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Despite success in achieving viral suppression during pregnancy in people living with HIV (PLWH), postpartum adherence remains a challenge. We aimed to describe rates of adherence at a Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission (PMTCT) Center before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study was conducted from a cohort of PLWH who received prenatal care and were virally suppressed near delivery. We tracked combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) pickups for 12 months and HIV viral load (VL) from 2 to 12 months after delivery...

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine if there are any emerging issues related to battery-electric vehicles' (BEVs') geometry, force distribution, and extra weight that may make them more aggressive partners in front-to-front crashes through comparisons of stiffness metrics derived from crash tests. METHODS: We examined load cell wall data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA's) New Car Assessment Program full-width frontal crash test at 56 km/h...

This paper focuses on the emissions of the three most sold categories of light vehicles: sedans, SUVs, and pickups. The research is carried out through an innovative methodology based on GPS and machine learning in real driving conditions. For this purpose, driving data from the three best-selling vehicles in Ecuador are acquired using a data logger with GPS included, and emissions are measured using a PEMS in six RDE tests with two standardized routes for each vehicle. The data obtained on Route 1 are used to estimate the gears used during driving using the K-means algorithm and classification trees...

This study introduces a neural network-based approach to predict dust emissions, specifically PM2.5 particles, during almond harvesting in California. Using a feedforward neural network (FNN), this research predicted PM2.5 emissions by analyzing key operational parameters of an advanced almond harvester. Preprocessing steps like outlier removal and normalization were employed to refine the dataset for training. The network's architecture was designed with two hidden layers and optimized using tanh activation and MSE loss functions through the Adam algorithm, striking a balance between model complexity and predictive accuracy...

OBJECTIVE: To explore the smartphone addiction and its impact on quality of sleep and academic performance among the nursing students. METHODS: . A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among the nursing students (n=160) in tertiary care teaching hospital in western Rajasthan (India) by using standardized Smartphone Addiction Scale Short Version (SAS-SV), the quality of sleep was assessed by standardized Pittsburg's Sleep Quality Index scale (PSQI) and academic performance was assessed by self -made Academic Performance Scale...

BACKGROUND: Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) prevent HIV among individuals at high risk for acquisition. Pre-existing structural barriers to PrEP/PEP access among rural patients may be exacerbated further if pharmacies do not keep PrEP/PEP in stock, constituting a significant barrier to mitigating the HIV epidemic. OBJECTIVES: To compare PrEP/PEP availability for same-day pickup in rural vs urban Georgia and Pennsylvania pharmacies...

Interfacial regulation is key to photocatalytic performance, yet modulating interfacial charge transfer in heterostructures remains challenging. Herein, a novel nanoflower-like FeP/ZnIn2 S4 Ohm heterostructure is first designed, with Zn atoms in ZnIn2 S4 (ZIS) acting as potential anchoring sites around P atoms, forming liganded Zn-P bonds. Combining 1D FeP nanowires and 2D ZIS nanosheets enhances the mobility of photogenerated electrons. The synergistic chain-type "electron pickup" mechanism of the Ohm heterojunction coupled with the Zn-P bond speeds up electron transport at the interface...

This case study presents a couple's journey through assisted reproductive technology (ART) experiencing two failed in vitro fertilization cycles. The couple underwent a comprehensive examination, revealing the normal parameters for the female, but asthenoteratozoospermia in the male indicating high morphological defects and reduced sperm motility. Subsequently, intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) was planned. Despite retrieving six oocytes during ovum pickup (OPU), all blastocysts stopped growth on the second day, prompting a sperm chromatin test disclosing highly DNA-fragmented sperm...

An infertile couple visited an in vitro fertilization center situated in Maharashtra, India, seeking treatment for primary infertility. The 39-year-old premenopausal woman had a history of two intrauterine inseminations and intracytoplasmic sperm injections (ICSI), along with a history of tuberculosis from six years, and a normal hormonal range. The male was normozoospermic. The patient was given a gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist treatment and triggered before 36 hours of ovum pickup (OPU), but the cycle failed...

The vehicle routing problem with backhauls (VRPBs) is a challenging problem commonly studied in computer science and operations research. Featured by linehaul (or delivery) and backhaul (or pickup) customers, the VRPB has broad applications in real-world logistics. In this article, we propose a neural heuristic based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to solve the traditional and improved VRPB variants, with an encoder-decoder structured policy network trained to sequentially construct the routes for vehicles...

The effects of the inoculum (anaerobic digestion effluent) to substrate (simulated food waste) ratio (ISR) 4.00 to 0.25 on putative pathogens and microbial kinetics during batch mesophilic anaerobic digestion were investigated. Red fluorescent protein labelled (RFPAKN132) Escherichia coli JM105 was introduced as a marker species, and together with the indigenous Clostridium sp., Enterococcus sp., Escherichia coli , and total coliforms were used to monitor pathogen death kinetics. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction was also used to estimate the bacterial, fungal, and methanogenic gene copies...

The objectives of this study were to analyze the (1) effects of donor age and multiparity on development of in vitro fertilization (IVF) embryos after ovum pickup (OPU), (2) effects of repeated and consecutive OPU-IVF procedures on embryo development, and (3) embryo production from OPU-IVF in donors with differing embryo yields after multiple ovulation and embryo transfer technology (MOET) in Japanese Black cattle (Wagyu). Donors were pre-treated with low-dosage follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH; 200 IU total), and oocytes were collected via OPU and fertilized by IVF to generate blastocysts...

Diabetes Technology Society hosted its annual Diabetes Technology Meeting from November 1 to November 4, 2023. Meeting topics included digital health; metrics of glycemia; the integration of glucose and insulin data into the electronic health record; technologies for insulin pumps, blood glucose monitors, and continuous glucose monitors; diabetes drugs and analytes; skin physiology; regulation of diabetes devices and drugs; and data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. A live demonstration of a personalized carbohydrate dispenser for people with diabetes was presented...

INTRODUCTION: Differentiated service delivery (DSD) models aim to increase the responsiveness of HIV treatment programmes to the individual needs of antiretroviral therapy (ART) clients to improve treatment outcomes and quality of life. Little is known about how DSD client experiences differ from conventional care. METHODS: From May to November 2021, we interviewed adult (≥18) ART clients at 21 primary clinics in four districts of South Africa. Participants were enrolled consecutively at routine visits and stratified into four groups: conventional care-not eligible for DSD (conventional-not-eligible); conventional care eligible for but not enrolled in DSD (conventional-not-enrolled); facility pickup point DSD model; and external pickup point DSD model...

Atmospheric new particle formation (NPF), which exerts comprehensive implications for climate, air quality and human health, has received extensive attention. From molecule to cluster is the initial and most important stage of the nucleation process of atmospheric new particles. However, due to the complexity of the nucleation process and limitations of experimental characterization techniques, there is still a great uncertainty in understanding the nucleation mechanism at the molecular level. Laboratory-based molecular beam methods can experimentally implement the generation and growth of typical atmospheric gas-phase nucleation precursors to nanoscale clusters, characterize the key physical and chemical properties of clusters such as structure and composition, and obtain a series of their physicochemical parameters, including association rate coefficients, electron binding energy, pickup cross section and pickup probability and so on...

We demonstrate loss-free generation of 3 mJ, 1 kHz, few-cycle (5 fs at 750 nm central wavelength) double pulses with a pulse peak separation from 10 to 100 fs, using a helium-filled hollow core fiber (HCF) and chirped mirror compressor. Crucial to our scheme are simulation-based modifications to the spectral phase and amplitude of the oscillator seed pulse to eliminate the deleterious effects of self-focusing and nonlinear phase pickup in the chirped pulse amplifier. The shortest pulse separations are enabled by tunable nonlinear pulse splitting in the HCF compressor...

Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are typical intelligent logistics equipment, and path planning plays a significant role in the efficient use of AGVs. To better utilize multi-load AGVs and enhance the sustainability of the logistics process, an energy-efficient path planning model is formulated for a multi-load AGV executing multiple transport tasks in a manufacturing workshop environment, with transport distance and energy consumption (EC) serving as optimization objectives. Furthermore, a two-stage approach is proposed to solve it...

The case study examined a 32-year-old female and her 35-year-old partner who had experienced infertility attributed to the wife's irregular ovulation. Despite the male partner demonstrating normal reproductive parameters, he had a medical history involving hypertension. The woman also had a history of hypertension and chikungunya, which was accompanied by fever and joint pain in 2019. Due to the woman's allergic reaction to traditional ovulation stimulatory medications, the approach to assisted reproductive technologies (ART) had shifted towards employing the short agonist stop (SAS) regimen...

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of anxiety and depression on pregnancy outcome in couples receiving in vitro fertilization treatment. METHODS: A total of 102 couples (102 females and 102 males) with unexplained infertility were included in the study. Personal Information Form was used to collect data, Case Follow-up Form to record the treatment process, and Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and Beck Depression Inventory to measure the anxiety and depression levels of couples...

In this study, a novel human-size handheld magnetic particle imaging (MPI) system was developed for the high-precision detection of sentinel lymph nodes for breast cancer. The system consisted of a highly sensitive home-made MPI detection probe, a set of concentric coils pair for spatialization, a solenoid coil for uniform excitation at 8 [email protected] mT, and a full mirrored coil set positioned far away from the scanning area. The mirrored coils formed an extremely effective differential pickup structure which suppressed the system noise as high as 100 dB...