Use, Usability, and Experience Testing of a Digital Health Intervention to Support Chronic Kidney Disease Self-Management: Mixed Methods Study by Courtney J Lightfoot, Thomas J Wilkinson, Roseanne E Billany, Gurneet K Sohansoha, Noemi Vadaszy, Ella C Ford, Melanie J Davies, Thomas Yates, Alice C Smith, Matthew P M Graham-Brown

“…Usage metrics were assessed using descriptive and frequency analyses. Qualitative data were analyzed using thematic analysis. …”
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‘Sweden has changed me’: a qualitative study exploring the sexual health needs and associated mental health aspects of young male former unaccompanied minors, asylum seekers and re... by Mariano Salazar, Anna Mia Ekström, Jordanos Tewelde McDonald, Benjamn Fayzi, Majdi Laktinah

“…Theoretical sampling was used for participant selection. Analysis of the data was performed using constructivist grounded theory.Setting The study took place in Stockholm, Sweden.Participants A total of 32 young male (aged 16-28) former unaccompanied minors, asylum seekers and refugees from Afghanistan, Eritrea and Syria were interviewed.Results Our analysis showed that our participants’ sexual and mental health needs followed a process of individual change. …”
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Detecting tropical freshly-opened swidden fields using a combined algorithm of continuous change detection and support vector machine by Ningsang Jiang, Peng Li, Zhiming Feng

“…The integration CCDC with SVM represents a novelty in combining time series analysis and machine learning techniques and helps monitor annual swidden agriculture in the tropics.…”
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An Assessment of Provider Payment Mechanisms (PPMs) in Ethiopia: Implications for Redesign of PPMs and Progress Toward Universal Health Coverage by Mideksa Koricho, Tseday Zerayacob, Firehiwot Abebe, Muluken Argaw, Dereje Mengistu, Felegush Birhane, Shewa Negash, Amanuel Haileselassie, Agnes Gatome-Munyua

“…Data were collected through literature review and key informant interviews with 11 purchasers and 17 health care providers. …”
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Developing positive design with innovative thinking framework: A design pedagogical approach to enhance subjective well-being by Wenjia Li, Xinni Zhang, Han Gao, Jingjing Gui, Xiaoyu Yang, Jidong Yang

“…This study used the USE scale for quantitative analysis and triangulation for qualitative data analysis. …”
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Natural Language Processing-Based Software Testing: A Systematic Literature Review by Mohamed Boukhlif, Mohamed Hanine, Nassim Kharmoum, Atenea Ruigomez Noriega, David Garcia Obeso, Imran Ashraf

“…NLP has witnessed a rise in popularity within all IT fields, especially in software engineering, where its use has improved the way we extract information from textual data. The goal of this systematic literature review (SLR) is to provide an in-depth analysis of the present body of the literature on the expanding subject of NLP-based software testing. …”
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PRESCHOOL ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF TEACHERS’ ATTITUDES TO ETHICAL DILEMMAS by E. V. Vorobyeva, T. N. Le-van

“…The authors developed a face-to-face feedback approach using the cases of difficult professional situations and parameters to build the corporate culture profile of the organisation. The obtained data were processed by qualitative and quantitative means through the approaches of content analysis, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and intercrossing of confidence intervals calculated by a standard procedure in the R programming language. …”
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Educational Intervention Effect on Nurses’ Knowledge of Glasgow Coma Scale for Neurological Patient Assessment in Tertiary Hospitals in Edo State, Nigeria by Timothy Ehwarieme, Roselynd Esewe, Anwuli Emina

“…A researcher-developed self-report questionnaire with a reliability Cronbach's alpha index of 0.832. Data analysis used descriptive and inferential statistics at the 5% significance level. …”
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Multi-Omics and Experimental Validation Identify GPX7 and Glutathione-Associated Oxidative Stress as Potential Biomarkers in Ischemic Stroke by Tianzhi Li, Sijie Zhang, Jinshan He, Hongyan Li, Jingsong Kang

“…Binding was verified by molecular docking (MD) analysis. In addition, single-cell RNA sequencing data were analysed to further reveal expression in different cell types and its biological significance. …”
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Predicting Overload Risk on Plasma-Facing Components at Wendelstein 7-X from IR Imaging Using Self-Organizing Maps by Giuliana Sias, Emanuele Corongiu, Enrico Aymerich, Barbara Cannas, Alessandra Fanni, Yu Gao, Bartłomiej Jabłoński, Marcin Jakubowski, Aleix Puig Sitjes, Fabio Pisano, W7-X Team

“…This paper proposes a machine learning approach for developing a real-time overload detector, trained and tested on OP1.2a experimental data. …”
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Contraceptive method switching and discontinuation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Myanmar: findings from a longitudinal cohort study by Erica Felker-Kantor, Ye Kyaw Aung, Jenny Wheeler, Brett Keller, Mahesh Paudel, Kristen Little, Si Thu Thein

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IMPLEMENTATION OF TELEMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INTO THE CLINICAL PRACTICE OF A DENTIST USING THE EXAMPLE OF A LARGE AGRICULTURAL REGION by Светлана Ивановна Токмакова, Лариса Владимировна Чудова, Юлия Васильевна Луницына, Светлана Викторовна Васильцова, Екатерина Анатольевна Кириенкова, Виктория Анатольевна Кузикова, Елена Александровна Языкова, Евгений Владимирович Мокренко

“…To achieve this goal, an analysis of the state of the dental service of the Altai Territory, data from an epidemiological dental examination of the adult and elderly population of the Altai Territory, as well as a sociological study involving 130 dentists and 150 patients on the introduction of telemedicine services in the region was carried out. …”
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Labour Education and Vocational Training in Germany: A Brief Historical Review by E. Yu. Esenina, L. N. Kurteeva, S. A. Osadcheva, A. I. Satdykov, H Kress

“…A historical overview is often quite useful in search for answers to some pressing issues. Learning from others can also help to cope with separate current problems. …”
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Designing,Implementing and Evaluating the Training Sessions of the Reading Club for Undergraduate Students in Audiology by Parisa Heidari, Ghassem Mohammd Khani, Farzaneh Fatahi, Nematollah Rouhbakhsh, Sara Heidari

“…Additionally, students filled out a satisfaction form at the end of each session. Data analysis was performed using descriptive statistics and the Wilcoxon test. …”
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The Association between Addiction to Online Games and Students’ Academic Engagement: Determining the Mediating Role of Executive Function by Masoud Soltani Nazarlou, Mohammadagha Delavarpour, Seyed Musa Tabatabaee

“…A total number of 384 students were selected using the random cluster sampling method, and they were asked to fill out the Internet Gaming Disorder Test (IGD-20), Student Engagement Questionnaire, Adult Executive Functioning Inventory (ADEXI), and Nejati Cognitive Abilities Questionnaire. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation analysis and structural equation modeling (SEM) with SPSS version 26 and AMOS version 24.Results: The results showed that online game addiction is negatively correlated with students’ academic engagement (r=-0.336) as well as all dimensions of executive function, including planning (r=-0.425), cognitive flexibility (r=-0.455), working memory (r=-0.420), and inhibition (r=-0.350). …”
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Comparison of lower limb kinematic and kinetic estimation during athlete jumping between markerless and marker-based motion capture systems by Changzhi Yang, Linyu Wei, Xi Huang, Lili Tu, Yanjia Xu, Xiaolong Li, Zhe Hu

“…Abstract Markerless motion capture (ML) systems, which utilize deep learning algorithms, have significantly expanded the applications of biomechanical analysis. …”
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Navigating post-ICU care: understanding family members’ experiences - a qualitative study by Matteo Danielis, Alessandro Garau, Dina Molaro, Sara Gentilini, Marika Rosset, Serena Giorgino, Federica Vuerich, Renzo Zanotti, Lorenza Entilli

“…Participants were recruited from two general ICUs in an Italian Academic Hospital. Data collection lasted two months and was performed with telephonic interviews led by ICU nurses. …”
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Validation of a teaching model instrument for university education in Ecuador through an artificial intelligence algorithm by Jenniffer Sobeida Moreira-Choez, Tibisay Milene Lamus de Rodríguez, Aracelly Fernanda Núñez-Naranjo, Ángel Ramón Sabando-García, María Belén Reinoso-Ávalos, Cynthia Michel Olguín-Martínez, Daniel Omar Nieves-Lizárraga, Julieta Elizabeth Salazar-Echeagaray

“…These results underscore the importance of adopting innovative, data-driven methodologies that respond to the demands of contemporary educational environments. …”
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Exploring Nursing and Medical Students’ Experiences of Handling Challenging Conversations: A Qualitative Focus Group Study by Natuhwera G, Ellis P, Namisango E

“…Purposive and convenience sampling were used to select training schools/universities and participants respectively. Data were collected between November 2022 and February 2023 through 10 face-to-face audio-recorded focus group interviews and were analyzed using inductive thematic analysis.Results: 82 nursing and medical students participated in the study. …”
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Assessing Milk Authenticity Using Protein and Peptide Biomarkers: A Decade of Progress in Species Differentiation and Fraud Detection by Achilleas Karamoutsios, Pelagia Lekka, Chrysoula Chrysa Voidarou, Marilena Dasenaki, Nikolaos S. Thomaidis, Ioannis Skoufos, Athina Tzora

“…Future progress will depend on the convergence of high-resolution proteomics with multi-omics integration, structured data fusion, and machine learning frameworks, enabling scalable, specific, and robust solutions for milk authentication in increasingly complex food systems.…”
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