Cardiomeds, an mHealth App for Self-Management to Support Swiss Patients With Heart Failure: 2-Stage Mixed Methods Usability Study by Lisa Simioni, Elena Tessitore, Hamdi Hagberg, Aurélie Schneider-Paccot, Katherine Blondon, Liliane Gschwind, Philippe Meyer, Frederic Ehrler

“…The average System Usability Scale score was 80% (SD 17%), showing a slight increase from 79% (SD 16%) in the first stage to 80% (SD 28%) in the second stage, which qualifies the app as “good” in terms of usability. Between the 2 stages, part of the app interface was redesigned to address the key issues identified in the first stage. …”
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Effect of visceral fat area on prognosis of patients undergoing radical gastrectomy and construction of nomogram by Zhicheng Huang, Baohua Zheng, Zhiwei Wang, Xiaobin Chen, Yu Wang

“…Its internal verification C-index was 0.881 (95% CI: 0.852–0.910), and the calibration chart showed good consistency. Conclusions Age, differentiation degree, postoperative complications, VFA, ASA grading, and TNM staging are independent influencing factors for the prognosis of patients with gastric cancer. …”
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Pengamanan Pesan E-Complaint Fasilitas dan Kinerja Civitas Akademika Menggunakan Algoritma RSA by Dwi Yuny Sylfania, Fransiskus Panca Juniawan, Laurentinus Laurentinus, Hengki Hengki

“…Based on these tests, the opportunity to find the right private key in a long time so that there is no message on the e-complaint application can result in good.   …”
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Effects of Bride Price on Women's Rights Among the Bakiga in Kabale District: A Case Study of Kitumba Sub-County. by Asiimwe, Bettus

“…They deny them a chance to make any decisions because they are no bodies just goods bought from the market. This trend can deeply affect marriage stability. …”
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Designing a financial literacy development model for Farhangian University students by Mohsen Molapanah, Yousef Namvar, Azam Rastgoo, Majid Ahmadlu, Toran Soleimani

“…Confirmatory factor analysis shows that the model has good reliability. The study is based on the observed criterion of the goodness index of the appropriate power of the model in the prediction of the appropriate endogenous variable. …”
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Context Is All You Need: A Hybrid Attention-Based Method for Detecting Code Design Patterns by Tarik Houichime, Younes El Amrani

“…Trained on a diverse set of code samples representing all 23 GoF design patterns, sourced from repositories such as GitHub and Bitbucket, our methodology achieved an accuracy of 92%. …”
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Eficacia y seguridad del tratamiento con la combinación fija a dosis bajas de cinarizina 20 mg y dimenhidrinato 40 mg en el vértigo de origen diverso en la práctica clínica en Espa... by Rafael Hijano-Esqué, Jesús Ignacio González Orodea, Javier Imaz Fandos, Natividad Pacheco Rubio, Gonzalo Daniel Alzuarte, Manuel Ruiz Cuetos, Amelia Rodríguez Mariblanca, Eva García Aguilar

“…Tolerability was rated as very good or good in most cases, with no serious adverse events reported, and no extrapyramidal effects, drowsiness, or inhibition of vestibular compensation mechanisms were noted. …”
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Factors Contributing to Retention in Care and Treatment Adherence Among People Living With HIV Returning to Care in South-Eastern Tanzania: A Qualitative Study by Matimbwa H, Lolo SA, Matoy LS, Ndaki R, Ngahyoma S, Mollel HA, Luoga E, Vanobberghen F, Vianney JM, Idindili B, Weisser M

“…Box 53, Off Mlabani Passage, Ifakara, Morogoro, Tanzania, Tel +255 718 371 666, Email hassanmatimbwa@gmail.comBackground: People living with HIV (PLHIV) with good adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) achieve good health outcomes. …”
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Identification and Analysis of Key Immune- and Inflammation-Related Genes in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis by Tan Y, Qian B, Ma Q, Xiang K, Wang S

“…Three genes (RNASE3, S100A12, S100A8) were obtained by crossing two machine algorithms (Boruta and LASSO),which had good diagnostic performance with AUC values. These key genes were all enriched in the same pathways, such as GOCC_azurophil_granule, IL-12 signalling and production in macrophages is the pathway with the strongest role for key genes. …”
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Effectiveness of Inactivated Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccine Against Omicron BA.2.2 Infection in Beijing, China, 2022: A Cohabitation Retrospective Cohort Study by Shuaibing Dong, Ying Sun, Zhaomin Feng, Yi Tian, Lei Jia, Xiaoli Wang, Quanyi Wang, Daitao Zhang, Peng Yang

“…Inactivated COVID-19 vaccines provided a certain level protection from infection and symptoms, very good protection against pneumonia, and it still has a modest protective effect at 6 months after vaccination. …”
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Economic and environmental sustainability of agriculture production at the crop level by A.Z. Bi, K.B. Umesh, B. Md Abdul, D. Sivakumar, P. Srikanth

“…In order to sell their goods at competitive prices, farmers must handle problems including market monopolies, price instability, and fair trading practices. …”
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Development of the DO₃SE-Crop model to assess ozone effects on crop phenology, biomass, and yield by P. Pande, S. Bland, N. Booth, J. Cook, Z. Feng, L. Emberson

“…The calibrated model was tested on data for different years (2007 and 2009) and for two additional cultivars and was found to simulate key physiological variables, crop development, and yield with a good level of accuracy. The DO<span class="inline-formula">₃</span>SE-Crop model simulated the phenological stages of crop development under ambient and elevated O<span class="inline-formula">₃</span> treatments for the test datasets with an <span class="inline-formula"><i>R</i>²</span> of 0.95 and an RMSE of 2.5 d. …”
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Predictive Value of Urinary KIM-1, TIMP-2 and sTREM-1 for Contrast-Induced Acute Kidney Injury in Elderly Patients After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention by Huang W, Wang R, Zhang P

“…ROC curve analysis showed that the areas under the curve (AUCs) for urine KIM-1, TIMP-2, and sTREM-1 in diagnosing CI-AKI at 6 hours postoperatively were 0.852 (95% CI: 0.768– 0.936), 0.810 (95% CI: 0.723– 0.898), and 0.874 (95% CI: 0.804– 0.943), and the cut-off values were 45.93 ng/L, 1.63 ng/mL, and 61.48 ng/L, respectively, with sensitivities of 66.70%, 58.30%, and 72.20%, and specificities of 95.00%, 93.00%, and 91.00%, respectively (all P < 0.05).Conclusion: Urinary KIM-1, TIMP-2 and sTREM-1 can respond to early changes in renal function after PCI and have good application value in the early diagnosis of CI-AKI.Keywords: percutaneous coronary intervention, kidney injury molecule-1, tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-2, soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-1, contrast-induced acute kidney injury…”
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Validation Indicator Identification and Customer Ranking in Microloans: A Study at Middle East Bank in Iran by Azadeh Ahmadi Kousha, Faegh Ahmadi, Mohammad Hossein Ranjbar, Hamidreza Kordlouie

“…Because these customers generally have limited access to financial and credit information and cannot provide guarantors or good credit records, it is very challenging to determine correct and reliable indicators. …”
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Acupoint application of Xiefu prescription in the prevention of functional constipation in long-term bedridden patients with pelvic fracture (泻腑贴方穴位贴敷预防长期卧床骨盆骨折患者功能性便秘的临床研究)... by GU Tianjiao (顾天姣), LIU Yingchun (刘迎春), DONG Ziqing (董子青), DING Di (丁娣), DENG Lixia (邓丽霞), YANG Yanhui (杨燕辉), MAO Lingling (毛玲玲)

“…Conclusion Acupoint application of Xiefu prescription and sticking therapy has a good preventive effect on functional constipation in long-term bedridden patients with pelvic fracture. …”
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Integrating Videoconferencing Therapist Guidance Into Stepped Care Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Child and Adolescent Anxiety: Noninferiority Randomized Contr... by Sonja March, Susan H Spence, Larry Myers, Martelle Ford, Genevieve Smith, Caroline L Donovan

“…Although noninferiority of the stepped care adaptive approach could not be determined, it was acceptable to families, produced good outcomes, and could assist in increasing access to evidence-based care. …”
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Effect of Modified Compound Xiaozhang Powder for Patients with Shoulder-Hand Syndrome after Cerebral Infarction by Using Fumigation and Washing combined with Acupuncture by Dujuan GE, Liyu WU, Sanfeng SUN, Xiangshu LI

“…The total effective rate in the observation group (92.5%) was significantly higher than that in the control group (67.5%), and the difference was statistically significant (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05).Conclusion:Modified compound Xiaozhang powder by using fumigation and washing combined with acupuncture can effectively improve the degree of hand swelling and relieve pain of patients with shoulder-hand syndrome after cerebral infarction, improve upper limb motor function, shoulder ROM and activities of daily living, and it has a good curative effect.…”
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Effect of maturity status on lower-limb strength testing reliability in academy football players from an elite professional club by Maxime Violin, Abd-elbasset Abaïdia, Guillaume Rave, Sébastien Ratel

“…Results: Most test-retest evaluations showed good statistical reliability for each group (CV<10% and ICC>0.90) (see Table below). …”
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Comparative quantitative assessment of the placement and intensity of laser spots for treating diabetic macular edema by E.A. Zamytskiy, A.V. Zolotarev, E.V. Karlova, N.Yu. Il’yasova, A.S. Shirokanev

“…The uniformity of the placement was good in both groups (8.16 pixels and 8.44 pixels, respectively), no significant difference was reported (p=0.0591).…”
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Validity, Agreement and Reliability of the ForceFrame Dynamometer in Patients with Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury by Kamilla Arp, Thomas Frydendal, Troels Kjeldsen, Ulrik Dalgas, Signe Timm, Bjarke Viberg, Kim Ingwersen, Claus Varnum

“… # Results Twenty-seven participants (10 females, 17 males) with a median age of 25 years (range 19-60) were included in this study. There was a good day-to-day test-retest reliability for MVIC of KE (ICC=0.77, CI95:0.48-0.90) and KF (ICC=0.83, CI95:0.61-0.92) and excellent inter-tester reliability for MVIC of KE (ICC=0.97, CI95:0.94-0.98) and KF (ICC=0.93, 95CI:0.85-0.97). …”
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