Childbirth preparedness and childbirth anxiety among primigravida in a lower-middle income country: A phenomenological qualitative study by Lekha Bist, Lekha Viswanath, Ruchira Nautiyal, Shagun Agarwal

“…Background: There is limited research about the primigravid's experience towards delivery preparation and anxiety in lower-middle-income countries. …”
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Scoping Review on Maternal Health among Immigrant and Refugee Women in Canada: Prenatal, Intrapartum, and Postnatal Care by N. Khanlou, N. Haque, A. Skinner, A. Mantini, C. Kurtz Landy

“…This article reports on the results of a scoping review focused on migrant maternal health within the context of accessible and effective health services during pregnancy and following delivery. One hundred and twenty-six articles published between 2000 and 2016 that met our inclusion criteria and related to this group of migrant women, with pregnancy/motherhood status, who were living in Canada, were identified. …”
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Considerations for ethics review of big data health research: A scoping review. by Marcello Ienca, Agata Ferretti, Samia Hurst, Milo Puhan, Christian Lovis, Effy Vayena

“…Our findings suggest that while big data trends in biomedicine hold the potential for advancing clinical research, improving prevention and optimizing healthcare delivery, yet several epistemic, scientific and normative challenges need careful consideration. …”
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A Multifactory Integrated Production and Distribution Scheduling Problem with Parallel Machines and Immediate Shipments Solved by Improved Whale Optimization Algorithm by Vahid Abdollahzadeh, Isa Nakhaikamalabadi, Seyyed Mohammad Hajimolana, Seyyed Hesamoddin Zegordi

“…Then, a mixed-integer nonlinear programming model is developed to determine the detailed scheduling of production and distribution that minimizes the total costs of the supply chain including production, distribution, and late delivery costs. To solve the real-world scale problems, we developed a new whale optimization algorithm (WOA). …”
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Catalyzing digital transformation through Smart Cities initiatives in Indonesian local government by Rio Yusri MAULANA, Usman MARJAMAT, Dimas SUBEKTI, Agung WICAKSONO

“… In the domain of public service delivery, our research provides crucial guidance towards enhancing collaboration and achieving digital transformation. …”
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Retinal Electrophysiology Is a Viable Preclinical Biomarker for Drug Penetrance into the Central Nervous System by Jason Charng, Zheng He, Algis J. Vingrys, Rebecca L. Fish, Rachel Gurrell, Bang V. Bui, Christine T. Nguyen

“…In conscious animals, systemic administration of muscimol resulted in retinal and brain biopotential changes, whereas systemic delivery of isoguvacine did not. General anaesthesia confounded these outcomes. …”
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Correction: Ceria nanoparticles ameliorate renal fibrosis by modulating the balance between oxidative phosphorylation and aerobic glycolysis by Mengling Wang, Feng Zeng, Fengling Ning, Yinhang Wang, Shilin Zhou, Jiaqi He, Cong Li, Cong Wang, Xiaolin Sun, Dongliang Zhang, Jisheng Xiao, Ping Hu, Svetlana Reilly, Hong Xin, Xudong Xu, Xuemei Zhang

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Polymeric Scaffolds in Tissue Engineering Application: A Review by Brahatheeswaran Dhandayuthapani, Yasuhiko Yoshida, Toru Maekawa, D. Sakthi Kumar

“…Scaffolds have been used for tissue engineering such as bone, cartilage, ligament, skin, vascular tissues, neural tissues, and skeletal muscle and as vehicle for the controlled delivery of drugs, proteins, and DNA. Various technologies come together to construct porous scaffolds to regenerate the tissues/organs and also for controlled and targeted release of bioactive agents in tissue engineering applications. …”
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Guest editorial: Advanced signal processing for integration of radar and communication (IRC) by Bin Liao, Wei Liu, Ziyang Cheng, Tianyao Huang

“…For instance, radar was mainly employed for sensing (target detection, localization, recognition, imaging, etc.) in the military field, while wireless communication was mainly for information delivery. However, along with the fast development of radio technologies and huge demand for information, the radio frequency (RF) spectrum is becoming increasingly congested, and the spectra of the radar system will be overlaid with those of wireless communication devices. …”
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Energy Efficient Clustering Based Network Protocol Stack for 3D Airborne Monitoring System by Abhishek Joshi, Sarang Dhongdi, Rishabh Sethunathan, Pritish Nahar, K. R. Anupama

“…Various parameters of network such as energy consumption, Cluster Head rotation, time synchronization, and Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR) have been analyzed. Detailed description of the implementation of the protocol stack along with results of implementation has been provided in this paper.…”
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A review on surface modification of nanofibrous textiles for diverse applications: Focus on medical uses by Rasool Shabanloo, Majid Montazer, Ali Farahani, Nesa Karimi

“…They have potential use in scaffolds, drug delivery, bio face masks, wound dressings, and biosensors. …”
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Towards Internet QoS Provisioning Based on Generic Distributed QoS Adaptive Routing Engine by Amira Y. Haikal, M. Badawy, Hesham A. Ali

“…NS2-based simulations proved the DQARE superiority in terms of delay, packet delivery ratio, throughput, and control overhead. …”
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Psychobiotic effects of probiotics and prebiotics by V. T. Ivashkin, K. V. Ivashkin

“…The bacterial colonization of the gut is initiated at the moment of delivery and represents incomplete copy of maternal microbiota. …”
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A Hybrid Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Multi-Compartment Vehicle Routing Problem by Ning Guo, Bin Qian, Rong Hu, Huai P. Jin, Feng H. Xiang

“…The multi-compartment vehicle routing problem (MCVRP) has been applied in fuel or food delivery, waste collection, and livestock transportation. …”
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Factors Affecting Bangladeshi High School Students' Practices of Sanitation and Hygiene by Majedul Hoque

“…To advance improved sanitation and hygiene practices among school students, multi-level interventions such as regular delivery of WASH-related materials and agents, promotion of low-cost WASH interventions, quality cleaning services improvement, close observation of cleaning activities, individual hygiene behaviour promotion, and introduction of gender-sensitive WASH infrastructure and construction may be helpful. …”
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Designing hydrogel for application in spinal surgery by Rongpeng Dong, Shuang Zheng, Xueliang Cheng

“…Hydrogels can be designed for the localized and controlled delivery of pharmacological agents to enhance therapeutic effects and reduce adverse reactions. …”
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A Time Scheduling Model of Logistics Service Supply Chain Based on the Customer Order Decoupling Point: A Perspective from the Constant Service Operation Time by Weihua Liu, Yi Yang, Haitao Xu, Xiaoyan Liu, Yijia Wang, Zhicheng Liang

“…The relative concern degree of LSI on cost and service delivery punctuality leads to not only changes in CODP but also to those in the scheduling performance of the LSSC.…”
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Conceptual Framework and Designing for a Seafarers’ Health Observatory (SHO) Based on the Centro Internazionale Radio Medico (C.I.R.M.) Data Repository by Gopi Battineni, Getu Gamo Sagaro, Nalini Chintalapudi, Francesco Amenta

“…Health observatory (HO) models are helpful in gathering, analyzing, interpreting, and circulating reliable and quality information on population health and health service delivery. In this study, we proposed an HO conceptual model to enhance seafarer’s health, which subjects to disease trends. …”
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The practice of quality assurance in the TVET system of the state of Amhara as perceived by major stakeholders by Melaku Mengistu Gebremeskel

“…In this respect, leading questions focusing on the supply of resources, the quality of the training delivery process and the efforts exerted towards quality assurance were taken care of based on the input-process-output framework of quality assurance. …”
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Big data analytics and AI as success factors for online video streaming platforms by Muhammad Arshad, Muhammad Arshad, Choo Wou Onn, Ashfaq Ahmad, Goabaone Mogwe, Goabaone Mogwe

“…While customers benefit from this data by receiving more suitable material, getting better recommendations, and allowing for more efficient content delivery, AI utilizes it. As a result, the study also points to the importance and relevance of such technologies to promote business development, and user interaction and maintain competitiveness in the online video streaming market with examples of their effective application. …”
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