Innovative approach to monitor performance of integrated disease surveillance and response after the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone: lessons from the field by Charles Njuguna, Mohamed Vandi, James Sylvester Squire, Joseph Sam Kanu, Wilson Gachari, Evans Liyosi, Jane Githuku, Alexander Chimbaru, Ian Njeru, Victor Caulker, Malimbo Mugagga, Stephen Sesay, Ali Ahmed Yahaya, Ambrose Talisuna, Zabulon Yoti, Ibrahima Socé Fall

“…An electronic checklist based on selected core functions of IDSR was developed and uploaded onto tablets using the Open Data Kit (ODK) platform. Supervision teams interviewed health care workers, reviewed documents and made observations in health facilities. …”
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The prevalence and correlates of depression among older adults in greater Kumasi of the Ashanti region by Emmanuel K. Nakua, John Amissah, Phyllis Tawiah, Bernard Barnie, Peter Donkor, Charles Mock

“…Data was collected electronically with Open Data Kit application over 30 days through face-to-face interaction using the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS). …”
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Grid-Based Essential Urban Land Use Classification: A Data and Model Driven Mapping Framework in Xiamen City by Xi Wang, Bin Chen, Xuecao Li, Yuxin Zhang, Xianyao Ling, Jie Wang, Weimin Li, Wu Wen, Peng Gong

“…Recent advances in leveraging big open data and machine learning algorithms have demonstrated the possibility of large-scale mapping of EULUC in a new cost-effective way. …”
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Malaria prevention knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) among adolescents living in an area of persistent transmission in Senegal: Results from a cross-sectional study. by Fassiatou Tairou, Saira Nawaz, Marc Christian Tahita, Samantha Herrera, Babacar Faye, Roger C K Tine

“…An electronic questionnaire developed on Open Data Kit (ODK), was used to collect data on socio-demographic characteristics, household assets, adolescents' knowledge of malaria, as well as their attitudes with regards to malaria prevention, and care-seeking behaviors. …”
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Best practices for Core Argo floats - part 1: getting started and data considerations by Tamaryn Morris, Tamaryn Morris, Megan Scanderbeg, Deborah West-Mack, Claire Gourcuff, Noé Poffa, T. V. S. Udaya Bhaskar, Craig Hanstein, Steve Diggs, Lynne Talley, Victor Turpin, Zenghong Liu, Breck Owens

“…This, together with a well-established data management system, delayed mode data quality control, FAIR and open data access, make the program a very successful ocean observing network. …”
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Could Alberta Enact a Sub-National Open Banking Regime? by Ryan Clements

“…Third, investigate how to create and implement a provincial consumer data right (CDR), which would serve as a catalyst in the province for a myriad of data-portability use cases beyond banking to an open-data paradigm, including applications in energy, investments, insurance, utilities, telecommunications, consumer retail and self-sovereign digital identify. …”
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Official Websites Providing Information on COVID-19 Vaccination: Readability and Content Analysis by Andy Wai Kan Yeung, Thomas Wochele-Thoma, Fabian Eibensteiner, Elisabeth Klager, Mojca Hribersek, Emil D Parvanov, Dalibor Hrg, Sabine Völkl-Kernstock, Maria Kletecka-Pulker, Eva Schaden, Harald Willschke, Atanas G Atanasov

“…MethodsBy referring to an open data set hosted at Our World in Data, the 58 countries/regions with the highest total vaccination count as of July 8, 2021, were identified. …”
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New in understanding the burden of migraine: semantic analysis of the voice of Russian patients – users of Web 2.0 by G. R. Tabeeva, Z. Katsarava, A. V. Amelin, A. V. Sergeev, K. V. Skorobogatykh, I. V. Efimenko, V. F. Khoroshevskiy

“…For the study, only open data from the Internet from social networks and forums was used.Results and discussion. …”
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Arguments for and field experiments in democratizing digital data collection : the case of Flocktracker by Palencia Arreola, Daniel Heriberto.

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Visualizing urban accessibility metrics for incremental bus rapid transit projects by Stewart, Anson F. (Anson Forest)

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Molecular docking analysis of 2009-H1N1 and 2004-H5N1 influenza virus HLA-B*4405-restricted HA epitope candidates : implications for TCR cross-recognition and vaccine development by Su, Chinh Tran To., Schönbach, Christian., Kwoh, Chee Keong.

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Benefits and harms of Risperidone and Paliperidone for treatment of patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder: a meta-analysis involving individual participant data and clini... by Hodkinson, A, Heneghan, C, Mahtani, KR, Kontopantelis, E, Panagioti, M

“…We obtained IPD and CSRs from the Yale University Open Data Access project. The primary outcome Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) score was analysed using one-stage IPD meta-analysis. …”

Classification of community-acquired outbreaks for the global transmission of COVID-19: Machine learning and statistical model analysis by Wang, Wei-Chun, Lin, Ting-Yu, Chiu, Sherry Yueh-Hsia, Chen, Chiung-Nien, Pongdech Sarakarn, Mohd Yusof Hj Ibrahim, Chen, Sam Li-Sheng, Chen, Hsiu-Hsi, Yeh, Yen-Po

“…Background: As Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic led to the unprecedent largescale repeated surges of epidemics worldwide since the end of 2019, data-driven analysis to look into the duration and case load of each episode of outbreak worldwide has been motivated. Methods: Using open data repository with daily infected, recovered and death cases in the period between March 2020 and April 2021, a descriptive analysis was performed. …”
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Membership dropout rates and associated factors in a community-based health insurance scheme in southern Ethiopia: a mixed method study by Yosef Haile, Hanan Abdulkadir, Misgun Shewangizaw, Simeon Meskele, Kidus Temesgen, Temesgen Haile, Daniel Niguse, Samuel Hailegebreal, Getahun Gorfu Biratu

“…The quantitative data were collected by an open data kit (ODK). using an interviewer-based structured questionnaire and analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25.0. …”
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Khat use and associated factors during pregnancy in eastern Ethiopia: A community-based cross-sectional study by Tadesse Misgana, Dejene Tesfaye, Daniel Alemu, Berhe Gebremichael, Dawit Tamiru, Mandaras Tariku, Adisu Birhanu Weldesenbet, Merga Dheresa

“…Data were collected through face-to-face interviews from January 30 to April 30, 2021, using Open Data Kit (ODK) software and analyzed using SPSS v-26. …”
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Delay in receiving emergency obstetric care and associated factors among mothers who gave birth in public hospitals of Bale and East Bale zones, Oromia region, South East Ethiopia:... by Derese Eshetu, Zeleke Aschalew, Agegnehu Bante, Genet Fikedu, Mesfin Abebe, Degefa Gomora, Eden Silesh, Rediet Belay, Tewodros Getachew, Aregash Acha, Abera Mersha

“…The data were collected electronically using an Open Data Kit and exported to SPSS window version 25 for cleaning and analysis. …”
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Individual- and community-level determinants of maternal health service utilization in southern Ethiopia: A multilevel analysis by Amanuel Yoseph, Wondwosen Teklesilasie, Francisco Guillen-Grima, Ayalew Astatkie

“…Methods: Data were collected using the Open Data Kit mobile application and exported to Stata version 15 for analysis. …”
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Smarter Together: Progressing Smart Data Platforms in Lyon, Munich, and Vienna by Naomi Morishita-Steffen, Rémi Alberola, Baptiste Mougeot, Étienne Vignali, Camilla Wikström, Uwe Montag, Emmanuel Gastaud, Brigitte Lutz, Gerhard Hartmann, Franz Xaver Pfaffenbichler, Ali Hainoun, Bruno Gaiddon, Antonino Marvuglia, Maria Beatrice Andreucci

“…Furthermore, through open data logics, public authorities can encourage external partners to become actors in territorial action by using findings from the data to produce services that will contribute to the development of the territory and increase the quality of the city and its infrastructure. …”
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Towards effective ecological restoration: Investigating knowledge co‐production on fish–habitat relationships with Aquatic Habitat Toronto by Morgan L. Piczak, Rod Anderton, Lyndsay A. Cartwright, Don Little, Gord MacPherson, Laud Matos, Karen McDonald, Rick Portiss, Mike Riehl, Thomas Sciscione, Brent Valere, Angela M. Wallace, Nathan Young, Susan E. Doka, Jonathan D. Midwood, Steve J. Cooke

“…Key recommendations for ensuring that knowledge co‐production results in actionable science and for maximizing the effectiveness of ecological restoration using AHT's format include securing long‐term and stable funding, developing relationships across agencies and allied partners, engaging early, outlining goals/objectives collaboratively, conducting before and after scientific monitoring, minimizing personal biases, periodically reviewing partnerships to maximize inclusivity, sharing successes (and failures) broadly, and providing open data. AHT embraces an approach that includes integrated planning with multi‐jurisdictional support with diverse partners at a tractable scale and we argue that this should be the standard model of aquatic ecosystem management.…”
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Forest disturbance characterization in the era of earth observation big data: A mapping review by Enmanuel Rodríguez Paulino, Martin Schlerf, Achim Röder, Johannes Stoffels, Thomas Udelhoven

“…Over the past few decades, numerous EO-based approaches have been proposed to monitor forest ecosystems, benefiting from the open-data policies of multiple satellite constellations. …”
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