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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A Cross-Sectional Study of Body Composition and Cardiorespiratory Fitness: Insights from Romanian Physical Education Male Students and Non-Professionals by Mădălina-Gabriela Coman, Alina Stan, Andreea Maria Adam, Carmen Gheorghe, Carmen Pârvu, Corneliu Mircea Codreanu, Liviu Moraru, Daniel-Andrei Iordan, Ilie Onu

“…The significantly higher body fat and lower cardiovascular capacity in MSNP students highlight the urgent need for targeted physical activity interventions and nutritional education to mitigate obesity risk. Integrating structured exercise programs and lifestyle modifications into university curricula could enhance long-term metabolic health outcomes in young adults…”
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Socioeconomic health and impact of sickle cell disease and vaso-occlusive crises in India: results from B-VOCAL study by Dipty Jain, Ravindra Kumar, Nandakumar Menon, Disha Shetty, Tulika Seth, Shashank Udupi, Suman Jain, Seema Bhatwadekar, Rabindra Jena, Bharat Parmar, Anil Goel, Ashvin Vasava, Anupam Dutta, Priyanka Samal, Riya Ballikar, Deepa Bhat, Tuphan Kanti Dolai, Jina Bhattacharyya, Manish Mistry, Shomik Ray

“…This study examines the economic implications of managing VOC in individuals with SCD in India, from the perspectives of patients, healthcare system and society.Methods This cross-sectional, observational study included 1000 patients with SCD across 14 centres enrolled from November 2021 to June 2022. Data were collected systematically using a structured electronic case record form. …”
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Long-term clinical sequelae among Sudan ebolavirus disease survivors 2 years post-infection: a matched cohort study by Haruna Muwonge, Carolyne Nasimiyu, Barnabas Bakamutumaho, Peter Elyanu, Moses L. Joloba, Silvia Situma, John Schieffelin, Bronwyn Gunn, Shuangyi Bai, Robert F. Breiman, Isaac Ssewanyana, Susan Nabadda, Julius Lutwama, Yonas Tegen, Allan Muruta, Bruce Kirenga, Charles Olaro, Jane Ruth Aceng, Henry Kyobe Bosa, M. Kariuki Njenga

“…Using a prospective matched cohort approach, 87 laboratory-confirmed SUDV survivors from the 2022–2023 Ugandan outbreak and 176 age-, sex- and village-matched controls were followed at 3, 9, 12, 15 and 24 months. Symptom data were collected through structured interviews and targeted clinical examinations. …”
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Streptococcus agalactiae colonization is common among pregnant women with HIV infection and is neither predicted by hospital tier nor trimester in Mwanza, Tanzania by Paul H. Ngayomela, Richard Kiritta, Boniface A. Remi, Sophyrose T. Mboya, Nyambura Moremi, Dismas Matovelo, Fridolin Mujuni, Stephen E. Mshana, Claudia Daubenberger, Ruth N. Zadoks, Jeremiah Seni

“…Demographic, obstetric and other clinical data were collected using a pre-tested structured questionnaire. …”
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L-isoleucine doped Creatininium Benzene Sulphonate organic single crystals: Insight into charge carrier dynamics and sensor applications by C. Ramajeya, K. Balasubramanian

“…Creatininium Benzene Sulphonate (CBS) and l-Isoleucine doped CBS (ICBS0.5 and ICBS2) single crystals were synthesized via the slow evaporation method and structurally characterized, confirming a P2₁ space group. …”
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Population-based cross-sectional seroprevalence study of SARS-CoV-2 infection in urban residential areas in Ghana by John H Amuasi, Aurélia Souares, Eva Lorenz, Wibke Loag, Anthony Afum-Adjei Awuah, Sylvester Newton, Christian Obirikorang, Evans Asamoah Adu, Eric Ebenezer Amprofi Boham, Alexander Owusu Boakye, Hakim Alani, Nana Safi Almoustapha, James Deke, Welbeck Odame Dzadey, Louis Adu-Amoah, Sally-Ann Kroduah, Mary Ama Grant, Gracelyn Asare, Amos Amoako-Adusei, Jenny Kettenbeil, Yaw Adu Sarkodie, Ebenezer Oduro, Alfred E Yawson, Stephen Apanga, Rose Odotei Adjei, Austin Gideon Adobasom Anane, Oumou Maiga Ascofare, May Jurgen, Nicole S Struck

“…Bayesian models with poststratification weighting of the demographic structure of the sample population were used for seroprevalence estimates, accounting for the uncertainty of diagnostic assay in a hierarchical model. …”
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A Reflux Linked GATA Factor Fulcrum Dictates Lineage Commitment Through GPRC5B During the Esophageal Dysplastic TransitionSummary by Omar Abuhussein, Sara Hosseini-Farahabadi, Corina Stewart, Stephane Flibotte, Alireza Heravi-Moussavi, David Farnell, David Schaeffer, Fergal Donnellan, Frank McKeon, Wa Xian, Dermot Kelleher, Shane Patrick Duggan

“…Using an organ-on-a-chip platform, cellular overgrowth, reduced luminal villus structures, lower goblet cell numbers, and loss of intestine-associated marker gene expression (TFF3/MUC2) were observed following GPRC5B overexpression in BE-ASCs, mirroring HGD. …”
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Place of Death of Cancer Patients Treated at a German Comprehensive Cancer Center by Julia Berendt, Maria Heckel, Christoph Ostgathe, Stephanie Stiel, Peter Stachura, Andreas Becker, Matthias W. Beckmann, Susanne Gahr

“…The place of death reflects care structures and disease progression, highlighting the need for palliative care. …”
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The extra-islet pancreas supports autoimmunity in human type 1 diabetes by Graham L Barlow, Christian M Schürch, Salil S Bhate, Darci J Phillips, Arabella Young, Shen Dong, Hunter A Martinez, Gernot Kaber, Nadine Nagy, Sasvath Ramachandran, Janet Meng, Eva Korpos, Jeffrey A Bluestone, Garry P Nolan, Paul L Bollyky

“…Finally, we identify lymphoid structures away from islets enriched in CD45RA+ T cells — a population also enriched in one of the inflamed islet sub-states. …”
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Ethical considerations in prevention and management of non-communicable diseases: a narrative review by Elnaz Shahmohamadi, Aryan Ayati, Yasaman Sharifi, Pouya Ebrahimi, Ehsan Shamsi Gooshki, Shirin Djalalinia, Mahbube Ebrahimpur, Moloud Payab, Bagher Larijani

“…For instance general policies, equity in care, interventional programs, and clinical/research data protection. A comprehensive, holistic approach considering all the involved parties can accommodate the wide spectrum of needs and continuum of management for NCDs.Creating an ethical procedure structure in public health systems can provide insight into managing the challenges posed by NCDs to health systems and assist in systematically confronting ethical problems in the management of NCDs. …”
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A Deep Alteration and Oxidation Profile in a Shallow Clay Aquitard: Example of the Tégulines Clay, East Paris Basin, France by Catherine Lerouge, Jean-Charles Robinet, Mathieu Debure, Christophe Tournassat, Alain Bouchet, Ana María Fernández, Christine Flehoc, Catherine Guerrot, Myriam Kars, France Lagroix, Philippe Landrein, Benoit Madé, Philippe Negrel, Guillaume Wille, Francis Claret

“…The presence of siderite at ~11 m evinced the reactivity of Fe(II) in the structure of clay minerals with dioxygen from meteoric waters that infiltrated into the Tégulines Clay through vertical fractures.…”
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Unbiased mapping of cereblon neosubstrate landscape by high-throughput proteomics by Martin Steger, Gisele Nishiguchi, Qiong Wu, Bjoern Schwalb, Bachuki Shashikadze, Kevin McGowan, Marisa Actis, Anup Aggarwal, Zhe Shi, Jeanine Price, Anand Mayasundari, Lei Yang, Anastasia H. Bednarz, Sophie Machata, Tobias Graef, Denis Bartoschek, Vadim Demichev, Uli Ohmayer, Jun Yang, Henrik Daub, Zoran Rankovic

“…Subsequent hit validation and structure-degradation relationship analyses guided by global proteomics reveal highly selective and potent phenyl glutarimide-based degraders targeting previously uncharacterized neosubstrates such as KDM4B, G3BP2 and VCL; none of which contain the classical CRBN β-hairpin degron. …”
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CLINICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSTIC INTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCTS PAUCITY by O. E. Iryshkin, I. M. Iljinsky, O. M. Tsirulnikova, S. V. Gautier

“…Ductopenia was the more frequent indication of syndromatic form of paucity of intrahepatic bile ducts (p = 0,01), while ductular proliferations, which form «ductular structure», were discovered more often in nonsyndromatic paucity of intrahepaticbile ducts (p = 0,03). …”
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Thermal Characteristics of a Double Intra-Cavity Contact VCSEL for Cryogenic Optical Links by Behzad Namvar, Patrik Rajala, Mircea Guina, Teemu Hakkarainen, Heikki Virtanen, Topi Uusitalo, Jukka Viheriala

“…Accurate design of VCSEL structure for operation at low temperatures requires precise knowledge of cavity temperature at varying bias currents, to account for the shifts occurring in the resonance mode wavelength and gain spectra. …”
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High-Speed Directly Modulated Laser Integrated with SOA by Jia Chen, Dechao Ban, Ya Jin, Jinhua Bai, Keqi Cao, Xinyan Zhang, Hang Yu, Wei Lin, Xiaonan Chen, Ming Li, Ninghua Zhu, Yu Liu

“…The results reveal that the transmitter and dispersion eye closure (TDEC) of the fabricated DML is lower than that of a conventional laser when the SOA area current reaches a specific threshold, demonstrating the enhanced signal transmission capabilities of our design. This laser structure offers a fresh strategy for the development of high-power, high-speed DMLs.…”
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Hub-and-spoke network design to optimize government subsidy costs for maritime transportation in Indonesia by Windra Priatna Humang, Djoko Prijo Utomo, Hasriwan Putra, Dedy Arianto, Rutma Pujiwat, Sucipto, Dwi Phalita Upahita, Nur Fitriana, Maharani Almira Salsabilla, Yustina Niken Raharina Hendra, Asep Yayat Nurhidayat, Mega Novetrishka Putri, Mohamad Ivan Aji Saputro, Amelia Santoso, Ivan Kristianto Singgih, Dina Natalia Prayogo, Indri Hapsari, Olyvia Novawanda, Stefanus Soegiharto, Jerry Agus Arlianto

“…Indonesia's maritime freight transportation system is characterized by inefficiencies stemming from high logistics costs and an unsustainable government subsidy structure. Addressing these challenges necessitates a strategic transformation of the Sea Tollway network. …”
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