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Emerging rodent-associated Bartonella: a threat for human health?
Published 2022-03-01“…Possible reasons for this low number of cases in comparison to the high prevalences of Bartonella in small mammal species are (i) a lack of awareness amongst physicians of Bartonella infections in humans in general, and especially those caused by rodent-associated bartonellae; and (ii) a frequent lack of the sophisticated equipment required for the confirmation of Bartonella infections in laboratories that undertake routine diagnostic testing. As regards recently described Bartonella spp., there are presently 14 rodent-associated Candidatus taxa. …”
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Uptake of oral fluid-based HIV self-testing among men who have sex with men and transgender women in Thailand.
Published 2021-01-01“…However, a better understanding of HIV testing-seeking behavior and innovative follow-up solutions are needed to improve and monitor linkages to services for people who undertake HIVST.…”
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Assisted Migration of <i>Sequoiadendron</i> Genotypes for Conservation and Timber: Performance and Morphology in a Warmer Climate Outside of Their Range
Published 2023-12-01“…When conservation of the species and its genetic diversity is the primary objective, we recommend collecting from a wide range of groves and undertaking assisted migration by planting at multiple locations inside and outside giant sequoia’s range as a hedge against the loss of native groves.…”
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Toward a comprehensive evidence map of overview of systematic review methods: paper 1—purpose, eligibility, search and data extraction
Published 2017-11-01“…In the developed framework, identified methods and approaches were grouped according to the steps an overview author would need to undertake. Fifteen studies evaluated identified methods, all of which mapped to the search methods step. …”
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The clinical value and cost-effectiveness of treatments for patients with coronary artery disease
Published 2022-11-01“…A definitive study to address the question we investigate would be very difficult to undertake and so using existing data to model the expected outcomes is a useful tool. …”
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School heads’ clinical supervision practices and emerging teacher emotions in Tanzania secondary schools
Published 2023-01-01“…Positive teachers’ emotions among teachers emerged as a result of the appropriate clinical undertaking. Negative teachers' emotions emerged from improper clinical supervision practices. …”
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Working in a Risky Environment: Coping and Risk Handling Strategies Among Small-scale Miners in Ghana
Published 2022-06-01“…The study recommends to the government to put in place measures to ensure that miners adhere to health and safety regulations before undertaking mining activities. This means that health and safety plans and use of PPE should be linked to the license acquisition process for miners.…”
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“University of the People” – the third mission of Dagestan State University: an innovative approach to sustainability policy
Published 2022-01-01“…In consultation with the administration and community stakeholders of the alpine Tsumadinskiy district of the Dagestan Caucasus, through the present policy document a launch phase of the University of the People program has been formulated for 2022 which will provide year‐long local vocational guidance to schools and an annual “Summer Field Faculty” which will undertake research, developmental needs analysis and offer in‐service specialist training opportunities and support for local experts and administrations in implementing their desired sustainability initiatives. …”
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Multi-jurisdictional Prostate Cancer Registry Linkage.
Published 2022-08-01“…Conclusion Since the Australian health system involves components managed at both the State and Federal levels, multijurisdictional data linkage adds additional complexity to linkage projects. Undertaking this project was not without its challenges, but it demonstrates what can be achieved and the value of enhancing high-quality clinical registry data to address important outcomes in prostate cancer. …”
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Intelligent Defect Diagnosis of Rolling Element Bearings under Variable Operating Conditions Using Convolutional Neural Network and Order Maps
Published 2022-03-01“…The effect of load change on these order maps is experimentally studied and it is found that the proposed method can undertake fault diagnosis on rolling element bearings under variable speeds and loads with high accuracy.…”
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The Metaverse as a Virtual Form of Smart Cities: Opportunities and Challenges for Environmental, Economic, and Social Sustainability in Urban Futures
Published 2022-07-01“…However, there still remain ethical, human, social, and cultural concerns as to the Metaverse’s influence upon the quality of human social interactions and its prospective scope in reconstructing the quality of urban life. This paper undertakes an upper-level literature review of the area of the Metaverse from a broader perspective. …”
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The impact of social care expenditure at the end of life: a novel linkage study in Scotland
Published 2017-04-01“…It will also determine the feasibility of undertaking the linkage of home care service utilisation data, inpatient care episodes and death records. …”
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Daily Activity Lifelogs of People With Heart Failure: Observational Study
Published 2024-02-01“…Wearable cameras provide a unique tool to understand the lived experiences of people with HF and the daily activities they undertake, which could lead to more effective interventions. …”
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High-throughput SNP genotyping in the highly heterozygous genome of <it>Eucalyptus</it>: assay success, polymorphism and transferability across species
Published 2011-04-01“…A higher density SNP platform will be instrumental to undertake genome-wide phylogenetic and population genomics studies and to implement molecular breeding by Genomic Selection in <it>Eucalyptus</it>.…”
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Spatial analysis of groundwater quality mapping in hard rock area in the Akola and Buldhana districts of Maharashtra, India
Published 2018-06-01“…The spatial analysis of groundwater quality mapping is required and stimulated us to undertake a systematic work of groundwater quality parameters for suitable water exploration of crops and drinking purposes from bore wells and open wells in basaltic hard rock area. …”
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Confronting opposites optimistically with Dylan Thomas
Published 2015-08-01“…And the following analysis exemplifies the writer's and the reader's struggling experience through obscurity between constrasting phenomena such as life and death, justice and injustice, apathy and love. But undertaking this challenge is promising. Obscurity in Thomas' case became "a formal sign of struggle, and struggle was, in turn, a metaphor for life" (Moynihan 1966: 53). …”
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Finding the Optimal Multimodel Averaging Method for Global Hydrological Simulations
Published 2021-07-01“…In addition, due to the diversities of combination members and climate conditions, hydrological simulation for watersheds under different climate conditions may show various sensitivities to the weighted combinations. This study undertakes a comprehensive analysis of various multimodel averaging methods and schemes (i.e., the combination of the members in averaging) to identify the most skillful and reliable multimodel averaging application. …”
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The Impact of Industrial Revolution 4.0 and the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Corporate Marketing
Published 2022-11-01“…Research methods: the Author was motivated to undertake the research in question by the lack of systematic and comprehensive studies capturing the impact on marketing of the effects of industrial revolutions and the deriving changes in the corporate environment and the preferences and tastes of consumers, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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QEHLR: A Q-Learning Empowered Highly Dynamic and Latency-Aware Routing Algorithm for Flying Ad-Hoc Networks
Published 2023-07-01“…While traditional protocols can satisfy basic network service quality (QoS) requirements in mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) with relatively fixed topology changes, they may fail to achieve optimal routes and consequently restrict information dissemination in FANETs with topology changes, which ultimately leads to elevated packet loss and delay. This paper undertakes an in-depth investigation of the challenges faced by current routing protocols in high dynamic topology scenarios, such as delay and packet loss. …”
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Gene co-expression networks contributing to reproductive development in Holstein-Friesian bull calves
Published 2022-05-01“…The objective of this study was to undertake gene co-expression analyses on transcriptional data of the HPT and adipose tissues derived from bull calves fed contrasting planes of nutrition up to 18 weeks of life. …”
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