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The role of drug treatment and recovery services: an opportunity to address injection initiation assistance in Tijuana, Mexico

Stephanie A. Meyers, Claudia Rafful, Sonia Jain, Xiaoying Sun et al. • Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy (2020)

Abstract Background In the U.S. and Canada, people who inject drugs’ (PWID) enrollment in medication-assisted treatment (MAT) has been associated with a reduced likelihood that they will assist others in injection initiation events. We aime...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13011-020-00322-1

The elderly and urban mobility: cost sensitivity of elderly people in the “oldest” Italian city

Claudia Burlando, Enrico Musso, Luca Persico • European Spatial Research and Policy (2022)

The world is facing a series of changes that will modify the way we envisage transport planning in our cities. Demographic ageing as a consequence of higher life expectancy and lower fertility rates is a world-wide phenomenon. While ageing ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.18778/1231-1952.29.1.05

Challenges and experience of the Ethiopian rural health extension program: implications for reform and revitalization

Taddese Alemu Zerfu, Amare Abera Tareke, Sibhatu Biadgilign • BMC Health Services Research (2023)

Abstract Background Despite remarkable gains over the past decade, mounting evidence suggests that Ethiopia’s rural health extension program (HEP) is facing serious implementation challenges. We investigated the current and potential future...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12913-023-10253-9

The allocation of resources in the care for patients with panic disorder in Germany: an excess cost analysis informing policy and science

Christian Brettschneider, Florian Bleibler, Thomas S. Hiller, Alexander Konnopka et al. • Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation (2019)

Abstract Background Panic disorder is a mental disorder of high prevalence, which frequently co-occurs with agoraphobia. There is a lack of studies measuring excess costs of panic disorder patients with and without agoraphobia. We compared ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12962-019-0177-4

Circulating tumour cell enumeration, biomarker analyses, and kinetics in patients with colorectal cancer and other GI malignancies

Walla Malkawi, Areeb Lutfi, Maaz Khan Afghan, Lamisha Mashiyat Shah et al. • Frontiers in Oncology (2023)

ObjectiveMost of the work in terms of liquid biopsies in patients with solid tumors is focused on circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA). Our aim was to evaluate the feasibility of using circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in peripheral blood samples fro...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2023.1305181

Antidiarrheal and antimicrobial profiles extracts of the leaves from Trichilia emetica Vahl. (Meliaceae)

Kiessoun Konaté, Kassi Yomalan, Oksana Sytar, Marian Brestic • Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine (2015)

Objective: To evaluate anti-diarrhoeal and antimicrobial activities of the bioactive fraction of Trichilia emetica in order to provide a scientific basis for the management of gastroenteritis in Burkina Faso. Methods: To do this, polyphenol...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/S2221-1691(15)30012-5

Morphological and molecular identification of arrhenotokous strain of Diglyphus wani (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) found in China as a control agent against agromyzid leafminers

Su-Jie Du, Zoya Yefremova, Fu-Yu Ye, Chao-Dong Zhu et al. • ZooKeys (2021)

Diglyphus species are ecologically and economically important on agromyzid leafminers. In 2018, a thelytokous species, Diglyphus wani Liu, Zhu & Yefremova, was firstly reported and described. Subsequently, the arrhenotokous D. wani ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1071.72433

Efficient electrochemical determination of dopamine in the presence of uric acid in real samples using tungsten disulfide nanostructure modified electrode

Ibrahim Ayad Jihad, Thekrayat Joodi Jassim, Zainab Naeif Mageed • ADMET and DMPK (2025)

Background and purpose: Research on the detection of uric acid (URA) and dopamine (DPA) is ongoing because of the difficulties posed by their closely overlapping oxidation potentials. Tungsten disulfide nanostructures have become attractive...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5599/admet.2968

In vitro effects of European and Latin-American medicinal plants in CYP3A4 gene expression, glutathione levels, and P-glycoprotein activity

Andre Luis Dias Araujo Mazzari, Mariella Guimarães Lacerda, Flora Aparecida Milton, Flora Aparecida Milton et al. • Frontiers in Pharmacology (2022)

Many medicinal plants species from European -such as Artemisia absinthium, Equisetum arvense, Lamium album, Malva sylvestris, Morus nigra, Passiflora incarnata, Frangula purshiana, and Salix alba- as well as Latin American traditions -such ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2022.826395

Perspective on the Therapeutics of Anti-Snake Venom

Isabel Gómez-Betancur, Vedanjali Gogineni, Andrea Salazar-Ospina, Francisco León • Molecules (2019)

Snakebite envenomation is a life-threatening disease that was recently re-included as a neglected tropical disease (NTD), affecting millions of people in tropical and subtropical areas of the world. Improvement in the therapeutic approaches...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/molecules24183276

INTERAÇÕES PLANTA MEDICINAL X MEDICAMENTO CONVENCIONAL NO TRATAMENTO DA HIPERTENSÃO ARTERIAL

Júlia Beatriz Pereira SOUZA, Fábia Jéssica Batista ATALIBA, Danielly Albuquerque da COSTA, Andrezza Duarte FARIAS • Infarma: Pharmaceutical Sciences (2017)

A hipertensão arterial sistêmica, dentre as doenças crônicas, apresenta-se como um dos problemas de saúde de maior magnitude na atualidade, sendo uma das principais causas de morbidade e mortalidade cardiovascular no Brasil. Seu tratamento ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.14450/2318-9312.v29.e2.a2017.pp90-99

Imaging with Diffractive Axicons Rapidly Milled on Sapphire by Femtosecond Laser Ablation

Daniel Smith, Soon Hock Ng, Molong Han, Tomas Katkus et al. • Engineering Proceedings (2023)

We show that single-pulse burst fabrication will produce a flatter and smoother profile of axicons milled on sapphire compared to pulse overlapped fabrication which results in a damaged and much rougher surface. The fabrication of large-are...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/HMAM2-14147

Synthesize and characterization of hybrid aluminium alloy (AA6063) metal matrix composite (HAMMC) with corn cob ash and alumina (Al2O3) reinforcements

Ayenew Amare, Mezigebu Belay, Zewudu Wondimagegn • Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Engineering (2026)

Abstract The use of aluminium matrix composites (AMCs) in advanced engineering applications has increased due to their improved mechanical properties, such as hardness, ultimate tensile strength, toughness, wear, and corrosion resistance. A...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s40712-026-00421-0

Image encryption and distribution method based on LFSR and counters

V. Luzhetsky, M. Tsikhotskyi • Ìнформаційні технології та компʼютерна інженерія (2025)

In the conditions of processing large amounts of graphic data, the task arises of developing a reliable image encryption scheme with reduced computing costs. The purpose of the study was to develop a deterministic scheme for encrypting and ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.31649/vitce/3.2025.77

REDUCING CLIMATE IMPACTS ON WATER RESOURCES AS THE LEGAL AND ECONOMIC BASIS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY IN THE EU CANDIDATE COUNTRIES: THE CASE OF UKRAINE

Ielyzaveta Lvova, Kateryna Kozmuliak, Liudmyla Strutynska-Struk • Baltic Journal of Economic Studies (2022)

As climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time, the legal and economic issues of global environmental security deserve high praise. In the area of industrial competitiveness, where the negative effects of global climate cha...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.30525/2256-0742/2022-8-3-101-114

Investigating the cost of mechanized unpaved road maintenance operations in Uganda

Andrew Moses Obeti, Lawrence Muhwezi, John Muhumuza Kakitahi, Chris Bic Byaruhanga • Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2024)

Force Account Mechanism (FAM) is the predominant road maintenance system in Uganda’s local government setup and a similar, though slightly different approach, is used in some large private sector agriculture plantations. With the Uganda Roa...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.trip.2024.101135