Emic definitions of empowerment for just development: learnings from Kenya by Haley Zaremba, Eileen Bogweh Nchanji, Nadia Guettou Djurfeldt, Hanna North, Vanya Slavchevska, Annarita Macchioni Giaquinto

“…These findings suggest that capturing and accounting for multiple and diverse emic definitions of empowerment for different social groups, which lies beyond the scope of standardized quantitative measures, is essential to measuring and supporting empowerment in ways that are valuable and recognizable to the target group(s) of a given development initiative. …”
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CDSS-Pan: Convolutional Dictionary Learning With State Space Model for Pansharpening by Zixu Li, Jintao Song, Genji Yuan, Jinjiang Li

“…In the encoder part, we begin by building an observation model to capture the common and unique information between MS and PAN images. …”
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Cooperativismo de vivienda y producción social del hábitat: el caso de Guendaliza’a en la Ciudad de México by Luisa Corina Ambríz Hernández, Luis Alberto Salinas Arreortua

“…Tras esto se presentan la legislación, las políticas y los programas actuales en México orientados bajo los principios de la producción social del hábitat. …”
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The relationship between maternal age, obesity and child mortality: a cross-sectional study using 2013–2014 Demographic and Health Survey in Democratic Republic of the Congo at nat... by Zacharie Tsala Dimbuene, Raphaël Muanza Nzuzi, Severin Mabanza Matondo

“…Child mortality was captured with five binary variables measuring the risk of dying in specific age intervals (neonatal, post-neonatal, infant, childhood and under-five mortality). …”
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Influence of thermal ageing on tensile-plastic flow and work hardening parameters of Indian reduced activated Ferritic Martensitic steel by Sahoo K.C., Laha K.

“…The constitutive Voce equation successfully captured the yield strength (YS) and ultimate tensile strength (UTS) with the initial stress and saturation stress acting as fitting parameters. …”
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Aprepitant in a Multimodal Approach for Prevention of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting in High-Risk Patients: Is There Such a Thing as “Too Many Modalities”? by John J. Hache, Manuel C. Vallejo, Jonathan H. Waters, Brian A. Williams

“…However, there may be the potential that too many unique antiemetic mechanisms combined with preoperative aprepitant may actually increase the incidence of perioperative nausea.…”
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Leveraging Deep Spatiotemporal Sequence Prediction Network with Self-Attention for Ground-Based Cloud Dynamics Forecasting by Sheng Li, Min Wang, Minghang Shi, Jiafeng Wang, Ran Cao

“…Next, self-attention memory units are incorporated to capture the long-term dependencies and emphasize the non-stationary characteristics of cloud movements. …”
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The good, the bad, and the ugly: Compliance of e-pharmacies serving India and Kenya with regulatory requirements and best practices. by Gautam Satheesh, Sammy Masibo, Sasi Kumar Tiruttani, Irene Khayoni, Benjamin Palafox, Devaki Nambiar, Jaison Joseph, Emmanuel Kweyu, Abdul Salam, Francis Wafula, Catherine Goodman

“…We identified the universe of e-pharmacies through online searches, and captured data using a structured questionnaire (Jan-May 2023). …”
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Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency and Sickle Cell Trait among Prospective Blood Donors: A Cross-Sectional Study in Berekum, Ghana by Patrick Adu, David Larbi Simpong, Godfred Takyi, Richard K. D. Ephraim

“…Demographic data and other pertinent information were captured using questionnaire. Sickle cell haemoglobin variants were determined using cellulose acetate electrophoresis (pH 8.6). …”
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Seroprevalence and Risk Factors of African Horse Sickness in Three Agroecological Zones of Cameroon by Mohamed M. F. Ndebé, Mohamed M. M. Mouiche, Frédéric Moffo, Rodrigue N. S. Poueme, Julius Awah-Ndukum

“…Horse sera were subjected to the ELISA blocking test for the determination of antibodies against African horse sickness virus, and positive samples were submitted to capture ELISA to determine the presence of antigens. …”
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Improving the Military Vocational Training of Cadets at Military Institute by Yu. G. Bychenko, T. M. Balandina

“…The latter leads to a discrepancy between the formally stated and necessary, as well as the actually emerging creative potential of cadets (graduates) of Russia’s military institutions. …”
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The Relationship between Academic History and Audio-Visual History in Lithuania: A Closing of the Gap? by Rūta Šermukšnytė

“…Out of this cooperation between audio-visual communications specialists and historians, there appeared works in Lithuanian audio-visual culture in which, because of the specific nature of cinematic and television methods, "neuralgic" themes in terms of historical consciousness were actualized (popularized), single-sided assessments of the past were rejected, and a history "open" to multiple viewpoints and to corrections in the future was created, thus demonstrating the problematic nature of history and more closely approaching the status of a scientific reconstruction. …”
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Ensemble Learning for Three-dimensional Medical Image Segmentation of Organ at Risk in Brachytherapy Using Double U-Net, Bi-directional ConvLSTM U-Net, and Transformer Network by Soniya Pal, Raj Pal Singh, Anuj Kumar

“…The DUN setup excels in sequential processing, the BCUN captures spatiotemporal dependencies, and transformer networks provide a robust understanding of global context. …”
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A decade-long overview of adverse events in a tertiary surgical service in South Africa by H Wain, D L Clarke, S Wall

“…After categorisation, a total of 14 537 adverse events were captured, giving an adverse event rate of 22%. Adverse events were categorised into four groups. …”
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A scoping review of librarian involvement in competency-based medical education by John W. Cyrus, Laura Zeigen, Molly Knapp, Amy Blevins, Brandon Patterson

“…Existing publications may not capture the extent of work done in this area. Additional research is needed to quantify the impact of librarian involvement in competency-based medical education. …”
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Enhancing Underwater Video from Consecutive Frames While Preserving Temporal Consistency by Kai Hu, Yuancheng Meng, Zichen Liao, Lei Tang, Xiaoling Ye

“…Furthermore, existing enhancement methods struggle to accurately capture features in underwater scenes. This makes it difficult to handle challenges such as uneven lighting and edge blurring in complex underwater environments. …”
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Multiscale Performance of Global Blended Satellite Precipitation Products Over Taiwan by Liping Wang, Haonan Chen, Zhe Li

“…Overall, CMORPH shows a better capability of capturing the precipitation spatial patterns and IMERG has smaller estimation errors of rainfall intensity than CMORPH over Taiwan.…”
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சிந்தனைத் தளத்தில் சுகுமாரனின் வண்டு குண்டு / Thoughts in Sukumaran's Vandu Kundu by முனைவர் ந. இரஞ்சன் / Dr. N. Ranjan

“…It explores the cognitive and psychological dimensions of children as depicted in Sukumaran’s stories by analyzing how he captures their thoughts, emotions and behaviours. This analysis also employs descriptive, analytical and statistical methods to examine the narrative structure, themes and rhetorical techniques used in “Vandu Kundu”. …”
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Measurement of breast artery calcification using an artificial intelligence detection model and its association with major adverse cardiovascular events. by Suzanne J Rose, Josette Hartnett, Zachary J Estep, Daniyal Ameen, Shweta Karki, Edward Schuster, Rebecca B Newman, David H Hsi

“…Risk differences were calculated to capture the difference in observed risk and reference groups. …”
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Optimizing Hydrogen Production in the Co-Gasification Process: Comparison of Explainable Regression Models Using Shapley Additive Explanations by Thavavel Vaiyapuri

“…SVR outperformed other models in capturing non-linear dependencies and demonstrated effective overfitting mitigation. …”
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