Food Insecurity and Not Dietary Diversity Is a Predictor of Nutrition Status in Children within Semiarid Agro-Ecological Zones in Eastern Kenya by Zipporah N. Bukania, Moses Mwangi, Robert M. Karanja, Richard Mutisya, Yeri Kombe, Lydia U. Kaduka, Timothy Johns

“…A total of 277 woman-child pairs aged 15–46 years and 6–36 months respectively, were recruited from farmer households. Food security and dietary diversity were assessed using standard tools. …”
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Cortical arealization of interneurons defines shared and distinct molecular programs in developing human and macaque brains by Xiangling Feng, Yingjie Gao, Fan Chu, Yuwen Shan, Meicheng Liu, Yaoyi Wang, Ying Zhu, Qing Lu, Mingfeng Li

“…However, whether such regional specifications in interneurons are intrinsically encoded or gained through interactions with the local milieu remains elusive. Here, we recruit 685,692 interneurons from cerebral cortex and subcortex including ganglionic eminence within the developing human and macaque species. …”
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Mobilization of Stem Cells Using G-CSF for Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Randomized Controlled, Pilot Study by Kameshwar Prasad, Amit Kumar, Jitendra Kumar Sahu, M. V. P. Srivastava, Sujata Mohanty, Rohit Bhatia, Shailesh B. Gaikwad, Achal Srivastava, Vinay Goyal, Manjari Tripathi, Chandrashekar Bal, Nalini Kant Mishra

“…In randomized study, 10 patients with acute ischemic stroke were recruited in 1 : 1 ratio to receive 10 μg/kg G-CSF treatment subcutaneously daily for five days with conventional care or conventional treatment alone. …”
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Prior Knowledge of Target Direction and Intended Movement Selection Improves Indirect Reaching Movement Decoding by Hongbao Li, Yaoyao Hao, Shaomin Zhang, Yiwen Wang, Weidong Chen, Xiaoxiang Zheng

“…Combined with prior knowledge, the trajectory decoder achieved the best performance among three decoders. Conclusion. Recruiting prior knowledge about target direction and intended movement selection extracted from the PMd could enhance the decoding performance of hand trajectory in indirect reaching movement.…”
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Preconceptional brain structure and future conception: a prospective brain MRI study among 321 women by Merel W. de Vries, Eline M. P. Poels, Gennady V. Roshchupkin, Ryan L. Muetzel, Milan Zarchev, Astrid M. Kamperman, Henning Tiemeier, Meike W. Vernooij, Steven A. Kushner

“…Women intending to conceive within a year were recruited and structural brain MRI scans were collected from 321 participants between June 2019 and March 2021. …”
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Correlation Between Sagittal and Transverse Plane Fetal Nuchal Translucency Measurement by Pananya Jomphansa, Suthasinee Metaneedol, Sinart Prommas, Buppa Smanchat, Kornkarn Bhamarapravatana, Komsun Suwannarurk

“…Results: A total of 295 pregnant women were recruited. The mean age and GA of participants were 31.7 years old and 12.9 weeks, respectively. …”
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Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity of People with Stroke in Rehabilitation Hospitals by Anna Sjöholm, Monica Skarin, Leonid Churilov, Michael Nilsson, Julie Bernhardt, Thomas Lindén

“…Stroke survivors admitted to four Swedish hospital-based rehabilitation units were recruited ≥7 days since stroke onset and their activity was measured using behavioural mapping. …”
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A Qualitative Exploration of Motivation to Self-Manage and Styles of Self-Management amongst People Living with Type 2 Diabetes by Paul Newton, Koula Asimakopoulou, Sasha Scambler

“…Using semistructured interviews (N=25), focus groups (3 ×  N=12 participants), and open-ended questionnaires (N=6), people living with and self-managing T2D were recruited from a community-based T2D participation group. …”
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Indices of Abdominal Adiposity and Cardiorespiratory Fitness Test Performance in Middle-School Students by Ryan Burns, James C. Hannon, Timothy A. Brusseau, Barry Shultz, Patricia Eisenman

“…Participants included 134 students (65 boys and 69 girls) recruited from the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades. Anthropometric measures consisted of BMI, waist circumference (WC), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), and percent body fat estimated from two-site skinfolds (%BF-SKF), as well as the hand-held OMRON BIA device (%BF-BIA). …”
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Self-advocacy positive perceptions and stage experiences in patients who had a stroke: a qualitative study in China by Shanshan Wang, Zhen-Xiang Zhang, Yong-Xia Mei, Chunhui Zhang, Bei-lei Lin, Hu Jiang, Xiaoxuan Wang, Zhixin Zhao

“…Colaizzi’s seven-step method was used to analyse the data.Setting Two hospitals in Zhengzhou and Luoyang City, Henan Province, China.Participants 19 patients who had a stroke were recruited and interviewed face-to-face between October 2023 and February 2024.Results The findings revealed two categories: positive perceptions and stage experiences. …”
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Personality Characteristics and Oral Health-Related Quality of Life in an Iranian Adult Population by Naimeh Hasheminejad, Hamidreza Hajizamani, Mohammadi Tayebeh Malek, William Murray Thomson

“…The study included 443 adult participants recruited from a public dental clinic in Kerman, southeast of Iran. …”
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Paramedics and emergency medical technicians’ perceptions of geriatric trauma care in Saudi Arabia by Naif Harthi, Steve Goodacre, Fiona C. Sampson, Meshary Binhotan, Abdullah Suhail Alotaibi

“…Results The qualitative study recruited twenty participants and identified that they reported age-related challenges including physiological changes, polypharmacy, and communication difficulties. …”
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Serum Osteoprotegerin Is a Potential Biomarker of Insulin Resistance in Chinese Postmenopausal Women with Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes by Peng Duan, Min Yang, Meilin Wei, Jia Liu, Ping Tu

“…A total of 271 unrelated Chinese postmenopausal women were recruited in this study. The subjects were divided into type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) group (n=93), impaired glucose regulation (IGR) (n=90), and normal glucose regulation group (NGR) (n=88), according to different glucose regulation categories. …”
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Diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease by eliciting trait-specific eye movements in multi-visual tasks by Maosong Jiang, Yanzhi Liu, Yanlu Cao, Shufeng Xia, Fei Teng, Wenzhi Zhao, Yongzhong Lin, Wenlong Liu

“…The abnormal features were subsequently modeled by using the proposed deep learning algorithm to achieve an auxiliary diagnosis of PD. Methods We recruited 114 PD patients and 125 healthy controls and collected their eye-tracking data in a VR environment. …”
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Apathy and Emotion-Based Decision-Making in Amnesic Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease by Sophie Bayard, Jean-Pierre Jacus, Stéphane Raffard, Marie-Christine Gely-Nargeot

“…The aims of this study were to investigate decision-making based on emotional feedback processing in AD and aMCI and to study the impact of reduced decision-making performances on apathy. Methods. We recruited 20 patients with AD, 20 participants with aMCI, and 20 healthy controls. …”
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Case-Control Pilot Study on Acute Diarrheal Disease in a Geographically Defined Pediatric Population in a Middle Income Country by Ana E. Farfán-García, Chengxian Zhang, Aamer Imdad, Monica Y. Arias-Guerrero, Nayibe T. Sánchez-Alvarez, Rikhil Shah, Junaid Iqbal, Maria E. Tamborski, Oscar G. Gómez-Duarte

“…Ninety children less than 5 years of age were recruited after a written informed consent was obtained from parents or guardians. …”
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Risk Factors of Lymph Edema in Breast Cancer Patients by Haghighat Shahpar, Akbari Atieh, Ansari Maryam, Homaei Shandiz Fatemeh, Najafi Massoome, Ebrahimi Mandana, Yunesian Masud, Mirzaei Hamid Reza, Akbari Mohammad Esmaeil

“…The breast cancer patients who were followed up in three centers in Tehran and Mashhad in 2010 were recruited in the study. The circumference measurement was used for defining lymphedema. …”
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A Therapeutic Educational Program in Oral Health for Persons with Schizophrenia: A Qualitative Feasibility Study by Audrey Peteuil, Corinne Rat, Sahar Moussa-Badran, Maud Carpentier, Jean-François Pelletier, Frederic Denis

“…Participants: Voluntary PWS and their caregivers were recruited during face-to-face interviews at “Les Boisseaux” (a psychiatric outpatient centre) in Auxerre (France) and were included in the study between November and December 2016. …”
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Exploring the Differentiation of Self-Concepts in the Physical and Virtual Worlds Using Euclidean Distance Analysis and Its Relationship With Digitalization and Mental Health Among... by Kai Tai Chan, Christy LM Hui, Charlton Cheung, Yi Nam Suen, Stephanie Ming Yin Wong, Corine SM Wong, Bosco PH Kam, Eric Yu Hai Chen

“…MethodsA community cohort of 397 participants aged 15 to 24 years old was recruited consecutively over about 3 months. Assessment was conducted upon the indicators of digitalization (smartphone use time, leisure online time, and age of first smartphone ownership), smartphone addiction, 14 selected personal attributes in the actual selves in the physical and virtual worlds, psychiatric symptomatology and personality traits. …”
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Psychological Impacts among Older and Younger People Living with HIV/AIDS in Nanning, China by Hongjie Liu, Xin He, Judith A. Levy, Yongfang Xu, Chunpeng Zang, Xinqin Lin

“…A two-stage sampling procedure was used to recruit a final sample of 148 participants. Older adults were defined as age 50 and older. …”
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