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Open AccessImplementation factors of tuberculosis control program in primary healthcare settings in China: a mixed-methods using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research framework
Tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause of death worldwide, and Chinese TB burden ranked the second globally. Chinese primary healthcare (PHC) sectors implement the TB Control Program (TCP) to improve active case f...
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Open AccessCoaggregated E. faecalis with F. nucleatum regulated environmental stress responses and inflammatory effects
To investigate the cell-cell interactions of intergeneric bacterial species, the study detected the survival of Enterococcus faecalis (Ef) under monospecies or coaggregation state with Fusobacterium nucleatum sub...
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Open AccessCorrection: UN peacekeeper health and risk factors --- a systematic sco** review
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Open AccessUN peacekeeper health and risk factors --- a systematic sco** review
Conflicts, natural disasters, and complex emergencies present substantial health challenges to United Nations (UN) peacekeepers deployed in mission areas. This sco** review aims at summarizing previous resea...
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Open AccessChallenge of ending TB in China: tuberculosis control in primary healthcare sectors under integrated TB control model–a systematic review and meta-analysis
China has the third-largest burden of tuberculosis (TB) cases in the world with great challenges towards ending TB. Primary health care (PHC) sectors play a critical role in TB prevention and control in commun...
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High-precision joint estimation of the state of charge and state of energy for new energy electric vehicle lithium-ion batteries based on improved singular value decomposition-adaptive embedded cubature Kalman filtering
Accurate online estimation of the state of charge (SOC) and state of energy (SOE) of lithium-ion batteries are essential for efficient and reliable energy management of new energy electric vehicles (EVs). To i...
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Open AccessPrognostic value of adjuvant external beam radiotherapy for papillary thyroid cancer based on competitive risk model and propensity score matching
This study aimed to assess the impact of adjuvant external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) on the survival of patients with locally invasive papillary thyroid carcinoma. This retrospective study used data from the Su...
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Open AccessDevelo** a conceptual framework for the health protection of United Nations peacekeepers against the COVID-19 pandemic from global health perspectives
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has posed particular health risks to United Nations peacekeepers, which require prompt responses and global attention. Since the health protection of United Nat...
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Open AccessDevelopment and validation of self-management scale for tuberculosis patients
Tuberculosis remains a major threat to global public health. Regarding its control, directly observed therapy is not suitable as a global strategy for all tuberculosis patients. Self-management may be an impor...
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Open AccessFactors predicting self-report adherence (SRA) behaviours among DS-TB patients under the “Integrated model”: a survey in Southwest China
China is one of 30 countries with a high tuberculosis (TB) burden, and poor adherence to TB treatment is one of the biggest challenges for TB control. We aimed to explore the barriers and facilitators of treat...
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Open AccessUptake of evidence by physicians: De-adoption of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents after the TREAT trial
Variation in de-adoption of ineffective or unsafe treatments is not well-understood. We examined de-adoption of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESA) in anemia treatment among patients with chronic kidney di...
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Open AccessDeterminants of self-management behaviors among pulmonary tuberculosis patients: a path analysis
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the top 10 causes of death in the world. Since Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) as a core strategy for the global TB control are not applicable to all types of TB patients, and self-...
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Open AccessEffectiveness of XP-Endo Finisher and passive ultrasonic irrigation on intracanal medicament removal from root canals: a systematic review and meta-analysis
XP-Endo Finisher (XPF) and passive ultrasonic irrigation (PUI) are commonly used in intracanal medicament removal. The effectiveness of these two techniques needs to be compared, and evidence-based research sh...
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Dye-decolorization of a newly isolated strain Bacillus amyloliquefaciens W36
Dye-decolorization is one of the most important steps in dye-polluted wastewater treatment. The dye-decolorization bacteria were isolated from active sludge collected from wastewater treating pond of a dyeing ...
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Open AccessCharacteristics of tuberculosis patients in the integrated tuberculosis control model in Chongqing, China: a retrospective study
China ranks second in the world in terms of numbers of tuberculosis (TB) cases and is one of the top three countries with the largest number of multidrug-resistant and rifampicin-resistant TB (MDR/RR-TB). It a...
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Solutions to Constrained Optimal Control Problems with Linear Systems
This paper is devoted to present solutions to constrained finite-horizon optimal control problems with linear systems, and the cost functional of the problem is in a general form. According to the Pontryagin’s...
