FACTORS INFLUENCING COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN CONTROL AND RELATED OPERATIONAL RESEARCH FOR UROGENITAL SCHISTOSOMIASIS AND SOIL-TRANSMITTED HELMINTHS IN RURAL VILLAGES OF KWALE COUNTY, COASTAL KENYA

INTRODUCTION: helminthic infections caused by soil-transmitted helminths (STH) and schistosomes are among the most prevalent afflictions of humans who live in areas of poverty.An operational research was undertaken in 5 villages of Kwale County during a pilot control programme which included both the adults and school going children.Willingness of

Plain English summary Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and other traumatic experiences commonly occur in the great majority of individuals with EDs.The mechanisms by which ACEs and EDs emerge and interact with each other to lead to early death is reviewed from the perspective of the ACEs pyramid and the escalating cascade of problems that it de

As many services have been subcontracted to the cloud, data in such services (i.e., management applications, signal processing, and so on) are stored on cloud in encrypted form for protecting user private information.In many emerging data and signal processing applications, approximate k-nearest neighbor (ANN) query is a prerequisite component for

Voids in face-centered cubic (fcc) metals are commonly assumed to form via the aggregation of vacancies; however, the mechanisms of vacancy clustering and diffusion are not fully understood.In this study, we use computational modeling to provide a detailed insight into the structures and formation energies of primary vacancy clusters, mechanisms an

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