Maternal and gestational factors associated with congenital anomalies among live births: a nationwide population-based study in Brazil from 2012 to 2020 by Qeren Hapuk Rodrigues Ferreira Fernandes, Enny S. Paixão, Maria da Conceição Nascimento Costa, Maria Glória Teixeira, Mauricio Lima Barreto, Angelina Xavier Acosta

“…Abstract Background Congenital anomalies are structural and/or functional alterations that contribute significantly to an increase in morbidity and mortality risk observed in children around the world. …”
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Transformer-based tokenization for IoT traffic classification across diverse network environments by Firdaus Afifi, Faiz Zaki, Hazim Hanif, Nik Aqil, Nor Badrul Anuar

“…A key innovation is IoT-Tokenize, a custom tokenization pipeline designed to preserve the structural semantics of network flows by converting statistical traffic features into semantically meaningful feature-value pairs. …”
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Chronic Wound Management in Romania: A Survey on Practices, Protocols, and PRP Efficacy by Stefania-Mihaela Riza, Andrei-Ludovic Porosnicu, Cristian-Sorin Hariga, Ruxandra-Diana Sinescu

“…The implementation of structured guidelines and the integration of regenerative therapies could enhance the management of chronic wounds. …”
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Antiepileptic pharmacotherapy is the leading factor in the induced pathomorphosis of epilepsy by M. G. Amirkhanian

“…Among those,  who underwent MRI examination, structural epileptogenic changes were detected in 37 (54%)  patients [21 (72%) M and 16 (40%) W (p<0.05)]. …”
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Knowledge Attitudes and Practices Regarding Malaria and HIV in People Living in Rural Ghana by Felix Abekah Botchway, Cecilia Elorm Lekpor, Prince Agyeman, Ebenezer Krampah Aidoo, Jacob Apibilla Ayembilla, Micheal Appiah, Ahmed Mashud, Richard Kobina Dadzie Ephraim

“…Responses from participants were recorded on a semi‐structured questionnaire. Data entry was done with Microsoft Office Excel 2010, analysis was performed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), version 20.0, and the results were summarized using tables. …”
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Effectiveness of Combined Exercise and Nutritional-Behavioral Intervention on Health Outcomes among Patients with Bariatric Surgery by Amal S. Taha, Marwa M. Ali

“…Two tools were utilized for data collection; the patient structured interviewing questionnaire and the patient’s health outcomes questionnaires that included anthropometric measures, eating behavior and food frequency questionnaire, international physical activity questionnaire, and the Moorehead-Ardelt quality of life questionnaire. …”
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Intelligent Defect Identification Based on PECT Signals and an Optimized Two-Dimensional Deep Convolutional Network by Baoling Liu, Jun He, Xiaocui Yuan, Huiling Hu, Xuan Zeng, Zhifang Zhu, Jie Peng

“…However, in conventional data-driven defect identification methods, the signal feature extraction is time consuming and requires expert experience. …”
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Peer-led learning: a novel approach to promote rural healthcare interest among medical students by Grace Perez, Alyssa Groves, Lana Fehr, Lana Fehr, Aaron Johnston

“…Quantitative data were summarized with descriptive statistics. …”
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Multidisciplinary input improves the management outcomes of immune thrombocytopenia in pregnancy by Sanika Dalvi, Sarah Davis, Drew Solan

“…Conclusion: There is a necessity for structured multidisciplinary collaboration in managing ITP in pregnancy. …”
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Identification and expression pattern analysis of the C2H2 family in the whole genome of Agaricus bisporus by Mengjiao Tao, Yanqi Han, Songhan Liu, Xin Zhang, Liyun Ye, Nanyi Li

“…Quantitative PCR validation further substantiated the transcriptome data, confirming the pivotal role of the AbC2H2 family in regulating the growth and developmental pathways in Agaricus bisporus. …”
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Competencias que precisan estudiantes de educación física en la práctica profesional: representaciones desde la experiencia de profesores mentores del sistema escolar chileno (Com... by Maryorie Alejandra Guerrero Sánchez, Pamela Martínez Andunce, Claudio Hinojosa Torres, Hugo Vargas Díaz, Anthony Araya Hernández, Macarena Hurtado Guerrero

“…A qualitative methodology and a phenomenological design were determined. Data were collected with a semi-structured interview with 23 mentor teachers from educational schools in the Valparaíso, Chile. …”
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Navigating norms: a qualitative exploration of factors shaping contraceptive use in Senegal by Manuela Reveiz, Rahmatoulah Gueye, Thaïs González Capella, Marieme Fall, Nour Horanieh, Nour Horanieh, Elizabeth Larson, Beniamino Cislaghi

“…Three policy implications arise: (1) Addressing broader social needs and support mechanisms. (2) Integrating insights from violence against women research and theories on the dynamics of abuse into FP programs. (3) Integrating men further into FP programming to address misconceptions.ConclusionDrawing on data from 256 young people, men, and women of reproductive age, we uncovered how women navigate the terrain of social norms within their networks, shaping their choices concerning contraceptive utilization.…”
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Contexts, affective and physical states and their variations during physical activity in older adults: an intensive longitudinal study with sensor-triggered event-based ecological... by Julie Delobelle, Sofie Compernolle, Tomas Vetrovsky, Jelle Van Cauwenberg, Delfien Van Dyck

“…Descriptive statistics and generalized mixed models were used for data analysis. Results Older adults predominantly engaged in daily physical activities, such as walking for transport, leisure walking, and gardening, rather than structured exercise. …”
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Nutritional Status and Associated Factors among Primary Schoolchildren from Pastoral Communities, Mieso-Mulu District, Sitti Zone, Somali Regional State, Eastern Ethiopia: Institut... by Alayou Geletaw, Gudina Egata, Fitsum Weldegebreal, Gesessew Kibr, Mohammed Semaw

“…Study participants were selected using two-stage sampling procedures. Data were collected using structured, translated, pretested, and interviewer-administered questionnaires. …”
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Modelo hidrogeofísico de la cuenca sur de La Habana by González Espinosa Jacqueline, Valcarce Ortega Rosa M.

“…<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: ";Arial";,";sans-serif";; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">A hidrogeophysical model of the South Basin of La Habana is presented as the result of multivaried statistical processing applied to well logging and transmisivity data from pumping test Through combining Euclidian Group Analysis, correlation analysis and Uvarov relationships it was possible to separate the structured components of the different variables and: to define the correlation between the geophysical parameters of the well and the filtration velocity of the groundwater, these coefficients are above 0.8; to establish the relation between Dar-Zarrouk parameters (from electrical well logging) and transmisivity (from pumping tests). …”
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Itinerário terapêutico no câncer de mama: uma contribuição para o cuidado de enfermagem [Therapeutic itinerary in breast cancer: a contribution to the nursing care] by Luciana Martins da Rosa, Vera Radünz

“…ABSTRACT Qualitative study which aimed to know the therapeutic itinerary adopted by women with breast cancer. Data were collected from 13 women through semi-structured interview, from August to December 2010 and were analyzed by content analysis. …”
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ASSESSMENT OF THE N-TERMINAL COLLAGEN III-TYPE PROPEPTIDE IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC HEART FAILURE AND METABOLIC SYNDROME by O. M. Drapkina, E. V. Zyatenkova

“…In statistical analysis there were significant relations of laboratory data and PIIINP: uric acid level (r=0,37; p=0,001); glucose level (r=0,29; p=0,011). …”
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Integrated WHT- and DFT-Based Multiuser Massive MIMO System for Secure RIS-Enabled mmWave Communications by Md. Najmul Hossain, Md. Rakibul Islam, S. K. Tamanna Kamal, Atia Kaniz, Shaikh Enayet Ullah, Tetsuya Shimamura

“…Enhancing signal quality by reducing multiuser interference (MUI), improving system energy efficiency and spectrum efficiency, minimizing interference with adjacent frequency bands, and ensuring secure data communication are critical challenges in the development of future-generation reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-enabled wireless communication systems. …”
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Assessing and enhancing the reliability of Chinese large language models in dental implantology by Guohui Zhu, Xiao Zhang, Chunxia Chen

“…Two enhancement techniques, chain of thought (CoT) reasoning and long text modeling (LTM), were applied, and their effectiveness was analyzed by comparing the metrics before and after the application of these techniques. Data analysis was conducted using SPSS software. …”
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A New and Tested Ionospheric TEC Prediction Method Based on SegED-ConvLSTM by Yuanhang Liu, Yingkui Gong, Hao Zhang, Ziyue Hu, Guang Yang, Hong Yuan

“…Moreover, we apply Gaussian process regression (GPR) interpolation to geomagnetic data to characterize impact on the ionosphere, thereby enhancing the prediction accuracy. …”
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