An evidence-based tailored eHealth patient education tool for patients with knee osteoarthritis: A randomized controlled trial by Chong Li, Chuanmei Zhu, Kangping Song, Xiaona Xiang, Xiaoyi Wang, Jing Hu, Zhao Li, Yi Deng, Daoxin Jiang, Lixin Guo, Ting Ren, Luwen Zhu, Haibo Ai, Shaojun Zhang, Zhongliang Liu, Yonghong Yang, Siyi Zhu, Chengqi He

“…The evidence-based eHealth tool could offer a low-cost, effective educational device.…”
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Telenursing on primary family caregivers and children with disabilities: a scoping review by Kaori Nishigaki, Noyuri Yamaji, Noyuri Yamaji, Naho Adachi, Tomoko Kamei, Kyoko Kobayashi, Shota Kakazu, Yuki Yonekura

“…Telenursing can monitor daily life and support from a remote location, continuously and at a low cost. However, there are few practical reports on its use in children with disabilities.ObjectiveThis scoping review aims to summarize the published literature on telenursing for children with disabilities in home care settings.MethodsWe included studies involving children (0–18 years of age) with disabilities and their families and specified telecommunication assessment, monitoring, and intervention such as tele-education, teleconsultation and telementoring involving nurses via information communication technologies. …”
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Preference for HIV testing among community residents in Yunnan Province, China: results from a discrete choice experiment by Jingwen Yang, Chenquan Qiu, Renhai Tang, Wenbin Dong, Enlong Yao, Huyunzhao Wang, Shuwen Lin, Minyang Xiao, Zuyang Zhang, Jin Niu, Liru Fu, Lijun Song, Xuehua Li, Yuhua Shi, Xiaowen Wang

“…Conclusions Community residents preferred an HIV testing service run by physicians in high-level health care institutions with excellent confidentiality, low cost, and available support services. Confidentiality remained the most important attribute of the HIV testing service. …”
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High-Performance Hydrogen Sensing at Room Temperature via Nb-Doped Titanium Oxide Thin Films Fabricated by Micro-Arc Oxidation by Chilou Zhou, Zhiqiu Ye, Yue Tan, Zhenghua Wu, Xinyi Guo, Yinglin Bai, Xuying Xie, Zilong Wu, Ji’an Feng, Yao Xu, Bo Deng, Hao Wu

“…Metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) hydrogen sensors offer advantages, such as high sensitivity and fast response, but their challenges remain in achieving low-cost fabrication and stable operation at room temperature. …”
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Mamá Empoderada: study protocol for a pilot trial of a novel parenting and mental health prevention intervention for migrant mothers with young children at the Mexico-US border by Gudelia Rangel, Shira M Goldenberg, Eileen Pitpitan, Kaylee Ramage, Ietza Bojorquez-Chapela, Cecilia Martinez-Torteya, Katherine Rosenblum, Chelsie Hernandez, Monica Alvarez

“…If efficacious, this intervention is highly promising as a novel, low-cost, and feasible model that could be implemented in border settings in Mexico, the USA and elsewhere. …”
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Formulation, characterization, and evaluation of curcumin-loaded ginger-derived nanovesicles for anti-colitis activity by Shengjie Huang, Min Zhang, Xiaoge Li, Jierong Pei, Zhirong Zhou, Peng Lei, Meng Wang, Peng Zhang, Heshui Yu, Guanwei Fan, Lifeng Han, Haiyang Yu, Yuefei Wang, Miaomiao Jiang

“…Plant-derived nanovesicles have gained attention given their similarity to mammalian exosomes and advantages such as low cost, sustainability, and tissue targeting. Thus, they hold promise for disease treatment and drug delivery. …”
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CWPO mechanism for toxic dye degradation in the presence of Cu@FbHAp catalyst: DFT study, performance analysis, response surface methodology, regeneration, and cost estimation by Youssef Miyah, Mohammed Benjelloun, Fatiha Mejbar, Salma Ssouni, Mohamed El-Habacha, Soulaiman Iaich, Noureddine El Messaoudi, Marouane Zerrouq, Mohammed Souilah, Anissa Lahrichi, Farid Zerrouq

“…The high regeneration capacity (several cycles) and low cost ($0.062 L-1 estimated by Ishikawa approach) of hydroxyapatite-based catalytic materials are highly cost-effective for industrial applications and ecologically beneficial.…”
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Utilizing multidisciplinary mobile outreach clinics to provide comprehensive diabetic foot care to patients experiencing homelessness by Kris M. Boelitz, MD, Jaeyoung Lee, BS, Michael D. Pepin, BS, Yiming Zhang, MS, Mallory Gibbons, MSN, NP, Frances J. Lagana, DPM, Shahida Balaparya, EdD, MBA, RVT, Lindsey Carr, Jessin Varghese, BS, NP, Caitlin Sorensen, MD, Jessica P. Simons, MD, MPH, Douglas Jones, MS, MD, Andres Schanzer, MD, Tammy T. Nguyen, MD, PhD

“…By using the physical infrastructure established by partner organizations, the MMCs were able to integrate, at low cost, into existing community services to reach the target population. …”
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Determinants of Dropout From a Virtual Agent–Based App for Insomnia Management in a Self-Selected Sample of Users With Insomnia Symptoms: Longitudinal Study by María Montserrat Sanchez Ortuño, Florian Pecune, Julien Coelho, Jean Arthur Micoulaud-Franchi, Nathalie Salles, Marc Auriacombe, Fuschia Serre, Yannick Levavasseur, Etienne De Sevin, Patricia Sagaspe, Pierre Philip

“…An important aspect is that they are accessible at a low cost, thereby increasing their potential public impact and reducing disparities. …”
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Protocol for an intervention development and pilot implementation evaluation study of an e-health solution to improve newborn care quality and survival in two low-resource settings... by Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, Michelle Heys, Caroline Crehan, Erin Kesler, Monica Lakhanpaul, Emma Wilson, Fabiana Lorencatto, Felicity Fitzgerald, Mario Cortina Borja, Msandeni Chiume, Hannah Gannon, Simbarashe Chimhuya, Gwendoline Chimhini, Tim Hull-Bailey, Tarisai Chiyaka, Yali Sassoon, Deliwe Nkhoma, Nushrat Khan, Alexander G. Stevenson, Kristina Curtis

“…Since 2014, we have worked in Bangladesh, Malawi, Zimbabwe and the UK to develop and pilot Neotree: an android app with accompanying data visualisation, linkage and export. Its low-cost hardware and state-of-the-art software are used to improve bedside postnatal care and to provide insights into population health trends, to impact wider policy and practice.Methods and analysis This is a mixed methods (1) intervention codevelopment and optimisation and (2) pilot implementation evaluation (including economic evaluation) study. …”
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Unravelling hybridization in Phytophthora using phylogenomics and genome size estimation by Kris Van Poucke, Annelies Haegeman, Thomas Goedefroit, Fran Focquet, Leen Leus, Marília Horta Jung, Corina Nave, Miguel Angel Redondo, Claude Husson, Kaloyan Kostov, Aneta Lyubenova, Petya Christova, Anne Chandelier, Slavcho Slavov, Arthur de Cock, Peter Bonants, Sabine Werres, Jonàs Oliva Palau, Benoit Marçais, Thomas Jung, Jan Stenlid, Tom Ruttink, Kurt Heungens

“…In this study we demonstrate the application of two validated techniques (GBS and flow cytometry) for relatively low cost but high resolution identification of hybrids and their phylogenetic relations.…”
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Inorganic constituents in cassava derivatives: Total concentration, dietary intake and bioaccessibility by Leilane R. Santos, Filipe B. Santana, Hilária F.A. Silveira, Wellington C. de Carvalho, Laís A. Souza, Rennan Geovanny O. Araujo, Maria Graças A. Korn, Daniele Cristina M.B. Santos

“…Conclusion: This study makes a significant contribution by proposing a simple and low-cost procedure for evaluating the mineral composition of cassava samples, as well as bioaccessibility estimation of Mn and Mg, providing new nutritional information of interest to public health.…”
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Suspected Mpox Symptoms and Testing in Men Who Have Sex With Men in the United States: Cross-Sectional Study by Kaitlyn Atkins, Thomas Carpino, Amrita Rao, Travis Sanchez, O Winslow Edwards, Marissa Hannah, Patrick S Sullivan, Yasmin P Ogale, Winston E Abara, Kevin P Delaney, Stefan D Baral

“…Among those with high testing self-efficacy (58/105, 55.2%), the most common facilitators to testing were knowing where to test (52/58, 89.7%), convenient site hours (40/58, 69%), and low-cost testing (38/58, 65.5%). ConclusionsWhile all GBMSM who reported testing for mpox were linked to HIV treatment or PrEP, those with symptoms but no mpox testing reported fewer such links. …”
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Structural safety assessment procedure of plastic single-span greenhouses considering semi-rigid clamp joints by Byung-Hun Seo, Sangik Lee, Do-Kyung Kim, Jong-Hyuk Lee, Dong-Su Kim, Dong-Woo Kim, Yerim Jo, Won Choi

“…This result highlights the potential structural vulnerability of low-cost greenhouses constructed exclusively with SW joints. …”
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A key technology for synergistic backfilling of coal-based solid waste and high-salinity wastewater by Shuning DONG, Shujiang YU, Xingling DONG, Buqin ZHANG, Xiaoming GUO, Xiaodong WANG, Kai WANG, Shibin ZHU, Boqiang WU, Lei LIU

“…This technology enables the recyclable, low-cost, and full quantitative utilization of coal-based solid waste and high-salinity water, enjoying significant economic and ecological benefits. …”
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Experimental analysis of micro-cavity influence on the effective solar absorptance of white sand curtain on porous obstructions of particle heating receivers by Rageh Saeed, Shaker Alaqel, Eldwin Djajadiwinata, Nader S. Saleh, Abdulelah Alswaiyd, Hany Al-Ansary, Syed Noman Danish, Abdelrahman El-Leathy, Zeyad Al-Suhaibani, Sheldon Jeter, Redhwan Almuzaiqer, Zeyad Almutairi

“…Achieving high solar absorptance offers substantial economic benefits by enabling the storage of thermal energy in low-cost, naturally abundant solid particles, such as silica sand, despite their inherently poor optical properties. …”
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A Model for Implementing New FinTechs in the Banking Industry (Peer-to-Peer Lending) by Hosein Mohammadi, Narges Mohammadalipour, Noroz Norollahzadeh, Ghanbar Abbaspour asfadan, Mahnaz Rabie

“…These conditions are possible through the following ways: improving financial participation, providing simple products with low cost and helping people who do not have easy access to banking services, and improving the customer experience, increasing transparency and improving security, and accommodating retail customers and small and moderate companies to fraudity and cyber-attacks (Wonglimpiyarat, 2017). …”
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Identifying factors affecting the creation of brand identity in Iran's banking industry by Seyed Mahdi Saatchi, farzad asayesh, Sedighe Tootian Esfahani, Seyed Mahmood Hashemi

“…Strategies such as cost management and the growth of Rial and foreign currency incomes, attracting low-cost bank deposits, facilitating the provision of services to customers are among the important things in creating a professional brand identity for the bank. …”
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Silage Preparation, Processing and Efficient Utilization by Siran Wang

“…Ensiling is a technique for the long-term preservation of feed which is both effective and widespread, and it is characterized by low costs and ease of operation [...]…”
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POROUS FLY ASH-BASED GEOPOLYMER USABLE AS AN UNCONVENTIONAL CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL by BOGDAN-VALENTIN PAUNESCU, LUCIAN PAUNESCU, ENIKO VOLCEANOV

“…The residual materials contributed to low costs and the complete replacement of ordinary cement led to the significant reduction of CO2 emissions. …”
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