A Comparative Evaluation of Sample Selection Algorithms for Multivariate Calibration in Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Analysis of Pharmaceutical Formulations
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Aminata Sow, Harouna Sangaré, Fadaba Danioko
Resources to implement general population mobile chest x-ray screening for tuberculosis in Uganda: A trial-based costing analysis
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T L Johnson, David Isooba, Susan Birabwa
Mobile chest X-ray (CXR) screening interventions are recommended for tuberculosis (TB) screening in high-burden settings, but implementation costs are variable and underreported. Using time-driven activity-based …
Integrated 3D-QSAR, docking and molecular dynamics reveal novel drug-like inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 main protease
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Soukaina Zahm, Nabil Nor, Soukaina El orchi
Optimizing ambulatory groin hernia repair in public healthcare frameworks: a prospective analysis of predictive factors for discharge failure
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Jihen Krichen, Asma SGHAIER, Rana Dhouib
Abstract Background Outpatient groin hernia repair is widely recommended globally due to clinical and socioeconomic efficiency, yet it remains underutilized in developing healthcare systems like …
Specific water management facilitated rice-based phytoremediation of cadmium contaminated paddy fields
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Xuefei Yin, Rui Huang, Liu Sai-hua
Reproducibility package — Source-Code Analysis of iFogSim for Simulating Distributed IoT Architectures
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Milliam Maxime Zekeng Ndadji
Simulation is an indispensable tool for validating distributed IoT architectures before physical deployment, and iFogSim has emerged as one of the most widely adopted platform …
One health epidemiological investigation of bovine cysticercosis and human Taenia saginata taeniasis in selected districts of the Kellem Wollega Zone, Ethiopia
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Kirubel Paulos, Wakgari Mosisa, Abraham Diriba
Abstract Bovine cysticercosis and human Taenia saginata taeniasis are neglected zoonotic diseases with significant public health and economic impacts, particularly in developing countries where the …
Lightweight real-time image captioning for mobile systems: an optimized multimodal framework and benchmarking study
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Othmane Sebban, Ahmed Azough, Mohamed Lamrini
Capturing Family Planning Community Service Data into National Health Management Information Systems: A Five-Country Review of Tools for Community Health Workers and Pharmacies and Drug Shops
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Aurélie Brunie, Lucy Wilson, Elena Lebetkin
Background: Inclusion of data on services provided by community health workers (CHWs) and pharmacies and drug shops (PDS) in national health management information systems (HMIS) …
Empiric tuberculosis treatment and 12-month mortality among sputum GeneXpert-negative adults living with HIV in Uganda in the era of widespread antiretroviral therapy: A prospective cohort study
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Lydia Nakiyingi, Bernard Kikaire, Sarah Nakayenga
BACKGROUND: In sub-Saharan Africa where both tuberculosis (TB) and HIV are prevalent, empiric TB treatment in people living with HIV (PLHIV) persists due to limited …
Effect of malted iron-rich beans flour inclusion on nutritional and sensory properties of broken rice-based complementary food: a community-based experimental study
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Christopher Atibo, Sunday Mark Oyet, Christopher Muggaga
Abstract Background Iron and zinc deficiencies are a major public health concern among children aged 6-24 months in Northern Uganda, particularly in the Acholi sub-region. …
Syndromic cholera diagnosis masks diverse causes of diarrhoeal disease in Burundi revealed by portable metagenomics
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Emilie Egholm Bruun Jensen, Néhémie Nzoyikorera, Mirena Ivanova
Abstract Background Cholera outbreaks remain a major public-health challenge in sub-Saharan Africa, where diagnostic capacity is limited and clinical case definitions are non-specific and reply …
Remote engineering of particle-like topologies to visualise entanglement dynamics
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Fazilah Nothlawala, Bereneice Sephton, Pedro Ornelas
Skyrmions are a particle-like topology with a quantized skyrmion number, realized across condensed matter and photonic platforms alike. In quantum photonics, they constitute an emerging …
Measurement of binding antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 variants elicited by natural infection and COVID-19 vaccines in a sub-Saharan African population
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Eddy Kinganda Lusamaki, Ana M. Ortega-Villa, Daouda Camara
Abstract Data on immune responses to COVID-19 vaccination in West and Central Africa remain limited, particularly with respect to antibody (Ab) binding across SARS-CoV-2 variants …
Divergent biological consequences of APOE isoforms across industrialized and non-industrial environments
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Marina M. Watowich, Rachel M. Petersen, Layla Brassington
The apolipoprotein ε4 (APOE ε4) isoform directly alters cholesterol and immune biology and is associated with an increased risk of neurodegenerative and cardiometabolic disease in …
Talaromyces marinus (Eurotiales, Trichocomaceae): a new marine fungus from the Red Sea, Egypt, with distinguished enzymatic capabilities
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Ahmed Elbadry Abdel-Aziz, Enas Mahmoud Amer, Mahmoud S. Bakhit
BACKGROUND: Talaromyces C. R. Benj., is a large and taxonomically important genus within Ascomycota, established to accommodate the teleomorphs of certain Penicillium Link, species and …
Autologous bone grafts versus alloplastic implants for orbital floor reconstruction: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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Mohammed Ehmidat, Ahmed Samy Gad, Ahmad Omar Saleh
Development of Penalized Estimation for Conway-Maxwell-Poisson Regression under Multicollinearity and High Dimensionality
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Ibrahim M. Taha, Mohamed R. Abonazel, Amany Mousa
Modern count data applications are increasingly characterized by dispersion, high dimensionality, and strong predictor dependence, conditions under which maximum likelihood estimation for Conway--Maxwell--Poisson (COM-Poisson) regression …
Health system readiness for immediate Kangaroo Mother Care (iKMC) among network of care facilities in the Sidama region, Ethiopia: a mixed-method study
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Abiy Seifu Estifanos, Hailemariam Negash, Setisemhal Getachew
Introduction: Despite Ethiopia's remarkable progress in reducing deaths among children under five, neonatal mortality remains high. The provision of immediate Kangaroo Mother Care (iKMC) for …
Trends in advanced HIV disease, treatment interruption, and viraemia in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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Sanele S. Mbeje, Lilishia Gounder, Johan van der Molen
Advanced HIV disease (AHD), treatment interruption and viraemia remain key challenges to effectiveness of HIV programmes in South Africa. Understanding the trends of these measures …