Activity-based contracting for optimization of the mass distribution of insecticide-treated nets in the Democratic Republic of Congo: pilot implementation in Kwilu province by Losimba Likwela J, Kalonji Ntumba A, Ndolerire Isingoma C, Mukomena Sompwe E, Tsasa Mbuku E, Mbuse Angembo F, Mbuyu Lukunde E, Lukanu Ngwala P., N.’siala Kumbi A, Panou I, Masoswa L, Mashako P, Kanku‑Ka‑Lukusa P, Kulimushi Ndahambara G, Luntadila Kiamenga M, Minuku Kinzonzi F, Ngoma Kintaudi L, Wierzynska A, Erskine M

“…An innovative activity-based contracting (ABC) approach has been implemented in Kwilu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo to optimize ITN mass distribution campaigns, with payments based on contractually defined programmatic outcomes for key campaign activities following independent verification of results. …”
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Implementation of MobileNet Architecture for Skin Cancer Disease Classification by Haniifa Aliila Faudyta, Jesica Trivena Sinaga, Egia Rosi Subhiyakto

“…As the number of occurrences of skin cancer increases year, it becomes more and more crucial to identify the disease accurately and effectively. This study aims to implement and evaluate the MobileNet architecture for classifying nine types of skin lesions using the ISIC 2020 dataset and to compare MobileNet's performance with other CNN architectures, such as VGG-16 and LeNet, in terms of accuracy and computational efficiency. …”
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Evaluation of COVID-19 vaccine implementation in a large safety net health system by Jennifer C. Chen, Jennifer C. Chen, Griselda Gutierrez, Griselda Gutierrez, Rachel Kamran, Jill Terry, Jill Terry, Armenui Telliyan, Armenui Telliyan, Camilo Zaks, Savanna L. Carson, Arleen Brown, Karen Kim, Karen Kim

“…ObjectivesTo evaluate rapid COVID-19 vaccine clinic implementation from January-April 2021 in the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (LACDHS), the second-largest US safety net health system. …”
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Provider readiness and implementation barriers for lung cancer screening in a safety-net system by Maria C. Mejia, Yu-Heng Hilary Ma, Lisa M. Lowenstein, Kiara K. Spooner, Gabrielle Duhon, Elisa E. Douglas, Viola Leal, Robert J. Volk

“…Objective: Lung cancer screening (LCS) with low-dose computed tomography is a critical preventive strategy, yet implementation remains complex, particularly in safety-net settings. …”
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A wavelet CNN with appropriate feed-allocation and PSO optimized activations for diabetic retinopathy grading by Chandrasekaran Raja, Santhosh Krishna B V, Balaji Loganathan, Sanjay Kumar Suman, L. Bhagyalakshmi, Mubarak Alrashoud, Jayant Giri, T. Sathish

“…The authors re-architecture 3 different CNNs published in the Retinal Image analysis field, with spatial and wavelet inputs with optimized activations. The highest accuracy of 96% is attained with the AlexNet re-architecture, with 35,126 fundus images secured from the Kaggle dataset. …”
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TAX ALTERNATIVES TO IMPLEMENT THE TAX CAPACITY OF INTERNET ACTIVITY IN UKRAINE by I. O. Tsymbaliuk, T. O. Shmatkovska, Y. V. Shulyk

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Implementation of Explainable Ai in Deep Learning Methods for Multiclass Classification of Plant Diseases in Mango Leaves by Menaka Radhakrishnan

“…Further, Grad-CAM (Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping) has been implemented to highlight important regions in the leaf images which improves visualization. …”
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Payment Scheduling Problem with Multiple Modes for Activities to Maximize the Net Present Value of a Project by Somayeh Ghasedi, Behrouz Afshar-Nadjafi

“…In this paper, the multimode payment scheduling project is studied, which aims to maximize the net present value (NPV) of a project by deciding on payments and the start times of its activities. …”
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High-Quality Text-to-Speech Implementation via Active Shallow Diffusion Mechanism by Junlin Deng, Ruihan Hou, Yan Deng, Yongqiu Long, Ning Wu

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Experiences of general practice teams and their patients with clinical research—a mixed-methods process evaluation of the Bavarian Research Practice Network (BayFoNet) by Linda Sanftenberg, Anna-Lena Schnaidt, Stefanie Eck, Antonius Schneider, Eva Bucher, Peter Konstantin Kurotschka, Ildikó Gágyor, Merle Klanke, Stefanie Stark, Thomas Kühlein, Fabian Walter, Marco Roos, Tobias Dreischulte, Jochen Gensichen, for the BayFoNet study group

“…Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the perspectives of the GP teams and their patients on the set up of BayFoNet during the implementation of the two pilot cluster-randomized trials to improve this collaboration on a sustainable basis. …”
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Physiotherapy in Parkinson’s Disease: Building ParkinsonNet in Czechia by Ota Gal, Martin Srp, Romana Konvalinkova, Martina Hoskovcova, Vaclav Capek, Jan Roth, Evzen Ruzicka

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Implementing Music into Foreign Language Teaching by Penka Kaneva

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SecureSurgiNET: A framework for ensuring security in telesurgery by Sohail Iqbal, Shahzad Farooq, Khuram Shahzad, Asad Waqar Malik, Mian M Hamayun, Osman Hasan

“…Being a safety-critical application, it is highly important to make telesurgery robust and secure against active and passive attacks. In this article, we propose the first complete framework, called SecureSurgiNET, for ensuring security in telesurgery environments. …”
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Response of riverine nitrogen export to human activities and meteorological factors in a typical agricultural watershed of eastern China by HAO Yun, LÜ Jun

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NET GRAF CALCULATION METHOD FOR JOB COMPLETION CONSIDERING OF RESOURSES AVAILABALE by G. V. Golovchenko, M. I. Rebezova

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Market transformations: gas conversion as a blueprint for net zero retrofit by Aaron Gillich

“…It then carries out a similar mapping for the present-day net zero transformation. The study finds that nearly all the actions taken during the gas conversion have counterpart activities that must be carried out for net zero. …”
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SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT THROUGH THE NET INTERACTION OF EDUCATION AND PRODUCTION by Nadezhda V. Silkina, Natalia O. Vaganova

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HyperChildNET COST Action CA19115: report of the task force by E. Lurbe, G. Mancia, D. Drozdz, S. Erdine, F. Fernandez-Aranda, M. Litwin, M. D. Sinha, G. Simonetti, S. Stabouli, E. Wühl

“…Results: The aim of the Action has been to establish a European sustainable and multidisciplinary network of researchers, clinicians, early career investigators, health economists, decision-makers, regulatory bodies, and medical devices manufacturers under the umbrella of the European Commission in order to acquire a holistic understanding of those factors affecting high BP in children and adolescents in order to propose and implement preventive and corrective actions. All the activities carried out during the 4 years are described. …”
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Biodiversity offset conditions contributing to net loss of koala Phascolarctos cinereus habitat by Hao Nguyen Tran, Martine Maron

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Intelligent garbage classification system based on improve MobileNetV3-Large by Yi Zhao, Hancheng Huang, Zhixiang Li, Huang Yiwang, Manjie Lu

“…In response to the call for implementing national waste classification, this paper proposes an intelligent waste classification system based on the improved MobileNetV3-Large, which can raise the national awareness of waste classification through the combination of software and hardware. …”
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