Five Years of Humanitarian Missions in São Tomé and Príncipe
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Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Since February 2011, a group of otolaryngologists from CUF Infante Santo Hospital, a private healthcare unit in Portugal, invited by a non-governmental organization to provide equipment and properly skilled professionals to help and treat otolaryngology diseases in São Tomé and Príncipe. These missions included surgical procedures, consultation and hearing evaluation.
 METHODS: This work is a retrospective chart review of all otolaryngology cases performed during these missions since 2011 to 2016, and what we done during mission.
 RESULTS: During these missions, we have found some common pathologies. Deafness is the most prevalent after which follows the lymphoid tissue of oropharynx pathology. On these 18 missions a total of 1057 otolaryngology assessments were conducted. The main surgery was oral cavity with adenoidectomy and tonsillectomy. The results of all audiological tests performed during these 18 missions, reveal an increase of sensorineural deafness.
 DISCUSSION: These missions’ purpose is to allow healthcare access to all, to identify people with hearing and language problems and to adapt prosthetics, if possible, mainly for children and young adults.We have witnessed a considerable improvement on the children to whom we have adapted prosthetics. Some of them return to school, have friends and became more social. As the result of this work, we conclude that all Humanitarian Missions must be adapted to each country’s needs as we have done over the past five years.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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