Impact of Kangaroo Mother Care on Physiological Parameters and Health Experiences of Primiparous Mothers at a Tertiary Care Center: A Mixed-Methods Study by Rathiswari Posan, Theranirajan Ethiraj, Shankar Shanmugam Rajendran, Rema Chandramohan, Kannan Kasinathan, Thillainayaki Chandran, Baby Ilavarasi

“…Data tools were validated for accuracy and reliability, and ethical considerations were meticulously observed, including informed consent from all participants. …”
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Transformers for Domain-Specific Text Classification: A Case Study in the Banking Sector by Samer Murrar, Fatima M. Alhaj, Fadi Almasalha, Mahmoud H. Qutqut

“…The growing volume of unstructured text data in the banking sector has created a need for advanced classification methods to manage customer inquiries efficiently, resulting in faster response times, automated message classification, and reduced human errors. …”
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Development of a Collision-Free Path Planning Method for a 6-DoF Orchard Harvesting Manipulator Using RGB-D Camera and Bi-RRT Algorithm by Zifu Liu, Rizky Mulya Sampurno, R. M. Rasika D. Abeyrathna, Victor Massaki Nakaguchi, Tofael Ahamed

“…First, by transforming the RGB-D camera’s point cloud data into collision geometries, we achieved 3D obstacle map reconstruction, allowing the harvesting robot to detect obstacles within its workspace. …”
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Acceptability of Guided Symptom Entry and Asynchronous Clinical Communication Software Among Primary Care Staff: Qualitative Study by Riina Raudne, Taavi Tillmann

“…ResultsStaff perceived unstructured communication (via email and phone calls) as a burden that increased their cognitive load. …”
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Positive selection at core genes may underlie niche adaptation in Fusobacterium animalis by Diego Forni, Audun Sivertsen, Rachele Cagliani, Alessandra Mozzi, Cristian Molteni, Øyvind Kommedal, Manuela Sironi

“…Conclusion We identified specific proteins and amino acid changes that are expected to underlie phenotypic diversity in Fusobacteria. These data are relevant to inform future analyses of Fa oncogenic potential.…”
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Phenomenological Study: Analyzing the Role and Meaning of Sports Performance in The Lives of Wheelchair Student-Athletes by Wahyu Dwi Yulianto, Endang Rini Sukamti, Fauzi Fauzi, Trisnar Adi Prabowo, Ristanti Puji Astuti, Septiana Dwi Rakhmawati, Maulana Aditya Pamungkas, Satria Yudi Gontara

“…The study employed a descriptive quantitative approach using a survey analysis method. Additionally, unstructured interviews were conducted to strengthen the research findings and support the discussion. …”
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Description and Cross-Sectional Analyses of 25,880 Adults and Children in the UK National Registry of Rare Kidney Diseases Cohort by Katie Wong, David Pitcher, Fiona Braddon, Lewis Downward, Retha Steenkamp, Sherry Masoud, Nicholas Annear, Jonathan Barratt, Coralie Bingham, Richard J. Coward, Tina Chrysochou, David Game, Sian Griffin, Matt Hall, Sally Johnson, Durga Kanigicherla, Fiona Karet Frankl, David Kavanagh, Larissa Kerecuk, Eamonn R. Maher, Shabbir Moochhala, Jenny Pinney, John A. Sayer, Roslyn Simms, Smeeta Sinha, Shalabh Srivastava, Frederick W.K. Tam, Kay Thomas, A. Neil Turner, Stephen B. Walsh, Aoife Waters, Patricia Wilson, Edwin Wong, Karla Therese L. Sy, Kui Huang, Jamie Ye, Dorothea Nitsch, Moin Saleem, Detlef Bockenhauer, Kate Bramham, Daniel P. Gale, Sharirose Abat, Shazia Adalat, Joy Agbonmwandolor, Zubaidah Ahmad, Abdulfattah Alejmi, Rashid Almasarwah, Nicholas Annear, Ellie Asgari, Amanda Ayers, Jyoti Baharani, Gowrie Balasubramaniam, Felix Jo-Bamba Kpodo, Tarun Bansal, Alison Barratt, Jonathan Barratt, Megan Bates, Natalie Bayne, Janet Bendle, Sarah Benyon, Carsten Bergmann, Sunil Bhandari, Coralie Bingham, Preetham Boddana, Sally Bond, Fiona Braddon, Kate Bramham, Angela Branson, Stephen Brearey, Vicky Brocklebank, Sharanjit Budwal, Conor Byrne, Hugh Cairns, Brian Camilleri, Gary Campbell, Alys Capell, Margaret Carmody, Marion Carson, Tracy Cathcart, Christine Catley, Karine Cesar, Melanie Chan, Houda Chea, James Chess, Chee Kay Cheung, Katy-Jane Chick, Nihil Chitalia, Martin Christian, Tina Chrysochou, Katherine Clark, Christopher Clayton, Rhian Clissold, Helen Cockerill, Joshua Coelho, Elizabeth Colby, Viv Colclough, Eileen Conway, H. Terence Cook, Wendy Cook, Theresa Cooper, Richard J. Coward, Sarah Crosbie, Gabor Cserep, Anjali Date, Katherine Davidson, Amanda Davies, Neeraj Dhaun, Ajay Dhaygude, Lynn Diskin, Abhijit Dixit, Eunice Ann Doctolero, Suzannah Dorey, Lewis Downard, Mark Drayson, Gavin Dreyer, Tina Dutt, Kufreabasi Etuk, Dawn Evans, Jenny Finch, Frances Flinter, James Fotheringham, Lucy Francis, Daniel P. Gale, Hugh Gallagher, David Game, Eva Lozano Garcia, Madita Gavrila, Susie Gear, Colin Geddes, Mark Gilchrist, Matt Gittus, Paraskevi Goggolidou, Christopher Goldsmith, Patricia Gooden, Andrea Goodlife, Priyanka Goodwin, Tassos Grammatikopoulos, Barry Gray, Megan Griffith, Steph Gumus, Sanjana Gupta, Patrick Hamilton, Lorraine Harper, Tess Harris, Louise Haskell, Samantha Hayward, Shivaram Hegde, Bruce Hendry, Sue Hewins, Nicola Hewitson, Kate Hillman, Mrityunjay Hiremath, Alexandra Howson, Zay Htet, Sharon Huish, Richard Hull, Alister Humphries, David P.J. Hunt, Karl Hunter, Samantha Hunter, Marilyn Ijeomah-Orji, Nick Inston, David Jayne, Gbemisola Jenfa, Alison Jenkins, Sally Johnson, Caroline A. Jones, Colin Jones, Amanda Jones, Rachel Jones, Lavanya Kamesh, Durga Kanigicherla, Fiona Karet Frankl, Mahzuz Karim, Amrit Kaur, David Kavanagh, Kelly Kearley, Larissa Kerecuk, Arif Khwaja, Garry King, Grant King, Ewa Kislowska, Edyta Klata, Maria Kokocinska, Mark Lambie, Laura Lawless, Thomas Ledson, Rachel Lennon, Adam P. Levine, Ling Wai Maggie Lai, Graham Lipkin, Graham Lovitt, Paul Lyons, Holly Mabillard, Katherine Mackintosh, Khalid Mahdi, Eamonn Maher, Kevin J. Marchbank, Patrick B. Mark, Sherry Masoud, Bridgett Masunda, Zainab Mavani, Jake Mayfair, Stephen McAdoo, Joanna Mckinnell, Nabil Melhem, Simon Meyrick, Shabbir Moochhala, Putnam Morgan, Ann Morgan, Fawad Muhammad, Shona Murray, Kristina Novobritskaya, Albert CM. Ong, Louise Oni, Kate Osmaston, Neal Padmanabhan, Sharon Parkes, Jean Patrick, James Pattison, Riny Paul, Rachel Percival, Stephen J. Perkins, Alexandre Persu, William G. Petchey, Matthew C. Pickering, Jennifer Pinney, David Pitcher, Lucy Plumb, Zoe Plummer, Joyce Popoola, Frank Post, Albert Power, Guy Pratt, Charles Pusey, Ria Rabara, May Rabuya, Tina Raju, Chadd Javier, Ian SD. Roberts, Candice Roufosse, Adam Rumjon, Alan Salama, Moin Saleem, R.N. Sandford, Kanwaljit S. Sandu, Nadia Sarween, John A. Sayer, Neil Sebire, Haresh Selvaskandan, Sapna Shah, Asheesh Sharma, Edward J. Sharples, Neil Sheerin, Harish Shetty, Rukshana Shroff, Roslyn Simms, Manish Sinha, Smeeta Sinha, Kerry Smith, Lara Smith, Shalabh Srivastava, Retha Steenkamp, Ian Stott, Katerina Stroud, Pauline Swift, Justyna Szklarzewicz, Fred Tam, Kay Tan, Robert Taylor, Marc Tischkowitz, Kay Thomas, Yincent Tse, Alison Turnbull, A. Neil Turner, Kay Tyerman, Miranda Usher, Gopalakrishnan Venkat-Raman, Alycon Walker, Stephen B. Walsh, Aoife Waters, Angela Watt, Phil Webster, Ashutosh Wechalekar, Gavin Iain Welsh, Nicol West, David Wheeler, Kate Wiles, Lisa Willcocks, Angharad Williams, Emma Williams, Karen Williams, Deborah H. Wilson, Patricia D. Wilson, Paul Winyard, Edwin Wong, Katie Wong, Grahame Wood, Emma Woodward, Len Woodward, Adrian Woolf, David Wright

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Urban pertussis epidemiological patterns in a highly vaccinated megacity: Policy impacts and control strategies in Chongqing, China, 2005-2024 by Rui Shen, Jiawei Xu, Yugang Li, Jianxing Yu, Na Sun, Zilu Xu, Xueying Xu, Xiao Liu, Yang Liu, Bosong Li, Li Qi, Luzhao Feng

“…Methods: Using population-based surveillance data (2005-2024) from Chongqing (population 32.1 million; DTP3 coverage >97%), we conducted hierarchical Bayesian spatial modeling and age-structured Susceptible-Infected-Recovered-Vaccinated transmission analysis. …”
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‘A good decision is the one that feels right for me’: Codesign with patients to inform theoretical underpinning of a decision aid website by Kelly Kohut, Kate Morton, Karen Hurley, Lesley Turner, The CanGene‐CanVar Patient Reference Panel, Caroline Dale, Susan Eastbrook, Rochelle Gold, Kate Henwood, Sonia Patton, Reshma Punjabi, Helen White, Charlene Young, Julie Young, Elizabeth Bancroft, Lily Barnett, Sarah Cable, Gaya Connolly, Beth Coad, Andrea Forman, Helen Hanson, Grace Kavanaugh, Katherine Sahan, Katie Snape, Bethany Torr, Rosalind Way, Elizabeth Winchester, Alice Youngs, The International Lynch Decision Aid Stakeholder Panel, Diana Eccles, Claire Foster

“…Patient discussions were the primary data source. Facilitators provided a semi‐structured guide, but they did not influence the patient discussions or provide clinical advice. …”
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Understanding Care‐Seeking Behavior for Reproductive Tract Infections Among Afghan Women: A Cross‐Sectional Study by Cecilia Acuti Martellucci, Nooria Mohammady, Fawzia Negin, Sayed Hamid Mousavi, Adriana Viola Miranda, Husna Safa, Bibi Qudsia Qasimi, Khaterah Mosavi, Basira Bek, Alisina Azimi, Zahra Annabi, Saddiqa Noorzai, Aabidullah Rahimee, Taha Balaghat, Fatema Rezaie, Fardına Temory, Mirwais Ramozi, Mosè Martellucci, Rahila Bek, Shabanah Noorzai, Madina Niro, Husna Sultani, Palwasha Farooqi, Ehsan Shayan, Mohammadgul Zhwand, Qasem Rezaee, Farzana Torgani, Bibi Shakiba Hussaini, Shaqaiq Akhtiyari, Farah Qaderi, Shohra Qaderi

“…Methods From September 16, 2022 to November 26, 2022, a structured questionnaire was administered to women presenting at multi‐specialist clinics in the major cities of Afghanistan. …”
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‘It’s the perfect storm’: why are people with eating disorders at risk of suicide? A qualitative study by Una Foye, Saakshi Kakar, Niamh McNamara, Agnieszka Musial, Tom Jewell, Jessica R. Griffiths, Carol Kan, Gerome Breen, Rachel Rowan Olive, T. Suratwala, Aman Sidhu, Lizzie Mitchell, George Mycock, Katie Graden, Saskia Evans Perks, Elia Chitwa, Holly Whitehead, Ulrike Schmidt, Rina Dutta, Moritz Herle

“…Methods Using a qualitative design, we conducted semi-structured interviews with people with lived experience of an ED (n = 30), and clinicians who work with people with EDs (n = 19). …”
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Adherence to Mediterranean diet in Moroccan school-age adolescents: sociodemographic, socioeconomic and lifestyle determinants by Halima Belaoufi, Sanaa El-Jamal, Khadija Sahel, Abdelghani Aboukhalaf, Firdaous Friki, Hamid Chamlal, Jamila Elbiyad, Soumaya Atouife, Abdellah El Habazi, Rekia Belahsen

“…Material and methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted in a school setting among 386 students (148 boys and 238 girls), aged 14 to 18 years, randomly selected and from different socioeconomic strata. A structured questionnaire was used to collect sociodemographic, socioeconomic and lifestyle data. …”
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Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of people living in artisanal mining areas on water pollution in Siguiri, Guinea, 2023 by Aly Badara Toure, Aly Badara Toure, Mariama Sadjo Diallo, Mariama Sadjo Diallo, Sidikiba Sidibe, Sidikiba Sidibe, Salifou Talassone Bangoura, Salifou Talassone Bangoura, Fassou Mathias Grovogui, Fassou Mathias Grovogui, Fassou Mathias Grovogui, Maladho Diaby, Maladho Diaby, Mohamed Aly Bangoura, Yamoussa Youla, Mory Kourouma, Alexandre Delamou, Alexandre Delamou, Alexandre Delamou

“…The objective of this study was to analyze the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of the population regarding water pollution in the mining areas of Siguiri, Guinea.MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted from May 15 to June 15, 2023, on the population of Doko, Siguiri. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire that assessed knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to water pollution in artisanal mining areas. …”
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Multi-element Accurate Analysis of Sulfide Minerals by Low-temperature Ablation LA-ICP-MS by Huilai LI, Fan LI, Dingwen ZHANG, Wei GUO, Lanlan JIN, Shenghong HU

“…The ablation craters on the chalcopyrite showed a two-layer cyclic structure, in which the inner layer was a light-colored melting zone, and the outer layer was a white aerosol vapor sediment. …”
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The Pathology of Insistence on Indirect Disclosure of Operating Cash Flows by Esmail Farzaneh Kargar, Mehdi Bahar Moghadam

“…The method used is three separate surveys conducted through structured questionnaires on random samples of private investors (384 people), financial managers (201 people), and auditors (265 people). …”
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Semantic analysis of social media messages of patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration and diabetic macular edema by open Internet sources — a study of patients'... by V. V. Neroev, O. V. Zaytseva, A. Yu. Berdieva, Z. M. Gabdullina, M. N. Pudikov, A. A. Leonova, V. F. Khoroshevsky

“…The posts were analyzed in several steps with the technologies of automated analysis of unstructured natural language texts including semantic technologies aimed at processing large volumes of data. …”
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Factors associated with knowledge, attitudes, and practices of mixed crop-livestock farmers on Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) and other zoonoses in Burkina Faso by Abdoul Kader Ilboudo, Michel Dione, Ard M. Nijhof, Martin H. Groschup, Ousmane Traoré, Guy S. Ilboudo, Zekiba Tarnagda, Madi Savadogo, Bernard Bett

“…Consenting participants aged six and above were randomly included, and a structured questionnaire that collected socio-economic data, knowledge, attitudes, and practices concerning CCHF and other zoonoses was administered. …”
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Associations of nutrient intake, dietary behaviours, and patterns with metabolic profiles and obesity measures: findings from a cross-sectional study in a southern Chinese populati... by Yifan Chen, Guanlin Chen, Yinglin Liang, Yinglin Liang, Haiyan Huang, Yefeng Cai, Xiaojia Ni

“…Demographic information, disease history, nutrient intake, and dietary behaviours were collected via face-to-face interviews using structured questionnaires. Metabolic profiles and obesity levels were assessed via clinical laboratory tests, physical examinations, and bioelectrical impedance analysis. …”
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A Systematic Review of the Development and Implementability of Complex Interventions After Hospitalization for Survivors of Intensive CareTake-Home Points by Evelyn Sloan, DPT, Selina M. Parry, PhD, Alisha A. da Silva, BPhysio, AdvRes (Hons), Catherine L. Granger, PhD, Zoe Fehlberg, MPH, Owen Gustafson, PhD, Catherine Voutier, MInfoMgmt, Camille E. Short, PhD, Marlena Klaic, PhD

“…Study Design and Methods: Studies were included if they developed or evaluated, or both, a complex, structured intervention after hospitalization aimed at improving recovery outcomes for survivors of the ICU. …”
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Physical Activity and Quality of Life After Distal Femur Tumor Resection and Limb Salvage by Dimitra C. Galanis, Ioannis Zafeiris, Fotini M. Soukakou, Dimitra P. Papagelopoulos, Panayiotis Gavriil, Ioannis G. Trikoupis, Olga D. Savvidou, Konstantinos Vlasis, Vasileios A. Kontogeorgakos, Panayiotis J. Papagelopoulos

“…This study included the International Physical Activity (PA) Questionnaire (IPAQ), the University of California and Los Angeles (UCLA) Activity Score, and semi-structured interviews. The data were analyzed using the statistical software packages SPSS 25 and Excel. …”
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