Red Cell Alloimmunization in Repeatedly Transfused Sudanese Patients with leukemia in Northern Sudan
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Taj Alasfia Abdalkream Jawish, Hajir Mohamed Hessen, Mubarak Ahmed Alshafeea
BACKGROUND: Leukemia frequently causes anemia; thus patients need products containing normal blood or RBCs for treatment. Anti-red blood cell alloantibody formation is still a critical …
Assessing the knowledge and practices of primary healthcare workers on malaria diagnosis and related challenges in view of COVID-19 outbreak in a Nigerian Southwestern metropolis
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Esther Oluwayemisi Ayandipo, Deborah Babatunde, Oladipo Afolayan
The clinical features of COVID-19 and malaria are interrelated. Due to the similarity of symptoms between the two disease states, patients can be incorrectly diagnosed …
Nigeria healthcare worker SARS-CoV-2 serology study: Results from a prospective, longitudinal cohort
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Dike Ojji, Amelia Sancilio, Gabriel Shedul
Healthcare workers, both globally and in Nigeria, have an increased risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection compared with the general population due to higher risk contacts, including …
KODAMA exploratory analysis in metabolic phenotyping
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Maria Zinga, Ebtesam A. Abdel-Shafy, Tadele Melak
KODAMA is a valuable tool in metabolomics research to perform exploratory analysis. The advanced analytical technologies commonly used for metabolic phenotyping, mass spectrometry, and nuclear …
Effect of maternity waiting homes use on maternal and perinatal birth outcomes and its challenges in Amhara region, Northwest Ethiopia
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Mulugeta Tesfa, Atsede Alle, Firehiwot Molla
Background: Women's death due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth is still high. Maternity waiting homes are one of the strategies to reduce it. However, …
Offensive Language Detection in Arabizi
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Imene Bensalem, M. L. Mout, Paolo Rosso
Detecting offensive language in underresourced languages presents a significant real-world challenge for social media platforms.This paper is the first work focused on the issue of …
Inertial subgradient extragradient with projection method for solving variational inequality and fixed point problems
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Rose Maluleka, Godwin Chidi Ugwunnadi, Maggie Aphane
In this paper, we introduce a new modified inertial Mann-type method that combines the subgradient extragradient method with the projection contraction method for solving quasimonotone …
Prevalence and Determinants of Endothelial Dysfunction among Adults Living with HIV in Northwest Nigeria
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Aisha M. Nalado, Bala Waziri, Anas Ismail
Background: Endothelial dysfunction constitutes an early pathophysiological event in atherogenesis and cardiovascular disease. This study aimed to assess the prevalence, determinants, and degree of endothelial …
PROJECT MANAGEMENT MATURITY AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT SUCCESS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
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Suzaan Pretorius, Herman Steyn, Taryn Jane Bond-Barnard
This paper explores whether organisations in a developing country have become more mature over time in their project management practices, and compares the current state …
Generating Hashtags for Short-form Videos with Guided Signals
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Tiezheng Yu, Hanchao Yu, Davis Liang
Tiezheng Yu, Hanchao Yu, Davis Liang, Yuning Mao, Shaoliang Nie, Po-Yao Huang, Madian Khabsa, Pascale Fung, Yi-Chia Wang. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of …
Health Related Quality of Life of Ugandan Children Following Valve Replacement Surgery for Rheumatic Heart Disease
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Mohammed Ahmed, Twalib Aliku, Judith Namuyonga
Background: Valve replacement surgery (VRS) improves clinical outcomes in patients with severe rheumatic heart disease (RHD). However, lifelong anticoagulation and frequent monitoring are required, which …
Ebola outbreak in Guinea, 2021: Clinical care of patients with Ebola virus disease
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Boyo Constant Paré, Alseny Camara, Aminata Camara
Background: Experience from the Zaire Ebolavirus epidemic in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (2018-2020) demonstrates that early initiation of essential critical care and …
Task-shifting and family planning continuation: contraceptive trajectories of women who received their method at a community-based event in Kinshasa, DRC
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Julie Hernandez, Katherine H. LaNasa, Tesky Koba
While community-based interventions are a proven high-impact strategy to increase contraceptive uptake in low-income countries, their capacity to support women's contraceptive choices (including continued use, …
Current tobacco use and susceptibility to using tobacco among non-users of tobacco: A cross-sectional study among school-going adolescents in Sierra Leone
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Peter James, John Alimamy Kabba, Abdulai Jawo Bah
INTRODUCTION: Tobacco use is a global health threat associated with a high disease burden and death. Current tobacco use and susceptibility to using tobacco products …
MIR-379-5p Expression in Endometrial Cancer and Its Correlation with ROR1 Expression
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Hala Mosaad, Aziza E. Abdelrahman, Asmaa Abdullatif
OBJECTIVE: To asses miR-379-5p expression in endometrial cancer (EC) and its correlation with ROR1 expression and to investigate the relation between miR-379-5p and ROR1 expressions …
Etiology and clinical characteristics of pediatric acute fever among hospitalized children in an endemic malaria transmission area of Cameroon in Central Africa
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Calixte Ida Penda, Patricia Épée Eboumbou, Ngondi Grace
Acute fever in the majority of children in resource-limited countries is attributable to malaria and often treated without laboratory evidence. The aim of the study …
Dietary diversity and associated factors among adult cancer patients attending treatment at Black Lion Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Helen Girma, Amanuel Nana
Abstract Background: Cancer has become a significant public health issue around the world and an increasingly important contributor to disease burdens. In countries like Ethiopia …
Surgical provider-reported reasons for utilization of the World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist at a tertiary hospital in Ghana
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Eyram Cyril Bansah, Kekeli Kodjo Adanu, David Adedia
Despite the established positive benefits, LMICs' adoption of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) is inadequate, with as little as 20% use. This study assessed …
Misunderstanding of dosing regimen instructions among patients with chronic diseases receiving polypharmacy at the University of Gondar comprehensive specialized hospital
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Eyayaw Ashete Belachew, Ashenafi Kibret Sendekie, Samuel Agegnew Wondm
BACKGROUND: Misunderstanding dosage instructions in terms of dose, frequency, duration, or any other instruction with patients on polypharmacy is a common problem that leads to …
Mapping quantitative trait loci and predicting candidate genes for Striga resistance in maize using resistance donor line derived from Zea diploperennis
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Baffour Badu‐Apraku, Samuel Adewale, Queen Offornedo
The parasitic weed, Striga is a major biological constraint to cereal production in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and threatens food and nutrition security. Two hundred and …