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Herd immunity [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Biology, 2021
Herd immunity is an important yet often misunderstood concept in epidemiology. As immunity accumulates in a population - naturally during the course of an epidemic or through vaccination - the spread of an infectious disease is limited by the depletion of susceptible hosts.
Ashby, Ben, Best, Alex
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THE IDENTITY OF THE CATTLE HERDSMAN A STUDY IN THE SCENES OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PRIVATE TOMBS [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the General Union of Arab Archaeologists, 2022
[Ar] هُوية راعى الأبقار: دراسة فى مناظر المقابر المصرية القديمة الخاصة ذخرت مقابرالمصريون القدماء برسوم ونقوش توثق تفاصيل حياتهم اليومية التى يرغبون فى أن ...
Naglaa Shehab
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Factors associated with access to sexual and reproductive health services among women with disabilities in Nepal

open access: yesDialogues in Health, 2022
Aim: The aim of the study is to investigate the relationships between social determinants and disability status and access and use of sexual and reproductive health services among women with disabilities in Nepal.
Sampurna Kakchapati   +4 more
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Contextual factors affecting the implementation of an anemia focused virtual counseling intervention for pregnant women in plains Nepal: a mixed methods process evaluation

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2023
Background Anemia is estimated to cause 115,000 maternal deaths each year. In Nepal, 46% of pregnant women have anemia. As part of an integrated anemia-prevention strategy, family engagement and counseling of pregnant women can increase compliance to ...
Sanju Bhattarai   +14 more
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Gregarious Behaviour of Evasive Prey [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Lecture on the first SFB/TR 15 meeting, Gummersbach, July, 18 - 20, 2004We model the formation of a herd as a game between a predator and a prey population.
Eshel, Ilan   +2 more
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Chemical Weapons in the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988). 6. Accumulated Experience in the Treatment of Lesions with Poisonous Nerve Agents

open access: yesВестник войск РХБ защиты, 2023
The Iran-Iraq war (1980–1988) was the first modern war in which chemical weapons were used. The purpose of this work is to summarize the experience of treating victims, affected by nerve agents. The publications of Iranian authors in different scientific
M. V. Supotnitskiy
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Entropic herding

open access: yesStatistics and Computing, 2023
AbstractHerding is a deterministic algorithm used to generate data points regarded as random samples satisfying input moment conditions. This algorithm is based on a high-dimensional dynamical system and rooted in the maximum entropy principle of statistical inference.
Hiroshi Yamashita   +2 more
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Shepherd: relations between shepherds and owners in North Khorasan [PDF]

open access: yesDānishhā-yi būmī-i Īrān, 2022
Undoubtedly, the most important task in traditional animal husbandry is the responsibility of the shepherd, because traditional animal husbandry is not possible without the shepherd. In recent years, shepherds, especially good shepherds, have become rare,
mohammad hossein papoli yazdi
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Using qualitative evaluation components to help understand context: case study of a family planning intervention with female community health volunteers (FCHVs) in Nepal

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Evaluations of health interventions are increasingly concerned with measuring or accounting for ‘context’. How to do this is still subject to debate and testing, and is particularly important in the case of family planning where outcomes will ...
Cicely Marston   +4 more
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Herd culture and herd immunity

open access: yesCiência & Saúde Coletiva, 2022
Abstract Although communicable diseases affect our bodies, they occur in a society that interprets and gives them meaning. Herd immunity provides the body protection; however, long-term protection requires shifts in the way people interpret and respond to disease, cultural transformation that enables the development of the knowledge, habits and skills ...
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