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Impact of family networks on uptake of health interventions: evidence from a community‐randomized control trial aimed at increasing HIV testing in South Africa

Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2023
Introduction While it is widely acknowledged that family relationships can influence health outcomes, their impact on the uptake of individual health interventions is unclear.
Keletso Makofane, Hae‐Young Kim, Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, Mary T. Bassett, Lisa Berkman, Oluwafemi Adeagbo, Nuala McGrath, Janet Seeley, Maryam Shahmanesh, H. Manisha Yapa, Kobus Herbst, Frank Tanser, Till Bärnighausen   +12 more
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Are We Making Education Count in Remote Australian Communities or Just Counting Education?

The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2013
For quite some time the achievements of students in remote Australian schools have been lamented. There is not necessarily anything new about the relative difference between the results of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in remote ...
John Guenther
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Non-Stochastic Hypothesis Testing with Application to Privacy Against Hypothesis-Testing Adversary [PDF]

, 2019
In this paper, we consider privacy against hypothesis testing adversaries within a non-stochastic framework. We develop a theory of non-stochastic hypothesis testing by borrowing the notion of uncertain variables from non-stochastic information theory ...
Farokhi, Farhad
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A Quality Improvement Initiative to Standardize Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia Prophylaxis in Pediatric Patients With Solid Tumors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric patients with extracranial solid tumors (ST) receiving chemotherapy are at an increased risk for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP). However, evidence guiding prophylaxis practices in this population is limited. A PJP‐related fatality at our institution highlighted inconsistent prescribing approaches and concerns about
Kriti Kumar, Denise M. Connolly, Ellen Kellington, Elyse Zelunka, Karla Kerrigan, Furqan Shaikh, Paul C. Nathan, Meredith S. Irwin, Sarah Cohen‐Gogo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study on the Performance of Laser Device for Attacking Miniature UAVs

Optics
In order to test the performance of laser devices for attacking miniature UAVs, we studied the principle of laser devices on soft killing and hard killing.
Jianmin Wu, Shijuan Huang, Xiquan Wang, Yunli Kou, Wen Yang   +4 more
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Sickle Cell Disease Is an Inherent Risk for Asthma in a Sibling Comparison Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Sickle cell disease (SCD) and asthma share a complex relationship. Although estimates vary, asthma prevalence in children with SCD is believed to be comparable to or higher than the general population. Determining whether SCD confers an increased risk for asthma remains challenging due to overlapping symptoms and the ...
Suhei C. Zuleta De Bernardis, Okeleji Olayinka, Mariam Z. Quraishi, Lakshmi V. Srivaths, Deborah L. Brown, Neethu M. Menon, Ricardo A. Mosquera, Ashwin P. Patel, James M. Stark, Aravind Yadav   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Testing the securitization paradigm of the so-called Copenhagen school in the case study of europe migrant crisis in 2015 [PDF]

, 2019
Migration is an international phenomenon and contentious concept. Although people have been moving by political, economic and cultural motivations since the beginning of the human history; particularly recently, migration fuels traditional fears over ...
Ileri, M.bahadir
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Testing Naturalness

, 2017
Solutions to the electroweak hierarchy problem typically introduce a new symmetry to stabilize the quadratic ultraviolet sensitivity in the self-energy of the Higgs boson.
Chen, Chuan-Ren, Hajer, Jan, Liu, Tao, Low, Ian, Zhang, Hao   +4 more
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Potential Early Risk Biomarkers for Reduced Forced Expiratory Volume in Children Post‐Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We sought to identify potential early risk biomarkers for lung disease in children post‐allogeneic HCT. Patients with pulmonary function tests 3 months post‐transplant and plasma samples between days 7 and 14 post‐HCT were included. Six of 27 subjects enrolled had reduced forced expiratory volume 1 (FEV1) z scores.
Isabella S. Small, Pi Chun Cheng, April L. Rahrig, Courtney M. Rowan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Technology of application of pipe's arc of the integral pipeline in power plant 'Oslomej' [PDF]

Tehnika, 2017
Pipe connections allow interconnection of individual pipes to obtain pipeline and pipe connection with the equipment and their connection to the valve. The pipe connector should have the same strength of the pipe, impermeability and possibility of easy ...
Cvetanoski Radomir, Temelkoska Bratica
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