Prevalence of malaria and associated factors among febrile children under 15 years at Bududa General Hospital, Eastern Uganda by Benson Okongo, Daisy Asiimwe, Clinton Olong, Enoch Muwanguzi, Robert Wagubi

“…Informed consent was obtained from parents/guardians before 250 febrile children below 15 years were enrolled in this study. A structured questionnaire was administered to parents/guardians to collect sociodemographic characteristics and identify factors associated with malaria. …”
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High-Quality Short-Range Radar Imaging with Coprime Sampling by Yaping Wang, Tianjiao Zeng, Xu Zhan, Xiangdong Ma, Mou Wang, Jun Shi, Shunjun Wei, Xiaoling Zhang

“…Our approach is built upon three core perspectives: (1) physical sampling: we adopt a coprime pattern to form an extended sampling aperture with a structured layout, enabling effective utilization of limited channels and minimizing aperture loss; (2) signal measurement: we utilize the second-order statistics of the measured data to generate additional equivalent measurements, thus enhancing the system’s capability to capture diverse spatial information; and (3) scene reconstruction: we establish a novel forward measurement model, linking these equivalent measurements to the scene, and then formulate a sparsity-regularized optimization problem. …”
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Gender-affirming care, mental health, and economic stability in the time of COVID-19: A multi-national, cross-sectional study of transgender and nonbinary people. by Brooke A Jarrett, Sarah M Peitzmeier, Arjee Restar, Tyler Adamson, Sean Howell, Stefan Baral, S Wilson Beckham

“…<h4>Background</h4>Transgender and nonbinary people are disproportionately affected by structural barriers to quality healthcare, mental health challenges, and economic hardship. …”
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Coronary Slow Flow Is Associated with Anxiety and Depression but Not Adverse Childhood Experiences and Alexithymia by Hayriye Mihrimah Ozturk, Ibrahim Halil Inanc, Mehmet Cilingiroglu, Yasar Turan, Huseyin Kandemir, Selcuk Ozturk

“…Future studies should address the major limitations of this study; such as the limited sample size; lack of structured diagnostic interview by a psychiatrist; and the lack of establishment of causality…”
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Identifying Factors Influencing Urban Bus Drivers’ Distraction: A Qualitative Study in Tehran, Iran by Fatemeh Sadat Mirnajafi Zadeh, Mojtaba Khosravi Danesh, Ali Nahvi, Abbas Rahimi Foroushani, Mohammad Javad SheikhMozafari, Adel Mazloumi

“…Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with the drivers as well as on-site observations. …”
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From counsel to consumption: examining sociocultural influences on perinatal nutrition in rural India by Faiz A. Hashmi, Cristine H. Legare

“…ASHAs serve as crucial cultural brokers but require structural support to overcome community barriers. Addressing maternal undernutrition requires engaging cultural dietary beliefs while enhancing educational opportunities to empower women’s informed dietary choices.…”
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Depression and associated factors among people with epilepsy at Wolaita Sodo University Hospital, South Ethiopia by Tamene Berhanu, Niguse Yigzaw, Seblewongel Tinsae, Yohannes Mirkena, Asegid Belete

“…A systematic random sampling technique was used to select 423 samples of people with epilepsy, and interviewer-administered structured questionnaires were employed. The Patient Health Questionnaire with 9 items was used to assess depression. …”
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Characteristics of Student-Led Clinics in the Allied Health Professions: Protocol for a Scoping Review by Sandra Robertson, Katie Thomson, Katrina Bannigan

“…This will include key factors to ensure that this model of practice-based learning meets the needs of service users, students, and education providers. …”
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Prevalence and determinants of anemia among pregnant women attending maternal and child health clinics at Sukuta Health Center, The Gambia: An institutional-based cross-sectional s... by Fatou Mbowe, Kalifa Sanneh Darboe, Abdoulie M. Sanyang, Amadou Barrow

“…Data were collected using a structured questionnaire covering sociodemographic characteristics, knowledge of anemia, and anemia prevention practices. …”
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Voices from the clinic: a qualitative analysis of physiotherapy strategies in musculoskeletal care for knee osteoarthritis patients by Jennifer Nguyen, Justine M. Naylor, Sarah Dennis, Rebecca Livings, Kathryn Mills, Siobhan M. Schabrun, Jeanette M. Thom

“…Methods We invited thirty-three physiotherapists from nine private practices in metropolitan Sydney to partake in a semi-structured interview. The interviews were digitally recorded and transcribed verbatim. …”
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Gene splicing of an invertebrate beta subunit (LCavβ) in the N-terminal and HOOK domains and its regulation of LCav1 and LCav2 calcium channels. by Taylor F Dawson, Adrienne N Boone, Adriano Senatore, Joshua Piticaru, Shano Thiyagalingam, Daniel Jackson, Angus Davison, J David Spafford

“…Molluscan LCa(v)β subunits have an N-terminal "A" isoform (coded by exons: 1a and 1b) that structurally resembles the muscle specific variant of vertebrate β1a subunit, and has a broad mRNA expression profile in brain, heart, muscle and glands. …”
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Development of a work systems stress questionnaire to predict job burnout: A mixed methods study based on a macroergonomics approach by Rahman Zare, Reza Kazemi, Alireza Choobineh, Rosanna Cousins, Andrew Smith, Hamidreza Mokarami

“…Decision Latitude, Welfare and Financial Facilities, Task Significance, and Structural Problems predicted Personal Accomplishment and explained 26 % variance. …”
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Research progress and prospect of coal seam blasting antireflection technology in China by Zegong LIU, Guodong QIAO, Jian LIU, Kui GAO

“…To summarize past experiences and further enhance the technology for deep coal seam blasting in the new era, this study analyzes the blasting permeability enhancement mechanism, establishes a mathematical model for blasting-induced fracturing of coal-rock masses considering dynamic compressive (tensile) strength and ideal detonation conditions, and inversely examines stress distribution around blasting holes under different geological stress conditions. …”
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Predictors of stillbirth among women who had given birth in Southern Ethiopia, 2020: A case-control study. by Haimanot Abebe, Solomon Shitu, Haile Workye, Ayenew Mose

“…Consecutive sampling techniques and simple random techniques were used to recruit cases and controls respectively. A structured standard tool was used to identify the predictors of stillbirth. …”
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A qualitative study on the perspectives of prenatal breastfeeding educational classes in Ireland: Implications for maternal breastfeeding decisions. by Jennifer Kehinde, Claire O'Donnell, Annmarie Grealish

“…<h4>Methods</h4>A qualitative descriptive methodology was employed, utilizing online semi-structured interviews with midwives, lactation consultants (n = 10), and postnatal mothers (n = 20) from four tertiary hospitals in the Republic of Ireland. …”
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Development of a national Distress Brief Intervention: a multi-agency service to provide connected, compassionate support for people in distress by Ambrose J. Melson, Karen Wetherall, Kevin O’Neill, Margaret Maxwell, Eileen Calveley, Martin McCoy, Rory C. O’Connor

“…Data/information sources comprised: literature and evidence review; delivery partner and stakeholder consultations (n = 19); semi-structured interviews and/or focus-groups with frontline services staff experienced in responding to distress (n = 8); interviews and/or focus groups with adults with experience of distress (n = 9); feedback from test training for staff (n = 16); self-assessed confidence ratings provided by staff immediately before and following training (n = 388). …”
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Impact of contract farming on householders' income, intensification, and land productivity in Ethiopia: evidence from smallholder malt barley producers in the highlands of the Cent... by Tamrat Gebiso Challa, Ephrem Boka Dube, Ibsa Dawid, Eihab Fathelrahman

“…Household-level data from 248 randomly sampled households were collected by face-to-face interviews using a structured questionnaire. In addition, focus group discussions (FGDs), key informant interviews (KIIs), and secondary data were used to substantiate the household-level data. …”
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Timely Initiation of Complementary Feeding and Associated Factors among Mothers of Children Aged 6–24 Months in Dessie Referral Hospital, Northeast Ethiopia, 2019 by Atsedemariam Andualem, Afework Edmealem, Belachew Tegegne, Lehulu Tilahun, Yitayish Damtie

“…Data were collected using pretested and validated structured interviewer-administered questionnaire. Data were entered to Epi data version 3.1 and exported to SPSS version 20.0 software for analysis. …”
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Knowledge, attitudes and practices of healthcare professionals in the management of patients with hypertension and concurrent bronchial asthma: a cross-sectional study in the Yello... by Yang Yang, Wenwen Xu, Fei Yu, Xiaohong Yan, Xingbin Ma, Jinxiang Gao

“…Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed having a Bachelor’s degree or higher education (OR=0.614; 95% CI (0.421, 0.896); p=0.011), and a knowledge score ≥8 (OR=2.130; 95% CI (1.527, 2.973); p&lt;0.001) significantly predicted adherence to recommended practices. Structural equation modelling revealed significant direct effects between knowledge and attitude (β=0.578, p=0.010) and between knowledge and practice (β=0.221, p=0.010). …”
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UAV-OVD: Open-Vocabulary Object Detection in UAV Imagery via Multi-Level Text-Guided Decoding by Lijie Tao, Guoting Wei, Zhuo Wang, Zhaoshuai Qi, Ying Li, Haokui Zhang

“…Structurally, building on this, we introduce a multi-level text-guided fusion decoder that integrates visual features across multiple spatial scales under language guidance, thereby improving overall detection performance and enhancing the representation and perception of small objects. …”
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