An Occupational Health Program for Waste Collection Workers by Howida E. Awad, Nadia H. Farahat, Hala M. Mohamed

“…Results: The present study reveals that all the study sample was males, with a mean age of 38.76±5.13, 51.6% can read and write, had a mean year in occupation of 10.59±4.84, and had no training. 92.6% were previously injured during their work. …”
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Effect of ventilator care bundle for pediatric nurses on occurrence of ventilator-associated pneumonia among children by Hanaa Diab Khalfallah, Nahed Alquwez, Marwa Abd Elkreem Ibrahim

“…Results There was a significant increase in nurses’ level of knowledge before and after the implementation of the VCB (X² = 21.46, p ≤ 0.01). There was a statistically significant difference between the total mean scores of nurses’ practices in the first and second checklist readings (p < 0.01). …”
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Impact of an Education Training program upon Nurse-Midwives Practices Concerning First Stage of Labor. by Rabea M. Ali, Eman Abdel-Razak Jaber

“…There were low and moderate means in most items related to the practices of nurse-midwives regarding first stage of labor in pre-test and assessed as (partial) while there were high mean scores in all items, and assessed Pass in posttest after the implementation of the training education program with high statistical significant. …”
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Acceptability of the Expert Standard for Oral Health Care in Older Adult Patients Among Nursing Staff in German Hospitals and Care Facilities: Protocol for a Cross-Sectional Study by Damian Pazdziernik, Harald Stummer

“…Second, repeated measures ANOVA is used to examine mean differences in acceptability between these interventions. …”
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General disease factor: evidence of a unifying dimension across mental and physical illness in children and adolescents by Marco Solmi, Henrik Larsson, Paul Lichtenstein, Samuele Cortese, Valerie Brandt, Miguel Garcia-Argibay, Hongyi Sun

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CrAg screening strategy reduces definitive sequelae in people living with HIV by Marcela de Faria Ferreira, Fabio Brito-Santos, Marcos de Abreu Almeida, Luciana Trilles, Marcia dos Santos Lazera

“…Results The present study revealed that cryptococcal meningitis in our sample is more prevalent in men, with a mean age of 34 years and a mean CD4 count of 47 cells/mm3. …”
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Assessment of the Efficiency of a ChatGPT-Based Tool, MyGenAssist, in an Industry Pharmacovigilance Department for Case Documentation: Cross-Over Study by Alexandre Benaïche, Ingrid Billaut-Laden, Herivelo Randriamihaja, Jean-Philippe Bertocchio

“…No significant difference was found regarding the time spent by the recipient to answer (mean 2.20, SD 3.27 days vs mean 2.65, SD 3.30 days after the last attempt of contact; P=.64). …”
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Emergency Medicine Scholarly Tracks: A Mixed- methods Study of Faculty and Resident Experiences by Jason Rotoli, Ryan Bodkin, Grace VanGorder, Valerie Lou, Lindsey Picard, Beau Abar

“…The most common reason for choosing a track was “area of clinical interest” (mean 2.93, P <.001). The least common reason was “lowest effort/amount of work” (mean 1.47, P<.05) when compared to half of the other choices. …”
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Quality and resilience of clinical laboratories in Rwanda: a need for sustainable strategies by Vincent Rusanganwa, Innocent Nzabahimana, Magnus Evander

“…In contrast, group two continued to enhance performance even years later (mean: 86.6%compared to 70.6%, p = 0.03). Conclusion A coordinated implementation of quality improvement plan that enables regular laboratory assessments to pinpoint and address the quality gaps is essential for sustaining quality services in clinical laboratories.…”
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Optimizing Energy Forecasting Using ANN and RF Models for HVAC and Heating Predictions by Khaled M. Salem, Javier M. Rey-Hernández, A. O. Elgharib, Francisco J. Rey-Martínez

“…The performances of both models are calculated using the Root Mean Square Percentage Error (RMSPE), Root Mean Square Relative Percentage Error (RMSRPE), Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE), Mean Absolute Relative Percentage Error (MARPE), Kling–Gupta Efficiency (KGE), and also the coefficient of determination, R². …”
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Willingness to pay for hand, foot, and mouth disease vaccination in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: A cross-sectional analysis by Tran Bao La, Trung Quang Vo, Quang Vinh Tran, Roy Rillera Marzo, Bay Van Vo, Yogambigai Rajamoorthy, Hana W. Jun Chen

“…Parents of children under six years old had a mean WTP of USD 49.16, while individuals without young children had a mean WTP of USD 56.25. …”
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Effect of Eight Weeks of 11+ Training on Functional Movement Screening Test Scores in Female Futsal Players by Akram Kiani Sheikhabadi, Reza Mahdavinejad, Nader Rahnma

“…Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted on 48 female futsal players who were selected using purposive and convenience sampling methods and randomly divided into two groups of exercise (n=36; Mean±SD age=23.3±2.8 years; Mean±SD height=164.94±4.93 cm; Mean±SD weight=63.58±6.35 kg) and control (n=12; Mean±SD age=23.08±2.74 years; Mean±SD height=165.42±5.08 cm; Mean±SD weight=62.83±6.10 kg). …”
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Factors Influencing Source Separation Intention for Improving Waste Management in Educational Places: A Case Study for a University Campus by Edris Hoseinzadeh, Mahdi Farzadkia, Ghodratollah Roshanaei, Alireza Hosseinbaba

“…Results: The results of the current study indicate that a majority of students at Saveh University of Medical Sciences are willing to participate in source separation of waste, as reflected by a mean score of 7.58 out of 9. However, the study identified several barriers to effective implementation, including insufficient awareness (mean score of 4.92 out of 9), inadequate planning within the university (mean score of 2.48 out of 9), and a lack of official activities to educate students about source separation (mean score of 2.37 out of 9). …”
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Building religious, honesty, discipline and student curiosity characters in online HOTS-based citizenship education learning by Umi Chotimah, Kurnisar Kurnisar, Ermanovida Ermanovida, Norma Juainah

“…This article aims to describe the efforts to build religious, honesty, discipline, and student ‘s curiosity characters through HOTS-based online Civics learning. The implementation uses a qualitative approach with the case study method, which is implemented in the Indralaya class Civics learning process. …”
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Enhancing reading literacy in Grade 2 pupils: An evaluation of the enhanced Marungko approach by Ivy Casupanan, Joan Fastidio

“…Mean scores, standard deviations, and paired T-tests were used as statistical tools for analysis. …”
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Information indicators of radar portraits of air objects and generalized indicators of the ability of recognition systems to extract information by R. N. Akinshin, A. V. Peteshov

“…The price for the implementation of this criterion is the decision content change. …”
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A mixed-methods pilot study of domiciliary nasal high-flow therapy for breathlessness in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who do not qualify for domiciliary long-t... by Natasha Smallwood, Amy Pascoe, Catherine Buchan, Aaron K. Wong, David Currow, Brian Le

“…Results: Fifteen participants were enrolled (mean age 73.6; 40% women; mean FEV 1 41% predicted, mean DLCO 43.0% predicted; mean modified Medical Research Council score 3.7). …”
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In-Memory Versus Disk-Based Computing with Random Forest for Stock Analysis: A Comparative Study by Chitra Joshi, Chitrakant Banchorr, Omkaresh Kulkarni, Kirti Wanjale

“…The primary objective is to assess and compare their effectiveness in handling large-scale financial datasets, focusing on key aspects such as predictive accuracy, processing speed and scalability.Methods: The investigation uses the MapReduce methodology and Apache Spark independently to analyse a substantial stock price dataset and to train a random forest regressor. Mean squared error (MSE) and root mean square error (RMSE) were employed to assess the primary performance indicators of the models, while mean absolute error (MAE) and the R-squared value were used to evaluate the goodness of fit of the models.Results: The RMSE, MAE and MSE obtained for the Spark-based implementation were lower, compared to the MapReduce-based implementation, although these low values indicate high prediction accuracy. …”
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FORECASTING VALUES OF CHROMATICITY OF DRINKING AND SOURCE WATERS USING ARIMA MODEL AND NEURAL NETWORK by D. V. Makarov, E. A. Kantor, N. A. Krasulina, A. V. Greb, Z. Z. Berezhnova

“…Comparison of forecasting methods was carried out on the basis of the averaged values of mean absolute error and mean relative error on the test periods. …”
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Investigating Pedagogical Digital Game-Based Phrasal Verb Learning Formally vs. Informally Among Iranian EFL Learners by Aylar Fallah Vazirabad, Farahman Farrokhi

“…The present study investigated formal versus informal implementation of pedagogical digital games to improve phrasal verb knowledge. …”
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