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  1. Article ; Online: Modelling the risk of Japanese encephalitis virus in Victoria, Australia, using an expert-systems approach.

    Flores Lima, Mariel / Cotton, Jacqueline / Marais, Monique / Faggian, Robert

    BMC infectious diseases

    2024  Volume 24, Issue 1, Page(s) 60

    Abstract: Predictive models for vector-borne diseases (VBDs) are instrumental to understanding the potential geographic spread of VBDs and therefore serve as useful tools for public health decision-making. However, predicting the emergence of VBDs at the micro-, ... ...

    Abstract Predictive models for vector-borne diseases (VBDs) are instrumental to understanding the potential geographic spread of VBDs and therefore serve as useful tools for public health decision-making. However, predicting the emergence of VBDs at the micro-, local, and regional levels presents challenges, as the importance of risk factors can vary spatially and temporally depending on climatic factors and vector and host abundance and preferences. We propose an expert-systems-based approach that uses an analytical hierarchy process (AHP) deployed within a geographic information system (GIS), to predict areas susceptible to the risk of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) emergence. This modelling approach produces risk maps, identifying micro-level risk areas with the potential for disease emergence. The results revealed that climatic conditions, especially the minimum temperature and precipitation required for JEV transmission, contributed to high-risk conditions developed during January and March of 2022 in Victora. Compared to historical climate records, the risk of JEV emergence was increased in most parts of the state due to climate. Importantly, the model accurately predicted 7 out of the 8 local government areas that reported JEV-positive cases during the outbreak of 2022 in Victorian piggeries. This underscores the model's potential as a reliable tool for supporting local risk assessments in the face of evolving climate change.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Victoria ; Encephalitis Virus, Japanese ; Climate Change ; Disease Outbreaks ; Systems Analysis
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-08
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2041550-3
    ISSN 1471-2334 ; 1471-2334
    ISSN (online) 1471-2334
    ISSN 1471-2334
    DOI 10.1186/s12879-023-08741-8
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  2. Article: Evaluation of satellite retrievals of water quality parameters for Lake Victoria in East Africa

    Gidudu, A / A Flores / B Page / E Adams / J Wanjohi / L Letaru / R Mugo / R Nakibule / W Okello

    African journal of aquatic science. 2018 June 25, v. 43, no. 2

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    Abstract: Lake Victoria in East Africa is a major ecosystem, whose size and importance has warranted ... on Lake Victoria. ...

    Abstract Lake Victoria in East Africa is a major ecosystem, whose size and importance has warranted the exploration of MODIS imagery to provide continuous and accurate water quality information. To this effect, two sea expeditions (in November 2014 and February 2015) were carried out to collect in situ lake surface temperature (LST), chlorophyll a (Chl) and Secchi disk depth (SDD) to compare with the corresponding satellite derived variables. Comparisons were made based on the following error matrices: coefficient of correlation (r), mean square error (MSE), root mean square error (RMSE), mean absolute deviation (MAD) and mean absolute percent error (MAPE). In general the results showed that satellite derived LST gives a good estimate of in situ LST. Conversely, the error matrices indicated that satellite derived Chl yielded more uncertainty when compared with in situ Chl. This could be because of the fact that the MODIS Chl product algorithm was designed for oceans and may not be appropriate for inland lakes. Satellite derived SDD compared fairly well with in situ SDD. From these results it is evident that with more in situ observations and improved algorithms, MODIS can be useful to improve how water quality is monitored on Lake Victoria.
    Keywords algorithms ; chlorophyll ; ecosystems ; lakes ; moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer ; oceans ; satellites ; surface temperature ; turbidity ; uncertainty ; water quality ; Eastern Africa ; Lake Victoria
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2018-0625
    Size p. 141-151.
    Publishing place Taylor & Francis
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 2233937-1
    ISSN 1727-9364 ; 1608-5914
    ISSN (online) 1727-9364
    ISSN 1608-5914
    DOI 10.2989/16085914.2018.1446899
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  3. Article ; Online: Quantifying Land Use Land Cover Changes in the Lake Victoria Basin Using Satellite Remote Sensing

    Robinson Mugo / Rose Waswa / James W. Nyaga / Antony Ndubi / Emily C. Adams / Africa I. Flores-Anderson

    Remote Sensing, Vol 12, Iss 2829, p

    The Trends and Drivers between 1985 and 2014

    2020  Volume 2829

    Abstract: The Lake Victoria Basin (LVB) is a significant resource for five states within East Africa ...

    Abstract The Lake Victoria Basin (LVB) is a significant resource for five states within East Africa, which faces major land use land cover changes that threaten ecosystem integrity and ecosystem services derived from the basin’s resources. To assess land use land cover changes between 1985 and 2014, and subsequently determine the trends and drivers of these changes, we used a series of Landsat images and field data obtained from the LVB. Landsat image pre-processing and band combinations were done in ENVI 5.1. A supervised classification was applied on 118 Landsat scenes using the maximum likelihood classifier in ENVI 5.1. The overall accuracy of classified images was computed for the 2014 images using 124 reference data points collected through stratified random sampling. Computations of area under various land cover classes were calculated between the 1985 and 2014 images. We also correlated the area from natural vegetation classes to farmlands and settlements (urban areas) to explore relationships between land use land cover conversions among these classes. Based on our land cover classifications, we obtained overall accuracy of 71% and a moderate Kappa statistic of 0.56. Our results indicate that the LVB has undergone drastic changes in land use land cover, mainly driven by human activities that led to the conversion of forests, woodlands, grasslands, and wetlands to either farmlands or settlements. We conclude that information from this work is useful not only for basin-scale assessments and monitoring of land cover changes but also for targeting, prioritizing, and monitoring of small scale, community led efforts to restore degraded and fragmented areas in the basin. Such efforts could mitigate the loss of ecosystem services previously derived from large contiguous land covers which are no longer tenable to restore. We recommend adoption of a basin scale, operational, Earth observation-based, land use change monitoring framework. Such a framework can facilitate rapid and frequent assessments of gains and losses in ...
    Keywords remote sensing ; Landsat ; Lake Victoria Basin ; land use land cover ; Science ; Q
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z
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    Document type Article ; Online
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  4. Article ; Online: Victoria Brú Sánchez and the epidemic of influenza in Cienfuegos, 1918

    Reinaldo José Pino Blanco / Rigoberto Flores Roó / Alfredo Dario Espinosa Brito

    Medisur, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 16-

    2011  Volume 19

    Abstract: Brief biographical data are exposed about the nurse Victoria Brú Sánchez, such as her birth ...

    Abstract Brief biographical data are exposed about the nurse Victoria Brú Sánchez, such as her birth, childhood and adolescent years. Some factors are mentioned that influenced in their vocational orientation toward the Infirmary, such as her family antecedents and personal experiences when witnessing other epidemics that whipped our population in those years. We refer too her life as student of the School of Nurses in the Hospital Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes de La Habana. It is mentioned as well all the places where she worked after graduation and the different positions that she occupied during its brief, but brilliant, professional life. The most characteristic features in her personality and her self-denying and heroic behavior, are analyzed, principally during the epidemic of Influenza that affected Cienfuegos in the year 1918, moment in which she lost the life trying to help other people.
    Keywords epidemias ; influenza ; victoria brú ; cienfuegos ; enfermería ; Medicine (General) ; R5-920 ; Public aspects of medicine ; RA1-1270
    Language Spanish
    Publishing date 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos
    Document type Article ; Online
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  5. Article ; Online: Victoria Brú Sánchez and the epidemic of influenza in Cienfuegos, 1918

    Reinaldo José Pino Blanco / Rigoberto Flores Roó / Alfredo Dario Espinosa Brito

    Medisur, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 16-

    2011  Volume 19

    Abstract: Brief biographical data are exposed about the nurse Victoria Brú Sánchez, such as her birth ...

    Abstract Brief biographical data are exposed about the nurse Victoria Brú Sánchez, such as her birth, childhood and adolescent years. Some factors are mentioned that influenced in their vocational orientation toward the Infirmary, such as her family antecedents and personal experiences when witnessing other epidemics that whipped our population in those years. We refer too her life as student of the School of Nurses in the Hospital Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes de La Habana. It is mentioned as well all the places where she worked after graduation and the different positions that she occupied during its brief, but brilliant, professional life. The most characteristic features in her personality and her self-denying and heroic behavior, are analyzed, principally during the epidemic of Influenza that affected Cienfuegos in the year 1918, moment in which she lost the life trying to help other people.
    Keywords epidemias ; influenza ; victoria brú ; cienfuegos ; enfermería ; Medicine (General) ; R5-920 ; Public aspects of medicine ; RA1-1270
    Language Spanish
    Publishing date 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos
    Document type Article ; Online
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  6. Article ; Online: Del acero a la diversión, Oscar Flores Torres, Monterrey Industrial 1890-2000, Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Universidad de Moneterey-CONACYT, 2000, pp 253 pp.

    Eduardo Flores Clair

    Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2005)

    2005  

    Keywords Anthropology ; GN1-890 ; Latin America. Spanish America ; F1201-3799
    Language English
    Publishing date 2005-02-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
    Document type Article ; Online
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  7. Article ; Online: Genome-wide tracing to decipher nuclear organization.

    Flores, Victoria / Farabella, Irene / Nir, Guy

    Current opinion in cell biology

    2023  Volume 82, Page(s) 102175

    Abstract: Nuclear organization impacts gene expression activity and cell phenotype. Our current understanding is mainly derived from ensemble-level sequencing studies that reflect the 3D genome structure of millions of cells. These approaches have provided ... ...

    Abstract Nuclear organization impacts gene expression activity and cell phenotype. Our current understanding is mainly derived from ensemble-level sequencing studies that reflect the 3D genome structure of millions of cells. These approaches have provided invaluable details on the 3D organizations of the genome and their relation to other nuclear landmarks. However, they mostly lack the ability to provide multimodal information simultaneously at the single-cell level. In recent years, cutting-edge imaging technologies have risen to the challenge of simultaneously describing multiple components of the nuclear space at the single-cell level, paving the way for a deeper understanding of the genome structure-function relationship. This review will focus on the development and utilization of such technologies to gain a multi-component view of the nucleus at single-cell resolution, dissecting the complexity and heterogeneity of nuclear organization.
    MeSH term(s) Genome ; Cell Nucleus/metabolism ; Chromatin/metabolism
    Chemical Substances Chromatin
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-05-30
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 1026381-0
    ISSN 1879-0410 ; 0955-0674
    ISSN (online) 1879-0410
    ISSN 0955-0674
    DOI 10.1016/j.ceb.2023.102175
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  8. Article ; Online: Cutaneous protothecosis in a solid organ transplanted patient.

    Di Prinzio, Anama / Ruf, Marina / Torre, Ana C / Duran Daza, Sofía V / Volonteri, Victoria I / Flores, Viviana / Mazzuoccuolo, Luis D

    Anais brasileiros de dermatologia

    2023  Volume 98, Issue 5, Page(s) 723–725

    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Skin Diseases, Infectious/etiology ; Skin ; Administration, Cutaneous ; Prototheca
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-04-27
    Publishing country Spain
    Document type Case Reports
    ZDB-ID 433655-0
    ISSN 1806-4841 ; 0365-0596
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    ISSN 0365-0596
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  9. Article ; Online: Association Between Pro-inflammatory Cytokine Levels (IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF-α) in Human Colostrum and Maternal Body Composition Components.

    Murguía-Vázquez, María / Salgado-Bustamante, Mariana / Lima-Rogel, Victoria / Flores-García, José Andrés / Pierdant-Pérez, Mauricio

    Breastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine

    2024  

    Abstract: Background: ...

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    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-12
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2234680-6
    ISSN 1556-8342 ; 1556-8253
    ISSN (online) 1556-8342
    ISSN 1556-8253
    DOI 10.1089/bfm.2023.0263
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  10. Article ; Online: Targeted exercise for African-Americans with multiple sclerosis: Project TEAAMS.

    Motl, Robert W / Kinnett-Hopkins, Dominique / Neal, Whitney / Flores, Edson / Pekmezi, Dorothy / Flores, Victoria

    Contemporary clinical trials

    2023  Volume 126, Page(s) 107088

    Abstract: Background: We propose a randomized controlled trial (RCT) that examines the effects of a remotely-delivered, cultrally-tailored exercise training program for immediate and sustained improvements in patient-reported outcomes (PROs) of walking ... ...

    Abstract Background: We propose a randomized controlled trial (RCT) that examines the effects of a remotely-delivered, cultrally-tailored exercise training program for immediate and sustained improvements in patient-reported outcomes (PROs) of walking dysfunction, symptoms, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among African-Americans with multiple sclerosis (MS).
    Methods/design: The study will be conducted using a parallel group RCT design. The RCT examines the effects of a remotely-delivered, culturally-tailored exercise training program compared with an active control condition among 100 African-Americans with MS. The primary PROs focus on walking dysfunction. The secondary PROs include symptoms of fatigue, depression, anxiety, and HRQOL. The tertiary PROs include exercise behavior and mediator variables based on social cognitive theory. Participants will be randomly assigned into one of two conditions, intervention (Aerobic and Resistance Exercise Training) or active control (Stretching and Flexibility), using a random numbers sequence with concealed allocation. The conditions will be administered over four months by a trained behavioral coach who will be uninvolved in recruitment, screening, random assignment, and outcome assessment. We will monitor the outcomes of interest before and after the 4-month intervention period, and then again 4 months after intervention cessation for capturing stability of intervention effects. The data analysis will follow intent-to-treat principles with a linear mixed model.
    Discussion: If successful, this RCT will provide initial evidence for the uptake and implementation of the program in clinics/environments providing healthcare for African-Americans with MS.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Black or African American ; Exercise Therapy/psychology ; Multiple Sclerosis/therapy ; Multiple Sclerosis/psychology ; Quality of Life ; Resistance Training ; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic ; Walking
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-01-18
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Clinical Trial Protocol ; Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2182176-8
    ISSN 1559-2030 ; 1551-7144
    ISSN (online) 1559-2030
    ISSN 1551-7144
    DOI 10.1016/j.cct.2023.107088
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