Spatial Clustering of Tuberculosis-HIV Coinfection in Ethiopia at Districts Level by Leta Lencha Gemechu, Legesse Kassa Debusho

“…Methods. District-level aggregated data on the number of TB-HIV infections were obtained from the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health for 2015 to 2018. …”
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Use of evidence-based health professions education: Attitudes and practices of academic leaders. by Shazia Nawabi, Rida Fatima Waseem, AbdulAziz Binrayes, Ayman Moaz Abulhamael, Zaina Ahmad, Kiran Imtiaz Khan, Syed Rashid Habib, Muhammad Qasim Javed

“…Spearman correlation was utilized to determine any relationships between the questionnaire's three sections.…”
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Exploring the associations between health confidence, self-efficacy, health activation and healthy behaviours in primary school children by Lixia Ge, Joseph Antonio De Castro Molina, Hui Ting Foo, Rochelle Chua, Chin Fung Ong

“…This study investigated their association to inform strategies for health educators, healthcare providers, researchers, and policymakers in developing tailored interventions for this population. Methods A cross-sectional survey with 597 children from four primary schools was conducted. …”
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The sports nutrition knowledge of large language model (LLM) artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots: An assessment of accuracy, completeness, clarity, quality of evidence, and test-... by Thomas P J Solomon, Matthew J Laye

“…<h4>Materials and methods</h4>Two experiments were conducted. In Experiment 1, chatbots were tested with simple and detailed prompts in two domains: Sports nutrition for training and Sports nutrition for racing. …”
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Upper Eyelid and Eyebrow Dimensions in Adult Filipinos by Elaine Marie Y. Omaña, MD, MHA, DPBO, Maria Suzanne A. Sabundayo-Tiu, MD, DPBO, Lourdes T Ang, MD, DPBO

“…Objectives: To determine the normative values for upper eyelid and eyebrow dimensions among adult Filipinos and the effects of age and sex on these parameters. …”
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Intra-Rater Reliability of Pressure Pain Threshold with Different Algometers in Healthy Participants by Alexandre Nunes, Vanessa Leite

“…Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the intra-reliability of pressure pain thresholds (PPTs) measured using a digital algometer with and without a digital screen by different raters at the same time in a pain-free population. …”
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Mortality from alcoholic cardiomyopathy: evidence and statistical problems by I. V. Samorodskaya, E. P. Kakorina, T. K. Chernyavskaya

“…In other regions, “wave-like” changes were noted — a decrease or increase in SMR. The coefficient of variation of the SMR was minimal in 2016 (73%) and maximum in 2021 (103%). …”
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Intelligent wearable devices with audio collection capabilities to assess chronic obstructive pulmonary disease severity by Chunbo Zhang, Kunyao Yu, Zhe Jin, Yingcong Bao, Cheng Zhang, Jiping Liao, Guangfa Wang

“…A logistic regression model using the RR and blowing sounds as key predictors achieved accuracies of 0.77–0.89 in determining the GOLD grade, with a Cohen's kappa coefficient of 0.6757. …”
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Genetic and Agromorphological Characterization of Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) Genotypes for Dehiscence-Related Traits and Grain Yield Performances by Gazali B. T. A. Sanni, Vincent Ezin, Antoine Abel Missihoun, Quenum Florent, Adam Ahanchede

“…Capsule dehiscence was evaluated using the sun-drying and oven-drying methods at 60°C for 6 hours. The capsule split (ECS, %) and capsule open (ECO, %) were calculated to quantify dehiscence. …”
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Predicting the shield effectiveness of carbon fiber reinforced mortars utilizing metaheuristic algorithms by Mana Alyami, Irfan Ullah, Furqan Ahmad, Hisham Alabduljabbar

“…The SVR-PSO hybrid model demonstrated superior performance, achieving the highest coefficient of determination (R2) value of 0.994, compared to SVR-FFA (0.964) and SVR-GWO (0.929). …”
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Social relational quality and ethical climate as the predictors of sleep quality in employees of the operating room: a hierarchical linear regression analysis by Nilofar Pasyar, Masoume Rambod, Atefeh Abbasi, Mahdi Salmanpour

“…Methods This cross-sectional and multi-center study was conducted on 232 operating room employees. …”
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Peer Relationships Are a Direct Cause of the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis: Interpretable Machine Learning Analysis of 2 Large Cohort Studies by Heiner Stuke, Robert Schlack, Michael Erhart, Anne Kaman, Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer, Christopher Irrgang

“…ResultsThe average cross-validated Pearson correlation coefficient (r ConclusionsMental health development during adolescence can be assessed by a combination of variables from early adolescence. …”
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Unveiling the immune microenvironment of complex tissues and tumors in transcriptomics through a deconvolution approach by Shu-Hwa Chen, Bo-Yi Yu, Wen-Yu Kuo, Ya-Bo Lin, Sheng-Yao Su, Wei-Hsuan Chuang, I.-Hsuan Lu, Chung-Yen Lin

“…Additionally, mySORT outperforms existing methods like CIBERSORT in accuracy and provides a wide range of data visualization features, such as hierarchical clustering and cell complexity plots. …”
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An interpretable deep learning model for the accurate prediction of mean fragmentation size in blasting operations by Baoqian Huan, Xianglong Li, Jianguo Wang, Tao Hu, Zihao Tao

“…The results showed that the NRBO-CNN-LSSVM model achieved remarkable prediction accuracy on the training dataset, with a coefficient of determination (R 2) as high as 0.9717 and a root mean square error (RMSE) as low as 0.0285. …”
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Transcultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the Spanish version of Participation and Environment Measurement—Children and Youth (PEM-CY) by María Gómez-Vela, Mª Begoña Orgaz Baz, Isabel Vicario-Molina, Eva González Ortega, Marta Badia Corbella

“…This study aims to adapt the PEM-CY for use with children and youth in Spain, and to investigate its psychometric properties. Methods Seven hundred thirteen parents of children with (n = 233) and without (n = 480) disabilities, aged 5 to 17, completed the Spanish version of PEM-CY. …”
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The effect of nitrogen fertilisation on the yield and quality of winter wheat grain on meadow‐chestnut soil by S. A. Teymurov, M.‐R. A. Kaziev, A. A. Bagomaev

“…The study of the effect of nitrogen fertilization on the yield and quality of winter wheat grain on meadow‐chestnut soil.Methods. Analyses of soil samples were carried out using generally accepted standard techniques. …”
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Translation, cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Weight Management Questionnaire in the Brazilian population: a cross-sectional study by Brígida Rodrigues da Costa, Almir Vieira Dibai-Filho, Aldair Darlan Santos-de-Araújo, Fábio Henrique Ferreira Pereira, Daniela Bassi-Dibai, Adriana Sousa Rêgo

“…DESIGN AND SETTING: This was a quantitative cross-sectional study. METHODS: Obese and physically active lean individuals aged 18−59 years were included in this study. …”
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Adaptation and validation of the Chinese version of the Hospice Comfort Questionnaire-Patient (HCQ-P) by Nana Xu, Xu Yan, Xiaohong Ou, Jun Ren, Qiaoqin Wan

“…The evaluation included determining floor and ceiling effects, evaluating internal consistency using Cronbach’s α, and testing test-retest reliability with the intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC). …”
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Axial Compression Behavior of Circular Concrete-Filled High-Strength Thin-Walled Steel Tubular Columns with Out-of-Code D/t Ratios by Jun-Xin Li, Jian-Tao Wang, Qing Sun, Yan-Ru Wu, Shi-Ming Zhou, Fa-Cheng Wang

“…Subsequently, the applicability of typical design methods was evaluated, and a revised equation for determining strain εscy corresponding to ultimate strength was established to assess the plastic deformation capacity of CFHTST columns. …”
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Predicting fall risk in older adults: A machine learning comparison of accelerometric and non-accelerometric factors by Ana González-Castro, José Alberto Benítez-Andrades, Rubén González-González, Camino Prada-García, Raquel Leirós-Rodríguez

“…Performance was evaluated based on mean squared error (MSE) and coefficient of determination ( R 2 ), to assess how combining multiple data types influences prediction accuracy. …”
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