A Delphi-based framework for optimizing nurse staffing in Chinese hospitals by Waner Wang, Waner Wang, Gege Li, Jiangfeng Pu, Tiemei Shen, Zhanghao Xie, Lifang Chen, Hong Cui, Peng Xu, Huigen Huang, Huigen Huang

“…This study is the first structured Delphi-and AHP-based staffing evaluation system in a Chinese hospital setting. …”
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Barriers and facilitators of COVID-19 vaccination among drug users: a qualitative analysis for future crisis management by Salah Eddin Karimi, Sina Ahmadi, Neda SoleimanvandiAzar, Zahra Rampisheh, Marzieh Nojomi, Elham Sepahvand, Fateh Tavangar, Seyed Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi, Batool Tayefi, Peter Higgs

“…Materials and methods In this qualitative study data were collected through semi-structured interviews with participants through purposeful sampling with maximum variation. …”
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Monitoring the Morphology of M87* in 2009–2017 with the Event Horizon Telescope by Maciek Wielgus, Kazunori Akiyama, Lindy Blackburn, Chi-kwan Chan, Jason Dexter, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Vincent L. Fish, Sara Issaoun, Michael D. Johnson, Thomas P. Krichbaum, Ru-Sen Lu, Dominic W. Pesce, George N. Wong, Geoffrey C. Bower, Avery E. Broderick, Andrew Chael, Koushik Chatterjee, Charles F. Gammie, Boris Georgiev, Kazuhiro Hada, Laurent Loinard, Sera Markoff, Daniel P. Marrone, Richard Plambeck, Jonathan Weintroub, Matthew Dexter, David H. E. MacMahon, Melvyn Wright, Antxon Alberdi, Walter Alef, Keiichi Asada, Rebecca Azulay, Anne-Kathrin Baczko, David Ball, Mislav Baloković, Enrico Barausse, John Barrett, Dan Bintley, Wilfred Boland, Katherine L. Bouman, Michael Bremer, Christiaan D. Brinkerink, Roger Brissenden, Silke Britzen, Dominique Broguiere, Thomas Bronzwaer, Do-Young Byun, John E. Carlstrom, Shami Chatterjee, Ming-Tang Chen, Yongjun Chen, Ilje Cho, Pierre Christian, John E. Conway, James M. Cordes, Geoffrey B. Crew, Yuzhu Cui, Jordy Davelaar, Mariafelicia De Laurentis, Roger Deane, Jessica Dempsey, Gregory Desvignes, Sergio A. Dzib, Ralph P. Eatough, Heino Falcke, Ed Fomalont, Raquel Fraga-Encinas, Per Friberg, Christian M. Fromm, Peter Galison, Roberto García, Olivier Gentaz, Ciriaco Goddi, Roman Gold, José L. Gómez, Arturo I. Gómez-Ruiz, Minfeng Gu, Mark Gurwell, Michael H. Hecht, Ronald Hesper, Luis C. Ho, Paul Ho, Mareki Honma, Chih-Wei L. Huang, Lei Huang, David H. Hughes, Makoto Inoue, David J. James, Buell T. Jannuzi, Michael Janssen, Britton Jeter, Wu Jiang, Alejandra Jimenez-Rosales, Svetlana Jorstad, Taehyun Jung, Mansour Karami, Ramesh Karuppusamy, Tomohisa Kawashima, Garrett K. Keating, Mark Kettenis, Jae-Young Kim, Junhan Kim, Jongsoo Kim, Motoki Kino, Jun Yi Koay, Patrick M. Koch, Shoko Koyama, Michael Kramer, Carsten Kramer, Cheng-Yu Kuo, Tod R. Lauer, Sang-Sung Lee, Yan-Rong Li, Zhiyuan Li, Michael Lindqvist, Rocco Lico, Kuo Liu, Elisabetta Liuzzo, Wen-Ping Lo, Andrei P. Lobanov, Colin Lonsdale, Nicholas R. MacDonald, Jirong Mao, Nicola Marchili, Alan P. Marscher, Iván Martí-Vidal, Satoki Matsushita, Lynn D. Matthews, Lia Medeiros, Karl M. Menten, Yosuke Mizuno, Izumi Mizuno, James M. Moran, Kotaro Moriyama, Monika Moscibrodzka, Cornelia Müller, Gibwa Musoke, Hiroshi Nagai, Neil M. Nagar, Masanori Nakamura, Ramesh Narayan, Gopal Narayanan, Iniyan Natarajan, Antonios Nathanail, Roberto Neri, Chunchong Ni, Aristeidis Noutsos, Hiroki Okino, Héctor Olivares, Gisela N. Ortiz-León, Tomoaki Oyama, Feryal Özel, Daniel C. M. Palumbo, Jongho Park, Nimesh Patel, Ue-Li Pen, Vincent Piétu, Aleksandar PopStefanija, Oliver Porth, Ben Prather, Jorge A. Preciado-López, Dimitrios Psaltis, Hung-Yi Pu, Venkatessh Ramakrishnan, Ramprasad Rao, Mark G. Rawlings, Alexander W. Raymond, Luciano Rezzolla, Bart Ripperda, Freek Roelofs, Alan Rogers, Eduardo Ros, Mel Rose, Arash Roshanineshat, Helge Rottmann, Alan L. Roy, Chet Ruszczyk, Benjamin R. Ryan, Kazi L. J. Rygl, Salvador Sánchez, David Sánchez-Arguelles, Mahito Sasada, Tuomas Savolainen, F. Peter Schloerb, Karl-Friedrich Schuster, Lijing Shao, Zhiqiang Shen, Des Small, Bong Won Sohn, Jason SooHoo, Fumie Tazaki, Paul Tiede, Remo P. J. Tilanus, Michael Titus, Kenji Toma, Pablo Torne, Tyler Trent, Efthalia Traianou, Sascha Trippe, Shuichiro Tsuda, Ilse van Bemmel, Huib Jan van Langevelde, Daniel R. van Rossum, Jan Wagner, John Wardle, Derek Ward-Thompson, Norbert Wex, Robert Wharton, Qingwen Wu, Doosoo Yoon, André Young, Ken Young, Ziri Younsi, Feng Yuan, Ye-Fei Yuan, J. Anton Zensus, Guangyao Zhao, Shan-Shan Zhao, Ziyan Zhu

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Alcohol consumption and associated factors among pregnant women at public health centers in Asella town, southeastern Ethiopia: a multicenter mixed-method cross-sectional study by Jibril Bashir Adem, Anas Ali Alhur, Legesse Tadesse Wodajo, Sudi Jemal Wado, Tewodros Desalegn Nebi

“…Using a simple random sampling method, 353 participants out of 388 pre-calculated samples were selected from pregnant women attending antenatal care services of public health centers in Asella town, and the data were collected via semi-structured and structured questionnaires. Quantitative data were analyzed using Epidata version 3.1 and Stata version 14. …”
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Clinical information prompt-driven retinal fundus image for brain health evaluation by Nuo Tong, Ying Hui, Shui-Ping Gou, Ling-Xi Chen, Xiang-Hong Wang, Shuo-Hua Chen, Jing Li, Xiao-Shuai Li, Yun-Tao Wu, Shou-Ling Wu, Zhen-Chang Wang, Jing Sun, Han Lv

“…Thus, the CMCR framework accurately captured the latent structural correlations between the fundus and the brain. …”
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A tritrophic plant-insect-pathogen system used to develop a closely linked Rag2 and Rsv1-h recombinant haplotype in double-resistant soybean germplasm by Luis G. Posadas, Edson LL Baldin, Lia Marchi-Werle, Tiffany M. Heng-Moss, Scott Speck, Robert M. Stupar, Kent M. Eskridge, George L. Graef

“…The objectives of this work were to (i) develop double-resistant recombinant inbred lines (RILs) with a Rag2-Rsv1-h gene haplotype in coupling phase using resistance alleles from two different genetic sources (PI 243540 (Rag2) and Suweon 97 (Rsv1-h)), (ii) confirm phenotypically the resistant reaction against both pests in double-resistant RILs, and (iii) dissect the Rag2-Rsv1-h region with molecular markers and investigate the potential for structural variation. Results We observed a recombination event in identified double-resistant F3:5 RILs in a region of chromosome 13 ca. 21 kb long (between positions 30,297,227 and 30,318,949 in Wm82.a2.v1) that lies between the reported locations of the Rsv1-h and Rag2 genes (29,815,463--29,912,369 and 30,412,581--30,466,533 intervals, respectively, based on Wm82.a2.v1), indicating the double-resistant haplotype is in coupling phase. …”
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Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices Regarding National Programme on Climate Change and Human Health Among Government Healthcare Workers of Datia City by Bikramjeet Mitra, Rajju Tiwari, Rohit Trivedi, P Adhikari, Sanjeev Kumar, Kalpana Arya, Ashish Raghuwanshi

“…Healthcare workers at the Medical College and District Hospital in Datia were given a semi-structured questionnaire via Google Form between October 1 and October 30, 2023. …”
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Assessing the impact of forest proximity on household economic well-being in rural Nigeria by Bolaji Kofoworola Adedigba, Oyelowo Oyetayo, Ahmed Ahmed Olaitan, Adebayo Dorcas Olukemi

“…A multistage sampling technique, supported by a structured questionnaire, was employed. Three states with the highest concentration of forests in Southwestern Nigeria were purposively selected. …”
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The complexity of needs and roles of family members during breast cancer rehabilitation: a qualitative study by Marlene Malmström, Annette Holst-Hansson, Ulrika Olsson Möller

“…Methods A qualitative study was conducted, involving semi-structured individual telephone interviews with 20 purposefully selected family members of women with breast cancer (13 men aged 24–79 years, 7 women aged 19–76 years). …”
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Research on Thermal Performance of Polypropylene Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Wall Panels by Zhe Zhang, Yiru Hou, Yi Wang

“…Reducing the spacing of the connectors improved the load-bearing capacity of the composite wall panel to some extent but had minimal influence on the heat transfer coefficient; to achieve optimal performance by balancing structural load distribution and thermal damage resistance, a connector spacing ranging from 200 mm to 500 mm is recommended. …”
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Study of the wheel eccentric load mechanism in hydraulic engineering vehicles and improvement measures by LIU Jiahui, HUANG Zhihui, YU Hongda, TIAN Mingjie

“…Additionally, a calculation model for wheel eccentric load was established in MATLAB software for further theoretical analysis, which revealed the underlying mechanism of wheel eccentric load and facilitated structural modifications aimed at mitigating this imbalance. …”
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Thermal Optimization Design for a Small Flat-Panel Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellite by Tian Bai, Yuanbo Zhang, Lin Kong, Hongrui Ao, Jisong Yu, Lei Zhang

“…The thermal control method of the antenna is closely integrated with structural design, simplifying the thermal design and its assembly process, reducing the resource consumption of thermal control systems. …”
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Environmental Gradients in Lizard Colouration by Lekshmi B. Sreelatha, Pedro Tarroso, Ossi Nokelainen, Zbyszek Boratyński, Miguel Angel Carretero

“…However, the extent to which climatic gradients drive colour variation in a species across its distributional range remains unclear. …”
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Inter subject variability and reproducibility of diffusion tensor imaging within and between different imaging sessions. by Tonny V Veenith, Eleanor Carter, Julia Grossac, Virginia F J Newcombe, Joanne G Outtrim, Victoria Lupson, Guy B Williams, David K Menon, Jonathan P Coles

“…At each session two identical diffusion tensor sequences were obtained along with standard structural imaging. Fractional anisotropy, apparent diffusion coefficient, axial and radial diffusivity maps were created and regions of interest applied in normalised space. …”
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Do feed-in tariffs unlock green finance? A panel study of banking sector assets and renewable energy consumption across 66 countries around the world by Olena Shcherbakova

“…The model explains 20.8% (R2=0.208) of within-country variation, and fixed effects vary substantially, underscoring structural differences across countries.…”
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The Development of the National Football Development Program (NFDP) Coaching Process Model: Emphasis on Small Sided Game (SSG) Approach by Zulakbal Abd Karim, Asraf Razak, Fakrul Hazely Ismail, Abdul Rahman Muhammad, Syed Kamaruzaman Syed Ali, Amin Akbar

“…These games are less structured than traditional fitness training methods but are very popular training drills for players of all ages and levels. …”
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The drivers of sustainable development in South African economy: The role of female advancement by Abiola John Asaleye, Kariena Strydom

“…Given this, the study investigates the connection between three dimensions of sustainable development and female advancement in South Africa using auto-regressive disturbed lags (ARDL), Structural Vector autoregressive (SVAR) and Ganger non-causality approach. …”
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Midwives’ practice challenges in triaging expectant mothers: a qualitative study in Mpumalanga maternity units, South Africa by Mxolisi Welcome Ngwenya, Livhuwani Muthelo, Melitah Molatelo Rasweswe, Tebogo Maria Mothiba

“…Semi-structured interviews were conducted for data collection, and data saturation was reached and confirmed with the 20th participant. …”
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Formal caregivers’ knowledge, attitudes, and challenges in end-of-life care for people with advanced dementia: a qualitative study in Chinese nursing home by Ye Ouyang, Chunyu Cheng, Qing Sun, Linbing Chen, Liping Wang

“…Methods A qualitative descriptive study utilizing semi-structured interviews. Twelve formal carers with experience in caring for individuals with advanced dementia were recruited from Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, China. …”
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Medication management for older adults in interprofessional primary care teams: a qualitative interview study of family health teams in Ontario, Canada by Monika Roerig, Julie Vizza, David Rudoler, Sara Allin, Elisabeth Martin, Agnes Grudniewicz

“…Methods We conducted semi-structured interviews (n = 38) with administrators, family physicians, and IHPs from six FHTs in Ontario, Canada. …”
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