Transitioning health workers from PEPFAR contracts to the Uganda government payroll by Everd, Bikaitwoha Maniple

“…At the sub-national level, facilitators of transition in ‘high absorber’ districts were identified as the presence of transition ‘champions’, prioritizing HWs in district wage bill commitments, host facilities providing ‘bridge financing’ to transition workforce during salary delays and receiving donor technical support in district wage bill analysis—attributes that were absent in ‘low absorber’ districts. …”
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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Carbon Emission of Garden Pavement by Peiyong WANG, Ruixing LU

“…The life span of different surface materials has a greater impact on the average annual carbon emissions of pavements, even greater than the thickness of pavement structure and the average annual carbon emissions of materials themselves. 5) Minimize the use of glued stone pavement. Although glued stone pavement is rich in color and can be put together freely, the carbon emission of epoxy resin binder as a chemical product contained in glued stone pavement is more than 10 times higher than that of ordinary inorganic materials. 6) Maximize the use of granular pavement. …”
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Çin Siyasi Düşüncesi ve Siyasi Tarihi Bağlamında Çinli Siyasi Elitler by Tuğrul Keskin

“…Additionally, the dense historical detail may be challenging for readers unfamiliar with Chinese history, making it harder to follow the narrative. Overall, the book succeeds in providing a detailed understanding of China's political elites and their roles across different eras, making it a valuable resource for students of international relations and political history. …”
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Soil organic matter composition affects ecosystem multifunctionality by mediating the composition of microbial communities in long-term restored meadows by Wenyin Wang, Sisi Bi, Fei Li, A. Allan Degen, Shanshan Li, Mei Huang, Binyu Luo, Tao Zhang, Shuai Qi, Tianyun Qi, Yanfu Bai, Peipei Liu, Zhanhuan Shang

“…Abstract Background Soil organic matter composition and microbial communities are key factors affecting ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF) during ecosystem restoration. However, there is little information on their interacting mechanisms in degraded and restored meadows. …”
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Preferential flow in soils is key to the development of nebkhas in water limited regions by Weicheng Luo, Wenzhi Zhao, Ning An, Chengpeng Sun, Hong Zhou

“…Nebkhas, a typical landscape form in arid and semiarid environments, play important roles in desertification control and biodiversity protection. However, water use strategies and infiltration characteristics of nebkhas change with their development stages in regions with low precipitation and deep groundwater, and those changes are not well known. …”
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Immunofluorescence for Detection of TOR Kinase Activity In Situ in Photosynthetic Organisms by Ana Lando, María De Marco, Andrea Cumino, Giselle Martínez-Noël

“…However, at the tissue/cell-specific level, there is a huge gap in plants due to the lack of alternative techniques for the evaluation of TOR activity as there are for other organisms such as mammals. …”
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Drinking Water Treatment Residuals to Control Phosphorus in Soils by Jonathan D. Judy, Maria L. Silveira, Sampson Agyin-Birikorang, George O'Connor, Thomas A. Obreza

“…O’Connor, and published by the UF/IFAS Department of Soil and Water Sciences, June 2019. SL 300/SS513: Drinking-Water Treatment Residuals to Control Phosphorus in Soils (ufl.edu) …”
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Offloading Interventions for the Management of Charcot Neuroarthropathy in Diabetes by Thomas Berhane MSc (Rehab), PostGradDip(Biomech), PostGradDip(Gait analysis), Kanakamani Jeyaraman FRACP(Endo), Mark Hamilton FRACS(Vasc), Henrik Falhammar MD, FRACP(Endo), PhD

“…PTB cast (n = 76) and a variety of custom-made removable devices (n = 17) were used for initial offloading. …”
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Perinatal Outcome of Fetal Echogenic Bowel: A Single-Center Retrospective Cohort Study by Hidayet Sal, Erhan Huseyin Comert, Yasin Semih Ekici, Turhan Aran

“…Infants were followed-up to June 2018 from time of diagnosis. Demographic questionnaire and face to face interview were used to obtain data including immune system diseases and respiratory system pathologies in infants. …”
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Digital twin-enhanced three-organ microphysiological system for studying drug pharmacokinetics in pregnant women by Katja Graf, José Martin Murrieta-Coxca, Tobias Vogt, Sophie Besser, Daria Geilen, Tim Kaden, Tim Kaden, Anne-Katrin Bothe, Diana Maria Morales-Prieto, Behnam Amiri, Behnam Amiri, Stephan Schaller, Ligaya Kaufmann, Martin Raasch, Ramy M. Ammar, Ramy M. Ammar, Christian Maass, Christian Maass

“…BackgroundPregnant women represent a vulnerable group in pharmaceutical research due to limited knowledge about drug metabolism and safety of commonly used corticosteroids like prednisone due to ethical and practical constraints. …”
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Physiological variables associated with the development of acute mountain sickness at the South Pole by Paul J Anderson, Bruce D Johnson, Michael F Harrison, Andrew D Miller, Kathy A O'Malley, Maile L Richert, Jacob B Johnson

“…A logistic regression analysis emphasised the contributions of LDL and eosinophil levels in the development of AMS.Conclusions These results suggest that the body water regulation and inflammation are key factors in AMS development when all other factors such as the level of physical exertion during ascent, the rate and magnitude of ascent and the use of acetazolamide are controlled.…”
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Microwave sea ice and ocean brightness temperature and emissivity between 22 and 243 GHz from ship-based radiometers by Janna E. Rückert, Andreas Walbröl, Nils Risse, Pavel Krobot, Rainer Haseneder-Lind, Mario Mech, Kerstin Ebell, Gunnar Spreen

“…Passive microwave measurements of Arctic sea ice have been conducted over the last 50 years from space and during airborne, ship- and ground-based measurement campaigns. …”
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The impact of genetic polymorphisms of IL28B gene on the efficacy of antiviral therapy of the chronic hepatitis C by using the standard Interferon-<i>α</i> by A. V. Lapshin, M. V. Mayevskaya, V. T. Ivashkin, P. O. Bogomolov, I. G. Nikitin, O. O. Znoyko

“…The analysis of the efficacy of the treatment was conducted on the basis of the assessment of the normalization of the biochemical cytolysis markers during and after the treatment as well as the availability of the rapid, early and stable virology response.Results. …”
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The regulation of tobacco growth under preceding crop planting: insights from soil quality, microbial communities, and metabolic profiling by Peiyan Zhao, Houfa Zhou, Xiaolin Liao, Leifeng Zhao, Yuanxian Zheng, Tiane Xiong, Gaorun Zhang, Sirong Jiang, Jiming Wang, Yuansheng He, Jiangtao Li, Jieying Zhu, Yongjun Zhang, Yanrun Li, Fuzhao Nian, Di Liu

“…Currently, the effects of different preceding crops on the rhizosphere soil quality of flue-cured tobacco remain unclear.MethodsFour treatments were compared in the study: fallow + tobacco (CK), maize + tobacco (T1), rapeseed + tobacco (T2), and wheat + tobacco (T3).Results and discussionResults showed that preceding crops significantly enhanced soil nutrient levels and improved tobacco growth by altering rhizosphere metabolites and microbial community structure. …”
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Dexamethasone in Treatment of Comorbid SARS-CoV-2 Patients Aged over 50 Years with Lung Injury over 50 % by O. Yu. Zolnikova, R. V. Maslennikov, V. T. Ivashkin, N. L. Dzhakhaya, O. Yu. Kiseleva, N. D. Potskhverashvili, S. A. Shorokhova

“…A retrospective study of 158 SARS-CoV-2 patients hospitalised in April—June 2020 was conducted under the inclusion criteria: age over 50 years, chest computed tomography (CT) for COVID-19-asso-ciated pneumonia, C-reactive protein (CRP) &gt;50 mg/L, anticoagulant therapy, no contraindications to steroids, no biologic therapy. …”
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Maternal and neonatal complications in the Beds Regulation Center in Maringá’s macro-region by Mirian Ueda Yamaguchi, Guido Luis Gomes Otto, Alan Deniver Chimenes Barbosa, Ana Luiza de Souza Francioli, Nayara de Arruda Cáceres

“…Considering the high number of hospital admissions because of PTL and prematurity, it becomes necessary to do more studies about the causes of these complications aiming to reduce maternal-infant morbidity.…”
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Common and unique network basis for externally and internally driven flexibility in cognition: From a developmental perspective by Ziyi Huang, Dazhi Yin

“…However, the convergence and divergence between these two types of flexibility and their underlying neural basis during development remain largely unknown. In this study, we aimed to determine the common and unique networks for reactive and spontaneous flexibility as a function of age and sex, leveraging both cross-sectional and longitudinal resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging datasets with different temporal resolutions (N = 249, 6–35 years old). …”
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Use of spent yeasts from bioethanol production plant as low-cost nitrogen sources for ethanol fermentation from sweet sorghum stem juice in low-cost bioreactors by Thanawat Thanapornsin, Rattanaporn Phongsri, Lakkana Laopaiboon, Pattana Laopaiboon

“…Both the CR-S and ELR could be successfully used for ethanol production from SSJ supplemented with SYH.…”
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Vision-Based Pick and Place Control System for Industrial Robots Using an Eye-in-Hand Camera by van-Truong Nguyen, Phu-Tuan Nguyen, Shun-Feng Su, Phan Xuan Tan, Thanh-Lam Bui

“…In this paper, we present a vision-based pick-and-place control system for industrial robots using an eye-in-hand camera. In industry, using robots with cameras greatly improves efficiency and performance. …”
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Devising Yorùbá Terminology for Phonology Terms (from letter P to letter R) by Oyetayo A Bankale, Oye Taiwo, Rukayat Olawale

“…Some of the terms developed are palatalization, ìso̩dàfàjàpè, paragoge ìfìró-bò̩parí, parasitic harmony àǹkóò àfòmó̩, parse ìpínsífó̩rán-ìhun, partial overlapping ìwo̩nú-ara e̩lé̩be̩, phonaestheme fóníìmù-àyo̩túnyo̩, phonemic overlapping ìpòórá fóníìmù, phonological phrase boundary ààlà àpólà fonó̩ló̩jì, phonological prime fó̩nrán-akérépin fonó̩ló̩jì, quantity-sensitive feet è̩wo̩n-atéńté aníwò̩n-agbe̩gé̩, recessive vowel fáwè̩lì àdínkù, redundancy rule òfin aléélè̩ [1] See Yoruba – The Journal of Yoruba Studies Association of Nigeria, Volume 12:1, January 2023 and Volume 12:2, June 2023 for the first 2 of the four-part essays. …”
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