Performance of the BD-FACS Presto for CD4 count and hemoglobin measurement in a district hospital and rural laboratory in Ghana. by Zelda Moran, Jilian A Sacks, Francis Kwabena Frimpong, Atta Boahen Frimpong, Yanis Ben Amor

“…This study aimed to validate the accuracy of the BD FACSPresto near-patient device for measurement of CD4 count and hemoglobin concentration against the FACSCount (CD4) and Sysmex (hemoglobin) diagnostic machines when operated in both a district hospital and rural laboratory, serving a network of health posts in Ashanti Region, Ghana.<h4>Methodology</h4>In the first phase of the study, patients were recruited from a district hospital, and both venous and capillary blood samples were tested using the FACSCount and Sysmex as reference tests and compared to results of the FACSPresto performed in the clinic laboratory at the district hospital. …”
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Especies arbóreas con potencial para adaptación al cambio climático en sistemas silvopastoriles, República Dominicana by Carolina Guatusmal-Gelpud, Guillermo Detlefsen-Rivera, Pedro Antonio Núñez-Ramos, Alejandro Carlos Imbach-Hermida

“…En las prácticas de manejo destacó la poda para obtener leña y postes para cercas muertas. Dentro de los aspectos negativos se mencionó la invasión de algunas especies y como aspectos positivos, se destacó que la mayoría de los productores desean sembrar árboles en sus fincas. …”
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BERT and BERTopic for screening clinical depression on open-ended text messages collected through a mobile application from older adults by Moo-Kwon Chung, Sang Yup Lee, Taeksoo Shin, Ji Young Park, Sangwon Hwang, Min-Hyuk Kim, Jinhee Lee, Kyoung-Joung Lee, Hyo-Sang Lim, Erdenebayar Urtnasan, YeonSu Jung, Dan-Kyung Kim, Eunji Shin, Jin-kyung Lee

“…Recently, text mining has gained popularity to detect depression in social media posts, but older adults rarely use social media. …”
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Clarifying confusions over carbon conclusions: antecedent soil carbon drives gains realised following intervention by Albert Muleke, Matthew Tom Harrison, Rowan Eisner, Maria Yanotti, Peter de Voil, Shah Fahad, Wang Fei, Puyu Feng, Carla Ferreira, Daniel Forster, Xionghui Gao, Ke Liu, Jianguo Man, Lixiao Nie, Jiangwen Nie, Zhiming Qi, Narasinha Shurpali, Weilu Wang, Rui Yang, Xiaogang Yin, Feng Zhang, Yunbo Zhang, Jin Zhao

“…Using a whole farm systems modelling approach informed using participatory research, we discovered an inverse relationship between antecedent SOC stocks and SOC gains realised following intervention, with greater initial SOC levels resulting in lower ex poste change in SOC. We found that SOC accrual was greatest for clays and least for sands, although changes in SOC in sandy loam soils were also low. …”
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Rapid intravenous symptom-inhibiting fentanyl induction (SIFI) to optimize rotation onto oral opioid agonist therapy among individuals who use unregulated fentanyl: protocol for an... by Pouya Azar, Martha J. Ignaszewski, Marianne Harris, Zoran Barazanci, Ruth Davison, James S. H. Wong, Anil Maharaj, Nickie Mathew, David Hall, Silvia A. Guillemi, Julie Foreman, Rolando Barrios, Julio S. G. Montaner

“…Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT05905367; date of registration: June 15, 2023; latest update posted July 18, 2024. https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05905367 Protocol version: 4.0, April 22, 2024.…”
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Tracking modifications to implementation strategies: a case study from SNaP - a hybrid type III randomized controlled trial to scale up integrated systems navigation and psychosoci... by Minh X Nguyen, Sophia M Bartels, Christopher F Akiba, Teerada Sripaipan, Ha TT Nong, Linh TH Dang, Ha V Tran, Van TH Hoang, Giang M Le, Vivian F Go, William C Miller, Byron J. Powell

“…Trial registration : clinicaltrials.gov ID: NCT03952520 (first posted 2019-05-16).…”
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Low effective coverage of HIV testing and counselling services during antenatal care in Ethiopia: evidence from the demographic and health survey and service provision assessment by Richard Norman, Theodros Getachew, Teketo Kassaw Tegegne, Gavin Pereira, Gizachew A Tessema, Ashenif Tadele, Melaku Birhanu Alemu, Jaya Dantas

“…Health facilities in Harari (31.4% (95% CI 19.0 to 43.8)), Somali (34.1% (95% CI 26.8 to 41.6)) and Dire Dawa (34.9% (95% CI 24.71 to 45.0)) demonstrated low-quality service provision. Health posts (5.8%, SD=8.4), health facilities located in rural areas (30.6%, SD=27.3) and public health facilities (44.2%, SD=29.4) had low-quality HTC provision.Conclusion Nearly 9 in 10 women did not receive quality HTC during ANC provision. …”
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Efficacy of Intramuscular versus Intravenous Dexmedetomidine on Attenuation of Haemodynamic Responses to Laryngoscopy and Endotracheal Intubation: A Randomised Clinical Trial by Anupama Kumari, Paras Anand, Jigisha Mehta, Sara Mary Thomas

“…Materials and Methods: This prospective, randomised clinical trial was single-blinded study conducted in the Department of Anaesthesia, Shrimati Bhikhiben Kanjibhai Shah Medical Institute and Research Centre (SBKS MIRC) in Piparia, Vadodara, Gujarat, India over a period of six months from January 2024 to June 2024 on 64 adult patients of American Soceity of Anaesthesiology (ASA) physical status I and II, aged between 18-60 years, posted for surgery under general anaesthesia. The patients were divided in two groups: Group DIM (intramuscular Dexmedetomidine) received Inj. …”
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Function-based risk reduction intervention for lifestyle-related disorders among inactive 40-year-old people: a pilot randomised controlled trial by Lena Bornhöft, Daniel Arvidsson, Anna Bergenheim, Mats Börjesson, Jonatan Fridolfsson, Margareta Hellgren, Lena Nordeman, Maria E. H. Larsson

“…Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT05535296 first posted on 10/09/2022.…”
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Recent political disturbances in Nepal threaten rhinos: lessons to be learned by Esmond Martin, Chryssee Martin, Lucy Vigne

“…That year the country returned to relative peace and many of the guard posts were re-instated. New approaches to rhino conservation in Nepal are needed now, including those that have proved to be successful elsewhere in Asia and Africa, in order to better safeguard Nepal’s rhinos once more. …”
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A statistical survey of polar cap cold and hot patches in the Southern Hemisphere using a DMSP Satellite by Duan Zhang, QingHe Zhang, Kjellmar Oksavik, ZanYang Xing, L. R. Lyons, HuiGen Yang, Tong Xu, Marc Hairston, XiangYu Wang, YuZhang Ma, GuoJun Li, Yong Wang, Sheng Lu, Jin Wang

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Analisis Sentimen untuk Evaluasi Reputasi Merek Motor XYZ Berkaitan dengan Isu Rangka Motor di Twitter Menggunakan Pendekatan Machine Learning by Ferdian Maulana Akbar, Robby Hermansyah, Sofian Lusa, Dana Indra Sensuse, Nadya Safitri, Damayanti Elisabeth

“…Data was collected using crawling techniques from tweets posted between August and November 2023. We used sentiment analysis with word clouds, trend and distribution analysis, and compared five machine learning algorithms: Naïve Bayes, Decision Tree, Support Vector Machine, Logistic Regression, and Random Forest. …”
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Graphene/h‐BN/ReS2 Heterostructure Operating in Fowler−Nordheim Tunneling Regime for Polarization‐Sensitive Fast Photodetector by Tianyi Zhou, Ming Yang, Jingyao Wang, Xiang Chen, Qingyu Yan, Kenji Watanabe, Taniguchi Takashi, Xue Liu, Yuqing Huang, Weigao Xu, Xinran Wang, Li Gao, Zehua Hu

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High-efficiency nonlinear frequency conversion enabled by optimizing the ferroelectric domain structure in x-cut LNOI ridge waveguide by Su Yawen, Zhang Xinyu, Chen Haiwei, Li Shifeng, Ma Jianan, Li Wei, Niu Yunfei, Qin Qi, Yang Shaoguang, Deng Yu, Zhang Yong, Hu Xiaopeng, Zhu Shining

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Translational motions and radial oscillations of a polymer-coated microbubble in the focal cross-section of focused acoustic vortex by Qingqin Zou, Xiao Deng, Zhihao Wang, Shifang Guo, Yujin Zong, Dui Qin, Mingxi Wan

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Multifunctional PN optoelectronic synapse and its smart integration towards augmented artificial visual system by Qinghong Lin, Yangbin Zhu, Xin Hu, Jiayu Sun, Zhen Wang, Kejia You, Xuan Guo, Yue Wang, Deli Li, Liangxu Lin, Yi Zhao, Guangyu Wang, Yang Liu, Fushan Li, Wei Huang

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Com recompensa el mercat laboral europeu les competències dels joves graduats universitaris? by José Ginés Mora, Adela García-Aracil, Luis E. Vila

“…. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Cet article analyse l’influence de différents types de compétences exigées, dans les postes de travail, à un grand nombre de jeunes diplômés européens de l’enseignement supérieur. …”
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Manajemen media sosial (studi kasus pada akun Instagram @kemendag) by Mas’ud Hamdani Bin Rohmad, Suranto Aw

“…Based on research conducted using four aspects in The Circular Model of SOME theory put forward by Regina Luttrell namely share, optimize, manage and engage, it can be explained that if the share aspect is shared, the Social Media Team carries out many activities that support the process of sharing posts including conducting research audience, building characteristics, to create a system that is able to increase connectivity with the audience. …”
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Unraveling Online Mental Health Through the Lens of Early Maladaptive Schemas: AI-Enabled Content Analysis of Online Mental Health Communities by Beng Heng Ang, Sujatha Das Gollapalli, Mingzhe Du, See-Kiong Ng

“…MethodsWe curated a dataset of 29,329 posts from widely accessed OMHCs, labeling each with relevant schemas and mental health problems. …”
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Construction and validation of frailty risk prediction model in elderly patients with colorectal cancer by Yuxiao Xia, Mengzhang He, Yiqun Guo, Fenghua Zhang, Xiongting Wu, Rong Chen, Linli Duan, Fang Chen, Xuewei Yang, Xiuli Feng

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