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ABSTRACT: Background: In Zimbabwe, the perinatal mortality surveillance system is based on passive reporting of perinatal deaths using the perinatal death notification forms. Mpilo hospital recorded 74 perinatal deaths from January to September. No death was reported to the city and no perinatal mortality forms were found at the health information section. We aimed to assess the performance of perinatal mortality surveillance system in Bulawayo city. Methods: We conducted a descriptive cross-sectional study in all the maternity centres i...

ABSTRACT: The lack of common agreement on the typology of causes/drivers of massification within the literature globally and the paradox between the meager GTER (Gross Tertiary Enrollment Ratio) and higher education massification in Sub-Saharan Africa require further reflection on this global issue (e.g., the massification of higher education). This study aimed therefore to investigate higher education massification in Cameroon, one of the Sub-Saharan African countries affected by this phenomenon. It employed a qualitative approach based on content analysis of secondary sources and semi-struc...

Publication reveals essential ingredients of the groundbreaking NIH RADx national diagnostics effort Publication reveals essential ingredients of the groundbreaking NIH RADx national diagnostics effort Share: Insights, lessons learned after a year of transforming COVID-19 testing—a special journal issue One-year into implementation of the National Institutes of Health’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology has dedicated a special April 29...

ABSTRACT: From an international business risk management perspective, the widespread and catastrophic implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the performance of Zara (Parent company Indetex) are studied and analyzed to contribute to ongoing research on the conventional brick-and-mortar retail business. Brick-and-mortar retail has headed into decline over the last several years, and e-retailing has grown exponentially during the lockdown period of the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective of this study is to understand and highlight the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis on the performanc...

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