Navigating Pluralism in Medicine: Healthcare Practices Among Older Adults in West Manggarai, Indonesia by Puri Swastika Gusti Krisna, Fajar Nurcahyo

“…Trust in ancestral wisdom, accessibility, and cultural beliefs significantly&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">influence healthcare decisions. Conventional care is often perceived as distant and impersonal,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">strengthening reliance on traditional practices. …”
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Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of influencing factors on family doctor service performance during major public health emergencies by Gan Wang, Gan Wang, Li Luo, Li Luo

“…It aims to identify the driving paths to improve performance.MethodsA stratified sampling of 34 community health service centers in Shanghai was conducted, using the comprehensive performance score of family doctors as the outcome variable. …”
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The choice of treatment and the motivations behind it impact clinical outcomes among patients with adequate control of their rheumatic disease: A real-life study. by Irazú Contreras-Yáñez, Guillermo A Guaracha-Basáñez, Diana Padilla-Ortiz, Laura L Franco-Mejía, Laura V Vargas-Sánchez, Julia G Jiménez-Decle, Virginia Pascual-Ramos

“…Patients with an RMD diagnosis were identified using systematic sampling (P-1). After their consultation, their rheumatologists detailed their treatment choice (FCHO vs. …”
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Cost-Efficient Early Diagnostic Tool for Lung Cancer: Explainable AI in Clinical Systems by Anu Maria Sebastian PhD, David Peter PhD, T. P. Rajagopal MBBS, MD, DTCD, and DNB, Rinu Ann Sebastian PhD

“…By incorporating rare medical cases through Adaptive Synthetic Sampling (ADASYN), the model reduces the risk of missing challenging, rare-case diagnoses. …”
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THE REFERENCE GAREVKA GRANITE (YENISEI RIDGE, WESTERN MARGIN OF THE SIBERIAN CRATON): THE FINAL ATTEMPT TO VERIFY PALEOPROTEROZOIC Pb/U ISOTOPIC AGE BY M.I. VOLOBUEV by A. B. Kuzmichev, M. K. Danukalova

“…The only concordant analysis with a known sampling point is decisive for the entire system. Thus, to fix the problem, it was necessary to reproduce this analysis using modern isotope techniques. …”
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Understanding the changes in long-distance travel behavior due to socio-economic and pandemic drivers by Farzana Faiza Farha, Sadia Afroj, Md. Musleh Uddin Hasan, Effat Farzana

“…Voluntary response and convenience sampling techniques were followed in this study. Moreover, district-wise COVID data was obtained from the dashboard of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). …”
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Perspectives of ICU Physicians on Antibiotic Use in Critically Ill Patients: A Qualitative Study from a Developing Country by Maheen Khoso, Arshad Taqi, Muhammad Aamir Alsabah, Faisal Imran, Naveed Latif

“…Six ICU consultants with more than two years of post-fellowship experience were recruited through purposive sampling. Data were collected via face-to-face, semi-structured interviews, audio-recorded with consent. …”
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Knowledge and Perception of Consumers Towards Generic Medicines in Saudi Arabia: A Prospective Cross-Sectional Survey by Alwhaibi M, Alshammari M, Al Aloola N, Aloudah N, Almomen A, Alhawassi TM

“…By doing so, we can ensure that consumers have the information and confidence they need to make informed decisions about their medications.Keywords: knowledge, perception, generic medicines, adult consumers…”
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Community Knowledge and Attitude Towards the Emergency Triage System at a Tertiary Hospital in Oman by Zainab Al Siyabi, Amal Al Shibli, Abdullah Al Reesi, Sanjay Jaju, Mahmood Al Jufaili

“…Knowledge of the factors used to make triaging decisions ranged from 28.5% (patient’s medical history) to 67.3% (vital signs). …”
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A comprehensive dataset of near infrared spectroscopy measurements to predict nitrogen and carbon contents in a wide range of tissues from Brassica napus plants grown under contras... by Sophie Rolland, Françoise Leprince, Solenn Guichard, Françoise Le Cahérec, Anne Laperche, Nathalie Nesi

“…At the same time, reference chemical data for the N and C contents of the same samples were determined by elemental analysis using the Dumas method. …”
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Interpretable classification of Levantine ceramic thin sections via neural networks by Sara Capriotti, Alessio Devoto, Simone Scardapane, Silvano Mignardi, Laura Medeghini

“…Explainability techniques, including Guided Gradient-based Class Activation Maps and attention maps, were applied to interpret and visualize the models’ decisions, revealing that both CNNs and ViTs successfully focus on key mineralogical features for the classification of the samples into their respective petrographic fabrics . …”
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Studying the Role of Urban Female Activity in Achieving Sustainable Rural Development in Rural district of Ashaghabad, Neyshabour by Masoomeh Mollanorozi, Seid Eskandar Seidaiy, Nasibe hosseini

“…In the next steps of the study, data analysis was done in a questionnaire using SPSS software, and one-sample t-test, Pearson correlation and Pro-technique were used to answer the questions. …”
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Methods of Piloting an Abstraction Tool to Describe Family Engagement in the Hospital Setting: Retrospective Chart Review by Jennifer Morgan, Jennifer Cahill, Christine Ritchie, Lingling Zhang, Priscilla Gazarian

“…To optimize diversity, the sample was then stratified by race. The modified tool was subsequently piloted on a subset of the sample. …”
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Target product profiles for new diagnostics to inform strongyloidiasis control programs. by Adama Kazienga, Luc E Coffeng, Sara Roose, Sake J de Vlas, Dora Buonfrate, Salvatore Scarso, Francesca Tamarozzi, Bruno Levecke

“…<h4>Principal findings</h4>Our findings highlighted that (i) specificity rather than sensitivity is a critical parameter to consider for R&D of new diagnostic methods for monitoring control programs; (ii) the requirements for diagnostic performance became less stringent with an increasing sample size and when higher risks of incorrect decision-making were accepted. …”
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Dengue virus serotype distribution based on serological evidence in pediatric urban population in Indonesia. by R Tedjo Sasmono, Anne-Frieda Taurel, Ari Prayitno, Hermin Sitompul, Benediktus Yohan, Rahma F Hayati, Alain Bouckenooghe, Sri Rezeki Hadinegoro, Joshua Nealon

“…Multitypic profiles were observed in 50.9% of the samples; a proportion which increased to 63.1% in subjects aged 15-18 years. …”
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Assessing Transformer Aging Using Dielectric Oil Characteristics: Influence of Operating Voltage Levels and Purification by Muhammad A. Akmal Putra, Suwarno, Rahman Azis Prasojo

“…The study also establishes that parameters such as acidity, water content, and interfacial tension (IFT) are reliable indicators of transformer aging only in unpurified oil samples. Conversely, the color scale proves to be a more consistent indicator of overall insulation system aging, making it a valuable parameter for maintenance decision-making. …”
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Development of an automated size-based filtration system for isolation of circulating tumor cells in lung cancer patients. by Satomi Yagi, Yasuhiro Koh, Hiroaki Akamatsu, Kuninobu Kanai, Atsushi Hayata, Nahomi Tokudome, Keiichiro Akamatsu, Katsuya Endo, Seita Nakamura, Masayuki Higuchi, Hisashige Kanbara, Masanori Nakanishi, Hiroki Ueda, Nobuyuki Yamamoto

“…Herein, we evaluated the system using blood samples from non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) patients. …”
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NIRS identification of cashmere and wool fibers based on spare representation and improved AdaBoost algorithm by Zhu Yaolin, Li Zheng, Chen Xin, Chen Jinni, Zhang Hongsong

“…This article uses AdaBoost to assign weights to samples of different species. It optimizes these weights with many decision tree (DT) classifiers. …”
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Transdiagnostic early warning score for psychiatric hospitalisation: development and evaluation of a prediction model by Seena Fazel, A John Rush, Maxime Taquet

“…The predictive model showed good discrimination in the training (optimism-adjusted c-index: 0.74, 95% CI 0.72 to 0.76) and external validation (c-index: 0.80, 95% CI 0.78 to 0.82) samples, with adequate calibration. Discrimination improved with adjustment for organisation-level hospitalisation rates (c-index: 0.80, 95% CI 0.78 to 0.82 and 0.84, 95% CI 0.82 to 0.86 in the derivation and validation samples). …”
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GIS-based groundwater potential zonation and assessment of groundwater quality and suitability for drinking and irrigation purposes in the Shanmughanadhi river basin, south India by Francis V., Krishnaraj S., Kumar S.

“…Irrigation indices also demonstrated that most of the groundwater samples in the CHK and HBG exposed zones exhibited good classes for irrigation purposes, as evidenced by the SAR and %Na+. …”
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