Association between maternal and child health care and neonatal death in Angola: a secondary analysis of Angola Demographic Health Survey 2015–16 by Akiko Saito, Masahide Kondo

“…Further studies to improve MCH care coverage are needed.…”
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The mental image of library and information science among Arab newspaper readers: a descriptive analytical study by Sara Mohamed

“…The study employed the descriptive-analytical survey method, using the descriptive approach to explore readers' perceptions of library and information science. …”
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AIR-POLSAR-CR1.0: A Benchmark Dataset for Cloud Removal in High-Resolution Optical Remote Sensing Images with Fully Polarized SAR by Yuxi Wang, Wenjuan Zhang, Jie Pan, Wen Jiang, Fangyan Yuan, Bo Zhang, Xijuan Yue, Bing Zhang

“…This paper constructs a high-resolution remote sensing dataset, AIR-POLSAR-CR1.0, based on optical images, backscatter feature images, and polarization feature images using the fully polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) data. …”
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Accounting for extent of non-compliance when estimating treatment effects on an ordinal outcome in randomized clinical trials by Junxian Zhu, Jialiang Li, A. Mark Richards, Mark Y. Chan, Bee-Choo Tai

“…Conclusion For ordinal outcome in the presence of non-compliance, we suggest using the proposed method to estimate the causal effect of treatment amongst compliers and partial compliers, especially when there exists selection bias.…”
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Investigation Report of cVDPV2 Outbreak in Bokh Woreda of Dollo Zone, Somali Regional State, Ethiopia by Diriba Sufa, Urge Gerema

“…A team of experts drawn from different organizations was deployed to Bokh woreda to make detailed field investigation from May 25 to June 17, 2019. By using standard World Health Organization polio outbreak investigation checklist, document review of surveillance, immunization, and clinical data related to the case was made. …”
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Development and initial validation of a situational judgment test for the measurement of actively open-minded thinking by Nikola Erceg, Andrija Vrhovnik, Zvonimir Galić, Mitja Ružojčić

“…Across 4 studies, we constructed and refined the AOT-SJT using scenarios that simulate everyday decision-making. …”
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Developing a guide for sustainable healthcare practice: A case study from the Swedish Society of Medicine by Andreas Vilhelmsson, Ida Persson Cofina, Maria Wolodarski, Tobias Alfvén

“…Discussion: The sustainability guide has been appreciated by medical specialties as a tool to illustrate concrete ways of working with sustainable healthcare in Sweden. It has also been used to introduce the field into the medical curriculum at Swedish universities and teach students in sustainability. …”
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Determinants of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Italian healthcare workers: A cross-sectional study by Cristiana FERRARI, Andrea MAZZA, Claudia SALVI, Andrea MAGRINI, Luca COPPETA

“…Female gender and confidence in vaccine efficacy were the main predictors of vaccine intention among the study population using a logistic regression model, while other factors including concerns about vaccine safety and concerns about possible side effects were not significant. …”
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Social vulnerability and severe COVID-19 in pregnant women: an ecological study in Pernambuco State, Brazil, 2020-2021 by Hingrid Wandille Barros da Silva Sá, Mirella Bezerra Rodrigues Vilela, Carlos Fabrício Assunção da Silva, Gabriella Morais Duarte Miranda, Heitor Victor Veiga da Costa, Cristine Vieira do Bonfim

“…Variables available in the Demographic Census were used, representing socioenvironmental conditions, household characteristics, and urban services. …”
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Factors associated with awareness and passage of medical screening in hypertensive persons: data from the Know Your Heart study by M. I. Kashutina, A. V. Kontsevaya, A. V. Kudryavtsev, S. K. Malyutina, P. V. Ipatov, O. M. Drapkina

“…Binary logistic regression was used to determine the factors associated with awareness of ongoing medical screening and active participation in them.Results. …”
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Knowledge, Experiences, and Challenges of Mothers in Delivering Comprehensive Sexuality Education to Adolescents with Disabilities at Home: A Mixed-Methods Study from Indonesia by Ni Luh Putu Suariyani, Luh Putu Wulandari Artha, Kadek Tresna Adhi, Rina Listyowati

“…The quantitative phase employed a cross-sectional survey among 132 purposively selected mothers using a structured questionnaire based on the International Planned Parenthood Federation framework to assess knowledge and attitudes toward CSE. …”
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Healthcare Resource Utilization Among Patients With Agitation in Alzheimer Dementia by Christie Teigland, Zulkarnain Pulungan, David Bruhn, Steve Hwang

“…Patients with agitation in Alzheimer dementia were identified by 2 or more claims 14 or more days apart using _International Classification of Diseases-9-CM/-10-CM_ codes based on the provisional International Psychogeriatric Association agitation definition. …”
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Microstructural Passivation of Patterned Al2O3 Back Contacts on CdS/CdTe Solar Cells by Etee Kawna Roy, Ashraful Mamun, Chungho Lee, Gang Xiong, Heayoung P. Yoon

“…Microhole arrays are created on an evaporated Al2O3 layer (≈30 nm) on CdTe using laser‐beam lithography and selective wet etching processes. …”
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Green Human Resource Management in the manufacturing sector: a bibliometric literature review by Austen Agata, Piwowar-Sulej Katarzyna

“…The analysis was twofold: a performance analysis to assess the impact and role of research elements within the field and a co-words analysis for mapping scientific relationships and trends in GHRM, using tools like VosViewer and MS Excel for visualisation. …”
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Phytocenotic arrangement of the common hop in the south of western Siberia by M. M. Silantyeva, O. N. Mironenko, N. V. Ovcharova, I. G. Chukhina, Yu. R. Poltaratskaya, A. V. Nebylitsa, O. V. Bychkova, E. P. Myakisheva

“…Common hop (Humulus lupulus L.) is actively used in brewing and has great potential for pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries because of its wide diversity of bioactive substances. …”
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Kenyan sign language word-based pose datasetZenodo by Ezekiel Maina, Lilian Wanzare, James Obuhuma, Mildred Ayere, Maurine Kang'ahi, Joel Okutoyi

“…This paper presents a novel dataset created using MediaPipe's pose estimation technology, designed to address the scarcity of resources for KSL. …”
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Breaking Barriers in Thyroid Cytopathology: Harnessing Deep Learning for Accurate Diagnosis by Seo Young Oh, Yong Moon Lee, Dong Joo Kang, Hyeong Ju Kwon, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Jae Hyun Park

“…The second framework is an attention-based deep multiple instance learning (AD-MIL) model, which employs a feature extractor using TCS-CNN and an attention mechanism to aggregate features from smaller-patch-level regions into predictions for larger-patch-level regions, referred to as bag-level predictions in this context. …”
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Pediatric Nonaccidental Trauma: Experience at a Level 1 Trauma Center by Taylor Goldman, Sathyaprasad Burjonrappa

“…The Fisher Exact test and student t-test were used to study the significance of differences in categorical and continuous data, respectively. …”
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Cost-effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 self-testing at routine gatherings to minimize community-level infections in lower-middle income countries: A mathematical modeling study. by Megan A Hansen, Alvin X Han, Joshua M Chevalier, Ethan Klock, Hiromi Pandithakoralage, Alexandra de Nooy, Tom Ockhuisen, Sarah J Girdwood, Nkgomeleng A Lekodeba, Shaukat Khan, Helen E Jenkins, Cheryl C Johnson, Jilian A Sacks, Colin A Russell, Brooke E Nichols

“…Testing strategies assessed included weekly and bi-weekly self-testing across varying levels of vaccine effectiveness, vaccine coverage, and reproductive numbers to simulate developing stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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The Aga Khan, East Africa and Russia’s Image: Tracing the Lesser-Known Dimensions of the AKDN’s Work by Mayya V. Nikolskaya, Vasilii V. Vinogradov

“…The second section aims to verify the initial hypothesis of the AKDN’s anti-Russian slant through building a corpus of news items from outlets affiliated with the AKDN, using methodology for text analysis such as named entity recognition, LDA machine learning, and sentiment analysis of publications throughout the year 2023. …”
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