Improving NGOs’ participation in implementing HIV preventive interventions: a case of adolescents with high-risk behaviors in Iran by Haniye Sadat Sajadi, Laleh Ghadirian, Azadeh Sayarifard, Fatemeh Rajabi, Maryam Nazari, Narges Rostamigooran, Nina Loori, Haniyeh Haji Abolhasan Memar, Mojgan Farshadi, Parvin Afsar Kazerooni, Maryam Sargolzaeemoghaddam, Reza Majdzadeh

“…A policy brief from the first two phases informed a one-day multi-stakeholder policy dialogue with 16 selected policy actors. …”
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Dupilumab in children with eosinophilic esophagitis: a retrospective multicenter study by Mohammed Hasosah, Ghassan Sukkar, Asharf AlSahafi, Ali Zaidan, Nouf Ghous, Abdulmajed Alshahrani, Ziyad Al Zahrani, Naif Hasosah, Mansour Qurashi, Loie Goronfolah, Ali Alsharief, Nagla Kamal

“…Materials and methods We conducted a retrospective multicenter study in children with confirmed EoE and performed a chart review of patients prescribed dupilumab for EoE. Demographic information, symptoms, and medications including dupilumab treatment were collected. …”
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An outbreak within an outbreak: The impact of Infection Prevention and Control strategies on hospital-acquired infections and the occurrence of multi-drug resistant organisms durin... by B Mashigo, A Parker, U Lalla, B W Allwood, M S Moolla, T Lovelock, C F N Koegelenberg

“…We retrospectively analysed data from a prospectively collected registry involving all adult patients with severe COVID-19 admitted to the dedicated COVID-19 ICU from May 2021 to September 2021. Information from the admission database, including the patients’ demographics, comorbidities, laboratory results and length of ICU stay were extracted. …”
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Insights into simulation-based learning: student and faculty experiences in a PharmD program in Saudi Arabia by Reem Binsuwaidan, Najla A. Altwaijry, Alnada A. Ibrahim, Rawan A. Alghamdi, Razan Bin Humaid, Alaa A. AlSharif, Alaa A. AlHubaishi, Elshaymaa I. Elmongy, Lina I. Alnajjar, Ghadah H. Alshehri

“…Faculty considered simulation to be a significant teaching tool that enhances information retention and sharpens students’ skills. …”
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The prevalence and distribution of malaria in Mpumalanga Province before and during COVID-19 (2017 - 2022) by I Kleinhans, S Mahanjana, F Els, M Mabona, L A Pitso, G Malatje, G Kok, J Raman

“…A descriptive, retrospective and cross-sectional study was conducted using Mpumalanga provincial malaria case data extracted from the provincial District Health Information System 2. The impact of COVID-19 on the prevalence and distribution of malaria was assessed in Mpumalanga Province between 2017 and 2022 using descriptive trend analysis. …”
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Effect of trilaciclib administered before chemotherapy in patients with extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer: A pooled analysis of four randomized studies by Ying Liu, Lin Wu, Dingzhi Huang, Qiming Wang, Chen Yang, Li Zhou, Shuguang Sun, Xiaomei Jiang, Ying Cheng

“…General significance of the findings: The consistent efficacy of trilaciclib can be observed from pooled data across different treatment lines. All information should be accessible to a nonexpert audience.…”
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Viral load suppression rate of third-line antiretroviral therapy and its association with gender among HIV patients after second-line treatment failure in Africa: a systematic revi... by Tilahun Degu Tsega, Sintayehu Simie Tsega, Asaye Alamneh Gebeyehu, Getaneh Atikilt Yemata, Rahel Mulatie Anteneh, Almaw Genet Yeshiwas, Getasew Yirdaw, Chalachew Yenew, Anley Shiferaw Enawgaw, Amare Genetu Ejigu, Ahmed Fentaw Ahmed, Zeamanuel Anteneh Yigzaw, Berhanu Abebaw Mekonnen, Meron Asmamaw Alemayehu, Abathun Temesgen, Abebaw Molla, Habitamu Mekonen, Assefa Andargie Kassa, Gashaw Melkie Bayeh

“…This variability poses challenges for policymakers and healthcare providers in making informed decisions. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to determine the overall viral load suppression rate of third line antiretroviral therapy in Africa and to clarify the contradictory relationship between gender and viral load suppression, based on existing primary studies. …”
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Visualizing Spatially Based Data for Various Stakeholder Audiences by Kathryn Stofer

“…Just as text and words must be thoughtfully prepared for broad understanding, images should be adapted from the forms used with highly knowledgeable audiences. This 6-page fact sheet summarizes research in science communication and education that offers strategic ways for communicators to revise data visualizations for broad meaning-making. …”
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Clostridial (Blackleg) Diseases of Cattle by Eddie J. Richey

“…These bacteria have three important qualities: they multiply only in the absence of oxygen; they have the ability to survive adverse conditions by transforming into highly resistant forms called spores; and they release potent toxins during the process of multiplying. …”
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A economia criativa e o campo étnico-quilombola: o caso Kalunga by Thais Alves Marinho

“…The attitude and practices of each actor of the ethnic-maroon field generate possibilities and institutional constraints that guide the senses of the residents of the Kalunga community, based upon the will of their respective habitus that have been formed historically, but circumvented by the knowledge accessed throughout the ontogenetic development. …”
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Poética de uma conversão neorromântica: o erotismo religioso de Murilo Mendes by Robson Coelho Tinoco

“…In this poetics, the woman is especially defined between images and allegories built on a thematic basis on which the catholic altar and its multiple meanings (printed on dogmatic faith) complete itself in the curvilinear design of feminine forms (printed on the physical desire). This poetic, presentedas part of the Brazilian literature since 1930, is being built through this neoromanticism - as lyrical as modern - that leads the poet to confront, to question and to discover the world (hisand his women's) as has of lyricism and (in) sensuality, eroticism and (in) religion.…”
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Obstacles to Creative Citizenship by Miller James

“…The Creative Citizens project asks whether new media enhance new forms and scale of creative civic activities. If so, the project seeks to identify practices that will exploit this new individual and collective activity, presumably as a means of achieving authentic self-governance. …”
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Compact Growth Habit Tomatoes by Monica Ozores-Hampton, Aline Coelho Frasca, John Scott, Samuel Hutton

“…These tomatoes have low growth and spreading characteristics, forming compact plants that hold fruit above the ground on short branches. …”
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Inclusion of Diverse Learners in the Educational System by Eric D. Rubenstein, Andrew C. Thoron

“…Teachers trying to fully engage students in the learning environment can find it difficult when working with students from diverse backgrounds. Forms of diversity such as socioeconomic status, ethnicity/race, learning style, cognitive ability, gender, and ability to process and store knowledge can cause an “achievement gap” between students. …”
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Superstition, Idolatry and the Advancement of Learning. by Dana Jalobeanu

“…In his early writings, Bacon suggested that certain forms of knowledge can cure superstition and entitle a select group to become “sons of science.” …”
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Mente e cérebro, ciências cognitivas e ciências sociais by Rodolfo Eduardo Scachetti

“…This paper discusses the traditional philosophical debate concerning body and spirit that has formed a multidisciplinary field of researches about brain and mind in the twentieth century, called cognitive sciences. …”
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Saraus das periferias de São Paulo: poesia entre tragos, silêncios e aplausos by Lucía Tennina

“…This work starts with the analyze of the ritual’s forms that are developed on those places and from the varied dimensions of construction of periphery ́s identities thought from de idea of culture. …”
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Acalypha pendula by Edward F. Gilman

“… This ground-hugging, fine-textured relative of the more common chenille plant grows no more than several inches tall. In the full sun it forms a thick canopy of tiny, serrated leaves no more than 3/4 inches long by 1/2 inches wide (Figure 1). …”
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ASSESSMENT OF PRESCRIPTION WRITING SKILLSAND ERRORS AMONGST DENTAL HOUSE SURGEONS AND FACULTY MEMBERS

“…Method: A total of 101 participants were part of the studywho filled the forms with consent. However,the  main focus of the study was the house officers in particular. …”
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Visualizing Spatially Based Data for Various Stakeholder Audiences by Kathryn Stofer

“…Just as text and words must be thoughtfully prepared for broad understanding, images should be adapted from the forms used with highly knowledgeable audiences. This 6-page fact sheet summarizes research in science communication and education that offers strategic ways for communicators to revise data visualizations for broad meaning-making. …”
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