oskouei, Leila Sadeghi, Fatemeh Doorooshi

“…Three specific markers of DA, DC and 5S rDNA were used, respectively. The Cruc marker is thought to be an internal control. …”
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