Knowledge and occupational practices of beauticians and barbers in the transmission of viral hepatitis: A mixed-methods study in Volta Region of Ghana. by Silas Adjei-Gyamfi, Abigail Asirifi, Clotilda Asobuno, Felix Kwame Korang

“…Our study results suggest possible viral transmission through the activities of street beauticians and barbers which could be attributed to the lack of regulatory systems and training of these cosmetologists. Policy-makers and regulatory bodies should institute and enforce rigorous policies and guidelines on job-related safety measures and health practices including regular training, monitoring, screening, and vaccination programs for these high-risk community workers in Ghana.…”
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Rural-urban disparity in uptaking skilled antenatal care visits by pregnant women in Bangladesh: Zero and One Inflated Poisson regression model. by Lubana Tanvia, M Ershadul Haque, Wasimul Bari

“…Based on the results, the study comes up with some recommendations to facilitate the policy makers in improvising strategies and ensuring sustainable rise in SANC counts as well as WHO recommended positive pregnancy experience in the country to meet SDGs.…”
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Factors Influencing Telemedicine Adoption Among Health Care Professionals: Qualitative Interview Study by Fiona Schürmann, Daniel Westmattelmann, Gerhard Schewe

“…Practically, the findings guide stakeholders: policy makers should prioritize transparent regulations and data security, health care organizations should provide training and support for HCPs, and technology developers must design telemedicine solutions aligning with trust and usability needs. …”
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Protecting the Autonomy of Patients with Severe Mental Illness Through Psychiatric Advance Directive Peer-Facilitation by Nicholas Karasik

“…Elbogen et al., "Clinical Decision Making and Views about Psychiatric Advance Directives," Psychiatric Services 57, no. 3 (2006): 350-355, https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.57.3.350…”
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Adulthood trajectories of resilience and vulnerability: exploring gender differences in disadvantage after experience of out-of-home care by Lisa Bornscheuer, Evelina Landstedt, Karl Gauffin, Ylva B. Almquist

“…Studying the manifestation of this disadvantage is crucial for understanding which resources society can provide to mitigate or prevent it, which makes this subject a fundamental public health concern. …”
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Analysis on the Difference of Energy Evolution in the Process of Energy Storage Failure of Strong Coal Rush Rock Samples under Different Adaptive Modification Regulation Measures by Fangfang Zhang

“…However, we should focus on the defects of the corresponding control measures and finally try to make a reasonable combination of different modification measures. …”
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Sub-regional efforts to achieve gender equality in land ownership by Marcel Loyd MINKA

“…The problem is that, there is no research paper that has analyzed these efforts at sub-regional levels (North, Central, West, East and Southern Africa), by providing data on these sub-regional efforts (best practices and successful interventions) jointly made to achieve gender equality in land ownership. …”
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The age and genetics of individual larches in four rural parks and at the Järvselja Educational and Experimental Forest Centre in Estonia by Sander Heldur, Pâques Luc E.

“….), and hybrid (L. decidua × L. sibirica and L. sibirica × L. decidua) larches makes the obtained results inconclusive. In the case of Mäksa, both morphological and genetic analyses confirmed the presence of Japanese and Euro-Japanese larches, which was previously confirmed. …”
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A Hybrid Model for Soybean Yield Prediction Integrating Convolutional Neural Networks, Recurrent Neural Networks, and Graph Convolutional Networks by Vikram S. Ingole, Ujwala A. Kshirsagar, Vikash Singh, Manish Varun Yadav, Bipin Krishna, Roshan Kumar

“…TCNs can capture long-range temporal dependencies well, while the GCN model has complex spatial relationships and enhanced the features for making yield predictions. This increases the prediction accuracy by 10% and boosts the F1 score for low-yield area identification by 5%. …”
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Attempt to save Friendship, or What the Liberator of Prague Did in Czechoslovakia in May 1968 by I. A. Permyakov, S. G. Antonenko

“…The final decision on the intervention was made by the Soviet political leadership after numerous consultations with partners in the socialist camp, largely under the influence of the tough position of the first secretary of the PUWP Central Committee W. …”
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Rehabilitation, reablement, and restorative care approaches in the aged care sector: a scoping review of systematic reviews by Claire Gough, Raechel A. Damarell, Janine Dizon, Paul D.S. Ross, Jennifer Tieman

“…This fragmented evidence makes it challenging to argue the effectiveness of one approach over another for older people in receipt of aged care services. …”
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Characterization and Selection of WiFi Channel State Information Features for Human Activity Detection in a Smart Public Transportation System by Roya Alizadeh, Yvon Savaria, Chahe Nerguizian

“…Since the environment of a transportation system changes dynamically and non-deterministically, we propose analyzing these changes with a heuristic algorithm that leverages a decision tree to automate a decision-making solution for feature selection. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is performed before the decision tree algorithm. …”
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Finding the right dose: a scoping review examining facilitation as an implementation strategy for evidence-based stroke care by Oyebola Fasugba, Heilok Cheng, Simeon Dale, Kelly Coughlan, Elizabeth McInnes, Dominique A. Cadilhac, Ngai W. Cheung, Kelvin Hill, Kirsty Page, Estela Sanjuan Menendez, Emily Neal, Vivien Pollnow, Julia Slark, Eileen Gilder, Anna Ranta, Christopher Levi, Jeremy M. Grimshaw, Sandy Middleton

“…However, variability in the amount (dose) and type of facilitation activities/facilitator roles that make up the facilitation strategies (content), may affect the effectiveness of facilitation. …”
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Opportunities for Prevention of Complications in Intestinal Stoma Surgery by V. S. Groshilin, V. D. Kuznetsov, D. V. Kuznetsov, A. A. Pogosyan

“…To confirm the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, an analysis of 52 clinical observations in patients who underwent surgeries with the formation of an end colostomy was carried out, which made up two clinical groups. In group 1 (n = 25) the developed therapeutic and diagnostic algorithm was applied, which included a rational choice of the colostomy localization site, taking into account individual features of the anterior abdominal wall structure, the quality of vascularity of the ostomy intestine, the terminal portion of its mesentery, the length and topography of the end section. …”
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Stomatitis sub-prosthesis in patients with superior dental prosthesis by Antonia Martina Francisco Local, Yoel González Beriau, Ana Gloria Vázquez de León

“…It can be caused by multiple factors, which makes its study and prognosis more difficult. </span><strong><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Tahoma;">Objective</span></strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><strong>:</strong> To describe the occurrence of stomatitis sub-prosthesis and its causes in patients with superior dental prosthesis. …”
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Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) implementations to control cholera outbreak in Oromia region, Ethiopia by Dabesa Gobena, Esayas Kebede Gudina, Getahun Fetensa, Tizta Tilahun Degfie, Tessema Debela, Afework Tamiru, Zenebu Begna Bayissa, Dereje Diriba, Tarekegn Sarbessa, Daniel Bekele, Natinel Teferi, Achalu Layesa, Abate Zewdie, Dawit Worku Ayele, Meron Debebe Mersha, Chala Bafikadu, Senahara Korsa Wake, Lemi Abebe, Tesfaye Kebebew, Tefera Goshu, Birhanu Kenate, Yadeta Dessie, Zeleke Mekonnen

“…Preliminary evaluation of Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) materials before their distribution should be made, and adopting diverse communication modalities to control the outbreak.…”
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Effect of different ceramic materials and dentin sealing on occlusal veneers bond strength and fracture resistance by Dina Mohamed Nasr, Rewaa Gaber AboElHassan

“…Conclusion Immediate dentin sealing increased the required debonding forces of occlusal veneers made of different materials and their bond strength without significant effect on their fracture resistance, however this improvement was found to be material dependant. …”
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Kinetic Analysis of the Reduction Processes of a Cisplatin Pt(IV) Prodrug by Mesna, Thioglycolic Acid, and Thiolactic Acid by Yanqing Xia, Hongwu Tian, Yanlei Li, Xinru Yang, Jinming Liu, Chunli Liu, Li Zhou, Lincai Zhang, Tiejian Li, Tiesheng Shi

“…The species versus pH and reactivity of species versus pH distribution diagrams were constructed, demonstrating that the species ‒SCH2CH2SO3‒ of Mesna largely governs the total reactivity when pH > 5; in contrast, the form of Mesna per se (mainly as HSCH2CH2SO3‒) makes a negligible contribution. In addition, a well-determined dissociation constant for the Mesna thiol group (pKa2 = 8.85 ± 0.05 at 25.0°C and μ = 1.0 M) is offered in this work, which was determined by both kinetic approach and spectrophotometic titration method.…”
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A Metabolic Gene Signature to Predict Overall Survival in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Zeng-Hong Wu, Yun Tang, Yue Zhou

“…The availability of high-throughput expression data has made it possible to use global gene expression data to analyze the relationship between metabolic-related gene expression and clinical outcomes in HNSCC patients. …”
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Qualitative evaluation of the implementation and national roll-out of the NHS App in England by Claire Reidy, Chrysanthi Papoutsi, Sukriti KC, Bernard Gudgin, Anthony A. Laverty, Felix Greaves, John Powell

“…NHS staff viewed the app as constituting core NHS infrastructure in the long term which made it appealing, even though initially there was less recognition of its immediate value. …”
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