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Delivering Universal Health Care to People with Major Limb Loss or Damage in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Complex Intervention in Uganda (2025)
Book

This Open Access book addresses the need for rehabilitation services for people impacted by Major Limb Loss in Low and Middle Income Countries. It focuses on a Complex Intervention study in Uganda supporting the provision of affordable and accessible... Read More about Delivering Universal Health Care to People with Major Limb Loss or Damage in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Complex Intervention in Uganda.

Futurist Forensics: Indigenous Evidence, Cosmo-Epistemologies, and the New Red Order (2025)
Journal Article

This article critically engages with the emerging “media forensic” turn at the intersection of visual culture, new media practice, and humanitarian and political activism. This field purports to subvert dominant forensic and surveillant regimes, weap... Read More about Futurist Forensics: Indigenous Evidence, Cosmo-Epistemologies, and the New Red Order.

A novel data-centric AI approach based on sensitivity and correlation analyses for multi-organ plant disease classification (2025)
Journal Article

With advancements in deep learning (DL), most research on classification problems has focused on developing or modifying DL models, known as model-centric artificial intelligence (AI) approaches. However, this approach is time-consuming and overlooks... Read More about A novel data-centric AI approach based on sensitivity and correlation analyses for multi-organ plant disease classification.

IMPACT OF JOULE HEATING AND HYDRO-MAGNETIC EFFECTS ON MIXED CONVECTION IN POROUS CAVITY USING LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD (2025)
Journal Article

In the current paper, a comprehensive examination is carried out to investigate heat transmission under the influence of several factors that include magnetic field, moving lid, porous medium, and joule heating within a lid-driven cavity (LDC). The c... Read More about IMPACT OF JOULE HEATING AND HYDRO-MAGNETIC EFFECTS ON MIXED CONVECTION IN POROUS CAVITY USING LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD.

A very brief intervention with the muscle-strengthening guidelines to improve strength in adults aged 50-75 years: a mixed methods study (2025)
Data

This study aimed to objectively measure strength following a very brief intervention (VBI) with the muscle-strengthening guidelines to determine if this could increase muscle strength in adults aged 50-75 years in the resource-constrained settings of... Read More about A very brief intervention with the muscle-strengthening guidelines to improve strength in adults aged 50-75 years: a mixed methods study.