Acceptability of the social uses of the COVID-19 screening test among women in southern Benin by Mingnimon A. Affo

“…Conclusion: Insufficient consideration of local contexts around health emergencies, infodemia and social inequalities in health have contributed to aversion to the COVID-19 screening test. …”
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PM2.5 Concentration Prediction Based on Markov Blanke Feature Selection and Hybrid Kernel Support Vector Regression Optimized by Particle Swarm Optimization by Lian-Hua Zhang, Ze-Hong Deng, Wen-Bo Wang

“…The experimental results show that the mean absolute error (MAE), mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), root mean square error (RMSE) and Theil’s inequality coefficient (TIC) of nMRMR-PSO-HK-SVR model are lower than those of SVR, PSO-SVR, nMRMR-SVR and PSO-HK-SVR model. …”
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José Martí, arena fina. Archivo y lectura en un cuento de Marcial Gala by Irina Garbatzky

“…Si bien el cuento de Gala, contemporáneo a estas producciones, presenta una temática similar a la de otras narraciones pertenecientes al Período Especial y un tratamiento crítico respecto de la figura martiana, habilita una exploración material sobre los restos de su obra, intentando organizar y sistematizar su discurso de un modo diverso, aunque no canónico. Estas operaciones de archivo se montan a través de dos acciones previas que produce su escritura: dinamitar el poema “Los zapaticos de rosa” de Martí, publicado en La Edad de Oro en 1889, reutilizar sus fragmentos y colocar el ejercicio de la lectura como actuación central. …”
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Optimal Asynchronous Guaranteed Cost Control of Uncertain Markov Jump Systems With Actuator Saturation and Nonideal Transition Probabilities by Jiazheng Liu, Yang Yang, Yaru Song

“…Through the application of Lyapunov equations and linear matrix inequality techniques, sufficient conditions are derived that ensure the resulting system is stochastically stable with/without nonideal transition probabilities and satisfies specific cost bounds under three different initial boundary conditions. …”
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Consecuencias de los accidentes químicos: análisis de los efectos a la salud y el entorno by Jurek Guirola Fuentes, Yaisemys Batista Reyes, Yonathan Estrada Rodríguez

“…Los eventos recientes, como los accidentes en Bhopal y Beirut, subrayan la importancia de estrategias efectivas que promuevan la concientización y preparación ante emergencias químicas. Aunque existen herramientas para optimizar la respuesta a estos accidentes, la falta de cumplimiento de normativas internacionales en muchos países es preocupante. …”
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Drug Insurance and Psoriasis Severity: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Laurence Mainville, Hélène Veillette, Paul R. Fortin

“…**Conclusions:** Prescribers of advanced therapy can be reassured, as we found no inequality in access or care based on patients’ drug insurance coverage.…”
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YOUTH PARTICIPATION AND ELECTORAL DEMOCRACY IN KOGI STATE; ISSUES AND PROSPECTS by MICHAEL DANIEL, DUNCAN GANYU ADAMSON

“…The finding indicates huge electoral expenditures, political inequality and compromised political space overtaken the place merit, which restrict youths from electoral contest. …”
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¿Estamos perdiendo los humedales más rápido de lo que podemos restaurarlos? by Lenin Corrales Chaves

“…En Costa Rica, los humedales bajo inventario representan el 6.01 % del territorio nacional, y aunque el país ha avanzado en su protección, con el 49 % de los humedales bajo alguna categoría de área silvestre protegida, persisten desafíos, como la expansión agrícola, la ganadería y la sedimentación. …”
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Sexual Harassment and Stigma Among the Youth in Kabale Municipality Kabale District. by Mugumya, Muhammadi

“…The study findings on the effect of sexual harassment and stigma among the youth were sexual harassment in childhood and adolescence is associated with dropping out of school and delinquency, it leads to loss of goodwill of the victim, sexual harassment leads to increased sexual arousal, sexual harassment affects the women economic self-sufficiency and it leads to distractions from work and job dissatisfaction. …”
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Poverty and Child Trafficking in Kabale District: A Case Study of Kabale Municipality. by Tusingwire, Angella

“…The study findings indicated that the majority of respondents strongly agreed that push factors are responsible for the trafficking of women especially for those who have a background characterized by poverty, children are trafficked for sexual exploitation and labor in Kabale Municipality and child trafficking is a result of lack of opportunities and structural inequalities in Kabale Municipality.…”
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Affirmative Action on Women Education Promotion in Ntungamo Municipality Ntungamo District. by Abenawe, Jasper

“…However, lack of transparency and clear lines of communication in implementing this strategy were cited as an obstacle. …”
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Influence of Domestic Violence on Pupils Academic Performance in Rubanda District. by Busingye, Scholar

“…The study found that 100% of respondents agreed on several causes of domestic violence, which included unfaithfulness, poverty (12 respondents, 20%), early marriages (5 respondents, 8%), diseases such as HIV/AIDS (9 respondents, 15%), gender inequality (10 respondents, 16%), and alcoholism (10 respondents, 16%). …”
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Barriers to women's participation in public procurement in Africa: Empirical evidence from Uganda. by BC, Basheka

“…In this regard, Basheka (2018b) highlights that removing gender inequality is key to economic growth and eradicating poverty. …”
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Structures and strategies for retaining an international pediatric cohort from birth: Lessons from The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) study by Patricia Gesualdo, Jessica Melin, Rachel Karban, Claire Crouch, Michael Killian, Diane Hopkins, Annika Adamsson, Joanna Stock, Suzanne Bennett Johnson, Judith Baxter

“…A fifth category presented strategies unique to TEDDY. Results: TEDDY employed over one hundred retention strategies during the 15 years of follow-up; many could be categorized within the Teague domains. …”
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Relatedness Among Three Native Geese in Erbil Governorate Using Hematological and Molecular Methods by Mohsen A. Ahmed, Yousif M.S. Al-Barzinji, Lanja Assad Ismail

“…A total of 309 bands observed, ranged from 30 in primer OPB-07 to 54 bands in OPA-20. Five unique bands were found only in white goose, whereas the highest unique band was obtained in primer OPB-01 locus. …”
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LeaData a novel reference data of leather images for automatic species identification by Anjli Varghese, Malathy Jawahar, A. Amalin Prince

“…The magnifying parameter 47 $$\times$$ captures the species-unique grain patterns distributed over the leather surface. …”
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Triple Local Recurrence of Synovial Sarcoma: A Case Report by Mouli Edward, Kukuh Ali Akbar

“…Conclusions: The third recurrence may still happen on SS. Its unique location might contribute to this unique occurrence, and the size of the tumor makes the recurrence rate higher.…”
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Impact of copper stress in the intestinal barriers and gut microbiota of Chinese stripe-necked turtle (Mauremys sinensis) by Zeeshan Ali, Ijaz Khan, Muhammad Shahid Iqbal, Haitao Shi, Li Ding, Meiling Hong

“…Copper's dual role as a nutrient and toxicant uniquely impacts gut microbes. Our findings suggest that copper stress compromises the intestinal physical, immune, chemical, and microbial barrier in M. sinensis, all of which contribute to the turtle’s poor health.…”
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STUDIES ON CERTAIN GROWTH PARAMETERS OF DIFFERENT PROBIOTIC STRAINS by DUMITRA RĂDUCANU, ANA-MARIA GEORGESCU

“…In this study, commercial probiotic bacteria known as "Linex" were used as samples. Cultural characteristics of these probiotic bacteria have been isolated and studied. …”
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Teaching Students with Disabilities: Hearing Impairments and Deafness by Blake C. Colclasure, Andrew C. Thoron, Sarah E. LaRose

“…This series provides useful information to ag-ed based instructors about different disabilities and how to teach those students in the unique environments posed by ag-ed, including classroom, laboratory, and non-formal environments. …”
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