The SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein has a broad tropism for mammalian ACE2 proteins. by Carina Conceicao, Nazia Thakur, Stacey Human, James T Kelly, Leanne Logan, Dagmara Bialy, Sushant Bhat, Phoebe Stevenson-Leggett, Adrian K Zagrajek, Philippa Hollinghurst, Michal Varga, Christina Tsirigoti, Matthew Tully, Chris Chiu, Katy Moffat, Adrian Paul Silesian, John A Hammond, Helena J Maier, Erica Bickerton, Holly Shelton, Isabelle Dietrich, Stephen C Graham, Dalan Bailey

“…Finally, using bioinformatics, structural data, and targeted mutagenesis, we identified amino acid residues within the Spike-ACE2 interface, which may have played a pivotal role in the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in humans. …”
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Achieving food security: Household perception and adoption of home gardening techniques in Ghana by Irene Serwaa Asante, Magdalene Aidoo, Stephen Prah, Margaret Aba Sam Hagan, Charles Kwame Sackey

“…A multistage sampling technique was used to select 348 households and data was collected through a structured questionnaire. …”
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Harnessing machine learning approach for hardness optimization of Al-Si alloy composites reinforced with coconut shell ash by M Poornesh, Shreeranga Bhat, Mithun Kanchan

“…The model was trained and validated using experimental data, and hyperparameter tuning was performed to improve accuracy. …”
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Parental Satisfaction towards Care Given at Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Associated Factors in Comprehensive and Referral Hospitals of Southern Ethiopia by Eden Sileshi, Bedria Mohammed, Derese Eshetu, Aster Dure, Agegnehu Bante, Abera Mersha, Teketel Ermias Geltore

“…An institutional-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 401 parents who visited neonatal intensive care from March 28 to April 28, 2022. The data were assorted via a structured interviewer-administered questionnaire using ODK collect version and exported to SPSS window version 25 for further cleaning and analysis. …”
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GEOLOGICAL FACTORS INFLUENCE ON OILWELLS FLOODING AT SMALL FIELDS by R. A. Gasumov, E. R. Gasumov

“…Materials and research methods. Field data, measurements taken in the wells of oil fields in the North Caucasus, the results of experimental and laboratory studies are used. …”
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Real-World Experience of Dupilumab Treatment for Patients with COPD – A Single Center Prospective Study by Freund O, Meoded O, Arnaout T, Friedman Regev I, Kupershmidt A, Enghelberg S, Cohn-Schwartz D, Levy L, Bar-Shai A

“…Ophir Freund,1 Omer Meoded,1 Tala Arnaout,1 Inbal Friedman Regev,1 Aviv Kupershmidt,1 Sharon Enghelberg,1 Doron Cohn-Schwartz,1 Liran Levy,2 Amir Bar-Shai1 1The Institute of Pulmonary Medicine, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; 2The Sheba Lung Transplant Program and Institute of Pulmonary Medicine, Sheba Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, IsraelCorrespondence: Ophir Freund, Email ophir068@gmail.comPurpose: Dupilumab was recently shown to be effective in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and type 2 inflammation, while real-world data are missing. We aimed to evaluate the experience of COPD patients treated with Dupilumab.Patients and Methods: Consecutive patients with COPD treated with Dupilumab were approached and completed a structured interview. …”
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Facilitators and barriers to Tuberculosis case notification among private health facilities in Kampala Capital City, Uganda. by Veronica Kembabazi, Julius Ssentongo, Elizeus Rutebemberwa

“…For the quantitative strand of the study, we interviewed the TB focal persons at 224 PHFs using a structured questionnaire and for the qualitative, we conducted 14 key informant and in-depth interviews with Ministry of Health-Uganda staff, and TB focal persons at the Kampala Division administration level and at the PHFs. …”
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Evaluating the sustainability of wheat irrigation systems: Using life cycle assessment to monitor the Water-Energy-Food-Environment Nexus by Fereshteh Batoukhteh, Abdullah Darzi-Naftchali, Ali Motevali, Fatemeh Karandish, Markus Berger

“…A structured questionnaire was designed to obtain information on cropping areas, input consumption, field management practices, crop yield, costs, and income. …”
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Efectos de las actividades en la naturaleza en la predicción de la satisfacción de la Educación Física (Effects of outdoor activities in predicting Physical Education satisfaction)... by Antonio Baena-Extremera, Antonio Granero-Gallegos

“…Descriptive analyzes and Structural Equation Modeling were used to analyze the data. …”
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Prevalence and risk factors of self-reported adverse drug events in elderly co-morbid patients in northeastern China: a cross-sectional study by Daqiu Wang, Aiping Wang, Xin Meng, Lei Liu

“…Methods This was a cross-sectional study that enrolled elderly patients with co-morbidities, and the data were collected by nurses using a structured interview method for elderly patients with multimorbidity. …”
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Interpersonal Conflict and Employee Behavior in the Public Sector: Investigating the Role of Workplace Ostracism and Supervisors’ Active Empathic Listening by Hatem Belgasm, Ahmad Alzubi, Kolawole Iyiola, Amir Khadem

“…Using the stressor–emotion model, conservation of resources (COR) theory, and conflict expression (CE) framework, this study examined these relationships through a two-wave survey design. Data were collected from 501 public sector employees using validated scales, and an analysis was conducted using SPSS and AMOS, with structural equation modeling employed for hypothesis testing. …”
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Shared decision-making competency and its associated factors among palliative care nurses: a cross-sectional study in China by Junchen Guo, Sishan Jiang, Yunyun Dai, Xianghua Xu, Chaoyi Liu, Yongyi Chen

“…The findings underscore the importance of incorporating structured SDM training programs in nursing education and professional development initiatives, particularly focused on building empathy skills.…”
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Combining household surveys and interviews to understand irrigation technology adoption among farmers in Maharashtra (India) by Anja Šaponjić, Soham Adla, Lisa Scholten, Erik Mostert, Saket Pande

“…In addition, 22 qualitative semi-structured interviews were held to explore contextual, social, and personal-level factors, using insights from the SSBC model. …”
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Detailed characterisation of the trypanosome nuclear pore architecture reveals conserved asymmetrical functional hubs that drive mRNA export. by Bernardo Papini Gabiatti, Johanna Krenzer, Silke Braune, Timothy Krüger, Martin Zoltner, Susanne Kramer

“…Having defined markers for both sites of the pore, we set out to map all 75 trypanosome proteins with known nuclear pore localisation to a subregion of the pore using mass spectrometry data from proximity labelling. This approach defined several further proteins with a specific localisation to the nuclear site of the pore, including proteins with predicted structural homology to TREX-2 components. …”
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Health researchers’ voluntary science-communication with non-academics: motivations, barriers, and practices by Bente Schøning, Torkjel M. Sandanger, Sarah E. Rosenbaum, Charlotte Wien

“…Given the legal mandate for public science communication in Nordic universities, understanding these dynamics is crucial for enhancing the quality and impact of research dissemination.MethodsThe research was conducted at UiT Arctic University of Norway and involved semi-structured interviews with 14 active health researchers from various disciplines. …”
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A grounded theory study on medical students’ proxy online health information seeking behavior by Pan Minghao, He Leyun, Yang Jingying, Huang Wanyu, Wang Fan, Wang Linlin, Shen Meiyu

“…Methods Based on grounded theory, this study conducted semi-structured interviews with 30 medical students, from whom data were collected for analysis. …”
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Social media use and online prosocial behaviour among high school students: The role of moral identity, empathy, and social self-efficacy by Sadam Fajar Shodiq, Syamsudin Syamsudin, Asep Dahliyana, Imas Kurniawaty, Aiman Faiz

“…A total of 430 students participated in the study in public high schools in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The data obtained were analyzed using the software tool Smart-PLS, which is used for structural equation modeling analysis, related to the constructs of revisit intention and suggestion intention. …”
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“The big topic is COVID”: A qualitative study about changes in HPV vaccine conversations between parents and primary care team members throughout the COVID-19 pandemic by Josheili Y. Llavona-Ortiz, Lauren J. Van Scoy, Benjamin Fogel, Casey Pinto, Jamelia Graham, William A. Calo

“…PCTMs rated their confidence and agreement related to HPV vaccine conversations and pandemic impact. Semi-structured interview questions assessed changes in their HPV vaccine conversations throughout the pandemic. …”
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Retinal imaging based glaucoma detection using modified pelican optimization based extreme learning machine by Debendra Muduli, Rani Kumari, Adnan Akhunzada, Korhan Cengiz, Santosh Kumar Sharma, Rakesh Ranjan Kumar, Dinesh Kumar Sah

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Implementing community drug checking in smaller urban communities: a qualitative study exploring contextual factors to consider by Abby Hutchison, Karen Urbanoski, Dennis Hore, Bruce Wallace

“…In this study, we explored the contextual factors that service users and implementers consider to be important for context specific drug checking services within smaller communities. Methods Data collection involved 39 semi-structured interviews with prospective drug checking service users and service implementers from six harm reduction services in four smaller communities on Vancouver Island, BC. …”
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