Acceptability of pre-exposure prophylaxis among men who have sex with men and transgender women in Northern Thailand.

BACKGROUND:Northern Thailand has a high burden HIV epidemic among MSM and TG.Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with tenofovir-emtricitabine has demonstrated efficacy in preventing HIV among MSM and TG in Chiang Mai, Thailand.Determinants of PrEP acceptability are needed to gauge the potential uptake of this prevention strategy.METHODS:From Janua

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Effects of Dimethyl Anthranilate-Based Repellents on Behavior, Plumage Condition, Egg Quality, and Performance in Laying Hens

Feather pecking is a behavior that occurs in order to cope with a constrained environment and is a serious problem in the egg production industry.This longitudinal study was conducted under commercial conditions to investigate whether the application of two repellent mixtures, previously suggested as aversive to Ball - Elastic Goods - Belts wild bi

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Damage Identification of Large Generator Stator Insulation Based on PZT Sensor Systems and Hybrid Features of Lamb Waves

Large generators are the principal pieces of equipment in power systems, and their operation reliability critically depends on the stator insulation.Damages in stator insulation will gradually lead to the failure and breakdown of generator.Due to the advantages of Lamb waves in Structural health monitoring (SHM), in this study, a distributed piezoe

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Analytical and Numerical Study of Information Retrieval Method Based on Single-Layer Neural Network with Optimization of Computing Algorithm Performance

This work presents a mathematical model of a fast-acting single-layer artificial neural network applied to the task of image reconstruction after noise.For research purposes, this algorithm was implemented in the Python and C++ programming languages.The numerical simulation of the recovery efficiency of the described neural network was performed fo

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