Is heterologous prime-boost COVID-19 vaccination a concern or an opportunity for Ethiopia?
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Tesfaye Gelanew, Liya Wassie, Andargachew Mulu
OPINION article Front. Public Health, 26 January 2023Sec. Infectious Diseases: Epidemiology and Prevention Volume 10 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1046546
Effects of best land management practices on the structure, composition and diversity of woody vegetation in agroforestry parklands: case of Dan Saga and Tabofatt villages in Niger republic
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Dan Guimbo Iro, Mahamane Larwanou, Ambouta Jean-Marie Karimou
Abstract The large-scale use of best land management practices has been instrumental in the accession of recent regreening in certain Sahelian areas. This study therefore …
Non-tuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease: Awareness survey of front-desk healthcare workers in Northern Tanzania
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Togolani Maya, Erick Komba, Gloria Ivy Mensah
Over the past decade, there have been increasing reports of non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) species being implicated in tuberculosis (TB) treatment failure or misdiagnosed as TB. …
Does the use of ICT by Teachers Influence Learners’ Academic Performance during the COVID-19 Environment?
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Kgalemelo Rodnie Mafa, Desmond Wesley Govender
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) use in the education sector has gained momentum ever since the outbreak of the COVID – 19 pandemic. This study …
Myopia and its associated factors among pregnant women at health institutions in Gondar District, Northwest Ethiopia: A multi-center cross-sectional study
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Mengistie Diress, Mihret Getnet, Yonas Akalu
Background Myopia is the most common form of uncorrected refractive error with a growing burden worldwide. It is the principal complaint of most women during …
Intimate partner violence among HIV-positive women in discordant relationships attending care and treatment clinics in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Milka Mathania, Nathanael Sirili
Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) toward women is a public health concern affecting many countries across the world. Globally, 30% of women experience lifetime physical, …
A randomized crossover study of the effect of butorphanol–lidocaine and tramadol–lidocaine on sevoflurane's minimum alveolar concentration in dogs
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Mohamed Marzok, Adel I. Almubarak, Mahmoud Kandeel
Inhalational anesthesia is routinely used in small animal surgery. Selecting a suitable drug combination is vital since it may negatively affect the patient's physiological condition. …
Growth model for international academic medicine partnerships: Qualitative analysis of Ghana postgraduate Ob/Gyn training program
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Theresa L. Rager, Melani Kekulawala, Yael Braunschweiga
This study aims to detail the capacity strengthening process of the Ghana Ob/Gyn postgraduate training program in order to inform a model by which international …
Joint modeling of longitudinal change of fasting blood sugar and systolic blood pressure with survival time to death among hypertension patients
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Markos Abiso Erango
Hypertension is a universal public health challenge and a leading modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease and death. It is also called high blood pressure, …
JUDICIAL REVIEW IN SOUTH AFRICA AND INDIA: ADVANCING CONSTITUTIONALISM OR UNDUE ACTIVISM?
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Radley Henrico
The Supreme Court of India and the Constitutional Court of South Africa, as apex courts, also function as guardians of the constitutions of each respective …
Epidemiology of human Monkey-pox cases in Rivers State, Nigeria January 2017-June 2022
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Hastings Chinedu Onu, Owhonda Golden, I. Aaron Wali
The resurgence in monkey pox disease has posed a global health threat. Nigeria recorded increased number of reported monkey pox cases in 2017, with cases …
Comparative analysis of China and Nigeria agricultural reforms in the advancement of food sustainability on a national scale
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Nchedo Josephine Oguine
Due to the rapidly growing population of China and Nigeria, a top government objective is ensuring foodsecurity. Dietary security is the ideal in which everyone …
Towards understanding the influence of rurality on students’ access to and participation in higher education
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Hellen Agumba, Zach Simpson, Amasa Ndofirep
This study examines the experiences of students from rural backgrounds in higher education in South Africa in order to foster more equitable access and participation. …
Relational Reading~Writing~Thinking~Becoming in Higher Education: Possibilities for scholarly reading and writing in times of turbulence
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The paper explores our scholarly practice of collaborative academic writing by engaging with a Relational Reading of Text approach and Slow scholarship. It grew out …
Target-Agnostic Gender-Aware Contrastive Learning for Mitigating Bias in Multilingual Machine Translation
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Minwoo Lee, Hyukhun Koh, Kang-il Lee
Gender bias is a significant issue in machine translation, leading to ongoing research efforts in developing bias mitigation techniques.However, most works focus on debiasing bilingual …
UL & UM6P at ArAIEval Shared Task: Transformer-based model for Persuasion Techniques and Disinformation detection in Arabic
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Salima Lamsiyah, Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Hamza Alami
In this paper, we introduce our participating system to the ArAIEval Shared Task, addressing both the detection of persuasion techniques and disinformation tasks.Our proposed system …
AN ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ASSESS THE WELL-BEING OF STREET CHILDREN IN ZIMBABWE: IMPLICATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
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Constance Gunhidzirai
This study reports on an assessment of the well-being of street children in Harare Metropolitan Province in Zimbabwe using the ecological systems approach. This study …
ADAPTING THE SOCIAL WORK CURRICULUM FOR RELEVANCE IN A SOUTH AFRICAN UNIVERSITY: A COLLABORATIVE AUTOETHNOGRAPHY OF SOCIAL WORK ACADEMICS DURING THE KZN FLOODS
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Siphiwe Motloung, Bongane Mzinyane
This article adopts collaborative autoethnography in order to critically reflect on the experiences of social work academics who integrated disaster-specific approaches to the social work …
Construction of the metabolism-related models for predicting prognosis and infiltrating immune phenotype in lung squamous cell carcinoma
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Zeming Ma, Liang Wang, Xiaoyun Huang
Purpose: Cancers often display disorder metabolism, which closely related to the poor outcome of patients.We aimed to establish prognostic models using metabolism-associated genes, and identify …
Robust Optimization for Misalignment Tolerance in Inductive Power Transfer Coupler Design
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Sampath Jayalath, Azeem Khan
The coupler parameters, such as transmitter inductance (LTx), receiver inductance (LRx), and the coupling coefficient (k) or mutual inductance (M), vary with the misalignments. Their …