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Fever case management at private health facilities and private pharmacies on the Kenyan coast: analysis of data from two rounds of client exit interviews and mystery client visits

Malaria Journal, 2018
Background Private sector availability and use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) lags behind the public sector in Kenya. Increasing channels through which quality malaria diagnostic services are available can improve access to testing and help ...
Stephen Poyer, Anne Musuva, Nancy Njoki, Robi Okara, Andrea Cutherell, Dana Sievers, Cristina Lussiana, Dorothy Memusi, Rebecca Kiptui, Waqo Ejersa, Stephanie Dolan, Nicole Charman   +11 more
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The Potential Role of Wild Suids in African Swine Fever Spread in Asia and the Pacific Region

Viruses, 2022
African swine fever (ASF) in Asia and the Pacific is currently dominated by ASF virus transmission within and between domestic pig populations. The contribution made by wild suids is currently not well understood; their distribution, density and ...
Madalene Oberin, Alison Hillman, Michael P. Ward, Caitlin Holley, Simon Firestone, Brendan Cowled   +5 more
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Gain control network conditions in early sensory coding [PDF]

, 2013
Gain control is essential for the proper function of any sensory system. However, the precise mechanisms for achieving effective gain control in the brain are unknown.
A Couto, A Destexhe, AF Silbering, AF Silbering, B Haider, Brian H. Smith, BW Strowbridge, C Buckley, CC Girardin, CI Bargmann, CJP Vicente, CM Root, Cv Vreeswijk, D Dominguez, DA McCormick, E Av-Ron, E Salinas, EA Hallem, EA Hallem, Eduardo Serrano, F Locatelli, GA Wright, GC Turner, H Belmabrouk, H Breer, HR Wilson, I Ito, IP Sudhakaran, J Huang, J Perez-Orive, JJ Hopfield, K Touhara, LF Abbott, M Bazhenov, M García-Sanchez, M Ng, M Papadopoulou, M Rabinovich, M Schmuker, M Stopfer, M Yokoi, N Yamagata, O Shriki, Olaf Sporns, P Anderson, P Szyszka, R Huerta, R Huerta, R Huerta, Rafael Levi, Ramón Huerta, RI Wilson, RI Wilson, S Das, S Grossberg, S Krofczik, S Sachse, Si Amari, SR Olsen, SR Olsen, SR Olsen, T Nowotny, TA Cleland, TA Cleland, Thomas Nowotny, TP Vogels, V Bhandawat, Y Shang   +67 more
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The Effectiveness of Dog Population Management: A Systematic Review

Animals, 2019
The worldwide population of domestic dogs is estimated at approximately 700 million, with around 75% classified as “free-roaming”. Where free-roaming dogs exist in high densities, there are significant implications for public health, animal ...
Lauren M. Smith, Sabine Hartmann, Alexandru M. Munteanu, Paolo Dalla Villa, Rupert J. Quinnell, Lisa M. Collins   +5 more
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Marx, population and freedom

The Journal of Population and Sustainability, 2020
Marxists have long moved beyond a perception of Marx as a Promethean ecological vandal. Yet those disputing his environmental credentials are generally united in deploring the unhappy history of population control.
Julian Roche
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Exploiting Information and Control Theory for Directing Gene Expression in Cell Populations

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
Microbial populations can adapt to adverse environmental conditions either by appropriately sensing and responding to the changes in their surroundings or by stochastically switching to an alternative phenotypic state.
Lucas Henrion, Mathéo Delvenne, Fatemeh Bajoul Kakahi, Fabian Moreno-Avitia, Frank Delvigne   +4 more
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Sustainable control of Anopheles mosquito population [PDF]

, 2014
Despite the widespread use of insecticides, community engagement programmes and preventive measures mosquito borne diseases are growing and new tools to prevent the spread of disease are urgently needed. An alternative control measure for the eradication
Birch, Philip, Chatwin, Chris, Faithpraise, Fina Otosi, Obu, Joseph, Olawale, Babatunde, Young, Rupert   +5 more
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SOC in a population model with global control

, 1999
We study a plant population model introduced recently by J. Wallinga [OIKOS {\bf 74}, 377 (1995)]. It is similar to the contact process (`simple epidemic', `directed percolation'), but instead of using an infection or recovery rate as control parameter ...
Bak, Bak, Bröker, Dorit, Drossel, Grassberger, Hans-Martin Bröker, Hasegawa, Hertel, Jensen, Olami, Peter Grassberger, Sneppen, Sornette, Vigilant, Wall, Wallinga, Wilkinson, Zhang   +18 more
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Treatment Decision‐Making Roles and Preferences Among Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Decision‐making (DM) dynamics between adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer, parents, and oncologists remain underexplored in diverse populations. We examined cancer treatment DM preferences among an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse group of AYAs and their parents.
Amanda M. Gutierrez, Jill O. Robinson, Wendy A. Allen‐Rhoades, Hadley S. Smith, Isabel Canfield, Rebecca L. Hsu, Sarah R. Scollon, Lauren R. Desrosiers‐Battu, Nicole M. Schneider, Frank Y. Lin, Donald Williams Parsons, Sharon E. Plon, Mary A. Majumder, Janet Malek, Amy L. McGuire   +14 more
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Regulation of Tree Squirrel Populations with Immunocontraception: a Fox Squirrel Example

Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017
Tree squirrels (Sciurus spp.) are highly successful immigrants to urban and suburban areas in North America and Europe, causing both economic and ecological damage. Control of such invasive populations is challenging but of increasing importance to local
Sara K. Krause, Douglas A. Kelt, Dirk H. Van Vuren, James P. Gionfriddo   +3 more
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