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Incorporating Moving Landmarks within 2D Graph-Based SLAM for Dynamic Environments
No full textsponsorship: Peter Aerts is an SB PhD-fellow at FWO (Research Foundation Flanders) under grant agreement 1S67220N. (FWO (Research Foundation Flanders)|1S67220N)status: Publishe
Water scarcity at the global and regional scales: unravelling its dominant drivers in historical and future time periods
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Assessing coastal flood risk at the global scale
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Factors associated with HIV serodiscordance among couples in Mozambique: Comparison of the 2009 INSIDA and 2015 IMASIDA surveys
No full textRecent studies suggest that a large proportion of new HIV-1 infections in mature epidemics occurs within discordant couples, making discordancy a major contributor to the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa. This paper aims at assessing changes over a five-year period (2009-2015) on the (risk) factors associated with HIV serodiscordance among couples in Mozambique, using cross-sectional data from the INSIDA and IMASIDA surveys. The pooled data of both surveys were analyzed using a joint model for three parameters characterizing in a particular way disagreement and sero(con/dis)corance between the HIV statuses of couples, as introduced by Aerts et al.: the probability that the female partner is HIV positive, given that both partners differ in their HIV status, the probability that only one partner is HIV positive, given that at least one of the two partners is positive ("positive" serodiscordance), and the probability that both partners are negative given that at most one of the two partners is positive ("negative" seroconcordance). The results reveal similar significant factors and estimates as in Aerts et al. (HIV prevalence, union number for woman, STI for man, condom use by woman and wealth index), but the additional significant factors "condom use by man" (no use had a negative effect on the positive serodiscordance) and "union number for man" (for couples where the man has been married or co-habiting with a woman before had a decreased negative seroconcordance) were identified. The only factor that had a different effect over time (IMASIDA as compared to INSIDA) was the effect of "HIV prevalence of province" on the negative seroconcordance. The negative effect of a higher HIV prevalence was less pronounced in 2015 for negative seroconcordance.This study was financially supported by the Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR-UOS) in collaboration with Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) through the DESAFIO Program, in Mozambique to AJCJ.Juga, AJC (corresponding author), Eduardo Mondlane Univ, Fac Sci, Dept Math & Informat, Maputo, Mozambique; Hasselt Univ, Data Sci Inst, I BioStat, Diepenbeek, Belgium.
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The Use of Insurance to Improve Flood Resilience
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Functioning of terrestrial ecosystems of the Maritime Antarctic in a warmer climate
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Rhine at risk?: Impact of climate change on low-probability floods in the Rhine basin and the effectiveness of flood management measures
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The 'after-life effects' of plant functional traits: How whole-plant economic strategies drive carbon and nutrient cycling in subarctic terrestrial forests and freshwater ecosystems
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Plant growth-form and climate controls on production and decomposition in northern peatlands
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Global change and the functional diversity of cryptogams in northern biomes
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