A Transformative Decade: An Evaluation of the Francophone African Group of Pediatric Oncology's Training Program (2014-2024).

Childhood cancer in Africa faces significant challenges due to workforce shortages and limited training opportunities. The French African Group for Pediatric Oncology (GFAOP) established the African School of Pediatric Oncology and introduced a pediatric oncology teaching called the "Diplome Universitaire de Cancérologie Pédiatrique" (DUCP) training program. This report evaluates the contributions of the DUCP program to pediatric oncology in Africa and discusses the sustainability of the program.

Defect Engineering at Buried Interface of Perovskite Solar Cells.

Perovskite solar cells (PSC) have developed rapidly since the past decade with the aim to produce highly efficient photovoltaic technology at a low cost. Recently, physical and chemical defects at the buried interface of PSC including vacancies, impurities, lattice strain, and voids are identified as the next formidable hurdle to the further advancement of the performance of devices. The presence of these defects has unfavorably impacted many optoelectronic properties in the PSC, such as band alignment, charge extraction/recombination dynamics, ion migration behavior, and hydrophobicity.

Exploring community behaviours and stakeholder challenges in engaging communities with dengue prevention behaviour in Malaysia: implementation research for a qualitative study with a community-based participatory research design.

Objectives: To use a community-based participatory research (CBPR) design to explore local community behaviours and stakeholders' challenges in engaging communities in dengue prevention behaviours in Hulu Langat, Selangor, Malaysia.

Design: This CBPR design in implementation comprised in-depth interviews (IDIs) and focus group discussions (FGDs). Themes were identified from the data with inductive and deductive thematic analysis.

A comprehensive review of flexible cadmium telluride solar cells with back surface field layer.

Recent advancements in CdTe solar cell technology have introduced the integration of flexible substrates, providing lightweight and adaptable energy solutions for various applications. Some of the notable applications of flexible solar photovoltaic technology include building integrated photovoltaic systems (BIPV), transportation, aerospace, satellites, etc. However, despite this advancement, certain issues regarding metal and -CdTe remained unresolved.

Lattice mismatch alleviation in p-CdTe/n-Si heterostructure by surface engineering on Si substrate.

The study used magnetron sputtering to investigate the growth of cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin films on surface treated n-type silicon (n-Si) substrates. The n-Si substrates were textured using potassium hydroxide (KOH) before the sputter deposition of CdTe. This was followed by cadmium chloride treatment to reduce the strain at the interface of CdTe and Si, which is caused by the incompatible lattice and thermal expansion mismatch (CTE).