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Removal of Microcystin-LR by a Novel Native Effective Bacterial Community Designated as YFMCD4 Isolated from Lake Taihu

Fei Yang, Jian Guo, Feiyu Huang, Isaac Yaw Massey et al. • Toxins (2018)

Microcystin-LR (MC-LR) is the most toxic and frequently detected monocyclic heptapeptide hepatotoxin produced by cyanobacteria, which poses a great threat to the natural ecosystem and public health. It is very important to seek environment-...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/toxins10090363

Prevalence and Determinants of Hypertension in Non-pregnant Women of Punjab

Charan Kamal Sekhon, Ramandeep Kaur, Monika Airi, Anurag Chaudhary • Indian Journal of Public Health (2025)

Background: Women’s hypertension (HTN) is often underestimated and goes untreated due to the perception that women have a lesser risk of cardiovascular disease compared to males. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to assess the preva...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4103/ijph.ijph_1051_24

Hypertension and diabetes patients’ perspective of challenges and their coping mechanisms in Mukono and Buikwe districts in Uganda – a qualitative study

Rawlance Ndejjo, Paineto Masengere, Fred Nuwaha, Isaac Ddumba et al. • Open Research Europe (2023)

Background: In sub-Saharan Africa, the burden of non-communicable diseases is steadily rising amidst a high prevalence of communicable diseases stretching the healthcare system. This study explored hypertension and diabetes patients’ perspe...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.13286.2

A History of Public Health

George Rosen • MD Publications eBooks (1958)

Since publication in 1958, George Rosen's classic book has been regarded as the essential international history of public health. Describing the development of public health in classical Greece, imperial Rome, England, Europe, the United St...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/11322-000

Trauma is a public health issue

Kathryn Marley Magruder, Katie A. McLaughlin, Diane L. Elmore • European Journal of Psychotraumatology (2017)

Exposure to trauma is pervasive in societies worldwide and is associated with substantial costs to the individual and society, making it a significant global public health concern. We present evidence for trauma as a public health issue by ...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2017.1375338 PMC: 5800738

Journal of Environmental and Public Health

• Journal of Environmental and Public Health (2009)

Journal of Environmental and Public Health publishes research covering all population-wide health issues. The journal serves the public health community: epidemiologists, clinicians, toxicologists, governmental agencies, policy makers, and ...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/jeph

Click Chemistry in Materials Science

Weixian Xi, Timothy F. Scott, Christopher J. Kloxin, Christopher N. Bowman • Advanced Functional Materials (2014)

Despite originating only a little more than a decade ago, click chemistry has become one of the most powerful paradigms in materials science, synthesis, and modification. By developing and implementing simple, robust chemistries that do not...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201302847

Clinical characteristics of and risk factors for secondary bloodstream infection after pneumonia among patients infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Fangfang Huang, Ting Shen, Xin Hai, Huiqing Xiu et al. • Heliyon (2022)

Purpose: To investigate the clinical features and risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) pneumonia (MP) with secondary MRSA bloodstream infections (MRSA-BSI) (termed MP-BSI) compared with MP alone and to study t...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11978

Global variations in funding and use of hemodialysis accesses: an international report using the ISN Global Kidney Health Atlas

Anukul Ghimire, Samveg Shah, Utkarsh Chauhan, Kwaifa Salihu Ibrahim et al. • BMC Nephrology (2024)

Abstract Background There is a lack of contemporary data describing global variations in vascular access for hemodialysis (HD). We used the third iteration of the International Society of Nephrology Global Kidney Health Atlas (ISN-GKHA) to ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12882-024-03593-z

Importance of background threshold value development within risk‐based corrective action programs

Kenneth S. Tramm, Jason T. Minter, Catherine A. Seaton • Vadose Zone Journal (2024)

Abstract Risk‐based corrective action (RBCA) programs employ conservative models to develop default values for soil screening, which simplify the risk assessment process. However, for several naturally occurring metals (e.g., arsenic and le...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1002/vzj2.20294

Electrospinning: A Powerful Tool to Improve the Corrosion Resistance of Metallic Surfaces Using Nanofibrous Coatings

Pedro J. Rivero, Deyo Maeztu Redin, Rafael J. Rodríguez • Metals (2020)

The use of surface engineering techniques to tune-up the composition of nanostructured thin-films for developing functional coatings with advanced properties is a hot topic within the scientific community. The control of the coating structu...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/met10030350

Transient Elastography and Video Recovery Narrative Access to Support Recovery From Alcohol Misuse: Development of a Novel Intervention for Use in Community Alcohol Treatment Services

Stefan Rennick-Egglestone, Mohsan Subhani, Holly Knight, Katy A Jones et al. • JMIR Formative Research (2023)

BackgroundMortality from alcohol-related liver disease has risen significantly for 3 decades. Transient elastography (TE) is a noninvasive test providing a numerical marker of liver disease. Preliminary evidence suggests that TE can reduce ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/47109

Vape Smoking: Prevalence and Perception among Damnhour University Students

Naglaa Hussein • International Egyptian Journal of Nursing Sciences and Research (2025)

Background: E-cigarette or vape smoking is becoming a worldwide concern, yet vapinginformation is not widespread among Middle Eastern university students. The paper offers the pattern ofvape smoking in Damnhour University, Egypt, which uses...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.21608/ejnsr.2025.370486.1434

Genetic and Psychosocial Risk Factors Associated with Suicide Among Community Veterans: Implications for Screening, Treatment and Precision Medicine

Boscarino JA, Adams RE, Urosevich TG, Hoffman SN et al. • Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine (2022)

Joseph A Boscarino,1 Richard E Adams,2 Thomas G Urosevich,3 Stuart N Hoffman,4 H Lester Kirchner,1 Xin Chu,5 Weixing Shi,5 Joseph J Boscarino,6 Ryan J Dugan,1 Carrie A Withey,1 Charles R Figley7 1Department Population Health Sciences, Geisi...

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Family and community resilience: a Photovoice study

Yvonne Tan, Danielle Pinder, Imaan Bayoumi, Rifaa Carter et al. • International Journal for Equity in Health (2024)

Abstract Background Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), in combination with adverse community environments, can result in traumatic stress reactions, increasing a person’s risk for chronic physical and mental health conditions. Family res...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12939-024-02142-2

Exploring innovation landscapes: a national cross-sectional study of Swedish primary care from the viewpoint of primary care managers

Sarah Samuelson, Eva-Lisa Petersson, Cecilia Björkelund, Marcus Praetorius Björk et al. • BMC Health Services Research (2026)

Abstract Background Innovation is increasingly necessary in primary care policy, and healthcare managers play a pivotal role in translating policy ambitions into practice and shaping organisational conditions that foster innovation. The aim...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12913-026-14870-y

Analysing interventions designed to reduce tuberculosis-related stigma: A scoping review.

Isabel Foster, Michelle Galloway, Wieda Human, Michaile Anthony et al. • PLOS Global Public Health (2022)

Stigma is a critical barrier for TB care delivery; yet data on stigma reduction interventions is limited. This review maps the available literature on TB stigma reduction interventions, using the Health Stigma and Discrimination framework a...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0000989

Bias and Fairness in Natural Language Processing

Kai-Wei Chang, Vinod M. Prabhakaran, Vicente Ordóñez • Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) (2019)

Recent advances in data-driven machine learning techniques (e.g., deep neural networks) have revolutionized many natural language processing applications. These approaches automatically learn how to make decisions based on the statistics an...

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Natural Language Processing and Semantical Representation of Medical Texts

Robert H Baud, A M Rassinoux, Jean Raoul Scherrer • Methods of Information in Medicine (1992)

For medical records, the challenge for the present decade is Natural Language Processing (NLP) of texts, and the construction of an adequate Knowledge Representation. This article describes the components of an NLP system, which is currentl...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1634865