Factors influencing breast milk donation to a human milk bank in Iran: implications for policymakers and planners by Leila Doshmangir, Maryam Naghshi, Kamal Gholipour, Ayat Ahmadi, Hosein Azizi, Vladimir Sergeevich Gordeev

“…Conclusion To establish HMBs and promote human milk donation, health policymakers and planners should implement strategies that motivate mothers to donate. …”
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The Role of Online Support, Caregiving, and Gender in Preventative Cancer Genetic Testing Participation: Cross-Sectional Study From a National Study by Lavlin Agrawal, Richelle Oakley DaSouza, Pavankumar Mulgund, Pankaj Chaudhary

“…Future research should further explore implementing proactive outreach strategies to encourage wider adoption of genetic testing for cancer.…”
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Gender and dietary diversity among children aged 6-24months – evidence from a nationally representative survey by Kamalesh Kumar Patel, Jyoti Vijay, Arunesha Babu Saroja

“…Interventions and policies should target on implementing comprehensive nutrition education programs for caregivers, coupled with targeted financial support and community engagement.…”
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The organization of breast health and diseases topics in undergraduate medical education programs: a model proposal by Beyza Ozcinar, Ayse Hilal Bati

“…Abstract Background In Türkiye, over 100 medical faculties implement integrated medical education, but integration levels vary and are often at initial stages of the integration ladder. …”
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Evaluation of Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Human Parainfluenza Virus Type 3 among Hospitalized Children in Northwest of Iran by Zahra Ramezannia, Javid Sadeghi, Shahram Abdoli Oskouie, Mohammad Ahangarzadeh Rezaee, Hossein Bannazadeh Baghi, Arezou Azadi, Mahin Ahangar Oskouee

“…Most patients (61.1%) with RSV infection were less than 12 months old. Additionally, samples that were positive for HPIV-3 were less than 12 months old. …”
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PECULIARITIES OF FORMING PROFESSIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMPETENCE IN HIGHER TECHNICAL EDUCATION STUDENTS /LEARNERS by Надія Тимків, Софія Тимків

“…Ongoing program evaluation is implemented to maintain relevance and ensure accountability. …”
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Validation and adaptation of the Arabic version of health-related quality of life with six domains (HRQ-6D): A factor and Rasch analyses study. by Walid Al-Qerem, Anan Jarab, Abdel Qader Al Bawab, Judith Eberhardt, Fawaz Alasmari, Alaa Hammad, Lujain Al-Sa'di, Raghd Obidat, Sarah Abu Hour, Taha Al-Hayali

“…<h4>Methods</h4>This cross-sectional study utilized an online questionnaire targeting adult Jordanians and implemented several validation steps to ensure the adequacy of the Ar-HRQ-6D. …”
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SkinIncept: an ensemble transfer learning-based approach for multiclass skin disease classification using InceptionV3 and InceptionResNetV2 by Md. Hasan Imam Bijoy, Md. Mahbubur Rahman, Abdus Sattar, Aminul Haque, Mohammad Shamsul Arefin, Pranab Kumar Dhar, Tetsuya Shimamura

“…Six pre-trained CNN models are implemented, and a novel ensemble model (i.e., SkinIncept) is proposed. …”
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AFDR-Det: Adaptive Feature Dual-Refinement Oriented Detector for Remote Sensing Object Detection by Jie Yang, Li Zhou, Yongfeng Ju

“…This inevitably leads to spatial misalignment between the heuristically defined anchors and the convolutional features. Additionally, most head networks use two branch networks to implement object localization and classification tasks separately, resulting in a lack of information interaction between the classification and localization tasks, leading to spatial feature misalignment issues. …”
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A New Evaluation Model for the Readiness and Maturity Level of Intelligent and Sustainable Supply Chain Management Based on Geometric Mean by Sercan Demir, Mehmet Akif Gündüz, Turan Paksoy

“…One of the most difficult challenges in establishing smart factories and implementing digital transformation is that Industry 4.0 competencies cannot be effectively applied to all operations simultaneously. …”
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Observation of Food Handlers’ Hand Hygiene Behavior During Production at a Sandwich-making Factory by Abuzar I.A. Mohamed, Ellen W. Evans

“…Of those occasions where there was an attempt to implement hand hygiene practices (n = 401), only 1% of behaviors were compliant with the company hand hygiene protocol. …”
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Assessing community awareness and participation in health facility governing committees in two districts of Tanzania: a cross-sectional study by Hussein Athuman Kapuya, Stephen Oswald Maluka, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Miguel San Sebastian

“…Results The results revealed that 85.3% of the participants were unaware of the presence of the HFGCs and 91.7% did not know their roles. Additionally, 87% had neither heard nor seen any announcement about the selection of committee members. …”
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Environmental Aspects in ESG Strategies for Mid-sized Enterprises: The Case of HL Group by Junwoo Lee, Seungsoo Lee, Geonwook Hwang, Jay Hyuk Rhee, Yong Sik Ok

“…Therefore, it is necessary to set carbon neutrality goals and implement reduction strategies such as renewable energy development. …”
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Spline approximation of multivalued functions in linear structures routing by D. A. Karpov, V. I. Struchenkov

“…Although an algorithm for solving the problem in relation to the design of a longitudinal profile has been implemented and published, this is not suitable for designing a route plan, since, unlike a profile, a route plan is generally a multivalued function. …”
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Pressure-Related Discrepancies in Landsat 8 Level 2 Collection 2 Surface Reflectance Products and Their Correction by Santosh Adhikari, Larry Leigh, Dinithi Siriwardana Pathiranage

“…This study investigates the root cause of these differences by analyzing the assumptions made in the Land Surface Reflectance Code (LaSRC), the atmospheric correction algorithm of Landsat 8, as currently implemented at United States Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science (USGS EROS), and proposes a correction method. …”
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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Associated with Syphilis Infection Among Physicians in Armenia by Lusine Boryan, Hovhannes Hovhannisyan, Gennady Palozyan

“…As for practices, the respondents expressed difficulty in prescribing additional laboratory tests based on clinical symptoms (51%) and struggled with reporting diagnosed syphilis cases (66%); moderate opinions on pregnancy termination decisions (65%) were conveyed. …”
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Parents’ perspectives of the new neonatal BCG vaccination pathway in England: a qualitative study by Kate Bisset, Georgia Chisnall, Colin N.J. Campbell, Vanessa Saliba, Sandra Mounier-Jack, Tracey Chantler

“…Methods A qualitative study was conducted involving semi-structured interviews with 30 parents of infants eligible (or invited) for BCG vaccination in two urban areas where SCID screening was implemented. Participants were recruited through vaccine providers and community centres. …”
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Flipping the curriculum for resident didactics: In-Training and certifying examination scores in an internal medicine residency. by Luke McCoy, Ronald Markert, Elysha Thoms, Olivia Noall, Kathryn Burtson

“…Noon conferences were replaced with problem-based learning (PBL) sessions three days per week, with additional active learning formats used on the remaining days. …”
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Barriers to contraceptive access and use among youths (15–24 Years) living in informal urban settlements of Kigali, Rwanda: a qualitative study by Emmanuel Okiror Okello, Alexandre Edgard Murinzi, Colyse Nduwimana, Rashidah Nambaziira

“…Low contraceptive use among this youth population increases their risk of unintended pregnancies, sexual violence, and sexually transmitted infections. Additionally, 61.3% of Rwanda’s population lives in informal settlements/slums. …”
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TreeLearn: A deep learning method for segmenting individual trees from ground-based LiDAR forest point clouds by Jonathan Henrich, Jan van Delden, Dominik Seidel, Thomas Kneib, Alexander S. Ecker

“…Additionally, we introduce a new manually segmented benchmark forest dataset containing 156 full trees. …”
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