Kdo je člen rodiny a kdo už "jen" příbuzný? by Romana Benešová, Jana Barvíková

“…The main aim is to explore how people nowadays distinguish who is a member of their family and who is just a relative. Authors use a qualitative methodology analyzing five focus groups held in Czech Republic. …”
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Patients with Tinnitus: Their Perspective on Sound Generators by Bérangère Villatte, Charlotte Bigras, Philippe Fournier, Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, Sylvie Hébert

“…Using an interpretive description approach, themes were captured qualitatively to describe patients’ subjective experience of the ST. …”
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Temperature variability in southern Europe over the past 16 500 years constrained by speleothem fluid inclusion water isotopes by J. L. Bernal-Wormull, A. Moreno, Y. Dublyansky, C. Spötl, R. Giménez, C. Pérez-Mejías, M. Bartolomé, M. Arriolabengoa, E. Iriarte, I. Cacho, R. L. Edwards, H. Cheng, H. Cheng, H. Cheng

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Prediction of acute skin toxicity in tomotherapy of breast cancer using skin DVH data by Pegah Saadatmand, Arman Esmailzadeh, Seied Rabi Mahdavi, Alireza Nikoofar, Seyede Zohreh Jazaeri, Golbarg Esmaili, Soheil Vejdani

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Diagnostics and correction of batch effects in large‐scale proteomic studies: a tutorial by Jelena Čuklina, Chloe H Lee, Evan G Williams, Tatjana Sajic, Ben C Collins, María Rodríguez Martínez, Varun S Sharma, Fabian Wendt, Sandra Goetze, Gregory R Keele, Bernd Wollscheid, Ruedi Aebersold, Patrick G A Pedrioli

“…While these large sample sets deliver much‐needed statistical power, handling them introduces technical variability known as batch effects. Here, we present a step‐by‐step protocol for the assessment, normalization, and batch correction of proteomic data. …”
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On the Weak Impact of Base Money on Broad Money in the Context of Unconventional Monetary Policy: Euro Area 2008–2024 by Carlos Pateiro-Rodríguez, Federico Martín-Bermúdez, Esther Barros-Campello, Carlos Pateiro-López

“…The demand for money has remained stable relative to its determining variables, interest rates and income. At the same time, some practices related to the handling of excess liquidity by European banks through deposit facilities deserve consideration. …”
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Monitoring Spatial-Temporal Variability of Vegetation Coverage and Its Influencing Factors in the Yellow River Source Region from 2000 to 2020 by Boyang Wang, Jianhua Si, Bing Jia, Xiaohui He, Dongmeng Zhou, Xinglin Zhu, Zijin Liu, Boniface Ndayambaza, Xue Bai

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Entry to practice physiotherapy students’ use of the international IFOMPT cervical framework to inform clinical reasoning: a qualitative case study design by Katie L. Kowalski, Heather Gillis, Paul Parikh, Katherine Henning, Jackie Sadi, Alison Rushton

“…Methods The COnsolidated criteria for REporting Qualitative research informed the design and reporting of this qualitative think aloud case study using interpretive description. …”
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Strategies used in teaching the decimal metric system in Escuela Nueva. A systematic review by July Tatiana Gutiérrez Jiménez, Eliécer Aldana Bermúdez, Linda Poleth Montiel Buritica

“…Inclusion criteria, exclusion criteria, bibliometric variables, and variables of interest on the content were taken into account. …”
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Econometric Analysis of the Influence of Microbiological Preparations on the Crop Yield of Dry Mass of Feed Mix by O. A. Shikhova

“…Such a problem can be solved by using dummy variables in the models.The purpose of the research – development of methodological approaches to constructing a regression multifactorial model, including both quantitative and qualitative explanatory variables, describing quantitatively the dependence of the feed mix yield for cows on these factors.Materials and methods. …”
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Weak solutions for a class of quasilinear elliptic equation containing the $p(\cdot )$-Laplacian and the mean curvature operator in a variable exponent Sobolev space by Junichi Aramaki

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Barriers and facilitators to medication-assisted treatment for cocaine use disorder among men who have sex with men: a qualitative study by Elaine Hsiang, Kishan Patel, Erin C. Wilson, Alexandrea Dunham, Janet Ikeda, Tim Matheson, Glenn-Milo Santos

“…Disclosure of study participation within social networks was variable pointing to anticipated substance use and treatment stigma. …”
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Effects of ketamine treatment on suicidal ideation: a qualitative study of patients’ accounts following treatment for depression in a UK ketamine clinic by Keith Hawton, Lisa Marzano, Karen Lascelles, Fiona Brand, Hayley Trueman, Rupert McShane

“…Reduction of SI was variable in terms of extent and duration, and re-emergence of suicidal thoughts often occurred when treatment ceased. …”
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Family physicians’ attitudes and practice on screening and prevention of fragility fractures, and shared decision-making with postmenopausal women: a qualitative study in Spain by Montserrat León-García, Esther Cánovas Martínez, Yolanda Álvarez Pérez, María Antonia Pou, Alberto López García-Franco, Ana Sanz Bas, Sara Rodriguez-Moreno, Claudia Erika Delgado Espinoza, Pablo Roca, Aránzazu González Osuna, Diana Fernández Valverde, Betzabeth Marín Nanco, Melixa Medina-Aedo, Lilisbeth Perestelo-Pérez, Pablo Alonso-Coello

“…Methods We conducted a qualitative study to explore the attitudes and practices of Spanish family physicians in preventing fractures among postmenopausal women. …”
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Structural and functional characteristics of healthy heart and their interrelations with vegetative heart regulation by E. M. Khurs, A. V. Poddubnaya

“…To outline the complex approach to the assessment of healthy heart structure, geometry, and vegetative regulation; to specify the normative criteria for quantitative indices of left ventricular (LV) remodelling.Material and methods. …”
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Considerations and distributional innovations for some taxa of the genus <i>Parapholis</i> (Poaceae) in the Adriatic basin with special reference to <i>Parapholis strigosa</i>, for... by Piero Cuccuini, Lorella Dell’Olmo, Stefano Dominici

“…These studies, together with revision of the historical material gathered from the area and conserved in various Italian and foreign herbaria, highlighted a quantitative morphological character of clearly genetic origin, already considered as diagnostic within the genus. …”
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Validation of Quantitative Light-Induced Fluorescence Digital Analysis for Assessing Early Dental Caries Depth: A Micro-Computed Tomography-Based <i>In Vitro</i> Study by Ji-Hyun Min

“…A regression analysis was further conducted with LD_QLFD as the independent variable and LD_µCT as the dependent variable. …”
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Qualitative Study of Physician Perspectives on Classifying Screening and Nonscreening Colonoscopy using Administrative Health Data: Adding Practice Does Not Make Perfect by Maida J Sewitch, Robert Hilsden, Lawrence Joseph, Linda Rabeneck, Lawrence Paszat, Alain Bitton, Mary Anne Cooper

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What are the development priorities for management of type 2 diabetes by general practitioners in Ningbo, China: a qualitative study of patients’ and practitioners’ perspectives... by Li Li, Kaushik Chattopadhyay, Josie Solomon, Angharad Woolley, Jialin Li, Kai Huang, Punam Chahal, Priya Chahal, Gloria Tu, Pritpal Chahal

“…The diagnostic screening commenced late, leading to crisis presentations. Patients were variably informed about their condition, contributing to poor adherence.Conclusions Future developments of primary care for T2DM in Ningbo should centre around improving GP confidence and workload and patient education and adherence.…”
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The Impact of Environmental Risk on Business Failure: A Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis Approach with Extreme Gradient Boosting Feature Selection by Mariano Romero Martínez, Pedro Carmona Ibáñez, José Pozuelo Campillo

“…By investigating the relationship between environmental financial exposure and business failure, this study addresses this gap, integrating financial ratios and environmental variables to understand how environmental performance affects financial viability. …”
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