Realizing Accessible and Environmentally Sustainable Medical Devices in Low-Resource Healthcare Settings in Sub-Saharan Africa: Personal Narrative of the Designer’s Roles and Compe... by Karlheinz Tondo Samenjo

“…Also, the expanded roles of a policy advocate and designer-entrepreneur were essential for successful implementation into routine care. …”
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Academic Supervision and Teachers’ Pedagogical Competencies: Their Impact on Learning Quality in Indonesian Primary Schools by M Maya Mekarsari, Bunyamin, I Made Sudana

“…Implications suggest prioritizing structured supervisory systems and targeted teacher development programs. …”
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Associations between oxidative balance scores and heart failure among americans: NHANES (2007–2018) by Xiaozhuo Xu, Xueli Wang, Xu Han

“…The OBS was used to assess systemic oxidative stress status, with higher OBS scores implying exposure to more antioxidants. …”
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Advancing Credit Rating Prediction: The Role of Machine Learning in Corporate Credit Rating Assessment by Nazário Augusto de Oliveira, Leonardo Fernando Cruz Basso

“…Using a seven-year dataset from S&P Capital IQ Pro, corporate credit ratings across 20 countries were analyzed, leveraging 51 financial and business risk variables. …”
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Analyzing the association between the hydrodynamics and bank erosion along the Padma River: 2020 monsoon floods by Aishia Fyruz Aishi, Abul Kashem Faruki Fahim

“…Multiple linear regression (MLR), random forest (RF), artificial neural networks (ANN), and support vector machines (SVM) along with other statistical analyses, were employed to elucidate relationships between hydraulic variables and bank erosion. …”
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Western and complementary alternative medicine treatment of uremic pruritus: A literature review by Ping-Hsun Lu, Yu-Chih Tai, Min-Chien Yu, I-Hsin Lin, Ko-Lin Kuo

“…We searched electronic databases (PubMed and Google Scholar) and gathered the latest clinical trials and pilot studies of Western and complementary alternative medicine (CAM) therapies for UP in English. These UP studies were separated into three main groups: systemic, topical, and others and CAM. …”
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Endodontic Challenges: Understanding the Effects of Root Canal Treatment on Dentinal Cracks - A Narrative Review by Astrit Kuçi, Bleron Azizi

“…This narrative review aims to explore the relationship between various stages of RCT and the occurrence of dentinal cracks, highlighting the implications for tooth preservation. …”
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Unraveling Spatial Dynamics of Urban Complexity Between Land Use Patterns and Travel Behavior Using Structural Equation Modeling by Abdulla Al Kafy, Md. Abdul Fattah, Mahir Shahrier, Hamad Ahmed Altuwaijri

“…This study employs structural equation modeling (SEM) to explore the interplay between land use patterns and travel behavior in Rajshahi, Bangladesh. …”
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Carbon-Based Nanoadsorbents for the Removal of Emerging Pollutants by M. Venkata Ratnam, P. Akilamudhan, K. Senthil Kumar, S. Narasimha Reddy, K. Nagamalleswara Rao, Feroz Shaik, D. M. Reddy Prasad

“…The sources and classification of these pollutants, treatment knowledge gaps, and novel prospects for increasing carbonaceous nanoadsorbent utilization were all explored. The environmental and health problems associated with EC use are also studied.…”
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Summary of the 2024 Fall Conference of the Korean Pain Research Society by Min Cheol Chang

“…Advancements in neuropathic pain were highlighted, focusing on cellular mechanisms, drug delivery systems, and neuroregenerative strategies. …”
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Additive manufacturing of titanium porous transport layers for enhanced performance in proton exchange membrane water electrolysis by Ter Haar Gerrit, McGregor Craig

“…This study investigates the feasibility of using Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) additive manufacturing (AM) to fabricate porous titanium Porous Transport Layers (PTLs) for Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis (PEMWE) systems. We explore L-PBF as a potential solution to overcome limitations of traditional PTL manufacturing methods, such as limited control over structural morphology and inefficient material use. …”
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Internationalisation as Institutional Escape for Family Businesses in Conflict Zones: Evidence from Afghanistan by Muska Hanify, Omar Al Serhan, Sarath W.S.B. Dasanayaka, Kimberly Catherine Gleason

“… Objective: The objective of this article is to investigate the use of internationalisation to “escape” the institutional voids present in conflict economic systems, through interviews with fifteen Afghan family business leaders who run businesses in Kabul. …”
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Prospects of Halide Perovskites for Solar-to-Hydrogen Production by Huilong Liu, Tulja Bhavani Korukonda, Shubhra Bansal

“…Despite this, with the unveiling potential of various Pb-free HP compositions in photovoltaics and optoelectronics researchers were inspired to explore the potential of these materials in water splitting. …”
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Analyzing the relationship between Google trends data and dengue outbreaks: a causality and correlation study by Gaurav Singh, Anupriya Jha, M. K. Aadil

“…Pearson’s correlation analysis, smoothed moving average, and the Toda-Yamamoto causality test were used to explore the strength, direction, and causality between the Google Trends data and official reports of the number of dengue outbreaks in India. …”
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The effect of high-altitude on human skeletal muscle energetics: P-MRS results from the Caudwell Xtreme Everest expedition. by Lindsay M Edwards, Andrew J Murray, Damian J Tyler, Graham J Kemp, Cameron J Holloway, Peter A Robbins, Stefan Neubauer, Denny Levett, Hugh E Montgomery, Mike P Grocott, Kieran Clarke, Caudwell Xtreme Everest Research Group

“…Many disease states are associated with regional or systemic hypoxia. The study of healthy individuals exposed to high-altitude hypoxia offers a way to explore hypoxic adaptation without the confounding effects of disease and therapeutic interventions. …”
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Releasing time to deliver care: a mixed methods evaluation of the implementation of enhanced midwifery continuity of carer by Paul Wilson, Jo Dumville, Luke Aaron Munford, Elaine Harkness, Charlotte Hall, Stephanie Gillibrand, Kate Parkyn, Maartje Kletter

“…We conducted a rapid formative evaluation aiming to explore the implementation of the pilot programme to (1) generate timely insights to inform ongoing service delivery; (2) generate a logical framework of the eMCoC service and; (3) inform the design of a longer-term summative evaluation.Design Rapid evaluation using mixed-methods.Setting We explored implementation of the eMCoC service in 58 funded local midwifery teams across 23 Local Maternity and Neonatal Systems (LMNS). …”
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Development of the EPO-Score – a multivariable tool to predict adverse outcome in infants with perinatal asphyxia undergoing therapeutic hypothermia – a retrospective study by Adriana van der Donk, Maria Schleier, Alisa Bär, Linda Mulzer, Regina Trollmann, Stephanie Schuessler, Steven Hébert, Gregor Hanslik, Joachim Woelfle, Heiko Reutter, Patrick Morhart

“…Although several studies have explored prognostic markers and proposed scoring systems, none of these tools has been adopted for routine bedside use to date. …”
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Integrated Transcriptome and Metabolome Analyses Reveal Complex Oxidative Damage Mechanisms in Rice Seedling Roots Under Different Carbonate Stresses by Yang Cao, Fei Hao, Jingpeng Li, Bolun Zhang, Zeming Li, Tiantian Liu, Yan Gao, Xuguang Niu, Xiaohu Liu, Hui Zhang, Lijuan Yang

“…Moreover, the contents of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and malondialdehyde (MDA) were markedly increased, indicating that Na₂CO₃ induces more severe oxidative damage. …”
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Investigating the relationship between sleep disturbances and cortical thickness, brainstem volume, amyloid accumulation, and inflammatory markers in Parkinson's disease patients by Min Chen, Gongbing Guo, Shuangyu Liu, Jingjing Cai, Xueying Tong, Xia Liu, Yufei Zhang, Yanhong Chen, Jiangtao Huo

“…Conclusion: These findings highlight the interplay between neuroanatomical changes, amyloid pathology, and systemic inflammation in PD-related sleep dysfunction, suggesting potential therapeutic targets.…”
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3D-Printed Demultiplexer Circuits Using Suspended-in-Air Grating Couplers for Terahertz Communications by Babak Yahyapour, Frederic Marcotte, Roya Gachiloo, Maksim Skorobogatiy

“…Experimentally, three-channel demultiplexers of THz signals with individual data rates up to 6 Gbps were demonstrated. Using finite element numerical modeling, integrated circuits were optimized for operation in the 120-165 GHz frequency band featuring ~5 GHz individual channel bandwidths and ~3 GHz inter-channel spectral spacing, and good agreement with the experiments was observed. …”
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