Retracted: Application and Practice of VR Virtual Education Platform in Improving the Quality and Ability of College Students by Qian Zhang, Ke Wang, Sheng Zhou

“…The subjects were selected from a key university in our city, and the questionnaire survey was conducted among freshmen to juniors by random sampling. …”
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PEMANFAATAN LIMBAH KULIT PISANG UNTUK MENGHASILKAN PUPUK ORGANIK CAIR (POC) by Kusna Ramdani Kusna

“…The study was conducted at Jalan Mulawarman III Number 3 RT 02 RW 01 Kramas Village, Tembalang District, Semarang City.  Compost physical quality test results showed that compost was blackish brown and smelled typical of bananas. …”
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Community case study: an academia-industry-government partnership that monitors and predicts outbreaks in Tri-County Detroit area since 2017 by Irene Xagoraraki, Liang Zhao, Yabing Li, Brijen Miyani, John Norton, James Broz, Andrew Kaye, Anna Mehrotra, Anil Gosine, Scott Withington, Stacey McFarlane, Russell A. Faust

“…Since 2017, a project team including the College of Engineering at Michigan State University (MSU), the City of Detroit, the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA), industry, and local government and health departments, has been testing municipal wastewater from the TCDA to survey and predict surges in communicable diseases in the area. …”
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Degenerated (Ancient) Schwannomas: Unraveling Unusual Locations and Treatment Management by Ali Dalgıç, Servet Güreşci, Bekir Tunç, Egemen Işıtan, Zeynep Dağlar, Emin Çağıl, Yigit Can Senol, Goksal Gunerhan

“…Data for analysis were collected from patients treated and followed up at Ankara City Hospital between April 2017 and December 2022. …”
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CORRELATION BETWEEN MATERNAL EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT STATUS WITH EXCLUSIVE BREASTFEEDING HISTORY by Anggraini Dyah Setiyarini, Dwi Margareta Andini

“…The study will be carried out in Madiun City's Public health Service Tawangrejo East Java, Indonesia. operational region. …”
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Mixed Multinomial Probit Model Accommodating Flexible Covariance Structure and Random Taste Variation: An Application to Commute Mode Choice Behavior by Ke Wang, Xin Ye, Hongcheng Gan

“…However, the positive correlation between the car and metro modes may be unique to the Chinese city, Shanghai, because of the developed metro system. …”
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Bidirectional association between physical activity and depression: the “Como Vai?” cohort study by Bárbara Sutil da Silva, Debora Tornquist, Andrea Wendt, Andréa Dâmaso Bertoldi, Elaine Tomasi, Maria Cristina Gonzalez, Renata Moraes Bielemann, Inácio Crochemore-Silva

“…, conducted by older population representative sample of the city of Pelotas-Rio Grande do Sul. The analyses used data from the first interview (2014) and follow-up (2019/20). …”
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Nurses’ Perspectives of the Supportive Care Needs of Men with Prostate Cancer by Roula Mohammad Abboud, Nassim Samir Saker, Amal Khalaf Kadhim, Mohammad Mahdi Saeed Sahi, Hussein Kadhim Hussein, Alaa Hamza Hermis

“…Materials and Methods: The current study used a descriptive design and was conducted at the chemotherapy and radiology center of Tishreen University Hospital in Lattakia City, Syria during 2020–2021. The study comprised 50 nurses in the chemotherapy department. …”
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Comparison of CBCT Prescriptions among Different Campuses of East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine by Cody C. Phen, Gerard A. Camargo, Wenjian Zhang

“…Ross Hall has the largest amount of patients at 537, followed by Davidson 218, Brunswick 189, and Lillington 169, with Elizabeth City being the least with 45 patients. The top four reasons for taking CBCTs were implants, endodontics, oral pathology, and 3rd molar assessment. …”
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ON THE ISSUE OF ASSESSING THE ECOLOGICAL STATE OF VARIOUS WATERCOURCES IN THE CONDITIONS OF ANTHROPOGENIC PRESSURE by Elena A. Shashulovskaya, Svetlana A. Mosiyash, Olga V. Shashulovskaya, Irina G. Filimonova, Liliya V. Grishina, Elena G. Kuzina

“…The water of the lowest quality is in the small rivers Berezina and Elshanka, part of which is located in the industrial zone of the city of Saratov. The greatest contribution to the assessment of the degree of water pollution is made not only by the concentration of technogenic metals, but also by indicators of the content of organic matter, the amount of which depends on the level of bioproduction processes. …”

Molecular Characterization of Methicillin Resistant and Extended Spectrum ?-Lactamase Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from Burn Patients by Shawnm Ahmed Aziz

“…This study aimed to detect the emergence of beta-lactam and glycopeptide resistance genes. 50 clinical specimens of S. aureus collected from burn patients in burn and plastic surgery units in Sulaimani-Iraq city. All specimens were confirmed to be positive for S. aureus. …”
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‘We just look at the well-being of the baby and not the money required’: a qualitative study exploring experiences of quality of maternity care among women in Nairobi’s informal se... by Gilbert Kokwaro, Jackline Oluoch-Aridi, Francis Wafula, Mary B Adam

“…Objective To examine how women living in an informal settlement in Nairobi perceive the quality of maternity care and how it influences their choice of a delivery health facility.Design Qualitative study.Settings Dandora, an informal settlement, Nairobi City in Kenya.Participants Six focus group discussions with 40 purposively selected women aged 18–49 years at six health facilities.Results Four broad themes were identified: (1) perceived quality of the delivery services, (2) financial access to delivery service, (3) physical amenities at the health facility, and (4) the 2017 health workers’ strike.The four facilitators that influenced women to choose a private health facility were: (1) interpersonal treatment at health facilities, (2) perceived quality of clinical services, (3) financial access to health services at the facility, and (4) the physical amenities at the health facility. …”
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L’Invention constructive face à la norme by Stéphane Berthier

“…Then, we analyze a project launched by the City of Paris for the École des Messageries, with exemplary ecological objectives and a strong emphasis on bio and geo-sourced materials, demonstrating how construction invention is trapped in a regulatory and normative framework, and thus can only be developed in conjunction with it. …”
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Outcome of Chair-Side Dental Fear Treatment: Long-Term Follow-Up in Public Health Setting by T. Kankaala, T. Määttä, M. Tolvanen, S. Lahti, V. Anttonen

“…Purpose of this practice and data-based study was to evaluate the outcome of dental fear treatment of patients referred to the Clinic for Fearful Dental Patients (CFDP) in the primary oral health care, City of Oulu, Finland, during period 2000–2005. Methods. …”
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The Feasibility and Acceptability of an HIV Web- Based Screening Program in Iran by Roya Sahebi, Hossein Dehghanian, Alireza Mirahmadizadeh, Leyla Sahebi, Reza Yousefi Farkhad, Simin Khayatzadeh-Safaie, Nazila Sattari, Leila Jahangiry, Hamid Sharifi

“…Among the remaining 447 participants, 254 (56.8%) were from Tabriz City. Of these, 180 (70.9%) reported engaging in high-risk sexual behaviors, drug use, or occupational exposure. …”
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Analysis of Household Daily Water Consumption Dynamics in the Tropical Environment by Timothy O. Ogunbode, Victor O. Oyebamiji, Olumide A. Oluwole, John A. Akande

“…To pursue this objective, primary data were generated through a survey of 276 respondents across the 5 quarters into which the city of Iwo is divided. 67.5% of the respondents were between 19 and 45 years old while 35.5% were between 46 and 65 years old and the remaining 3.9% comprised of those above 65 years. …”
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DIFFERENCES IN CHANGES IN KNOWLEDGE OF WOMEN ABOUT EARLY DETECTION OF CERVICAL CANCER BETWEEN USING PRESENTATION MEDIA COUNSELING AND LEAFLET COUNSELING by Baiq Ade Herna Yuliana, Bambang Purwanto, Euvanggelia Dwilda Ferdinandus, Pungky Mulawardhana

“…This kind of study uses a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest one group design, which is experimental in nature. carried out in Surabaya City at the Mojo Health Center. A straightforward random sampling methodology was used to choose the sample of 84 WUS, who were then split into two groups: the treatment group, which received an intervention counseling lecture style, and the control group, which received a leaflet intervention. …”
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Effect of Toxoplasma gondii Infection on the Level of Luteinizing and Follicle Stimulating Hormones in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome by Muna Jalal Aziz, Abeer Abbas Ali, Mohammed Fadhil Hameed, Basima Ahmed Abdullah

“…Materials and Methods: The current study was conducted at Kirkuk General Hospital and Gynaecological and Pediatric Hospital in Kirkuk city, Iraq, between November 1, 2022 and March 21, 2023. …”
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Emergence of coinfection with visceral Leishmania infantum in COVID-19 patients: a case‒control field study in an endemic area of visceral leishmaniasis in Iran by Selva Aminizadeh, Behnam Mohammadi-Ghalehbin, Mehdi Mohebali, Homa Hajjaran, Zabih Zarei, Zahra Heidari, Behnaz Akhondi, Zahra Alizadeh, Jafar Aghaei

“…Methods A total of 250 blood samples from hospitalized COVID-19 patients and 231 blood samples from non-COVID-19 patients as a control group were collected in Mashkin Shahr city, Iran from October 2020 to May 2021, and anti-Leishmania infantum antibodies were detected via direct agglutination test (DAT). …”
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Estimation of the Visibility in Seoul, South Korea, Based on Particulate Matter and Weather Data, Using Machine-learning Algorithm by Bu-Yo Kim, Joo Wan Cha, Ki-Ho Chang, Chulkyu Lee

“…Therefore, visibility in Seoul, which is the most polluted city in South Korea, was estimated using machine learning (ML) algorithms based on meteorological (temperature, relative humidity, and precipitation) and particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5) data acquired from an automatic weather station, and the estimated visibility was compared with the observed visibility. …”
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