HIV self-testing positivity rate and linkage to confirmatory testing and care: a telephone survey in Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, and Senegal by Kra, Arsène Kouassi, Fotso, Arlette Simo, Rouveau, Nicolas, Maheu-Giroux, Mathieu, Boily, Marie-Claude, Silhol, Romain, d’Elbée, Marc, Vautier, Anthony, Larmarange, Joseph

“…From 2019 to 2022, the ATLAS program distributed ∼ 400 000 HIVST kits in Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, and Senegal. …”
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A Multi-Time Scale Scheduling Model for Power Generation Systems with a High Proportion of New Energy Including Pumped Storage Power Stations by GU Huijie, ZHOU Huafeng, PENG Chaoyi, HU Yaping, ZHAO Xinyi, XIE Jun, SHI Xionghua

“…Through the coordination of multiple time scales, the power generation plan is revised step by step, which ensures that the pumped storage power, the wind power, the PV power, and the thermal power output track the load well. Based on the CPLEX commercial optimization software, a mixed integer linear programming method is used to simulate and analyze the wind-PV-thermal-pumped storage complementary power generation system with six pumped storage units. …”
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Artificial neural network applying for justification of tractors undercarriages parameters by V. A. Kuz’Min, R. S. Fedotkin, V. A. Kryuchkov

“…To make the procedure of obtaining parameters of the soil panning by tractors easier it is expedient to use the program tool - artificial neural network (or perceptron). …”
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Guidelines for DNA recombination and repair studies: Cellular assays of DNA repair pathways by Hannah L. Klein, Giedrė Bačinskaja, Jun Che, Anais Cheblal, Rajula Elango, Anastasiya Epshtein, Devon M. Fitzgerald, Belén Gómez-González, Sharik R. Khan, Sandeep Kumar, Bryan A. Leland, Léa Marie, Qian Mei, Judith Miné-Hattab, Alicja Piotrowska, Erica J. Polleys, Christopher D. Putnam, Elina A. Radchenko, Anissia Ait Saada, Cynthia J. Sakofsky, Eun Yong Shim, Mathew Stracy, Jun Xia, Zhenxin Yan, Yi Yin, Andrés Aguilera, Juan Lucas Argueso, Catherine H. Freudenreich, Susan M. Gasser, Dmitry A. Gordenin, James E. Haber, Grzegorz Ira, Sue Jinks-Robertson, Megan C. King, Richard D. Kolodner, Andrei Kuzminov, Sarah AE Lambert, Sang Eun Lee, Kyle M. Miller, Sergei M. Mirkin, Thomas D. Petes, Susan M. Rosenberg, Rodney Rothstein, Lorraine S. Symington, Pawel Zawadzki, Nayun Kim, Michael Lisby, Anna Malkova

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Guidelines for DNA recombination and repair studies: Mechanistic assays of DNA repair processes by Hannah L Klein, Kenny K.H. Ang, Michelle R. Arkin, Emily C. Beckwitt, Yi-Hsuan Chang, Jun Fan, Youngho Kwon, Michael J. Morten, Sucheta Mukherjee, Oliver J. Pambos, Hafez el Sayyed, Elizabeth S. Thrall, João P. Vieira-da-Rocha, Quan Wang, Shuang Wang, Hsin-Yi Yeh, Julie S. Biteen, Peter Chi, Wolf-Dietrich Heyer, Achillefs N. Kapanidis, Joseph J. Loparo, Terence R. Strick, Patrick Sung, Bennett Van Houten, Hengyao Niu, Eli Rothenberg

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Multiscale guided attention network for optic disc segmentation of retinal images by A Z M Ehtesham Chowdhury, Andrew Mehnert, Graham Mann, William H. Morgan, Ferdous Sohel

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Harnessing laboratory data for poliovirus eradication: contributions of the Africa regional polio laboratory data management team, 2022 – 2024 by Brook Tesfaye, Reggis Katsande, Doungmo Wakem Yannick Arthur, Julius E Chia, Chefor Ymele Demeveng Derrick, Ikeonu Obianuju Caroline, Kabore Sakma, Mahmud Zubairu, Busisiwe Ngobe, Abdulahi Walla Hamisu, Ticha Johnson Muluh, Kebba Touray, Modjirom Ndoutabe, Jamal A Ahmed, Anfumbom Kfutwah

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Letter to the Editor: License Portability for Occupational Audiologists is Essential by George R. Cook

“…Occupational hearing programs, for the most part, are multi-state programs as companies and corporations are national organizations. …”
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Fulfilling a social mission: examining practice locations of residency graduates over two decades by Tim Dubé, Matthieu Touchette, Linda Bergeron, Mariem Fourati, Cassandra Barber, Christina St-Onge

“…The findings suggest the importance of tracking to inform evidence-based workforce planning and policy development. …”
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Spatiotemporal Distribution and Host–Vector Dynamics of Japanese Encephalitis Virus by Qikai Yin, Bin Li, Ruichen Wang, Kai Nie, Shihong Fu, Songtao Xu, Fan Li, Qianqian Cui, Dan Liu, Huanyu Wang, Guodong Liang

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Effect of nonpharmaceutical interventions on the epidemic trends of scarlet fever in China: a population-based surveillance and modelling study by Xiaojuan Zhang, Yuanhai You, Jie Liu, Lu Sun, Haijian Zhou, Xingxing Zhang, Bike Zhang

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Technical and management coaching for government institutions: Lessons learned and health systems transformations across 8 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and India. by Kate Graham, Anna Kalbarczyk, Lekan Ajijola, Emily Das, Fatimata Sow, Kenneth Owino, Maheen Malik

“…This strengthened local governments' capacity to lead and sustain the scale-up of FP and AYSRH programs beyond TCI's direct support. Improved monitoring and tracking of coaching quality is needed for further insights.…”
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Mobile-based Assessment of Entrustable Professional Activities in Urology Training: Implementation and Outcomes by Fabian J. Aschwanden, Luca Afferi, Lukas Kandler, Adrian P. Marty, Philipp Baumeister, Agostino Mattei, Marko Kozomara, Christian D. Fankhauser

“…Background and objective: Urology residency programs often lack consistent feedback mechanisms and tracking of an individual’s progress. …”
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Experimental Study on Characteristics of A New Cryopreservation Apparatus by Yang Ge Zhang Shaozhi Chen Guangming Yu Xiaoyi Wu Dongbo

“…The authors developed a new cryopreservation apparatus for the long-term preservation of biomaterials which incorporates auto-cascade refrigeration,automatic control and the liquidus-tracking method.The experiments for cooling and warming with variable concentration were conducted under the control of programs with three common cryoprotectants separately including glycerol,propylene glycol and dimethyl sulfoxide.The final solution concentration arrived at the critical concentration for vitrification and the...…”
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Persistent cognitive deficits in ACL-injured athletes despite of rehabilitation: an observational longitudinal study by Jesús Jiménez-Martínez, Jesús Jiménez-Martínez, Francisco Alarcón-López, Luis Javier Chirosa-Ríos, Luis Javier Chirosa-Ríos, Alejandro Gutiérrez-Capote, Alejandro Gutiérrez-Capote, David Cárdenas-Vélez, David Cárdenas-Vélez

“…BackgroundRehabilitation programs following an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury tend to focus on improving conditional aspects such as biomechanics. …”
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The Diet Quality Questionnaire (DQQ) Is a Straightforward Data Collection Tool for Assessing Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) by Olutayo Adeyemi, Muhammad Momoh, Jonathan Makka, Richard Oladipo

“…DQQ can increase the ability of countries and programs to monitor MDD-W and other diet quality indicators. …”
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Survival of captive-raised light-footed Ridgway’s rails is influenced by release date and time in wild by Kimberly A Sawyer, Courtney J. Conway

“…These programs come at a high cost, and many translocation programs fail to monitor animals after release. …”
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Cultivating Teacher Digital Literacy: Practical Dilemma and Global Initiatives by CEN Yu

“…To address these challenges, four effective strategies are proposed: guiding teachers to change their mindset, optimizing teacher training programs, developing digital literacy assessment models, and improving the school's digital equipment. …”
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Stop antibiotic resistance – A roller coaster ride through “antibiotic stewardship,” “prescription auditing” and “AWaRe” assessment tool by Priyadharsini R. Palanisamy

“…The issue has to be addressed at various levels and that is why regulatory bodies implement antibiotic stewardship programs. These programs give a list of guidelines like infection control, tracking antibiotic use, prescription auditing, and involvement of health professionals like pharmacists, nurses, etc., A comparison of the list of guidelines given by the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and Indian Council of Medical Research gives an idea about the measures to be taken at various levels to reduce the burden of antibiotic resistance. …”
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Strategies and evaluation underpinning the implementation of suicide prevention training: a systematic review by Adelia Khrisna Putri, Martina McGrath, Rachel Batchelor, Victoria Ross, Karolina Krysinska, Jacinta Hawgood, Kairi Kõlves, Lennart Reifels, Jane Pirkis, Karl Andriessen

“…However, little is known about how training programs are implemented and how implementation is assessed. …”
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