Food handlers’ knowledge, attitudes and self-reported practices regarding safe food handling in charitable food assistance programmes in the eThekwini District, South Africa: cross... by Khumbulani Hlongwana, Sizwe Earl Makhunga, Margaret Macherera

“…The principal investigator administered the validated structured standardised questionnaire, using participants’ language of choice, which was either English or isiZulu. …”
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Nurturing compassion in neonatal end-of-life care: a qualitative exploration of palliative care nurses’ roles and experiences by Osama Mohamed Elsayed Ramadan, Alaa Hussain Hafiz, Nouran Essam Katooa, Nasreen M. Alghamdi, Nadia Bassuoni Elsharkawy, Enas Mahrous Abdelaziz, Nermen Abdelftah Mohamed, Nagwa Ibrahim Mabrouk Baraka

“…Forty nurses from four neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in Egypt completed semi-structured interviews and reflective journaling. Data were analyzed using a two-phase approach, incorporating Lazarus and Folkman’s Transactional Model of Stress and Coping to contextualize findings within broader emotional regulation and resilience frameworks. …”
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Prognostic role of demographic indicators and Charlson comorbidity index in oxygen-dependent patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) by V. V. Cherkaskyi, O. V. Riabokon, Yu. Yu. Riabokon

“…We used the WHO age classification when analyzing the age structure of patients. The Charlson comorbidity index was calculated for each patient. …”
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Efficient removal of Sr²⁺, V⁵⁺, and Rb⁺ ions from groundwater using a hybrid Mg-MCM-41/Talc composite; Siwa Oasis in Egypt as case study by Hussein A. ELsayed, Mohamed Hamdy Eid, Umer Farooq, Ahmad Al-Qawasmeh, Abdehamid Albiad, Fahad Abdulaziz, Ahmed Mehaney, Péter Szűcs, Mostafa R. Abukhadra

“…Kinetic data followed a pseudo-first-order model, while Langmuir isotherms confirmed monolayer adsorption. …”
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Stigmatization and discrimination of female tuberculosis patients in Kyrgyzstan – a phenomenological study by Rhea Brüggemann, Fabian Schlumberger, Firuza Chinshailo, Matthew Willis, Abdullaat Kadyrov, Gulmira Kalmambetova, Mo Chen, Sophie CW. Unterkircher, Nestan Moidunova, Altynai Sydykova, Anil Fastenau

“…Methodology Descriptive phenomenology was used. 15 semi-structured in-depth interviews with female TB-patients were conducted between 28th May and 14th June 2024. …”
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Assessing Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding Refractive Errors and Spectacle Wear among Children in Sana’a: A Cross-Sectional Study by Tariek Aldoais, Zakarya Rageh, Khaled Al-Hemyari, Saleh Altheeb, Abdulmogni Al-barrag, Mahfouth Bamashmus

“…Methods: A cross-sectional study of 228 participants analyzed demographic data, duration of glasses use, and responses to a structured questionnaire on KAP related to refractive errors and spectacles. …”
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Increase in intimate partner violence during the COVID19 lockdown in uganda: a household survey by Freddy Eric Kitutu, Ronald Olum, Sharon Kitibwakye Nakamanya, Olivia Nakisita, Sian E. Clarke, Eleanor Hutchinson

“…Methodology A household survey was conducted in Luwero and Mukono districts among 1680 respondents from 84 villages from October 25th, 2021, to December 3rd, 2021. Data were collected using standardized structured questionnaires adapted from UN guidelines for producing statistics on violence in women. …”
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MARIA (Medical Assistance and Rehabilitation Intelligent Agent) for Medication Adherence in Patients With Heart Failure: Empirical Results From a Wizard of Oz Systematic Conversati... by Nik Nailah Abdullah, Jia Tang, Hemad Fetrati, Nor Fadhilah Binti Kaukiah, Sahrin Bin Saharudin, Vee Sim Yong, Chia How Yen

“…In collaboration with pharmacists, we structured MARIA’s dialogue into a workflow based on Adlerian therapy, a psychoeducational theory. …”
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Association of oral health status and salivary profile of rheumatoid arthritis disease subjects and healthy subjects and prediction of caries risk using cariogram- A cross-sectiona... by Ananya Jha, Aparna K S, Praveen Jodalli, Avinash B R

“…Methods: A total of ninety volunteers were enrolled, forty-seven of whom were age-matched healthy individuals and forty-three of whom were patients with rheumatoid arthritis. A structured questionnaire, clinical assessment, and saliva collection were used in the data gathering process. …”
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Long-term outcomes for children with disability and severe acute malnutrition in Malawi by Seema Patel, Marko Kerac, Melissa Gladstone, Natasha Lelijveld, Nora Groce, Theresa Nnensa, Emmanuel Chimwezi, Macpherson Mallewa, Jonathan Wells, Andrew Seal

“…SAM treatment programmes should consider using not just clinical assessment but structured assessments to better identify at-risk individuals as well as understand the population of children for which they are developing services.…”
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Ocio y procesos educativos en el contexto del movimiento de los trabajadores rurales sin tierra (MST) de la región de ribeirão preto – sp – Brasil (Leisure and educational process... by Robson Amaral de Silva, Luiz Gonçalves-Junior, Jose Maria Pazos Couto

“…We perceive the answer of the current societal structure and its imperatives in the social practice of leisure in the daily life of the rural workers with whom we live, but contradictorily, some experiences reproduced hegemonic values of the neoliberal society. …”
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Genome-wide analysis of fatty acid desaturase genes in moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) reveal their important roles in abiotic stresses responses by Chun Fu, Qinchao Fu, Shanshan Wang, Fangzhou Wu, Na Jiang, Ruoqi Zhou, Yaojun Yang, Yufei Xue

“…Phylogenetic analysis indicated that PeFAD genes were divided into 6 groups and ADS/FAD5 group was absence in momo bamboo, and gene structure and histidine-motifs remained highly conserved in each group. …”
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Espodossolos in Brazil: A review of the criteria and conceptualization of the spodic B horizons by Andressa Rosas de Menezes, Ademir Fontana, Lúcia Helena Cunha dos Anjos

“…Around 48 % of the spodic B horizons have Alo and Feo data and, by calculating the equation Alo + 0.5 Feo, around 47 % of the horizons have a value ≥0.25 %. …”
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Birds as sacred ‘children of god’, beholders of spirit and symbols of twinhood: Human–bird interaction among the Nuer in western Ethiopia by Abebayehu Aticho, Abebe Beyene, Shimelis Aynalem Zelelew, Changkuoth Puok, Andrew G. Gosler, Nils Chr. Stenseth, Desalegn Chala

“…Relying on preexisting bird survey data, we conducted focussed group discussions and semi‐structured interviews with Indigenous Nuer in western Ethiopia to explore human–bird interactions and documented associated traditional ecological knowledge and considered their conservation implications. …”
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Healthcare provider recommendations to improve post‐violence care HIV post‐exposure prophylaxis access and adherence in Mozambique by Meghan Duffy, Etevaldo M. F. Xavier, Anabela deAlmeida, Della Correia, Maria Nhavane dos Prazeres, Jacinto Adriano, Bainabo Parruque, Maria Olga Bule, Langan Denhard, Maura Almeida, Ana Baptista, Raquel Cossa de Pinho

“…Data were analysed using inductive and theoretical thematic analysis. …”
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An EG-Tree Model Incorporating Spatial Heterogeneity for Analyzing Multifactorial Coupling Effects on Carbon Emissions Across Industries and Regions in China by Jinrui Zang, Xin Hu, Kun Qie, Zian Zhang, Shi Zhang

“…The causes of carbon emissions are examined from multiple perspectives utilizing the panel data spanning from 1997 to 2022, encompassing 30 provinces in China. …”
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A qualitative analysis of healthcare professionals’ experiences with an internet-based emotion regulation intervention added to acute psychiatric inpatient care by Laura Luisa Bielinski, Gwendolyn Wälchli, Anna Lange, Elianne von Känel, Lena Katharina Demel, Christoph Nissen, Franz Moggi, Thomas Berger

“…A thematic analysis approach was used to analyze the interview data. Results The following themes and corresponding subthemes were identified: lack of experience (few or no previous experiences, no expectations, few points of contact), the intervention as a contemporary complement (positive expectations, necessary and contemporary, positive effects on therapeutic work and patients, characteristics of the internet-based program), concerns about fit for acute psychiatric inpatient care (fit for acute psychiatric inpatients, doubts about implementation), the human factor as essential for implementation (the team makes or breaks it, guidance is key, patient characteristics), and requirements for implementation beyond the human factor (integration into existing treatment structure, resources, changes to the internet-based program, timing). …”
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Impact of MBBS Curriculum on Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Organ Donation by Pari Sharma, Ketaki Poorey, Amol Rajendra Gite, Nakul Sharma

“…Students were given a structured and validated questionnaire comprising of 30 questions developed on the basis of previous studies. …”
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Effect of Human Resource Interventions on Innovation Performance The Mediating Role of Innovative Work Behavior by Abbas M.M Al Hawamdeh *, Manal Mohammed Mahmoud Al Hawamdah, Hamzeh Mohammad AL-Hawamdeh, Mahd Eid Alhawamdeh, Tharwat Alhawamdeh

“…Details were obtained via a structured survey distributed to 1000 workers in these organizations from June 2023 to August 2023.The study conducts the survey to investigate the relationship between human resources interventions, innovative work and innovation performance through modelling using the sample of 384 employees. …”
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Research on correlation between regional seismic characteristics and coal mine rockburst in Hegang by LAN Tianwei, TANG Xiaofu, ZHAO Wenqi, GUO Weiqiang, ZHANG Zhijia, WANG Shunxiang, LU Kaixiang

“…Taking natural earthquakes and coal mine rockbursts in Hegang as the research backgrounds, and based on seismic data from multiple platforms of seismic stations and mobile seismic monitoring stations, this study analyzed the geodynamic environment and spatiotemporal correlation between regional seismic characteristics and coal mine rockbursts. …”
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