Understanding health system responsiveness to public feedback at the sub-national level: Insights from Kilifi County, Kenya by Kagwanja, N, Gilson, L, Tsofa, B, Olivier, J, Leli, H, Molyneux, S

“…Drawing on interviews and group discussions we specifically consider how two governance structures -Health Facility Committees (HFCs) and Sub-County Health Management Teams (SCHMTs)- found in many Low-and-Middle-Income (LMIC) health systems receive, process, and respond to public feedback. …”

Disposable flow cytometer with high efficiency in particle counting and sizing using an optofluidic lens by Song, Chaolong, Luong, Trung-Dung, Kong, Tian Fook, Nguyen, Nam-Trung, Asundi, Anand Krishna

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The impact of quality signals on the performance of COVID-19 related crowdfunding by Alma’amun, Suhaili, Kamarudin, Mohd. Khairy, Achni, Suaibatul Aslamiah, Rosli, Siti Nur Fatin Atirah

“…The study finds that crowdfunding performance is influenced by six quality signals: funding goals, word count, social networks, updates, comments, and campaign duration. …”
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A 35-Year Analysis of Vegetation Cover in Rare-Earth Mining Areas Using Landsat Data by Zheng, Zhubin, Liu, Yuqing, Chen, Na, Liu, Ge, Lei, Shaohua, Xu, Jie, Li, Jianzhong, Ren, Jingli, Huang, Chao

“…The findings indicate that (1) vegetation coverage in Dingnan County decreased from 1988 to 2002, followed by a gradual increase; (2) high vegetation cover is predominantly found in forested areas that maintain their natural state, while the central town and mining areas exhibit generally low coverage; (3) there are regional differences in the relationship between vegetation cover and environmental factors in Dingnan County. …”
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Analyzing Remote Sensing-Derived Normal Difference Vegetation Index to Predict Coastal Protection by Spartina alterniflora by Garber, Samantha C.

“…In addition, at three plots the stem count was manually altered by cutting out 50% and 100% of the plants. …”
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Impact of natural lemongrass and agarwood essential oil diffusion on indoor airborne pollutants: A case study of office environments by Nur Atekah, Abdul Rahman, Nor Ashikin, Sopian, Nor Husna, Mat Hussin, Fatmawati, Adam, Noor Fatihah, Mohamad Fandi, Juliana, Jalaludin, Tualeka, Abdul Rohim

“…Lemongrass essential oil significantly reduced the total bacterial and fungal count by 74.19% and 76.34% respectively, while agarwood only significantly reduced the total fungal count by 55.20%. …”
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Decision control system by Sekar, Karthik.

“…The different strategies are compared and it is found that negotiation scheme performs better than the greedy algorithm in the search and destroy scenario while the strategy developed using Borda count performs better than the strategy developed using the greedy algorithm in the Escort scenario.…”
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Effects of data amount and variation in deep learning-based tuberculosis diagnosis in chest X-ray scans by Bhorkar, A, Gonzales, RA

“…Testing these models on each dataset used in training, we found the mean accuracy values were 45.6% for Dataset A, 62.0% for Dataset B, 82.0% for Dataset C, and 95.9% for the combined dataset. …”

Antibiotic sensitivity of selected bacteria and microbiological quality of Lactobacillus-fed broiler meat in comparison with commercial broiler meat by Tan, Stephanie Yin Yi

“…This study was performed to evaluate the Standard Plate Count (SPC), Coliform Plate Count (CPC) and antibiotic sensitivity of selected bacteria of Lactobacillus-fed broiler meat, and to compare them with those of commercial broiler meat. …”
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Tea leaf [Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze] extract-synthesized silver nanoparticles as antimicrobial agent against foodborne pathogens by Loo, Yuet Ying

“…Typhimurium, the bacteria count was reduced by 2.90 ± 0.02 log10 CFU/g. The decontamination efficacy of washing using washing-up liquid with AgNPs was found to be significant (P< 0.05) and the most effective way in reducing the microbial contamination in chopping board. …”
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Formulation, optimization and characterization of palm kernel oil esters nanoemulsion system containing sodium diclofenac by Rezaee, Malahat

“…Rheology study showed that all nanoemulsion formulations exhibited non-Newtonian flow behaviour by displaying a pseudoplastic behaviour. Aerobic plate count, and yeast and mould count tests showed that there were no bacteria and fungus growth in the samples. …”
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闽西北农村环境污染对闽江水质影响的研究 = Effect of agricultural pollutants in north-west Fujian Province on Ming Jiang water quality by 游诗祥 You, Shixiang, 黄月珍 Huang, Yuezhen, 吴成城 Wu, Chengcheng

“…In this paper, clean the county as the representative from the rural farming, aquaculture and living pollution analysis of three aspects of environmental pollution in rural northwestern Fujian, the main pollutants that the rural northwest of Fujian is COD, total phosphorus, total nitrogen three categories, and through infiltration of surface runoff or underground into the Minjiang River; the same time, exceeding the water quality of Minjiang River over the years and found that the number exceeded 51%, 57% of types of pollutants and pollution in rural areas northwest of Fujian.…”
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Serum-free media studies of human embryonic stem cell culture on microcarriers by Chen, Xiaoli.

“…Results showed that lactate-to-glucose ratio of hESC in microcarrier cultures was within the range of 1.8-1.9, while ammonium-to-glutamine ratio of hESC was found to be approximately 0.7 or 0.8. Presence of lactate had a detrimental effect on hESC growth as reflected in a significantly lower count. …”
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Tracking people by learning their appearance by Ramanan, D, Forsyth, DA, Zisserman, A

“…Experiments suggest that our system 1) can count distinct individuals, 2) can identify and track them, 3) can recover when it loses track, for example, if individuals are occluded or briefly leave the view, 4) can identify body configuration accurately, and 5) is not dependent on particular models of human motion.…”

Evaluating the socio-environmental impacts of monoculture cashew expansion in the Northern Western Ghats, India by Anushka Rege

“…I first conducted a global literature review, followed by a spatial modelling exercise to synthesise the effects of cashew on biodiversity and livelihoods, and understand where global biodiversity is most vulnerable to cashew cultivation. I found that literature was concentrated from Indian and West African regions, showing that cashew harboured a subset of generalist fauna found in reference habitats. …”
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The effects and costs of an anti-bullying program (KiVa) in UK primary schools: a multicenter cluster randomized controlled trial by Badger, JR, Bowes, L, Babu, M, Broome, M, Cannings-John, R, Clarkson, S, Coulman, E, Tudor Edwards, R, Ford, T, Hastings, RP, Hayes, R, Lugg-Widger, F, Owen-Jones, E, Patterson, P, Segrott, J, Sydenham, M, Townson, J, Watkins, RC, Whiteley, H, Williams, ME, Stand Together Team, Hutchings, J

“…Students in the KiVa group had significantly higher empathy and reduced peer problems. We found no differences in bullying perpetration, school wellbeing, emotional or behavioral problems. …”

Preliminary assessment of group composition and activity pattern of the critically endangered Bornean Banded Langur Presbytis chrysomelas chrysomelas in Tanjung Datu National Park by Tukiman, Nur-Aizatul, Abd Rahman, Mohd-Ridwan, Mohammad, Noor-Faezah, Tawie Tingga, Tawie Tingga, Bukhori, Bukhori, Mohd-Azlan, Jayasilan, Denel, Azroie, Muhammad Abu Bakar, Abdul-Latiff, Badrul Munir, Md-Zain

“…Thus, a rapid survey employing total count and scan sampling method was conducted between July to August 2023 at Tanjung Datu National Park (TDNP), Sarawak to observe the social interaction of species with the environment. …”
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Edge curvature and convexity based ellipse detection method by Leung, Maylor Karhang, Cho, Siu-Yeung, Prasad, Dilip K.

“…A two-dimensional Hough transform is performed in an intermediate step, in which we use a new ‘relationship score’ for ranking the edge contours in a group, instead of the conventional histogram count. The score is found to be more selective and thus more efficient. …”
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Study on system non-functional type response : user interface and batch processing by Vellingiri Naveen Prasath

“…It is common to have bugs and the count of bugs can be reduced by testing them from the initial stage of software development. …”
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Comparison of Altmetrics across Multiple Disciplines: Psychology, History, and Linguistics by Htoo, Tint Hla Hla, Na, Jin-Cheon

“…This study investigates the correlation between altmetrics and citation count in Psychology, History and Linguistics disciplines. …”
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