Intention to khat chewing among youths in Raya-Azebo district, southern zone of Tigray, Ethiopia: application of the theory of planned behavior by Abadi Hailay Atsbaha, Adugnaw Berhane Mekonnen, Bezawit Ketema, Tigist Haile Gebrehiwot, Hirut Teame Gebru, Embay Amare Alemseged, Yonas Angaw, Haftay Gebremedhin, Fre Gebremeskel, Hagos Degefa Hidru, Zenawi Hagos Gufue

“…BackgroundKhat chewing has become a global phenomenon, resulting in significant physical and mental health issues as well as socioeconomic crises. …”
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Analysis on the Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of Urban Expansion and the Complex Driving Mechanism: Taking the Pearl River Delta Urban Agglomeration as a Case by Luo Liu, Jianmei Liu, Zhenjie Liu, Xuliang Xu, Binwu Wang

“…Rapid urbanization on a global scale leads to a number of issues such as arable land occupation and ecological degradation. …”
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Weighing temporal fluctuations of drought features in Rwanda through the implementation of the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index and standardized precipitation in... by Kazora Jonah, Zhu Weijun, Kyaw Oo Than, Temesgen Gebremariam Asfaw, Emmanuel Adu Gyamfi Kedjanyi, Abraham Okrah, Akimana Diane, Mathieu Mbati Mugunga

“…Climate change poses significant challenges globally, affecting weather patterns and leading to more frequent and severe extreme events such as droughts. …”
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Preliminary Results on Deformations of the Central North Anatolian Fault Zone by Kayhan Aladoğan, Mehmet Nurullah Alkan, İbrahim Tiryakioğlu, Hasan Hakan Yavaşoğlu, Halil İbrahim Solak, Cemil Gezgin, Ali Özkan, Eda Esma Eyübagil, Furkan Şahiner, Ece Bengünaz Çakanşimşek, Zafer Köse

“…The aim of this study is to derive an up-to-date high-spa-tial-resolution Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) velocity field for the central NAFZ and to correlate with the strain accumulations along the faults. …”
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Risk of adverse cardiovascular events based on common genetic variants in 8-year follow-up of the LIPIDOGEN2015 population using the polygenic risk score (PRS): study design and me... by Maciej Banach, Martyna Fronczek, Tadeusz Osadnik, Agnieszka Gach, Dominik Strapagiel, Marcin Słomka, Mateusz Lejawa, Anna Goc, Ewa Boniewska-Bernacka, Anna Pańczyszyn, Gregory Y.H. Lip, Dimitri P. Mikhailidis, Peter P. Toth, Peter E. Penson, Jacek Jóźwiak

“…Material and methods All DNA samples of 1779 patients were genotyped using Infinium Global Screening Array-24+ v3.0 Kit microarrays. The samples were amplified, fragmented, and hybridized to BeadChips. …”
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Analysis of Underwater Topographic Survey of Stilling Basin Based on Unmanned Survey System by Hui Xie, Haoran Wang, Yayi Yang, Yongcan Chen, Jun Yang, Shuang Wang, Zhaowei Liu

“…The combination of Global Positioning System-Real Time Kinematic (GPS-RTK) and depth sounder is an important technical method of modern underwater topographic survey. …”
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Evaluation of [18F]tetrafluoroborate as a Potential PET Imaging Agent in a Sodium Iodide Symporter-Transfected Cell Line A549 and Endogenous NIS-Expressing Cell Lines MKN45 and K1 by Mengda Niu, Jingjing Qin, Liang Wang, Yujia He, Chuanhuizi Tian, Yanyan Chen, Pufeng Huang, Zhiping Peng

“…Noninvasive NIS imaging using [18F]TFB has received much interest in recent years for evaluating various NIS-expressing tumors. Cancers are a global concern with enormous implications; therefore, improving diagnostic methods for accurate detection of cancer is extremely important. …”
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Validation of a scale based on the DigComp framework on internet navigation and cybersecurity in older adults by Francisco de Paula Rodríguez-Miranda, Rocio Illanes-Segura, Yolanda Ceada-Garrido, Juan Carlos Infante-Moro

“…The global COVID-19 pandemic revealed the persistence of the digital divide in older adults. …”
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Keratinocyte Integrin α3β1 Promotes Efficient Healing of Wound Epidermis by Sanjana Dhulipalla, Giesse Albeche Duarte, Lei Wu, Mathieu R. DiPersio, John M. Lamar, C. Michael DiPersio, Whitney M. Longmate

“…To date, studies of the role for epidermal integrin α3β1 in cutaneous wound re-epithelialization have produced conflicting results: wound studies in skin from global α3-null neonatal mice have implicated the integrin in promoting timely wound re-epithelialization, whereas studies in adult mice with constitutive, epidermal-specific α3β1 deletion have not. …”
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Experience of COVID-19 vaccination among healthcare workers in Iran: a descriptive phenomenological study by Atefeh Torknejad, Sima Babaei, Zahra Hadian, Amir Shahzeydi

“… Background: Healthcare professionals have been the most severely affected by the global pandemic known as COVID-19. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences and perceptions of healthcare workers in Iran regarding COVID-19 vaccination using a descriptive phenomenological approach to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges and concerns involved. …”
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The Daytime Variations of Thermospheric Temperature and Neutral Density Over Beijing During Minor Geomagnetic Storm on 3–4 February 2022 by Shaoyang Li, Zhipeng Ren, Tingting Yu, Guangming Chen, Guozhu Li, Biqiang Zhao, Xinan Yue, Yong Wei

“…Additionally, the application of our inversion method, combined with the global, long‐term and real‐time ionospheric observations from ionosondes, provides an opportunity to improve the capability of thermosphere forecasting and nowcasting.…”
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Constitutive expression of Cas9 and rapamycin-inducible Cre recombinase facilitates conditional genome editing in Plasmodium berghei by Samhita Das, Tanaya Unhale, Carine Marinach, Belsy del Carmen Valeriano Alegria, Camille Roux, Hélène Madry, Badreddine Mohand Oumoussa, Rogerio Amino, Shiroh Iwanaga, Sylvie Briquet, Olivier Silvie

“…Abstract Malaria is caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodium and remains a global health concern. The parasite has a highly adaptable life cycle comprising successive rounds of asexual replication in a vertebrate host and sexual maturation in the mosquito vector Anopheles. …”
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A Hierarchical Graph-Enhanced Transformer Network for Remote Sensing Scene Classification by Ziwei Li, Weiming Xu, Shiyu Yang, Juan Wang, Hua Su, Zhanchao Huang, Sheng Wu

“…Subsequently, we meticulously design a three-stage hierarchical transformer extractor, incorporating a DA module at the bottleneck of each stage to facilitate information exchange between different stages, in conjunction with the Swin transformer block to capture multiscale global visual information. Moreover, we develop a fine-grained graph neural network extractor that constructs the spatial topological relationships of pixel-level scene images, thereby aiding in the discrimination of similar complex scene categories. …”
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Evaluating the accuracy of earth rotation parameters based on the BDS observations by Chenxiang Wang, Pengfei Zhang, Tengxu Zhang, Ziyu Shen, Jizhang Sang, Wenbin Shen

“…The BeiDou satellite system (BDS) has progressed with the full operationalization of the second-generation regional system (BDS-2) and the third-generation global system (BDS-3). This technology plays a crucial role in determining Earth Rotation Parameters (ERPs). …”
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Effects of photobiomodulation therapy in patients with chronic non-specific low back pain: protocol for a randomised placebo-controlled trial by Lucíola da Cunha Menezes Costa, Shaiane Silva Tomazoni, Leonardo Oliveira Pena Costa, Layana de Souza Guimarães, Amanda Costa Araujo, Dafne Port Nascimento, Flávia Cordeiro de Medeiros, Marina Athayde Avanzi

“…The secondary outcomes will be pain intensity and disability measured at 3, 6 and 12 months after randomisation, in addition to specific disability and global perceived effect in all time points.Ethics and dissemination The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Universidade Cidade de São Paulo. …”
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GIS-BASED ASSESSMENT OF GROUND WATER QUALITY FOR DRINKING PURPOSE BY WATER QUALITY INDEX APPROACHES IN BAHAWALPUR, PUNJAB by Ali Hassan, Haroon Rashid, Ahsan Sarfraz, Kashif Javed, Dawood Nawaz, Muhammad Faizan

“…Groundwater pollution is a significant environmental issue globally, particularly in large cities, and trace heavy metals are the most significant groundwater pollutants. …”
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Prevalence and genomic insights of carbapenem resistant and ESBL producing Multidrug resistant Escherichia coli in urinary tract infections by Vidhyalakshmi Sivarajan, Amirtha Varshini Ganesh, Pavithra Subramani, Priyanka Ganesapandi, R. N. Sivanandan, Sneha Prakash, Nithyasri Manikandan, Arunasalam Dharmarajan, Frank Arfuso, Sudha Warrier, Marquess Raj, Kumar Perumal

“…Abstract Urinary tract infections are a common condition affecting people globally, with multidrug-resistant (MDR) Escherichia coli (E. coli) being a major causative agent. …”
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Growing old before growing rich: a scoping review on ageing-related policy interventions from the WHO Southeast Asian Region by Nachiket Gudi, Anu Mohan, Teddy Andrews Jaihind Jothikaran, Abhijith A K, Lena Ashok

“…Background WHO Southeast Asian Region (WHO SEARO) is home to 1.94 billion people accounting for one-fourth of the global population.Objective The primary objective of this scoping review is to describe the various policy interventions implemented in countries of the WHO SEARO to address the consequences of ageing.Design The Arksey and O’Malley framework for scoping review was used to explore existing policy interventions on aged care.Setting WHO SEARO.Methods Ten articles and 33 grey literature discussing the various aged care interventions adopted by WHO SEARO countries were identified through a comprehensive search performed across five databases, PubMed (NCBI), Embase (Elsevier), Web of Science (Clarivate) and Scopus (Elsevier) and Google Scholar.Results The review indicates that healthcare, long-term care and rehabilitation, maintenance and welfare, and old age social security are the critical domains of existing policy intervention. …”
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Predefined-Time <italic>H</italic> _&#x221E; Cooperative Control for Multi-Robot Systems Based on Adjustable Prescribed Performance Control and Adaptive Command Filter by Haitao Liu, Weichen Li, Xin Huang, Xuehong Tian, Qingqun Mai

“…Third, the predefined-time <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$H_{\infty } $ </tex-math></inline-formula> control theory is developed to guarantee that the nonlinear system has global predefined-time stabilization and that the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$L_{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> gain is less than <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\gamma $ </tex-math></inline-formula>. …”
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Future Changes in Winter‐Time Extratropical Cyclones Over South Africa From CORDEX‐CORE Simulations by Sandeep Chinta, C. Adam Schlosser, Xiang Gao, Kevin Hodges

“…We utilized three regional climate models, each driven by three different global climate models that simulate both the current climate and a future climate experiencing strong human‐induced warming. …”
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