Does monetary poverty reduction through gender empowerment work? by Isaac Boadi, Ernest Sogah, Erick Kofi Boadi, Freeman Christian Gborse, John Kwaku Mensah Mawutor

“…Based on the dataset, the study concludes that women’s social empowerment reduces monetary poverty. across the study sample significantly contribute to poverty reduction in Ghana. …”
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Evaluation of MRI anatomy in machine learning predictive models to assess hydrogel spacer benefit for prostate cancer patients by Madison Bush, Scott Jones, Catriona Hargrave

“…The SML models aim to support HS insertion decision-making prior to RT planning procedures. Methods: Regions of interest (ROIs) were retrospectively contoured on the pCT and registered dMRI scans for 20 patients. …”
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Assessing the quality of medication documentation: development and feasibility of the MediDocQ instrument for retrospective chart review in the hospital setting by Tanja Manser, Antje Hammer, P Martus, A Hammer, A Wagner, Anke Wagner, Monika A Rieger, E Luntz, MA Rieger, H Sturm, T Manser, M Holderried

“…Incomplete or incorrect medication documentation may contribute to inappropriate clinical decision-making and adverse events. To comprehensively assess the quality of in-hospital medication documentation, we developed a retrospective chart review (RCR) instrument. …”
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Unmet health-related needs in patients with Crohn’s disease in Belgium: a mixed-methods study by Claudia Schönborn, Muriel Levy, Mats De Jaeger, Renaud Van Goethem, Ugo Leonard, Rani Claerman, Robby De Pauw, Laurence Kohn, Irina Cleemput, Charline Maertens de Noordhout

“…Psychological support was generally deemed insufficient, and around 40% of survey participants would have liked to be more involved in treatment decision-making. Only 50% of respondents who had interrupted work for at least a month returned to previous work levels, and 65% of the whole sample experienced financial impacts due to the disease. …”
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Evaluation of Time-Domain Acoustic Signature in TIG Welding of 5083 Aluminum Alloy: A Methodological Comparison of Feature Reduction Approaches by V M Gautham, A Sumesh, E V Jithin, K Rameshkumar, Dinu Thomas Thekkuden

“…For bagged tree model, a maximum accuracy of 86.1% was obtained with Kruskal-Wallis method. Among all, decision tree with Chi-Square method is found to be the best, with a classification accuracy of 86.7%. …”
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Moral foundations underpinning attitudes toward supervised consumption services across Canada’s prairie provinces by Em M. Pijl, Michael Golding, Sai Krishna Gudi, Nichole Nayak, John Serieux, Christopher J. Fries, Annie Billings, Souradet Shaw, Rasheda Rabbani, Francine Laurencelle, Corey Guest, Jonny Mexico

“…A series of hierarchical multiple linear regression analyses were employed to identify variables that significantly predict support for SCS. Results The panel sample comprised 2116 participants from the three prairie provinces in Canada (Manitoba, n = 716; Saskatchewan, n = 700; and Alberta, n = 700). …”
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Formation of Public Opinion on Organ Donation in Ukraine by Liliia Khomenko, Aleksy Kwilinski, Nataliia Karpishchenko

“…The relevance of the decision on this scientific problem is that public awareness campaigns need to develop the transplant system in Ukraine. …”
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Wildlife Authority Revenue sharing Scheme and Women Empowerment; A Case Study of Mghahinga Conservation area Kisoro District, Uganda by Iradunkunda, Sam, Moses, Agaba

“…The research design employed in the study was descriptive research design and qualitative and quantitative approaches were used. The sample of the study comprised of seventy two (72) respondents selected from three parishes of Nteko, Nyamatsinda and Rukongi in Kisoro district all adjacent to the park. …”
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Detection of Adversarial Attacks Using Deep Learning and Features Extracted From Interpretability Methods in Industrial Scenarios by Angel Luis Perales Gomez, Lorenzo Fernandez Maimo, Alberto Huertas Celdran, Felix J. Garcia Clemente

“…First, the time to train the Anomaly Detection system is higher since adversarial samples needs to be generated in each epoch. Second, the adversarial training blurs the decision border and, therefore, the performance of the Anomaly Detection system decreases. …”
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Head-to-Head Comparison of UHPLC-MS/MS and Alinity C for Plasma Analysis of Risperidone and Paliperidone by Francisco José Toja-Camba, Gonzalo Hermelo-Vidal, Carolina Feitosa-Medeiros, María Vidal-Millares, María José Durán-Maseda, Anxo Fernández-Ferreiro, Cristina Mondelo-García

“…UHPLC-MS/MS is considered the gold standard for pharmacokinetic studies owing to its superior sensitivity and specificity, although it involves time-consuming manual sample preparation. In contrast, the Alinity C system, fully automated, simplifies sample processing, but only measures the active moiety (risperidone plus paliperidone). …”
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Bladder cancer detection in urine by novel methylation markers by Irene J. Beijert, Birgit M. M. Wever, Anouk E. Hentschel, Yara van den Burgt, Paul C. Kauer, Birgit I. Lissenberg-Witte, R. Jeroen A. van Moorselaar, Renske D. M. Steenbergen, Jakko A. Nieuwenhuijzen

“…We assessed 11 candidate methylation markers for urinary BC detection. Urine samples from 77 primary BC patients and 69 controls were used for marker selection and training, with independent validation conducted on samples from 63 primary BC patients and 71 controls. …”
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Do education and use of family planning methods empower women? Evidence from the Nepal Demographic Health Survey (NDHS) 2016 and 2022 by Yogendra B Gurung, Kamala Lamichhane, Bidhya Shrestha, Tara Lal Shrestha, Rita Karki, Sharadha Hamal

“…In NDHS 2016, the sample size was 9,868, and in NDHS 2022, it was 11, 155. …”
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The impact of a disaster medicine clinical training program on medical students’ disaster literacy by Aysel Başer, Zeynep Sofuoğlu

“…In this study, the scale was applied as a pretest and a posttest, and the obtained data were analyzed using independent samples and paired-sample t-tests. Result The DLS scores of the experimental group showed significant improvement after the training program compared to their pretest scores (Total Scale: p < 0.001, Damage Mitigation: p = 0.002, Preparation: p < 0.001, Response: p < 0.001, and Relief: p = 0.004). …”
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Imbalanced Power Spectral Generation for Respiratory Rate and Uncertainty Estimations Based on Photoplethysmography Signal by Soojeong Lee, Mugahed A. Al-antari, Gyanendra Prasad Joshi, Yeong Hyeon Gu

“…However, machine learning (ML) algorithm errors embedded in health monitoring systems can be problematic in medical decision-making because some data have much larger sample sizes in the training set than others. …”
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The 8-Factor reasoning styles scale: development, validation, and psychometric evaluation by Volkan Duran, Ferdi Çelık

“…Its factorial stability across student and community samples, coupled with satisfactory reliability and demonstrable concurrent validity, supports its use in educational, cognitive, and decision-science research. …”
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Analysis of the Causes of Falling Accidents on Building Construction Sites in China Based on the HFACS Model by Yingchen Wang, Chaofan Liu, Hengshuo Xu, Xiaoxiao Geng, Yiran Wang, Yan Liu

“…SPSS 27.01 was used to analyze the samples, and Super Decisions software was used to normalize the limit supermatrix and calculate the weight. …”
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Rapid bacterial identification and resistance detection using a low complexity molecular diagnostic platform in Zimbabwe. by Tinashe Mwaturura, Ioana D Olaru, Gwendoline Chimhini, Mutsa Bwakura-Dangarembizi, Marcia Mangiza, Simbarashe Chimhuya, Belinda Sado, Jackie Katunga, Andrew Tarupiwa, Agnes Juru, Tapfumaneyi Mashe, Christopher Pasi, Veronicah Chuchu, Seyi Gansallo, Birgitta Gleeson, Felicity Fitzgerald, Cecilia Ferreyra, Katharina Kranzer

“…However, specific work-flows are critical to supplement molecular tests with minimal phenotypic tests for optimal clinical decision-making.…”
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The Effectiveness of a Positive Intervention Program Based on the Components of Resilience and Forgiveness in Autonomy and Emotional Processing in Victims Students by Shahrooz Nemati, rahim badri gargari, Yousef Adib, Sepideh Kazemi

“…The research population included all male and female students being victims of bullying in second secondary schools in Bostan Abad, Iran in the academic year of 2023-2024. A sample of 30 students were selected using the convenience sampling method and were. randomly assigned into experimental and control groups. …”
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Performance Evaluation of Multiplex Molecular Syndromic Panel vs. Singleplex PCR for Diagnosis of Acute Central Nervous System Infections by Liliana Gabrielli, Miriam Tomaiuolo, Isabella Banchini, Alice Balboni, Andrea Liberatore, Federica Lanna, Alessia Cantiani, Alessia Bertoldi, Matteo Pavoni, Lamberto Manzoli, Tiziana Lazzarotto

“…The QIA/ME panel is an effective diagnostic tool for viral CNS infections, allowing for the visualization of Ct values that reflect pathogen load in samples and which could be useful in guiding clinical decision-making and patient management.…”
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Prognostic effect of CD74 and development of a radiomic model for predicting CD74 expression in non-small cell lung cancer by Yancheng Wang, Zhen Gao, Meng Li, Meng Li, Zhen Feng, Zhen Feng, Hui Wang, Hui Wang

“…This study aimed to establish a radiomics model to predict CD74 expression level in NSCLC patients and to explore its role in the tumor immune response and its prognostic value.MethodsThe prediction model was developed based on 122 NSCLC transcriptome samples, including 68 paired enhanced CT and transcriptome samples. …”
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