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Comparison of 6 DNA extraction methods for isolation of high yield of high molecular weight DNA suitable for shotgun metagenomics Nanopore sequencing to detect bacteria

BMC Genomics, 2023
Background Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) offers an accessible platform for long-read sequencing, which improves the reconstruction of genomes and helps to resolve complex genomic contexts, especially in the case of metagenome analysis.
Mathieu Gand, Bram Bloemen, Kevin Vanneste, Nancy H. C. Roosens, Sigrid C. J. De Keersmaecker   +4 more
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Performance Analysis of MVDR Beamformer Applied on an End-fire Microphone Array Composed of Unidirectional Microphones

Archives of Acoustics, 2021
Microphone array with minimum variance (MVDR) beamformer is a commonly used method for ambient noise suppression. Unfortunately, the performance of the MVDR beamformer is poor in a real reverberant room due to multipath wave propagation. To overcome this
Zoran ŠARIĆ, Miško SUBOTIĆ, Ružica BILIBAJKIĆ, Marko BARJAKTAROVIĆ, Nebojša ZDRAVKOVIĆ   +4 more
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Development of a portable on-site applicable metagenomic data generation workflow for enhanced pathogen and antimicrobial resistance surveillance

Scientific Reports, 2023
Rapid, accurate and comprehensive diagnostics are essential for outbreak prevention and pathogen surveillance. Real-time, on-site metagenomics on miniaturized devices, such as Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION sequencing, could provide a promising ...
Bram Bloemen, Mathieu Gand, Kevin Vanneste, Kathleen Marchal, Nancy H. C. Roosens, Sigrid C. J. De Keersmaecker   +5 more
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Health management committee strengthening and community mobilisation through women’s groups to improve trained health worker attendance at birth in rural Nepal: a cluster randomised controlled trial

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2020
Background Engaging citizens and communities to make services accountable is vital to achieving health development goals. Community participation in health management committees can increase public accountability of health services.
Joanna Morrison, Kirti Tumbahangphe, Aman Sen, Lu Gram, Bharat Budhathoki, Rishi Neupane, Rita Thapa, Kunta Dahal, Bidur Thapa, Dharma Manandhar, Anthony Costello, David Osrin   +11 more
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Association between physical activity and sleep quality in Algerian adults during COVID-19 lockdown

Physical Education of Students, 2022
Background and Study Aim. There is no doubt that the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, and its related containment measures such as lockdown and social distancing, is affecting physical activity and sleep quality  of the general population ...
Adda Oudjedi, Mohamed Derouiche, Abdelghani Allali, Redha Malek, Zoubir Latreche   +4 more
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Health status, lifestyle habits, and perceived social support in long-term cancer survivors: a cross-sectional study

BMC Research Notes, 2020
Objective To compare the presence of comorbidities and self-perceived health and social support between long-term cancer survivors and people without a history of cancer from a clinical trial examining the effects of a multiple risk behavior intervention.
Beatriz León-Salas, Edurne Zabaleta-del-Olmo, Joan Llobera, Bonaventura Bolíbar-Ribas, Tomás López-Jiménez, Marc Casajuana-Closas, Magdalena Esteva   +6 more
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Policies and actions to reduce maternal mortality in Nepal: perspectives of key informants

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2022
Nepal made impressive progress in reducing maternal mortality until 2015. Since then, progress has stagnated, coinciding with Nepal’s transition to a federation with significant devolution in health management. In this context, we conducted key informant
Rajendra Karkee, Kirti Man Tumbahanghe, Alison Morgan, Nashna Maharjan, Bharat Budhathoki, Dharma S. Manandhar   +5 more
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Implementation of the “dacha” law on agricultural lands and lands of populated areas [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2019
Since January 1, 2019, Federal Law No.217 dated July 29, 2018 “On the introduction by citizens of gardening and gardening for their own needs and on amending certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation” (hereinafter referred to as Law No.217 ...
Cherezova Natalya, Guzeva Irina, Shirokova Alevtina   +2 more
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The changes in relation of auditory and visual input activity between hemispheres analized in cartographic EEG in a child with hyperactivity syndrome [PDF]

Specijalna Edukacija i Rehabilitacija, 2015
The paper discusses the changes in relations of visual and auditory inputs between the hemispheres in a child with hyperactive syndrome and its effects which may lead to better attention engagement in auditory and visual information analysis.
Radičević Zoran, Jeučić Ljiljana, Bogavac Ivana, Stokić Miodrag, Sovilj Mirjana, Subotić Miško   +5 more
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Who are dying and why? A case series study of maternal deaths in Nepal

BMJ Open, 2021
Objectives To identify delays and associated factors for maternal deaths in Nepal.Design A cross-sectional case series study of maternal deaths. An integrated verbal and social autopsy tool was used to collect quantitative and qualitative information ...
Bharat Budhathoki, Dharma Manandhar, Rajendra Karkee, Kirti Man Tumbahangphe, Nashna Maharjan   +4 more
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