The effect of a mindfulness-based cognitive therapy program on the spiritual health of mothers of infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit by Naeime Arasteh, Reihane Moghimian Shahrbabaki, Monirsadat Nematollahi, Atefe Ahmadi, Behnaz Bagherian

“…The participants in both groups completed a demographic information questionnaire and the Spiritual WellBeing Scale (SWBS) before and after the intervention. …”
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Towards PErsonalised PRognosis for children with traumatic brain injury: the PEPR study protocol by Jaap Oosterlaan, Marsh Königs, Job B M van Woensel, Marc Engelen, Marjan E Steenweg, Petra J W Pouwels, Cece C Kooper, Hilgo Bruining, Arne Popma, Dennis R Buis, Maayke Hunfeld

“…However, outcome varies between patients and is mediated by complex interplay between demographic factors, premorbid functioning and (sub)acute clinical characteristics. …”
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Rural-urban disparity in uptaking skilled antenatal care visits by pregnant women in Bangladesh: Zero and One Inflated Poisson regression model. by Lubana Tanvia, M Ershadul Haque, Wasimul Bari

“…<h4>Methods</h4>In this study, data have been retrieved from last four waves of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys ranging from 2011 to 2022 and later combined together to form a pooled dataset. …”
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Can the Risk Factors Predicting Surgical Treatment be Determined in Patients with Tubo-Ovarian Abscess? by Tayfun Vural, Burak Bayraktar, Suna Yildirim Karaca, Emir Gurbuz, Mehmet Ozeren, Cuneyt Eftal Taner

“…CONCLUSION: Although helpful in diagnosis, none of the demographic, sonographic, or laboratory parameters can predict surgical treatment in women with tubo-ovarian abscess. …”
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Child Abuse and Intention to Dropout Among Secondary School Students in Rubanda District. by Ninsiima, Patience

“…It concluded that socio-demographic factors, such as gender, age, school environment, marital status, and duration of residence, significantly influenced both child abuse and dropout intentions. …”
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A machine learning and clustering-based approach for county-level COVID-19 analysis. by Charles Nicholson, Lex Beattie, Matthew Beattie, Talayeh Razzaghi, Sixia Chen

“…This paper employs both supervised and unsupervised methods to identify the critical county-level demographic, mobility, weather, medical capacity, and health related county-level factors for studying COVID-19 propagation prior to the widespread availability of a vaccine. …”
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Développement agricole et gouvernance foncière à Tioroniaradougou (Nord de la Côte d’Ivoire) by Jérôme Aloko-N’guessan, Marthe Adjoba Koffi-Didia, Hamed Tiécoura Coulibaly

“…Although these transformations seem difficult to reconcile with customary requirements, they tend to become permanent because of agricultural development combined with demographic pressure. This study aims to understand the impact of agricultural development on the evolution of land governance strategies in Tioroniaradougou. …”
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Peut-on élaborer une approche ergonomique du « temps long » ? by Willy Buchmann, Céline Mardon, Serge Volkoff, Corinne Archambault

“…This article looks at the possibility of integrating long-term dimensions into ergonomics, which could be done by combining the ergonomics approach, occupational medicine, and demographic analysis. Work-related musculoskeletal disorders represent the common thread of this article.After presenting the theoretical framework, which focuses on long-term approaches to studying the relation between health and work, we concentrate on the methods used and how they complement each other to achieve better results. …”
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Un scrutin pour trois pays : la nouvelle géographie politique italienne suite à l’élection législative du 4 mars 2018 by Matteo Cavallaro, Davide Policastro, Guido Salza, Massimo Angelo Zanetti

“…We then observe the relationship between the distribution of electoral preferences and the distribution of a series of socio-demographic variables, in order to identify the main elements describing these “three Italies”: (i) the country of the small northern cities, with leghista hegemony, (ii) an Italy made of large and well-educated urban areas, which votes for the centre-left, and finally (iii) the poor regions of the South, newly acquired areas for the M5S.…”
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Grandes empreendimentos agroindustriais e evolução de indicadores socioeconômicos: o caso do Polígono Canavieiro Paulista by João Jaime de Carvalho Almeida Filho, Jonathas Magalhães Pereira da Silva, Marcos Roberto Martines

“…The article examines the evolution of socioeconomic and demographic indicators that occurred in the municipalities of the interior of São Paulo, between 1975 and 2018, a period coinciding with the expansion and consolidation of the sugar-energy sector, which uses almost half of the agricultural land in this territory and installs plants in more than a third of the municipalities of what we call Polígono Canavieiro Paulista. …”
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Coopération internationale locale et politique éducative en Guyane by Isabelle Hidair, Pierre-Yves Chicot

“…So the co-operation project, carried out since September 2005, consists in presenting a common policy of education between the frontier states by confronting the statistical and demographic data, by harmonizing constructions on both sides of the river border Maroni, by identifying the financial circuits usually requested on each territory and especially by defining a new teaching approach adapted to the populations concerned.…”
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À l’heure de la « deuxième » mondialisation, une ville mondiale est-elle forcément une ville globale ? by Cynthia Ghorra-Gobin

“…They indifferently used the two following expressions “world city” and “global city” to stress the new hierarchy of cities, beyond their demographic weight. This article based on the inclusion of a historical perspective argues in favour of a distinction between these two expressions. …”
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Factors of heterogeneity of mortgage refinancing in the Russian regions by E. A. Gafarova

“…During the period of soft monetary policy in Russia, there was heterogeneous regional growth of mortgage refinancing. Social, demographic, economic and financial indicators of the Russian regions explain interregional differences in mortgage refinancing. …”
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use by Patients Chronically Infected with Hepatitis C Virus by Colin P White, Gerilynn Hirsch, Sunil Patel, Fatin Adams, Kevork M Peltekian

“…The extent of use of CAM in chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infected patients was determined, and the demographic and clinical data between users and nonusers of CAM was compared.…”
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Conditioning Factors of Late Payment of Trade Credit by Claudinê Jordão de Carvalho

“…T he dependent variable is the financial delinquency level of companies that d o or do not delay the payment of duties , and the independent variables are the demographic, financial , and operational inherent demand for financing and moral hazard. …”
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COMMON SELF-EVALUATION FRAMEWORK (CAF) FOR THE EDUCATION SYSTEM by Alexandra IANCU

“…Public administrations are faced with a variety of challenges, contexts and circumstances, including social problems and social exclusion caused by financial and economic crises, low levels of trust in politicians and public institutions, demographic changes, the rapid development of information and communication technologies and the development of a differentiated civil society with new information and communication needs, which require inclusion in active policy formulation and decision-making. …”
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Who Takes Care of Family Members Who Take Care of Older Dependent Adults? by Andrea del Pilar Comelin Fornés

“…From the perspective of the social organization of care, data is analyzed in a study with quantitative and qualitative methodologies that describes the socio-demographic characteristics of the family caregivers of older, dependent adults of the Alto Hospicio commune hospital in Tarapacá and the aspects that facilitate or obstruct the exercise of the caregiver’s role from his or her point of view. …”
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Product, services and technology review blogs by Gené van Heerden

“…This article focuses on consumer scepticism of blogs that review products, services and technologies. Demographic variables – and particularly gender – are commonly employed to segment target audiences in an attempt to fit appeals specifically directed at males or females, or both. …”
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Dispositif d’accompagnement hybride dans un cours de physique de première année à l’université en Belgique by Elisabeth Gruwé

“…To identify at-risk student profiles in the course, we also constructed statistical models to explore the links between the socio-demographic characteristics and past schooling of first-time enrolled students, their participation in the program, and the grade obtained on the exam. …”
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Social cognition functions in persons with epilepsia by G. Jasionytė, A. Jasionis, R. Mameniškienė

“…Further we provide summarized information on the deficits in social cognition in epilepsy and discuss main demographic and clinical correlates. Last paragraphs are concerned with special features of social cognition in major types of adult epilepsy and possible future interventions. …”
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