Evaluation of Government Programmes on Enhancing the Lives of the Elderly: A Case Study of Social Assistance Grant for Empowerment in Mitooma District. by Natuha, Prossy

“…Given the nature of cash transfers, checks and balances need to be in place to avoid elite capture and ensure efficient use of the funds. Improving the coverage of social assistance grants for empowerment (SAGE) is the most common strategy mentioned by respondents in that Social Assistance Grants for Empowerment (SAGE). …”
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Categorising implementation determinants and strategies within the US HIV implementation literature: a systematic review protocol by Justin D Smith, Brian Mustanski, Virginia McKay, James Lorenz Merle, Dennis Li, Brennan Keiser, Alithia Zamantakis, Artur Queiroz, Carlos G Gallo, Juan A Villamar, Juan Pablo Zapata, Nanette Benbow

“…Between November 2020 and January 2022, a broad database search strategy of Ovid MEDLINE, PsycINFO and Web of Science was conducted to capture implementation-related studies along the HIV prevention and care continuum. …”
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Leveraging ROTI map derived from Indonesian GNSS receiver network for advancing study of Equatorial Plasma Bubble in Southeast/East Asia by Prayitno Abadi, Ihsan N. Muafiry, Teguh N. Pratama, Angga Y. Putra, Suraina, Gatot H. Pramono, Sidik T. Wibowo, Febrylian F. Chabibi, Umar A. Ahmad, Wildan P. Tresna, Asnawi

“…We have demonstrated the combined ROTI maps to capture the development of ionospheric irregularities in the Southeast/East Asian sector during the G5 Geomagnetic Storm on May 11, 2024. …”
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Association Between Surgeon Sex and Days Alive at Home Following Surgery: A Population-Based Cohort Study by Kiyan Heybati, BHSc, Raj Satkunasivam, MD, MS, Khatereh Aminoltejari, MD, MSc, FRCSC, Hannah S. Thomas, MBChB, MS, Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD, Natalie Coburn, MD, MPH, Frances C. Wright, MD, Med, FRCSC, Lesley Gotlib Conn, PhD, Amy N. Luckenbaugh, MD, Sanjana Ranganathan, MD, Carlos Riveros, MD, Colin McCartney, MBChB, PhD, FRCA, FFARCSI, FRCPC, Kathleen Armstrong, MD, MSc, FRCSC, Barbara Bass, MD, Allan S. Detsky, MD, PhD, CM, Angela Jerath, MD, MSc, Christopher J. D. Wallis, MD, PhD

“…DAH is a validated measure, shown to better capture the patient experience of postoperative recovery. …”
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Metabolomic profiles of <i>Ribes nigrum</i> L. and <i>Lonicera caerulea</i> L. from the collection of the N.I. Vavilov Institute in the setting of Northwest Russia by T. V. Shelenga, V. S. Popov, A. V. Konarev, N. G. Tikhonova, O. A. Tikhonova, Y. A. Kerv, A. E. Smolenskaya, L. L. Malyshev

“…Recently, the trend of using fruit and berry crops as ingredients for functional and dietary nutrition, the development and implementation of flavors, pigments, new medicines and dietary supplements has been actualized. Because the direction of use depends on the biochemical properties of fruits, which are determined not only by species and varietal characteristics, but also by reproduction conditions, the study of the biochemical composition of fruits grown in various regions of the world continues to be relevant. …”
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Hepatotoxicity of statins: a real-world study based on the US Food and Drug Administration Adverse Event Reporting System database by Bojing Wang, Shu Huang, Shu Huang, Shiqi Li, Yaqi Deng, Ziyan Li, Yizhou Wang, Xiaomin Shi, Wei Zhang, Lei Shi, Xiaohong Wang, Xiaowei Tang

“…A total of 148 positive signals related to adverse events of hepatic disorder were captured. Autoimmune hepatitis and drug-induced liver injury both presented positive signals across multiple statin drugs. …”
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Marker-Less Video Analysis of Infant Movements for Early Identification of Neurodevelopmental Disorders by Roberta Bruschetta, Angela Caruso, Martina Micai, Simona Campisi, Gennaro Tartarisco, Giovanni Pioggia, Maria Luisa Scattoni

“…Automatic motion tracking was performed using deep learning to capture infants’ body landmarks and extract a set of kinematic parameters. …”
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ER-GMMD: Cross-Scene Remote Sensing Classification Method of <italic>Tamarix chinensis</italic> in the Yellow River Estuary by Liying Zhu, Yabin Hu, Guangbo Ren, Na Qiao, Ziyue Meng, Jianbu Wang, Yajie Zhao, Shibao Li, Yi Ma

“…<italic>Tamarix chinensis</italic> exhibits a wide distribution that is difficult to capture within a single remote sensing image, while its frequent interspersion with other vegetation results in significant intermixing. …”
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Distribution of air quality health benefits of medium and heavy-duty electrification policies in New York City by Brian Naess, Jonathan Buonocore, Veronica Southerland, Muskaan Khemani, Catherine Seppanen, Ananya Roy, Frederica Perera, Kaitlyn E Coomes, Rick Rykowski, Saravanan Arunachalam

“…Our air quality modeling employed a novel receptor network to capture sharp gradients due to medium- and heavy-duty vehicle (MHDV) emissions in the densely populated NYC region. …”
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Fatigue characteristics of deep excavation-disturbed jinping marble by Anlin Zhang, Ru Zhang, Ting Ai, Li Ren, Zetian Zhang, Jing Xie, Chendi Lou, Kun Xiao, Zeqian Yang

“…Hence, an experimental method has been developed to capture the fatigue damage process of rocks while considering the in situ environment and excavation disturbance. …”
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Photon sensor-based monitoring of spatial variations in canopy FIPAR for crop growth assessment by Jian Wang, Zhenggui Zhang, Xin Li, Lu Feng, Xiaofei Li, Minghua Xin, Shiwu Xiong, Yingchun Han, Shijie Zhang, Xiaoyu Zhi, Beifang Yang, Guoping Wang, Yaping Lei, Zhanbiao Wang, Yabing Li

“…The photon sensor-based fraction of intercepted photosynthetically active radiation (FIPAR) monitoring system was demonstrated to provide accurate real-time tracking of crop growth. It was designed to capture spatial variations in FIPAR across the canopy profile throughout the entire crop growth season. …”
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Global Insights from Patients, Providers, and Staff on Challenges and Solutions in Managing Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration by Anat Loewenstein, Michelle Sylvanowicz, Winfried M. Amoaku, Tariq Aslam, Chui Ming Gemmy Cheung, Bora Eldem, Robert P. Finger, Richard P. Gale, Laurent Kodjikian, Adrian Koh, Jean-François Korobelnik, Xiaofeng Lin, Paul Mitchell, Moira Murphy, Mali Okada, Ian Pearce, Francisco J. Rodriguez, Jude Stern, S. James Talks, David T. Wong, Tien Yin Wong, Focke Ziemssen, Jane Barratt

“…Provider and clinic staff surveys asked similar questions about their perspectives; clinic characteristics were also captured. Results There were 6425 responses; 4558 patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration, 659 providers, and 1208 clinic staff. …”
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NDVI Estimation Throughout the Whole Growth Period of Multi-Crops Using RGB Images and Deep Learning by Jianliang Wang, Chen Chen, Jiacheng Wang, Zhaosheng Yao, Ying Wang, Yuanyuan Zhao, Yi Sun, Fei Wu, Dongwei Han, Guanshuo Yang, Xinyu Liu, Chengming Sun, Tao Liu

“…This method leverages deep learning to capture structural changes in crop populations, optimizing conventional image features and improving NDVI estimation accuracy. …”
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A Cross-Stage Focused Small Object Detection Network for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Assisted Maritime Applications by Gege Ding, Jiayue Liu, Dongsheng Li, Xiaming Fu, Yucheng Zhou, Mingrui Zhang, Wantong Li, Yanjuan Wang, Chunxu Li, Xiongfei Geng

“…This study introduces an innovative detection framework, CFSD-UAVNet, designed to boost the accuracy of detecting minor objects within imagery captured from elevated altitudes. To improve the performance of the feature pyramid network (FPN) and path aggregation network (PAN), a newly designed PHead structure was proposed, focusing on better leveraging shallow features. …”
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<i>‘Changing the Focus’</i>: Co-Design of a Novel Approach for Engaging People with Dementia in Physical Activity by Claudia Meyer, Den-Ching A. Lee, Michele Callisaya, Morag E. Taylor, Katherine Lawler, Pazit Levinger, Susan Hunter, Dawn C. Mackey, Elissa Burton, Natasha Brusco, Terry Haines, Christina L. Ekegren, Amelia Crabtree, Keith D. Hill

“…Conclusion: This study captured the views of physical activity referrers and providers and informal care partners in an inclusive and iterative manner. …”
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Detection and Classification of Teacher-Rated Children&#x2019;s Activity Levels Using Millimeter-Wave Radar and Machine Learning: A Pilot Study in a Real Primary School Environment by Tianyi Wang, Takuya Sakamoto, Yu Oshima, Itsuki Iwata, Masaya Kato, Haruto Kobayashi, Manabu Wakuta, Masako Myowa, Tokomo Nishimura, Atsushi Senju

“…Results indicate the successful detection of restlessness using millimeter-wave radar, demonstrating its potential to capture nuanced body movements in a privacy-protected manner. …”
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MAMMOTH-Subaru. II. Diverse Populations of Circumgalactic Lyα Nebulae at Cosmic Noon by Mingyu Li, Haibin Zhang, Zheng Cai, Yongming Liang, Nobunari Kashikawa, Ke Ma, Xiaohui Fan, J. Xavier Prochaska, Bjorn H. C. Emonts, Xin Wang, Yunjing Wu, Shiwu Zhang, Qiong Li, Sean D. Johnson, Minghao Yue, Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia, Sebastiano Cantalupo, Joseph F. Hennawi, Satoshi Kikuta, Yuanhang Ning, Masami Ouchi, Rhythm Shimakawa, Ben Wang, Weichen Wang, Zheng Zheng, Zhen-Ya Zheng

“…We propose a model to explain the dusty nature where the diverse populations of Ly α nebulae capture massive galaxies at different evolutionary stages undergoing violent assembly. …”
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Single-cell microbiota phenotyping reveals distinct disease and therapy-associated signatures in Crohn’s disease by Lisa Budzinski, Gi-Ung Kang, René Riedel, Toni Sempert, Leonie Lietz, René Maier, Janine Büttner, Bettina Bochow, Marcell T. Tordai, Aayushi Shah, Amro Abbas, Tanisha Momtaz, Jannike L. Krause, Robin Kempkens, Katrin Lehman, Gitta A. Heinz, Anne E. Benken, Stefanie Bartsch, Kathleen Necke, Ute Hoffmann, Mir-Farzin Mashreghi, Robert Biesen, Tilmann Kallinich, Tobias Alexander, Bosse Jessen, Carl Weidinger, Britta Siegmund, Andreas Radbruch, Anja Schirbel, Benjamin Moser, Hyun-Dong Chang

“…The data were analyzed by machine-learning to assess disease-specific marker patterns in the microbiota phenotype. mMFC captured detailed characteristics of CD microbiota and identified patterns to classify CD patients. …”
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Study protocol: an observational study of distress, immune function and persistent pain in HIV by John A Joska, Mark R Hutchinson, Maia Lesosky, Victoria J Madden, Ncumisa Msolo, Luyanduthando Mqadi, Gillian J Bedwell, Jonathan Grant Peter, Romy Parker, Andrew Schrepf, Robert R Edwards

“…This prospective, observational, case–control study will characterise the relationships between distress, IR, pain-related signalling as captured by induced secondary hyperalgesia (SH), and pain, in people with HIV who report persistent pain (PP) (cases) or no pain (controls).Methods and analysis One hundred people with suppressed HIV, reporting either PP or no pain, will be assessed two or four times over 6 months. …”
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Early Detection of Microvascular Changes in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus without and with Diabetic Retinopathy: Comparison between Different Swept-Source OCT-A Instruments by Stela Vujosevic, Caterina Toma, Edoardo Villani, Valentina Gatti, Marco Brambilla, Andrea Muraca, Maria Chantal Ponziani, Gianluca Aimaretti, Alessandro Nuzzo, Paolo Nucci, Stefano De Cilla’

“…The fact that early microvascular alterations could not be detected with one instrument does not necessarily mean that these alterations are not actually present, but this could be an intrinsic limitation of the device itself. …”
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