Healthcare sobriety and pollution awareness for a green healthcare sector: a Belgian qualitative study by Desterbecq Charlotte, Dupras Charles, de Maack Valentina, Tubeuf Sandy

“…Regarding education, they underline that it should be done at the right time, by the right person and in an effective manner. Two important barriers to achieving these goals were identified: participants are less willing to accept trade-offs when it is health-related; and ethical concerns were raised about mobilizing vulnerable populations to achieve carbon neutrality in the healthcare sector.…”
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Optimising the public health benefits of sex work regulation in Senegal: Results from qualitative interviews with policy stakeholders. by Aurélia Lépine, Fanny Procureur, Sandie Szawlowski, Carole Treibich, El Hadj Mbaye, Khady Gueye, Cheikh Tidiane Ndour

“…<h4>Context</h4>There is compelling evidence that eliminating sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among female sex workers (FSWs) is a cost-effective approach to reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS. …”
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Characterization and modelling of milling induced damage in the carbon fibre reinforced composite laminates by Sergio Luiz Moni Ribeiro Filho, Alfredo Rocha de Faria, Mauricio Vicente Donadon

“…A full factorial design (23) is established to identify the effects of cutting speed, depth of cut and tool geometry on the surface roughness, cutting forces and milling-induced damage on the UD carbon fibres. …”
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A hybrid adversarial autoencoder-graph network model with dynamic fusion for robust scRNA-seq clustering by Binhua Tang, Yingying Feng, Xinyu Gao

“…Further ablation and hyperparameter analyses validated the robustness of the proposed method. The code is available at: http://github.com/gladex/scCAGN . …”
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Ontario’s health profession regulatory landscape: a mixed-methods study of structures, practices, and perceptions by Chad Andrews, Lisa W. Christian

“…Policy infrastructure is consistent amongst colleges, with most maintaining policies for code of conduct (94.7%) and fewer for speaking and writing engagements (23.7%). …”
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Transferring enhanced material knowledge via image quality enhancement and feature distillation for pavement condition identification by Zejiu Wu, Yuxing Zou, Boyang Liu, Zhijie Li, Donghong Ji, Hongbin Zhang

“…Then, a bidirectional fusion module embedded with a hybrid attention mechanism (HAM) is devised to effectively extract multi-scale refined features, thereby mitigating information loss during continuous upsampling and downsampling. …”
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Survey Influencing Factors on Prenatal Care in mothers referring to health care ‎centers in Rasht city in ‎‏2008‏ by fataneh bakhshi, nasrin mokhtari, shahin jefruodi, jila shekani, moohamad abasi, zahra atrkarruoshan

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Therapeutic targets for venous thromboemblism: proteome-wide mendelian randomization and colocalization analyses by Xiaolong Li, Cheng-hao Yang, Min Zhou, Min-yi Yin

“…Abstract Background Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a significant global health issue, yet effective therapeutic targets for its prevention and treatment remain elusive. …”
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AITtrack: Attention-Based Image-Text Alignment for Visual Tracking by Basit Alawode, Sajid Javed

“…We employ a simple decoder that takes past predictions as spatiotemporal clues to effectively model the target appearance changes without the need for complex customized post-processings and prediction heads. …”
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PSE-Based Aerodynamic Flow Transition Prediction Using Automated Unstructured CFD Integration by Nathaniel Hildebrand, Meelan M. Choudhari, Fei Li, Pedro Paredes, Balaji S. Venkatachari

“…By accounting for the effects of mean-flow nonparallelism as well as the surface curvature, this approach lays the foundation for improved <i>N</i>-factor correlations for transition onset prediction in a broad class of flows. …”
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Modeling the Impact of Viscosity on Fricke Gel Dosimeter Radiolysis: A Radiation Chemical Simulation Approach by Sumaiya Akhter Ria, Jintana Meesungnoen, Jean-Paul Jay-Gerin

“…We employed our Monte Carlo track chemistry code IONLYS-IRT, using protons of 300 MeV (LET~0.3 keV/µm) and 1 MeV (LET~25 keV/µm) as radiation sources. …”
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Appropriateness of Antibiotic Prescription Among Children Under 5 Years: A Cross‐Sectional Study in a Ghanaian Regional Hospital by Beatrice Obour, Glover Asiedu Appiah, Emmanuel Ayitey Tagoe, Harriet Affran Bonful

“…This study highlights the need to monitor antibiotic prescriptions in hospitals to ensure treatment effectiveness and combat antimicrobial resistance.…”
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A rapid qualitative methods assessment and reporting tool for epidemic response as the outcome of a rapid review and expert consultation. by Dong Dong, Sharon Abramowitz, Gustavo Corrêa Matta, Arlinda B Moreno, Elysée Nouvet, Jeni Stolow, Caitlin Pilbeam, Shelley Lees, E K Yeoh, Nina Gobat, Tamara Giles-Vernick

“…Our rapid review and evaluation found a wide range of feasible and highly effective tools, analytical approaches and timely operational insights and recommendations during epidemic emergencies.…”
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Types and incentives for medical tourism in Ukraine by B. V. Derevyanko, G. A. Myronova, S. V. Knysh

“…It has been emphasized the importance of licensing of medical and tour operator activities as a means of the State’s regulatory influence on business entities, which is mainly of a controlling nature, but supports effective entities in the field of medical tourism by removing low-quality and inefficient ones from the market. …”
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Large language models aided patient progression documentation according to the ICD standard by Nuria Lebeña, Arantza Casillas, Alicia Pérez

“…Background and Objective: Healthcare documentation processing is becoming more and more efficient and effective as a result of advances in machine learning and natural language processing (NLP). …”
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Optimizing Spatial Input Data for Techno-Economic Modeling of Least-Cost Electrification Pathways in Zambia by Katundu Imasiku, Gregory Ireland, Alison Hughes

“…The results are benchmarked against the latest publicly available scenarios in the Global Electrification Platform using the same version of the Open-Source Spatial Electrification code, thus only testing the effects of the population and grid datasets on the results. …”
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Health systems governance, shocks and resilience: a scoping review of key concepts and theories by Mauricio Avendano, Didier Wernli, Stéfanie Monod, Camille Poroes, Giulia Belloni, Nolwenn Bühler

“…While many authors stress the value of a forward-looking approach that anticipates scenarios to build resilience, there is no consensus on whether a centralised ‘top-down’ is more effective than a decentralised ‘bottom-up’ approach to respond to shocks.Conclusions Overall, the literature suggests that governance is critical to understanding health system resilience in response to shocks, yet these relationships are considered complex and potentially bidirectional and remain undertheorised. …”
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Comparing two methods of evaluation, objective structured practical ‎examination and traditional examination, on the satisfaction of students in Shahid ‎Beheshti faculty of nursing... by shadman reza masouleh, azam zare, minoomitra chehrzad, zahra atr kar ruoshan

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‘Soft drinks are normal’: understanding the lived experiences of Dutch teenagers with respect to sugar-sweetened beverages: a qualitative context-mapping study by Rian Pepping, Wilma Waterlander, Barbara Groot, Sanne Kistemaker, Arnoud P. Verhoeff, Jacob C. Seidell, Vincent Busch

“…This underlines the need for a systems approach, applying combinations of effective, integrated strategies that can be specifically tailored to the perspectives of today’s teenagers.…”
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A progressive attention-based cross-modal fusion network for cardiovascular disease detection using synchronized electrocardiogram and phonocardiogram signals by Wei Peng Li, Joon Huang Chuah, Guo Jeng Tan, Chengyu Liu, Hua-Nong Ting

“…Notably, PACFNet not only excels in multi-modal settings but also maintains robust diagnostic capabilities even with missing modalities, underscoring its practical effectiveness and reliability. The source code is publicly available on Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/records/15450169).…”
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