Profiling of outpatients attending Centre for Rural Health, Nutakkhi, Andhra Pradesh, South India by Arti Gupta, D Hashini, Rajeev Aravindakshan, Ajay Moparthi, Gangadhar Makkena, Yamini Marimuthu

“…Conclusion: The study identified endocrine, respiratory, and circulatory system diseases as prevalent in the rural population, highlighting the need for targeted healthcare strategies and resource allocation, especially for the elderly and children.…”
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Prevalence of Alcohol Consumption among University Students in Baghdad: A Cross-section survey from Iraq by Rawa Jaafar Kadhim Al-Ameri, Husham J. Abd Al-Badri, Riyadh K Lafta

“…Family and college staff supervision and education of the students with meetings targeting health risks and sequels of Alcohol hazardous consumption are the effective ways to control this practice.…”
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The Influence of Risk Perception, Smoking Fatwa Knowledge, and Smoking Behavior on the Intention to Quit Smoking in Adolescents by Ayuning Tyas, Retnaningsih Retnaningsih

“…Research implications: The findings suggest the need for a holistic approach that targets adolescents at the individual, family, and community levels. …”
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Empowering GI fellows to lead the change: A national survey on strengths and opportunities to enhance gastroenterology training in Saudi Arabia by Syed A. Gardezi, Jafar M. Albagshi, Aymen Almuhaidb, Bader Alajlan, Mohammed Al Jawad

“…Results: Fifty-four fellows responded. The average satisfaction score was 3.96 of 5, with third-year fellows reporting the highest satisfaction. …”
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Highly structured genetic diversity of Bixa orellana var. urucurana, the wild ancestor of annatto, in Brazilian Amazonia. by Gabriel Dequigiovanni, Santiago Linorio Ferreyra Ramos, Alessandro Alves-Pereira, Eliane Gomes Fabri, Doriane Picanço-Rodrigues, Charles Roland Clement, Paul Gepts, Elizabeth Ann Veasey

“…A total of 194 alleles was observed, with an average of 12.1 alleles per locus. Higher levels of expected (HE) than observed (HO) heterozygosities were found for all populations. …”
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YOLO-RGDD: A Novel Method for the Online Detection of Tomato Surface Defects by Ziheng Liang, Tingting Zhu, Guang Teng, Yajun Zhang, Zhe Gu

“…Firstly, the original C3k2 module and A2C2f module of YOLOv12 were replaced with RFEM in the backbone network to enhance feature extraction for small targets without increasing computational complexity. …”
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A novel ensemble ARIMA‐LSTM approach for evaluating COVID‐19 cases and future outbreak preparedness by Somit Jain, Shobhit Agrawal, Eshaan Mohapatra, Kathiravan Srinivasan

“…These findings have the potential to significantly improve preparedness and response efforts by public health authorities, allowing for more efficient resource allocation and targeted interventions.…”
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Evaluation of Genetic Diversity of Wild Raspberry Genotypes in the Western Caspian Sea Regions by ISSR Molecular Markers by Mohammad Fatemi, Asghar Estaji, Alireza Ghanbari, Mousa Torabi Giglou, Maryam Jamali

“…Managing natural diversity in domestic cultivars and wild relatives plays a crucial role in creating targeted programs to improve plant products. The study aims to identify and examine various wild genotypes within this species. …”
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A faster and less costly alternative for RNA extraction of SARS-CoV-2 using proteinase k treatment followed by thermal shock. by Adolfo Marcelo Ñique, Fiorella Coronado-Marquina, Jairo Andrés Mendez Rico, María Paquita García Mendoza, Nancy Rojas-Serrano, Paulo Vitor Marques Simas, Cesar Cabezas Sanchez, Jan Felix Drexler

“…We compared Ct values average (experimental triplicate) results from two different targets, a viral and internal control. …”
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Injury and Illness in Elite Athletics: A Prospective Cohort Study Over Three Seasons by Shane Kelly, Noel Pollock, George Polglass, Ben Clarsen

“…Knowledge of this injury and illness profile within athletics could be utilised for the development of targeted prevention measures within the sport at the elite level…”
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Health literacy as the most important covariate of self-rated health in adolescents by Ibrahim Abdollahpour, Maryam Yazdi, Roya Kelishadi, Olli Paakkari

“…The mean of SRH in those with high HL, on average, was 0.48 units better than those with low HL (95% CI 0.23, 0.72), P < 0.001). …”
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Application of shale oil 2D NMR logging evaluation in Huazhuang area of Gaoyou Sag by ZHANG Fei, LI Qiuzheng, JIANG Aming, DENG Ci

“…When compared to core analysis, the average absolute errors for effective porosity and oil saturation are minimal, at 0.4% and 7.3%, respectively. …”
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HCT-Det: A High-Accuracy End-to-End Model for Steel Defect Detection Based on Hierarchical CNN–Transformer Features by Xiyin Chen, Xiaohu Zhang, Yonghua Shi, Junjie Pang

“…Our experiments demonstrate that HCT-Det achieved a mean average precision (mAP@0.5) of 0.795 on the NEU-DET dataset and 0.733 on the GC10-DET dataset, outperforming other state-of-the-art approaches. …”
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ANTECEDENTS OF PHARMACY STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES: A CLUSTER ANALYSIS STUDY by Theophilus Ehidiamen Oamen, Ayodapo Oluwadare Jegede

“…Clusters 1 and 4 were identified by characteristically low (below average) study behaviors compared to the dominant clusters. …”
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Influence of glucose as a natural reductant on silver nanoparticles synthesis for decontamination of p-nitrophenol and methylene blue from wastewater by Ayman H. Mansee, Doaa M. Abdelgawad, Amal M. Ebrahim

“…During the first 15 min of incubation, a dose of 20 µL/mL Ag°/glucose achieved 53% and 74% removal of the targeted PNP and MB, respectively. Increasing the dose to 30 µL/mL showed a complete removal of both pollutants. …”
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Precision autofocus in optical microscopy with liquid lenses controlled by deep reinforcement learning by Jing Zhang, Yong-feng Fu, Hao Shen, Quan Liu, Li-ning Sun, Li-guo Chen

“…In contrast to methodologies that rely exclusively on sharpness assessment as a model’s labels or inputs, our approach involved the development of a targeted reward function, which has proven to markedly enhance the performance in microscope autofocus tasks. …”
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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF NUTRITION-RELATED APPS FOR THE YOUNGER GENERATION IN JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA by Hema Kesa, Gifty Koufie, Alex Tchuenchieu

“…Methods: A quantitative cross-sectional survey was conducted in the city in 2019, targeting 150 users aged 18 to 38 (Millennials and Generation Z). …”
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Identification of synaptosomal proteins binding to monomeric and oligomeric α-synuclein. by Cristine Betzer, A James Movius, Min Shi, Wei-Ping Gai, Jing Zhang, Poul Henning Jensen

“…To quantify the preferential binding an average fold increase was calculated by comparing binding to monomer and oligomer. …”
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Determining and comparing the level of motivation for exercise according to the sociodemographic characteristics of university students by Mohammad Ahsan, Mohammed Feroz Ali, Mumtaz Alam

“…Methods A cross-sectional research design targeted university students aged range 18 to 32 years. …”
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Microwave-assisted biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles using two marine microalgal extracts and their antimycobacteriosis activity against bacteria isolated from Betta splendens by Piyapan Manklinniam, Saranya Phunpruch, Aparporn Sakulkalavek, Rachsak Sakdanuphab, Worakrit Worananthakij

“…This research demonstrates the potential of AgNPs as an effective alternative to antibiotics, offering targeted bacterial inhibition while reducing the risk of antibiotic resistance. …”
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