Factors Influencing the Choice of Healthcare Providers among National Health Insurance Scheme Enrollees in Public and Private Health Facilities in South Western Nigeria: A Mixed Me... by Roseline Akande, Sunday Olarewaju, Adeleye Adeomi, Joel Akande, Funmilola Oke, Roseline Ige, Olugbemiga Abodunrin

“…Conclusion: Factors influencing the choice of healthcare providers among respondents in public and private health facilities, were mainly health facility related. Accredited healthcare providers seeking to improve the enrollment of new clients as well as retain their old clients should address these factors. …”
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Domestic water consumptions and associated factors in rural household of Harari region, Eastern Ethiopia; A cross sectional study by Bushra Yusuf Ahmed, Sina Temesgen Tolera, Liku Muche Temesgen, Abraham Geremew

“…The associated factors included the main source of water, time of collection, household size, wealth status, water price, and frequency of gathering water.ConclusionThus, the provision of an adequate quantity of water for rural households should be given attention for maintaining human wellbeing, and the consideration of socio-economic factors affecting per capita water consumption is desirable in the planning and implementation of proper water demand management strategies.…”
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Clinical Holistic Medicine: A Pilot Study on HIV and Quality of Life and a Suggested Cure for HIV and AIDS by Søren Ventegodt, Trine Flensborg-Madsen, Niels Jørgen Andersen, Mohammed Morad, Joav Merrick

“…This cross-sectional population study in Uganda included 20 HIV infected persons with no symptoms of AIDS and a CD4 count above 200 mill./liter. The main outcome measures were CD4 count, global QOL measured with the validated questionnaire QOL1, translated to Luganda and translated back to English. …”
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Investigation Report and Analysis Knowledge, attitudes and vaccination status regarding HPV vaccines among female healthcare workers at vaccination clinics in Beijing city: a surve... by Haikun QIAN, Wenyan JI, Luodan SUO

“…Binary logistic regression analysis showed that the main factors affecting HPV vaccination were: attitude composite score (OR = 2.430; 95%CI = 1.873 – 3.153), perception of high vaccine price (OR = 0.616, 95%CI: 0.427 – 0.888), age (compared to ≥ 50 years, OR values for < 30, 30 – 39, and 40 – 49 years were 33.110, 17.047, and 13.141, respectively), and years of work experience (compared to < 5 years, OR values for 5 – 9, 10 – 14, and ≥ 15 years were 1.639, 2.063, and 1.498, respectively). …”
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Nurses' Experiences With Mentoring Nursing Students in Nursing Homes Where an Active, Collaborative Learning Model Is Introduced. A Qualitative Study by Anne Raustøl, Kirsten Eika Amsrud, Eli‐Anne Skaug, Anne Lyberg, Bodil Tveit

“…The data from the interviews were analysed using thematic analysis. Results Two main themes emerged from the analysis: (1) navigating to find the mentor role in a new approach and (2) sharing responsibility for student mentoring. …”
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Osteopathic treatment of infants with infantile colic/excessive crying: a prospective, multicentric, randomized controlled trial and nested observational trial by Florian Schwerla, Marlen Zimmer, Janine Göpfert, Petra Laux, Simone Langenmair, Michaela Rütz, Karl-Ludwig Resch

“…An inter-group comparison of changes revealed clinically relevant improvements in favor of the intervention group for the main outcome – parameter psychological stress – for all 3 questions (e.g., for question 2 respectively 3, NRS: between group difference of means 3.5; 95% CI: 2.6 to 4.4; p < 0.001). …”
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Forecasting models for leprosy cases: a scoping review protocol by Bruna Oliveira Ascef, Gustavo Laine Araújo de Oliveira, Carmelita Ribeiro Filha Coriolano, Haliton Alves De Oliveira Junior

“…Introduction Leprosy is a neglected tropical disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae that mainly affects the skin, the peripheral nerves, the mucosa of the upper respiratory tract and the eyes. …”
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Annotated review of the mammal fauna in the Chornobyl Biosphere Reserve as of 2023 by Sergii Gashchak

“…The changes in the checklist of the Reserve’s mammal fauna have mainly resulted from more intense studies and using revised approaches. …”
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Human Platelets Take up Anti-VEGF Agents by B. Sobolewska, B. Fehrenbacher, P. Münzer, H. Kalbacher, S. Geue, Konstantinos Stellos, M. Schaller, F. Ziemssen

“…Ranibizumab and aflibercept were mainly detected in alpha-granules; however, bevacizumab was equally localized in alpha-granules and in platelet vesicles. …”
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Deformation and failure characteristics of soft rock tunnel surrounding rock under mining and water immersion conditions by XIE Panshi, FANG Jiarui, HU Bosheng, ZHANG Bo, ZHANG Xi, DUAN Siyu

“…When a 12.2 m anchor cable was used to support roof, the failure range on both sides was larger than when using the 9 m or 10 m cables. This was mainly because the 12.2 m cable reached the water-bearing layer in the roof, leading to increased water seepage and further softening of the surrounding rock. …”
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A Study on Excavation Characteristics of Tunnel with Upper-Soft Lower-Hard Stratum by Jun Feng, Hui-juan Yang, Yu Zhang

“…The bending moment of the lining produced by the positive benching method was far less than that of the other two methods. (3) Due to the difference in lithology, the stress of the tunnel lining in the thick upper “soft” and “hard” strata was mainly concentrated on the upper soft rock area, while the stress in the lower hard rock area was relatively small, and the lining stress value generated using the three excavation methods was relatively large. …”
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Enhancing Dragon Fruit (Hylocereus undatus) Propagation Efficiency through Growing Media by P. K. Anagha, D. P. Prakasha, N. Anand, M. Vijay, Shivayogi Ryavalad, Mude Ramya Sree

“… The experiment was carried for one and half year during November, 2019 to January, 2020 under the shade house of Fruit nursery at Main Horticultural Research and Extension Centre (MHREC), College of Horticulture, University of Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot, Karnataka, India to assess the influence of different media on root induction, growth and shoot parameters in dragon fruit. …”
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Empirical analysis of control models for different converter topologies from a statistical perspective by Hole Shreyas Rajendra

“…This will allow readers to select and modify optimized models for their context-specific use cases. The main reason of conduction this research is how to dispel the ambiguity in the process of choosing the suitable control models corresponding to the appropriate converter topology that can satisfy a set of particular application requirements. …”
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The Impact of Blood Flow Restriction Training on Tibial Bone Stress Injury Rehabilitation: An Exploratory Case Series by Andrew P Golden, Kathleen K Hogan, Jamie B Morris, Bryan B Pickens

“…For thigh circumference, significant main effects were found for time (p=0.012) and limb (p=0.015), however there was no significant interaction effect (p=0.510). …”
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Effect of Preservation Methods on Physicochemical Quality, Phenolic Content, and Antioxidant Activity of Stevia Leaves by Nadia Hidar, Abdelhamid Noufid, Ayoub Mourjan, El Mustapha El Adnany, Safa Mghazli, Mohammed Mouhib, Abderrahim Jaouad, Mostafa Mahrouz

“…Micrographs revealed that a higher porous size structure was obtained by freeze-drying, and degradation of cell wall structure was more clearly visualized by irradiation at 2 kGy. However, the main functional groups were stable as confirmed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy analysis. …”
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Mood Detection from Physical and Neurophysical Data Using Deep Learning Models by Zeynep Hilal Kilimci, Aykut Güven, Mitat Uysal, Selim Akyokus

“…Collected data are usually classified as personal, but they contain valuable information about their users when it is analyzed and interpreted. One of the main purposes of personal data analysis is to make predictions about users. …”
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Impact of the Westerly Jet on Rainfall/Runoff in the Source Region of the Yangtze River during the Flood Season by Xin Lai, Yuanfa Gong, Sixian Cen, Hui Tian, Heng Zhang

“…In turn, the antecedent rainfall in the coastal zone of the SRYR is mainly affected by the intensity of the simultaneous WJ over a key region (55–85°E, 45–55°N). …”
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Internal Benchmarking of Thermal Power Plants оf Electric Power Systems by E. M. Farhadzadeh, A. Z. Muradaliyev, Y. Z. Farzaliyev, U. K. Ashurova

“…The methodology of their joint assessment assumes that the service life of the main equipment does not exceed the standard value, but this condition is now met by less than half of the production enterprises of a lot of EPS. …”
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The neuroendocrine stress-response in insects: the history of the development of the concept by M. A. Eremina, N. E. Gruntenko

“…In insect larvae the mechanism of stress reaction has been studied in detail. In this century, the main efforts of researchers are aimed at studying the mechanisms of stress reaction in imago and genetic control of its individual links. …”
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The efficacy and safety of remimazolam besylate, ciprofol, and propofol during hysteroscopy by Weifeng Shan, Shuying Gao, Mengting Ai, Haiyan Lan, Gongchen Duan, Xiaoli Dong, Qiaomin Xu, Yini Wu, Jimin Wu

“…Propofol is a classic drug mainly used for short surgeries. This trial was conducted to compare the efficacy and safety of remimazolam besylate, ciprofol, and propofol during hysteroscopic surgeries.MethodsPatients undergoing hysteroscopy were randomly assigned to receive remimazolam besylate (Group R), ciprofol (Group C), or propofol (Group P). …”
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