Indigenous Knowledge on Edible Wild Yams (Kumbu) in the Mount Cameroon Region: Towards Domestication for Enhanced Food Security by Frederick Tilili Moleye, Mercy Dione Abwe Ngone, Solange Dzekewong Ndzeshala Takwi, Jean-Pierre Mvodo, Christopher Ngosong

“…Following reconnaissance surveys, semi-structured questionnaires were administered to 583 interviewees across 41 villages in this region. …”
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Co-Operation Between Actors in Dual Training Programmes: Conditions for Success in the Mexican Tourism Sector by Matthias Pilz, Beke Vogelsang

“…The aspect of contracts at an international and national level was also recognised as an independent principle from our data, which can be assigned to the category "control". …”
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Local perceptions of the cultural and ecological significance of Southern Mistbelt Forests in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa by Siboniso Magoso, Mfundo S.T. Maseko, Lindiswa Buthelezi, Colleen T. Downs

“…We administered 360 questionnaires across seven selected rural communities and collected data on forest use, value, and perceptions. We used generalised linear mixed models (GLMMs) to assess the effects of predictor variables on our response variables. …”
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A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Healthy Lifestyle Intervention to Improve Mental Health among School-Going Adolescents by Esra Tajik, MohammadReza Mohammadi, Hamid Rahmanian

“… Objective: Despite growing evidence on the influence of lifestyle on adolescent mental health, structured educational interventions addressing multiple health dimensions remain limited. …”
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Prevalence of malaria and associated risk factors among febrile under-five refugee children attending Panyadoli Health Centre III, Kiryandongo District, Mid-western Uganda by Dorcus Acan, Robert Opiro, Benson Musinguzi, Bosco B. Agaba, Simon Peter Alarakol

“…Simple random sampling was employed to select 380 participants, who were then tested for the presence of malaria parasites using malaria rapid diagnostic tests and microscopy techniques. Data on risk factors of malaria was collected using a pre-tested and standardized semi-structured questionnaire. …”
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Toward healthy behavior: fear of missing out, smartphone, social networking addiction, and life satisfaction among medical students at Tanta University, Egypt by Eman Ali Younis, Asmaa Mohammad Ahmad Mohammad, Aya Farag Attia Elsebaey

“…A total of 630 students were selected by a simple random technique. Data were collected using a structured self-administered questionnaire that involved the FOMO, smartphone and social media addiction, and life satisfaction scales. …”
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Effect of Body Mechanics Training Program on Low Back Pain and Disability among Patients with Lumbar Disc Prolapse by Rawia A. Ibrahim, Wataneya K. Atya

“…This study was conducted in the neurosurgery department and neurosurgery outpatient clinic at Benha University Hospital on a purposive sample of patients diagnosed with lumbar disc prolapse. Three tools for data collection were used; a Structured interviewing questionnaire for patients; a visual analog pain scale, and Oswestry low back pain disability questionnaire. …”
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Food insecurity and dietary intakes as correlates of anxiety and depression in underserved settlements in Khulna Division of Bangladesh: a developing country perspective by Suvasish Das Shuvo, Ambika Charan Mandal, Lisa Khanum, Md Abu Bashar, Deepa Roy, Dipak Kumar Paul

“…Objective This study aimed to investigate the association between food insecurity and dietary intake with anxiety and depression among residents of underserved urban settlements in Bangladesh.Design This cross-sectional study was used to collect data from participants through face-to-face interviews using structured questionnaires. …”
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Design and Evaluation of ADANet: A High-Fidelity Motion Acquisition Framework for Assistive Gesture-Based Interfaces by Md Ettashamul Haque, Atique Tajwar, Akm Azad, Salem A. Alyami, Md Mehedi Hasan

“…The proposed system combines a high-fidelity ADXL335 triaxial accelerometer with an ESP32 microcontroller, forming a lightweight and cost-efficient motion acquisition pipeline. A structured preprocessing architecture is developed, incorporating zero-lag Butterworth filtering, entropy-based temporal smoothing, and computation of 33 handcrafted statistical features, including axis-specific jerk, signal magnitude area (SMA), and range-normalized entropy. …”
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Effects of culturally-appropriate group education for migrants with type 2 diabetes in primary healthcare: pre-test-post-test design by Katarina Hjelm, Emina Hadziabdic

“…Methods Observational study evaluating the intervention using a pre-test-post-test design. It involved structured interviews and HbA1c measurements before, immediately after, and three months post-participation in the group-based intervention. …”
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Xerophthalmia and Its Associated Factors among School-Age Children in Amba Giorgis Town, Northwest Ethiopia, 2018 by Gizachew Tilahun Belete, Assefa Lake Fenta, Mohammed Seid Hussen

“…The study participants were selected through systematic random sampling method. Data were collected using a pretested structured questionnaire and ophthalmic examination with different ophthalmic instruments. …”
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Nutritional Recovery and Its Predictors among Adult HIV Patients on Therapeutic Feeding Program at Finote-Selam General Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Gedefaw Diress, Nurilign Abebe Moges

“…An institutional-based retrospective cohort study was conducted among 376 randomly selected adult undernourished HIV patients enrolled in the therapeutic feeding program from July 2010 to January 2017 at Finote-Selam General Hospital. Data were collected by reviewing patients’ charts, follow-up cards, and undernutrition treatment registration books using a pretested structured checklist. …”
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Para-muscular and trans-muscular approaches to the lumbar inter-vertebral foramen: an anatomical comparison Acessos paramuscular e transmuscular ao forame intervertebral lombar: co... by Arthur Werner Poetscher, Guilherme Carvalhal Ribas, Alexandre Yasuda, Koshiro Nishikuni

“…Otherwise, posterior lateral approaches through a trans-muscular or a para-muscular technique offer no significant damage to key structures for spinal stability. The surgical anatomy of these approaches has already been described, but they were not compared. …”
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Trends and Medical Indications of Cesarean Section in the Public Health Sector by Rebar Yahya Abdullah, Harjeen Rasul Mohammed Ali

“…A convenience sampling technique was used to recruit 400 women admitted for cesarean deliveries. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire covering sociodemographic and maternal factors, while cesarean indications were extracted from medical records. …”
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A joint hospital initiative to strengthen general palliative care in the hospital: an action research study on challenges and facilitators by H. Bergenholtz, C. Kragh, M. Ziebell, B. Hølge-Hazelton, O. Gaardboe

“…The results highlight barriers such as a lack of standardized structures and fragmented care approaches, alongside facilitators like employing dedicated palliative resource persons, increasing awareness of general palliative care, and involvement of paraclinical specialties who face ethical dilemmas balancing treatment protocols with patient well-being. …”
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Wild medicine - exploring medication management challenges in transition and interaction across actors and health sectors related to older adults receiving polypharmacy: a qualitat... by Gitte Wind, Karen-Marie Olesen, Janne Friis Andersen, Line Hillersdal

“…Data collection was followed by thematic analysis. …”
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Knowledge and self-care practice among patients with hypertension in tertiary public hospitals of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A multicenter cross-sectional study by Freweini Gebremeskel Gebresilase, Yohannes Ayalew Bekele, Ketema Bizuwork Gebremedhin, Boka Dugassa Tolera

“…A face-to-face interview was administered using a structured questionnaire. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 27.0. …”
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The association between repeated abortions during childbearing age and the psychological well-being of postmenopausal women in Southwest China: an observational study by Xu Li, Anjiao Peng, Lin Li, Lei Chen

“…A standard structured questionnaire was used to assess abortion status among women of childbearing age. …”
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Análise das práticas de gestão PDP em empresas de um polo industrial de revestimento cerâmico Analysis of PDP management in the ceramic tile industry pole by Marcela Avelina Bataghin Costa, José Carlos de Toledo

“…It was also possible to observe that, in general, all companies are structured with little regard to PDP management, using few management tools, and are technologically dependent on the innovation capacity of their suppliers, mainly producers of enamels ('Colorificio').…”
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Identifying clinically useful COVID-19 population and emergency department phenotypes across the pre-Omicron and Omicron periods by Lander Rodriguez-Idiazabal, Daniel Fernández, Jose M. Quintana, Julia Garcia-Asensio, Maria Jose Legarreta, Nere Larrea, Irantzu Barrio

“…This can be accomplished through data-driven unsupervised methods that do not require clinical outcomes to be available. …”
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