SURVIVING HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN NIGERIA: COPING STRATEGIES OF INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS (IDP) IN BENUE STATE, NORTHCENTRAL, NIGERIA by ISAAC OLAWALE ALBERT, JOEL ABAH

“…Findings reveal CSOs and State inadequacies in meeting the basic needs of the IDP; this have made the IDP to resort to street begging, petty stealing in and outside IDP camps; prostitution among aged women, adult ladies, teenagers and even children or minors; the study establishes that inadequate care to the IDP can lead to epidemics breakout, internal insecurity for the IDP and the community hosting them; thereby leading to environmental and community security threats. …”
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Adesão dos trabalhadores às ofertas da Universidade Aberta do Sistema Único de Saúde relacionadas com a temática da pessoa com deficiência by Claylton Silva Antunes , Luciana Yumi Ue, Eliane Almeida do Carmo, Moreno Magalhaes de Souza Rodrigues, Henrique Pereira Alves , Kellen Cristina da Silva Gasque

“…Entre os trabalhadores da saúde, 7% eram enfermeiros; 6%, fisioterapeutas; 6%, técnicos de Enfermagem; e 5%, psicólogos. Houve expressiva participação de estudantes (38,38%). …”
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Socio-economic determinants and spatial analysis of access to sanitation among older adults in Ghana by Ebenezer Nana Kwaku Boateng, Yvonne Ami Adjakloe, Addae Boateng Adu-Gyamfi, Amos Apraku, Simon Mariwah, Razak M. Gyasi

“…We used data from the 2021 Population and Housing Census and employed the Moran’s I, Hotspot, and Cluster and Outlier analytic tools to assess the spatial distribution of access to sanitation. …”
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Epidemiology of Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer Patients Attending at Hiwa Hospital in Sulaimani City, Iraq by Bushra Mohammed Ali, Hiwa Abas Ahmed

“…Objectives are to identify the frequency of non-melanoma skin cancer cases were registered at Hiwa hospital and to find out the association between cases and controls with their sociodemographic status and risk factors. …”
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CO2 methanation over low-loaded Ni-M, Ru-M (M = Co, Mn) catalysts supported on CeO2 and SiC by Chopendra G. Wasnik, Maki Nakamura, Taiki Shimada, Hiroshi Machida, Koyo Norinaga

“…The catalyst's durability was confirmed by a subsequent 40-hour stability test, which showed only a 3–5 % degradation. …”
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Genome-wide association study of the antibody response to <i>Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis</i> in sheep by J. Kyselová, L. Tichý, J. Marková, A. Gurgul, Z. Sztankóová, K. Vališ, S. Šlosárková, K. Kavanová, M. Beinhauerová, T. Szmatola, T. Szmatola

“…This study aimed to reveal the host genomic influences on <i>Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis</i> antibody levels as indicators of disease susceptibility or resistance, thereby potentially identifying genetic markers associated with these traits. …”
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Comparable outcomes after busulfan- or treosulfan-based conditioning for allo-HSCT in children with ALL: results of FORUM by Krzysztof Kalwak, Laura M. Moser, Ulrike Pötschger, Peter Bader, Katharina Kleinschmidt, Roland Meisel, Jean-Hugues Dalle, Akif Yesilipek, Adriana Balduzzi, Gergely Krivan, Evgenios Goussetis, Raquel Staciuk, Petr Sedlacek, Herbert Pichler, Peter Svec, Melissa Gabriel, Tayfun Güngör, Ernest Bilic, Jochen Buechner, Marleen Renard, Kim Vettenranta, Marianne Ifversen, Cristina Diaz-de-Heredia, Jerry Stein, Jacek Toporski, Marc Bierings, Christina Peters, Marc Ansari, Franco Locatelli

“…No significant differences in acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) or 3-year GVHD-free and relapse-free survival (BU, 0.48 [0.41-0.55]; TREO, 0.45 [0.37-0.54]) were recorded. …”
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Spatiotemporal Variations of Particulate Matter and their Association with Criteria Pollutants and Meteorology in Malaysia by Anis Asma Ahmad Mohtar, Mohd Talib Latif, Doreena Dominick, Maggie Chel Gee Ooi, Azliyana Azhari, Nor Hafizah Baharudin, Norfazrin Mohd Hanif, Jing Xiang Chung, Liew Juneng

“…This study aims to determine the spatiotemporal variations of PM2.5 and PM10 in Malaysia and their association with other criteria pollutants and meteorological factors. Hourly data from air quality monitoring stations for the year 2018 were retrieved from the Malaysian Department of Environment and analysed for temporal and spatial scales according to different regions in Malaysia. …”
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Utilisation of an in vivo malaria model to provide functional proof for RhopH1/CLAG essentiality and conserved orthology with P. falciparum by Mitchell L. Trickey, Mrittika Chowdury, Georgina Bramwell, Natalie A. Counihan, Tania F. de Koning-Ward

“…Abstract Background Malaria parasites establish new permeation pathways (NPPs) at the red blood cell membrane to facilitate the transport of essential nutrients from the blood plasma into the infected host cell. The NPPs are critical to parasite survival and, therefore, in the pursuit of novel therapeutics are an attractive drug target. …”
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Accounting for racial bias and social determinants of health in a model of hypertension control by Yang Hu, Nicholas Cordella, Rebecca G. Mishuris, Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis

“…Race-specific models are not sufficient to resolve such biases and require further decision threshold tuning. A host of structural socioeconomic factors are identified to be targeted to reduce disparities in hypertension control.…”
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Existe o efeito liquidez no mercado acionário brasileiro? by Márcio André Veras Machado, Otávio Ribeiro de Medeiros

“…Observou-se, ainda, que o prêmio de liquidez não foi restrito ao mês de janeiro e não houve grandes alterações, ao serem utilizados períodos distintos na análise. …”
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Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System guided objective function parameter optimization for inverse treatment planning by Eduardo Cisternas Jiménez, Fang-Fang Yin, Fang-Fang Yin, Fang-Fang Yin

“…This study presents a proof-of-concept artificial intelligence (AI) system based on an Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) to guide IMRT planning and achieve optimal, patient-specific prescriptions in aligned with a radiation oncologist's treatment objectives. We developed an in-house ANFIS-AI system utilizing Prescription Dose (PD) constraints to guide the optimization process toward achievable prescriptions. …”
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Utilizing Low-cost Mobile Monitoring to Estimate the PM2.5 Inhaled Dose in Urban Environment by Muhammad Miftahul Munir, Martin Adrian, Casmika Saputra, Puji Lestari

“…The MM system (carried on vehicle) has been used to measure PM2.5 concentration, geolocation, and meteorological factors during rush hour. To examine repeatability, a new method was proposed to calculate the coefficient of variance of the PM2.5 sensor reading. …”
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Feasibility study to assess the delivery of a lifestyle intervention (TreatWELL) for patients with colorectal cancer undergoing potentially curative treatment by Annie S Anderson, Ronan E O’Carroll, Martine Stead, Robert J C Steele, Mary Wells, Maureen Macleod, Anna Campbell, Jacqui A Sugden, Jackie Rodger, Jennifer McKell

“…Median time for intervention delivery was 5.5 hours. Coaches reported covering most (&gt;70%) of the intervention components but had difficulties during phase 2. …”
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The Effects of TMR® Fab 6 on Hamstring Flexibility in Healthy Subjects; An Exploratory Observational Investigation by Richard D. Patterson, Alexander Zettlemoyer, Mary Plackowski, Russell Baker, Scott W. Cheatham, Alan Nasypany

“…Participants were asked to return in 24-hours for the same objective measurements as previously described…”
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Hip and Trunk Variables in University Students with and without Recurrent Low Back Pain by BJ Lehecka, Jordin Burleson, Paige Diederich, Morgan Salem, Rachel Schoonover, Jason Tejano

“…Recurrent low back pain (rLBP) is defined as two or more episodes of LBP in a 12-month period, each lasting more than 24 hours and separated by at least one pain-free month. …”
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Phytochemicals for mitigating the COVID-19 crisis: evidence from pre-clinical and clinical studies by Atri Das, Swarnali Khan, Syamal Roy, Shantanabha Das

“…These findings suggest that multiple phytochemicals can interfere with virus entry and replication inside the host cell. Many of them can protect from cytokine storm by acting on intracellular signalling pathways in addition to inhibiting virus multiplication. …”
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Climate change as a wildlife health threat: a scoping review by Sabrina S. Greening, Lucie R. Pascarosa, Avery L. Munster, Roderick B. Gagne, Julie C. Ellis

“…Conclusions A large number of the papers retrieved in the literature search focused on how climate change impacts the distribution and abundance of host, vector, and pathogen species, remaining disease-centric in their approach. …”
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Reconfigurable Ultra-Miniaturized MIMO Antenna for Tissue-Independent Communication in Injectable Medical Implants by L. Harlan, M. Susila, Sachin Kumar, Hyun Chul Choi, Kang Wook Kim

“…This article introduces a compact, reconfigurable multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna tailored for injectable in-body implants, designed to operate efficiently in the 2.45 GHz industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band, ensuring consistent performance regardless of the host tissue type, such as muscle or fat. The antenna design achieves miniaturization using meandered lines and shorting pins, while reconfigurability is obtained by adjusting the meandered length with an ON-OFF switch (diode). …”
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Computational pathology assessments of cardiac stromal remodeling: Clinical correlates and prognostic implications in heart transplantation by Eliot G. Peyster, MD, MSc, Cai Yuan, PhD, Sara Arabyarmohammadi, PhD, Priti Lal, MD, Michael D. Feldman, MD, PhD, Pingfu Fu, PhD, Kenneth B. Margulies, MD, MS, Anant Madabhushi, PhD, FAIMBE, FIEEE, FNAI

“…Source code for the stromal feature analysis pipeline is hosted on GitHub and freely available: https://github.service.emory.edu/CYUAN31/Pathomics_StromalBioMarker_in_Myocardium.git.…”
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