The impact of information technology applications on the quality of life of disabled older adults in nursing homes in China: a qualitative study by Hong Zhang, Xiaoyan Liao, Shuang Liang, Lifang Tong, Jun Shen, Bin Peng, Lin Wu, Lu Gao, Qianying Jia, Liu Ren, Lanyue Luo, Yixin Wang, Xiaoli Zhang

“…These advancements have contributed to improving the quality of life for older adults in nursing homes. However, new challenges have emerged, including the ‘digital divide,’ data misuse, and privacy breaches. …”
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Advanced battery management system enhancement using IoT and ML for predicting remaining useful life in Li-ion batteries by Gopal Krishna, Rajesh Singh, Anita Gehlot, Ahmad Almogren, Ayman Altameem, Ateeq Ur Rehman, Seada Hussen

“…Real-time data are collected from sensors via an Internet of Things (IoT) device and processed using Arduino Nano, which extracts values for input into a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model. …”
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Acceptability of the use of health related quality of life measurements for decision-making in healthcare science in Vietnam: a qualitative study by Hoang Van Minh, Lars Lindholm, Giang Bao Kim, Vu Quynh Mai, Sun Sun, Klas-Göran Sahlén

“…Objective This study was conducted with the objective of exploring the usage of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) outcomes and willingness of health technology assessment (HTA) and public health stakeholders to use the EQ-5D-5L instrument in healthcare decision-making processes in Vietnam.Method In this qualitative study, 11 interviews were held with key stakeholders involved in healthcare decision-making for HTA between June 2021 and June 2022. …”
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Intersecting factors of disadvantage and discrimination and their effect on daily life during the coronavirus pandemic: the CICADA-ME mixed-methods study by Carol Rivas, Amanda P Moore, Alison Thomson, Kusha Anand, Zainab Zuzer Lal, Alison Fang-Wei Wu, Ozan Aksoy

“…Strand 1: secondary data analyses We analysed existing cohort and panel data and undertook a scoping literature review, and fed these into the other strands, though they were not dependent on this. …”
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ML Based Social Media Data Emotion Analyzer and Sentiment Classifier with Enriched Preprocessor by Jayamalini Kothandan, Ponnavaikko Murugesan

“…This paper focuses on the development of a Multinomial Naïve Bayes Based social media data emotion analyzer and sentiment classifier. This paper also explains various enriched methods used in pre-processing techniques. …”
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Estimation of state of health for lithium-ion batteries using advanced data-driven techniques by Smitanjali Rout, Sudhansu Kumar Samal, Demissie Jobir Gelmecha, Satyasis Mishra

“…The proposed framework incorporates optimized pre-processing techniques, including normalization, to improve data quality and ensure consistency across varying battery conditions. …”
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Testing the study protocol and interrater reliability of a new end-of-life wound assessment tool: a feasibility study by Sharon Latimer, Rachel M. Walker, Jayne Hewitt, Gillian Ray-Barruel, Joanie Shaw, Tracey Hunt, Brigid M. Gillespie

“…Abstract Background Some dying individuals can develop skin injuries at the end-of-life (EOL) due to factors associated with the disease processes, aging or both. …”
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Identifying the Dimensions and Components of a Gamification Model in the Marketing Processes for Sharing Economy Transportation Businesses by Somaye Moradi, Maysam Shafiee

“…Accordingly, gamification in the marketing processes of sharing economy businesses is based on the analysis of user and player behavior, identifying the needs and requirements of users and players, analyzing the competitive space and gamification environment of sharing economy businesses, market planning and determining the appropriate target market, designing accessible channels and operating in designed markets, having a strategic market plan for continuous management of the market, users, and players along the product and business life cycle, designing games that meet market needs and requirements, designing games based on up-to-date standards and professional patterns, meeting the needs of owners and users, owners' participation in game design, owners' participation in promoting and developing gamification networks (volume and physical development), owners' participation in brand development and project promotion (advertising and brand development), players and users' participation in game design, players and users' participation in promoting and developing gamification networks (volume and physical development), and players and users' participation in brand development and project promotion (advertising and brand development). …”
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Undetected Visual Impairment Among Older People and Its Impact on Vision-Related Quality of Life: A Study Protocol by Carina Göransson, Jeanette Källstrand

“…At baseline eye examinations, fundus photography, the National Eye Institute 25-item Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI VFQ-25) and health economic data are collected. Individual semi-structured interviews (<i>n</i> = 25–30) will then be conducted about older people’s experiences of visual impairment, both consequences and strategies for coping with visual impairment in daily life. …”
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Sequential Network with Residual Neural Network for Rotatory Machine Remaining Useful Life Prediction Using Deep Transfer Learning by Hao Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Siyu Shao, Tianlin Niu, Xinyu Yang, Haibin Ding

“…Deep learning has a strong feature learning ability, which has proved its effectiveness in fault prediction and remaining useful life prediction of rotatory machine. However, training a deep network from scratch requires a large amount of training data and is time-consuming. …”
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Non-pharmacological interventions for improving quality of life of long-term care residents with dementia: a scoping review protocol by Abimbola A Akintola, Wilco P Achterberg, Monique A A Caljouw

“…A pair of reviewers will independently assess all articles for eligibility, and all eligible articles will be abstracted and charted using a standardised form. The extracted data will undergo a ‘narrative review’ or a descriptive analysis of the contextual or process-oriented data and quantitative analysis reflecting the objectives of this scoping review.Ethics and dissemination Research ethics approval is not required for this scoping review. …”
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Relationship between psychological resilience and quality of life in cancer patients and the multiple mediating roles of stigma and self perceived burden by Jiashuang Xu, Ziyun Gao, Pengjuan Ji, Qiqi Ji, Miaojing Song, Yian Chen, Hong Sun, Leilei Guo, Lin Zhang

“…SPSS 25.0 and PROCESS 3.5 macros were employed for description statistics and related analyses of the data, as well as multiple mediation effect tests. …”
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Intra- and interpersonal emotion regulation are altered in individuals with childhood maltreatment: cross-sectional associations and effects on daily life mood by Inga Niedtfeld, Sara E. Schmitz, Michelle Langenstein, Johanna Hepp

“…We investigated how CM affects intra- and interpersonal emotion regulation (ER) processes and explored the impact of these ER difficulties on daily life mood. …”
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The experiences of people with liver disease of palliative and end‐of‐life care in the United Kingdom—A systematic literature review and metasynthesis by Cathy J. Beresford, Leslie Gelling, Sue Baron, Linda Thompson

“…This review aimed to explore the palliative and end‐of‐life care experiences of people with liver disease in the United Kingdom. …”
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EXPERIENCE STUDY: EFFECT OF UNDERWRITING METHODS ON MORTALITY RATE FOR LIFE INSURANCE PRODUCT AT PT. ABC (2015-2020 PERIOD) by Alvira Adya Imani, Yulial Hikmah

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A Digital Tool for Assessing Well-Being at the Workplace and in Personal Life: Development and Validation of the Quan Well-Being Index by Georgia A Floridou, Freya Katre, Emile Jeuken

“…ResultsIn the first study, after face and content validity processes, the number of items was reduced to 45. In the second study, exploratory factor analysis on data from 1020 participants (age: mean 43.06, SD 12.98 years; 525 female participants) identified a 4-factor solution with 35 items (Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin value=0.98; Bartlett test: χ2990=37063.54; P<.001), accounting for 64% of variance. …”
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Predictors of smartphone addiction and its effect on quality of life: a cross-sectional study among the young adults in Bangladesh by Zubair Ahmed Ratan, Anne-Maree Parrish, Mohammad Saud Alotaibi, Hassan Hosseinzadeh

“…The data was gathered from a convenience sample of 440 young adults completed between July 2021 and February 2022 through online survey in Bangladesh. …”
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Clonal expansion of early to mid-life mitochondrial DNA point mutations drives mitochondrial dysfunction during human ageing. by Laura C Greaves, Marco Nooteboom, Joanna L Elson, Helen A L Tuppen, Geoffrey A Taylor, Daniel M Commane, Ramesh P Arasaradnam, Konstantin Khrapko, Robert W Taylor, Thomas B L Kirkwood, John C Mathers, Douglass M Turnbull

“…Using human colorectal epithelium as an exemplar tissue with a well-defined stem cell population, we analysed samples from 207 healthy participants aged 17-78 years using a combination of techniques (Random Mutation Capture, Next Generation Sequencing and mitochondrial enzyme histochemistry), and show that: 1) non-pathogenic mtDNA mutations are present from early embryogenesis or may be transmitted through the germline, whereas pathogenic mtDNA mutations are detected in the somatic cells, providing evidence for purifying selection in humans, 2) pathogenic mtDNA mutations are present from early adulthood (<20 years of age), at both low levels and as clonal expansions, 3) low level mtDNA mutation frequency does not change significantly with age, suggesting that mtDNA mutation rate does not increase significantly with age, and 4) clonally expanded mtDNA mutations increase dramatically with age. These data confirm that clonal expansion of mtDNA mutations, some of which are generated very early in life, is the major driving force behind the mitochondrial dysfunction associated with ageing of the human colorectal epithelium.…”
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Regional and whole-brain neurofunctional alterations during pain empathic processing of physical but not affective pain in migraine patients by Dan Liu, Menghan Li, Heng Jiang, Yiqi Mi, Xiaolei Xu, Yali Zhou, Yaxian Hou, Yuquan Shen, Michael Maes, Xiao Xiao, Feng Zhou, Luca Giani, Keith M. Kendrick, Benjamin Becker, Stefania Ferraro

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The Effectiveness of a Positive Intervention Program Based on the Components of Resilience and Forgiveness in Autonomy and Emotional Processing in Victims Students by Shahrooz Nemati, rahim badri gargari, Yousef Adib, Sepideh Kazemi

“…Bullying Victims Questionnaire, Emotional Autonomy Scale, and Emotional Processing Scale were used to collect the data. The intervention program was implemented in the 8th session of 45 minutes in groups and with gender separation for the experimental group and the control group did not receive any training. …”
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