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"I am still negative": Female sex workers' perspectives on uptake and use of daily pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention in South Africa.
(2019-04)
Women remain highly vulnerable to HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, with female sex workers (FSWs) facing some of the highest
rates of HIV. Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has the potential to reduce new infections ...
Automatic segmentation of cardiac structures for breast cancer radiotherapy
(2019-11-22)
Background and purpose
We developed an automatic method to segment cardiac substructures given a radiotherapy planning CT images to support epidemiological studies or clinical trials looking at cardiac disease endpoints ...
Basic suture technique: Instructional videos explaining suturing for medical students in a qualitative study
(2019-10-25)
Background: Understanding basic surgical skills is important for medical students prior to entering residency regardless of future specialty. In these videos we provide instruction for suturing as it relates to skin closure. ...
Claudin-7 Modulates Cl− and Na+ Homeostasis and WNK4 Expression in Renal Collecting Duct Cells
(2019-07-30)
Claudin-7 knockout (CLDN7−/−) mice display renal salt wasting and dehydration
phenotypes. To address the role of CLDN7 in kidneys, we established collecting duct (CD) cell
lines from CLDN7+/+ and CLDN7−/− mouse kidneys. ...
Assessment of Leaf Area Index of Rice for a Growing Cycle Using Multi-Temporal C-Band PolSAR Datasets
(2019-11-12)
C-band polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) data has been previously explored
for estimating the leaf area index (LAI) of rice. Although the rice-growing cycle was partially covered in
most of the studies, ...
Widespread brain reorganization perturbs visuomotor coordination in early glaucoma
(2019-10-02)
Glaucoma is the world’s leading cause of irreversible blindness, and falls are a major public health
concern in glaucoma patients. Although recent evidence suggests the involvements of the brain toward
advanced glaucoma ...
Structural characterisation of mangrove forests achieved through combining multiple sources of remote sensing data
(2019-11-14)
Temporal information on mangrove extent, age, structure and biomass provides an important contribution towards understanding the role of these ecosystems in terms of the services they provide (e.g., in relation to storage ...
The Perceived Availability of Online Social Support: Exploring the Contributions of Illness and Rural Identities in Adults with Chronic Respiratory Illness
(2019-12-29)
Joining an online social support group may increase perceived membership to a community,
but it does not guarantee that the community will be available when it is needed. This is especially
relevant for adults with Chronic ...
Physical activity is reduced prior to ventricular arrhythmiasin patients with a wearable cardioverter defibrillator
(2019-10-23)
The utility of accelerometer‐based activity data to identify patients at risk of sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT) or ventricular fibrillation (VF) has not previously been investigated. The aim of the current study ...