Trends and contributors of complete continuum of maternal healthcare service utilization in Ethiopia: a multivariate decomposition analyses by Ayal Debie, Molla M. Wassie, Claire T. Roberts, Murthy N. Mittinty, Annabelle Wilson, Jacqueline H. Stephens

“…Adopting a multi-faceted approach that considers the unique challenges within the country, including women's education, wealth status, and quality of care, will improve CMHS utilization. Empowering women through education can enhance their decision-making ability regarding their own health.…”
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Coexistence of multiple leaf nutrient resorption strategies in urban forests by Pin Li, Zejin Wang, Kun Ran

“…Rapid urbanization has driven marked changes in local and regional nutrient cycles, thereby influencing the nutrient utilization efficiency of plants proximal to urban areas. …”
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Demography and homing behavior in the poorly-known Philippine flat-headed frog Barbourula busuangensis (Anura: Bombinatoridae) by Marta Miñarro, Patricia Burrowes, Claudia Lansac, Gregorio Sánchez-Montes, Leticia E. Afuang, Ignacio De la Riva

“…CMR data confirmed site fidelity, and translocation experiments revealed that frogs have the ability to home when displaced 10–50 m upstream and downstream from their original capture site. …”
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Therapeutic Efficacy of <i>Lavandula dentata</i>’s Oil and Ethanol Extract in Regulation of the Neuroinflammation, Histopathological Alterations, Oxidative Stress, and Restoring Balance Treg Cells Expressing FoxP3+ in a Rat Model of Epilepsy by Aziza Antar, Eman S. Abdel-Rehiem, Areej A. Al-Khalaf, Abdelaziz S. A. Abuelsaad, Mohamed Abdel-Gabbar, Gaber M. G. Shehab, Ayman M. Abdel-Aziz

“…<b>Results</b>: The investigation revealed that the extract and essential oils obtained from <i>L. dentata</i> L. exhibited the ability to improve the modulation of electrolytes and ions across voltage- and ligand-gated ion channels. …”
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Transendothelial migration of the Lyme disease spirochete involves spirochete internalization as an intermediate step through a transcellular pathway that involves Cdc42 and Rac1 by Daiana Alvarez-Olmedo, Claire Kamaliddin, Theodore B. Verhey, May Ho, Rebekah De Vinney, George Chaconas

“…It is the most common tick-transmitted illness in the Northern Hemisphere. The ability of this pathogen to spread to a wide variety of locations results in a diverse set of clinical manifestations, yet little is known regarding vascular escape of the spirochete, an important pathway for dissemination. …”
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Treatment of Vascular Dementia by Using Fuyuan Capsule Combined with "Xingnao Kaiqiao" Acupuncture by LI Hongmei, WANG Xiaoqin, GUO Yang, SHI Hongxing, GUO Xiao, WANG Xue

“…The expression of protein interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) before and after treatment were determined by enzyme-linked immunoassay. …”
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Home-based strength and balance exercises for fall prevention among older individuals of advanced age: a randomized controlled single-blind study by Jian Zhou, Bo Liu, Jian-fang Xu, Fu-bai-hui Wang, Hui Ye, Jin-Ping Duan, Xin-wen Cui

“…We conducted a comprehensive geriatric assessment (self-care ability, muscle strength, mobility, cognition, and psychological status) at baseline and 12 months later and dynamic posture mapping for balance and gait.Results The test group had a decreased risk of falls compared to the control group (25.4%vs.44.3%, respectively; RR = 0.747; 95% CI: 0.551–0.975; p = 0.027). …”
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Predictive Policing and Enhancing Security Performance through Artificial Intelligence Applications by Bensalem Kheira

“…These models empower authorities to issue early warnings, develop contingency plans, and reduce potential casualties and economic losses. The ability to anticipate disasters reflects the broader utility of AI in enhancing societal resilience and preparedness. …”
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The influence of e-trust on a job performance model based on employees’ dynamic capabilities during a crisis caused by a Black Swan event by Katarzyna Tworek, Guangyan Luo, Marcin Paska, Anna Sałamacha

“…PURPOSE: In a crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic, employees play a key role in the ability to survive and achieve both sufficient and outstanding performance in the organization. …”
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Lightweight Detection and Counting of Maize Tassels in UAV RGB Images by Hang Yang, Jiaji Wu, Yi Lu, Yuning Huang, Pinwei Yang, Yurong Qian

“…On the publicly available maize tassel detection and counting dataset (MTDC), DLMNet achieves an <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi><mi>P</mi><mn>50</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> of 83.3%, which is 0.7% higher than YOLOv8, further demonstrating DLMNet’s excellent generalization ability. This study enhances the model’s adaptability to sunlight, enabling high performance under suboptimal conditions and offering insights for real-time intelligent agriculture monitoring with UAV technology.…”
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The Use of Electronic Consent (eConsent) Within the Ketamine for Long-Lasting Pain Relief After Surgery (KALPAS) Multicenter Trial by Doan LV, Burr J, Perez R, Martinez H, Cuevas R, Watt K, Wang J

“…When signing the eConsent, however, all potential participants are provided with a concise summary of the informed consent document, an approach not widely used by multicenter studies. eConsent has been noted to be beneficial to research staff when trying to gather informed consent from participants who live far away from the hospital, want to include their family and friends, and for researchers who can approach patients outside of their clinical appointments.Conclusion: The ability to consent patients remotely has allowed for a flexible workflow within sites and a more patient-centric process that focuses on including loved ones in the discussion and scheduling time to speak to a principal investigator. …”
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Determinant of unmet need for family planning among adolescent and young women in Kenya: multilevel analysis using recent Kenyan demographic health survey by Beyene Sisay Damtew, Hinsermu Bayu Abdi, Beker Ahemed Hussien, Getahun Tiruye, Nafyad Tolossa Urgie, Beniam worku Yigezu, Sifan Ahmed Mohammed, Bezawit Melak Fente

“…These factors create barriers that hinder women's ability to plan their pregnancies and access necessary resources. …”
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Application of core functions and forms in complex health intervention research: a scoping review protocol by Eunyoung Kang, Maria E Fernández, Jessica D Austin, Monica Perez Jolles, Katelyn Fox, Debbie Passey, Laura Zeigen, Erin Kenzie, Rachel J Meadows

“…Introduction The ability of healthcare, community and public health systems to effectively implement and disseminate research innovations depends on contextual factors at multiple interconnected levels of influence (eg, the innovation, individual, provider/implementor, organisation and health system). …”
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Antibacterial Potential of Endemic Medicinal Plants of the Maluku Islands, Indonesia, against Urinary Tract Infection Pathogens by Eka Astuty, Vinsa Delia Luhulima, Stefanus Cahyo Ariwicaksono

“…This was a true experimental research with a posttest-only control group design. The medicinal plant extraction was conducted using the maceration method. …”
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Large Language Model Approach for Zero-Shot Information Extraction and Clustering of Japanese Radiology Reports: Algorithm Development and Validation by Yosuke Yamagishi, Yuta Nakamura, Shouhei Hanaoka, Osamu Abe

“…Previously used in the NTCIR-16 (NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research) shared task for clustering performance competition, this dataset was ideal for comparing the clustering ability of our algorithm with those of previous methods. …”
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Emotional regulation as a transdiagnostic category through clinical problems: a narrative study by Alvaro Paredes-Rivera, Geraldine F Coria-Palomino, Alexandra Y Marcos-Lescano, Sthefany Sedano-Alejandro

“…Being emotional regulation a transdiagnostic variable that is defined as the ability of the person to make use of resources or skills to modulate the behavioral response produced after experiencing a moderate to high intensity emotion. …”
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Predictive modeling to evaluate long-term treatment effectiveness of darvadstrocel in patients with complex perianal fistulas in Crohn’s disease by Chitra Karki, Gary Hantsbarger, Erika Turkstra, Elisabetta Fenu, Ken Genenz, Inmaculada Gilaberte, Julián Panés

“…Abstract Background Current therapies for complex Crohn’s perianal fistulas (CPF) have a limited ability to achieve long-term healing. Darvadstrocel (DVS) is an expanded allogeneic adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cell therapy that has demonstrated efficacy in treating complex CPF in clinical trials. …”
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Targeting CXCL8 signaling sensitizes HNSCC to anlotinib by reducing tumor-associated macrophage-derived CLU by Xin Hu, Yikang Ji, Mi Zhang, Zhihui Li, Xinhua Pan, Zhen Zhang, Xu Wang

“…Supplementary IL-8 stimulated TAMs to synthesize CLU, and CLU counteracted oxidative stress in HNSCC cells under conditions of glucose deficiency. …”
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Assessment in education: Current trends, problems and contradictions (review of scientific publications) by I. B. Shmigirilova, A. S. Rvanova, O. V. Grigorenko

“…This process is accompanied by a rapid increase in the volume of scientific and methodological publications on this issue, reducing the ability of scientists and practising educators to comprehend the cumulative evidence in this area of research, which is important at the stage of reform. …”
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Development and Evaluation of an ICU Nurse Training Program on Oral Mucosal Pressure Injury Prevention and Management Using the ADDIE Model by Jia T, Lan Y, Pang J, Ma M, Ding Z, Wang Y, Jiang E

“…The incidence of oral MMPI after the training (5.94%) was significantly lower than that before training (22.93) (x2=12.034, P< 0.001).Conclusion: The training course program for ICU nurses to care for oral MMPI based on the ADDIE module can effectively improve ICU nurses’ comprehensive ability to prevent oral MMPI and reduce the incidence of oral MMPI. …”
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