ENSETE VENTRICOSUM: A MULTIPURPOSE CROP AGAINST HUNGER IN ETHIOPIA

Ensete ventricosum: A Multipurpose Crop against Hunger in Ethiopia

Ensete ventricosum is a traditional multipurpose crop mainly used as a staple/co-staple food for over 20 million people in Ethiopia.Despite this, scientific information about the crop is scarce.Three types of food, viz., Kocho (fermented product from scraped pseudostem and grated corm), Bulla (dehydrated juice), and Amicho (boiled corm) can be mayf

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A Review of Randomized Controlled Trials Utilizing Telemedicine for Improving Heart Failure Readmission: Can a Realist Approach Bridge the Translational Divide?

Background: Telemedicine and digital health technologies hold great promise for improving clinical care of heart failure.However, inconsistent and contradictory findings from randomized controlled trials have so far discouraged widespread adoption of digital health in routine clinical practice.We undertook this review study to summarize the study o

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Evaluating the impact of three progestin-based hormonal contraceptive methods on immunologic changes in the female genital tract and systemically (CHIME Study): a prospective cohort study protocol

Abstract Background Gonadal hormones can modify immune function, which may impact susceptibility to infectious diseases, including Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).There is limited knowledge about how hormonal contraceptives (HC) influence the immune response during the course of use.The CHIME study aims to evaluate the effect of long-acting prog

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