Association between childhood immunisation coverage and proximity to health facilities in rural settings: a cross-sectional analysis of Service Provision Assessment 2013–2014 facil... by Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor, Nicole E Johns, Mike Chisema, M Carolina Danovaro-Holliday, Katherine Kirkby, Anne Schlotheuber, Messeret Shibeshi, Samir V Sodha, Boston Zimba

“…We aimed to link facility and individual data to examine the relationship between distance to services and immunisation coverage empirically, specifically using a rural population.Design and setting Retrospective cross-sectional analysis of facility data from the 2013–2014 Malawi Service Provision Assessment and individual data from the 2015–2016 Malawi Demographic and Health Survey, linking children to facilities within a 5 km radius. …”
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Vertiport Infrastructure Location Optimization for Equitable Access to Urban Air Mobility by Vasileios Volakakis, Hani S. Mahmassani

“…To evaluate and compare the introduced methodology, different existing facility location problems (FLPs) were considered and solved exactly using integer and linear programming. These are the Location Set Covering Problem (LSCP), the Maximal Coverage Location Problem (MCLP), and the <i>p</i>-median problem. …”
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The Effect of Pandemic News on Stock Market Returns During the Covid-19 Crash: Evidence from International Markets by Ömer Faruk Tan

“…This study investigates the effect of pandemic-related news on stock market returns in international markets using the quantile regression method. The media hype index, fake news index, country sentiment index, infodemic index, and media coverage index provided by the RavenPack data platform are used for the analysis. …”
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Comprehensive Comparative Analysis and Innovative Exploration of Green View Index Calculation Methods by Dongmin Yin, Terumitsu Hirata

“…Despite the widespread use of street view imagery for Green View Index (GVI) analyses, variations in sampling methodologies across studies and the potential impact of these differences on the results, including associated errors, remain largely unexplored. …”
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The Influence of Lateral Wind Velocity on Spray Drift Dynamics of Liquid Droplets Sprayed by Agricultural Robot by Tadas Jomantas, Aurelija Kemzūraitė, Dainius Savickas, Andrius Grigas, Dainius Steponavičius

“…Various measures have been developed and used to reduce droplet drift to address this problem. …”
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The views of family physicians on National Health Insurance in Gauteng Province, South Africa by Shane D. Murphy, Klaus von Pressentin, Shabir A. Moosa

“…Background: Universal health coverage (UHC) improves national health outcomes while addressing social inequalities in access to quality healthcare services. …”
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How the COVID-19 pandemic affected routine child vaccination: an integrative review by Julia Stoeterau Moré, Daniel Rodrigo Serbena, Luiz Gustavo Gusson de Camargo, Pedro Augusto Clemente, Fernando Sluchensci dos Santos, Juliana Sartori Bonini

“…The AMSTAR-II tool was used to assess the methodological quality of the included studies. …”
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The Clinical Implications of Inappropriate Therapy in Community-Onset Urinary Tract Infections and the Development of a Bayesian Hierarchical Weighted-Incidence Syndromic Combinati... by Adolfo Gómez-Quiroz, Brenda Berenice Avila-Cardenas, Judith Carolina De Arcos-Jiménez, Leonardo Perales-Guerrero, Pedro Martínez-Ayala, Jaime Briseno-Ramirez

“…Unlike traditional antibiograms, a WISCA integrates patient-specific factors to improve antimicrobial coverage estimations. A total of 11 monotherapies and 18 combination therapies were tested against 15 pathogens, with posterior coverage probabilities and 95% highest density intervals (HDIs) used to assess coverage. …”
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Salt-spray Sedimentation Ratio Uncertainty Evaluation of Salt-spray Test Box for Locomotive Vehicle Electronic Device by GUO Li-wen, ZHANG Zhi, WANG Yi-min

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Electricity internet of things based on LPWAN technology by Yongbo CHEN, Yi TANG, Xinwei AI, Bo XU

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Evaluation of Integrated Child Health Days as a Catch-Up Strategy for Immunization in Three Districts in Uganda by Mansoor Farahani, Tonny Tindyebwa, Nandita Sugandhi, Kirsten Ward, Youngjoo Park, Pamela Bakkabulindi, Shibani Kulkarni, Aaron Wallace, Samuel Biraro, Yvette Wibabara, Hannah Chung, Giles A. Reid, Driwale Alfred, Rita Atugonza, Elaine J. Abrams, Ledor S. Igboh

“…<b>Background:</b> Uganda’s Integrated Child Health Day (ICHD) initiative aims to improve children’s access to vaccinations. Although widely used as a catch-up vaccination strategy, the effectiveness of the ICHD program in increasing immunization coverage, especially among vulnerable populations, has not been recently evaluated. …”
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Evaluating the Effect of Tariff and Non-tariff Barriers on Exports in the Pre and Post China-Pak Free Trade Agreement (FTA) Period by Ahsan Abbas, Abdul Rauf, Shaista Mumtaz

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Cache-Enabled Software Defined Heterogeneous Networks for Green and Flexible 5G Networks by Jiaxin Zhang, Xing Zhang, Wenbo Wang

“…In this paper, a cache-enabled wireless heterogeneous network with the control-plane (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$C$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-plane) and user-plane (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$U$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-plane) split is proposed, where the macro cell and SCs with different cache abilities are overlaid and cooperated together in the backhaul scenario. Using an evaluation tool composed of stochastic processes and classical power consumption model, key performance indicators, e.g., the coverage probability, throughput, and energy efficiency (EE), are derived as closed-form expressions or the functions of the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio threshold, path loss exponent, transmission power and density of macro and SCs, cache ability, file popularity, and backhaul capacity. …”
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Ultrastructural sublaminar-specific diversity of excitatory synaptic boutons in layer 1 of the adult human temporal lobe neocortex by Astrid Rollenhagen, Akram Sadeghi, Bernd Walkenfort, Claus C Hilgetag, Kurt Sätzler, Joachim HR Lübke

“…Quantitative 3D models of excitatory synaptic boutons (SBs) in L1 of the human temporal lobe neocortex were generated from neocortical biopsy tissue using transmission electron microscopy, 3D-volume reconstructions, and TEM tomography. …”
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Distance Analysis in Regular OWC Deployments by Ali Mahbas, John Cosmas, Hamed Al-Raweshidy

“…The framework is extended to study the 3D distance, accounting for both fixed and random height differences between the UE and nodes. The coverage probability (CP) is also derived using the proposed framework, providing a more accurate representation of network performance. …”
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Disability, comorbidities and risk determinants at end of TB treatment in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe by The Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe TB Disability Study Group (members listed here in alphabetical order):, S.A. Adakun, F.M. Banda, A. Bloom, M. Bochnowicz, J. Chakaya, A. Chansa, H. Chiguvare, R. Chimzizi, C. Colvin, J.P. Dongo, A. Durena, C. Duri, R. Edmund, A.D. Harries, I. Kathure, F.N. Kavenga, Y. Lin, H. Luzze, I. Mbithi, M. Mputu, A. Mubanga, D. Nair, M. Ngwenya, B. Okotu, P. Owiti, A. Owuor, P. Thekkur, C. Timire, S. Turyahabwe, E. Tweyongyere, M. YaDiul, R. Zachariah, K. Zimba

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Multi-level determinants of vaccination of the American Indian and Alaska Native population: a comprehensive overview by Junying Zhao, Rashmi Jaggad, Ying Zhang, Janis E. Campbell, Pallab K. Ghosh, James R. Kennedye, Tauqeer Ali

“…ContextAmerican Indians and Alaska Natives (AIANs) are historically disadvantaged, losing 20 million (95%) of their population largely through epidemics since 1,520 and continuing lower overall vaccination coverage than other races. Determinants of this lower coverage are underexamined.MethodsAmong peer-reviewed relevant articles since 1968, 39 studied AIANs solely; 47 drew general population samples, including AIANs. …”
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Three-dimensional motion corrected free-breathing simultaneous multislice-balanced steady state free precession myocardium perfusion imaging by Naledi Adam, Ronald Mooiweer, Andrew Tyler, Karl Kunze, Radhouene Neji, Peter Speier, Daniel Stäb, John Ng, Shino Kuriakose, Reza Razavi, Muhummad Sohaib Nazir, Amedeo Chiribiri, Sébastien Roujol

“…The remaining 2D in-plane motion was corrected using inline image registration. This approach (SMS-fastNAV) was compared to a reference SMS perfusion with 2D in-plane motion correction only (SMS-Ref) in 10 patients at 1.5T. …”
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Tetanus vaccine coverage in recommended and more than recommended doses among mothers in a West Cameroon health district: a cross sectional study [version 2; peer review: 1 approve... by Trevor Anyambod Mboh, Linda Evans Eba Ze, Ruth Noutakdie Fossi, Dominique Majoric Omokolo, Jerome Ateudjieu, Etienne Guenou, Martin Nguetsop, Igor Nguemouo Nguegang

“…The immunization coverage per vaccine dose and vaccination completeness rate were estimated. …”
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PRACTICAL USES OF TELEOPHTHALMOLOGY by Kiril Slaveykov, Kalina Trifonova, Valentin Stoyanov

“…While currently most efforts are concentrated on screening and referral to experts, it could be used as a research and clinical tool. Aim and tasks: To assess the spread and use of telemedicine in ophthalmology. …”
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