Evaluating hepatitis B screening, prevalence, vaccination coverage, and linkage to care in Abuja, Nigeria: insights from a cross-sectional study by Ogechukwu MaryAnn Akabuike, Mabel Kamweli Aworh, Nkiruka Lynda Uzoebo, John Erwat, Onyinyechi Agukwe, Kingsley Ngong, Amos Dangana, Kenneth Enwerem, Idris Nasir Abdullahi

“…Blood samples were collected and tested using HBV immunochromatographic tests and real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for HBV DNA quantification. …”
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Broad coverage of neutralization-resistant SIV strains by second-generation SIV-specific antibodies targeting the region involved in binding CD4. by Hugh C Welles, Hannah A D King, Leonard Nettey, Nicole Cavett, Jason Gorman, Tongqing Zhou, Yaroslav Tsybovsky, Renguang Du, Kaimei Song, Richard Nguyen, David Ambrozak, Amy Ransier, Chaim A Schramm, Nicole A Doria-Rose, Adrienne E Swanstrom, James A Hoxie, Celia LaBranche, David C Montefiori, Daniel C Douek, Peter D Kwong, John R Mascola, Mario Roederer, Rosemarie D Mason

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Estimates and determinants of HPV non-vaccination in 14-year-old Canadians: Results from the childhood national immunization coverage survey, 2019 by Aranee Sathiyamoorthy, Mireille Guay, Ruoke Chen

“…This analysis used data collected through the 2019 Childhood National Immunization Coverage Survey (CNICS) to determine national estimates of HPV non-vaccination and investigate determinants of HPV non-vaccination for adolescents aged 14-years old in Canada, both overall and stratified by gender. …”
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Time series changes and influencing factors of fractional vegetation coverage under weed competition in wheat field ecosystems through remote sensing by Guofeng Yang, Yong He, Zhenjiang Zhou, Lingzhen Ye, Hui Fang, Xuping Feng

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Vaccination coverage survey and seroprevalence among forcibly displaced Rohingya children, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, 2018: A cross-sectional study. by Leora R Feldstein, Sarah D Bennett, Concepcion F Estivariz, Gretchen M Cooley, Lauren Weil, Mallick Masum Billah, M Salim Uzzaman, Rajendra Bohara, Maya Vandenent, Jucy Merina Adhikari, Eva Leidman, Mainul Hasan, Saifuddin Akhtar, Andreas Hasman, Laura Conklin, Daniel Ehlman, A Alamgir, Meerjady Sabrina Flora

“…Dried blood spots (DBSs) were collected to estimate seroprotection against measles, rubella, diphtheria, and tetanus, using Luminex multiplex bead assay (MBA). Caregiver interviews assessed vaccination campaign participation using vaccination card or recall. …”
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Digital technology races between China and the US: a critical media analysis of US media coverage of China’s rise in technology and globalization by Xie Wanying, Jiang Sheng

“…This study explores how globalization influences U.S. media coverage of China’s digital technologies, focusing on global trends and political, economic, and security concerns. …”
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When inequity impacts clinical care: an analysis of length of stay and reimbursement rates for medical stabilization for anorexia nervosa based on insurance coverage by Lance R. Nelson, Kelly N. Horn, Amanda N. Burnside, Katrina T. Obleada, Ariela J.E. Kaiser, Lauren E. Swift, Rebecca Arteaga, Courtney L. Franceschi, Sarah Cohen, Francesca Y. Montalto, Gregg J. Montalto

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Influenza Vaccination Coverage and Determinants of New Vaccinations During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain (ENE-COVID): Nationwide Population-Based Study by Miguel Ángel de la Cámara, Nerea Fernández de Larrea-Baz, Roberto Pastor-Barriuso, Amparo Larrauri, Pablo Fernández-Navarro, Marina Pollán, Beatriz Pérez-Gómez

“…Information on vaccination and sociodemographic, health, and COVID-19–related factors was collected by interview. Coverage change from 2019 to 2020 and standardized prevalences of vaccination in 2020 among the population unvaccinated in 2019 were estimated using logistic model–based methods. …”
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Sequential or simultaneous-integrated boost in early-stage breast cancer patients: trade-offs between skin toxicity and risk of compromised coverage by Changyou Zhong, Minfeng Huang, Haidong Yu, Jun Yuan, Ruilian Xie, Zhenzhen Lai, Shanzhou Niu, Chunbo Tang

“…The relationship between the high-dose regions within the PTVbreast and Ratio_V was evaluated using univariate analysis. Results The s-SIB had optimal target coverage and lower high-dose volume, but it increased the risk of compromised coverage to tumor bed. …”
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Effect of socioeconomic status and women empowerment status on coverage of oral cancer screening among Indian women within reproductive age group by Pritam Halder, Semanti Das, Girish Jeer, Sushanta Sarkar, Anamika Das, Arijit Saha, Shivani Rathor

“…Further, we estimated the association of each indicator of SES and WES with screening coverage using multivariable logistic regression. The national coverage of oral cancer screening among women of reproductive age was 0.77% with Andhra Pradesh (7%) and Andaman and Nicobar Islands (10%) recording the highest screening coverage. …”
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Minimizing maximum cost in task coverage problem with multiple mobile sensors: A heuristic approach based on all-pairs shortest path by Hyeun Jeong Min, Hyo-Sang Lim

“…We address a task coverage problem to cover all given tasks with a given number of mobile sensors. …”
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The most gender-equal Olympics? A corpus-assisted keywords analysis of Italian press coverage of male and female athletes in Paris 2024 by Simona Frabotta, Javier Fernández-Cruz

“…Using a corpus of Italian daily journal articles, we conducted a Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis. …”
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Combined Impacts of Temperature, Sea Ice Coverage, and Mixing Ratios of Sea Spray and Dust on Cloud Phase Over the Arctic and Southern Oceans by Barbara Dietel, Hendrik Andersen, Jan Cermak, Philip Stier, Corinna Hoose

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Policy Options for Contributory Health Insurance Schemes in Low and Lower-Middle Income Countries to Enable Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage by Agnes Gatome-Munyua, Joseph Kutzin, Cheryl Cashin

“…Countries can then create a strategy to expand coverage more equitably in a sequential manner, while consolidating institutional capacity for purchasing and unifying data systems.…”
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Vaccination Coverage of Children with Epidermolysis Bullosa Against Vaccine Preventable Diseases According to National Preventive Vaccination Programmes: Cross-Sectional Study by Leyla S. Namazova-Baranova, Nikolay N. Murashkin, Eleonora I. Pilguy

“…For now, there are no studies showing vaccination coverage for this category of children. Objective. …”
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Modeling and analysis of dynamical behavior in a fractional-order COVID-19 epidemic model with media coverage: A case study of Malaysia by Rui Hu, Muhamad Hifzhudin Noor Aziz, Nur Anisah Mohamed, Elayaraja Aruchunan

“…In this paper, we propose a novel Caputo fractional-order Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Hospitalized-Recovered (SEIHR) model to analyze the impact of media coverage on early coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) transmission dynamics in Malaysia. …”
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Legume content estimation from UAV image in grass-legume meadows: comparison methods based on the UAV coverage vs. field biomass by Kensuke Kawamura, Tsuneki Tanaka, Taisuke Yasuda, Shoji Okoshi, Masaaki Hanada, Kazuya Doi, Toshiya Saigusa, Takanori Yagi, Kenji Sudo, Kenji Okumura, Jihyun Lim

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Post-truth politics vs. newspaper coverage: the COVID-19 pandemic and transnational human migration in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom by Claude Beaupre, Claude Beaupre

“…Articles were categorized quantitatively by topic and sentiment and qualitatively analyzed using constant comparison methods. The study focused on recurring topics, dominant narratives, and sentiment orientations (positive, neutral, neutral-negative, or negative) to identify country-specific media ‘truths’ about migration during the pandemic.ResultsDistinct national patterns emerged. …”
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Performance of Malaria Volunteers regarding Malaria Control Activities in Southeastern Myanmar: A Study in the Areas under Coverage of an Ethnic Health Organization by Ye Thiha, Thant Zin, Kyawt Mon Win, Myat Thu Soe, Pyae Linn Aung

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Towards enhancing field‐based vegetation monitoring: A deep learning approach for species coverage estimation from ground‐level imagery by Pauline Müller, Stefano Puliti, Johannes Breidenbach

“…We developed a deep learning pipeline relying on YOLOv8 models to segment species and estimate the percentage cover (%) of Vaccinium myrtillus (blueberry) and Vaccinium vitis‐idaea (lingonberry), two key understory species in boreal forests. We used 138 nadir and downward‐looking images of the forest floor captured in correspondence with 50 × 50 cm vegetation sub‐plots assessed within National Forest Inventory (NFI) plots. …”
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