Melanoma toolkit for early detection for primary care clinicians: a 1-year follow-up on outcomes by Kyra Diehl, Elizabeth Stoos, Alyssa Becker, Victoria E. Orfaly, Jacob Nelson, Jordan Gillespie, Justin Ng, Tayler Tobey, Tayler Tobey, Emile Latour, Emile Latour, Joanna Ludzik, Elizabeth G. Berry, Alan C. Geller, Heidi Jacobe, Justin Leitenberger, Danielle McClanahan, Jessica Tran, Smriti Prasad, Stephanie Mengden-Koon, Kelly C. Nelson, Ryan Petering, Alex Verdieck, Stephanie Savory, Emily H. Smith, Susan Tofte, Martin A. Weinstock, Martin A. Weinstock, Kevin White, Oliver Wisco, Oliver Wisco, Clara Curiel-Lewandrowski, Susan M. Swetter, Alexander M. Witkowski, Laura Ferris, Samantha Black, Rebecca Xu, Shuai Xu, Sancy Leachman, Sancy Leachman

“…Participants completed a pre-survey, online training module, and post-survey that included self-reported screening behaviors, changes in confidence, and malignant and benign lesion categorization based on clinical images. …”
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Mindfulness and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) to Attenuate Situational Urgency Urinary Incontinence (UUI): A randomized pilot study by Cynthia A. Conklin, Brian Coffman, Carol M. Greco, Shachi Tyagi, Becky D. Clarkson

“…Introduction:: Situational urgency urinary incontinence (UUI), triggered by situations such as approaching the front door and running water, accounts for up to half of all UUI episodes in women. We proposed a behavioral therapy to examine the independent and combined efficacy of mindfulness (MI) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to attenuate reactivity to these scenarios and reduce UUI symptomatology. …”
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Performance Analysis of Deep Learning-Based Lossy Point Cloud Geometry Compression Coding Solutions by Joao Prazeres, Rafael Rodrigues, Manuela Pereira, Antonio M. G. Pinheiro

“…The two experiments were shown to be statistically different, and the tested metrics revealed quite different behaviors for the two sets of data. The results reveal that the preferred method of evaluation is the encoding of texture information with G-PCC after mapping the texture of the original point cloud to the distorted point cloud. …”
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Trends in HPV‐associated cancer incidence in Texas medically underserved regions by Thao N. Hoang, Abbey B. Berenson, Yong Shan, Fangjian Guo, Victor Adekanmbi, Christine Hsu, Xiaoying Yu, Yong‐Fang Kuo

“…Conclusion Patient sociodemographics, behavioral risk factors, and access to care may contribute to some observed differences in cancer IR across regions. …”
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Exploring the effectiveness of technology-based learning on the educational outcomes of undergraduate healthcare students: an overview of systematic reviews protocol by Muhammad Hibatullah Romli, Manraj Singh Cheema, Muhammad Zulfadli Mehat, Nur Fariesha Md Hashim, Hafizah Abdul Hamid

“…Introduction Rapid technology development due to the introduction of Industrial Revolution 4.0 and Internet of Things has created a demand and gradual transition from traditional teaching and learning to technology-based learning in higher education, including healthcare education. …”
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Development of a Smartphone App for Women Living With Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Qualitative Study by Catherine Knight-Agarwal, Mary Bushell, Mary-Ellen Hooper, Natasha JoJo, Marjorie Atchan, Alison Shield, Angela Douglas, Abu Saleh, Masoud Mohammadian, Irfan Khan, Cheuk Chan, Nico Rovira Iturrieta, Emily Murphy, Tanishta Arza, Deborah Davis

“…Mobile health apps have been shown to be a useful resource for women with type 1 diabetes and could successfully contribute to GDM management by facilitating healthy behaviors. ObjectiveThis study aimed to seek the perspectives of health care consumers (HCCs) and health professionals (HPs) regarding the development of a smartphone app for women living with GDM. …”
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The Development of Porosity-Enhanced Synthetic Coal Plugs for Simulating Deep Coalbed Methane Reservoirs: A Novel Laboratory Approach by Changqing Liu, Zhaobiao Yang, Heqing Chen, Guoxiao Zhou, Yuhui Liang, Junyu Gu, Yuqiang Wang, Cunlei Li, Benju Lu, Shuailong Feng, Jianan Wang

“…This method offers a cost-effective and repeatable strategy for creating coal analogs with tunable porosity, providing valuable physical models for investigating flow behaviors in stimulated coal reservoirs.…”
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Evaluation of cardiovascular risk factors for medical workers of an urban multidisciplinary hospital by K. G. Tkachenko, A. D. Erlikh, A. N. Atakanova, N. R. Aripova, M. Yu. Butusova, K. B. Kurbanova, R. M. Orlovskaya, N. V. Pashkevich, K. R. Pushkareva, M. V. Rodina, D. T. Shakhbolatova, O. A. Kislyak

“…We determined blood pressure, weight, height, waist circumference, blood lipid and glucose levels, and used specially created questionnaire. At least 322 medical workers aged >40 years were examined.Results. …”
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Applications of Human‐Centered Design to Food Is Medicine Interventions: The THRIVE Pilot Trial by Khadijat Adeleye, Kennedy McDaniel, Irma Iribe, Adeline Assani‐Uva, Janice Dugbartey, Aminata Sinyan, Bijaya Bhattarai, Samantha DeMarco, Tosin Tomiwa, Mojisola Olusola‐Bello, Chelsea Akubo, Faith E. Metlock, D’Janee Kyeremeh, Adrián McMahon, Maya Kramer‐Johansen, India Washington, Peiyu Chen, Christy Rodriguez, Mia Johnson, William Xiao, Samuel Gledhill, Samuel Yeboah‐Manson, Natania Kurien, Lydia Vassiliadi, Jennifer Freeman, Anna Maria Izquierdo‐Porrera, Lessly Palencia, Valerie K. Sullivan, Yvonne Commodore‐Mensah, Oluwabunmi Ogungbe

“…We aimed to co‐design the THRIVE program (Adaptive Personalized Dietitian Coaching and Messaging With Produce Prescriptions to Improve Healthy Dietary Behaviors) among Black and Hispanic adults with hypertension living in healthy food priority areas in Maryland. …”
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An analysis of the real world performance of an artificial intelligence based autism diagnostic by Carmela Salomon, Kelianne Heinz, Judith Aronson-Ramos, Dennis P. Wall

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Safety of health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: piloting WHO framework in Iran by Jafar Sadegh Tabrizi, Mondher Letaief, Hossein Mashhadi Abdolahi, Ramin Rezapour, Ahmed Alboksmaty, Mostafa Farahbakhsh

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Developing Guidelines for Conducting Stigma Research With Transgender and Nonbinary Individuals: Protocol for Creation of a Trauma-Informed Approach to Research by Augustus Klein, Sarit A Golub, Danielle Berke, Elijah Castle

“…Yet, little research has directly examined the experiences of transgender and nonbinary individuals when participating in these studies or identified specific research practices (eg, recruitment materials or study framing, choice of specific survey measures, data collection protocols, and researcher behaviors) that may influence study participation, retention, and data quality. …”
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Utilizing an NLP-supported mobile reflection application to explore academic engagement, application engagement, and performance in engineering and physics courses by Saira Anwar, Ahmed Ashraf Butt, Muhsin Menekse

“…In both courses, app and academic behavioral engagement positively and substantially contributed to academic performance. …”
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Cumulative determinants of adolescent health indicators: the effects of social and structural determinants of health and child sexual abuse on overdose and suicide attempt by Deirdre Colburn, Kimberly J. Mitchell, Ateret Gewitz-Meydan

“…BackgroundResearch has increasingly focused on the role of social and structural determinants of health (SDoH) in shaping behavioral and mental health-related outcomes, including suicide and substance use disorder. …”
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Addressing “what matters most” to reduce mental health stigma in primary healthcare settings: a qualitative study in Lebanon by Racha Abi Hana, Eva Heim, Pim Cuijpers, Marit Sijbrandij, Rabih El Chammay, Brandon A. Kohrt

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Programmatic Assessment: New Approach of Student Assessment in Medical Education of the Current Century by Hamid Mahdavifard

“…However, research findings suggest that stakeholders may not always be willing or able to perform the new roles as intended for them; instead, old behaviors "simply" adapt to new environments.…”
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Protocol for prognosticating PPD using EEG changes during labor pain by uterine contractions: a prospective cohort study in the first stage of labor by Yan Wang, Wan-Ying He, Chang’ an A. Zhan, Shi-Lei Pan, Wen Wu, Feng-Xian Li, Hong-Fei Zhang

“…Abstract Background Lack of motivation and behavioral abnormalities are the hallmarks of postpartum depression (PPD). …”
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Leveraging Large Language Models for Simulated Psychotherapy Client Interactions: Development and Usability Study of Client101 by Daniel Cabrera Lozoya, Mike Conway, Edoardo Sebastiano De Duro, Simon D'Alfonso

“…A total of 16 mental health professionals were instructed to conduct single sessions with the chatbots using a cognitive behavioral therapy framework; a total of 15 sessions with the anxiety chatbot and 14 with the depression chatbot were completed. …”
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Mental and physical health of US rural/urban caregivers of persons with dementia. by Phoebe Tran, Fei Wang, E-Shien Chang

“…<h4>Methods</h4>Using 2020-2022 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data, we identified caregivers of PWD from rural (n = 2311) and urban (n = 15094) areas. …”
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President and parliament: Influence on the stability of the state by Laimonas Talat-Kelpša

“…Constitutional separation of the branches of government acts as "formal," and subsequent (following this prior act) procedural and behavioral participation on the political arena, accomplishment of the duties assigned, incarnates "informal" processes. …”
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