Impacts and Pathways of Behavioral Activation on Psychological Distress Among Patients Diagnosed With Esophageal and Gastric Cancer in China: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Runze Huang, Anlong Li, Han Ge, Lijun Liu, Ling Cheng, Mingjun Zhang, Huaidong Cheng

“…The study also demonstrates the potential of BA in cancer patients, a skill that can be effectively acquired by primary care workers without specialized training and implemented more flexible. Trial Registration: NCT06348940…”
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Detecting Carbapenem Resistance in Enterobacteriaceae Isolates Using Carbapenem Discs and the Modified Hodge Test at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Maharashtra, India by Naik Shraddha Dinkarrao1*, Ghogare Harish Subhashrao2, Kulkarni Smita Sitaram1, Mulay Manjushree Vijay1

Life-Threatening Respiratory Complications in Two Young Children with Extreme Obesity by Joanna Wielopolska, Klaudia Górnostaj, Joanna Olejnik-Wojciechowska, Maciej Kawczyński, Katarzyna Radomska, Elżbieta Petriczko

“…Case Report: The first patient was a 9-year-old boy with Prader–Willi syndrome, severe obesity, obstructive sleep apnea, hypertension, status post myocarditis, and recurring episodes of desaturation up to 70–80%. …”
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Natural Scene Text Detection With Multiscale Feature Augmentation and Attention Mechanisms by Guogang Wang, Ruilin Wang, Meiyan Liang, Shen Wei, Xin Zhao, Dan Yang, Zhongjie Wang

“…Recently, the DB algorithm has drawn considerable attention in scene text detection due to its differentiable binarization module, which is proposed to simplify the complex post-processing of the existing segmentation-based scene text detection approaches. …”
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Parental relationship satisfaction, symptoms of depression and anger/hostility, and the moderating role of perceived social support—a prospective cohort study in the light of the C... by Josephine Kümpfel, Victoria Weise, Judith T. Mack, Susan Garthus-Niegel, Susan Garthus-Niegel, Susan Garthus-Niegel

“…Perceived social support can enhance the protective effect relationship satisfaction has on paternal symptoms of anger/hostility. Implementing corresponding prevention and education classes could improve parental mental health.…”
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Assessing the water quality of Vatadahosahalli Lake in Chikkaballapura district, Karnataka, India by Kavitha Kapani, Nagabhushan V. Charantimath, Pavan Chikkanarayanaswamy, Uday Jayaramaiah

“…The study emphasizes the importance of monitoring and implementing strategic measures for the preservation and sustainable management of Vatadahosahalli Lake. …”
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Poliovirus shedding after sequential immunization of Sabin-strain inactivated polio vaccines and oral attenuated polio vaccines by Yuting Fu, Rufei Ma, Zhimei Zhao, Zhaojun Mo, Zhifang Ying, Jing Li, Hui Ye, Guoliang Li, Xiaochang Liu, Jiangli Liang, Ling Ping, Jingyan Li, Junhui Tao, Qinghai Yang, Dingkai Wei, Li Yi, Hongbo Chen, Jianfeng Wang, Ruiju Jiang, Lei Yu, Wei Cai, Wei Yang, Lei Yue, Mingxue Xie, Qiongzhou Yin, Jing Pu, Chao Hong, Lukui Cai, Yan Deng, Jiana Wen, Yan Ma, Na Gao, Xiaoyu Wang, Hongwei Liao, Qiuyan Ji, Guang Ji, Wenzhu Hu, Qin Gu, Xiaoyue He, Han Chu, Yixian Fu, Jian Zhou, Yu Wen, Xiaolei Yang, Changgui Li, Li Shi, Ting Zhao, Teng Huang, Jingsi Yang

“…Abstract The identification of poliovirus in stool samples post-Oral Poliovirus Vaccine (OPV) immunization is essential for implementing post-eradication monitoring of poliomyelitis. …”
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The value of spectral CT quantitative parameters in predicting Ki-67 level in ovarian cancer by Siwen Pang, Meng Wu, Haijia Yu, Tiantian Ma, Jianhua Liu, Siwen Liu

“…Tumor solid components in arterial, venous, and delayed phases can be measured using post-processing software to obtain the quantitative parameters of spectral CT. …”
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The role of financial technology and entrepreneurial finance practices in funding small and medium-sized enterprises by Piotr Łasak

“…It also offers important premises for shaping the post-pandemic policy to support their further growth. …”
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Emotion regulation intervention to promote well-being through a serious game (emoWELL): a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial in Spanish emerging adults by José-Antonio Gil-Gómez, Inmaculada Montoya-Castilla, Saray Velert-Jiménez, Hugo Sanchez-Sanchez, Marian Perez-Marin

“…The assessment will occur at two different time points: pretest (T1) and post-test (T2) to observe improvements in the variables of interest.Ethics and dissemination The study has been approved by the Ethics Committee of the Universitat de València (2013883) and will follow the standards of the Declaration of Helsinki for data collection. …”
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Evaluation of the Young, Deadly, Syphilis Free multi-media campaign in remote Australia. by Belinda D'Costa, Roanna Lobo, Amanda Sibosado, Justine E Leavy, Gemma Crawford, James Ward

“…Campaign components included television and radio advertisements, social media posts, and health promotion resources available via a dedicated website. …”
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Tablet- and Group-Based Multicomponent Cognitive Stimulation for Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment: Single-Group Pilot Study and Protocol for Randomized Controlled Trial by Khanitin Jornkokgoud, Pattrawadee Makmee, Peera Wongupparaj, Alessandro Grecucci

“…ResultsThe pilot study showed significant cognitive improvement (P<.001), reduced depression (P=.002), and decreased state anxiety (P=.001) post intervention. Quality of life remained unchanged (P=.18). …”
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An Area-Efficient Continuous-Time Ising Machine Featuring Dynamic Threshold Annealing by Yufeng Wu, Xiaofeng Li, Jiayin Song, Yi Zhan, Shushan Qiao

“…However, existing CT Ising machines face a critical trilemma in simultaneously achieving multi-level coefficient precision, area-efficient spin implementations, and effective annealing strategies. In this work, we present a CT Ising machine with an eDRAM-based in-memory computing architecture. …”
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The impact of a disparity-reduction intervention on outcomes of patients with acute coronary syndrome in the emergency department: a clinical trial by Mehdi Moradinia, Sajad Yarahmadi, Mehdi Birjandi, Mohammad Gholami

“…Moreover, the opinion of pain management—assessed only post-intervention—was significantly more favorable in the intervention group than in the control group (P < 0.001). …”
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Using revised oral assessment guide to assess association between oral health and mortality in older inpatients: a single-center observational cohort study by Kuan-Ying Chen, Shih-Yi Lin, Shuo-Chun Weng, Yu-Shan Lee, Fu-Hsuan Kuo, Ya-Hui Yeh

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Towards Transparent Deep Learning in Medicine: Feature Contribution and Attention Mechanism-Based Explainability by Thanveer Shaik, Xiaohui Tao, Haoran Xie, Lin Li, Niall Higgins, Juan D. Velásquez

“…This study proposes a novel quantitative explainability framework (QEF) that provides both post-hoc and intrinsic explainability for regression and classification tasks within deep learning models. …”
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Influence of spin-off decision on financing risk: Empirical insight from Indonesian Islamic banks [version 3; peer review: 1 approved, 3 approved with reservations] by Abdul Hakim, Akhsyim Affandi, Jaka Sriyana, Zulfikar Bagus Pambuko

“…Indonesia stands as a pioneer in implementing the dual banking system and has established a spin-off policy to foster the growth of Islamic banking. …”
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Cognitive Restructuring untuk Mengurangi Kenakalan Peserta Didik MTs by Ahsaniatil Muawanah, Asrowi Asrowi, Agus Tri Susilo

“…The test results on the experimental and control groups' post-test scores obtained significant results. Thus there is a difference after the treatment of cognitive restructuring. …”
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Projecting the long-term impact of school- or community-based mass-treatment interventions for control of Schistosoma infection. by Xiaoxia Wang, David Gurarie, Peter L Mungai, Eric M Muchiri, Uriel Kitron, Charles H King

“…All strategies that included four annual treatments effectively reduced community prevalence to less than 10%, while programs having yearly gaps ('holidays') failed to reach this objective in half of the communities. Effective post-program suppression of infection prevalence persisted in half of the 10 villages for 7-10 years, whereas in five high-risk villages, program effects on prevalence lasted zero to four years only.…”
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Compensation of Speckle Noise in 2D Images from Triangulation Laser Profile Sensors Using Local Column Median Vectors with an Application in a Quality Control System by Paweł Rotter, Dawid Knapik, Maciej Klemiato, Maciej Rosół, Grzegorz Putynkowski

“…Nonetheless, we successfully implemented it in an optical inspection system for the furniture industry, where the post-processed image quality was sufficient to detect surface defects as small as 0.1 mm.…”
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