Dental Students’ Didactic and Psychomotor Skills Performance in Dental Anatomy and Preclinical Operative Dentistry Courses in a Saudi Governmental School by Afnan O. Al-Zain, Adel M. Abdel-Azim, Hisham I. Othman

“…Background. Knowledge and psychomotor skills are essential in dental education. …”
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The process of pain assessment in people with dementia living in nursing homes: a scoping review by Caroline Kreppen Overen, Maria Larsson, Adelheid Hummelvoll Hillestad, Ingela Karlsson, Siren Eriksen

“…We identified several knowledge gaps in the understanding of this process and provide concrete recommendations for further research. …”
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A Comprehensive Review of Key Cyber-Physical Systems, and Assessment of Their Education Challenges by Imre Kocsis, Boglarka Burjan-Mosoni, Istvan Balajti

“…These new challenges raise the profile of engineering education at the university level, while the addition of new skills requires rigorous preparatory work and the development of tailored requirements for effective knowledge transfer methods that meet the educational needs of the current environment. …”
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The Evaluation of Antibacterial Coatings Against Commonly Found Pathogenic Bacteria in the Environment—Implications for Environmental Safety and Infection Prevention by Wei-Chuan Chen, Mei-Hsiu Ho, Shin-Huan Yuan, Hui-Wen Chou, Chi-Chuan Chang, Chih-Hung Chen, Yusen Eason Lin

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First versus second drop of capillary blood for monitoring blood glucose: a meta-analysis and systematic review by Xiaowan Dong, Chen Zhang, Tiantian Wu, Baimei Zhu

“…Material and methods Two authors searched PubMed, ClinicalTrials, Cochrane Library, Clinical Evidence, EMBASE, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Wanfang and Weipu databases for relevant literature about the comparison of blood glucose values of the first capillary blood from the establishment of each database until November 10, 2023. …”
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Experience with a Self-Management Education Program for Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes: A Qualitative Study by Marília Costa Flora, Luísa Barros, Maria Isabel Dias da Costa Malheiro

“…Program evaluation emphasized peer-to-peer sharing and educational sessions, with increased knowledge of the disease and management strategies. …”
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Sustainable bamboo: Technological innovations and patent insights for a greener future by Himalay R. Patel, Rahil Mathakia, Urvashi C. Mangroliya, Viralkumar B. Mandaliya

“…A patent landscape analysis on bamboo was conducted using Patentscope (World Intellectual Property Organization database), Scopus Patents, Google Patents, and Lens (a public patent knowledge database). 818 patent records were retrieved from 1898 to 2024 and are discussed sector-wise. …”
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Data Mining Models in Prediction of Vancomycin-Intermediate <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> in Methicillin-Resistant <i>S. aureus</i> (MRSA) Bacteremia Patients in a Clinical Care Set... by Wei-Chuan Chen, Jiun-Ling Wang, Chi-Chuan Chang, Yusen Eason Lin

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Hypertension, Chronic Kidney Disease, and Renal Pathology in a Child with Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome by Roberto Gordillo, Marcela Del Rio, David B. Thomas, Joseph T. Flynn, Robert P. Woroniecki

“…Nonspecific kidney disease and in one adult case IgA nephropathy with ANCA-positive glomerulonephritis have previously been reported in patients with Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome. To our knowledge, we report the first pediatric renal pathology case of HPS associated with CKD. …”
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A Unique Simulation Methodology for Practicing Clinical Decision Making by Shimon Amar, Yuval Bitan

“…The simulation contributed to enhanced knowledge, professional skills, and self-confidence in clinical decision making. …”
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Implementation of the educational process in the course of contact extracurricular work with students by Anna L. Morozova

“…The discipline "Foreign language" has an extensive educational potential due to: expansion of ideas of students about the possibilities of using a foreign language in the professional sphere; formation of General cultural competences of students, improvement of skills and abilities to use the received ideas and knowledge in direct and indirect professionally-oriented foreign language communication; formation of professional competence of students. …”
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Reduction of nutrients concentration in culture medium has no effect on bovine embryo production, pregnancy and birth rates by Ligiane de Oliveira Leme, Mauricio Machaim Franco, Otávio Augusto de Faria, Alexandre Rodrigues Caetano, Juliana Gonçalves de Souza, Luciano de Rezende Carvalheira, Emivaldo de Siqueira Filho, Margot Alves Nunes Dode

“…The data demonstrated that a 75% reduction in SOF medium components did not affect embryo development, quality, pregnancy rate, embryonic losses between 30 and 60 days, or birth rate (P > 0.05). To our knowledge, this is the first report on the pregnancy and birth rates of bovine blastocysts produced in media with nutrient concentrations as low as 25%. …”
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Academic Writing: A Discipline or Disciplines? by I. M. Zashikhina

“…In Russia, university students are confronted with a new field of knowledge and find themselves in a whirlpool of new rules, abilities, skills, competencies that they have to master in a short period of study a far as at the undergraduate level. …”
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Intervention in the Domestic Affairs: Questioning Definitions by V. I. Bartenev

“…The conclusion contains a critique of argumentation of those scholars — predominantly constructivists and poststructuralists — who question the possibility of obtaining a purely scientific knowledge about intervention and call for studying discourse instead, including the discourse of actors conducting interventionist actions. …”
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Factors Associated with High Prevalence of Multibacillary Leprosy in West Bengal: A Case–Control Study by Dipta Kanti Mukhopadhyay, Tarun Kumar Sarkar, Supantha Chatterjee, Soumalya Ray, Pritam Roy, Asit Kumar Biswas

“…Not perceiving the symptoms seriously (90, 56% [PB], 97, 51% [MB]), lack of knowledge about the disease and its complications (47, 29% [PB], 53, 28% [MB]), delayed referral by the private practitioners (11, 7% [PB], 22, 12% [MB]) were the major reasons of delay. …”
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The sound of science: a sonification learning experience in an Italian secondary school by Giacomo Eramo, Serafina Pastore, Mario De Tullio, Valeria Rossini, Alessandro Monno, Ernesto Mesto

“…However, the study also highlighted the differences in teacher training and content knowledge, suggesting the need for future research to consider broader samples and experimental designs.DiscussionResults and implications for educational research and practice are discussed considering the recent literature on STEAM. …”
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Women’s empowerment in livestock sector as a tool to enhance child’s nutrition: a review by Fatema Tuj Zohora Hira, Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Ismat Ara Begum

“…By elucidating the concepts and linkages among women’s empowerment, child nutrition, and livestock interventions, our study contributes to enhanced knowledge and identifies avenues for future research and policy implications.…”
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The influence of generative artificial intelligence on creative cognition of design students: a chain mediation model of self-efficacy and anxiety by Younjung Hwang, Yi Wu

“…The study utilized scales for AI knowledge and perception, self-efficacy, anxiety, and creative cognition, adapted from previous studies and evaluated on 5-point Likert scales. …”
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Hepatic and Renal Failure after Anterior Myocardial Infarction Induced Apical Ventricular Septal Defect by Dirk Lossnitzer, Vedat Schwenger, Stephanie Lehrke, Evangelos Giannitsis, Martin Zeier, Hugo A. Katus, Henning Steen

“…Post-surgery, the ascites were significantly reduced, and CAPD hemodialysis therapy could be terminated since the renal function gradually improved (MDRD = 25 mL/min). To our knowledge, for the first time we report successful CAPD catheter drainage of hydroperitoneum in combination with CAPD hemodialysis.…”
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dotears: Scalable and consistent directed acyclic graph estimation using observational and interventional data by Albert Xue, Jingyou Rao, Sriram Sankararaman, Harold Pimentel

“…Furthermore, correction for error variance is difficult without prior knowledge of structure. We present dotears [doo-tairs], a continuous optimization framework leveraging observational and interventional data to infer causal structure, assuming a linear Structural Equation Model. dotears exploits structural consequences of hard interventions to estimate and correct for error variance structure. dotears is a provably consistent estimator of the true DAG under mild assumptions and outperforms other state-of-the-art methods in varied simulations. …”
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