Association of Hematological and Biochemical Parameters with Serological Markers of Acute Dengue Infection during the 2022 Dengue Outbreak in Nepal by Bibek Raj Bhattarai, Abhishek Mishra, Suraj Aryal, Mandira Chhusyabaga, Rajshree Bhujel

“…Background. Nepal faced a major dengue outbreak in 2022. The majority of hospitals and laboratories had limited resources for dengue confirmation and had to rely on rapid dengue diagnostic tests. …”
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Quality of routine malaria data captured at primary health facilities in the Hohoe Municipality, Ghana by Christopher Ayisah, Thywill Worlase Kpenu, Edem Kojo Dzantor, Clement Tetteh Narh

“…The study finds that while half of the facilities had reliable and complete malaria data in their source registers, there are inconsistencies with the DHIMS II database regarding the standards of data quality. Most facilities faced significant issues like unavailability of data, uncompleted data and underreporting of data, making it not-advisable to rely on DHIMS II for critical health decisions. …”
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The Evaluation of Change in Psychosocial Risk With Caregivers of Children With Chronic Kidney Disease: A Short-term Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Study by Caroline C. Piotrowski, Kira Kudar, Julie Strong, Ashley Giesbrecht, Anne Kazak, Katerina Pappas, Gina Rempel, Aviva Goldberg

“…Background: The COVID-19 pandemic and its accompanying safeguards intensified many of the ongoing daily challenges faced by caregivers of young people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) both pre-transplant and post-transplant, and also created a variety of new and pressing concerns. …”
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Control over biopower in cognitive and surveillance capitalism by Stanković-Pejnović Vesna

“…Therefore, it is not only about the reproduction of capital, but also about the reproduction of subjects, the effective producers of economic value. We are facing with the tendency of capital's invasion of bios, the becomingof-capital-biopower, to introduce the concept of biocapitalism. …”
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Analyzing special needs reports for children: sociodemographic trends, diagnoses, and support areas over five years (2019–2024) by Semih Canpolat, Mehmet Emin Parlak, Esra Kurt Canpolat, Erdogan Oz

“…In Nephrology, the rates were equally shared between SCRN and Significant special needs (SSPD) at 50%, while the highest rate in the Genitourinary System-Surgery Field was Special needs (SEN) with 60.6%.ConclusionOur research emphasizes the crucial role of SNRC health board reports in tackling the pressing challenges faced by children and their families. Through harnessing these reports, we can make significant progress in identifying and supporting children with special needs, ultimately enhancing their quality of life. …”
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SAR-PATT: A Physical Adversarial Attack for SAR Image Automatic Target Recognition by Binyan Luo, Hang Cao, Jiahao Cui, Xun Lv, Jinqiang He, Haifeng Li, Chengli Peng

“…The mapping between the simulated rays constituting SAR images and the 3D model is established through coordinate transformation, and point correspondence to triangular faces and intensity values to texture parameters are established. …”
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ASSESSING DIFFERENT STRATEGIES FOR CONTROLLING WEEDS IN MAIZE CULTIVATION WITHIN THE DERIVED SAVANNA AGRO-ECOLOGY IN NIGERIA by Olagbemi Peter AFON, Oluwakemi Olajumoke AJAYI, Adesike Oladoyin OLAYINKA, Emmanuel Ajibola OLAGUNJU, Gabriel Olulakin ADESINA

“…However, its cultivation is faced with different challenges ranging from biotic to abiotic factors. …”
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Hydrogen production by water electrolysis: Advances, challenges and future prospects by Zheng ZHANG, Lingjun SONG

“…Alkaline electrolytic water hydrogen production technology occupies an important position in industrial applications owing to its high maturity, low cost and reliability, yet it faces challenges such as current density and gas cross-mixing. …”
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Cognitive behavior therapy for academic burnout, procrastination, self-handicapping behavior, and test anxiety among adolescents: a randomized control trial by Khizra Khurshid, Rabia Mushtaq, Umara Rauf, Nida Anwar, Qasir Abbas, Sumayah Aljhani, Zoobia Ramzan, Mafia Shahzadi

“…The present study is designed to investigate the impact of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) on procrastination, burnout, self-handicapping behaviour, test anxiety, and school functioning among adolescents facing academic problems. Materials and methods A total of 200 adolescents were enrolled for eligibility assessment; 129 participants met the eligibility criteria, and they were allocated to the experimental and waitlist control conditions. …”
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Evaluation of Elemental and Chemical Compositions of Some Fuelwood Species for Energy Value by A. M. Dadile, O. A. Sotannde, B. D. Zira, M. Garba, I. Yakubu

“…Since fuelwood is the most common and cheapest source of energy in both rural and urban areas in northern Nigeria, the study area is facing serious challenges due to indiscriminate felling of trees for energy use, irrespective of species quality for combustion. …”
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Combining theory and usability testing to inform optimization and implementation of an online primary care depression management tool by Nicola McCleary, Justin Presseau, Isabelle Perkins, Brittany Mutsaers, Claire E. Kendall, Janet Yamada, Katharine Gillis, Douglas Green

“…Usability issues were summarised within five themes: Optimizing content and flow to align with issues faced in practice, Enhancing the most useful algorithm components, Interactivity of the algorithm and embedded tools, Clarity of presence, purpose, or function of components, and Navigational challenges and functionality of links. …”
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Prediction of drought-flood prone zones in inland mountainous regions under climate change with assessment and enhancement strategies for disaster resilience in high-standard farml... by Yongheng Shen, Qingxia Guo, Zhenghao Liu, Yanli Shen, Yikun Jia, Yuehan Wei

“…However, the spatial prediction of climate disaster vulnerability at the local scale faces challenges such as data gaps and insufficient resolution, which results in a lack of relevant research. …”
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Association between ambient air pollution and outpatient visits of cardiovascular diseases in Zibo, China: a time series analysis by Yamei Wang, Shaoning Qu, Ting Li, Liang Chen, Liping Yang

“…IntroductionFacing Mount Tai in the south and the Yellow River in the north, Zibo District is an important petrochemical base in China. …”
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Research on Material Design of Medical Products for Elderly Families Based on Artificial Intelligence by Jinjin Rong, Xu Ji, Xin Fang, Moon-Hwan Jee

“…One of the issues that growing societies are presently facing is the care of elderly individuals. The dearth of skilled workers in the senior healthcare setting has been exacerbated by the worldwide shift of aging populations. …”
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Development of SacB-based counterselection for efficient allelic exchange in Fusobacterium nucleatum by Peng Zhou, Bibek G C, Bo Hu, Chenggang Wu

“…Previously, the galk-based allelic exchange method, although effective, faced an inherent limitation—the need for a modified host. …”
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Impact of trace mineral supplementation and translucency score on eggshell quality, hatchability, fertility, and chick quality by Cassidy A. Morris, Duarte Neves, Michael Carroll, Jonathan Moon, Leticia Orellana, Raquel Burin, Colwayne Morris, Austin Jasek, Kenneth S. Macklin

“…ABSTRACT: The broiler breeder industry is facing a problem with fertility, hatchability, and the number of broiler breeder eggs produced per hen. …”
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Où étiez-vous le 11 septembre 2001 ? by Jean-François LEGAULT

“…Indeed, it is striking to note how we repeatedly find, in the whole range of the different representations of the terrorist attacks, this deliberate positioning of an individual facing an event of macroscopic scale. For example, in numerous stories or essays, on the margin of the event they relate, the authors provide the readers with the circumstances in which they have learned of the attacks: in addition to representing 9/11, they relate, consciously or not, "their" 9/11. …”
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Isolation of Extended-Spectrum β-lactamase- (ESBL-) Producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae from Patients with Community-Onset Urinary Tract Infections in Jimma Univer... by Mengistu Abayneh, Getnet Tesfaw, Alemseged Abdissa

“…Enhanced inhibition zone of any of the cephalosporin discs on the side facing amoxicillin + clavulanic acid was considered as ESBL producer. …”
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Association of serum chloride levels with all-cause mortality among patients in surgical intensive care units: a retrospective analysis of the MIMIC-IV database by Quan Ma, Wei Tian, Kaifeng Wang, Bin Xu, Tianyu Lou

“…Particularly, patients in the highest quartile of serum chloride faced significantly lower mortality risks compared to those in the lowest quartile (30 days HR = 0.65, 90 days HR = 0.71, 180 days HR = 0.69, P < 0.001). …”
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Global regional and national burden of intracerebral hemorrhage between 1990 and 2021 by Zhao-wei Wang, Mei-ping Wan, Jia-hui Tai, Yong Wang, Min-yi Yin

“…However, the burden of ICH remains substantial and unevenly distributed across regions, with lower SDI areas facing a disproportionately higher burden. These findings highlight the need for targeted interventions and resource allocation, particularly in regions with higher ICH burden, to further reduce the global impact of this devastating condition.…”
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