Understanding personality pathology in a clinical sample of youth: study protocol for the longitudinal research project ‘APOLO’ by Nagila Koster, Igor Lusin, Paul T van der Heijden, Odilia M Laceulle, Marcel A G van Aken

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Co-producing a safe mobility and falls informatics platform to drive meaningful quality improvement in the hospital setting: a mixed-methods protocol for the insightFall study by Ben Glampson, Clare Leon-Villapalos, Erik Mayer, Rachael Lear, Phoebe Averill, Catalina Carenzo, Rachel Tao, Robert Latchford

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Using the Information Quantity Method to Assess the Regional Risk of Highway Slope to Improve the Level of Risk Management by Mingli Shao, Shuai Hou, Junfeng Gao

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Identifying, categorizing and ranking performance indicators of schools using Q method by Seyed Mahmoud Jalilian, Shahnaz Naibzadeh, seyyed hasan hataminasab, seyed ali almodaresi

“…Content analysis was used in qualitative data analysis, and SPSS software and Q method were used in quantitative data analysis. …”
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Spectrum-specific encephalography standardized low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography network and gray matter correlations in vascular dementia patients by Yan Lv, Huijuan Chen, Zhiyan Sui, Yingliu Huang, Shixiong Huang, Feng Chen, Guoqiang Wen

“…Compared with healthy group, voxel-based morphometry analysis showed a decrease in gray/cerebrospinal fluid ratio ( p  < .05) in mild dementia group; the energy power of gamma band decreased ( p  < .05) in mild dementia group; and electroencephalography standardized low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography analysis showed wider frontal and temporal lobe involvement in mild dementia patients ( p  < .05). …”
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Pengembangan Tes Bentuk Soal Pilihan Ganda dan Uraian Berbasis Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) pada Ranah Kognitif Mata Pelajaran Pemrograman Dasar (Studi pada SMK Negeri 12 Ma... by Meilita Dwi Aryati, Satrio Hadi Wijoyo, Admaja Dwi Herlambang

“…The results of the cognitive analysis of students have a fairly good average, while the results of HOTS analysis on indicators of analyzing, evaluating, and creating are very lacking. …”
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Serum Zinc Levels in Women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome are Lower as Compared to Those without Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome: A Cohort Study by Swati Dhar, Reena Yadav, Akash Tomar

“…Conclusion: The data suggest that serum zinc levels were found to be lower in PCOS subjects as compared to normal controls and evaluation of these levels may indicate that zinc has a vital role in PCOS pathophysiology.…”
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Fingolimod and risk of skin cancer among individuals with multiple sclerosis: a population-based cohort study protocol by Lisa Kuramoto, Larry D Lynd, Amir Khakban, Jacquelyn J Cragg, Anthony Traboulsee, Jiwon Oh, Analisa Jia, Weng Sut Sio, M A De Vera, Jonathan Loree, Roger Tam

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Methodologische Probleme in der phonetischen Forschung des Polnischen als Fremdsprache by Alicja Derych

“…The analysis may serve as a starting point both at the stage of planning one’s research, and evaluation of specific problems that were already encountered.…”
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The plight of Ukrainian refugees staying in Sweden under EU:s mass refugee directive: a brief trauma-focused, participatory, online intervention as a pilot feasibility study by Solvig Ekblad, Oksana Gramatik, Yuliia Suprun

“…A mixed-methods design with participatory methodology and evaluation were used. Data was collected with a short questionnaire in Ukrainian. …”
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Co-occurrence of depression, anxiety and increased alcohol use during the late stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in Saskatchewan, Canada: a cross-sectional survey by Erika Dyck, James Dixon, Nazeem Muhajarine, Daniel A Adeyinka, Md Sabbir Ahmed, Ali Bukhari, Jim Clifford, Gabriela Novotna

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Program of functional instruction in reading comprehension of poems in elementary school students by Néstor Miguel Velarde Corrales, Aldo Bazán-Ramírez

“…The purpose of the present study was to develop reading comprehension skills of poems in sixth grade students of a public rural school in the State of Morelos, Mexico, who had low levels of achievement indicators, at the end of the fifth curricular block of the program of sixth grade of primary, called Leer y escribir poemas para compartir. A prior evaluation of the group showed that 28 of the 30 students had a low level of reading comprehension, therefore, it was formed in a random manner, a group of eleven students who took a training course for reading comprehension, which consisted of six sessions. …”
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Reduction of Multidimensional Image Characteristics Based on Improved KICA by Jia Dongyao, Ai Yanke, Zou Shengxiong

“…Dimensionality reduction and optimization of characteristic parameter model based on improved kernel independent component analysis are proposed in this paper; the independent primitives are obtained by KICA (kernel independent component analysis) algorithm to construct an independent group subspace, while using 2DPCA (2D principal component analysis) algorithm to complete the second order related to data and further reduce the dimension in the above method. …”
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Relation between Headache and Mastication Muscle Tone in Adolescents by Ewa Wozniak, Jolanta E. Loster, Aneta Wieczorek

“…Results. The statistical analysis of data showed that there was a significant relationship between the presence of headache and a change in the mastication muscle tone, expressed as the predominant activity of the temporal muscles, only in the group of sick individuals during maximum clenching. …”
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Investigation on the effectiveness of a new hoof care product to sustainably reduce and prevent digital dermatitis in dairy cow herds by K. Grimm, A. Fiedler, C. Kröger

“…Results A: Mean area under the curve of the numerical score that summarizes development over time was substantially and significantly smaller in the treatment group. Results B: Two-step regression analysis for the outcome category at evaluation day (with exclusion of the first baseline evaluation) showed that during the trial, compared with the treatment group, odds of having a lesion rather than none was 4 times higher in the control group and the odds of having an active lesion compared with an inactive one were almost 6 times higher in the control group. …”
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Predicting the Risk of Fundus Lesions in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Nomogram Model by Huan Xie, Fangfang Sun, Huimin Yang, Jin Li

“…The data of the two groups were compared, and the prediction model was established using binary logistic regression analysis. …”
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The Effects of a Professional Development Program on the Classroom Practices of Physics Teachers by Ozlem Oktay, Ali Eryilmaz

“…Thematic coding was used in every dimension. The data were evaluated using a frequency analysis and displayed in tables. …”
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Improving the Detection, Assessment, Management and Prevention of Delirium in Hospices (the DAMPen-D study): protocol for a co-design and feasibility study of a flexible and scalab... by Najma Siddiqi, Chao Huang, Maureen Twiddy, Miriam Johnson, Margaret Ogden, Kathryn Sartain, Imogen Featherstone, Jason Boland, Mark Pearson, Catriona Jackson, Gillian Jackson

“…The primary objective of this study is to demonstrate the feasibility of an implementation strategy (designed to help deliver good practice delirium guidelines), participant recruitment and data collection.Methods and analysis Three work packages in three hospices in the UK with public involvement in codesign, study management and stakeholder groups: (1) experience-based codesign to adapt an existing theoretically-informed implementation strategy (Creating Learning Environments for Compassionate Care (CLECC)) to implement delirium guidelines in hospices; (2) feasibility study to explore ability to collect demographic, diagnostic and delirium management data from clinical records (n=300), explanatory process data (number of staff engaged in CLECC activities and reasons for non-engagement) and cost data (staff and volunteer hours and pay-grades engaged in implementation activities) and (3) realist process evaluation to assess the acceptability and flexibility of the implementation strategy (preimplementation and postimplementation surveys with hospice staff and management, n=30 at each time point; interviews with hospice staff and management, n=15). …”
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ClearFinder: a Python GUI for annotating cells in cleared mouse brain by Stefan Pastore, Philipp Hillenbrand, Nils Molnar, Irina Kovlyagina, Monika Chanu Chongtham, Stanislav Sys, Beat Lutz, Margarita Tevosian, Susanne Gerber

“…Fundamental statistical analysis, such as PCA and box plots, and additional visualization features allow for quick data evaluation and quality checks. …”
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Structured lactation support for mothers of very low birthweight preterm infants and establishment of human donor milk banks in German NICUs (Neo-MILK): protocol for a hybrid type... by Angela Kribs, Nicole Ernstmann, Nadine Scholten, Martin Hellmich, Antje Hammer, Eva Mildenberger, Andreas Müller, Dirk Horenkamp-Sonntag, Juliane Köberlein-Neu, Tim Ohnhäuser, Katja Matthias, Jens Ulrich Rüffer, Nicola Gabriela Dymek, Julia Jaschke, Anna Katharina Stirner, Isabella Schwab, Daniel Wiesen, Till Dresbach, Friederike Eyssel, Katharina Lugani, Anne Sunder-Plaßmann, Melanie Klein, Christoph Rupprecht

“…Statistical analysis will be performed using generalised linear mixed models.Ethics and dissemination Data collection, storage and analysis comply with current data protection regulations. …”
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