Identifying factors affecting latent tuberculosis treatment acceptance among healthcare workers: a retrospective analysis in a tertiary care centre by Maskit Bar-Meir, Gali Pariente, Ayal Romem, Yonit Wiener-Well

“…Focusing on educating HCWs is potentially the key step towards an increased rate of LTBI treatment acceptance.…”
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Study of the method of placing technical stations by Sattorov S.B.

“…The purpose of the study is to develop a method for placing technical stations on a railway test site in the course of an electric traction. …”
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Generative AI extracts ecological meaning from the complex three dimensional shapes of bird bills. by Russell Dinnage, Marian Kleineberg

“…The trained model has been made publicly available and can be used by the community, including for finetuning on new data, representing an early step toward developing shared, reusable AI models for analyzing organismal morphology.…”
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Assessment of the Antivirulence Potential of Tamarix aphylla Ethanolic Extract against Multidrug-Resistant Streptococcus mutans Isolated from Iraqi Patients by Sahira A. Aljubouri, Khalid H. Alobaidi

“…The identified phytochemicals in the T. aphylla extract are reported to be biologically important and need further investigation to develop safe and cheap drugs.…”
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The Roles and Responsibilities of School Social Workers in the African Context: A Scoping Review by Gift Khumalo, Nolwazi Ngcobo, Mbongeni Sithole

“…Using Arksey and O’Malley’s (2005) five-step framework, the search for articles was completed on six electronic databases: Sabinet African Journals, Scopus, ProQuest Central, CINAHL, SocIndex, Medline, and Education Research Complete. …”
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Simultaneous Determination of Three Compounds in Rat Plasma by UHPLC-QQQ-MS/MS and Its Application to Pharmacokinetics of Banxia Baizhu Tianma Tang by Zheming Ying, Guoyuan Sui, Lianqun Jia, Guanlin Yang

“…The three analytes and vitexin-2″-O-rhamnoside (I.S.) were analyzed on a Waters Acquity UPLC C18 column (1.7 μm, 2.1 mm × 100 mm) at 30°C with gradient mobile phase consisting of 0.1% formic acid aqueous solution (A) and acetonitrile (B) after one-step direct protein precipitation with acetonitrile. …”
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Genetic structuring and estimation of reproductive adults in Onchocerca volvulus: A genome-wide analysis across hosts and regions. by Pawan Kumar, Young-Jun Choi, Kerstin Fischer, Shannon M Hedtke, Anusha Kode, Nicholas Opoku, Lincoln Gankpala, Tony O Ukety, Jöel Lonema Mande, Timothy J C Anderson, Warwick N Grant, Peter U Fischer, Makedonka Mitreva

“…This study represents an important step in using nuclear genome data from mf to support onchocerciasis elimination efforts and in developing genetic tools that could inform mass drug administration programs.…”
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Building the foundation for international conservation planning for breeding ducks across the U.S. and Canadian border. by Kevin E Doherty, Jeffrey S Evans, Johann Walker, James H Devries, David W Howerter

“…We used publically available data on duck breeding distribution and recently compiled geospatial data on upland habitat and environmental conditions to develop a spatially explicit model of breeding duck populations across the entire Prairie Pothole Region (PPR). …”
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Occupational exposure to human Mycobacterium bovis infection: A systematic review. by Flora Vayr, Guillaume Martin-Blondel, Frederic Savall, Jean-Marc Soulat, Gaëtan Deffontaines, Fabrice Herin

“…Published data on occupational exposure in developed countries are scarce. We had to extrapolate findings from countries with higher prevalence of the disease.…”
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A streamlined GIS interface for Citizen Science activities: QGIS Light by S. Girgin, J. Gohil, I. Mydur

“…QGIS Light is a first step in this direction to enhance usability of QGIS and may also guide similar simplification efforts in other GIS software, helping to lower their typically steep learning curves.…”
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ISSR Marker Based Population Genetic Study of Melocanna baccifera (Roxb.) Kurz: A Commercially Important Bamboo of Manipur, North-East India by Heikrujam Nilkanta, Thoungamba Amom, Leimapokpam Tikendra, Hamidur Rahaman, Potshangbam Nongdam

“…The investigation was carried out as a primary step towards developing effective conservation strategies for the protection of bamboo germplasm. …”
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ANALYSIS OF A RIGID WALL IN AN ELASTIC WEIGHTY HALF-PLANE by K. V. Dmitrieva

“…The determination of the boundaries contact of the wall with the elastic half-plane, are not known in advance, is performed by iteratively way at each step set the position of dividing points of boundary conditions and the system of canonical equations of a corresponding method is written.  …”
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RAB4A is a master regulator of cancer cell stemness upstream of NUMB–NOTCH signaling by Subbulakshmi Karthikeyan, Patrick J. Casey, Mei Wang

“…Furthermore, we discovered that the chain of control is mostly through transcriptional regulation at every step of the pathway. The discovery of the novel signaling axis of RAB4A–NUMB–NOTCH–SOX2 opens the path for further expansion of the signaling chain and for the identification of new regulators and interacting proteins important for CSC functions, which can be explored to develop new and effective therapies.…”
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High Performace Liquid Chromtographic Determination of Nicardipine Hydrochloride in Human Plasma by Y. S. R. Krishnaiah, V. Satyanarayana, P. Bhaskar

“…A sensitive high-performance liquid chromatographic method was developed for the estimation of nicardipine hydrochloride in human plasma. …”
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Introducing electric spring in the voltage frequency regulation of a multi area multi source integrated power system network by Debdeep Saha, Soham Dutta

“…System dynamic responses are observed for the coordinated automatic load frequency control and automatic voltage regulator during step load perturbations and random load perturbations. …”
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Spatial transcriptomics and scRNA-seq: decoding tumor complexity and constructing prognostic models in colorectal cancer by Wei Song, Yatao Wang, Min Zhou, Fengqin Guo, Yanliang Liu

“…Analysis of spatial transcriptomics indicated that MLXIPL + neoplasm is located in the core area of the tumor cells. We developed a 13-gene prognostic signature (PS) using machine learning algorithm (StepCox backward), which predicts the prognosis of CRC patients. …”
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Solar Collectors Based оn Copper Two-Phase Thermosyphons by V. I. Marynenko, V. S. Kulynych

“…Solar energy is one of the promising energy sources, a step towards reducing dependence on other energy resources. …”
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Diagnosis and Management of Tuberculosis Infection in Pregnant Women: A Narrative Review by Noor Hanoush, Lara Abdulmageed, Salahaldin Fahad

“…As a rule of thumb, early diagnosis and prompt treatment prevent unwanted complications and even mortality in pregnant women and developing fetuses. As a consequence, knowing the various aspects of TB is of utmost importance when dealing with physicians and pregnant women. …”
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Reliable smart models for estimating frictional pressure drop in two-phase condensation through smooth channels of varying sizes by M. A. Moradkhani, S. H. Hosseini, Mengjie Song, A. Abbaszadeh

“…Thus, this study aims at developing universal models to estimate the FPD during condensation inside smooth mini/micro and conventional (macro) channels. …”
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Enhancing market trend prediction using convolutional neural networks on Japanese candlestick patterns by Edrees Ramadan Mersal, Kürşat Mustafa Karaoğlan, Hakan Kutucu

“…Following the data preparation and analysis phases, a CNN model was developed to extract features from sub-charts and facilitate precise predictions effectively. …”
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