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- publication . Article . 2014Open Access EnglishAuthors:Ziad A. Memish; Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq; Saber Yezli;Persistent IdentifiersPublisher: Oxford University Press
- publication . Article . 2012Open Access EnglishAuthors:Katherine Gass; Madsen Beau De Rochars; Daniel A. Boakye; Mark Bradley; Peter Fischer; John O. Gyapong; Makoto Itoh; Nese Ituaso-Conway; Hayley Joseph; Dominique Kyelem; ...Persistent IdentifiersPublisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Successful mass drug administration (MDA) campaigns have brought several countries near the point of Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) elimination. A diagnostic tool is needed to determine when the prevalence levels have decreased to a point that MDA campaigns can be discontinu...
- publication . Article . Other literature type . 2018Open Access EnglishAuthors:Leyvraz, Magali; Mizéhoun-Adissoda, Carmelle; Houinato, Dismand; Moussa Baldé, Naby; Damasceno, Albertino; Viswanathan, Bharathi; Amyunzu-Nyamongo, Mary; Owuor, Jared; Chiolero, Arnaud; Bovet, Pascal;Persistent Identifiers
International audience; High salt intake is a major risk factor of hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Improving knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) related to salt intake in the general population is a key component of salt reduction strategies. The objectiv...
- publication . Article . Preprint . 2016Open Access EnglishAuthors:Ellen, Faith; Gelashvili, Rati; Shavit, Nir; Zhu, Leqi;Project: NSF | BIGDATA: IA: DKA: Collabo... (1447786), NSF | SHF: Medium: Collaborativ... (1301926), NSF | SHF: Small: Multicore Dat... (1217921), NSERC
© 2016 ACM. For many years, Herlihy's elegant computability based Con- sensus Hierarchy has been our best explanation of the rela- tive power of various types of multiprocessor synchronization objects when used in deterministic algorithms. However, key to this hierarchy...
- publication . Preprint . 2020Open Access EnglishAuthors:Chen, Sitan; Meka, Raghu;Project: NSF | CAREER: Algorithmic Aspec... (1453261)
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- publication . Article . 2020Open Access EnglishAuthors:Mickey Chopra; Zulfiqar A Bhutta; Diana Chang Blanc; Francesco Checchi; Abhishek Gupta; Ephrem Tekle Lemango; Orin S. Levine; Dafrossa Lyimo; Robin Nandy; Katherine L. O’Brien; ...Persistent IdentifiersPublisher: WHO Press
A key focus of the health-related sustainable development goal (SDG) 3 is universal health coverage (UHC), including access to safe, effective, quality, and affordable essential medicines and\ud vaccines. However, the challenges to achieving UHC are substantial, especia...
- publication . Preprint . 2018Open Access EnglishAuthors:Kumar, Abhishek; Sattigeri, Prasanna; Wadhawan, Kahini; Karlinsky, Leonid; Feris, Rogerio; Freeman, William T.; Wornell, Gregory;
Deep neural networks, trained with large amount of labeled data, can fail to generalize well when tested with examples from a \emph{target domain} whose distribution differs from the training data distribution, referred as the \emph{source domain}. It can be expensive o...
- publication . Conference object . Preprint . Article . 2016Open Access EnglishAuthors:Michael B. Cohen; Jonathan A. Kelner; John Peebles; Richard Peng; Anup Rao; Aaron Sidford; Adrian Vladu;Persistent IdentifiersProject: NSF | Graduate Research Fellows... (1122374), NSF | AF: Medium: Taming Masssi... (1065125), NSF | AF: Large: Collaborative ... (1111109)
In this paper we introduce a notion of spectral approximation for directed graphs. While there are many potential ways one might define approximation for directed graphs, most of them are too strong to allow sparse approximations in general. In contrast, we prove that f...
- publication . Article . 2014Open Access Spanish; CastilianAuthors:Dargent Bocanegra, Eduardo;Publisher: Universidad del Pacífico
The capacity of state agencies varies greatly among Latin American states, but this significant variation remains largely understudied in political science. The few studies that do analyze this phenomenon primarily concentrate on domestic causes as explanations for the ...
- publication . Article . 2019Open Access EnglishAuthors:Shoemaker, Erica A.; Dale, Kelly; Cohn, Daniel A.; Kelly, Maureen P.; Zoerhoff, Kathryn L.; Batcho, Wilfrid E.; Bougouma, Clarisse; Nko’Ayissi, Georges B.; Meite, Aboulaye; Marfo, Benjamin; ...Persistent IdentifiersPublisher: Public Library of Science
BackgroundDelivery of preventive chemotherapy (PC) through mass drug administration (MDA) is used to control or eliminate five of the most common neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The success of an MDA campaign relies on the ability of drug distributors and their supe...