The Role of Nurses and Community Health Workers in Confronting Neglected Tropical Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review. by Andrew G Corley, Clifton P Thornton, Nancy E Glass

“…Horizontal or multidisease control programs can create complimentary interactions between their different control activities as well as reduce costs through improved program efficiencies-benefits that vertical programs are not able to attain.…”
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Fine-tuning biexcitons-plasmon coherent states in a single nanocavity by Liang Kun, Jin Lei, Deng Xuyan, Jiang Ping, Yu Li

“…In addition, we find that the multimode coupling strengths can be efficiently tuned by changing the cavity morphology and environment temperature, where the tuning spectral accuracy can reach up to 1 nm. …”
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Technology and engineering practice of self-flowing filling and subsidence reduction of fly ash matrix in valley mountain area by Maoping ZHAO, Zhu WU

“…Filling mining is a technology that can curb land subsidence, efficiently dispose of industrial solid waste, and quickly liberate the “three underground” coal resources. …”
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Identification of crack development in granite under triaxial compression based on the acoustic emission signal by Tianzuo Wang, Linxiang Wang, Fei Xue, Mengya Xue

“…By fully analyzing the characteristics of acoustic emission signals in the time domain and frequency domain, the time and conditions of producing large cracks can be determined accurately and efficiently.…”
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Requirements for Establishing Energy Hubs: Practical Perspective by Mahmoud A. Hammad, Sara Elgazzar, Borut Jereb, Marjan Sternad

“…As a result, establishing energy hubs for collecting, processing, storing, and transiting energy resources between producing and consuming countries has become imperative to manage energy supplies efficiently. However, previous studies have not yet addressed the requirements for setting up energy hubs from a practical point of view. …”
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Viral replication, persistence in water and genetic characterization of two influenza A viruses isolated from surface lake water. by Camille Lebarbenchon, My Yang, Shamus P Keeler, Muthannan A Ramakrishnan, Justin D Brown, David E Stallknecht, Srinand Sreevatsan

“…Furthermore, the two isolates efficiently replicated in Mallards. The complete genome characterization supported that these isolates originated from genetic reassortments with other IA viruses circulating in wild duck populations during the year of sampling. …”
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Penalty Strategies in Semiparametric Regression Models by Ayuba Jack Alhassan, S. Ejaz Ahmed, Dursun Aydin, Ersin Yilmaz

“…The simulation results reveal that aLasso and shrinkage estimators, particularly the positive shrinkage estimator, consistently outperform the other methods in terms of Mean Squared Error (MSE) relative efficiencies (RE), especially when the sample size is small and multicollinearity is high. …”
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Reconstructing higher-resolution four-dimensional time-varying volumetric data by Ji Ma, Jinjin Chen

“…Our method can be applied in the context of in-situ visualisation to aid domain scientists in analysing more time-varying volumetric data more efficiently. In addition, it can be used in the compression-decompression pipeline to recover the super-resolution time-varying volumetric data from their low-resolution counterpart. …”
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Tropism-shifted AAV-PHP.eB-mediated bFGF gene therapy promotes varied neurorestoration after ischemic stroke in mice by Rubing Shi, Jing Ye, Ze Liu, Cheng Wang, Shengju Wu, Hui Shen, Qian Suo, Wanlu Li, Xiaosong He, Zhijun Zhang, Yaohui Tang, Guo-Yuan Yang, Yongting Wang

“…AAV-PHP.eB is an artificial adeno-associated virus (AAV) that crosses the blood–brain barrier and targets neurons more efficiently than other AAVs when administered systematically. …”
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Coxiella burnetii Phagocytosis Is Regulated by GTPases of the Rho Family and the RhoA Effectors mDia1 and ROCK. by Romina P Salinas, Rodolfo M Ortiz Flores, Jesús S Distel, Milton O Aguilera, María I Colombo, Walter Berón

“…Moreover, C. burnetii was less efficiently internalized in HeLa cells overexpressing mDia1-N1, a dominant negative mutant of mDia1, while the overexpression of the constitutively active mutant mDia1-ΔN3 increased bacteria uptake. …”
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Stability indicating green micellar liquid chromatographic method for simultaneous analysis of Metformin and dapagliflozin in their tablets by Aya A. Marie, Mohamed G. Yassin, Aya Roshdy

“…The developed approach was validated according to ICH guidelines and efficiently applied for the analysis of DAP and MET in Dexigloflozin plus® 5/500 tablets. …”
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Review of On-Orbit Assembly Technology with Space Robots by Zhengwei Wang, Pengfei Wang, Jinjun Duan, Wei Tian

“…With the accelerated pace of human space exploration and the progress of other related researches, there is an increasingly urgent demand for space infrastructure, equipment, and diversified spacecraft construction for space missions, and how to efficiently, intelligently, and autonomously build corresponding facilities and equipment on orbit according to the functional requirements of different missions has become a great challenge in the field of space technology research. …”
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LS-MambaNet: Integrating Large Strip Convolution and Mamba Network for Remote Sensing Object Detection by Lingyu Yan, Zijian He, Zhiqi Zhang, Guangqi Xie

“…In addition, a Multi-Granularity Spatial Mamba Block is proposed, and this employs a multi-granularity scanning strategy to reduce the computational cost and feature redundancy on different scanning paths and is able to efficiently model the global contextual information of the target. …”
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Changes in Emergency Department Performance during Strike of Junior Physicians in Korea by Jeongyong Sim, Yuri Choi, Jinwoo Jeong

“…During the junior doctors’ strike in 2020 in Korea, EM specialists efficiently managed the care of emergency patients with higher levels of acuity without compromising the survival rate, through fewer consultations and faster disposition.…”
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Adaptive variation regulates the expression of the human SGK1 gene in response to stress. by Francesca Luca, Sonal Kashyap, Catherine Southard, Min Zou, David Witonsky, Anna Di Rienzo, Suzanne D Conzen

“…Using ChIP assays, we show that both GR and Oct1 bind to this region and that the ancestral allele at rs9493857 binds the GR-Oct1 complex more efficiently than the derived allele. Finally, using a reporter gene assay, we demonstrate that the ancestral allele is associated with increased glucocorticoid-dependent gene expression when compared to the derived allele. …”
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Amplification technology for spatial division multiplexing signals transmitted using multicore fibres by Hitoshi Takeshita

“…Signal transmission direction can differ from core to core. This feature is useful for efficiently accommodating traffic of asymmetric communication data and expanding transmission capacity at a constant transmission distance. …”
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Radius divergence optimized round hash index blockchain-based transaction-secured unified data in smart environment by T. Kalai Selvi, S. Sasirekha

“…To this end, unification employs blockchain ledger for efficiently transmitted access permissions that grant exchange of data instead of the transfer of data itself. …”
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Desert Ant (<i>Melophorus bagoti</i>) Dumpers Learn from Experience to Improve Waste Disposal and Show Spatial Fidelity by Sudhakar Deeti, Ken Cheng

“…Experienced ants dumped waste more efficiently than naive ants. Naive individuals, lacking prior exposure to the outdoor environment around the nest, exhibited much scanning and meandering during waste disposal. …”
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The electrochemical comparisons of reduced graphene oxide synthesized from pristine and recovered graphite from spent Li-ion batteries by Aranganathan Viswanathan, Vanchiappan Aravindan

“…The supercapacitive behavior of both rGO’s was evaluated using five different aqueous electrolytes. The specific capacitance, specific energy, specific power, and columbic efficiencies exhibited by rGO-RG and rGO-PG were superior in the presence of 1 M H2SO4 and are 36 F g1, 7.1 Wh kg1, 0.88 kW kg1 and 96.55 %; and 40 F g1, 7.9 Wh kg1, 0.66 kW kg1 and 97.36 %, respectively. …”
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Multi-behavior aware recommendation with joint contrastive learning and reinforced negative sampling by Yujia Du, Zhengtao Yu, Hongbin Wang

“…However, in real-world applications, the interactions between users and items are far more diverse. Therefore, efficiently integrating multidimensional interaction data is crucial to improve the performance of recommendation systems. …”
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