SDG3-related inequalities in women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health: an SDG monitoring baseline for Latin America and the Caribbean using national cross-sectional surveys... by Cesar G Victora, Oscar J Mújica, Luis Paulo Vidaletti, Antonio Sanhueza, Liliana Carvajal-Vélez, Aluisio JD Barros

“…Analyses by woman’s age showed that coverage was lower in adolescent girls than older women for family planning indicators. …”
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Large-scale event extraction from literature with multi-level gene normalization. by Sofie Van Landeghem, Jari Björne, Chih-Hsuan Wei, Kai Hakala, Sampo Pyysalo, Sophia Ananiadou, Hung-Yu Kao, Zhiyong Lu, Tapio Salakoski, Yves Van de Peer, Filip Ginter

“…To provide comprehensive coverage and enable full integration with existing biomolecular database records, it is crucial that text mining tools scale up to millions of articles and that their analyses can be unambiguously linked to information recorded in resources such as UniProt, KEGG, BioGRID and NCBI databases. …”
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Exploring national COVID-19 variability across sub-Saharan Africa by Fikresus Amahazion

“…Descriptive statistics, correlation analyses, and multiple regression analyses are performed to reveal important country-level factors associated with COVID-19 deaths in SSA…”
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Quality of newborn care and associated factors: An analysis of the 2022 Kenya demographic and health survey. by John Baptist Asiimwe, Earnest Amwiine, Angella Namulema, Quraish Sserwanja, Joseph Kawuki, Mathius Amperiize, Shamim Nabidda, Imelda Namatovu, Lilian Nuwabaine

“…Using SPSS (version 29), univariate and multivariable logistic regression analyses were used to analyse the data. In this study, 32.7% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 31.0%-34.5%) of the mothers reported that their newborns had received all components of quality neonatal care after childbirth. …”
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The cost of maternal health services in low-income and middle-income countries from a provider’s perspective: a systematic review by Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas, Ejemai Amaize Eboreime, Ibukun-Oluwa Omolade Abejirinde, Oluwasola Banke-Thomas, Charles Anawo Ameh, Francis Ifeanyi Ayomoh

“…Going forward, consensus regarding cost component definitions and methodologies for costing maternal health services will significantly help to improve the usefulness of cost analyses in supporting policymaking towards achieving Universal Health Coverage.…”
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Acceptance of illness and quality of life of patients under long-term home nursing care by Bożena Majchrowicz, Krystyna Kowalczuk, Katarzyna Tomaszewska

“…Statistical significance of p ≤ 0.05 was assumed.ResultsThe average illness acceptance score determined by respondents according to the AIS scale was 16.11 ± 6.57. …”
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Unveiling the Drivers of Polio Vaccine Uptake: Insights from a Multi-Country Study of 37 Nations in Sub-Saharan Africa. by Getayeneh Antehunegn Tesema, Michael Sarfo, Sylvester R Okeke, Edward Kwabena Ameyaw, Sanni Yaya

“…Despite advancements in vaccination coverage across Africa, polio remains a public health concern. …”
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HPV vaccination, screening disparities, and the shifting landscape of cervical cancer burden: a global analysis of trends, inequalities, and policy implications by Yingxin Zhang, Zhe Fan, Jiankang Wang, Bing Guan, Fengyi Zhou, Zihan Tang, Wentao Wu, Aimin Huang

“…Time trends were analyzed by SDI regions, alongside health inequality assessments. Correlation analyses examined links between screening rates, HPV vaccination coverage, and disease burden. …”
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Cost effectiveness analysis of expanding tuberculosis preventive therapy to household contacts aged 5–14 years in the Philippines by Ghassan Ilaiwy, Jessica Keim-Malpass, Romella Tuppal, Alexander F. Ritua, Flordeliza R. Bassiag, Tania A. Thomas

“…These findings were robust to sensitivity analyses over a wide range of parameter values. Conclusion: Expanding TPT coverage to HHCs aged 5–14 years is cost-effective when using TST and 6H closely followed by a strategy combining TST and 3HP.…”
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Cohort profile: the National Congenital Anomaly Registration Dataset in England by Danielle Martin, Sarah Stevens, John Broggio, Chloe Johnson, Kate M Fleming, Ben Wreyford, Sylvia Stoianova, Gabriella Melis, Ewoma Obaro, Jennifer M. Broughan, Kay Randall, Nicholas Aldridge, Donna Gibbard

“…Established in 2015, NCARDRS expanded CA registration coverage from 22% of total births in England in 2015 to national coverage, which was achieved in 2018. …”
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Velocities of hippocampal traveling waves are proportional to their coherence frequency. by Gadi Goelman, Tal Benoliel, Zvi Israel, Sami Heymann, Juan Leon, Dana Ekstein

“…The average coherence values are higher, and the average pair distances and wave velocities are lower in the multivariate analysis than in the pairwise approach. …”
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Mapping Fluvial Valleys on the Flanks of Alba Mons: Implications for Amazonian Watershed Development in Northern Tharsis, Mars by Stephen P. Scheidt, David A. Crown, Daniel C. Berman

“…On the summit and southern flanks, valleys are sparse and regional slopes are less steep, between 0.0° and 0.3° (average 0.4° ± 0.2°). Areas with higher drainage density (average 0.24 km−1; locally >0.5 km−1) have steeper regional slopes, between 0.1° and 2.9° (average 1.0° ± 0.4°). …”
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Mapping the Distance: An Analysis of Visitor Travel Distance to German National Parks and Biosphere Reserves by Lisa Majewski, Anna Frieser, Katrin Lang-Novikov, Manuel Woltering

“…Opting for public transport increases the average travel distance to 312.5 km, with a travel time of 284.5 minutes (04:43 hours). …”
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Historical spatio-temporal data on North American radical environmental direct-action eventsDataverse by Zack W. Almquist, Benjamin E. Bagozzi, Daria Blinova

“…However, event data concerning the direct actions of radical environmental groups is comparatively scarce, due in large part to inconsistent news coverage and the clandestine nature of the groups involved. …”
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Pedigree- and SNP-Associated Genetics and Recent Environment are the Major Contributors to Anthropometric and Cardiometabolic Trait Variation. by Charley Xia, Carmen Amador, Jennifer Huffman, Holly Trochet, Archie Campbell, David Porteous, Generation Scotland, Nicholas D Hastie, Caroline Hayward, Veronique Vitart, Pau Navarro, Chris S Haley

“…Given the same dense SNP panels, mixed model analyses capture a greater proportion of phenotypic variance than single SNP analyses but the total is generally still less than the genetic variance estimated from pedigree studies. …”
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A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Climatic Drivers for Observed Changes in Sahelian Vegetation Productivity (1982–2007) by Per Skougaard Kaspersen, Rasmus Fensholt, Silvia Huber

“…Per-pixel correlation analyses are conducted on annual and monthly data, and analyses of change in the potential climatic constraints to the natural vegetation development from 1982–2007 are performed. …”
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Politological Science in the Carpathian Region after the Declaration of Independence by Ihor Tsependa

“…The article dwells on the state, achievements and research perspectives of the political science school of the Carpathian region scholars. It analyses the whole complex of debatable issues under study that scientists have been working on lately relying on the social demand regarding Ukrainian political processes coverage. …”
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Guaranteed Deterministic Approach to Superhedging: Case of Binary European Option by Sergey N. Smirnov, Andrey Yu. Zanochkin

“…For the superreplication problem with discrete time, a guaranteed deterministic formulation is considered: the problem is to guarantee coverage of the contingent liability on sold option under all admissible scenarios. …”
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Development of an Albanian Version of the Questionnaire on Teacher-Student Interaction by Edona Berisha Kida, Theodhori Karaj

“…A questionnaire for studying teacher-student interaction in Albanian contexts was developed with extensive coverage in the field of educational psychology. The purpose was to adapt and develop an Albanian version of the widely used tool, the Questionnaire on Teacher-Student Interaction. …”
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