The Voice of an Indian Trans Woman: a Hijra Autobiography

The aim of this paper is to raise awareness of the humanity of hijras through their autobiographies.The Truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story (2015) by A.Revathi will shed light on transsexuality in India.The hijra literature in English is gaining space, albeit small, in the literary milieu with its main character, a trans woman, who narrates her stor

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Prospective study of human herpesvirus 8 oral shedding, viremia, and serological status among human immunodeficiency virus seropositive and seronegative individuals in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) is a gamma-herpesvirus and etiological agent of all forms of Kaposi sarcoma (KS).Saliva may play an important role in HHV-8 transmission in specific populations.Little is known about HHV-8 oral shedding pattern and the possible correlation with the HHV-8 serological profile and viremia.A prospective study was conducted o

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Improved YOLOv8-Seg Based on Multiscale Feature Fusion and Deformable Convolution for Weed Precision Segmentation

Laser-targeted weeding methods further enhance the sustainable development of green agriculture, with one key technology being the improvement of weed localization accuracy.Here, we propose an improved YOLOv8 instance segmentation based on bidirectional feature fusion and deformable convolution (BFFDC-YOLOv8-seg) to address the challenges of insuff

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