Experience of COVID-19 vaccination among healthcare workers in Iran: a descriptive phenomenological study by Atefeh Torknejad, Sima Babaei, Zahra Hadian, Amir Shahzeydi

“…Conversely, motivations for vaccination included a sense of social responsibility, disease prevention, and advice from health experts. " Reasons for vaccine hesitancy" (vaccination infrastructure, social infrastructure, and personal infrastructure) and "justifications for administering vaccines" (sense of inevitability, comfort, social accountability, and disease management) are considered as principal and sub-categories classes, respectively. …”
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Cystic Fibrosis and Reproductive Outcomes: The Latest Insights into Fertility and Pregnancy by Weronika Małagocka, Karol Zagórski, Mateusz Kozik, Nina Skalska-Dziobek, Karolina Chybowska, Maria Naruszewicz, Przemysław Cetnarowski

“…CFTR modulators therapy during the pregnancy was described in a small number of studies, but the current experts statement declares that those drugs are probably safe for the infant, and discontinuing this therapy is connected with an increased risk of pulmonary exacerbation in mothers.   …”
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Designing a Parent Training Model to Prevent Cyber Space Risks in Students by Seyed Majid Karimi, Seyed Mohammadbagher Jafari, Gholamreza Sharifi Rad, Ali Akbar Khoshgoftar Moghadam

“…Through the application of grounded theory methodology, the data acquired from interviews with eleven experts and professionals within the domains of family dynamics and education were systematically coded and examined through three distinct phases: open coding, axial coding, and selective coding. …”
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Assessing Seismic Vulnerability and Pollution Risks of Wastewater Treatment Plants by Spyridon K. Golfinopoulos, Ploutarchos N. Kerpelis, Dimitrios E. Alexakis

“…The present study discusses previous research results using a questionnaire to gather experts’ judgments on technical issues and potential pollution related to the vulnerability of Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs) in Greece. …”
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Balancing co-benefits and trade-offs between climate change mitigation and adaptation innovations under mixed crop-livestock systems in semi-arid Zimbabwe by Sabine Homann-Kee Tui, Roberto O. Valdivia, Katrien Descheemaeker, Gevious Sisito, Elisha N. Moyo, Farai Mapanda

“…In an iterative process with experts and stakeholders, we co-developed context specific development pathways. …”
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ALIGNING STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES TO CORPORATE GOVERNANCE OBJECTIVES IN CONSTRUCTION PROFESSIONAL SERVICE FIRMS by Frank Boateng, De-Graft Owusu-Manu, Michael Adesi, Erika Parn, David John Edwards

“…Corporate planners, corporate governance experts and managers of corporate organisations will benefit from the strategic direction provided by this study. …”
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Perceived usefulness of trauma audit filters in urban India: a mixed-methods multicentre Delphi study comparing filters from the WHO and low and middle-income countries by Max Petzold, Lovenish Bains, Ulf Ekelund, Kapil Dev Soni, Nobhojit Roy, Martin Gerdin Wärnberg, Swati Gupta, Monty Khajanchi, Anurag Mishra, Jyoti Kamble, Helle Mølsted Alvesson, Johanna Berg, Shamita Chatterjee, Siddarth David, Rajdeep Singh, Prosanta Kumar Bhattacharjee, Pawanindra Lal, Vikas Malhotra, Ravi Meher, Lakshmeswar Nagaraj Mohan, Ritu Saxena, Prabhat Shrivastava, Sumit Sural

“…Objective To compare experts’ perceived usefulness of audit filters from Ghana, Cameroon, WHO and those locally developed; generate context-appropriate audit filters for trauma care in selected hospitals in urban India; and explore characteristics of audit filters that correlate to perceived usefulness.Design A mixed-methods approach using a multicentre online Delphi technique.Setting Two large tertiary hospitals in urban India.Methods Filters were rated on a scale from 1 to 10 in terms of perceived usefulness, with the option to add new filters and comments. …”
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Scenario construction and evolutionary analysis of nonconventional public health emergencies based on Bayesian networks by Yutao Zhu, Qing Yang, Lingmei Fu, Chun Cai, Jinmei Wang, Ling He

“…Finally, the key scenario nodes and scenario evolution process were analyzed in combination with a corresponding emergency response assessment of each scenario by experts.MethodsDempster–Shafer (DS) theory and Bayesian networks (BNs) were applied for data reasoning, and a spread-derived coupled scenario–response theoretical model of NCPHEs for major public health emergencies was constructed. …”
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Environmental risk assessment of a dam during construction phase by S. Rezaian, S.A. Jozi, N. Zaredar

“…The questionnaires were placed at disposal of experts to score the items based on their importance. …”
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Identification and ranking of disadvantages of coopetition strategy in the healthcare supply chain: the mix of the thematic analysis and ordinal priority approach by Esmaeil Mazroui Nasrabadi, Zahra Sadeqi-Arani, Abolfazl Sadeqi-Arani

“…The statistical population was the health supply chain experts of Kashan, Aran and Bidgol cities.Findings: The results show 13 disadvantages under the title of loss of independence in decision-making, loss of opportunity to cooperate with others, increasing transaction cost, severe conflicts and patient delays, danger of losing control over resources, asymmetric access to resources, unethical partner behavior, profit disproportion, distortion of brand image due to conflict with competitors, information leakage, prioritizing your patients, risk of sending patients to others treatment places and fluctuations in positions and government decisions. …”
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Exploring Multi-Pathology Brain Segmentation: From Volume-Based to Component-Based Deep Learning Analysis by Ioannis Stathopoulos, Roman Stoklasa, Maria Anthi Kouri, Georgios Velonakis, Efstratios Karavasilis, Efstathios Efstathopoulos, Luigi Serio

“…While the performance of the state-of-the-art models is increasing, reaching radiologists and other experts’ accuracy levels in many cases, there is still a lot of research needed on the direction of in-depth and transparent evaluation of the correct results and failures, especially in relation to important aspects of the radiological practice: abnormality position, intensity level, and volume. …”
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IMAGINER 2—improving accuracy with augmented realIty navigation system during placement of external ventricular drains over Kaufman's, Keen's, Kocher's and Frazier's point by Martin Vychopen, Fabian Kropla, Dirk Winkler, Erdem Güresir, Ronny Grunert, Ronny Grunert, Johannes Wach

“…This study evaluates AR's impact on EVD placement accuracy performed by experienced neurosurgeons.MethodsEighteen neurosurgical experts performed ventriculostomies on a Styrofoam head model using Kaufman's, Keen's, Kocher's, and Frazier's points. …”
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Extrication following a motor vehicle collision: a consensus statement on behalf of The Faculty of Pre-hospital Care, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh by Tim Nutbeam, Rob Fenwick, Charlotte Haldane, Caroline Leech, Emily Foote, Simon Todd, David Lockey

“…In April 2024, 43 subject matter experts from diverse backgrounds participated in a consensus process. …”
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An Exploration of Iran's Banking System Based on Islamic-Social Banking Principles with an Emphasis on Improving Social Capital (Bank Sepah Case Study) by Mohammad Reza Yazdanpanah, Keramatollah Rasekh, Majid Reza Karimi

“…The statistical population of the present study in the qualitative part included experts aware of the subject of research and in the quantitative part included all the heads and deputies of Sepah Bank and former Ansar Bank branches in Shiraz. …”
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Abnormality detection in nailfold capillary images using deep learning with EfficientNet and cascade transfer learning by Mona Ebadi Jalal, Omar S. Emam, Cristián Castillo-Olea, Begoña García-Zapirain, Adel Elmaghraby

“…The current gold standard relies on experts performing manual evaluations, which is an exhaustive time-intensive, and subjective process. …”
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The readability, understandability and actionability of government-provided obstetrics and gynecology patient information sheets by Yvette D. Miller, Olivia Mac, Robert Le Roy, Rachel Thompson

“…Their value for facilitating informed consent may be improved through involving consumers and health literacy experts in their review and development and using established tools to guide design processes.…”
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Weakly Supervised Nuclei Segmentation with Point-Guided Attention and Self-Supervised Pseudo-Labeling by Yapeng Mo, Lijiang Chen, Lingfeng Zhang, Qi Zhao

“…This method can significantly reduce annotation costs and reliance on clinical experts, facilitating large-scale dataset training and promoting the adoption of automated analysis in clinical applications.…”
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CLINICAL CARE PATHWAY AND MANAGEMENT OF MAJOR BLEEDING ASSOCIATED WITH NON-VITAMIN K ANTAGONIST ORAL ANTICOAGULANTS: A MODIFIED DELPHI CONSENSUS FROM SAUDI ARABIA AND UAE by Abdulrahman Al Raizah, Fakhr Alayoubi, Galal Hassan Abdelnaby, Hazzaa Alzahrani, Majid Farraj Bakheet, Mohammed A Alskaini, Rasha Buhumaid, Sameer Al Awadhi, Sara Nooruddin Kazim, Thiagarajan Jaiganesh, Zohair Al Asiri

“…Methods: We adopted a three-step modified Delphi method to develop evidence-based recommendations through two voting rounds and an advisory meeting between the two rounds. A panel of 11 experts from the KSA and UAE participated in the consensus development. …”
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An Efficient CNN Model for COVID-19 Disease Detection Based on X-Ray Image Classification by Aijaz Ahmad Reshi, Furqan Rustam, Arif Mehmood, Abdulaziz Alhossan, Ziyad Alrabiah, Ajaz Ahmad, Hessa Alsuwailem, Gyu Sang Choi

“…The preprocessing stages of the datasets performed in this study include dataset balancing, medical experts’ image analysis, and data augmentation. The experimental results have shown the overall accuracy as high as 99.5% which demonstrates the good capability of the proposed CNN model in the current application domain. …”
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Stakeholders’ Views on Factors Influencing Nutrition Policy: a Qualitative Study Across Ten European Countries by Jeruszka-Bielak Marta, Sicińska Ewa, Wit Liesbeth de, Ruprich Jiří, Řehůřková Irena, Brown Kerry A., Timotijevic Lada, Sonne Anne-Mette, Haugaard Pernille, Guzzon Antonella, Garcia Noé Brito, Alevritou Eleni, Hermoso Maria, Sarmant Yuliya, Lähteenmäki Liisa, Roszkowski Wojciech, Raats Monique M.

“…The remaining interviewees represented non-governmental organisations (n=6), industry (n=4) or were independent academic or health professional experts (n=5). Data were analysed by theoretical interpretative thematic analysis. …”
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