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Effect of PEPFAR funding policy change on HIV service delivery in a large HIV...
The transition to PEPFAR 2.0 with its focus on country ownership was accompanied by substantial funding cuts. We describe the impact of this transition on HIV care in a large... -
Spatial and topical imbalances in biodiversity research
The rapid erosion of biodiversity is among the biggest challenges human society is facing. Concurrently, major efforts are in place to quantify changes in biodiversity, to... -
Resilience and stability of kelp forests: The importance of patch dynamics an...
Habitat forming 'ecosystem engineers' such as kelp species create complex habitats that support biodiverse and productive communities. Studies of the resilience and stability of... -
Expert opinion on metal chains and other indestructible objects as proper enr...
EC Directive 2001/93 requires that all pigs have access to proper investigation and manipulation materials. Intensively farmed pigs in Europe are frequently provided with a... -
Agreements between Industry and Academia on Publication Rights: A Retrospecti...
Background Little is known about publication agreements between industry and academic investigators in trial protocols and the consistency of these agreements with corresponding... -
Where Is Current Research on Blockchain Technology?-A Systematic Review.
Blockchain is a decentralized transaction and data management technology developed first for Bitcoin cryptocurrency. The interest in Blockchain technology has been increasing... -
PrEP implementation by local health departments in US cities and counties: Fi...
Objective The United States Public Health Service released clinical practice guidelines for daily oral preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in May 2014. Local health departments... -
A citizen science approach: A detailed ecological assessment of subtropical r...
Subtropical reefs provide an important habitat for flora and fauna, and proper monitoring is required for conservation. Monitoring these exposed and submerged reefs is... -
DeepNano: Deep Recurrent Neural Networks for Base Calling in MinION Nanopore ...
The MinION device by Oxford Nanopore produces very long reads (reads over 100 kBp were reported); however it suffers from high sequencing error rate. We present an open-source... -
What Is Citizen Science? – A Scientometric Meta-Analysis
Context The concept of citizen science (CS) is currently referred to by many actors inside and outside science and research. Several descriptions of this purportedly new... -
Trade-offs in motivating volunteer effort: Experimental evidence on voluntary...
Author(s): Lyons, Elizabeth; Zhang, Laurina | Abstract: Digitization has facilitated the proliferation of crowd science by lowering the cost of finding individuals with the... -
An analysis and metric of reusable data licensing practices for biomedical re...
Data are the foundation of science, and there is an increasing focus on how data can be reused and enhanced to drive scientific discoveries. However, most seemingly “open data”... -
Utility of citizen science data: A case study in land-based shark fishing
Involving citizen scientists in research has become increasingly popular in natural resource management and allows for an increased research effort at low cost, distribution of... -
Associations between mother-preschooler attachment and maternal depression sy...
The current study aimed to systematically review and meta-analyze concurrent and longitudinal associations between maternal depression symptoms and mother-child attachment... -
Reducing effects of dispersal on the bias of 2-sample mark-recapture estimato...
: The 2-sample mark-recapture method with Chapman's estimator is often used by inland fishery managers to estimate the reach-scale abundance of stream fish. An important... -
Identifying animal taxa used to manufacture bone tools during the Middle Ston...
This paper presents the histological characterisation of a selection of worked bone artefacts from Middle Stone Age layers at Sibudu cave, South Africa. Histographic rendering... -
Rifampicin versus streptomycin for brucellosis treatment in humans: A meta-an...
Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease with a high morbidity in developing countries, but there the optimal treatment is not yet determined. Therefore, the development of a simple... -
Herpesviruses in etiopathogenesis of aggressive periodontitis: A meta-analysi...
OBJECTIVE: Previous studies have found that herpesviruses are associated with aggressive periodontitis (AgP). However, these findings are controversial. This meta-analysis was... -
Video abstracts and plain language summaries are more effective than graphica...
Background Journals are trying to make their papers more accessible by creating a variety of research summaries including graphical abstracts, video abstracts, and plain... -
Evaluation of five rapid diagnostic tests for detection of antibodies to hepa...
Objectives Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a major contributor to morbidity and mortality worldwide. Early detection and curative treatment of HCV can reduce the risk of...
