Early-phase scale-up of isoniazid preventive therapy for people living with HIV in two districts in Malawi (2017).

BackgroundIsoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) against tuberculosis (TB) is a life-saving intervention for people living with HIV (PLHIV).In September 2017, Malawi began programmatic scale-up of IPT to eligible PLHIV in five districts with high HIV and TB burden.We measured the frequency and timeliness of early-phase IPT implementation to inform qual

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Reporting Characteristics in Sports Nutrition

Purpose: To examine data reporting characteristics in sports nutrition.Methods: We examined 236 papers from ten journals published in 2016.The primary outcome was statistical variance associated with treatment (SD (correct) vs.SEM or CI).Secondary outcomes included the reporting of: (a) effect sizes (Y/N); (b) outcome prioritization (Y/N; primary,

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A New Polar Transfer Alignment Algorithm with the Aid of a Star Sensor and Based on an Adaptive Unscented Kalman Filter

Because of the harsh polar environment, the master strapdown inertial navigation system (SINS) Lacrosse gloves has low accuracy and the system model information becomes abnormal.In this case, existing polar transfer alignment (TA) algorithms which use the measurement information provided by master SINS would lose their effectiveness.In this paper,

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Extractive desulfurization of liquid fuel using diamine-terminated polyethylene glycol as a very low vapour pressure and green molecular solvent

Removal of sulfur compounds from liquid fuel is one of the important issues in the field of energy and environment.Among the available methods, extractive desulfurization (EDS) is of great interest due to its convenient operating conditions.In this study, EDS performance of 4,7,10-trioxatridecane-1,13-diamine (TTD), a very low vapour pressure diami

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