Decolonizing or Re-colonizing? Community members’ perspectives of global service learning programs by Noel Habashy, Nicole Webster, Carter A. Hunt

“…Global service learning (GSL) sits at the interdisciplinary intersection of international development and study abroad, with visiting university students engaging in community development projects. …”
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Between duty and despair: the ethical toll of brain drain on Nepalese nurse managers by Animesh Ghimire, Mamata Sharma Neupane

“…Nurse managers, uniquely positioned at the intersection of leadership and frontline care, face considerable challenges in times of crisis. …”
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Enhancing Healthcare Sustainability: Informal Caregivers Leveraging Social Media in the Caregiving Process by Dalia Yahia M. El Kheir, Raghad Y. Sonbul, Zahra N. Alqarrashi, Ethar M. Sewakat, Nersyan T. Sharbini

“…Methods: Twenty-four caregivers from diverse regions of Saudi Arabia were interviewed, semi-structured interviews, to gauge the extent to which they utilized SM in caregiving tasks. …”
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Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Early Diagnosis of Gastrointestinal Disease by Kwang-Sig Lee, Eun Sun Kim

“…For example, patch GAN (accuracy 91.9%) in the case of classification, bi-directional cycle GAN (structural similarity 98.8%) in the case of data generation and semi-supervised GAN (Dice 89.4%) in the case of segmentation. …”
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Beyond Finance: Enhancing Support for New Technology Start-Up Founders by Pawel Ziemianski, Katarzyna Stankiewicz, Jan Wyrwinski, Sylwiusz Retowski, Bartosz Lipnicki

“…Using a qualitative research design, the conducted study involved semi-structured interviews with 22 technology start-up founders across Europe to explore their unique challenges, demands, and support needs. …”
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Bridging the gray digital divide: A cross-cultural qualitative study on digital inclusion and healthy aging in Germany, Japan, and Thailand by I-Chun Chen, Anuchit Phanumartwiwath

“…This study explores the global challenge of digital inclusion for healthy aging through a cross-cultural analysis of Germany, Japan, and Thailand. Using semi-structured interviews with twenty-four stakeholders and thematic analysis via ATLAS.ti 9.0 software, we identify three core themes: “Digital Literacy and Barriers to Inclusion,” “Facilitators of Digital Inclusion,” and “Community-Based Health and Technology Support.” …”
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Artificial intelligence for contextual well-being: Protocol for an exploratory sequential mixed methods study with medical students as a social microcosm. by Yao Xie, Kayode Philip Fadahunsi, John Broughan, John O' Donoghue, Joseph Gallagher, Walter Cullen

“…<h4>Methods and analysis</h4>The research is an exploratory sequential mixed methods Study, combining semi-structured interviews and an electronic Delphi study (eDelphi) to gather insights for consensus building. …”
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Politics, policies, and patient care: Rehabilitation therapists’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic by Rachel M. Vaughn, Nancy Bagatell, Heather McGovern, Raiya Feinberg, Katherine Hendry, Ramis Chowdhury, Jessica M. Cassidy

“…Thirteen participants completed individual, semi-structured interviews focused on clinical practice and coping strategies. …”
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LAAVOS: A DeAOT-Based Approach for Medaka Larval Ventricular Video Segmentation by Kai Rao, Minghao Wang, Shutan Xu

“…Building upon this, we propose a semi-supervised video segmentation model based on the hierarchical propagation feature decoupling framework (DeAOT) and innovatively design an architecture that combines the LA-ResNet encoder with the AFPViS decoder, significantly improving the accuracy of medaka ventricular segmentation. …”
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‘We don’t talk about that around here’: an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) of South Asian male survivors’ experiences of childhood sexual abuse in the UK by B. Kennath Widanaralalage, Stacey Jennings, Coral J. Dando, Jay-Marie Mackenzie

“…Methods Using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 South Asian male survivors of childhood sexual violence currently living in the UK. …”
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Compounding impacts of COVID-19, cyclone and price crash on vanilla farmers' food security and natural resource use. by Henintsoa Rakoto Harison, James P Herrera, O Sarobidy Rakotonarivo

“…The intersection of the COVID-19 pandemic with other crises can amplify vulnerabilities and push communities further into poverty. …”
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It is harder for me: A thematic analysis of lived experience of self-care, and its relationship with self-injurious behaviors in psychiatric patients by Jonas Bjärehed, Hanna Grenner, Sara Pavlovic, Magnus Nilsson

“…Twelve participants were recruited from a psychiatric outpatient clinic and semi-structured interviews were conducted focusing on participants’ perceptions of self-care, its relationship with self-injury, and factors influencing self-care. …”
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Few-femtosecond time-resolved study of the UV-induced dissociative dynamics of iodomethane by Lorenzo Colaizzi, Sergey Ryabchuk, Erik P. Månsson, Krishna Saraswathula, Vincent Wanie, Andrea Trabattoni, Jesús González-Vázquez, Fernando Martín, Francesca Calegari

“…The experimental results combined with semi-classical trajectory calculations provide the identification of the main dissociation channels and indirectly reveal the signature of a conical intersection in the time-dependent yield of the iodine ion. …”
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Role of Women Empowerment Programs in Accelerating Violence Against Men in Bushenyi District Uganda: A Case Study of Igara East Kyeizooba Sub-County. by Twinomujuni, Eliab

“…This study explored the intersection of women empowerment programs and violence against men within Bushenyi District, Uganda. …”
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Untold Stories of Displaced Rohingya Pregnant Women Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence in Camp Settings by Istiaque Mahmud Dowllah, Ashok Kumar Barman, Khayam Faruqui, Morshed Nasir, Kainat Rehnuma Nabila, Ramzana Rahman Hanna, Md Waes Maruf Rahman, Sumaya Tasnim

“…This article contributes to the existing knowledge on the intersection of IPV, pregnancy, and mental health among displaced populations. …”
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The New Sociopolitical and Economic Dynamics of Digitalisation and Automation in Romania’s Automotive Industry by Irina Alina Popescu, Irina Elena Ion, Klára Čermáková, Radu Cristian Mușetescu, Ramona Iulia Dieaconescu, Ana-Maria Marinoiu

“…The research is based on the analysis of secondary sources, as well as the analysis and interpretation of valuable primary data collected through the semi-structured interview method, explored in depth with the help of latent content analysis. …”
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An exact implementation of the generalized Zhang-Zhu criterion for elasto-plastic finite element calculations by Lianjin Tao, Linkun Huang, Xu Zhao, Johan Clausen, Qi Zhang, Boyang Jiao, Hehua Zhu

“…Finally, the accuracy of the proposed method is validated using rock true triaxial test data and semi-analytical solutions for stresses and displacement around a circular opening under the GZZ criterion.…”
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Privacy-Preserving U-Net Variants with pseudo-labeling for radiolucent lesion segmentation in dental CBCT by Amelia Ritahani Ismail, Faris Farhan Azlan, Khairul Akmal Noormaizan, Nurul Afiqa, Syed Qamrun Nisa, Ahmad Badaruddin Ghazali, Andri Pranolo, Shoffan Saifullah

“…To mitigate data annotation scarcity, a pseudo-labeling approach is implemented within an MLOps pipeline, enabling semi-supervised learning from unlabeled CBCT images. …”
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South African palliative care provider perspectives on emergency medical services in palliative situations by Caleb Hanson Gage, Liz Gwyther, Willem Stassen

“…Methods: A qualitative design employing individual semi-structured interviews was implemented. Ten interviews with experienced doctors and nurses holding post-graduate palliative medicine qualifications were conducted. …”
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Automated road surface classification in OpenStreetMap using MaskCNN and aerial imagery by R. Parvathi, V. Pattabiraman, Nancy Saxena, Aakarsh Mishra, Utkarsh Mishra, Ansh Pandey

“…Limitations include label noise in OSM and class imbalance, which can be addressed through future work involving semi-supervised learning and multimodal data integration.…”
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