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Combining national survey with facility-based HIV testing data to obtain more accurate estimate of HIV prevalence in districts in Uganda

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2020
Background National or regional population-based HIV prevalence surveys have small sample sizes at district or sub-district levels; this leads to wide confidence intervals when estimating HIV prevalence at district level for programme monitoring and ...
Joseph Ouma   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Adapting the International System of Units to the twenty-first century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
We review the proposal of the International Committee for Weights and Measures (Comité International des Poids et Mesures, CIPM), currently being considered by the General Conference on Weights and Measures (Conférences Générales des Poids et Mesures,
Mills, Ian M.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

The Concepts of “Verse”, “Meter” and “Rhythm” in Russian Verse Theory

open access: yesStudia Metrica et Poetica
This article examines definitions of verse and descriptions of the relationships between meter and rhythm as proposed by scholars of Russian poetry. Building on their observations, the author devises a constructive definition of “meter” as a system of ...
Igor Pilshchikov
doaj   +1 more source

Showing, Not Saying, Negation and Falsehood: Establishing Kimhi’s Two-Way Logical Capacities with Wittgenstein’s Samples

open access: yesNordic Wittgenstein Review, 2023
Recently, Irad Kimhi has argued that negation and falsehood can be made intelligible by understanding assertions/judgements as acts of two-way logical capacities.
Thomas Henry Raysmith
doaj   +1 more source

The Russian iambic tetrameter: The problem of description (Prolegomena to a new paradigm)

open access: yesStudia Metrica et Poetica, 2016
From the very beginning of systematic investigation of the Russian iambic tetrameter (1910s–1940s), the proportion of stresses on the first and second ictus of the line was chosen as its main rhythmic characteristic.
Sergei Liapin
doaj   +1 more source

Using genetic algorithms to create meaningful poetic text [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Work carried out when all authors were at the University of Edinburgh.Peer ...
Manurung, Ruli   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Preferences of Pediatric Patients and Their Caregivers for Chemotherapy‐Induced Nausea and Vomiting Control Endpoints: A Mixed Methods Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Although not always achieved, complete chemotherapy‐induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) control is the conventional goal of CINV prophylaxis. In this two‐center, mixed‐methods study, we sought to understand the preferences of adolescent patients and family caregivers for CINV control endpoints.
Haley Newman   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Continued monitoring of LMXBs with the Faulkes Telescopes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The Faulkes Telescope Project is an educational and research arm of the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGTN). It has two 2-metre robotic telescopes, located at Haleakala on Maui (FT North) and Siding Spring in Australia (FT South ...
Clark, James   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy of Integrative Neuromuscular Training for Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Pilot Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) often exhibit early deficits in muscle and movement competence, which can compromise long‐term health. Integrative neuromuscular training (INT), a multifaceted approach combining fundamental movement activities with strength exercises, may help address these deficits during ...
Anna Maria Markarian   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Closed forms of Indian poetry

open access: yesOrientalia Suecana
This article is based on a lecture on metrics in literature given at an internal workshop at the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University in 2004, with contributions on the topic in classical and oriental languages. It can be read as
Gunilla Gren-Eklund
doaj   +1 more source

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