Disability and sexual and reproductive health service utilisation in Uganda: an intersectional analysis of demographic and health surveys between 2006 and 2016

Autor: Muriel Mac-Seing, Christina Zarowsky, Mengru Yuan, Kate Zinszer

Publikováno v: BMC Public Health, Vol 22, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2022)

Abstract Background The United Nations through universal health coverage, including sexual and reproductive health (SRH), pledges to include all people, leaving no one behind. However, people with disabilities continue to experience multiple barriers

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Machine learning and dengue forecasting: Comparing random forests and artificial neural networks for predicting dengue burden at national and sub-national scales in Colombia.

Autor: Naizhuo Zhao, Katia Charland, Mabel Carabali, Elaine O Nsoesie, Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, Erin Rees, Mengru Yuan, Cesar Garcia Balaguera, Gloria Jaramillo Ramirez, Kate Zinszer

Publikováno v: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Vol 14, Iss 9, p e0008056 (2020)

The robust estimate and forecast capability of random forests (RF) has been widely recognized, however this ensemble machine learning method has not been widely used in mosquito-borne disease forecasting. In this study, two sets of RF models were dev

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A Bayesian Network Model of the Relationships between Chronic Disease Indicators

Autor: Mengru Yuan, David Buckeridge

Publikováno v: International Journal of Population Data Science, Vol 3, Iss 4 (2018)

Introduction We previous developed an informatics platform to: 1) generate large numbers of indicators of chronic conditions and determinants from heterogeneous sources, 2) present indicators in context of known causal relationships. However, the ca

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Roles of AGD2a in Plant Development and Microbial Interactions of Lotus japonicus

Autor: Mingchao Huang, Mengru Yuan, Chunyu Sun, Meiru Li, Pingzhi Wu, Huawu Jiang, Guojiang Wu, Yaping Chen

Publikováno v: International Journal of Molecular Sciences; Volume 23; Issue 12; Pages: 6863

Arabidopsis AGD2 (Aberrant Growth and Death2) and its close homolog ALD1 (AGD2-like defense response protein 1) have divergent roles in plant defense. We previously reported that modulation of salicylic acid (SA) contents by ALD1 affects numbers of n

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Modelling Spatiotemporal Patterns of Lyme Disease Emergence in Québec

Autor: Kate Zinszer, Britt McKinnon, Daniel Szaroz, Mengru Yuan, Camille Guillot, Yan Kestens, Marc-Antoine Tutt-Guérette, Patrick A. Leighton

Publikováno v: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 9669, p 9669 (2021)
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Lyme disease is a growing public health problem in Québec. Its emergence over the last decade is caused by environmental and anthropological factors that favour the survival of Ixodes scapularis, the vector of Lyme disease transmission. The objectiv

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