Assessment of Quality of Antenatal Care Services and Its Determinant Factors in Public Health Facilities of Hossana Town, Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia: A Longitudinal Study by Trhas Tadesse Berehe, Lebitsi Maud Modibia

“…Data was entered into Epi Info version 3.5 and transferred to STATA Version 14 software and cleaned by reviewing frequency tables, logical errors, and checking outliers. …”
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Gender differences in defense mechanisms, ways of coping with stress and sense of identity in adolescent suicide attempts by Dilşad Foto-Özdemir, Devrim Akdemir, Füsun Çuhadaroğlu-Çetin

“…They were evaluated with a semi-structured clinical interview (K-SADS), Ways of Coping Inventory (WCI), Defense Mechanisms Inventory (DMI) and Sense of Identity Assessment Form (SIAF). 60.9% (n = 39) of the adolescents were female, and 39.1% (n=25) were male. …”
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Indoor environment quality and occupant productivity pre-applying COVID-19 measures by Sayed Hassan Abdelmajeed, Mahmoud M. H. Alayis, Abdalla Zahri Amin

“…The total number of completed and collected questionnaires was 385. The data collected were analysed using structural equation modelling technique with the AMOS 23 V software. …”
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Exploring Health Care Professionals’ Perspectives on Education, Awareness, and Preferences for Digital Educational Resources to Support Transgender, Nonbinary, and Intersex Care: I... by Sravya Katta, Nadia Davoody

“…Addressing the identified barriers and challenges through targeted interventions, such as providing training and support for health care professionals, investing in user-friendly design and data security, and promoting cultural competence in TNBI health care, is essential. …”
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Minimally Invasive Surgery in Modern Medicine: A Review of Laparoscopic Techniques, Indications, and Postoperative Outcomes by Maksymilian Czarnota, Martyna Adamowicz, Aleksandra Górniak

“…Objective: To integrate recent data on laparoscopic indications, technological advances and patient-centred outcomes. …”
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Self-management and COPD: a qualitative study to explore the perceived barriers and recommendations to improve COPD management using the Information-Motivation-Behavioral skills mo... by Xiaomei Chen, Ningyu Wen, Jia Liu, Yuxuan He, Li Wei, Rui Zhang, Yanni Yang

“…Data were transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic analysis. …”
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Occupational exposure to blood-borne or body fluid pathogens among medical interns at Addington Hospital, Durban by H. Karani, S. Rangiah, A.J. Ross

“…Methods: A descriptive study design was devised and a structured questionnaire distributed to all interns employed at Addington Hospital in December 2008. …”
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The quality of institutions in shaping women’s entrepreneurship: A perspective of European Union member states by Aleksandra Gaweł, Timo Toikko

“…Implications & Recommendations: The mixed effects of the impact of the quality of institutions on women’s entrepreneurship indicate the challenges in combining the goals of reaching well-structured societies and reducing the gender gap in entrepreneurship. …”
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Echogenic intracardiac foci detection and location in the second-trimester ultrasound and association with fetal outcomes: A systematic literature review. by Hope Eleri Jones, Serica Battaglia, Lisa Hurt, Orhan Uzun, Sinead Brophy

“…<h4>Background</h4>Echogenic Intracardiac Foci (EIF) are non-structural markers identified during the routine 18-20-week foetal anomaly ultrasound scan yet their clinical significance on future outcomes for the infant is unclear.…”
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The Effects of Curcumin on NF-κB Level and Degree of Liver Fibrosis in Rat Liver Fibrosis by Supriono, Bogi Pratomo, Dedy Indra Praja

“…Degree of liver fibrosis using metavir scoring system. The data were analyzed using correlation test, one-way anova, unpair T-test, mann-whitney, chi-square, kruskal-wallis, structural model with significant p value p < 0,05. …”
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Automated Insights Into GitHub Collaboration Dynamics by Jie Bian, Nikolay Arefev, Max Muhlhauser, Michael Welzl

“…Large projects may comprise hundreds of distributed collaborators and thousands of GitHub &#x201C;issues&#x201D; (structured discussions). It includes basic support for dealing with issues, via &#x201C;Pull Requests&#x201D; (PRs)&#x2014;document changes that can manually be defined to &#x201C;close&#x201D; them (i.e., they address and thereby conclude the issue discussion). …”
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342 Acceptability of a Mobile K-12 School-Based Clinic for pediatric diabetes and obesity care by Melanie Bryan, Bockstruck Pamela Stone, Lynnell Patton, Brandy Markley, Melissa Sicard, Ana Maria Arbelaez

“…Phase 2 piloted the program to refine logistics and workflows. Semi-structured interviews and surveys were conducted with caregivers to assess program acceptability and satisfaction. …”
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Building Sustainability Strategies in The Creative Culinary Industry Sector To Enhance Tourist Destination Attraction in Semarang Regency by Nurchayati, Bambang Riyadi, Lisa Efri Yunita

“…Design/methodology/approach: This quantitative research study was conducted with a sample of 250 respondents, comprising owners and managers of the culinary industry. The data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with WarpPLS 7.0 software. …”
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DualDistill: a dual-guided self-distillation approach for carotid plaque analysis by Xiaoman Zhang, Jiang Xie, Haibing Chen, Haiya Wang

“…To address these challenges, this study introduces a structured self-distillation framework, named DualDistill, designed to improve classification accuracy and generalization performance in analyzing ultrasound videos of carotid plaques. …”
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Factors Influencing Management of Enteral Nutrition Among Nurses in Health Facilities of Kisumu County, Kenya by Jeremiah Nyoni, John Okoth, Damaris Ochanda

“…Twelve key informants were interviewed. Data collection tools included a structured self-administered questionnaire, a nurses' practice observation checklist, and an interview guide. …”
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Epimedium-Derived Exosome-Loaded GelMA Hydrogel Enhances MC3T3-E1 Osteogenesis via PI3K/Akt Pathway by Weijian Hu, Xin Xie, Jiabin Xu

“…This study presents a GelMA hydrogel functionalized with plant-derived exosomes, which synergistically provides osteoinductive stimuli and structural support. The GelMA@Exo platform offers a versatile strategy for localized delivery of natural bioactive molecules and a promising approach for bone tissue engineering. …”
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Healthcare workers' perspective about barriers and facilitators to pediatric HIV status disclosure in eastern Uganda using capability opportunity and motivation of behavior change... by Joseph Kirabira, Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Brian C Zanoni, Celestino Obua, Edith Wakida, Christine Etoko Atala, Naume Etoko Akello, Keng-Yen Huang, Scholastic Ashaba

“…Research assistants collected data using a semi-structured interview guide designed based on the Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation of Behavior change (COM-B) Model. …”
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The genome sequence of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, causative agent of chronic human african trypanosomiasis. by Andrew P Jackson, Mandy Sanders, Andrew Berry, Jacqueline McQuillan, Martin A Aslett, Michael A Quail, Bridget Chukualim, Paul Capewell, Annette MacLeod, Sara E Melville, Wendy Gibson, J David Barry, Matthew Berriman, Christiane Hertz-Fowler

“…A comparison of the variant surface glycoproteins (VSG) in T. b. brucei with all T. b. gambiense sequence reads showed that the essential structural repertoire of VSG domains is conserved across T. brucei.…”
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Dark triad traits and career adaptability: the mediating role of political skill by Xiaochuan Jiang, Shijie Xu, Yanhui Hou, Nicholas Chima, Jianfeng Yang

“…In the second wave, we assessed political skill, and in the third wave, we measured career adaptability. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data. …”
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Experiences and perceptions on antiretroviral therapy adherence and non-adherence: a scoping review of young people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa by Tamlyn Carmin Seunanden, Nothando Ngwenya, Janet Seeley

“…Factors affecting ART adherence and non-adherence were psychosocial, emotional, self-management, support, financial and structural. YPLHIV also faced problems with the responsiveness of health services and access to information. …”
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