Community-led interventions for HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, and care in Southern Africa: a scoping review by Enos Moyo, Perseverance Moyo, Grant Murewanhema, Rosemary Mhlanga-Gunda, Tafadzwa Dzinamarira

“…We used NVivo to develop codes and categories for the scope and outcomes of community-led interventions. …”
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The Amount of Orthodontic Force Reaching the Dental Pulp and Neuro-Vascular Bundle During Orthodontic Movements in the Intact Periodontium by Radu-Andrei Moga, Cristian Doru Olteanu, Ada Gabriela Delean

“…<i>Results</i>: Both forces displayed a similar color-coded stress display for the two methods. The Tresca quantitative results were 1.11 times higher than the VM but lower than the maximum physiological hydrostatic circulatory pressure. …”
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Motivation toward physical activity and nutrition in older cancer patients: the MONAGE protocol using ecological momentary assessment and accelerometers by Mathis Brusseau, Blandine Gallet-Suchet, Gérard Dray, Sophie Gendrault, Lobna Harguem, Julie Boiché

“…This research into the mechanisms of action between motivation and behaviors could optimize care pathways by designing appropriate intervention content, under conditions where the content will be most effective, to promote sustained behavior change among older adults with cancer. …”
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Geriatric hip fracture with proximal upper extremity fracture increases morbidity and mortality by Zachary Jodoin, MD, Travis Kotzur, BS, Aaron Singh, BA, Kyle Paul, MD, Case Martin, MD, Ravi Karia, MD, Thomas Hand, MD

“…Subgroup analysis demonstrated that these effects were most pronounced in proximal—versus more distal—upper extremity fractures. …”
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Advancing breast cancer diagnosis: token vision transformers for faster and accurate classification of histopathology images by Mouhamed Laid Abimouloud, Khaled Bensid, Mohamed Elleuch, Mohamed Ben Ammar, Monji Kherallah

“…Abstract The vision transformer (ViT) architecture, with its attention mechanism based on multi-head attention layers, has been widely adopted in various computer-aided diagnosis tasks due to its effectiveness in processing medical image information. …”
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The ongoing impact of policy documents on the pandemic based on the framework of the “4Rs” theory and policy tools: in China by Lili Wang, Xueying Li, Zhuojun Ye, Shiwen Zhang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Limei Jing

“…Quantitative text analysis was employed within this framework to code and quantify pandemic prevention and control policies issued between January 2020 and December 2022. …”
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Transitioning from Analog to Digitalization of Essential Vaccination for Travellers through National Immunization Management System (NIMS) at the Points of Entry in Pakistan by Dr Nadia Noreen

“…Pakistan's adoption of digitalization at POEs promises transformative effects on public health and travel safety, underscoring the need for continued efforts to maximize its benefits. …”
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Provider Perspectives on the Use of Mental Health Apps, and the BritePath App in Particular, With Adolescents at Risk for Suicidal Behavior: Qualitative Study by Frances Lynch, Julie Cavese, Lucy Fulton, Nancy Vuckovic, David Brent

“…ConclusionsThe use of mental health apps is expanding, yet there is limited understanding of how to effectively integrate these tools into mental health treatment. …”
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Volume and in-hospital mortality after emergency abdominal surgery: a national population-based study by Jan Sørensen, Ken Mealy, Deirdre M Nally, Gintare Valentelyte, Laura Hammond, Deborah McNamara, Dara O Kavanagh

“…These findings contribute to the ongoing discussion regarding configuration of emergency surgery services and emphasise the need for effective clinical governance regarding observed variation in outcomes within and between institutions.…”
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Factors creating favorable conditions for activating innovative entrepreneurship and startups in post-war Ukraine by Oksana Khymych, Enno Masurel

“…Among the eight constraining aggregate themes, 32.55% identified the policy and regulatory system as the main obstacle due to the absence of an effective strategy, ineffective legislation, passive municipalities, and bureaucracy. …”
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Medical expenditure of women during pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium at the beginning of China’s universal two-child policy enactment: a population-based retrospective study by Xin Wang, Ying Zhang, Yu Chen, Shuang Zang, Meizhen Zhao, Yalan Zhu

“…Reducing medical expenditure by shortening the length of stay could be a feasible way to effectively address the issue of cost in women during pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium.…”
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Machine learning analysis of thermo-bioconvection in a micropolar hybrid nanofluid-filled square cavity with oxytactic microorganisms by Ahlawat Anil, Chaudhary Shilpa, Karuppusamy Loganathan, Mohammed Salman Arafath, Kandasamy Thirumalaisamy, Thameem Basha Hayath

“…The TiO2-GO/H2O HNF flow is modeled as a steady, laminar, 2D, incompressible, electrically conducting, and homogeneous viscous fluid neglecting the joule heating and viscous dissipation effects. Numerical simulations utilize finite-difference approach to discretize the ensuing equations and boundary conditions, solving the resulting algebraic system iteratively via successive over-relaxation, under-relaxation, and Gauss–Seidel techniques utilizing in-house MATLAB codes. …”
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Pretoria medical students' perspectives on the assessable attributes of professionalism by Marietjie van Rooyen, Ina Treadwell

“…Background: Professionalism forms an important aspect of medicine's contract with society, and it is therefore important that it should be assessed and developed in medical schools. For the effective assessment of medical students' professionalism, clear objectives, or outcomes based on a clear definition of professionalism, have to be accepted by society, the faculty and the students. …”
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Evaluation of open and closed-source LLMs for low-resource language with zero-shot, few-shot, and chain-of-thought prompting by Zabir Al Nazi, Md. Rajib Hossain, Faisal Al Mamun

“…The limited availability of text corpora for low-resource languages, coupled with their minimal utilization during LLM training, hampers the models’ ability to perform effectively in real-time applications. Additionally, evaluations of LLMs are significantly less extensive for low-resource languages. …”
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Drug Utilization of Rifaximin-α in Patients with Hepatic Encephalopathy: Evidence from Real Clinical Practice in Italy by Valentina Perrone, Marcello Usala, Chiara Veronesi, Maria Cappuccilli, Luca Degli Esposti

“…Although rifaximin is effective in preventing HE relapses, therapeutic management and prescriptive attitudes might be improved. …”
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Multi-scale window transformer for cervical cytopathology image recognition by Jiaxiang Yi, Xiuli Liu, Shenghua Cheng, Li Chen, Shaoqun Zeng

“…The results on large-scale datasets prove the effectiveness and generalization of our proposed model. …”
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A qualitative analysis on the implementation of a nudge intervention to reduce post-surgical opioid prescribing by Meghan C. Martinez, Kathryn Bouskill, Xiaowei Sherry Yan, Allison Kirkegaard, Jason N. Doctor, Katherine E. Watkins

“…We then interviewed 36 surgeons between September 2022-January 2023 and coded and themed transcripts and implementation process documents from the study. …”
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Needs of health education for community residents – A survey across difference types of community in Hangzhou of China by Minzhe Yi, Qingtao Gao, Xianxiao Yang, Weiwei Chen

“…Background: Community-based health education is widely recognized as a cost-effective means to improve public health. However, current research on health education needs lacks a framework that accounts for variations across different community types, limiting understanding of diverse health education needs in urban settings. …”
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Exploring pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) modality preferences among black cisgender women attending family planning clinics in Chicago via a cross-sectional mixed-methods study by Sadia Haider, Amy K Johnson, Emily Ott, Eleanor E Friedman, Agustina Pandiani, Amy Moore, Isa Alvarez, Catherine Desmarais

“…Background Despite pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) demonstrated effectiveness, black cisgender women continue to be at an elevated risk for HIV acquisition and uptake of daily oral PrEP is low in this population in the USA. …”
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DFAST_QC: quality assessment and taxonomic identification tool for prokaryotic Genomes by Mohamed Elmanzalawi, Takatomo Fujisawa, Hiroshi Mori, Yasukazu Nakamura, Yasuhiro Tanizawa

“…Abstract Background Accurate taxonomic classification in genome databases is essential for reliable biological research and effective data sharing. Mislabeling or inaccuracies in genome annotations can lead to incorrect scientific conclusions and hinder the reproducibility of research findings. …”
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