Sexual health service users’ perspectives on artificial intelligence applications for identification of lesions associated with sexually transmissible infections: A qualitative stu... by Alicia J King, Nyi Nyi Soe, Phyu Mon Latt, Lei Zhang, Meredith Temple-Smith, Kate Maddaford, Christopher K Fairley, Eric PF Chow, Tiffany R Phillips

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Association of air pollution from a landfill site with changes in primary care consultation patterns by Kelvin P. Jordan, Sara Muller, Muhammad Usman, James Bailey, Claire Burton, Sarah A. Lawton, Christian D. Mallen, Kayleigh J. Mason, Simon Wathall, Danielle A. van der Windt

“…Since this study focussed on coded consultations in primary care and not symptoms present in the general population, an impact on the health of individuals cannot be ruled out.…”
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Recent trends in the incidence of anxiety diagnoses and symptoms in primary care. by Kate Walters, Greta Rait, Mark Griffin, Marta Buszewicz, Irwin Nazareth

“…This study aimed to determine trends in incidence and socio-demographic variation in General Practitioner (GP) recorded diagnoses of anxiety, mixed anxiety/depression, panic and anxiety symptoms.…”
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Characterizing the services provided by family physicians in Ontario, Canada: A retrospective study using administrative billing data. by David W Savage, Arunim Garg, Salimur Choudhury, Roger Strasser, Robert Ohle, Vijay Mago

“…We investigated the services provided by family physicians in Ontario, Canada using a provincial physician database and administrative physician billing data from 2017. Billing codes were used to define 18 general services that family physicians may provide. …”
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La disciplina escolar como vigilancia heteronormativa. Etnografía del castigo en una secundaria de Iztapalapa by Daniel Dionisio Hernández Rosete Martínez, Ana Francisca Juárez Hernández

“…We found that school discipline gives rise to a form of institutional heteronormative surveillance that produces and reinforces gender roles that naturalize aggressive language towards women, homosexuals and males in general. In addition, we found that the school institution promotes the adoption of sexist codes that denote a Judeo-Christian moral character, clearly distant from secular education. …”
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BILSEM Geography Teachers' Evaluations on their Branches by Ufuk Sözcü, Erkan Dündar, Abdullah Türker

“…These institutions, formed by teachers, students, and administrators selected based on various criteria in different branches such as general knowledge, general ability, music, and art, aspire to nurture individuals who realize their potential. …”
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Epidemiology of alcohol dependence in UK primary care: Results from a large observational study using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink. by Andrew Thompson, Alison K Wright, Darren M Ashcroft, Tjeerd P van Staa, Munir Pirmohamed

“…This study aims to investigate the incidence and annual presentation rates of alcohol dependence in general practice in the UK, and examine age-, gender-, socioeconomic-, and region-specific variation. …”
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Clients’ experiences in their first entry to the operating room: a descriptive phenomenological study by Nasim Alipour, Amir Jalali, Rostam Jalali, Alireza Khatony

“…Results By continuous analysis of interviews about patients’ experiences, 308 codes, 10 sub-themes, 6 primary themes, and 3 general themes were obtained. …”
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Compression of Multichannel Signals With Irregular Sampling Rates and Data Gaps by Pablo Cervenansky, Alvaro Martin, Gadiel Seroussi

“…Our schemes first encode the position of the gaps, using arithmetic coding combined with a Krichevsky-Trofimov probability assignment on a Markov model, and then encode the data values separately. …”
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Pharmacy customers' views towards the potential introduction of pharmacist prescribing: A survey study. by Jan Siefert, Niklas Zimmermann, Kandarp Thakkar, Ágnes Mészáros

“…This systematic change can improve general public's access to prescribed medication. …”
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene product expression is associated with survival in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma by Leanne Jones, Sonika Divakar, Lewis Collins, Wael Hamarneh, Phillip Ameerally, Karen Anthony, Lee Machado

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‘It was a ravage!’: lived experiences of epidemic cholera in rural Haiti by Louise C Ivers, Yodeline Guillaume, Gregory J Jerome, Ralph Ternier, Max Raymond

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Lactate-related lncRNAs assessment model predicts the prognosis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma by Jing Sun, Tao Zhang, Shuai Zhu

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RoofMapNet: Utilizing geometric primitives for depicting planar building roof structure from high-resolution remote sensing imagery by Jiaqi Wang, Guanzhou Chen, Xiaodong Zhang, Tong Wang, Xiaoliang Tan, Qingyuan Yang, Wenlin Zhou, Kun Zhu

“…Further analyses confirm the resilience to varying spatial resolutions and complex occlusion patterns. Our code and data are available at: https://github.com/CVEO/RoofMapNet.…”
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Comparative evaluation of approaches & tools for effective security testing of Web applications by Sana Qadir, Eman Waheed, Aisha Khanum, Seema Jehan

“…These findings reveal key insights, such as, the superiority of DAST tools for detecting certain types of vulnerabilities and the indispensability of SAST tools for detecting high-severity issues (due to detailed static code analysis). This study also addresses significant limitations in previous research by testing multiple real-world Web applications across diverse domains (technology, health, and education), enhancing generalization of the findings. …”
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Exploring the levels of variation, inequality and use of physical activity intervention referrals in England primary care from 2017–2020: a retrospective cohort study by Uy Hoang, Harshana Liyanage, Simon de Lusignan, John Williams, Filipa Ferreira, Ivelina Yonova, Julian Sherlock, Anant Jani, Dylan McGagh, Cecilia Okusi

“…We also explore variation and inequalities in referrals to these interventions in England across the study period.Design Retrospective cohort study.Setting England primary care via the Royal College of General Practitioners Research Surveillance Centre.Participants The Royal College of General Practitioners Research Surveillance Centre, a sentinel network across England covering a population of over 15 000 000 registered patients, was used for data analyses covering the 2017–2020 financial years and including patients with long-term conditions indicating CVD risk factors.Outcome measures An existing ontology of primary care codes was used to capture physical activity interventions and a new ontology was designed to cover long-term conditions indicating CVD risk factors. …”
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Forecast Padding Enhances Accuracy and Robustness of EEG-Phase-Synchronized TMS by Yu-Cheng Chang, Pin-Hsuan Chao, Yan-Ming Kuan, Chiu-Jung Huang, Li-Fen Chen, Wei-Chung Mao, Tung-Ping Su, Sin-Horng Chen, Chun-Shu Wei

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Background and design of the Physical Frailty and Symptom Monitoring and Management Behaviors in Heart Failure (PRISM-HF) study: A mixed methods study by Quin E. Denfeld, Shirin O. Hiatt, Susan J. Rosenkranz, S.Albert Camacho, Christopher V. Chien, Nathan F. Dieckmann, Tyler B. Ramos, Christopher S. Lee, Barbara Riegel, Lissi Hansen

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Epigenomics and Schizophrenia: A Literature Review by Nishikant Thorat, Soham Kulkarni

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From digitized whole‐slide histology images to biomarker discovery: A protocol for handcrafted feature analysis in brain cancer pathology by Xuanjun Lu, Yawen Ying, Jing Chen, Zhiyang Chen, Yuxin Wu, Prateek Prasanna, Xin Chen, Mingli Jing, Zaiyi Liu, Cheng Lu

“…In the external validation cohort, the optimal model combination achieved a generalization performance with an AUC of 0.594. We provide an open‐source code repository (GitHub website: https://github.com/XuanjunLu/PHBCP) to facilitate effective collaboration between medical and technical experts, thereby advancing the field of computational pathology in brain cancer.…”
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