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Machine Learning‐Augmented Loop‐Mediated Isothermal Amplification‐Enabled Point‐of‐Care for Mpox‐Specific Detection

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A low‐cost, portable point‐of‐care platform for rapid Mpox detection using loop‐mediated isothermal amplification is reported. The device integrates fluorescence readout and mobile monitoring. A machine‐learning model analyzes temperature data and correlates thermal changes with DNA concentration, enabling sensitive and reliable molecular diagnosis in ...
Nazente Atceken, Ahmed Choukri Abdullah, Olgac Ozarslan, Ziya Yıldız, Savas Tasoglu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accounting for animal health in efficiency analysis: An application to Swedish dairy farms

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Poor animal health is a central concern in modern livestock production. Despite the necessity to incorporate animal health in efficiency analysis, the theoretical and empirical developments are limited on this subject. This article appropriately characterizes the axiomatic properties of animal health within a production framework.
Frederic Ang, Enoch Owusu‐Sekyere, Karin Alvåsen, Helena Hansson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who Knows Best What the Next Year Will Hold for You? The Validity of Direct and Personality‐based Predictions of Future Life Experiences Across Different Perceivers

European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract This study explored the validity of person judgements by targets and their acquaintances (‘informants’) in longitudinally predicting a broad range of psychologically meaningful life experiences. Judgements were gathered from four sources (targets, N = 189; and three types of informants, N = 1352), and their relative predictive validity was ...
Nele M. Wessels, Johannes Zimmermann, Daniel Leising, Jan‐Erik Lönnqvist   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The relationship between male personality trait and unwanted pregnancy

Payesh, 2017
Objective (s): The male personality trait may be related to contraceptive method use and unwanted pregnancy.  The main purpose of this study was to analyze whether personality trait of the men influences the prevalence of unwanted pregnancy.
Arezou Aliabedian, Mouloud Agajani Delavar, Arsalan Khan Mohammmadi   +2 more
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"Condoms Are Reliable but I Am Not": A Qualitative Analysis of AIDS-Related Beliefs and Attitudes of Young Heterosexual Adults in Budapest, Hungary and St. Petersburg, Russia [PDF]

, 2006
HIV and STD prevention is an essential component of public health initiatives in countries throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Liberalization in sexual values, declining age at first sex, higher levels of sexual activity, and inconsistent condom use
, , , Bauer, Bukodi, Dehne, Dési, Engleman, Federal Service, HIV Infection, Hungarian Central, Lunin, Morris, Morse, Perlez, Pokrovsky, Pokrovsky VV, The, Tsybakova DA, UNAIDS   +19 more
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How Are Australian Local Governments Responding to the Homelessness Crisis? Findings From a National Study

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke, Joelle Moore, Fatemeh Aminpour, Katya Eagles   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Proximate Determinants of Women's Use of Birth Control Methods in Ota,Ogun State [PDF]

, 2013
Fertility regulation and pregnancy prevention are among the major health challenges of the 21st century in sub-Saharan Africa, especially in Nigeria. Contraception has been identified as an effective means of combating the problem of unwanted pregnancy
Abimbola, O. H., Adekeye, Olujide A, Adeusi, Sussan O, Idowu, Adenike E.   +3 more
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Bowel Perforation Secondary to Illegally Induced Abortion: a Tertiary Hospital Experience in Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2012
Bowel perforation though rarely reported is a serious complication of induced abortion, which is often performed illegally by persons without any medical training in developing countries.
Chalya, Phillipo L, Chandika, Alphonce B, Gilyoma, Japhet M, Kihunrwa, Albert, Mabula, Joseph B, Massinde, Anthony, McHembe, Mabula D   +6 more
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Advanced Investigation of the Elimination of Methylene Blue From Wastewater Using Activated Carbon–Copper Oxide Nanowires: New Perspectives With Statistical Physical Modeling

Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this study, the actual route of methylene blue (MB) dye adsorption by using fabricated polyfunctional activated carbon–copper oxide nanowires (AC@CuO‐NWs) from bulky wastewater bodies has been investigated. To better understand the exact pathway of the adsorption process, a prominent statistical physics formalism or grand canonical ...
Abdellatif Sakly, Nizar Lefi, Mohamed Bouzid, Salah Knani, Md. Mahmudur Rahman, Besma Graba, Sivarama Krishna Lakkaboyana, Abdelmottaleb Ben Lamine   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unwanted pregnancy and related causes in pregnant women in Kerman, 2013

پژوهان, 2015
Introduction: Unwanted pregnancy is a global health issue which impacts the families and societies, negatively. Women with unwanted pregnancy due to unpleasant sensations during pregnancy, are at the risk of hypertension, abortion, preterm birth and low ...
Tahereh Ashraf Ganjouei, Zohreh Karim Zadeh, Ali Faramarzi Gohar, Solmaz Sadat Hosseini-Zijoud, Seyed Mostafa Hosseini-Zijoud   +4 more
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