Assessing the impact of critical care training on pharmacy students in Egypt: a pre-post study by Hebatallah Ahmed Mohamed Moustafa, Alaa Essawy Hamid, Gehad Hassoub, Amira B. Kassem

“…Conclusion The present study provides clear evidence that integrating this critical care training course into a structured curriculum for pharmacy students using experiential learning can act as a facilitator of knowledge enrichment, increase their self-esteem and self-efficacy, and make them satisfied with learning. …”
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Exploring the Integration of Atomic Habits in Pedagogical Frameworks: A Qualitative Analysis of Teachers’ Implementation and Students’ Outcomes by Fakhar Ul-Zaman, Muhammad Safdar Bhatti, Samina Semab, Muhammad Junaid Aslam, Muhammad Awais Anwer, Maria Noor

“…The results indicate that when teachers employed strategies like identity-based habits, habit stacking, and environmental structuring, they experienced an enhancement in the students’ motivation, academic engagement, and performance. …”
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Prevalence and Factors Associated with Anemia among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Clinic at St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Angesom Gebreweld, Aster Tsegaye

“…Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College from June to August 2014. Data on sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of the study participants were collected using a pretested structured questionnaire by interview and review of medical records. …”
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Applying the FAIR Principles to Open Educational Resources: A Semantic Similarity Approach to Improve Resource Discovery by Farzaneh Sadeghi, Auriol Degbelo, Carsten Kessler, Reza Zolnouri

“…We constructed a knowledge graph of approximately 500 FAIR OER, each annotated with structured metadata using the Schema.org vocabulary and made accessible through a SPARQL endpoint. …”
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Knowledge, attitudes and practices of meat hygiene among slaughterhouse workers and retail meat sellers in Bangladesh by Md Asibul Hasan, Md Bashir Uddin, Syed Sayeem Uddin Ahmed

“…A descriptive, cross-sectional survey was conducted, encompassing 408 meat handlers selected through a multistage sampling approach. Data on their knowledge, attitudes, and practices of meat hygiene were collected using a structured questionnaire, and then analyzed. …”
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Building the capacity of community health volunteers for non-communicable disease prevention in low-income urban communities in Malaysia by Wan Farihah Ahmad Fahmy, Nabihah Haron, Shiang Cheng Lim, Angela Jackson-Morris, Feisul I. Mustapha

“…A mixed methods evaluation approach was used, including quantitative surveys and routine data, focus group discussions, and semi-structured interviews…”
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Assessment of Quality of Antenatal Care Services and Its Determinant Factors in Public Health Facilities of Hossana Town, Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia: A Longitudinal Study by Trhas Tadesse Berehe, Lebitsi Maud Modibia

“…Data was entered into Epi Info version 3.5 and transferred to STATA Version 14 software and cleaned by reviewing frequency tables, logical errors, and checking outliers. …”
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Gender differences in defense mechanisms, ways of coping with stress and sense of identity in adolescent suicide attempts by Dilşad Foto-Özdemir, Devrim Akdemir, Füsun Çuhadaroğlu-Çetin

“…They were evaluated with a semi-structured clinical interview (K-SADS), Ways of Coping Inventory (WCI), Defense Mechanisms Inventory (DMI) and Sense of Identity Assessment Form (SIAF). 60.9% (n = 39) of the adolescents were female, and 39.1% (n=25) were male. …”
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The sediment source and formation mechanism of the Paleozoic reservoirs in Western Desert, Egypt by Hong Zhang, Yongjie Hu, Zixuan Liu, Hongxia Liu, Chunfang Cai

“…Parallel bedding, cross-bedding and slump structures, and many different types of fossils are well-developed here. …”
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Minimally Invasive Surgery in Modern Medicine: A Review of Laparoscopic Techniques, Indications, and Postoperative Outcomes by Maksymilian Czarnota, Martyna Adamowicz, Aleksandra Górniak

“…Objective: To integrate recent data on laparoscopic indications, technological advances and patient-centred outcomes. …”
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Self-management and COPD: a qualitative study to explore the perceived barriers and recommendations to improve COPD management using the Information-Motivation-Behavioral skills mo... by Xiaomei Chen, Ningyu Wen, Jia Liu, Yuxuan He, Li Wei, Rui Zhang, Yanni Yang

“…Data were transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic analysis. …”
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Occupational exposure to blood-borne or body fluid pathogens among medical interns at Addington Hospital, Durban by H. Karani, S. Rangiah, A.J. Ross

“…Methods: A descriptive study design was devised and a structured questionnaire distributed to all interns employed at Addington Hospital in December 2008. …”
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The quality of institutions in shaping women’s entrepreneurship: A perspective of European Union member states by Aleksandra Gaweł, Timo Toikko

“…Implications & Recommendations: The mixed effects of the impact of the quality of institutions on women’s entrepreneurship indicate the challenges in combining the goals of reaching well-structured societies and reducing the gender gap in entrepreneurship. …”
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Automated Insights Into GitHub Collaboration Dynamics by Jie Bian, Nikolay Arefev, Max Muhlhauser, Michael Welzl

“…Large projects may comprise hundreds of distributed collaborators and thousands of GitHub “issues” (structured discussions). It includes basic support for dealing with issues, via “Pull Requests” (PRs)—document changes that can manually be defined to “close” them (i.e., they address and thereby conclude the issue discussion). …”
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342 Acceptability of a Mobile K-12 School-Based Clinic for pediatric diabetes and obesity care by Melanie Bryan, Bockstruck Pamela Stone, Lynnell Patton, Brandy Markley, Melissa Sicard, Ana Maria Arbelaez

“…Phase 2 piloted the program to refine logistics and workflows. Semi-structured interviews and surveys were conducted with caregivers to assess program acceptability and satisfaction. …”
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Design and validation of the reflection skills self-assessment questionnaire (RSSAQ) by Hadi Hamedfar, Mohammad Barzegar, Fatemeh Ranjbar, Saeideh Ghaffarifar

“…For doing so, 151 students filled out the questionnaire. The data was analyzed using IBM SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) Statistics for Windows version 16 and Analysis of Moment Structures (AMOS). …”
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DualDistill: a dual-guided self-distillation approach for carotid plaque analysis by Xiaoman Zhang, Jiang Xie, Haibing Chen, Haiya Wang

“…To address these challenges, this study introduces a structured self-distillation framework, named DualDistill, designed to improve classification accuracy and generalization performance in analyzing ultrasound videos of carotid plaques. …”
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Factors Influencing Management of Enteral Nutrition Among Nurses in Health Facilities of Kisumu County, Kenya by Jeremiah Nyoni, John Okoth, Damaris Ochanda

“…Twelve key informants were interviewed. Data collection tools included a structured self-administered questionnaire, a nurses' practice observation checklist, and an interview guide. …”
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Healthcare workers' perspective about barriers and facilitators to pediatric HIV status disclosure in eastern Uganda using capability opportunity and motivation of behavior change... by Joseph Kirabira, Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Brian C Zanoni, Celestino Obua, Edith Wakida, Christine Etoko Atala, Naume Etoko Akello, Keng-Yen Huang, Scholastic Ashaba

“…Research assistants collected data using a semi-structured interview guide designed based on the Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation of Behavior change (COM-B) Model. …”
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Utilization of borax and its impact on the income and the livelihood of miners and other stakeholders: A case of Uganda. by James Natweta Baguma, Victoria Mukasa, D K Sekimpi, Daniel Sekabojja, Victoria Nabankema, Kamese Geoffrey, Eva Magambo, John Ssempebwa, Margrethe Smidth

“…<h4>Methods</h4>A cross-sectional study using mixed methods was employed between October 2022 and January 2023 with data collected from 161 miners through semi-structured questionnaires, Key Informant Interviews (KIIs), Focus Group Discussions (FGDs), and observations. …”
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