Teens and opioids postsurgery (TOPS): protocol for a prospective observational study describing associations between sleep deficiency and opioid use following outpatient surgery in... by Tonya Palermo, Jennifer A Rabbitts, Cornelius B Groenewald, Rebecca L Flack, Sophia L Kreider

“…Adolescents will then be closely monitored over the first 14 days following surgery using ecological momentary assessment methods to capture real-time, naturalistic, daily data on sleep, opioid use, pain and psychological factors (including mood, affect and subjective response to opioid use). …”
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Child Abuse and Intention to Dropout Among Secondary School Students in Rubanda District. by Ninsiima, Patience

“…A sample of 285 respondents was selected from a population of 1100, and 250 respondents participated, resulting in an 89.6% response rate. Data collection involved questionnaires and interviews with students and school administrators. …”
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Leveraging local health system resources to address quality healthcare gaps in sub-Saharan African: lessons from the SafeCare quality improvement programme in Ghana by Robert Kaba Alhassan, Maxwell Akwasi Antwi, Gifty Sunkwa-Mills, Bonifacia Benefo Agyei, Aafke de Graaff, Tobias F Rinke de Wit, Edward Nketiah-Amponsah

“…Total of 45 focus group discussions (FGDs) and 47 individual in-depth interviews (IDIs) were conducted among frontline staff and policy makers from government and private local partner institutions. Analysis: Group and individual interviews were audio recorded, transcribed verbatim and thematic content analysis done using Nvivo (version 12.0) software. …”
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Divergent B-cell and cytotoxic TNK cell activation signatures in HLA-B27-associated ankylosing spondylitis and acute anterior uveitis by Eisa Mahyari, Sean Davin, Kimberly Ogle, Emma Fale-Olsen, Carley Shaut, Tammy M. Martin, Jasvinder S. Ahuja, Eric Suhler, Atul Deodhar, James T. Rosenbaum, James T. Rosenbaum, Tejpal Gill, Tejpal Gill

“…Furthermore, we employed sparse decomposition of arrays (SDA) analysis, an unsupervised machine learning method, to examine the high-dimensional transcriptional landscape of our data and identify complex and nonlinear relationships. …”
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Conditioned open-label placebos to facilitate opioid reduction in patients with chronic non-cancer pain: study protocol of a randomised controlled trial by Cosima Locher, Antje Frey Nascimento, Isabelle Arnet, Roland von Känel, Joram Ronel, Konrad Streitberger, Michael Bernstein, Helen Koechlin, Katja Carratta, Kiara Bodonyi, Daniel Friis, Lukas Bircher, Alfred Josef Roth, Elisabeth Olliges

“…Secondary outcomes include opioid withdrawal symptoms, pain severity, disability, anxiety, depression, opioid beliefs, intervention expectancy and qualitative data. Statistical analyses will include analysis of covariance and regression models.Ethics and dissemination The ethics committee of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, approved the study (SNCTP-nr.: SNCTP000005853/BASEC nr.: 2023–02327).Participants will be compensated with 100 Swiss Francs for their full participation in the study. …”
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Development of the First Patient‐Reported Experience Measure (PREM) for Hearing Loss in Audiology Care—My Hearing PREM by Sian K. Smith, Georgina Burns O'Connell, Rebecca Knibb, Rosemary Greenwood, Saira Hussain, Rachel Shaw, Jean Straus, Jonathan Banks, Amanda Hall, Nisha Dhanda, Sian Noble, Helen Pryce

“…., adults with hearing loss, patient and public representatives, clinicians and researchers) were consulted throughout Phases 1 and 2 to review and refine the PREM. Interview data were analysed using thematic analysis. Setting and Participants Sixteen participants (aged 16 years and over) with hearing loss took part in cognitive interviews, recruited from UK audiology departments and non‐clinical settings (e.g., lip‐reading classes, national charity links and social media). …”
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Application of hyperthermia robots in Cyber-syndrome treatment by Xueyan YIN, Feifei SHI, Jinqiang WANG, Huansheng NING

“…Traditional technologies are now integrated with artificial intelligence techniques, such as big data analysis and visualization algorithms, enabling more precise and personalized treatment services that effectively alleviate the symptoms of Cyber-syndrome. …”
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Identifying and explaining the mechanism of tacit knowledge sharing among University of Tehran employees in the development of successors by Omid Aryani, Hamidreza Yazdani, Majid Ramezan

“…This method organizes qualitative data and describes it in detail. For analysis The qualitative part used MAXQDA software. …”
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Identifying the Dimensions and Components of a Gamification Model in the Marketing Processes for Sharing Economy Transportation Businesses by Somaye Moradi, Maysam Shafiee

“…The participants in this study were selected using purposive and snowball sampling techniques, and the required information was obtained through interviews until data saturation was achieved. The data was coded using MAXQDA20 software and analyzed using thematic analysis. …”
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The Information Filtering of Gene Network for Chronic Diseases: Social Network Perspective by Jaewon Choi, Hyuk-Jun Kwon

“…Web and mobile platforms have provided an environment of technical cooperation through technical development and the diffusion of related devices. Large-scale data sets have been available to analyze web interaction and data analysis. …”
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Conducting Democratic Evaluations where Democratic Principles are not always Practiced by Serhat Kurt

“…Research Design: Qualitative method of inquiry was applied. Data Collection and Analysis: The data mostly came from the interviews. …”
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Therapy response prediction of focal cortex stimulation based on clinical parameters: a multicentre, non-interventional study protocol by Andreas Schulze-Bonhage, Ann Mertens, Felix von Podewils, Martin Hirsch, Yaroslav Winter, Susanne Knake, Ekaterina Pataraia, Thomas Mayer, Yvonne G Weber, Rainer Surges, Jan Wagner, Hajo M Hamer, Tim Wehner, Christoph Baumgartner, Lukas Imbach, Bernhard J Steinhoff, Sotirios Kalousios, Jürgen Hesser, Matthias Dümpelmann, Elisabeth Kaufmann, Josua Kegele, Georg Leonhardt, Carlos M Quesada, Berthold R Voges

“…Clinical data of up to 100 patients treated with FCS are collected across 20 collaborating epilepsy centres in four European countries. …”
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Dirāsah Tahlīliyah Fi Asālīb Ta‘Līmī Mahāratil Kalāmi Bi Kitāb Al Mumtāz Fil Hiwārāt Al-Yaumiyyah Lighairinātiqīna Bil Arabiyyah by Ruhul Kudus, Muhammad Sofwan bin Harizan

“…This research is a descriptive qualitative analytical research, and the method of data collection is the method of observation and documentation on the topic, and the method of data analysis through content analysis contained in Al-Mumtaz's book in the Daily Dialogue for Non- Arabic speakers. …”
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Designing a model of effective marketing capabilities based on communication by Yoones Banisaeed, Ghanbar Amirnejad, Morteza mousakhani, Leila Andervazh

“…Coding was used in the data analysis of the qualitative part, and SPSS and Lisrel software were used in the quantitative part. …”
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Strengthening open disclosure in maternity services in the English NHS: the DISCERN realist evaluation study by Mary Adams, Natalie Sanford, Charlotte Bevan, Maria Booker, Julie Hartley, Alexander Heazell, Elsa Montgomery, Maureen Treadwell, Jane Sandall

“…Following a realist evaluation approach, the study objectives were to: establish initial hypotheses to focus investigation of OD improvements in NHS maternity services in England examine the scope of OD in NHS maternity services from the perspectives of regional and national stakeholders refine our initial hypotheses in relation to the analysis of regional and national stakeholder perspectives conduct an in-depth study of OD improvement within services verify data interpretation and study output development with different stakeholders (families, clinicians, service managers and national policy-makers). …”
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Developing historical thinking skills and creativity of visually impaired middle school students by Osman Akhan, Adem Uzun

“…The data obtained were transferred to the MAXQDA 2020 Plus qualitative data analysis program and analyzed with the descriptive analysis method and themes were created. …”
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The abnormal traffic detection scheme based on PCA and SSH by Zhenhui Wang, Dezhi Han, Ming Li, Han Liu, Mingming Cui

“…In order to solve the problems that the existing detection methods cannot fully learn the spatio-temporal characteristics of data, the classification accuracy is not high, and the detection time and accuracy are susceptible to the influence of redundant data in the sample. …”
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Att lära om naturen från naturen och i naturen by Sara Planting-Bergloo, Emma Rova, Charlotte Lennartsdotter, Per Rohlin, Maria Andrée

“…The study is based on data collections in three secondary schools with students in grade 9. …”
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High-resolution spatiotemporal measurement of air and environmental noise pollution in Sub-Saharan African cities: Pathways to Equitable Health Cities Study protocol for Accra, Gha... by Michael Brauer, Majid Ezzati, Sierra N Clark, Abosede S Alli, Jill Baumgartner, Mireille B Toledano, Allison F Hughes, James Nimo, Josephine Bedford Moses, Solomon Terkpertey, Jose Vallarino, Samuel Agyei-Mensah, Ernest Agyemang, Ricky Nathvani, Emily Muller, James Bennett, Jiayuan Wang, Andrew Beddows, Frank Kelly, Benjamin Barratt, Sean Beevers, Raphael E Arku

“…Introduction Air and noise pollution are emerging environmental health hazards in African cities, with potentially complex spatial and temporal patterns. Limited local data are a barrier to the formulation and evaluation of policies to reduce air and noise pollution.Methods and analysis We designed a year-long measurement campaign to characterise air and noise pollution and their sources at high-resolution within the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana. …”
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Virtual reality-assisted rehabilitation for postoperative C5 palsy: a pilot exploratory randomized controlled trial by Kyung-Soo Suk, Jinyoung Park, Taeyeon Choi, Byung Ho Lee, Yongjin Ahn, Sunung Yun, Si Young Park, Hak Sun Kim, Seoung-Hwan Moon, Ji-Won Kwon

“…Ten patients (VR = 4, Control = 6) completed the study. Results Final analysis included data from 4 patients in the VR group and 6 patients in the control group. …”
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