Barriers to Implementing Intermittent Catheterisation in Spinal Cord Injury Patients in Northwest Regional Spinal Injuries Centre, Southport, U.K. by Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Bakul M. Soni, Gurpreet Singh, Tun Oo, Peter L. Hughes

“…We present illustrative cases to describe practical difficulties encountered by patients while trying to adopt an intermittent catheterisation regime. Barriers to intermittent catheterisation are (1) caregivers or nurses are not available to carry out five or six catheterisations a day; (2) lack of time to perform intermittent catheterisations; (3) unavailability of suitable toilet facilities in public places, including restaurants and offices; (4) redundant prepuce in a male patient, which prevents ready access to urethral meatus; (5) urethral false passage; (6) urethral sphincter spasm requiring the use of flexible-tip catheters and α-drenoceptor–blocking drugs; (7) reluctance to perform intermittent catheterisation in patients >60 years by some health professionals; and (8) difficulty in accessing the urethral meatus for catheterisation while the patient is sitting up, especially in female patients. …”
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Identification of Buffalo Breeds Using Self-Activated-Based Improved Convolutional Neural Networks by Yuanzhi Pan, Hua Jin, Jiechao Gao, Hafiz Tayyab Rauf

“…Different machine learning (Ml) classifiers are adopted to classify the feature vectors. The proposed framework is evaluated on two buffalo breeds, namely, Neli-Ravi and Khundi, and one additional target class contains different buffalo breeds collectively called Mix. …”
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Health effects of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS): A study among federal civil servants in Bayelsa State, Nigeria by Endurance Uzobo, Aboluwaji D Ayinmoro

“…Methods: A cross-sectional survey was adopted using simple random sampling to recruit 337 federal employees living in the state. …”
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Shared decision-making interventions in the choice of antipsychotic prescription in people living with psychosis (SHAPE): Protocol for a realist review. by Ita Fitzgerald, Laura J Sahm, Jo Howe, Ian Maidment, Emma Wallace, Erin K Crowley

“…<h4>Background</h4>Shared decision-making (SDM) has yet to be successfully adopted into routine use in psychiatric settings amongst people living with severe mental illnesses. …”
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Exploring the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Learning Experience, Mental Health, Adaptability, and Resilience Among Health Informatics Master’s Students: Focus Group Study by Nadia Davoody, Natalia Stathakarou, Cara Swain, Stefano Bonacina

“…Institutions play a critical role in ensuring equitable access to technology, guiding and supporting educators in adopting innovative tools and methods, and offering mental health resources to assist students in overcoming the challenges of evolving educational environments. …”
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Sustainable Agricultural Management of Land Using Technology for Soil and Water Conservation within the Central Rift Valley, Central Ethiopia by Tesfaye Birhan, Wondimagegnehu Tekalign

“…A number of factors, including age, family size, education, topography, distance from the homestead, income, and the availability of training, have a big impact on whether or not soil and water conservation methods are adopted. The majority of farmers use mixed farming followed by crop production to meet their livelihood needs. …”
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Barriers and facilitators to engagement with between-session work for low-intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)-based interventions: a qualitative exploration of practition... by Mia Bennion, Amy Blakemore, Karina Lovell, Penny Bee

“…Conclusions Findings underscore the importance of practitioner behaviours in optimising patient engagement between-sessions, offering clear directions to enhance treatment outcomes in globally adopted low-intensity interventions.…”
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Role of oral health literacy in demand for oral healthcare services for missing teeth replacement among dental patients visiting a dental teaching hospital in India by Duggineni Chalapathi Rao, Sudhakar Vundavalli, Meignana Arumugham Indiran, Atluri Kaleswara Rao, Doppalapudi Radhika, Mahmoud Gamal Salloum

“…A prevalidated questionnaire adopted from Oral Health Literacy Adult Questionnaire (OHL-AQ) was used for data collection and american dental association (ADA) type IV clinical examination was used for recording missing teeth. …”
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On the state of nature and social life: thinking about humans and chimpanzees by Eliane Sebeika Rapchan

“…In other words, this text proposes reflecting on the degrees of autonomy of social and cultural phenomena in relation to chimpanzee and human evolutionary predisposition to social life and to symbolic production as well as on the adaptive and non-adaptive aspects of these phenomena. This analysis adopted Rousseau's theory on the “State of Nature” and “State of Society” considering modern primatology from an anthropological point of view resulting in the invention of two concepts: “nature social primate” “primate social nature” and “human cultural nature”.…”
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Comparative analysis of outsourcing and in house warehouse management system to improve productivity and stock accuracy by Untung Alamsah, Anang Muftiadi, ⁠Ria Arifianti

“…These results highlight the strategic advantages of adopting an in-house WMS, underscoring its role in enhancing operational efficiency and maintaining competitiveness in the dynamic FMCG market.…”
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With Collies Graven on His Heart: The Canine Projections of Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856–1934) by Peter Merchant

“…Soon after adopting ‘F. Anstey’ as his nom de plume, Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856–1934) scored a striking success with his début novel Vice Versâ (1882). …”
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Investigation of the application of an automated monitoring system for detecting transmission cable deterioration in Nigeria: A case study of transmission cable lines between Offa... by C.S. Omoniabipi, R. Agbadede, K.C. Emmanuel, O.J. Adewuni, I. Allison

“…Both forward propagation and backpropagation techniques were adopted for training Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), and the gradient descent with momentum algorithm was employed for optimization. …”
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Turbulence of internal gravity waves in the laboratory by Cortet, Pierre-Philippe, Lanchon, Nicolas

“…The common feature to these studies is that they adopted the same strategy of injecting energy in weakly non-linear waves before increasing the forcing amplitude in order to trigger a transition to a wave turbulence regime. …”
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Physical and Mechanical Characteristics of Shallow Expansive Soil due to Freeze-Thaw Effect with Water Supplement by Yanlong Li, Zili Wang, Yang Luo

“…An integrated approach incorporating the freeze-thaw test and direct shear test was adopted. Firstly, unidirectional freezing tests for expansive soil columns under three different freezing temperature gradients were carried out. …”
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Three-Dimensional Finite Difference Analysis on the Ground-Sequential Tunneling-Superstructure Interaction by Ali Lakirouhani, Reyhaneh Jafari, Hadi Hasanzadehshooiili

“…The well-validated modeling procedure is adopted to investigate effects of tunnel diameter, depth of tunneling, and number of superstructure stories on the profile of occurring settlements. …”
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Some Issues of Normative and Legal Regulation of Weapons in Ukraine by K. L. Buhaichuk

“…The publication defines the directions for improving the draft laws under consideration in terms of: definitions of the terms of «sporting weapon», «thermal imaging sight», «signal weapon», «night vision sight», «training-split weapon - neutralized weapon», «right to carrying weapon», «right to own weapon»; introduction of the terms of «law enforcement agency», «intelligence agency», «law enforcement agency of special purpose», «state agency of special purpose with law enforcement functions» into the conceptual apparatus of the law, since some authors use them to define the regime of special circulation of civil firearms; establishment of restrictions on the number of civilian firearms and ammunition for them, which can be acquired by an individual; creating legislative prerequisites for the approval of a by-law, which will clearly provide the procedure for transferring seized weapons to the National Police for further storage; securing the obligation of security personnel to provide emergency medical care to persons to whom they use weapons; introduction of norms that will establish the obligation of applicants for the acquisition, possession and use of weapons to take the appropriate courses within first aid; preservation of the wording of the Articles 190-195 of the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses until the relevant law on the legal regime of sidearm is adopted.…”
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Analysis of ChatGPT-Generated Codes Across Multiple Programming Languages by Sally Almanasra, Khaled Suwais

“…However, as these models are increasingly adopted in real-world applications, questions surrounding their efficiency and code quality become critical. …”
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Microalgae-based bioremediation of refractory pollutants: an approach towards environmental sustainability by Mostafa M. El-Sheekh, Hala Y. El-Kassas, Sameh S. Ali

“…However, several factors, such as microalgal strain, cultivation technique, and the type of pollutants, limit the understanding of the microalgal removal mechanism and efficiency. Furthermore, adopting novel technological advancements (e.g., nanotechnology) may serve as a viable approach to address the challenge of refractory pollutants and bioremediation process sustainability. …”
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Physical Similarity Simulation of Closely Stacked Coal Seams Mined in Faulted Geological Environments: A Comprehensive Experimental Investigation by Yapeng Zhao, Liang Kong, Gaowei Hu, Peisen Zhang, Yunkai Ji

“…In this study, an experimental approach was adopted to investigate the stress field and displacement field in rocks associated with closely stacked coal mining activity (complex geological conditions with faults and confined water). …”
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Examination of Depression Levels in Individuals Aged 65 and Over by Rukuye Aylaz, Nuri Yıldırım, Fidan Balkaya

“…Significance level of p<0.05 was adopted. 73,58% of the participants were 65-74 years old, 60,06% were males, 97,28% were married, and 34,90% were housewives. …”
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