Developing the ‘Life Threads’ approach to support families after traumatic brain injury in UK community settings: protocol for a qualitative prefeasibility study by Caroline Ellis-Hill, Fergus Gracey, Mark Holloway, Charlotte Jane Whiffin, Alyson Norman, Morag Lee, Parmjeet Kaur Singh, Jo Clark-Wilson, Audrey Daisley, Natasha Yasmin Felles, Sara Rose

“…Family members will be provided with the ‘Life Threads’ approach materials and guided in their use. …”
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Data-Driven Analysis: Examining the Impact of COVID-19 from the Perspective of Residential and Non-Residential Electricity Consumption by Zhiheng Yang, Xiu Cao, Qifan Zhang

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End-of-life health literacy, knowledge and behaviours towards advance care planning among older adults: cross-sectional evidence from Switzerland by Ralf J Jox, Maud Wieczorek, Clément Meier, Sarah Vilpert, Jürgen Maurer, Carmen Borrat-Besson

“…Thus, developing public health policies that aim at strengthening their end-of-life health literacy skills may increase individuals’ engagement in the ACP process and make ACP more effective.…”
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Life beyond 5 Years after TAVI: Patients’ Perceived Health Status and Long-Term Outcome after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation by Marie-Isabel K. Murray, Eileen Hofmann, Roberta De Rosa, Silvia Mas-Peiro, Philipp Seppelt, Thomas Walther, Andreas M. Zeiher, Stephan Fichtlscherer, Mariuca Vasa-Nicotera

“…Demographic and procedure data were obtained from all patients treated with TAVI at our institution from 2006 to 2012. …”
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Arresting Neglect of Learner Studies: Experimentation with Monitoring and Evaluation processes of three secondary schools in Limpopo Province, South Africa by Ngwako Solomon Modiba

“…The paper resulted from diverse discourses some of which categorise current pupils to be lazy to be studious despite their uncontrollable desire for success in life. This paper is conceptual and empirical in nature within the qualitative research paradigm. …”
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Educational intervention based on the Extended Parallel Process Model in promoting preventive behaviors of arteriosclerosis in female high-school students by Nader Sharifi, Elham Delghandi, Fatemeh Ghardashi, Zahra Joveini, Ali Hosseinzadeh, Vahid Rahmanian, Hamid Joveini

“…BACKGROUND: Atherosclerosis can develop gradually from early life and remain asymptomatic for a long time; this research was conducted with the aim of determining the effect of educational intervention based on the Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM) on the promotion of preventive behaviors of atherosclerosis in female students of a high school in Sabzevar city. …”
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Sintering Behavior of Molybdenite Concentrate During Oxidation Roasting Process in Air Atmosphere: Influences of Roasting Temperature and K Content by Jiangang Liu, Lu Wang, Guohuan Wu

“…Sintering is a common phenomenon, which often takes place during the oxidation roasting process of molybdenite concentrate in multiple-hearth furnaces. …”
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scCobra allows contrastive cell embedding learning with domain adaptation for single cell data integration and harmonization by Bowen Zhao, Kailu Song, Dong-Qing Wei, Yi Xiong, Jun Ding

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Early life bifidobacterial mother–infant transmission: greater contribution from the infant gut to human milk revealed by microbiomic and culture-based methods by Simou Wu, Gang Luo, Fengling Jiang, Wen Jia, Jinxing Li, Ting Huang, Xuguang Zhang, Yuejian Mao, Shengpeng Su, Weiwei Han, Fang He, Ruyue Cheng

“…ABSTRACT The colonization and development of the gut microbiota during early life, especially Bifidobacterium, may be influenced by maternal bacterial communities, including those of human milk. …”
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Homotypic cell cannibalism, a cell‐death process regulated by the nuclear protein 1, opposes to metastasis in pancreatic cancer by Carla E. Cano, María José Sandí, Tewfik Hamidi, Ezequiel L. Calvo, Olivier Turrini, Laurent Bartholin, Céline Loncle, Véronique Secq, Stéphane Garcia, Gwen Lomberk, Guido Kroemer, Raul Urrutia, Juan L. Iovanna

“…HoCC ends with death of PDAC cells, consistent with a metastasis suppressor role for this phenomenon. Hence, our data indicates a protective role for HoCC in PDAC and identifies Nupr1 as a molecular regulator of this process.…”
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Exploring the decision-making process of Chinese older adults transitioning to continuing care retirement communities: a qualitative study by Meina Yuan, Nan Ding, Jinping Zhao, Tao Xue, Xinyi Xu, Yuanshuo Ma, Jie Hu

“…Although CCRCs address practical needs, deficiencies remain in emotional support, social adaptation, and end-of-life care. Conclusions These findings enrich our understanding of CCRC decision-making in China by highlighting the ongoing influence of sociocultural values and personal autonomy throughout the process. …”
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Evaluation of economic feasibility for the microbial electrosynthesis-based β-farnesene production technology: Process modeling and techno-economic assessment by Young-Hwan Chu, Yu Rim Lee, Hui Su Kim, Jiye Lee, Myounghoon Moon, Gwon Woo Park, Sangmin Lee, Soo Youn Lee

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Learning from the process evaluation of a complex, pre-conception randomised controlled trial in Malaysia: the Jom Mama project by Shakirah Md. Sharif, Mark Hanson, Diane W. Chong, Ainul Nadziha M. Hanafiah, Mohamad Z. Zulkepli, Syatirah F. Zulbahari, Jutta Skau, Julius Cheah C. Ho, Priya Matzen, Regien Biesma, Shane A. Norris, Jens Aagaard-Hansen

“…# Background Seen from a life-course perspective, pre-conception interventions are essential to reduce transmission to the next generation of obesity as a risk factor for later non-communicable diseases. …”
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The meaning of the recovery process and its stages for people attending a mental health day hospital: A qualitative study by Ana Ventosa‐Ruiz, Antonio R. Moreno‐Poyato, Teresa Lluch‐Canut, Isabel Feria‐Raposo, Montserrat Puig‐Llobet

“…In the third stage (Preparation), participants highlighted the search for meaning in life, facing their fears and the process with an open mind. …”
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The role of Cultural Socialization and Contextual Factors on the Subjective Well-Being of Immigrant Adolescent Girls at the Beginning and End of Adolescence: A life course perspect... by Elaheh Hejazi, Ahmad Baseri, Zahra Naghsh, simin ebrahimi

“…Based on the results of the test, the hypotheses regarding the role of cultural socialization, speaking in the mother tongue, and educational level were confirmed, while the variables of ethnicity and immigrant generation were excluded from the equation.ConclusionThis study focuses on understanding the factors affecting the subjective well-being of first- and second-generation female migrant adolescents in Tehran by adopting a life course approach. Hierarchical data analysis revealed that cultural socialization and speaking the mother tongue were significant predictors of subjective well-being, whereas educational level demonstrated a comparatively weaker predictive role. …”
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Effect of nursing process-based nursing decision implementation on emergency patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction by Tiantian Wan, Caixia Wang, Jingli Shi, Shujian Wu

“…Abstract Background This article aimed to assess the impact of nursing decision interventions based on the nursing process on the clinical outcomes and quality of life (QoL) of patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). …”
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Requirements and special considerations for drug trials with children across six jurisdictions: 2. Ethics review in the regulatory approval process by Breanne Stewart, Pirkko Lepola, Gunter F. Egger, Fahimeda Ali, Albert J. Allen, Albert J. Allen, Alysha K. Croker, Andrew J. Davidson, Pamela Dicks, Saul N. Faust, Saul N. Faust, Dionna Green, Collin Hovinga, Collin Hovinga, Agnes V. Klein, Robyn Langham, Hidefumi Nakamura, Laura Pioppo, Shiva Ramroop, Michiyo Sakiyama, Isabel Sanchez Vigil de la Villa, Junko Sato, Donna L. Snyder, Mark A. Turner, Mark A. Turner, Sarah Zaidi, Kanecia Zimmerman, Kanecia Zimmerman, Thierry Lacaze-Masmonteil

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Cervical ripening at home or in hospital during induction of labour: the CHOICE prospective cohort study, process evaluation and economic analysis by Mairead Black, Cassandra Yuill, Mairi Harkness, Sayem Ahmed, Linda Williams, Kathleen A Boyd, Maggie Reid, Amar Bhide, Neelam Heera, Jane Huddleston, Neena Modi, John Norrie, Dharmintra Pasupathy, Julia Sanders, Gordon C S Smith, Rosemary Townsend, Helen Cheyne, Christine McCourt, Sarah Stock

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Evaluation of university student education management effect based on data augmentation and transfer learning for remote sensing applications by Chen Jie, Huang Min, Chen Bin, Sun Ziwen

“…By combining data enhancement technology, we expanded the training data, simulated various real-life scenarios, and ensured that the model is more robust to various data changes. …”
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Unique Method for Prognosis of Risk of Depressive Episodes Using Novel Measures to Model Uncertainty Under Data Privacy by Barbara Pękala, Dawid Kosior, Wojciech Rząsa, Katarzyna Garwol, Janusz Czuma

“…Importantly, computer support in medical diagnostics often requires algorithms that are appropriate for processing data expressing uncertainty and that can ensure high-quality diagnostics. …”
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