The impact of COVID-19-related anxiety on obstetric complications and mental health in quarantined pregnant women by Solmaz Heidarifard, Niloofar Khoshnam Rad, Mahsa Khoshnam Rad

“…Methods This cross-sectional study (June–December 2020) 52 quarantined pregnant women were recruited via convenience sampling from a Tehran health center. Data were collected through structured telephone interviews using a validated researcher-made questionnaire. …”
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Throat Swab Culture Positivity and Antibiotic Resistance Profiles in Children 2–5 Years of Age Suspected of Bacterial Tonsillitis at Hargeisa Group of Hospitals, Somaliland: A Cros... by Hamda Hussein Darod, Addisu Melese, Mulugeta Kibret, Wondemagegn Mulu

“…Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was done using the disk diffusion method. Data on demographic variables and clinical profiles were collected using structured questionnaires. …”
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The four Cs of physician leadership: A key to academic physician success by R. Thomas Collins II, Neha J. Purkey, Meenu Singh, Alan D. DeSantis, Rania A. Sanford

“…We conducted 40 semi-structured, 50-minute interviews of physicians who had achieved the rank of professor in our school of medicine and were serving, or had served, in leadership positions. …”
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Knowledge, perceptions and practices associated with timing for breast cancer screening among female students at the University of Zimbabwe: A cross-sectional study by Peter Chikuvadze, Grace Nkhoma, Maxwell Mhlanga, Augustine Ndaimani

“…Data were analyzed using STATA 15, with descriptive statistics presented in tables and figures. …”
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Computational histology reveals that concomitant application of insect repellent with sunscreen impairs UV protection in an ex vivo human skin model by Sophie Charrasse, Titouan Poquillon, Charlotte Saint-Omer, Audrey Schunemann, Mylène Weill, Victor Racine, Abdel Aouacheria

“…Hematoxylin and eosin or hematoxylin-eosin saffron staining was performed to assess skin structure before morphometric parameter computation. …”
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Experience of Aging in the Ngäbe-Buglé Community in Coto Brus, Costa Rica: A Qualitative Study by Melissa Rallo, Nicholas Leahy, Alexis Vetack, Hima Konduru, Shania Bailey, Lillianna Pedersen, Christine Wan, Wendel Mora, Virginia Rowthorn, Shailvi Gupta, Carlos Faerron Guzmán

“…Methods: This qualitative study utilized semi-structured interviews to collect data from 14 elderly participants (6 female, 8 male), aged 52–90 years, living in the La Casona community. …”
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Attention residual network for medical ultrasound image segmentation by Honghua Liu, Peiqin Zhang, Jiamin Hu, Yini Huang, Shanshan Zuo, Lu Li, Mailan Liu, Chang She

“…Abstract Ultrasound imaging can distinctly display the morphology and structure of internal organs within the human body, enabling the examination of organs like the breast, liver, and thyroid. …”
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THE EDUCATIONAL POTENTIAL OF FATHERHOOD: CONCEPTUAL BASES OF RESEARCH AND SUPPORT by V. I. Zagvyazinsky, A. D. Chekhonin

“…The theoretical analysis and synthesis of the data obtained during the surveys among men from different regions ofRussia and foreign countries allowed the authors to structure typical ideas about fatherhood and to model a concept for its educational resources.Results and scientific novelty. …”
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Non-communicable diseases and risk factors profiling among geriatric population residing in Hyderabad city, India by Karthikeyan Ramanujam, Joyeeta Thakur, Rajitha Triveni Koralla, JJ Babu Geddam, Samarasimha Reddy N

“…Methods: We conducted a community-based cross-sectional study in an urban locality of Hyderabad city, Telangana state among 1320 elderly individuals aged 60 years and above. Data on anthropometric measurements, dietary intakes, socio-economic factors, and NCD history were collected using structured questionnaires and standardized tools. …”
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A Gaussian Mixture Model-Based Unsupervised Dendritic Artificial Visual System for Motion Direction Detection by Zhiyu Qiu, Yuxiao Hua, Tianqi Chen, Yuki Todo, Zheng Tang, Delai Qiu, Chunping Chu

“…Through repeated exposure to motion stimuli, our model self-organizes to detect macroscopic motion direction without the need for labeled data. Experimental results demonstrate that the GMM-based global motion detection layer successfully classifies motion direction signals, forming structured motion representations akin to biological visual systems. …”
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Discovery and characterization of complete genomes of 38 head-tailed proviruses in four predominant phyla of archaea by Tianqi Xu, Yimin Ni, Hailing Li, Shuang Wu, Shuling Yan, Lanming Chen, Yongxin Yu, Yongjie Wang

“…Archaeal viruses exert a considerable influence on the structure and composition of archaeal communities and their associated ecological environments. …”
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Implementing the H&P 360 in Three Medical Institutions: Usability Study by Rupinder Hayer, Joyce Tang, Julia Bisschops, Gregory W Schneider, Kate Kirley, Tamkeen Khan, Erin Rieger, Eric Walford, Irsk Anderson, Valerie Press, Brent Williams

“… BackgroundThe traditional history and physical (H&P) provides the basis for physicians’ data gathering, problem formulation, and care planning, yet it can miss relevant behavioral or social risk factors. …”
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Prevalence of cervical dysplasia and its relationship with socio-demographic characteristics in a low-resource setting by Babatunde Enoch Adewumi, Julius kolajo Dare, Rita Omobosola Alabi, Rosemary Oluwatosin Komolafe, Sonnen Atinge, Enoch Olaoluwa Olatoye, Halimat Eyitayo Issa, Bethrand Ozioma Chukwu, Emmanuel Kokori, Alexander Idu Entonu

“…Informed consent was obtained from each participant, and data were collected through structured questionnaires. …”
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Cross-Project Defect Prediction Using Transfer Learning with Long Short-Term Memory Networks by Hongwei Tao, Lianyou Fu, Qiaoling Cao, Xiaoxu Niu, Haoran Chen, Songtao Shang, Yang Xian

“…This is because LSTM capture long-term dependencies in sequence data and extract features that contain source code structure and context information. …”
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Two-layer energy scheduling of electrical and thermal smart grids with energy hubs including renewable and storage units considering energy markets by Walid Aich, Ali Basem, Narinderjit Singh Sawaran Singh, Kuwar Mausam, Zahraa Abed Hussein, Saurav Dixit, Naim Ben Ali, Lotfi Ben Said, Wajdi Rajhi, Loghman Mostafazadeh

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Experimental Study on CHF Limit of Cr-coated Fuel Cladding under High Temperature and High Pressure Flow Condition by FAN Guanhua, FANG Qifei, YAO Xi, PENG Zhenxun, GUO Ming, CHEN Senyang, LYU Lulu, ZHANG Ge, SU Qianhua, LU Donghua

“…Any discrepancies between the CHF verified among the cladding materials are attributed to departure from nucleate boiling phenomena captured during the experiments with the high-resolution thermocouple temperature data. The main parameters that affect the CHF experimental result are inlet temperature, inlet flow rate, outlet pressure and the rod structure parameters. …”

Deep Learning for Time-Series Forecasting With Exogenous Variables in Energy Consumption: A Performance and Interpretability Analysis by Ava Mohammadi, Gonzalo Napoles, Yamisleydi Salgueiro

“…TimeLLM, despite tailored prompting for time-series forecasting, failed to outperform task-specific models, with a test MAE of 2.193, RMSE of 3.473, and sMAPE of 22.89%, highlighting the challenges of adapting foundation models trained on different modalities to structured time-series forecasting. Beyond predictive accuracy, interpretability analysis challenges the assumption that attention mechanisms reliably capture feature importance. …”
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Advanced Scalable Multi-Beam Focusing for Indoor Optical Wireless Networks With IR Radiative Clusters by Sharadhi Gunathilake, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Kosala Herath, Malin Premaratne

“…Optical wireless networks emerge as a promising solution to the ever-growing data demand for user-centric indoor applications. …”
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Dietary intake and growth of HIV exposed and unexposed 6–12 months old infants in South Africa by Phumudzo Tshiambara, Marinel Hoffman, Heather Legodi, Yusentha Balakrishna, Ute Feucht

“…A repeated cross‐sectional study used structured questionnaires to collect socio‐demographic, dietary intake, food group data, and anthropometric measurements in the Siyakhula study. …”
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Parents in the face of their children’s death education – attitudes and selected differentiating factors by Agnieszka Zamarian

“…They completed a set of questionnaires: The Parents’ Attitude towards Death Education Questionnaire (KRET), the Death Attitude Profile Questionnaire (DAP-R-PL), the Death Fear and Fascination Scale (SLFŚ) and the Personal Experiences Related to Death Scale (SODŚ).Results: The original Questionnaire of Parents’ Attitude towards Death Education (KRET) has a three-factor structure confirmed by confirmatory analyzes (CFA). …”
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