Urban Dealing with Pandemic: Comparative Responses on Spanish Flu and the Covid-19 Era in Indonesia by Pulung Sumantri, Ahmad Muhajir, Taslim Batubara

“…In 1918, Indonesia, formerly known as the Dutch East Indies, witnessed a pandemic of the Spanish Flu that killed thousands of lives. A century later, Indonesia is once again experienced with the lethal Covid-19 pandemic. …”
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Depression among Tibetan residents in the Southeastern region of Qinghai-Tibet plateau: a cross-sectional study by Yuji Chen, Ga Long, Qing Huang, Ping Zhang, Nie Xu

“…Logistic regression analysis showed that middle-aged (OR 2.86, 95% CI 1.69–4.82, P < 0.01) and elderly people (OR 2.27, 95% CI 1.30–3.98, P < 0.01), living in ultra-high altitude areas (OR 3.48, 95% CI 1.35–2.91, P < 0.01) and low BMI (OR   4.31, 95% CI 1.33–13.93) are high-risk factors for depression. …”
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Promoting the digital transformation of the South African quantity surveying profession through the implementation of change management theories by Karen Le Jeune, Krystle Ontong, Alireza Moghayedi

“… The construction industry is lagging behind in the digital race, thus not living up to its potential to drive the knowledge economy of the Built Environment (BE). …”
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Knowledge about spychologocal violence and its relation with psycho- social factors in young adult women by Lorena Fabiola Velásquez Chalán, Rubén García Núñez, Juan Manuel Armendáríz Tubón, María Aurelia San Juan Bosch, Alexis Díaz Brito

“…<br /> <strong>Results:</strong> 28% were between 20 and 24 years old similarly to the 30-34 age group; 49% are housewives and of elementary schooling; 68% had a stable partnership; 71% lives with their partners who consume alcoholic beverages; 60% had antecedents of violence at home. …”
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Eventful growing up of children with different levels of health: A sociological analysis by S. N. Mayorova-Shcheglova, O. V. Besschetnova, A. Yu. Gubanova

“…The authors analyzed the data of the survey of young people about childhood to find answers to the following research questions: the dependence of the share of those with health problems in childhood on social-demographic characteristics; limitations in the passage of some episodes of standard eventfulness for respondents with disabilities in a specific period of childhood; differences in the age of living significant personal events; the influence of the health factor on self-determination in this period of life and on its definition as happy. …”
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Generation of microdissected DNA probes from metaphase chromosomes when chromosome identification by routine staining is impossible by K. S. Zadesenets, N. B. Rubtsov

“…The technique was used for generation of two sets of Whole Chromosome Paints (WCPs) from all chromosomes of two species of free-living flatworms in the genus Macrostomum, M. mirumnovem and M. cliftonensis. …”
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Trends in sedentary behaviour and associated factors among adults in Mongolia: results from national cross-sectional surveys in 2009, 2013 and 2019 by Supa Pengpid, Karl Peltzer

“…Objective The study aimed to evaluate trends in the prevalence and correlates of sedentary behaviour (SB) in people aged 15–64 years from 2009 to 2019 in Mongolia.Design Repeat population-based cross-sectional study.Setting Nationally representative sample of persons living in the general community aged 15–64 years in Mongolia.Participants The sample included 17 780 people (15–64 years) who participated in Mongolia STEPS surveys 2009, 2013 or 2019.Primary and secondary outcome measures: self-reported SB, along with physical measurements, health status and health behaviour, and sociodemographic covariates. …”
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Military personnel’s satisfaction with antiretroviral services in Namibia: A cross-sectional study by Nestor P.N. Tomas, Nabot P. Kandjimi

“…It is particularly relevant for military personnel living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) because of their increased risks to deployment. …”
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Methods for tagging an ectoparasite, the salmon louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis by Folk, Alexius, Mennerat, Adèle

“…The proportion of RFID-tagged individuals followed a negative exponential decline, with tag retention among the living female population generally high. The projected retention was found to be about 88% after 30 days or 80% after 60 days, although one of the four batches of glue used, purchased from a different supplier, appeared to give significantly lower tag retention and with greater initial loss (74% and 60% respectively). …”
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Bioelectronic osteosynthesis plate to monitor the fracture bone healing using electric capacitive variations by Diogo G. Pires, Nuno M. Silva, A. Completo, Marco P. Soares dos Santos

“…Over the past few decades, a sustained increase in the number of incidents and prevalent cases have been reported, as well as in the years lived with disability. Current monitoring techniques predominantly rely on imaging methods, which can result in subjective assessments, and expose patients to unnecessary cumulative doses of radiation. …”
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Evaluating socioeconomic inequalities in self-rated oral health and its contributing factors in Brazilian older adults. by Fabíola Bof de Andrade, José Leopoldo Ferreira Antunes

“…The explanatory covariates were age; gender; limitation in basic activities of daily living; number of teeth, use of dental prostheses; difficulty in eating; and recent dental visit. …”
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IMPACT OF FLOODING ON HUMAN SECURITY IN NORTHERN NIGERIA by DUBE PHILEMON ABRAK, ADELAKUN RASHEED ADEYINKA, ISHAKU AISHA YUSUF, UBON UDOH HUMAPWA, MUKHTAR BELLO MUHAMMAD, CHUKWUEDO N. HENRY, OGBUKE KINGSLEY NNAMDI

“… The study provides insights into how flooding exacerbates health issues and the direct and indirect effects on physical and food security in northern Nigeria through the increased prevalence of waterborne diseases such as cholera and malaria, displacement of people, leading to overcrowded and unsanitary living conditions in temporary shelters and the disruption of agricultural activities, resulting in food shortages and increased prices, undermining food security in the region. …”
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Potentially Lost Years of Life Due to First Causes of Death by Ling Denise Santeiro Pérez, María Lina Valdés Gómez, José Aurelio Díaz Quiñones, Julio César Díaz Marrero, Yaniela Sarmiento Albelo

“…The potentially lost years of life between 1 and 74 years old were calculated for both sexes which expressed the number of years not lived for all causes or for each one, as regards to the procedure for its calculation proposed by the World Health Organization. …”
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Particle Swarm Optimization-Based Content Delivery Protocol for UAV VAENTs by Yongje Shin, Hyun-Seok Choi, Youngju Nam, Euisin Lee

“…Moreover, as VANET services provided in our daily lives become more extensive and situations in which they are provided simultaneously to an increasing number of users become more frequent, numerous data delivery optimization algorithms have been researched to address these issues. …”
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Best Evidence Summary for the Improvement and Management of Disorders of Consciousness in Patients With Severe Brain Injury by Miaoyuan Lin, Qiongna Lu, Sheng Yu, Wenjuan Lin

“…Methods Following the evidence summary report standard of Fudan University Center for Evidence‐Based Nursing, clinical guidelines, expert consensuses, systematic reviews, and evidence summaries were systematically retrieved from UpToDate; BMJ Best Practice; Guidelines International Network; the Cochrane Library; Embase; PubMed; Sinomed; Web of Science; CNKI; WanFang database; American Academy of Neurology (AAN); American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM); European Academy of Neurology; and National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). The publishing timeline for articles was limited from January 2017 to January 2024. …”
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Nutritional Status of a Group of Children Under Five Suffering from Malaria in a Timor Leste District by Anagalys Ortega Alvelay, Marcos Félix Osorio Pagola, Sol Esther García Morales, Denis Monzón Vega, Mabel Vega Galindo

“…The average number of people living in the house is 8.3; 5.6 per room. Females were predominant with 50.3%, as well as rural children 402 (92.4%). …”
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An retrospective study on the effects of deep learning model-based optimization emergency nursing on treatment compliance and curative effect of patients with acute left heart fail... by Qian Dai, Jing Huang, Hui Huang, Lin Song

“…According to different nursing methods, they were divided into conventional group and optimization group. Activity of daily living (ADL) scale was used to evaluate ADL of patients 6 months after discharge. …”
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Anti-Biofilm Effect of Ampicillin-Loaded Poly (Lactic-co-glycolic Acid) Nanoparticles Conjugated with Lysostaphin on Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus by Elahe Norouzi, Seyed Mostafa Hosseini, Babak Asghari, Reza Mahjoub, Ehsan Nazarzadeh Zare, Mohammad-Ali Shahbazi, Fereshte Kalhori, Mohammad Reza Arabestani

“…Staphylococcus aureus exhibits the capacity to develop biofilms on various surfaces, encompassing both living and nonliving substrates, enabling it to develop resistance against the immune system and antibiotics. …”
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Exploring advance care planning discourses in scottish dementia policies: A critical discourse analysis by Tharin Phenwan, Judith Sixsmith, Linda McSwiggan, Deans Buchanan

“…In Scotland, the creation of ACPs is encouraged and integrated into current dementia policies as a means of safeguarding the human rights of people living with dementia (PwD). However, the uptake of ACP amongst PwD remains low, potentially due to PwD's fluctuating mental capacity and symptoms of forgetfulness. …”
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Distribution and Conservation of Ephedra rhytidosperma by Chao Tan, David Kay Ferguson, Yong Yang

“…ABSTRACT With global warming and increasingly intensified human activities, numerous species are on the verge of extinction, ca. 28% of living species are threatened globally, although conservation of endangered species has received worldwide attention. …”
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