Socio-demographic and economic profile of households with catastrophic health expenditures in Muanda, Boma and Matadi in 2022: a household cross-sectional study by Bijou Masokolo, Marie Claire Muyer, Marcelo Kalonji, Branly Mbunga, Landry Egbende, Steve Botomba, Fulbert Kwilu

“… # Methods We conducted a secondary data analysis of 205 households from a cross-sectional study in seven health zones in 2022 in DRC. …”
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Virseqimprover: an integrated pipeline for viral contig error correction, extension, and annotation by Haoqiu Song, Saima Sultana Tithi, Connor Brown, Frank O. Aylward, Roderick Jensen, Liqing Zhang

“…Virseqimprover first examines whether there is any chimeric sequence based on read coverage, breaks the sequence into segments if there is, then extends the longest segment with uniform depth of coverage, and repeats these procedures until the sequence cannot be extended. …”
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The catastrophic and impoverishing effects of out-of-pocket healthcare payments in Kenya, 2018 by Paola Salari, Laura Di Giorgio, Stefania Ilinca, Jane Chuma

“…Introduction Progress towards effective service coverage and financial protection—the two dimensions of Universal Health Coverage (UHC)—has been limited in Kenya in the last decade. …”
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Droughts and media: when and how do the newspapers talk about the droughts in England? by I. Kong, J. Seibert, R. S. Purves

“…“Heatwave”, “Temperature and hosepipe ban”), which underpins our statistical analysis, suggesting that warm seasons garner more media attention. …”
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Multi-Buoy Deployment Method Based on an Improved Tuna Swarm Optimizer Enhanced with Fractional-Order Calculus Method for Marine Observation by Ranzhen Ren, Lichuan Zhang, Guang Pan, Xiaomeng Zhang, Lu Liu, Guangyao Han

“…The proposed method first introduces a detailed observation model that precisely captures the performance of buoys in terms of coverage and communication efficiency. By integrating the observation coverage ratio and communication energy consumption, we establish an optimal multi-buoy deployment model. …”
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Research-to-practice conference as a component of improving knowledge and mastering professional competencies by medical students and young scientists by V. N. Larina, E. V. Kudina, K. R. Mikava, A. A. Gavrilova

“…An important aspect was the coverage of current problems of practical healthcare. …”
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Understanding the vaccine hesitancy of COVID-19 in Benin. by Daleb Abdoulaye Alfa, Jean-Yves Le Hesran, Inès Boko, Anani Agossou, Aurore Atchadé, Marc Fiogbé, Emmanuel Yovo, Sandrine Hounsa, Achille Massougbodji, Gilles Cottrell

“…In Benin, the objective was to achieve 60% coverage. However, coverage was only 35% in May 2022. …”
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Local Alignment of DNA Sequence Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning by Yong-Joon Song, Dong-Ho Cho

“…<italic>Results:</italic> This paper compares alignment performance (coverage and identity) and complexity for a fair comparison between the proposed DQN x-drop algorithm and the conventional greedy x-drop algorithm. …”
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Addressing community barriers to immunization in Rajanpur district, Pakistan: an implementation research by Kanwal Qayyum, N Rehan, Faraz Khalid, Muhammad Younas

“…These factors are resulting in low coverage of immunization in the Rajanpur district. …”
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Assessment of Oral Health Disparities and Barriers to Care among Underserved Populations in Urban and Rural Settings by Digvijaysinh Parmar, Jenny Lalmalsawmi Sailo, Sahithya Sakhamuri, Chandan Dalapati, Smita Durga Dutta, Shivam Arya, Heena Dixit

“…Results: Statistical analysis demonstrated significant disparities in oral health outcomes and access to care between urban and rural populations, with rural communities experiencing worse outcomes in terms of insurance coverage, income levels, and proximity to dental care facilities. …”
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Barriers to Routine Gynecological Care in Young Adult Females in the United States by Anne M. Clark, Mireya C. Long, Brianna M. Magnusson

“…Differences between groups were assessed using t-test and analysis of variance, and logistic regression was used to examine the association between barriers and delayed care. …”
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Leak detection and localization in water distribution systems via multilayer networks by Daniel Barros, Ariele Zanfei, Andrea Menapace, Gustavo Meirelles, Manuel Herrera, Bruno Brentan

“…Furthermore, the research highlights the advantages of using a method based on multilayer networks, which offers insights into leak location, sensor coverage, and reduction of the network’s sample space. …”
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Optimizing Graphene Ring Modulators: A Comparative Study of Straight, Bent, and Racetrack Geometries by Pawan Kumar Dubey, Ashraful Islam Raju, Rasuole Lukose, Christian Wenger, Mindaugas Lukosius

“…With only 6–12% graphene coverage, this geometry achieves extinction ratios of up to 28 dB and supports electrical bandwidths approaching 90 GHz. …”
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An MLLM-Assisted Web Crawler Approach for Web Application Fuzzing by Wantong Yang, Enze Wang, Zhiwen Gui, Yuan Zhou, Baosheng Wang, Wei Xie

“…It includes three core components: page state mining, functionality analysis, and automatic operation generation. Evaluations show 163% code coverage improvements over SOTA work. …”
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Host species and environment drivers of ectoparasite community of rodents in a Mojave Desert wetlands. by Andrés M López-Pérez, Risa Pesapane, Deana L Clifford, Laura Backus, Patrick Foley, Ashley Voll, Ricardo Bassini Silva, Janet Foley

“…On all hosts and at all marshes, coverage-based rarefaction sampling was over 96%, indicating coverage sufficient for analysis. …”
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Spatial Variability of Electrical Conductivity of Desert Soil Irrigated with Treated Wastewater: Implications for Irrigation Management by Pradip Adhikari, Manoj K. Shukla, John G. Mexal

“…Area coverage of classes I and II were much higher than classes III, IV, and V during 2009. …”
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Drug related harm reduction in the eu and candidate countries - success and gaps by Martin Busch, Alexander Grabenhofer-Eggerth, Charlotte Klein, Di Marion Weigl

“…</p><p><span> Conclusions : </span>The increase of coverage of substitution treatment and of the availability of nee-dle exchange programs in most countries can be seen as successes of harm reduction policy although the coverage especially of the latter still needs improvement. …”
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Who is (not) vaccinated? A proposal for a comprehensive immunization information system by Giacomo Pietro Vigezzi, Elena Maggioni, Fabrizio Bert, Corrado de Vito, Roberta Siliquini, Anna Odone

“…Our approach leverages systematic health determinants analysis to identify at-risk populations and tailor interventions, thereby promoting vaccination coverage and public health responses. …”
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HIV Situation in the Penitentiary System of the Russian Federation by S. B. Ponomarev, S. A. Sterlikov, А. Yu. Mikhaylov

“…The positive changes developed faster compared to civilian health care and occurred during the growing coverage with antiretroviral therapy which increased from 21.7% in 2014 to 89.6% in 2020. …”
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User Needs of Online Tutoring Applications Using House of Quality by Qurrata Aini, Eko Ruddy Cahyadi, Faqih Udin

“…The most critical technical responses to meet these needs are improvements in network coverage, storage capacity, and data transmission speed. …”
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