Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Breast-Self Examination Among Female Students of Niger Delta University by Deborah Oboli, Oluchi Mkpae, Monica Anurika Gbuchie, Tonte Gbuchie

“…A sample of 376 female undergraduates, aged 18-30 years, was selected using multistage sampling. Data was collected through semi-structured, self-administered questionnaires. …”
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Are the mothers admitted for childbirth in a tertiary care hospital satisfied with the health care services? A mixed methods study from Mangaluru, Karnataka state, India by S. Vineetha, Mubeena Haleema, Abhay S. Nirgude

“…Methods and material: It is a sequential explanatory mixed method study conducted in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology department in a tertiary college hospital among 291 pregnant women admitted for childbirth. Quantitative data obtained using expert validated questionnaire was entered in an Excel sheet and analyzed using IBM SPSS Version 23. …”
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Heuristic Usability Evaluation of Web-Based COVID-19 Management Dashboard by Somayyeh Zakerabasali, Farnaz Salehian

“…Background and Aim: Today, information dashboards are the main tools for understanding and extracting knowledge from large data sets and can be used in various forms by healthcare providers. …”
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A Lightweight Intrusion Detection System with Dynamic Feature Fusion Federated Learning for Vehicular Network Security by Junjun Li, Yanyan Ma, Jiahui Bai, Congming Chen, Tingting Xu, Chi Ding

“…Experimental evaluation on the CAN-Hacking dataset shows that the proposed intrusion detection system achieves more than 99% F1 score with only 1.11 MB of memory and 81,863 trainable parameters, while maintaining low computational overheads and ensuring data privacy, which is very suitable for edge device deployment.…”
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Artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to male infertility in IVF: a mapping review by Kowsar Qaderi, Foruzan Sharifipour, Mahsa Dabir, Roshanak Shams, Ali Behmanesh

“…Addressing ethical concerns like data privacy will further enable AI to improve IVF success globally.…”
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From admiration to retribution: the mediating role of nurses’ vengeful behaviors in the link between nurse managers’ narcissism and nurses’ counterproductive work behaviors by Amal Diab Ghanem Atalla, Loujain Saud Sharif, Alaa Mahsoon, Maram Banakhar, Amira Mohammed Ali, Samia Mohamed Sobhi Mohamed

“…Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied, and relationships were presented using a path model. Ethical Considerations Ethics Committee approval, written informed consent, data privacy and confidentiality, and participants’ rights to voluntary participation and withdrawal were maintained. …”
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Enablers and inhibitors to the utilization of healthcare services by members of the LGBTQ+ community in Accra, Ghana by Donald Womonia Anuga, Merri Iddrisu, Kennedy Dodam Konlan

“…The participants were involved in an in-depth interview using a pre-tested interview guide and the interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim. …”
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Toward improving respectful maternity care: a discrete choice experiment with rural women in northeast Nigeria by Josephine Exley, Zelee Hill, Tanya Marchant, Nasir Umar, Matthew Quaife, Abdulrahman Shuaibu

“…Women were asked to choose between two hypothetical health facilities or home birth for future delivery. Choice data were analysed using multinomial logit and mixed multinomial logit models.Results Complete data for the discrete choice experiment were available for 425 of 426 women. …”
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Assessment of Patients' Knowledge and Awareness about their Rights and Duties by Jasim N. Al-Asadi, Alaa H. Abed, Sabah A. Shami, Husam Al-Shammary, Shukrya K. Khalaf

“…Data analysis was done using SPSS version 19. Chi-square test was used to compare the proportions among the various groups and a P-value of <0.05 was considered to be statistically significant. …”
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Barriers to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Migrant and Refugee Youth: An Exploratory Socioecological Qualitative Analysis by Michaels Aibangbee, Sowbhagya Micheal, Pranee Liamputtong, Rashmi Pithavadian, Syeda Zakia Hossain, Elias Mpofu, Tinashe Moira Dune

“…The focus groups were co-facilitated by youth project liaisons to ensure their authenticity and validity. The data were analysed thematically and interpreted using socioecological theory. (3) Results: The findings identified socioecological barriers, a lack of awareness about and access to services, and sociocultural dissonance as leading to the under-implementation of SRHRs services. …”
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“…They were just treating her Symptom by Symptom”: maternal experiences of having a child with spinal muscular atrophy in Ghana by Esther Doe-Yo Tawiah, Jacob Owusu Sarfo

“…Individual interviews were conducted between August and September 2023 using semi-structured interview guides. The data were manually analysed using a pen-and-paper method. …”
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Unsupervised person re‐identification based on adaptive information supplementation and foreground enhancement by Qiang Wang, Zhihong Huang, Huijie Fan, Shengpeng Fu, Yandong Tang

“…Abstract Unsupervised person re‐identification has attracted vital interest because of its ability to protect privacy, significantly lower the expense of manual annotation, and eliminate the need for data labels. …”
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Evaluating Eye Tracking Technology in Nursing Education: A Scoping Review on Medication Administration Training by Jiranut Chaichana, Rob Eley, Chris Watling, Linda Ng

“…<b>Background:</b> Eye tracking technology, when used in nursing, helps to reduce medication errors by analyzing eye movements. …”
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Artificial intelligence enabled smart mask for speech recognition for future hearing devices by Hira Hameed, Lubna, Muhammad Usman, Jalil Ur Rehman Kazim, Khaled Assaleh, Kamran Arshad, Amir Hussain, Muhammad Imran, Qammer H. Abbasi

“…The collected data are fed into well-known machine-learning models for classification. …”
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Factors Influencing the Uptake of Adolescents’ Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Rubanda District, South Western Uganda. by Tayebwa, Amon

“…Key informant interviews were also carried out at selected health facilities. Quantitative data was analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 24. …”
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Home Occupant Archetypes by Marco Antonio ORTIZ SANCHEZ

“…Parallelly, in-depth and semi-structured interviews were conducted, which are techniques used to gather qualitative behavioural data from the home occupants. …”
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Exploring the roles of AI-powered e-tutors in enhancing self-directed learning in open distance e-learning courses by Mncedisi Christian Maphalala, Rachel Gugu Mkhasibe, Dumsani Wilfred Mncube

“…The paper also addresses the practical challenges and limitations of implementing AI-powered e-tutoring, such as technology access, data privacy, and the continuous improvement of AI algorithms. …”
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Sexual Health Education for Young Adults Diagnosed with Severe Mental Illness, Intellectual Disability, and Autism: A Pilot Study on the eITPoSA Psycho-Educational Intervention by Miriam Belluzzo, Veronica Giaquinto, Camilla Esposito, Erica De Alfieri, Anna Lisa Amodeo

“…A pilot study was conducted with 12 participants diagnosed with SMI, ID, and ASD, who attended the training sessions covering topics such as body knowledge, genital sexuality, privacy, and hygiene. Pre- and post-intervention assessments were carried out using structured monitoring grids, with data analyzed through descriptive statistics, paired-samples <i>t</i>-tests, and Cohen’s d to evaluate effect sizes. …”
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Community case study: Our Wave, an online platform to facilitate survivor disclosure of sexual assault and trauma recovery by Laura Sinko, Laura Sinko, Olga V. Naidenko, Brendan Michaelsen, Cassandra Marzke, Madeline Hart, Brooke Tweedie, Brooke Tweedie, Kyle Linton

“…With over 100,000 members and over 1,200 stories and forms of media shared, the platform has become a valuable resource for survivors. Using mixed-methods analysis of platform usage data and anonymous user feedback surveys (n = 288), we examined patterns of engagement and impact. …”
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Understanding Medical 4.0 implementation through enablers: An integrated multi-criteria decision-making approach by Md Nahid Akhtar, Abid Haleem, Mohd Javaid, Mohd Vasif

“…A comprehensive set of evaluation criteria is proposed, encompassing cost-effectiveness, adaptability, risk mitigation, Data Privacy, interoperability, ease of implementation, stakeholder acceptance, environmental impact, supplier and partner compatibility, and regulatory compliance. …”
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