Improvement of Hand Hygiene Practices among the Healthcare Workers in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit by Abdullahel Amaan, Sanjoy Kumer Dey, Khainoor Zahan

“…Significant improvements in HH compliance were achieved through a systemic, multidimensional intervention approach among the doctors and nurses in an intensive newborn care setting.…”
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High vulnerability of the endemic Southern Ocean snail Neobuccinum eatoni (Buccinidae) to critical projected oceanographic changes by Rosvita González, Luis R. Pertierra, Pablo C. Guerrero, Angie Díaz

“…Employing Species Distribution Models (SDMs) on spatially cross-validated occurrences, we achieved high predictive accuracy, identifying "sea water salinity range" at mean bottom depth as the most significant predictor of habitat preferences. …”
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A Real-Time Vision Transformers-Based System for Enhanced Driver Drowsiness Detection and Vehicle Safety by Anwar Jarndal, Hissam Tawfik, Ali I. Siam, Imad Alsyouf, Ali Cheaitou

“…The model was trained and evaluated on two widely used public drowsiness detection datasets, achieving classification accuracies of 98.89% on the NTHU-DDD dataset and 99.4% on the UTA-RLDD dataset. …”
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Wind Field Retrieval From Co-Polarized SAR Imagery Without External Wind Direction Assistance by Xianen Wei, Jinsong Chong, Yawei Zhao, Lijie Diao, Xuan Jin

“…Obtaining wind direction relies directly or indirectly on external sources, making it impossible to achieve wind field retrieval solely based on co-polarized SAR images. …”
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To stay or to go: resource diversity alters the dispersal behavior of sympatric cryptic marine nematodes by Rodgee Mae Guden, Sofie Derycke, Tom Moens

“…This indicates that resource diversity can alter the dispersal behavior of cryptic species and may be an important mechanism to achieve species coexistence in the field.…”
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Retrospective evaluation of a single surgeon’s experience in robot-assisted inguinal repair with the Dexter System™ during the learning curve by Hubert Mignot, Bineta Diack, Juliette Capitaine, Damien Emeriau

“…Minor postoperative complications were reported in three patients (pain at one trocar site with spontaneous resorption, one trocar hematoma with total resorption at 30 days, and one small seroma). Once the surgeon achieved a consistent level of performance with various types of groin hernia repair, the surgeries were conducted with the surgeon operating independently (solo surgery). …”
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Investigation of the optimum calcination temperature for water treatment plant sludge to develop a sustainable alkali activated concrete by Jasmin Osama Abdelhalim, Ismail Amer, Ibrahim Abdel Latif, Ihab Fawzy, Sayed Ismail, Mohamed A. Khalaf

“…The results indicated that the calcination regime, which involved applying a maximum temperature of 650 °C for 90 min, achieved the best chemical characteristics and a strength activity index of 145%. …”
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A simple and highly efficient protocol for 13C-labeling of plant cell wall for structural and quantitative analyses via solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance by Tasleem Javaid, Akshayaa Venkataraghavan, Matrika Bhattarai, Debkumar Debnath, Wancheng Zhao, Tuo Wang, Ahmed Faik

“…To our knowledge, there is only a very limited set of methods currently available that achieve high levels of 13C-labeling of plant materials using 13CO2, and most of them require large amounts of 13CO2 in larger growth chambers. …”
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Prevalence and Risk Factors Associated with Intestinal Parasitic Infection among Primary School Children in Dera District, Northwest Ethiopia by Dires Tegen, Destaw Damtie

“…The prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections (IPIs) among school children in Ethiopia and the Amhara region is 52% and 51%, respectively. The present study aimed to determine the prevalence and associated risk factors of IPIs among primary school children in Dera district, Northwest Ethiopia. …”
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Enhanced Fetal Arrhythmia Classification by Non-Invasive ECG Using Cross Domain Feature and Spatial Differences Windows Information by Gede Angga Pradipta, Putu Desiana Wulaning Ayu, Made Liandana, Dandy Pramana Hostiadi

“…The combination of dimensionality reduction using Mutual Information and oversampling with the Radius-SMOTE method achieved the highest performance, yielding an accuracy of 96.5%, precision of 95.2%, recall of 96.3%, and an F1-measure of 96.2%, while reducing the feature dimensionality to 100. …”
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U-shaped association between sleep duration and frailty in Chinese older adults: a cross-sectional study by Yanliqing Song, Haoqiang Liu, Kenan Gu, Yue Liu

“…The optimal nighttime sleep interval for older adults was 7–8 h, and the maximum health benefit was achieved when nighttime sleep reached 7.5 h. Compared with older adults in China who slept 6–8 h at night, those with a sleep duration of <6 h (OR = 1.58, 95% CI: 1.36–1.82) were more likely to be frail. …”
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Ecofriendly remediation of cadmium, lead, and zinc using dead cells of Microcystis aeruginosa by Mohamad S. Abdelkarim, Mohamed H. H. Ali, Doaa A. Kassem

“…Under optimal conditions—pH 6, a biosorbent dose of 0.3 g, contact time of 90 min, primary metal level of 100 mg/L and temperature of 35 °C (313K)—a maximum removal efficiency exceeding 90% was achieved. Isothermal analysis revealed that the adsorption of Cd(II), Pb(II), and Zn(II) followed the Langmuir isotherm model (R2 = 0.96, q max > 67 mg/g). …”
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Pain Sensitization and Neuropathic Pain-like Symptoms Associated with Effectiveness of Exercise Therapy in Patients with Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis by Takafumi Hattori, Kazuhiro Shimo, Yuto Niwa, Yuichi Katsura, Yuji Tokiwa, Satoshi Ohga, Takako Matsubara

“…The subgroup with severe pain and pain sensitization or neuropathic pain-like symptoms at pretreatment, even with mild joint deformity, may have difficulty in achieving improvement in pain after 12 weeks of exercise therapy. …”
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: An intelligent dynamic cyber physical system threat detection system for ensuring secured communication in 6G autonomous vehicle networks by Shanthalakshmi M, Ponmagal R S

“…The study demonstrates that the EfficientNet model achieves superior performance with an accuracy of up to 99.97%, highlighting its potential to significantly enhance the security of AV networks. …”
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Extracellular viral microRNAs as biomarkers of virus infection in human cells by Cheryl Chan, Joanne Xin Yi Loh, Wei-Xiang Sin, Denise Bei Lin Teo, Nicholas Kwan Zen Tan, Chandramouli Nagarajan, Yunxin Chen, Francesca Lorraine Wei Inng Lim, Michael E. Birnbaum, Rohan B.H. Williams, Stacy L. Springs

“…Here, we show that extracellular viral microRNAs (viral exmiRs) are cell-free candidate biomarkers of live, latent, and reactivated virus infections, achieving fast (under 1 day) and sensitive (30 attomolar [aM]) detection by quantitative real-time reverse transcription PCR (real-time RT-qPCR). …”
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Germany’s stance on the Nord Stream 2 project: Internal and external determinants by F. А. Basov

“…In recent years, Germany’s energy policy has been pursuing several long-term goals: not only to ensure energy security, but also to achieve energy transition and to become a major gas hub in the European Union. …”
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Comparative Proteomics of Two Flor Yeasts in Sparkling Wine Fermentation: First Approach by Juan C. García-García, Teresa García-Martínez, Juan J. Román-Camacho, Juan Moreno, Juan C. Mauricio

“…The results showed that these strains behaved differently in the middle fermentation tested: the strain that reached 3 atmospheres faster was strain N62, which achieved higher growth, viability, glycerol content, and volatile acidity. …”
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Readability and understandability of clinical research patient information leaflets and consent forms in Ireland and the UK: a retrospective quantitative analysis by Peter Doran, Eilish McAuliffe, Lydia O'Sullivan, Prasanth Sukumar, Rachel Crowley

“…None of the PILs/ICFs had the mean reading age of <12 years recommended by the American Medical Association. 7.1% of PILs/ICFs were evaluated as ‘Plain English’, 40.3%: ‘Fairly Difficult’, 51.3%: ‘Difficult’ and 1.3%: ‘Very Difficult’. No PILs/ICFs achieved a CCI >90. Only two documents complied with all six best practice literacy metrics.Conclusions When assessed against both traditional readability criteria and health literacy-based tools, the PILs/ICFs in this study are inappropriately complex. …”
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Old Russian spiritual and moral values in N.M. Karamzin's short story 'Poor Liza' by N.G. Komar

“…The following methods have been used in order to achieve the aim: comparative-historical, biographical, and evolutional. …”
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“Melhor idade”? Será mesmo? A velhice segundo idosas participantes de um grupo de atividade física by Joamara de Oliveira Pimentel, Mathias Roberto Loch

“…Na categoria “Mudanças percebidas na vida após a participação no grupo de PCAF”, relataram melhora do quadro clínico de saúde, redução de dores corporais, melhoras no sono além de pertencimento ao grupo e alegria no viver. Os achados deste estudo podem ser úteis para a compreensão mais aprofundada sobre os múltiplos significados da velhice, fugindo-se de concepções simplistas que buscam atribuir a esta fase da vida um sentido de “melhor” ou “pior” que outras fases da vida. …”
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