Infecting minds: socio-contextual drivers of vaccine perceptions and attitudes among young and older adults living in urban and rural areas in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa by Kingsley Stephen Orievulu, Sally Frampton, Philippa C. Matthews, Nondumiso Mpanza, Thabisile Mjilo, Samukelisiwe Nxumalo, Joshua Hordern, Janet Seeley

“…Conclusion Exploring what shapes attitudes towards vaccines in communities provides opportunities to understand the reasoning behind how people make decisions about whether to take a vaccine in different geographical and cultural spaces. …”
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An active learning driven deep spatio-textural acoustic feature ensemble assisted learning environment for violence detection in surveillance videos by Duba Sriveni, Dr.Loganathan R

“…It applied the least confidence (LC), entropy margin (EM), and margin sampling (MS) criteria to retain the optimal frames for further feature extraction. …”
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Climate change and its differential impact on sexual and reproductive health and rights among women in Nepal by Jagadishwor Ghimire, Jagadishwor Ghimire, Khusbu Poudel, Kritee Lamichhane, Amit Timilsina, Madhav Prasad Dhakal, Parash Prasad Phuyal, Sumanjari Pradhan, Jivan Devkota, Sujan Karki, Sujan Karki

“…A total of 384 women were selected using systematic random sampling from the upper, middle, and downstream of Khutiya and Banganga river basins. …”
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Comparative study on the sensitivity of lumbar puncture and external ventricular drainage cerebrospinal fluid in the diagnosis of central nervous system infections after craniotomy by Yue Tang, Hongmiao Xu, Dong Liu, Tingting Lin, Fujun Zuo, Dingli Wen, Yinjuan Liao, Zhennan Ye, Peng Liu, Jincan Zhang

“…Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis is considered the gold standard for diagnosis, and the sensitivity of its results directly affects treatment decisions. However, due to physiological differences in CSF composition between the ventricles and the lumbar space, the choice of sampling site may lead to diagnostic discrepancies, including false negatives. …”
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Development of an Online Scenario-Based Tool to Enable Research Participation and Public Engagement in Cystic Fibrosis Newborn Screening: Mixed Methods Study by Louise Moody, Samantha Clarke, Matt Compton, Rachael Hughson-Gill, Felicity Boardman, Corinna Clark, Pru Holder, James R Bonham, Jane Chudleigh

“…As technology advances, there is the potential to expand the newborn screening program following evaluation of the likely benefits and drawbacks. To inform these decisions, it is important to consider the family experience of screening and the views of the public. …”
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Optimising neonatal services for very preterm births between 27+0 and 31+6 weeks gestation in England: the OPTI-PREM mixed-methods study by Thillagavathie Pillay, Oliver Rivero-Arias, Natalie Armstrong, Sarah E Seaton, Miaoqing Yang, Victor L Banda, Kelvin Dawson, Abdul QT Ismail, Vasiliki Bountziouka, Caroline Cupit, Alexis Paton, Bradley N Manktelow, Elizabeth S Draper, Neena Modi, Helen E Campbell, Elaine M Boyle

“…The complexities of decision-making and enacting place of care decisions, contextualising decisions and integrating managerial thinking into their decision-making processes was evident. …”
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Rehabilitation via HOMe-Based gaming exercise for the Upper limb post Stroke (RHOMBUS): a qualitative analysis of participants’ experience by Cherry Kilbride, Daniel J M Scott, Tom Butcher, Meriel Norris, Alyson Warland, Karen Baker, Dimitrios A Athanasiou, Guillem Singla-Buxarrais, Jennifer Ryan, Elizabeth Cassidy

“…Factors that influenced participant’s decision to take part in the trial, their perceptions of support provided during the trial and communication with the research team were found to be important contextual factors effecting participants’ overall experience. …”
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The relationship between nicotine dependence and willingness to quit smoking: A cross-sectional study by Afraa Murriky, Eman Allam, Hind Alotaibi, Razan Alnamasy, Atheel Alnufiee, Amjad AlAmro, Amal Al-hammadi

“…Objective: To assess the relationship between nicotine dependence and willingness to quit smoking in a sample of adult Saudi population and identify the primary motivations and barriers affecting their decision and willingness to quit smoking. …”
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State-and-Evolution Detection Model for Characterizing Farmland Spatial Pattern Variation in Hengyang Using Long Time Series Remote Sensing Product by Yunong Ma, Shi Cao, Xia Lu, Jiqing Peng, Lina Ping, Xiang Fan, Xiongwei Guan, Xiangnan Liu, Meiling Liu

“…Analyzing farmland landscape pattern variations induced by human activities can support effective decision making by governments to improve land use efficiency. …”
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Epiphyseal osteosarcoma with serial changes of pretreatment imaging findings: a case report by Kotaro Watanabe, Hirokazu Shimizu, Tamotsu Soma, Ken Kuwahara, Hiroaki Hiraga, Norimasa Iwasaki, Masatake Matsuoka, Akira Iwata

“…In such clinical situations, the decision to promptly perform a biopsy of an epiphyseal bone tumor—while considering a potential diagnosis of osteosarcoma —remains unclear, particularly in adolescents. …”
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An Insight on the Timely Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy Using Traditional and AI-Driven Approaches by Malaika Asif, Fasih Ur Rehman, Zoya Rashid, Altaf Hussain, Alina Mirza, Waqar Shahid Qureshi

“…Risk of bias was assessed in a representative sample of six studies, indicating a significant overall risk due to inadequate reporting on blinding and selective outcome reporting. …”
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Older care home residents’ and their relatives’ knowledge, understanding and views of shift handovers: an exploratory, focused-ethnographic qualitative study using interviews and o... by Jill Manthorpe, Caroline Norrie, Katharine Orellana, Valerie Lipman, Jo Moriarty, Rekha Elaswarapu

“…Residents were identified by managers as having mental capacity to take a decision about participation which was then assessed. …”
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Association of health literacy with cancer survival: a single-centre prospective cohort study by Niclas Sandström, Antti Jekunen, Mikael Johansson, Heidi Andersén

“…Background and purpose: Health literacy is defined as the ability to find, understand and use health information for informed decision. The role of health literacy in treatment decisions and outcome remains largely unexplored. …”
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Analysis of shared pathogenic mechanisms and drug targets in myocardial infarction and gastric cancer based on transcriptomics and machine learning by Junyang Ma, Junyang Ma, Shufu Hou, Xinxin Gu, Peng Guo, Jiankang Zhu

“…This study aimed to identify these common factors and potential pharmacologic targets.MethodsData from the IEU Open GWAS project were used. Two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis was used to explore the causal link between MI and GC. …”
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Choose your shortcuts wisely: COVID-19 rapid reviews of traditional, complementary and integrative medicine by Jennifer Hunter, Susan Arentz, Joshua Goldenberg, Guoyan Yang, Jennifer Beardsley, Myeong Soo Lee, Stephen P. Myers

“…Methods: This review article appraised the methods and reporting standards of a convenience sample of RR protocols and RRs of COVID-19 clinical management questions, published in the first six-months of 2020. …”
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A systematic review and Bayesian network meta-analysis for comparative safety assessment of favipiravir interventions in hospitalized COVID-19 patients by Kai Yang, Jun Zeng, Wenjing Dai, Meifeng Chen, Fan Yang

“…The safety of favipiravir over the four clinically efficacious monotherapies or combinations including tocilizumab, arbidol, lopinavir + ritonavir, and chloroquine remained unknown due to the lack of a significant difference and the limited sample size. Conclusions: Overall, comparative rankings could assist doctors and guideline developers in decision-making. …”
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Ferroptosis genes and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction outcomes: A predictive signature by Xing-jie Wang, Lei Huang, Min Hou, Jie Guo, Xi-ming Li

“…We tested the clinical value of the signature with survival analysis, ROC curve, decision curve analysis and a prognostic nomogram. …”
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The gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase to platelet ratio: a good noninvasive biomarker for predicting for the occurrence and prognosis of patients with hepatitis E virus-related acute l... by Shuai Zhu, Jun Yuan, Feng Ju, Mengmeng Gu, Ze Xiang, Yan Zhang

“…DCA results also indicated GPR’s strong decision-making ability for predicting 30-day mortality in HEV-ALF patients.ConclusionGPR is highly expressed in HEV-ALF patients and is closely related to their prognosis.…”
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7-Tesla ultra-high field MRI of the parahippocampal cortex reveals evidence of common neurobiological mechanisms of major depressive disorder and neurotic personality traits by Dominik Nießen, Ravichandran Rajkumar, Dilsa Cemre Akkoc Altinok, Gereon Johannes Schnellbächer, Shukti Ramkiran, Jana Hagen, Nadim Jon Shah, Tanja Veselinović, Irene Neuner

“…Our results underscore the importance of multimodal assessments in MDD, potentially contributing to the foundation of individualised clinical decision-making and paving the way towards precision psychiatry.…”
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Dilemma of Spent Geothermal Water Injection into Rock Masses for Geothermal Potential Development by Agnieszka Operacz, Bogusław Bielec, Tomasz Operacz, Agnieszka Zachora-Buławska, Karolina Migdał

“…We also performed drilling and hydrogeological testing, characterized rock samples in the laboratory, and corrected hydrodynamic parameters for thermal lift effects to ensure accurate aquifer characterization. …”
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