The Impact of Audience Response System in Changing Students' Attitudes Towards Lectures During Training Courses; A Before‐After Study by Farzad Zareie, Rahim Baghaei, Naser Sheykhi, Davood Rasouli

“…The purpose of this study is to find out how employing “ARS” throughout a course has affected nursing students' perceptions of traditional lectures. …”
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Temporal changes in prevalence and severity of pulmonary hypertension, and relationship to outcomes in coarctation of aorta by Ahmed Younis, Yogesh N.V. Reddy, William R. Miranda, Ahmed T. Abdelhalim, Barry A. Borlaug, Heidi M. Connolly, Alexander C. Egbe

“…Background: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) affects 20% of adults with coarctation of aorta (COA). …”
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Analisis Beban Kerja Mental terhadap Aplikasi dengan Antarmuka Cerdas by Murein Miksa Mardhia, Choirul Bariyah

“…The frequency of work with applications and the level of technological adaptation are also predicted to affect workload. The results will be validated qualitatively from user experience testing in groups. …”
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Impact of Soft Drink Intake on Bone Development and Risk of Fractures in a Danish Cohort of Schoolchildren by Helene Hermansen, Mina Nicole Händel, Malene Søborg Heidemann, Niels Wedderkopp

“…Results: Soft drink intake of more than twice per month did not significantly affect BMC, BA, or BMD over two years (Total body BMD: <i>β</i> = 0.004; 95% CI: (−0.007; 0.016). …”
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Growth performance and nutritional concentrations of two kale (Brassica oleracea var Acephala ) varieties in response to fertilizer types in Awka, Southeast Nigeria by Stella Muojiama, Uchenna Nwune, Gladys Ugo, Maryann Ezeh, Uchenna Ukwu

“…Data collections were based on selected agronomic, vitamins, and minerals parameters.Results: Fertilizer type, variety and their interaction significantly affected (p<0.05) agronomic traits, minerals, and vitamin contents of kale. …”
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Profile and factors associated with low birth weight in Indonesia: a national data survey by Mario Ekoriano, Anugerah Widiyanto, Muthmainnah Muthmainnah, Yuli Devi, Bambang Cahyono, Izatun Nafsi, Teguh Widodo

“…This study found that smoking, rural areas, poor nutrition, age of childbirth, age and birth spacing significantly affected the incidence of LBW in Indonesia. In rural Indonesia, women tend to give birth to LBW babies (adjusted odds ratio: 1.249; 95%CI: 1.241-1.256). …”
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Impact of COVID-19 on metabolic parameters in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus by Motahare Shabestari, Forouzan Salari, Reyhaneh Azizi, Akram Ghadiri-Anari, Nasim Namiranian

“…Abstract Background and aim The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disproportionately affected individuals with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM), making them more susceptible to viral infections. …”
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Risk Factors and Timing of Additional Surgery after Noncurative ESD for Early Gastric Cancer by Kaipeng Duan, Dongbao Li, Dongtao Shi, Jie Pei, Jiayu Ren, Weikang Li, Anqi Dong, Tao Chen, Jin Zhou

“…Delayed additional surgery after ESD (>30 days) has higher intraoperative safety, without affecting the radical resection in early gastric cancer patients.…”
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THE DIGITAL FRONTIER: STRATEGIES AND TOOLS FOR CULTIVATING EDUCATIONAL-STRATEGIC COMPETENCE  FOR PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS by Vira Svyrydiuk, Ostap Bodyk, Larysa Kalinina, Nataliya Prokopchuk, Nina Khrystych

“…The results of applying internet technologies in the educational foreign language process are represented through a survey, indicating their relevance and effectiveness in developing language and communication strategies, both socio-affective and linguistic. Attention is drawn to the potential for modeling foreign language socio-communicative situations through the use of digital tools. …”
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The Association of Plasma Selenium and Selenoprotein P Levels with Depression Severity and Anxiety Symptoms Among Medical Students in Latvia by Zanda Birģele, Paula Marija Vimba, Anastasija Ševčenko, Andrejs Šķesters, Gunta Ancāne, Laura Valaine

“…Selenium (Se) protects against oxidative stress, one of the pathogenic mechanisms involved in affective disorders. Selenium is incorporated into antioxidant selenoproteins, such as selenoprotein P, which acts as the main selenium-transport protein in plasma and as an extracellular oxidant defense mechanism. …”
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Carbon Stock Estimation in the South Coastal Rehabilitation Area of Java Island by Budiadi Budiadi

“…Soil depth significantly affected SOC, but in wetland sites deeper soil contained more carbon than upper, while an opposite trend was observed in CS. …”
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‘I haven’t met them, I don’t have any trust in them. It just feels like a big unknown’: a qualitative study exploring the determinants of consent to use Human Fertilisation and Emb... by Claire Carson, Lisa Hinton, Jenny Kurinczuk, Maria Quigley

“…Issues influencing response, and thus the representativeness of the HFEA data set, were highlighted.Conclusions Understanding what is being asked, and trust in those organisations keeping and using personal data, affects individual decisions to consent to disclosure. …”
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Kinematics, Kinetics and Muscle Activity Analysis during Single-leg Drop-jump Landing Followed by an Unanticipated Task: Focusing on Differences in Neurocognitive Function by Satoshi Shibata, Masahiro Takemura, Shumpei Miyakawa

“…Although trunk motion in the sagittal and frontal planes during single-leg drop-jump landing increases the ACL injury risk by affecting knee joint motion, the effect of trunk motion in the horizontal plane remains unclear…”
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Temperature effects on the hormetic response of Myzus persicae after sublethal exposure to insecticides by Ana Paula Nascimento Silva, Camila Faria Chagas, Emanuel Lucas de Andrade Alves, Vinícius de Castro Carvalho, Khalid Haddi

“…Temperature influences the physiology and biology of ectothermic organisms like pest insects. It can also affect the toxicity and relative efficacy of insecticides that are used in agricultural fields. …”
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Differences and Correlations of Anxiety, Sleep Quality, and Pressure-Pain Threshold between Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain and Asymptomatic People by Changming Xu, Zhiwei Fu, Juan Wang, Bao Wu, Xue-Qiang Wang

“…Patients frequently take sick leaves because of pain and dysfunction, and their unpleasant life and work experiences cause psychological depression and anxiety and affect their quality of life. Sleep disturbance is a common problem among patients with low back pain (LBP) with more than 50% complaining about poor sleep quality. …”
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Semen extender triggers a mild physiological inflammatory response in the uterus without disrupting sperm-uterine immune crosstalk in vitro in cattle by Malinda HULUGALLA, Alireza MANSOURI, Elham WAEHAMA, Ihshan AKTHAR, Akio MIYAMOTO

“…The results showed that SE did not affect sperm kinetic parameters or the entry of sperm into the uterine glands. …”
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Status and influencing factors of nurses’ organizational silence in general hospitals in eastern coastal cities of China by Xiangyan Lv, Yujia Gu, O. Mensah Solomon, Ying Shen, Yaxin Ren, Yehong Wei

“…During the period from January to April 2024, the researchers investigated 624 clinical in-service nurses in terms of general information, employee silence behavior, work engagement, and peer support, and analyzed the related factors affecting nurses’ organizational silence. Results The total average score of nurses’ organizational silence was (33.88 ± 6.88), and the total score of work engagement was (69.23 ± 10.76); The total score of the colleague support scale was (90.02 ± 13.72), which was at the medium level. …”
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Hypertension and retinal microvascular dysfunction (HyperVasc): protocol of a randomised controlled exercise trial in patients with hypertension by Justin Carrard, Lukas Streese, Timo Hinrichs, Henner Hanssen, Arno Schmidt-Trucksäss, Konstantin Gugleta, Joséphine Gander, Christoph Hauser

“…Introduction Hypertension is a global healthcare burden that affects the structure and function of the macrocirculation and microcirculation and induces disease-specific end-organ damage. …”
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Temporal variation of Manning roughness coefficient in furrow irrigation and its relationship with various field parameters by Hadi Rezaei Rad, Hamed Ebrahimian, Abdolmajid Liaghat, Fatemeh Khalaji, Mahshid Shabani Arani

“…The Manning’s n for furrow irrigation was determined in the advance, storage, and whole irrigation phases utilizing the SIPAR_ID model, Manning equation, and WinSRFR software, respectively. Parameters affecting the Manning’ n were identified through Pearson and Kendall tests. …”
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Effect of Thrombolysis on Circulating Microparticles in Patients with ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction by Zhe Li, Wei Zhang, Qun-Rang Wang, Yu-juan Yang, Xin-Hong Liu, Gong Cheng, Feng-Jun Chang

“…Whether thrombolysis affects MPs in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) with or without percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is unknown. …”
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