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2026 School of Nursing Sciences

Integrating clinical decision support systems, nursing vigilance, and physician prescribing patterns to reduce preventable adverse drug events: a structured evidence-based narrative review on human-AI interface in medication safety

Manar Fayez Alruwaili; Ugwu Okechukwu Paul-Chima; Ugwu Chinyere Nneoma

2026 | Frontiers in Digital Health | Pp. 1-15

Background:Preventable adverse drug events (ADEs) remain a major source of hospital morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs worldwide. Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) integrated into electronic health records (EHRs) were developed to reduce unsafe...

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2026 Faculty of Biomedical Sciences

Prioritizing urban water-storage containers for molecular surveillance of invasive Anopheles stephensi in Isiolo, Kenya: An evidence-informed opinion

Okechukwu Paul-Chima Ugwu; Chinyere Nneoma Ugwu; Godson Emeka Anyanwu; Mariam Basajja

2026 | Elsevier | Pp. 1-5

Anopheles stephensi is an invasive urban malaria vector whose expansion in the Horn of Africa has raised concern because of its ability to exploit human-made water-holding habitats. In Kenya, molecular surveillance first confirmed the presence of An. stephens...

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2026 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

CSI-Aware Adaptive PSO-Based Power Allocation for Enhancing SIC Reliability in Imperfect-CSI NOMA Systems

Fabian Chukwudi Ogenyi; Chinyere Nneoma Ugwu; Okechukwu Paul-Chima Ugwu; Michael Ben Okon; Jovita Nnenna Ugwu

2026 | Wiley | Pp. 1-13

Future wireless networks must accommodate massive connectivity under stringent spectral- and energy-efciency requirements,thereby intensifying the demand for robust power-domain nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA). The performance of NOMAcritically depends o...

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2026 School of Nursing Sciences

Equity-centred, nurse-led implementation of artificial intelligence in community maternal and child health nursing: a conceptual framework for low-resource settings

Manar Fayez Alruwaili; Ugwu Okechukwu Paul-Chima

2026 | Frontiers in Public Health | Pp. 1-11

Substantial yet preventable maternal and neonatal mortality persists across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where shortages of skilled maternal and child health (MCH) nurses, inadequate infrastructure and socioeconomic inequalities continue to limit...

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2026 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Hybrid artificial intelligence-driven eco-energy management for carbon-neutral 6G wireless networks

Ogenyi Fabian Chukwudi; Ugwu Chinyere Nneoma; Ugwu Okechukwu Paul-Chima; Okon Michael Ben; Ugwu Jovita Nnenna; Attah Kenneth Ifeanyi

2026 | Discover Networks | Pp. 1-38

The transition toward carbon-neutral sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks requires a fundamental shift in how communication infrastructures manage energy consumption, computational resources, and environmental impact. This narrative review presents a compr...

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2026 School of Pharmacy

Pharmaceutical wastewater irrigation and metabolite-based environmental pharmacognosy: a perspective on quality and safety risks for medicinal plants

Edith O. Diovu; Charles O. Nnadi; Ugwu Okechukwu Paul-Chima

2026 | Frontiers in Pharmacology | Pp. 1-8

Medicinal plants are increasingly cultivated in agroecosystems irrigated with treated or untreated wastewater, biosolids and contaminated surface water. Pharmaceutical residues are recognised contaminants of emerging concern, but their implications for botani...

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2026 Faculty of Business and Management

Mobile technology, citizen co-production and public service delivery in Uganda: a policy and practice review introducing the Digitally Mediated Municipal Co-production Framework

Jovita Nnenna Ugwu; Tom Ongesa Nyamboga; Irene Ayoo Oywa; Asiati Mbabazi; Tukur Muhammad; Okechukwu Paul-Chima Ugwu

2026 | Frontiers in Sustainable Cities | Pp. 1-12

This Policy and Practice Review introduces the Digitally Mediated Municipal Co-production Framework (DMMCF), a formally specified five-layer model that synthesises the current state of scholarship on how mobile technology may gen erate public value through ci...

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2026 School of Pharmacy

Standardized curcumin formulations in type 2 diabetes mellitus: a precision adjunct strategy targeting bioavailability, glycemic control, and immunometabolic inflammation

Eleje O. Okonta; Charles O. Nnadi; UgwuOkechukwuPaul-Chima

2026 | Frontiers in Nutrition | Pp. 1-8

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is increasingly conceptualized as an immunometabolic disorder in which hyperglycemia, insulin resistance, oxidative stress, and chronic low-grade inflammation interact synergistically to accelerate vascular and end-organ complications...

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2026 Faculty of Clinical Medicine and Dentistry

Maternal and fetal outcomes in women with uterine congenital abnormalities: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Ibrahim Fahmo; Theoneste Hakizimana; Musa Kasujja; Wusa Makena; Chinyere Nkemjika Anyanwu; Chima Paul Okechukwu Ugwu; Emeka Godson Anyanwu

2026 | Maternal Health, Neonatology and Perinatology | Pp. 1-20

Background Congenital uterine anomalies (CUA) are structural abnormalities resulting from disrupted Müllerian duct development and have been associated with adverse reproductive and obstetric outcomes. However, the magnitude of these risks and variation acros...

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2026 Faculty of Biomedical Sciences

From pathogen defence to precision health infrastructure: mRNA vaccines beyond infectious disease in preventive health, chronic disease management, and population wellbeing

Okechukwu Paul-Chima Ugwu; Chinyere Nneoma Ugwu; Godson Emeka Anyanwu; Mariam Basajja1

2026 | Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology | Pp. 1-11

Messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine technology is often portrayed as a pandemic-era innovation for infectious disease control, but this perspective no longer reflects its expanding clinical and societal significance. Although global attention intensified during the...

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