Toward a Self-Inflating Bag Mechanical Ventilator, Maturation in Continuous Use, Safety, and Repeatability for Ventilatory Variables by Noe Rodriguez, Carlos Rubio, Leonardo Barriga, Fernando Fonseca, Jorge Soto, Jose Pineda, David Sanchez, Antonio Rojas, David Lopez, Dalia Madrigal, Blanca Villagran, Mayra Sosa, Silvio Ñamendys, Alan Gutierrez, Alain Cueto

“…Background Researchers proposed mechanical ventilators (MVs) based on the automated compression of a self-inflating bag (SIB) to save lives during the pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. …”
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Evaluating a Community Health Worker Training Program for Medication Adherence Support by Richard Segal, RPh, PhD, Michelle L. Zeigler, PharmD, PhD, BCACP, Jordan L. Wallace, PharmD, BCOP, Teresa E. Roane, PharmD, MBA, BCACP, Lorraine Mobley, RPh, CPh, BCGP, Folakemi T. Odedina, PhD

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Labour roots and migration routes: precarious employment as driver of irregular migration amongst women workers by Rosa Lázaro Castellanos

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Harnessing storytelling with medical students and community members to build curiosity and trust: A mixed methods evaluation of a pilot intervention by Rebecca K. Rudel, Nicole D. Kaufmann, Shana A.B. Burrowes, Cheryl Harding, Cara Solomon, Benjamin P. Linas, Mari-Lynn Drainoni, Katherine Gergen Barnett

“…Objective: To assess the impact of a three-hour pilot workshop entitled Storytelling to Build Medical Trust, which brings medical students and Black, Indigenous and other People of Color (BIPOC) community members together to practice the skills underlying patient-centered communication, on medical student patient-centered communication self-efficacy and community member trust. Methods: Medical students completed the Self-Efficacy in Patient-Centeredness Questionnaire (SEPCQ-27) before, after, and one-month post-participation in the workshop, while community members completed two sub-scales of the Collaboration Trust Scale at the same time points. …”
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PIN2-mediated self-organizing transient auxin flow contributes to auxin maxima at the tip of Arabidopsis cotyledons by Patricio Pérez-Henríquez, Shingo Nagawa, Zhongchi Liu, Xue Pan, Marta Michniewicz, Wenxin Tang, Carolyn Rasmussen, Xinping Cui, Jaimie Van Norman, Lucia Strader, Zhenbiao Yang

“…Abstract Directional auxin transport and formation of auxin maxima are critical for embryogenesis, organogenesis, pattern formation, and growth coordination in plants, but the mechanisms underpinning the initiation and establishment of these auxin dynamics are not fully understood. Here we show that a self-initiating and -terminating transient auxin flow along the marginal cells (MCs) contributes to the formation of an auxin maximum at the tip of Arabidopsis cotyledon that globally coordinates the interdigitation of puzzle-shaped pavement cells in the cotyledon epidermis. …”
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Oral health status, self-assessment and risk among tribes and narikuravars of Villupuramdistrict, Tamil Nadu – An epidemiological study by V. Kalaivani, Arthi Balasubramaniam, I. Meignana Arumugham

“…Both the indigenous groups are relegated to the margins of society and face limited access to oral health care. …”
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Assessment of Feasibility of Sintered Fly Ash Lightweight Aggregate as an Effective Self-Curing Additive for Sustainable Concreting Practice by Patil Dada, Nadaf Firoz, Parkar Fauwaz

“…Conventional specimens exhibited highest strength values. Among Self-Curing specimens, 15% LWA cubes indicated maximum compressive strength; marginally less than that of water- cured cubes. 72-hour prewetted LWA cubes resulted in higher strengths as compared to that of 24 hour prewetted LWA cubes. …”
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Lifestyle modification intervention among pregnant women with hypertension based on the self-determination theory using M-Health by Negar Heidari, Fatemeh Rajati, Paria Heidari, Mojgan Rajati

“…The effect on relatedness was marginally non-significant (p = 0.053, η2 = 0.053). …”
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HTPB propellant aging mechanisms and safety characteristics: microscopic structural changes, thermal stability, and self-accelerating decomposition temperature by Xi-chen Liu, Yi-min Luo, Wen-jiang Li, Fei-yang Xu, Xing-liang Wu, Qiang Li, Da-bin Liu

“…Reaction kinetics models and the Semenov self-heating model were utilized to analyze the activation energy and self-accelerating decomposition temperature (TSADT) across various aging stages. …”
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Impact of lightweight clay aggregate with slag and biomedical waste ash on self-compacting concrete using machine learning approach by Kennedy C. Onyelowe, Viroon Kamchoom, Shadi Hanandeh, Ahmed M. Ebid, Janneth Alejandra Viñan Villagran, Raúl Gregorio Martínez Pérez, Fausto Ulpiano Caicedo Benavides, Paul Awoyera, Siva Avudaiappan

“…At the end of the model work, AdaBoost and KNN excel in predictive accuracy with 97.5%, reducing the margin of error and ensuring precise mix designs for SCC. …”
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Clinical evaluation of a self-adhering flowable composite as occlusal restorative material in primary molars: one-year results by Buse Ayse Serin, İffet Yazıcıoğlu, Ceren Deveci, Muharrem Cem Doğan

“…PurposeThe aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the 1 year clinical performances of a self-adhering flowable composite and a commercially available self-etch adhesive/composite system in occlusal restorations of primary second molars.Patients and MethodsThirty-one patients (10 male, 21 female) were recruited into the study. …”
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Cross-Sectional Study on Self-Efficacy and Spirituality in Relation to Subjective Well-Being Within Youth Living in Urban Slums by Fitriyani, Isbandi Rukminto Adi

“…The odds ratio for high self-efficacy was 5.44 (95% CI: 3.00–9.88), and for high spirituality was 2.10 (95% CI: 1.26–3.50). …”
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Copulatory Mechanics Reveals a Self‐Bracing Mechanism via a Femoral Apophysis in Funnel Weavers (Araneae, Agelenidae) by Alireza Zamani, Rahşen S. Kaya, Kari Kaunisto, Peter Michalik

“…We specifically examined the hypothesis that the various prominent femoral apophyses are involved in self‐bracing despite the presence of an RTA. Micro‐computed tomography data of a cryofixed mating pair revealed that at least one of these apophyses functions in self‐bracing by fitting into the groove of the embolic base, representing the second documented case of this unique self‐bracing mechanism in entelegyne spiders. …”
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Ultra Innovative Approach to Integrate Cellphone Customer Market Segmentation Model Using Self Organizing Maps and K-Means Methodology by mohammad reza karimi alavijeh, Saeed Khadangi, Mohammad Saleh Torkestani

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InBRwSANet: Self-attention based parallel inverted residual bottleneck architecture for human action recognition in smart cities. by Yasir Khan Jadoon, Muhammad Attique Khan, Yasir Noman Khalid, Jamel Baili, Nebojsa Bacanin, MinKyung Hong, Yunyoung Nam

“…After that, the second module is designed based on the self-attention mechanism. The learned weights of the first module are passed to self-attention, extract the most essential features, and can easily discriminate complex human actions. …”
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One-Year Clinical Evaluation of the Bonding Effectiveness of a One-Step, Self-Etch Adhesive in Noncarious Cervical Lesion Therapy by Babacar Faye, Mouhamed Sarr, Khaly Bane, Adjaratou Wakha Aidara, Seydina Ousmane Niang, Abdoul Wakhabe Kane

“…This study evaluated the one-year clinical performance of a one-step, self-etch adhesive (Optibond All-in-One, Kerr, CA, USA) combined with a composite (Herculite XRV Ultra, Kerr Hawe, CA, USA) to restore NCCLs with or without prior acid etching. …”
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Association between self-reported moderate to vigorous physical activity and the rate of outpatient treated COPD exacerbations: retrospective cohort study by Marilyn L Moy, Richard A Mularski, Ernest Shen, Huong Q Nguyen, Janet S Lee

“…Moderate to vigorous PA was measured via patient self-report, obtained during routine clinical care; patients were classified as inactive (0 min/week), insufficiently active (1–149 min/week) or active (≥150 min/week). …”
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Patterns and associated factors of diabetes self-management: Results of a latent class analysis in a German population-based study. by Marcus Heise, Astrid Fink, Jens Baumert, Christin Heidemann, Yong Du, Thomas Frese, Solveig Carmienke

“…In multivariable regression analyses, participation in Diabetes Self-Management Education programs (DSME) was the most important predictor of good self-management behaviour (marginal effect = 51.7 percentage points), followed by attentiveness towards one's personal health (31.0 percentage points). …”
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Systemic therapy informed self-help and paraprofessional training in a naturalistic setting: study protocol of a digital randomised trial by Pieter Erasmus, Moritz Borrmann, Ayesha Tariq Ali, Stefanie Herta, Jule Becker, Glen Moriarty, Gunther Meinlschmidt

“…One promising path that requires further investigation is online self-help interventions and paraprofessional training. …”
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Research on deep learning framework for multi scale information graph generation and visualization enhancement based on self attention generative Adversarial Network by Qian Zhou

“…This study introduces a deep learning framework that integrates multi-scale information chart generation with visualization enhancement to improve the performance of GAN-based image generation models across various domains. Based on the Self-Attention Generative Adversarial Network (SAGAN), which leverages self-attention mechanisms to capture long-range dependencies in images, the proposed approach significantly enhances image quality and detail representation. …”
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