Economic evaluation of short message service intervention for HIV prevention among men who have sex with men in China: a modelling study by Rui-Qi Fan, Jun-Tao Shu, Hao Huang, Ling-Yi Shi, Qi-Wei Ge, Xun Zhuang, Mei-Yin Zou, Gang Qin

“…The cost-effectiveness, cost-utility and cost-benefit analyses were conducted along with sensitivity analyses from the healthcare sector perspective. …”
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Serum-epidemiological survey in a group of illegal immigrates for the evaluation of immunity against vaccine-preventable diseases in Italy. by Stefania Bruno, Stefania Donno, Federico Bruno, Salvatore Geraci, Bianca Maisano, Maria Doonata Monteduro, Arif Oryakhail, Stefania Boccia, Gianfranco Damiani, Walter Ricciardi

“…With regard to rubella, African women had the lowest coverage (87.5%) and their young age exposes to congenital rubella. …”
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Spatial heterogeneity and risk maps of community infestation by Triatoma infestans in rural northwestern Argentina. by Gonzalo M Vazquez-Prokopec, Cynthia Spillmann, Mario Zaidenberg, Ricardo E Gürtler, Uriel Kitron

“…<h4>Methods and findings</h4>We performed spatial analyses of house infestation data collected by the National Chagas Service in Moreno Department, northern Argentina (1999-2002). …”
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Research on architectural enhancements for integrating satellite into 5G networks by Wang Hucheng, Xu Hui, Sun Shaohui

“…Integration of satellite and terrestrial networks would bring better coverage, more flexible networking and more robust network architecture for 5G, which makes the 5G network connecting everything possible, and then becomes an important evolution direction for 5G network. …”
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PoPoolation: a toolbox for population genetic analysis of next generation sequencing data from pooled individuals. by Robert Kofler, Pablo Orozco-terWengel, Nicola De Maio, Ram Vinay Pandey, Viola Nolte, Andreas Futschik, Carolin Kosiol, Christian Schlötterer

“…Recent statistical analyses suggest that sequencing of pooled samples provides a cost effective approach to determine genome-wide population genetic parameters. …”
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DeepDeconUQ estimates malignant cell fraction prediction intervals in bulk RNA-seq tissue. by Jiawei Huang, Yuxuan Du, Kevin R Kelly, Jinchi Lv, Yingying Fan, Jiang F Zhong, Fengzhu Sun

“…Benchmark analyses indicate that DeepDeconUQ consistently surpasses existing methods, achieving high coverage accuracy with tight prediction intervals across simulated and real cancer datasets. …”
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The cost and cost-effectiveness of scaling up screening and treatment of syphilis in pregnancy: a model. by James G Kahn, Aliya Jiwani, Gabriela B Gomez, Sarah J Hawkes, Harrell W Chesson, Nathalie Broutet, Mary L Kamb, Lori M Newman

“…Future analyses can be tailored to countries using local epidemiologic and programmatic data.…”
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Clinical Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of Updated 2023/24 COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination in High-Risk Populations in the United States by Keya Joshi, Mariia Dronova, Ewelina Paterak, Van H. Nguyen, Hagit Kopel, James Mansi, Nicolas Van de Velde, Ekkehard Beck

“…Healthcare savings increased with a relative 10% increase in current vaccination coverage ($439M–$2342M), and from meeting US 2030 targets of 70% coverage ($1096M–$5707M). …”
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Enhancing Coffee Agroforestry Systems Suitability Using Geospatial Analysis and Sentinel Satellite Data in Gedeo Zone, Ethiopia by Wondifraw Nigussie, Husam Al-Najjar, Wanchang Zhang, Eshetu Yirsaw, Worku Nega, Zhijie Zhang, Bahareh Kalantar

“…To address this, the study identified and mapped coffee coverage from Sentinel-1 data with a decibel (dB) value matched to actual coffee coverage. …”
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Revisiting the Lexical Differences Between Academic and General Training IELTS Reading Tests by Linh Thi Thao Le, Nam Thi Phuong Ho, Nguyen Huynh Trang, Hung Tan Ha

“…In addition, results from lexical demand analyses confirm these findings by indicating that, for the AC reading passages and the last GT passage, learners need to be familiar with the most frequent 4,000 and 9,000 word families in the BNC/COCA lists to achieve 95% and 98% coverage, respectively. …”
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Novel diagnostics for improved treatment of gynecological cancer by Ulf Gyllensten

“…A program that screens for all three diseases could increase motivation to participate and thereby population coverage.…”
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THE ROLE OF PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN DEVELOPING CATASTROPHE INSURANCE MARKET by Darko Blazhevski

“…Regardless of this fact, in many countries in the world, insurance against natural disasters is poorly developed, both on the supply side and on the demand side. The analysed trends in the coverage of damage from catastrophic risks on a global level in the period from 2000 to 2016 show that on average only 28.8% of the total damages were covered. …”
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THE POLITICS OF INSECURITY REPORTAGE IN NORTHERN NIGERIA by ISA SA’IDU

“…It is based on the foregoing that this paper analyses the politics – issues of religion, market, ideology, ethnicity, regionalism, and ownership - that shrouded the coverage of security challenges and the role being played by journalists in fueling or taming the security challenges in Nigeria.This is the major contribution of the paper to the existing literature, as it brought to the fore the character of the media in its reportage of insecurity in Nigeria, and this makes this research unique. …”
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Functional abstraction as a method to discover knowledge in gene ontologies. by Alfred Ultsch, Jörn Lötsch

“…Computational analyses of functions of gene sets obtained in microarray analyses or by topical database searches are increasingly important in biology. …”
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Decentralizing and task sharing within the primary health system improved access and quality of ANC services in Amhara and Oromia regions: pre-post health facility data by Solomon Abebe, Shoa Girma, Abeba Ayele, Tarik Taye, Melissa Morrison, Dedefo Teno, Gebeyehu Asire, Addisie Worku, Della Berhanu

“…The intervention task shared ANC services at health centers (Augst 2018-January 2021) and then decentralized services to health posts (February 2021-February 2022). Using descriptive analyses, this study assessed, between baseline and endline, changes in coverage in the proportion of women who: enrolled early into ANC; had at least one ANC contact; and had four or more ANC contacts. …”
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Altered microstate C and D dynamics in high social anxiety: a resting-state EEG study by Huoyin Zhang, Huoyin Zhang, Binyu Peng, Yutong Liu, Yu Xi, Yi Lei, Yi Lei

“…Correlation analyses were conducted between LSAS scores and microstate dynamics.ResultsThe high social anxiety group exhibited significantly increased duration and coverage of microstate C (associated with processing personally significant information and self-reflection) and decreased duration and coverage of microstate D (associated with executive functioning). …”
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Direct and Indirect Protection with Pediatric Quadrivalent Live-Attenuated Influenza Vaccination in Europe Estimated by a Dynamic Transmission Model by Laetitia Gerlier, Judith Hackett, Richard Lawson, Sofia Dos Santos Mendes, Catherine Weil-Olivier, Markus Schwehm, Martin Eichner

“… # Methods A deterministic, age-structured, dynamic model was used to simulate influenza transmission across 14 European countries, comparing current vaccination coverage using a quadrivalent inactivated vaccine (QIV) to a scenario whereby vaccination coverage was extended to 50% of 2–17 year-old children, using QLAIV. …”
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Global burden of diphtheria, 1990–2021: a 204-country analysis of socioeconomic inequality based on SDI and DTP3 vaccination differences before and after the COVID-19 pandemic (GBD... by Zilun Wu, Zilun Wu, Liyu Lin, Liyu Lin, Jinbu Zhang, Jinbu Zhang, Jirui Zhong, Jirui Zhong, Donglan Lai, Donglan Lai, Donglan Lai

“…The Pearson correlation coefficient was used to quantify the association between diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP3) vaccination coverage and incidence. Analyses were stratified by region, sex, age, and socio-demographic index (SDI).ResultsBetween 1990 and 2021, the global age-standardized incidence rate (ASIR), mortality rate (ASMR), and DALY rate (ASMR) of diphtheria declined by 86.7, 75.0, and 86.4%, respectively, yet marked regional disparities persisted. …”
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Neural mechanisms of spatial navigation in ASD and TD children: insights from EEG microstate and functional connectivity analysis by Yao Wang, Yao Wang, Yao Wang, Jianing Wang, Chong Lu, Chong Lu, Chong Lu, Chong Lu, Chong Lu

“…For microstate B, the ASD group displayed shorter durations and lower coverage, suggesting impairments in cognitive control. …”
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Cervical screening within HIV care: findings from an HIV-positive cohort in Ukraine. by Heather Bailey, Claire Thorne, Igor Semenenko, Ruslan Malyuta, Rostislav Tereschenko, Irina Adeyanova, Elena Kulakovskaya, Lyudmila Ostrovskaya, Liliana Kvasha, Mario Cortina-Borja, Claire L Townsend

“…Little is known about cervical screening coverage or the prevalence of abnormal cytology among HIV-positive women in Ukraine, which has the most severe HIV epidemic in Europe.…”
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