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 …
Biomedical Named Entity Recognition via Dictionary-based Synonym Generalization
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Zihao Fu, Yixuan Su, Zaiqiao Meng
Biomedical named entity recognition is one of the core tasks in biomedical natural language processing (BioNLP).To tackle this task, numerous supervised/distantly supervised approaches have been …
A TAXONOMY OF UNIVARIATE ANOMALY DETECTION ALGORITHMS FOR PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE
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Daniel Barrish, Jan H. van Vuuren
Anomaly detection has a wide variety of applications, ranging from intrusion detection in cybersecurity to fraud detection in finance. Among the most prominent applications is …
INSIGHTS INTO ELECTRIC VEHICLE MARKET GROWTH IN SOUTH AFRICA: A SYSTEM DYNAMICS APPROACH
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Albertus Scholtz, Teresa Hattingh, Meelan Roopa
The international share of plug-in electric vehicle sales was 8.6% in 2021, compared with South Africa’s 0.1%. Increasing the sale of these vehicles in South …
Community-based rehabilitation intervention for people with schizophrenia in Ethiopia (RISE) cluster-randomised controlled trial: An exploratory analysis of impact on food insecurity, underweight, alcohol use disorder and depressive symptoms
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Laura Asher, Rahel Birhane, Helen A. Weiss
Abstract We evaluated the effectiveness of community-based rehabilitation (CBR) in reducing depressive symptoms, alcohol use disorder, food insecurity and underweight in people with schizophrenia. This …
Ecological structure of aquatic macroinvertebrate communities in the Hauts Plateaux of Northeast Algeria
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S. Chaib, Affef Baaloudj, Patricio De los Ríos-Escalante
Aquatic macroinvertebrates are integral parts of functioning wetlands, inhabiting a diversity of aquatic ecosystems where communities are spatially structured. Macroinvertebrates of some Mediterranean regions such …
On the vectorial multifractal analysis in a metric space
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Najmeddine Attia, Amal Mahjoub
Multifractal analysis is typically used to describe objects possessing some type of scale invariance. During the last few decades, multifractal analysis has shown results of …
The competence of street food vendors to provide nutritious and safe food to consumers: a cross-sectional survey among street food vendors in Northern Ghana
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Mubaric Yakubu, Patience Kanyiri Gaa, Gabriel Libienuo Sowley Kalog
Abstract Increasingly most people have their meals outside their homes and are vulnerable to illnesses caused by unsafe foods. Unsafe food preparation and supply by …
Gall Formers
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Brett P. Hurley, Gudrun Dittrich‐Schröder, Caitlin R. Gevers
Abstract Gall formers are among the most highly evolved herbivores. Several organisms induce gall formation including viruses, bacteria, mites and nematodes. Insects are one of …
Assessing the Readiness to Provide Integrated Management of Cardiovascular Diseases and Type 2 Diabetes in Kenya: Results from a National Survey
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Peter Otieno, Charles Agyemang, Welcome Wami
Introduction: Integrated chronic disease management is the desired core function of a responsive healthcare system. However, many challenges surround its implementation in Sub-Saharan Africa. The …
REVISITING THE EBOLA EPIDEMIC IN WEST AFRICA: THE ROLE OF EMOTIONAL DETERMINANTS IN PUBLIC RESPONSES.
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Kousoulis Antonis A, Grant Imogen F, Duncan Joshua A
Background: The 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic was largely restricted to the three nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, yet it tested the world's ability to …
Perceived Health System Challenges of Implementing Cross-Border Malaria Preventive Measures at Ports of Entry in KwaZulu-Natal
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Ida M. Munsense, Joyce Mahlako Tsoka-Gwegweni
Background: Cross-border movements, especially from a malaria-endemic neighbour, contribute to importation of malaria, as they provide favourable conditions for malaria transmission in the receiving country. …