Evaluating the rural health placements of the Rural Support Network at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town by C.S. Naidu, J. Irlam

“…The data were analysed and coded for key themes using a constant, comparative grounded theory approach. …”
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Exploring the role of splicing in TP53 variant pathogenicity through predictions and minigene assays by Cristina Fortuno, Inés Llinares-Burguet, Daffodil M. Canson, Miguel de la Hoya, Elena Bueno-Martínez, Lara Sanoguera-Miralles, Sonsoles Caldes, Paul A. James, Eladio A. Velasco-Sampedro, Amanda B. Spurdle

“…Application of the observed splicing results was used to reclassify 27/59 (46%) test variants as (likely) pathogenic or (likely) benign. Conclusions In conclusion, this study enhances the integration of splicing predictions and provides splicing assay data for exonic variants to support TP53 germline classification. …”
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Patient Perceptions of Social Media Use by Orthopaedic Surgeons: Comparing Responses Across the United States by Benjamin R. Wharton, M.D., Daniel J. Stokes, M.D., Alexander J. Johnson, M.D., Nicholas G. Girardi, B.S., Miranda G. Manfre, B.S., Carson Keeter, M.S., Kevin K. Shinsako, P.A.-C., Eric C. McCarty, M.D., Jonathan T. Bravman, M.D., Rachel M. Frank, M.D.

“…In 31% of patients, SM was used to seek information related to their health care at least once per month, 45% of patients reported visiting the SM account of any physician at least a few times a year, and 29% of patients indicated that SM content is likely or very likely to influence their selection of which physician from whom to obtain care. …”
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Effect of the Number and Distribution of Circular Holes on the Damage and Fracture of Limestone Using PFC2D by Handong Liu, Shuai Liu, Haining Liu, Yunyou Fu, Minglei Kang, Zhe Bai, Jianglong Xu, Chao Zheng

“…The circular holes are arranged at approximately 45°, and the greater the number of defects, the more likely the model is to fail. The study’s findings can provide support and reference for the research system of deformation and failure of rock mass with hole flaws.…”
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Natural Language Processing for Identification of Hospitalized People Who Use Drugs: Cohort Study by Taisuke Sato, Emily D Grussing, Ruchi Patel, Jessica Ridgway, Joji Suzuki, Benjamin Sweigart, Robert Miller, Alysse G Wurcel

“…Current research relies on billing codes to identify PWUD—a methodology with suboptimal accuracy that may underestimate the economic, racial, and ethnic diversity of hospitalized PWUD. …”
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Prevalence of overweight/obesity and its association with fast food consumption among adolescents in Southern Ethiopia, 2022: a community-based cross-sectional study by Chernet Elias, Awoke Abraham, Chernet Asrat, Tagese Yakob, Daniel Girma

“…Adolescents who are female, come from high-income families, and eat fast-food frequently are more likely to be overweight or obese. Future health initiatives aimed at lowering the prevalence of overweight and obesity in adolescents should pay special attention to female adolescents and those from high-income families.…”
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Pre-seismic anomalies and co-seismic disturbance induced by the 2024 Mw 7.1 Wushi earthquake: multi-GNSS observations and modeling by Jianghe Chen, Pan Xiong, Haochen Wu, Xiaoran Zhang, Xuemin Zhang, Ting Zhang, Qingshan Ruan

“…CIDs are detected within 400 km of the epicenter using the Butterworth filtering technique, revealing a propagation speed of approximately 1 km/s, likely caused by acoustic-gravity waves generated by the earthquake. …”
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The Fate of EMRI-IMRI Pairs in Active Galactic Nucleus Accretion Disks: Hydrodynamical and Three-body Simulations by Peng Peng, Alessia Franchini, Matteo Bonetti, Alberto Sesana, Xian Chen

“…We further use a relativistic three-body code to study the final fate of the sBH in the GW-dominated regime. …”
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Healthcare worker perceptions of the FAST TB infection control strategy by D.B. Tierney, R.R. Nathavitharana, L. Cummins, K. Tintaya, A. Biewer, R. Guerrero, L. Lecca, L.R. Hirschhorn, E.A. Nardell, A.K. Nelson

“…TB specialists recognized that by expediting diagnosis and treatment, FAST likely decreased transmission. Healthcare workers appreciated that FAST improved care coordination along the TB care cascade. …”
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Identifying Mild-to-Moderate Atopic Dermatitis Using a Generic Machine Learning Approach: A Danish National Health Register Study by Mie Sylow Liljendahl, Kristina Ibler, Christian Vestergaard, Lone Skov, Pavika Jain, Jan Håkon Rudolfsen, Ann Hærskjold, Mathias Torpet

“…Of the 385,135 individuals, the model predicted that 230,522 individuals likely have atopic dermatitis. …”
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Predicting the Hydration of Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag and Recycled Glass Blended Cements by Mark Tyrer, Mark Richardson, Niall Holmes, John Newell, Marcus Yio, Hong Wong

“…This study allows a rapid means of examining the likely evolution of these materials over the first two to three years, allowing experimental work to focus on promising formulations. …”
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Invasive urodynamic investigations in the management of women with refractory overactive bladder symptoms: FUTURE, a superiority RCT and economic evaluation by Mohamed Abdel-Fattah, Christopher Chapple, Suzanne Breeman, David Cooper, Helen Bell-Gorrod, Preksha Kuppanda, Karen Guerrero, Simon Dixon, Nikki Cotterill, Karen Ward, Hashim Hashim, Ash Monga, Karen Brown, Marcus Drake, Andrew Gammie, Alyaa Mostafa, Rebecca Bruce, Victoria Bell, Christine Kennedy, Suzanne Evans, Graeme MacLennan, John Norrie

“…Women in the CCA only arm were significantly more likely to show earlier improvement in their symptoms, that is, at 3-month follow-up [OR 0.35 (95% CI 0.19 to 0.66); p = 0.001]. …”
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Digital augmentation of aftercare for patients with anorexia nervosa: the TRIANGLE RCT and economic evaluation by Janet Treasure, Katie Rowlands, Valentina Cardi, Suman Ambwani, David McDaid, Jodie Lord, Danielle Clark Bryan, Pamela Macdonald, Eva Bonin, Ulrike Schmidt, Jon Arcelus, Amy Harrison, Sabine Landau

“…For example, a transition service adapted to the stage of illness (like the First episode and Rapid Early intervention for Eating Disorders (FREED) model of outpatient care) may be of value. …”
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KMT-2022-BLG-0086: Another Binary-lens Binary-source Microlensing Event by Sun-Ju Chung, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Jennifer C. Yee, Andrew Gould, Ian A. Bond, Hongjing Yang, (Leading Authors), Michael D. Albrow, Youn Kil Jung, Cheongho Han, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, In-Gu Shin, Yossi Shvartzvald, Weicheng Zang, Sang-Mok Cha, Dong-Jin Kim, Seung-Lee Kim, Chung-Uk Lee, Dong-Joo Lee, Yongseok Lee, Byeong-Gon Park, Richard W. Pogge, (The KMTNet Collaboration), Fumio Abe, David P. Bennett, Aparna Bhattacharya, Akihiko Fukui, Ryusei Hamada, Yuki Hirao, Stela Ishitani Silva, Naoki Koshimoto, Shota Miyazaki, Yasushi Muraki, Tutumi Nagai, Kansuke Nunota, Greg Olmschenk, Clément Ranc, Nicholas J. Rattenbury, Yuki Satoh, Takahiro Sumi, Daisuke Suzuki, Sean K. Terry, Paul J. Tristram, Aikaterini Vandorou, Hibiki Yama, (The MOA Collaboration)

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Digital Future of Emergency Medical Services: Envisioning and Usability of Electronic Patient Care Report System by Samer Al Haliq, Mohammed Al Jumaan

“…The overall mean of the ePCR system’s three subscales: system usefulness, information quality, interface quality, and overall satisfaction were 3.39 (SD = 1.152), 3.30 (SD = 1.052), 3.57 (SD = 1.064), and 3.37 (SD = 1.239), respectively. The least liked aspect of ePCR system software was information quality 81 (40.9%). …”
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Operational Modal Analysis and Safety Assessment of a Historical Masonry Bell Tower by Corrado Chisari, Mattia Zizi, Angelo Lavino, Salvatore Freda, Gianfranco De Matteis

“…According to technical codes and standard practice, the seismic evaluation of masonry bell towers can be conducted using a range of methodologies that vary in their level of detail. …”
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Stakeholder Perspectives on Undergraduate Medical Education: Using a Systems Thinking Approach to Explore Interests in Curriculum Composition by Alexander P Royston

“…Conclusion Undergraduate medical education likely concerns a broader range of stakeholders than are often engaged. …”
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Medication Safety in the Emergency Department: A Study of Serious Medication Errors Reported by 101 Hospitals From 2011 to 2020 by Elizabeth Kukielka, Rebecca Jones

“…Events were significantly more likely to occur Friday through Sunday versus Monday through Thursday (p = .0214) and in the p.m. hours versus a.m. hours, (p = .0007). …”
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350 A half century of rural health research in the United States: the who, where, and what by bibliometrics by Jungwei Fan, Christi Patten

“…Discussion/Significance of Impact: The two publication peaks in history were likely linked to certain policy milestone or seminal publication. …”
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ChatGPT Integration in Higher Education: Impacts on Teaching and Professional Development of University Professors by Elmedina Nikoçeviq-Kurti , Lirika Bërdynaj-Syla

“…The participants, aged 38 to 52 years old, represent mid-career to late-career professionals with 3 to 13 years of teaching experience, and deemed likely more open to the adoption of new technologies. …”
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