Strengthening teamwork and respect (STAR) in maternity units: developing a health system intervention in South Africa by Tanya Doherty, Ruwayda Petrus, Sandra Land, Christiane Horwood, Veronique Filippi, Lyn Haskins, Cleo Phewa, Sphindile Mapumulo, Silondile Luthuli, Vaughn M. John

“…Participatory learning processes, embedded in routine service delivery, are a potentially powerful way to improve ownership and accountability for health system performance. We describe the process followed to develop the Strengthening Teamwork and Respect (STAR) intervention which is being implemented in nine district hospitals in two rural districts of KwaZulu-Natal. …”
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Impact of Patient Beliefs on Blood Pressure Control in the General Population: Findings from the Population-Based STAAB Cohort Study by Theresa Tiffe, Caroline Morbach, Viktoria Rücker, Götz Gelbrich, Martin Wagner, Hermann Faller, Stefan Störk, Peter U. Heuschmann

“…Our findings highlight that medication-related beliefs constitute a serious barrier of successful implementation of treatment guidelines and underline the role of educational interventions taking into account sex-related differences.…”
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Economic Evaluations of Health Service Interventions Targeting Patients with Multimorbidities: A Scoping Literature Review by Lucia Ferrara, Vittoria Ardito, Valeria D. Tozzi, Rosanna Tarricone

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Testing of diagnostic test-systems for detection of antibodies to foot-and-mouth disease virus structural proteins with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for their serotype specifi... by N. N. Lugovskaya, E. A. Silanteva, T. V. Okovytaya, A. A. Kharitonova, Y. M. Gochmuradov, E. A. Razgulyaeva, O. O. Budina, E. A. Yasneva

“…All used test-systems detected apparent serotype-specific activity (homologous reaction) as well as cross-reacting virus-specific antibodies that was accounted for some reasons related to conservative epitopes in amino acid sequence of FMDV virion capsid VP1–VP3 polypeptides, accessibility of internal conservative epitopes of VP4 polypeptide for the animal’s immune system during virus replication or vaccine antigen (virus) destruction in the animal’s body in the process of immunity development, as well as the pilot anti-FMD vaccine composition, etc. …”
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Bariatric surgery in Poland, 2023: growth, trends, and impact of the KOS‑BAR program by Michał R. Janik, Przemysław Sroczyński, Piotr Major

“…Results: A total of 54 centers, including 18 KOS-BAR centers, participated in the survey, reporting a total of 9102 procedures performed in 2023. SG accounted for 82% of surgeries, followed by RYGB (9.7%) and one anastomosis gastric bypass (3.9%). …”
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Research and Application of Hydraulic Punching Pressure Relief Antireflection Mechanism in Deep “Three-Soft” Outburst Coal Seam by Beifang Gu, Yanling Wu

“…Combining the results of the numerical simulation and taking into account the actual construction situation on site, the coal output of water jetting from the borehole is 9 m3, and the fracture radius is 5.5 m. …”
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ON THE ISSUE OF RATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF THE TEXTILE AND KNITWEAR ENTERPRISES HEAT AND POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM by V. N. Romaniuk, D. B. Muslina

“…The indicated circumstance among others accounts for prevalence of condensation electric power plants in the scheme of electrogenerating capacities that provide work for the light industry enterprises. …”
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Exploring Caring Motivation Barriers among Mothers of Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Qualitative Content Analysis by Seyed Javad Hosseini, Monir Ramezani, Farah Ashrafzadeh, Jamshid Jamali

“…Future research should take these barriers into account to enhance maternal caregiving motivation. …”
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THE ALGORITHM FOR DETERMINING TIMING OF RADIOTHERAPY SESSION COMPONENTS FOR DIFFERENT METHODS OF ONCOLOGY PATIENTS IRRADIATION AT THE STAGE OF RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING by E. V. Titovich, P. A. Patsiapalau, M. I. Piatkevich, M. G. Kiselev

“…It allowed to take into account the individual characteristics of radiation treatment for each irradiation techniques that are the most useful in clinical practice of NCCB radiotherapy department.The components of radiation therapy sessions that caused dominant influence on session characteristics using methods of three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3D CRT), intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) were identified.The characteristics of the linear accelerator and the irradiation plan that influenced the duration of these components (number of radiation fields, dose affecting devices placement, treatment table rotation, treatment field irradiation duration, verification of patient positioning, treatment parameters initialization) were defined. …”
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Chemical Fingerprints and Source Profiles of PM10 and PM2.5 from Agricultural Soil in a Typical Polluted Region of Northwest China by Yaochuang Yu, Junji Cao

“…The reconstructed crustal matter estimated from Al, Si, Ca, Ti, and Fe concentrations accounted for 79.58% and 78.8% of the total PM10 and PM2.5, respectively, indicating that crustal matter may be the most significant contributor to agricultural SD PM10 and PM2.5 mass. …”
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Research on SiC Speed Controller for High-Voltage Distributed Electric Propulsion System by Labin Wang, Yunhan He, Yun Xu, Li Fan, Junhua Xiang

“…Despite its advantage which helps to build efficient aircraft aerodynamic layout, there are more cables in the distributed propulsion system, which accounts for most of the weight of the aircraft. To address this, all-electric aircraft utilizes high-voltage power supply to reduce the current, so it uses SiC MOSFETs as power devices to improve its efficiency and heat dissipation. …”
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How Did the COVID‐19 Pandemic Change Cigarette Smoking Behavior? by Jason Semprini

“…Two‐way fixed effect linear regression models accounted for state‐level factors and temporal trends. …”
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Use of combined CZM and XFEM techniques for the patch shape performance analysis on the behavior of a 2024-T3 aluminum structure reinforced with a composite patch by Kouider Madani, Safaa Chahrazed Djebbar, Nadia Kaddouri, Mohamed El Ajrami, Mohamed Belhouari

“…The analysis takes into account the damage in the plate and in the adhesive. …”
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Safety of Systems Integrating Fire Protection Equipment – Risks, Gaps, Recommendations by Wojciech Wróblewski, Dorota Seliga

“…Conclusions: It is necessary to urgently develop and implement comprehensive legal regulations that would take into account the specificity of the cyber security of fire protection systems in Poland. …”
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Increased Risk of Influenza-Like Illness Clusters in Schools, Taiwan from 2011 to 2020: A Retrospective Study by Yu-Ching Chou, Fu-Huang Lin, Chi-Jeng Hsieh, Chia-Peng Yu

“…In terms of specific pathogens within ILI clusters, single infections with influenza A virus accounted for the highest number of cases (69.6%, 1076/1358, odds ratio: 1.740–2.957, p < 0.001–0.012), followed by adenovirus infections among noninfluenza respiratory pathogens (58.3%, 7/12). …”
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Effect of a closed-loop medication order executive system on safe medication administration at a tertiary hospital: a quasi-experimental study by Xuwen Yin, Haiyan Song, Jieyu Lu, Jing Yang, Rong Wang, Zheng Lin, Shudi Jiang, Hui Yuan, Xumei Wang, Dongmei Xu, Chunhong Gao, Yuan Zhou, Jiayi Xu, Chen Chen, Chenyu Gu, Qingqing Diao, Fang Li, Zejuan Gu

“…Nurses’ administration accounted for more than 60% of errors post-implementation, and lack of communication was a prominent factor. …”
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NT-proBNP, Cardiometabolic Risk Factors, and Nutritional Status in Hemodialysis Patients by Jacques Ducros, Laurent Larifla, Henri Merault, Lydia Foucan

“…We aimed to evaluate the association between NT-proBNP and malnutrition in HD patients while taking into account the four established categories of parameters for diagnosis of protein energy wasting (PEW). …”
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The use of agencies by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR to control academic historical science in Soviet Ukraine (1953) by O. N. Yarmysh, V. A. Grechenko

“…Shevchenko supported progressive positions in historical science, taking into account the extent to which it was possible under the conditions of the totalitarian regime in the USSR regarding the history of Ukraine. …”
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A Verifiable and Secure Industrial IoT Data Deduplication Scheme With Real-Time Data Integrity Checking in Fog-Assisted Cloud Environments by Jakkarin Lapmoon, Somchart Fugkeaw

“…Existing deduplication methods often fail to account for data correlation across devices, resulting in inefficient encrypted data handling, excessive computational overhead on fog nodes, and insufficient support for lightweight authenticity checks. …”
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Evaluating the risk of bacterial infections associated with the most handled Iraqi notes in Kalar by Hassan Mohammad Tawfeeq, Mohammed Hassan Fatah, Ahmed Mohammed Tofiq

“…Every day new sources of microbial and especially bacterial infections are reported, which are not taken into account, the fact that these sources have been implicated in the outbreaks of these infections. …”
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