Multicomponent intervention for controlling hypertension in the adult rural population of Pakistan: a protocol for a hybrid type III implementation-effectiveness cluster randomised... by Catherine Hewitt, Aziz Sheikh, Simon Walker, Sajid Soofi, Kamran Siddiqi, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Zainab Samad, Aysha Almas, Saima Afaq, Hajra Khwaja, Shiraz Hashmi, Imran Naeem, Salim S Virani, Saira Bukhari, Sawera Hanif

“…Baseline and 6-monthly follow-up surveys, each of 6 months duration, will be conducted to collect data from the recruited participants on sociodemographics, cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors, CVD-related expenses and quality of life. …”
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The effect of core stabilization exercises and shock wave therapy in patients with radiculopathy by J. Bubelis

“…Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) was selected for pain assessment; for the dynamic stability assessment, the modified Star Excursion Balance Test was selected; and for the evaluation of trunk muscle static strength endurance two tests were chosen: abdominal muscle static strength endurance test and back muscle static strength endurance test. The data were processed by mathematical statistical analysis. …”
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Efficacy of a 6-month supported online programme (Feeling Safer) for the treatment of persecutory delusions: protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Richard Emsley, Verity Westgate, Daniel Freeman, Thomas Kabir, José Leal, Anthony Morrison, Kate Chapman, Robert Dudley, Laina Rosebrock, Felicity Waite, Louise Isham, Jason Freeman, Stephanie Common, Alex Kenny, Ariane Beckley, Natalie Rouse, Megan McGovern

“…The secondary outcomes are other psychiatric symptoms (depression, anxiety, insomnia, agoraphobia and paranoia), psychological well-being, recovery, activity and health-related quality of life. Analysis will be conducted under a treatment policy strategy following the intention-to-treat principle, incorporating data from all participants including those who do not complete treatment. …”
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TOWARDS THE SCREEN OF THE CEREBRUM: SELF-DESIGN AS A RESPONSIBILITY OF FORMS / К ЭКРАНУ ГОЛОВНОГО МОЗГА: САМОДИЗАЙН КАК ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТЬ ФОРМ... by LIUSYI ALEKSANDR P. / ЛЮСЫЙ А.П.

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Designing a Paradigmatic Model of Child Marriage in Bandar Abbas City by Mehdieh Moradi, Yaser Rastergar, Mostafa Zahirinia

“…Girls affected by child marriage often find themselves dependent on others, lacking significant decision-making power, which diminishes their quality of life. Additionally, without the necessary skills and abilities, these girls struggle to become active contributors to society. …”
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An Audit of Patient Characteristics, Contributing Factors, and Outcomes of Patients Leaving against Medical Advice at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City Abu Dhabi by Shamma Salem Alhajeri, Ibrahim Atfah, Ali Bin Yahya, Salama Matar Al Neyadi, Fatema Salem Al Ameri, Nasser Ahmed, Ismail Al Ramahi, Kenneth Charles Dittrich, Hasan Qayyum

“…For children under 18 years old, LAMA is not applicable in unstable or life-threatening conditions; security can be informed to involve the police if required. …”
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MODERN APPROACHES AND TECHNOLOGIES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT OF FAMILIES OF PARTICIPANTS (VETERANS) OF A SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION by Roza I. Kadieva, Aizanat R. Davudova

“…Psychological support is a comprehensive process focused on the emotional recovery and adaptation of a family to new life circumstances following a loss. …”
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Impact of microbiological molecular methodologies on adaptive sampling using nanopore sequencing in metagenomic studies by Josephine Herbert, Stanley Thompson, Angela H. Beckett, Samuel C. Robson

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Guidance on minimum information requirements (MIR) from designing to reporting human biomonitoring (HBM) by Maryam Zare Jeddi, Karen S. Galea, Jillian Ashley-Martin, Julianne Nassif, Tyler Pollock, Devika Poddalgoda, Konstantinos M. Kasiotis, Kyriaki Machera, Holger M. Koch, Marta Esteban López, Ming Kei Chung, Jihyon Kil, Kate Jones, Adrian Covaci, Yu Ait Bamai, Mariana F. Fernandez, Robert Pasanen Kase, Henriqueta Louro, Maria J. Silva, Tiina Santonen, Andromachi Katsonouri, Argelia Castaño, Lesliam Quirós-Alcalá, Elizabeth Ziying Lin, Krystal Pollitt, Ana Virgolino, Paul T.J. Scheepers, Lisa Jo Melnyk, Vicente Mustieles, Ana Isabel Cañas Portilla, Susana Viegas, Natalie von Goetz, Ovnair Sepai, Emily Bird, Thomas Göen, Silvia Fustinoni, Manosij Ghosh, Hubert Dirven, Jung-Hwan Kwon, Courtney Carignan, Yuki Mizuno, Yuki Ito, Yankai Xia, Shoji F. Nakayama, Konstantinos C. Makris, Patrick J. Parsons, Melissa Gonzales, Michael Bader, Maria Dusinska, Aziza Menouni, Radu Corneliu Duca, Kaoutar Chbihi, Samir El Jaafari, Lode Godderis, An van Nieuwenhuyse, Asif Qureshi, Imran Ali, Carla Costa Trindade, Joao Paulo Teixeira, Alena Bartonova, Giovanna Tranfo, Karine Audouze, Steven Verpaele, Judy LaKind, Hans Mol, Jos Bessems, Barbara Magagna, Maisarah Nasution Waras, Alison Connolly, Marc Nascarella, Wonho Yang, Po-Chin Huang, Jueun Lee, Henri Heussen, Ozlem Goksel, Masud Yunesian, Leo W.Y. Yeung, Gustavo Souza, Ana Maria Vekic, Erin N. Haynes, Nancy B. Hopf

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The use of “Acellbia” – a biosimilar of rituximab in systemic sclerosis by L. P. Ananyeva, L. A. Garzanova, O. V. Desinova, R. U. Shayakhmetova, M. N. Starovoytova, O. A. Koneva, O. B. Ovsyannikova, S. I. Glukhova, E. L. Nasonov

“…This encourages the study of new approaches that potentially affect the fundamental pathological processes underlying the disease. One example is anti-B cell therapy, in particular rituximab (RTX). …”
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El significat del projecte migratori: les dones parlen de la seva experiència El significado del proyecto migratorio: las mujeres hablan de su experiencia The significance of migra... by Anna Ayuste González, Alfons Medina Cambron, Montserrat Payà Sánchez, M. Teresa Romañá Blay

“…The data were gathered through interviews, life stories and discussion groups. …”
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Optimising neonatal services for very preterm births between 27+0 and 31+6 weeks gestation in England: the OPTI-PREM mixed-methods study by Thillagavathie Pillay, Oliver Rivero-Arias, Natalie Armstrong, Sarah E Seaton, Miaoqing Yang, Victor L Banda, Kelvin Dawson, Abdul QT Ismail, Vasiliki Bountziouka, Caroline Cupit, Alexis Paton, Bradley N Manktelow, Elizabeth S Draper, Neena Modi, Helen E Campbell, Elaine M Boyle

“…We studied the outcomes of death in neonatal care, and the first year of life (infant mortality), necrotising enterocolitis (NEC), retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), severe/serious brain injury (SBI), bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), and a care process, the receipt of any breast milk feeds at discharge from neonatal care (BMF). …”
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PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS OF THE FORMATION OF LEGAL AWARENESS OF STUDENTS OF HISTORICAL AND MEDICAL EDUCATION PROFILES by Dribas Svetlana, Semenov Konstantin

“…These features can be considered as key factors in the formation of legal awareness of young people who are open to learning and observing social norms and legal principles, which is an integral part of their academic and future professional life. The obtained data can be used to enhance the efficiency of the educational process, create motivation programs and a favorable environment for the development of legal awareness and professional growth of students.…”
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Exploring voluntary sector specialist services for victim-survivors of sexual violence in England: the PROSPER co-production study by Caroline Bradbury-Jones, Sarah Damery, Kirsten Fruin, Clare Gunby, Jenny Harlock, Lucy Hebberts, Louise Isham, Anne-Marie Jones, Fay Maxted, Amelia Mighty, Priti Parmar, Laura Patterson, Jason Schaub, Fee Scott, Harriet Smailes, Debs Smith, Julie Taylor

“…Limitations The COVID-19 pandemic meant that we were unable to use the proposed methods of data collection for the qualitative components. Mitigation was through developing online modes of data collection. …”
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Presenting a model for the establishment and maintenance of expert human resources in the government organizations of Sistan and Baluchestan province by Majid Reza Dahmardeh, Vahid pourshahabi, Amin Reza Kamalian, Habibollah Salaerzehi

“…The statistical population included 181 managers and experts of government organizations in Sistan and Baluchistan province, from which 123 people were selected as a sample using Cochran's method. The data of this research was collected through a researcher-made questionnaire.In order to analyze the data, the structural equation modeling method, the path analysis technique, and the Smartpls software were used to determine the factor load of the manifest and hidden variables. …”
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The microbiologist's guide to metaproteomics by Tim Van Den Bossche, Jean Armengaud, Dirk Benndorf, Jose Alfredo Blakeley‐Ruiz, Madita Brauer, Kai Cheng, Marybeth Creskey, Daniel Figeys, Lucia Grenga, Timothy J. Griffin, Céline Henry, Robert L. Hettich, Tanja Holstein, Pratik D. Jagtap, Nico Jehmlich, Jonghyun Kim, Manuel Kleiner, Benoit J. Kunath, Xuxa Malliet, Lennart Martens, Subina Mehta, Bart Mesuere, Zhibin Ning, Alessandro Tanca, Sergio Uzzau, Pieter Verschaffelt, Jing Wang, Paul Wilmes, Xu Zhang, Xin Zhang, Leyuan Li, The Metaproteomics Initiative

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Organising general practice for care homes: a multi-method study by Barbara Hanratty, Rachel Stocker, David Sinclair, Katie Brittain, Karen Spilsbury, Daniel Stow, Louise Robinson, Fiona E Matthews

“…Design Survey of general practices (2018), qualitative study (2019), analysis of primary care data (2019–21). Policy context National Health Service England Vanguard funded innovation in services for care homes in five areas (2015–8); Enhanced Health in Care Homes introduces standardised care home healthcare processes in England (2020–4). …”
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‘Making Moves’: Protocol for a hybrid effectiveness-implementation pre-post trial of a co-designed online physical activity program for childhood cancer survivors by Lauren Ha, Claire E. Wakefield, Jacqueline Jacovou, Karen Johnston, Donna Drew, Mark W. Donoghoe, David Mizrahi, Richard De Abreu Lourenco, Richard J. Cohn, Natalie Taylor, Christina Signorelli, Kiarn Roughley, Callum Joyner, Aj Wright

“…To judge the potential implementation success of Making Moves, we will collect implementation data (feasibility, acceptability, costs) for our process evaluation throughout the trial. …”
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Internet and telephone intervention to support patients discontinuing long-term antidepressants in primary care: the REDUCE research programme including RCT by Tony Kendrick, Beth Stuart, Hannah Bowers, Mahboobeh Haji Sadeghi, Helen Page, Christopher Dowrick, Michael Moore, Mark Gabbay, Geraldine Leydon, Guiqing Lily Yao, Shihua Zhu, Paul Little, Gareth Griffiths, Glyn Lewis, Carl May, Joanna Moncrieff, Chris F Johnson, Una Macleod, Simon Gilbody, Rachel Dewar-Haggart, Samantha Williams, Wendy O’Brien, Riya Tiwari, Catherine Woods, Tasneem Patel, Naila Khan, Emma Maund, Nadja van Ginneken, Amy Din, Claire Reidy, Rebecca Lucier, Bryan Palmer, Taeko Becque, Yumna Masood, Natalie Thompson, Ellen van Leeuwen, Marta Glowacka, Adam WA Geraghty

“…There were no significant differences in anxiety, quality of life, adverse events, patient enablement, or satisfaction with care. …”
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Constitutive model of metal rubber material considering plastic accumulation behavior by FENG Zhipeng, YANG Fang, FU Hailong, AI Shigang, WANG Yue, YUAN Liangyang

“…The result demonstrates that the plasticity-considered model has the smaller fitting errors with experimental data, compared to cantilever beam models and porous models, which reflects its superior accuracy in data analysis compared to traditional models. …”
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