World health Organization’s guidance for tracking non-communicable diseases towards sustainable development goals 3.4: an initiative for facility-based monitoringResearch in contex... by Arlene Quiambao, Mohammad-Reza Malekpour, Ali Golestani, Mahsa Heidari-Foroozan, Seyyed-Hadi Ghamari, Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari, Benjamin O. Anderson, Prebo Barango, Elena Fidarova, Bianca Hemmingsen, Andre Ilbawi, Taskeen Khan, Roberta Ortiz Sequeria, Gojka Roglic, Sarah Rylance, Felipe Roitberg, Leanne Riley, Slim Slama, Lubna Bhatti, Melanie Cowan, Patricia Rarau, Stefan Savin, Farshad Farzadfar, Kouamivi Mawuenyegan Agboyibor, Ashutosh N. Aggarwal, Oyetayo Akala, Chaisiri Angkurawaranon, Hong Anh Chu, Ranjit Mohan Anjana, Carmen Antini, Zeba Aziz, Shannon Barkley, Abdul Basit, Partha Basu, Sara Benitez Majano, Kazi Bennoor, Jeffrey W. Brettler, Neslihan Cabioglu, Roberta Caixeta, Norman Campbell, Carolina Chavez, Sohel Reza Choudhury, Marilys Anne Corbex, Alvaro Cruz, Nemdia Daceney, Shona Dalal, Goodarz Danaei, Jean-Marie Dangou, Wouter De Groote, Cheick Bady Diallo, Issimouha Dille, Rolando Enrique Domingo, Gampo Dorji, Brucel B. Duncan, Uzochukwu Egere, Hicham El Berri, Asma El Sony, Mai Eltigani, Jill Farrington, Heba Fouad, Paola Friedrich, Soad Fuentes-Alabi, Angelo Gamarra, Edward Gregg, Reena Gupta, Sumit Gupta, Weiping Jia, Evelyn Jiagge, Pekka Jousilahti, Ratnasabathipillai Kesavan, Somesh Kumar, Tiina Laatikainen, Bagher Larijani, Maria Lasierra Losada, Tuyet Lan Le Thi, Naomi Levitt, Sylvana Luciani, Mauricio Maza, Bente Mikkelsen, Yousser Mohammad, Andrew Moran, Ali Motlagh, Stephen Mulupi, Raul H. Murillo, Miriam Mutebi, Rebecca Nantanda, Moffat Nyirenda, Patrick O’Connor, Dike Ojji, Gertrude Edna Omoro, Dolores Ondarsuhu, Pedro Ordunez, Mohamed Ould Sidi Mohamed, Mayowa Owolabi, Kazem Rahimi, Ivo Rakovac, Joao Filipe Raposo, Andres Rosende, Jane Rowley, Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan, Vitaly Smelov, Josaia Tiko, Marcello Tonelli, Elena Tsoyi, Todd Tuttle, Cherian Varghese, Liliana Vásquez, Kavitha Viswanathan, Hongyi Xu, Cheng-Har Yip

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Impact of 18 F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Scan on Initial Evaluation of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Our Experience at a Tertiary... by Satish Nair, Sharad Mohan, Ajith Nilakantan, Atul Gupta, Akshat Malik, Abhishek Gupta

“…The study design was to evaluate the cases of HNSCC initially by staging with conventional investigations followed by staging with the information derived from WB 18 F-FDG PET-CT scan. …”
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Pembentukan Kader GPS2 (Gerakan Perempuan Sehat dengan SADARI) Sebagai Upaya Peningkatan Cakupan Deteksi Dini Kanker Payudara by Aim Matun Nadhiroh, Irma Maya Puspita, Asta Adyani, Awwalul Wiladatil Qodliyah, Annisa’ Wigati Rozifa

“…This community service includes an initial survey, preparation, implementation (socialization and counseling about breast cancer and the importance of early detection of breast cancer with BSE, Socialization about BSE and how to do it, and Early detection of breast cancer with BSE examination, and evaluation of activities. …”
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Metastatic Hepatocellular Carcinoma Masquerading as an Expansile Osteolytic Lesion in Scapula: A Rare Case of Isolated Appendicular Skeletal Metastatic Involvement of Hepatocellula... by Arun Ravi John, Surjeet Dwivedi, Jeenu Varghese, Gurpreet Kaur Walia

“…We report a case of HCC with incidentally detected cirrhosis and chronic hepatitis B infection presenting with pain in the left shoulder.…”
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Role of low-frequency integrase strand transfer inhibitor resistance mutations on virological outcomes in antiretroviral therapy-naïve individuals initiating second-generation inte... by Daniele Armenia, Greta Marchegiani, Daniele Spalletta, Luca Carioti, Alessandro Tavelli, Maria Concetta Bellocchi, Vincenzo Spagnuolo, Valentina Mazzotta, Eugenia Quiros-Roldan, Valeria Bono, Stefania Carrara, Sergio Lo Caputo, Antonella D’Arminio Monforte, Francesca Ceccherini-Silberstein, Stefano Rusconi, Maria Mercedes Santoro

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Incidence and determinants of excessive weight gain in people living with HIV initiating tenofovir, lamivudine, and dolutegravir-based therapy: a multicenter retrospective study in... by Gashaw Sisay Chanie, Wagaye Atalay, Tirsit Ketsela Zeleke, Zemenu Wube Bayleyegn, Yonas Sisay Aragie, Gizachew Kassahun Bizuneh, Mihret Melese, Rahel Belete Abebe

“…Factors such as being female [AOR = 1.75, 95% CI (1.01, 3.04)], age between 38–46 years [AOR = 1.53, 95% CI (1.23, 2.76)], lack of physical activity were [AOR = 4.41, 95% CI (1.46, 11.80)], having 6–12 months and 13–24 months of since starting new regimen follow up duration [AOR = 3.35, 95% CI (2.79, 4.30)] and [AOR = 2.67, 95% CI (2.43, 3.25)] respectively and having detectable viral load at initiation of regimen [AOR = 2.34, 95% CI (1.18, 6.63)] were significantly associated with excessive weight gain.ConclusionPLHIV receiving a tenofovir, lamivudine, and dolutegravir based regimen particularly females, aged 38–54 years, those with limited physical activity, follow-up durations of 6–24 months, advanced disease stages, and a detectable viral load at therapy initiation should be closely monitored for weight gain. …”
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Pharmacokinetic study and phytochemical analysis of beetroot powder as an initial stage of the development of an NO-boosting formulation as a food supplement with cardioprotective... by Natalya L. Bogdanova, Nadezhda G. Gumanova, Anton R. Kiselev, Oxana M. Drapkina

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Use of Acoustic Emission for the Detection of Brittle Rock Failure under Various Loading Rates by Hai-qing Shuang, Shu-gang Li, Lang Liu, Gao-feng Chen, Ki-Il Song

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Study on Hb H disease caused by the α2-globin gene initiation codon ATG > GTG mutation combined with Southeast Asian deletional α-thalassemia by Xiaobi LIU, Xuan XIAO, Hengying ZHU, Ping CHEN

“…Conclusion The Hb H disease caused by α2-globin gene initiation codon ATG > GTG mutation combined with the Southeast Asian deletional α-thalassemia was identified in the Guangxi region for the first time. …”
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Prior antiretroviral therapy exposure among clients presenting for HIV treatment initiation in South Africa: an exploratory mixed-methods study using multiple indicators of exposur... by Mariet Benade, Mhairi Maskew, Vinolia Ntjikelane, Nancy Scott, Nkosinathi Ngcobo, Brooke Nichols, Lufuno Malala, Musa Manganye, Sydney Rosen

“…Conclusions At least 45% of clients initiating ART in South Africa have prior treatment experience, but only a third of re-initiators voluntarily reveal this. …”
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Multi-level domain perturbation for source-free object detection in remote sensing images by Weixing Liu, Jun Liu, Xin Su, Han Nie, Bin Luo

“…Recent advancements in cross-domain object detection have primarily relied on unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) techniques to bridge domain gaps in remote sensing images. …”
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A Spherical Micro Satellite Design and Detection Method for Upper Atmospheric Density Estimation by Zeyang Zhao, Zhaokui Wang, Yulin Zhang

“…A spherical microsatellite, aimed at technology verification of upper atmospheric density detection and precision orbit determination in low Earth orbit (LEO), has been developed by Tsinghua University and is scheduled to launch in the second half of 2019. …”
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms among medical students at the University of Belgrade: Detection and association with sociodemographic characteristics, academic ac... by Kojović Natalija, Joković Nikola, Mandić-Maravić Vanja, Marić Nađa P.

“…A total of 21.7% of the students had positive detection of ADHD symptoms. Among those with positive detection, the average academic grade was 8.5 ± 0.8, while in the negative group, it was 8.7 ± 0.7 (p = 0.009). …”
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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance to Reclassify Diagnosis and Detect Cardiomyopathies in Hospitalized Patients with Acute Presentation by Theodoros Tsampras, Alexios Antonopoulos, Alexandros Kasiakogias, Alexia Mika, Antonia Kolovou, Eleni Papadimitriou, George Lazaros, Konstantinos Tsioufis, Charalambos Vlachopoulos

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FAST Algorithm for Accurate Corner Points Detection of Section Steel Based on Adaptive Threshold by BAO Jiahan, SUN Deshang, HUANG Jianzhong, HU Zheng

“…The on-line flatness detection of section steel based on machine vision is a key technical problem for quickly and accurately extracting key corner points from section steel images to enable accurate detection. …”
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STGLR: A Spacecraft Anomaly Detection Method Based on Spatio-Temporal Graph Learning by Yi Lai, Ye Zhu, Li Li, Qing Lan, Yizheng Zuo

“…Existing methods frequently ignore or fail to explicitly extract the correlation between variables, and due to the lack of prior knowledge, it is difficult to obtain the initial relationship of variables. To address these issues, this paper proposes a new method, namely spatio-temporal graph learning reconstruction (STGLR), for spacecraft anomaly detection. …”
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A Clustering Algorithm Based on the Detection of Density Peaks and the Interaction Degree Between Clusters by Yangming Liu, Jiaman Ding, Hongbin Wang, Yi Du

“…In order to cope with data with an irregular shape and uneven density, this paper proposes a two-phase clustering algorithm based on detecting the peaks of dimensional density and the degree of interaction between clusters (CPDD-ID). …”
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Hidden Markov model for acoustic pesticide exposure detection and hive identification in stingless bees. by Alex Otesbelgue, Amara Jean Orth, Chandler David Fong, Carol Anne Fassbinder-Orth, Betina Blochtein, Maria João Ramos Pereira

“…These findings advance the field of stingless bee bioacoustics and provide initial evidence that acoustic monitoring of stingless bee hives could be a useful and non-invasive tool to detect airborne pesticide contamination.…”
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PERE: Prior-Enhanced and Resolution-Extended Object Detection for Industrial Laminated Panel Scenes by Haoyu Wang, Yiqiang Wu, Jinshuo Liang, Xie Xie

“…PERE introduces the prior-enhanced network (MRPE) and the resolution-extended network (REN) to replace initial modules in one-stage object detectors. MRPE extracts prior knowledge from the spatial distribution of objects in industrial scenes, migrating false detections caused by feature similarities. …”
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Use of tristimulus reflectance colorimetry for detection of fresh milk adulteration with reconstituted dry milk by D. S. Myagkonosov, E. V. Topnikova, D. V. Abramov, O. G. Kashnikova

“…The authors propose a method for disclosing the adulteration of natural fresh milk by adding powdered milk, based on a quantitative assessment of the content of products of the initial stage of the Maillard reaction, which are a specific indicator of the presence of powdered milk. …”
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