Determinants of Antiviral Treatment Initiation in a Hepatitis C-infected Population Benefiting from Universal Health Care Coverage by Romain Moirand, Marc Bilodeau, Suzanne Brissette, Julie Bruneau

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The epidemiology of malaria in four districts in southern Mozambique receiving indoor residual spray as part of a cross-border initiative by Rajendra Maharaj, Nada Abdelatif, Mara Maquina, Ishen Seocharan, Vishan Lakan, Krijn Paaijmans, Francois Maartens, Pedro Aide, Francisco Sauté

“…Spray data was obtained from LSDI2 initiative who implemented IRS in the targeted districts. …”
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Measuring Agency-Level Results: Lessons Learned from Catholic Relief Services’ Beneficiary and Service Delivery Indicators Initiative by Harry Carr, Kelly M. Scott

“…Purpose: This paper builds on that InterAction study by presenting one of the first published case studies of a successful agency-level measurement (ALM) system – Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS’) Beneficiary and Service Delivery Indicators (BSDI) initiative. Setting: A faith-based multi-national relief and development NGO. …”
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Cost Savings in Chronic Pain Patients Initiating Peripheral Nerve Stimulation (PNS) with a 60-Day PNS Treatment by David M. Dickerson, Hemant Kalia, Kevin E. Vorenkamp, Konstantin V. Slavin, Jonathan M. Hagedorn, Candace Gunnarsson, Eric L. Keuffel, Andrew J. Epstein, Mark Stultz, Nathan D. Crosby

“…Abstract Introduction This study evaluates the financial impact on healthcare payers when chronic pain patients initiate peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) with a 60-day percutaneous PNS (60-Day PNS) treatment versus a conventional brief PNS trial (PNS-BT) with possible follow-on of a permanently implanted PNS system (PNS-PI). …”
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High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Ablation for Primary or Salvage Prostate Cancer Therapy: Initial Outcomes in the Veteran Healthcare Setting by Sagar Patel, Ali Antar, Aly Alrabaa, Gal Saffati, Broderick Fleming, Neel Srikishen, Jeremy Slawin, Jennifer Taylor, Jeffrey Jones

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Linfadenopatías generalizadas como manifestación inicial de lupus eritematoso sistémico: a propósito de un caso clínico by María Raad Sarabia, Gabriel Beltran Hoyos, Kewin Hernandez Pino, Jorge Acosta Buelva, Katty Chamorro Acevedo, Jorge Rico Fontalvo, Lourdes Carolina Vázquez Jiménez

“…La presencia de linfadenopatías generalizadas se ha asociado de forma usual con lupus eritematoso sistémico (LES), sin embargo, no es usual encontrar este hallazgo como manifestación inicial de la enfermedad. Existen múltiples diagnósticos diferenciales que incluyen la linfadenitis necrotizante histiocítica de Kikuchi, la enfermedad de Castleman, infecciones y el linfoma cuando se presenta este hallazgo como síntoma inicial de LES. …”
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Initial Diagnosis and Detection of Very Late Local Recurrence of a Ductal Prostate Cancer due to a Ureteral Stone by Manolis Pratsinis, Charlotte Düwel, Olivia Köhle, Annette Enzler-Tschudy, Hans-Peter Schmid, Patrick Betschart

“…We report the case of a 74-year-old patient in whom a ductal prostate cancer was incidentally endoscopically diagnosed in the course of ureteral stenting due to a left distal ureteral stone. The initial PSA was 0.8 μg/l and the digital rectal examination was not suspicious. …”
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Assigning Robust Default Values in Building Performance Simulation Software for Improved Decision-Making in the Initial Stages of Building Design by Kyosuke Hiyama

“…This approach maintains the accuracy of the simulation results in the initial stages of building design. In this study, a more convincing argument is presented to demonstrate the significance of the new method. …”
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Chebyshev Wavelet Finite Difference Method: A New Approach for Solving Initial and Boundary Value Problems of Fractional Order by A. Kazemi Nasab, A. Kılıçman, Z. Pashazadeh Atabakan, S. Abbasbandy

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Ukrainian Patients’ Perspectives on Advanced Pharmaceutical Services Provided by Polish Pharmacists: A Cross-Border Support Initiative by Merks P, Religioni U, Borowska M, Hechman R, Konstanty M, Kaźmierczak J, Chełstowska B, Vaillancourt R, Drab A, Wdowiak K

“…The information given by pharmacists was clear and practical, and the services were deemed highly supportive. Expanding such initiatives to other assistance points could enhance the support network for displaced individuals.Keywords: pharmacy services, pharmacist, patient, war, refugee…”
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Toward High-order Solar Corona Simulations: A High-order Hyperbolized Poisson Approach for Magnetic Field Initialization by Rayan Dhib, Firas Ben Ameur, Vatsalya Sharma, Andrea Lani, Stefaan Poedts

“…Proper initialization of the solar corona magnetic field is important for easing the iterative process of realistic and efficient global magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations. …”
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Incidence of adverse drug reactions among tuberculosis patients initiated on daily drug regimen in a southern district of Karnataka by R. N. Hithaish Kumar, Chythra R. Rao, Ravindra Maradi, Shashikiran Umakanth, S. V. Chidananda Sanju, P. S. Balu

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Potential Risk Factors for In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Moderate-to-Severe Blunt Multiple Trauma Who Survive Initial Resuscitation by Neslihan Yucel, Tuba Ozturk Demir, Serdar Derya, Hakan Oguzturk, Murat Bicakcioglu, Funda Yetkin

“…The aim was to identify risk factors that influence in-hospital mortality for patients with moderate-to-severe blunt multiple trauma (BMT) who survive initial resuscitation. Methods. The prospective study involved 195 adult patients with BMT who were admitted to a referral hospital’s emergency department (ED) between May 1, 2015, and May 31, 2016. …”
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Game-Theoretic Comparison Approach for Intercontinental Container Transportation: A Case between China and Europe with the B&R Initiative by Xi Chen, Xiaoning Zhu, Qingji Zhou, Yiik Diew Wong

“…The competition was set against the background of China’s Belt and Road (B&R) Initiative as a new situation for intercontinental Sino-Europe container freight transportation. …”
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Investigating the interplay between initial hard processes and final-state effects measuring prompt and non-prompt J/ψ by Coquet Maurice

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Initiation and sustenance of small portion size consumption behavior in rural Appalachia, USA: Application of multi-theory model (MTM) by Ram Lakhan, Sierra Turner, Sangyal Dorjee, Manoj Sharma

“…Stepwise multiple regression modeling was applied to predict the likelihood of initiation and sustenance of small portion size consumption behavior. …”
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Global Existence for the 3D Tropical Climate Model with Small Initial Data in H˙1/2ℝ3∗ by Hui Zhang, Juan Xu

“…In this paper, we establish a global-in-time existence result of strong solutions for small initial data in terms of the H˙1/2ℝ3 norm on three-dimensional tropical climate model with viscosities by derive a blow-up criterion combine with energy estimates. …”
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Recursos didáticos, formação inicial docente e o processo de ensino e aprendizagem no Pibid geografia UFRN by Elisabeth Cristina Dantas de Araújo, Adriano Lima Troleis

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Influence of initial surface roughness on the deposition and adhesion of electroless Ni-P plating on 6H-SiC substrate by Hossein Ahmadian, Tianfeng Zhou, Weijia Guo, Qian Yu, A.M. Sadoun, A. Fathy, Yang Xuanzhe, M. Elmahdy

“…The study reveals that the initial roughness of the substrate significantly influences the final surface profile of electroless Ni-P plating. …”
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Spending blood for oil in Nigeria: a frame analysis of Shell’s neutralisation of acts that led to corporate-initiated state crime by Enes Al Weswasi

“…In describing these rationales, the article highlights a case of corporate-initiated state crime, a form of crime that involves corporations inducing state actors to commit harmful acts.…”
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