Assessing psychological health and reproductive function: Depression, anxiety, and stress in infertile men compared to controls: A case-control study by Seyedeh Narjes Roudbaraki, Maryam Ramezani, Bita Saifi, Mostafa Salimi, Massood Issapour Cheshani

“…Conclusion: Our study found infertile men had higher stress, anxiety, and depression than the control group. Limitations included phone-based data collection and the depression, anxiety, and stress scale 21 questionnaire’s screening nature. …”
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Lessons Learnt from the Monetary System of Guernsey by Gábor Sárdi, József Varga

“…According to a very popular story spread across the economic literature, the issuance of Guernsey pound prospered the island as some kind of a magic cure. …”
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SCWOMP Recovery Algorithm for 5G MIMO Communication Symbol Detection by Tao Fu, Yanfeng Yu, Cheng Liu

“…Then, the improved compressed sensing recovery algorithm is simulated and analyzed. When the pruning coefficient is 0.5 and the number of sampling points is 80, the reconstruction rate has a maximum value, and when other algorithms reach the maximum reconstruction rate, the number of sampling points (M) is significantly greater than that of the SCWOMP algorithm. …”
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Moving beyond an Addiction Framework for Phubbing: Unraveling the Influence of Intrinsic Motivation, Boredom, and Online Vigilance by Mirko Duradoni, Tommaso Raimondi, Federica Buttà, Andrea Guazzini

“…For this reason, this study is aimed at exploring the motivations behind phubbing behavior. Firstly, the research is aimed at confirming the relationships between phubbing and technology-related addictions (e.g., social media addiction and mobile phone addiction) and personality traits (e.g., neuroticism and conscientiousness). …”
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A Microfluidic Biosensor for Quantitative Detection of <i>Salmonella</i> in Traditional Chinese Medicine by Yutong Wu, Yang Liu, Jinchen Ma, Shanxi Zhu, Xiaojun Zhao, Huawei Mou, Xuanqi Ke, Zhisheng Wu, Yifei Wang, Sheng Lin, Wuzhen Qi

“…This entire process was automated using a portable device, and <i>Salmonella</i> concentration was analyzed via a phone application. This simple biosensor has good specificity with a detection range of 9 × 10¹–9 × 10⁵ CFU/mL and can detect <i>Salmonella</i> concentrations as low as 90 CFU/mL within 74 min. …”
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Zur Wallfahrtstheologie – biblische Aspekte by Maciej Ostrowski

“…Er beginnt mit dem Moment, sich auf den Weg zu machen, während dessen nach den Unruhen des Pilgers sich die Entscheidung, was die Zukunft anbetrifft, gestaltet (sich Gott anvertrauen, Intention formulieren, religiöse Motivationen der Wanderung stärken, sich der Gottes Obhut anvertrauen). Im nächsten Punkt wird die Wanderung selbst besprochen, die eine Probezeit und Zeit der geistigen Stärkung des Pilgers ist. …”
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Exploring parental knowledge, care-seeking, and support strategies for neonatal illness: an integrative review of the African Great Lakes region by Sarah Farrell, Tracey A. Mills, Dame Tina Lavender

“…Finally, “strategies to support parents’ understanding” emphasised the roles of community workers, health education phone calls, SMS, and videos, and neonatal monitoring systems. …”
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Przyjęcie wykluczonych do wspólnoty zbawienia na przykładzie Dz 15, 1–35 by Krzysztof Bieliński

“…Wskazano w nim, iż Pismo Święte, niezbędne źródło inspiracji dla procesu rozeznawania eklezjalnego, nadal stanowić powinno konieczny punkt odniesienia dla rozwiązywania przez Kościół nowych, aktualnych problemów etycznych. …”
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Reliability and concurrent validity of the iHandy level mobile application to measure thoracolumbar range of motion in low back pain patients by Nimra Ijaz, Saima Riaz, Tahreem Raza, Sidra Ali

“…However, the legitimacy and trustworthiness of these cell phones and applications are still questioned. This study aimed to determine the reliability and concurrent validity of the iHandy level mobile application to measure the thoracolumbar range of motion in people with low back pain. …”
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Designing smartphone-based cognitive assessments for schizophrenia: Perspectives from a multisite study by Aishwarya Raje, Abhijit R. Rozatkar, Urvakhsh Meherwan Mehta, Ritu Shrivastava, Ameya Bondre, Manaal Amir Ahmad, Anshika Malviya, Yogendra Sen, Deepak Tugnawat, Anant Bhan, Tamonud Modak, Nabagata Das, Srilakshmi Nagendra, Erlend Lane, Juan Castillo, John A. Naslund, John Torous, Soumya Choudhary

“…Using smartphones to assess cognition in schizophrenia offers the advantages of convenience in that patients can complete assessments outside of the clinic, temporality in that longitudinal trends can be identified, and contextuality in that cognitive scores can be interpreted with other measures captured by the phone (e.g. sleep). The current study aims to design a battery of cognitive assessments corresponding to the MATRICs Consensus Battery of Cognition (MCCB), in partnership with people living with schizophrenia. …”
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Acceptability and Attitude towards a Mobile-Based Home Exercise Program among Stroke Survivors and Caregivers: A Cross-Sectional Study by Amreen Mahmood, Vevita Blaizy, Aparajita Verma, Joel Stephen Sequeira, Dola Saha, Selvam Ramachandran, N. Manikandan, Bhaskaran Unnikrishnan, John M. Solomon

“…A logistic regression was performed to determine the effects of age, gender, and mobile phone on acceptability. Results. Ninety-two percent of caregivers and 90% of patients showed willingness to opt for mobile-based intervention. …”
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Neglecting the neglected: Tobacco cessation support is 'essential' for the management of asthma and COPD by Dilek Karadogan, İlknur Kaya, Merve Yumrukuz Şenel, Esin Bilgin Konyalıhatipoğlu, Tahsin Gökhan Telatar, Metin Akgün

“…Routine cessation interventions were implemented for current smokers, and they were followed via phone calls after one month regarding their quit status and access to cessation clinics. …”
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Investigation of Friction Stir-Welded B4C Particles-Reinforced Copper Joint: Mechanical, Fatigue, and Metallurgical Properties by M. Vetrivel Sezhian, G. Chakravarthi, K. Giridharan, Balasubramaniam Stalin, B. Yokesh Kumar, P. Sureshkumar, J. Vairamuthu, Ramaswamy Krishnaraj

“…Defect-free joints of 3 mm copper plates are produced at the constant tool rotational speed of 1100 rpm, welding speed of 30 mm/min, plunge depth of 0.25 mm, and constant axial stress of 5 kN. …”
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A randomized controlled study on the effectiveness of a diabetes self-management app in Bangladesh by Bilkis Banu, Nasrin Akter, Sujana Haque Chowdhury, Nusrat Hossain Sheba, Md. Abdul Hakim Majumder

“…Introduction: The smart phone application concept is widely recognized as a tool to support patients’ adherence. …”
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Photoaging smartphone app promoting poster campaign to reduce smoking prevalence in secondary schools: the Smokerface Randomized Trial: design and baseline characteristics by Michael Kreuter, Fabian N Fries, Titus J Brinker, Ute Mons, David A Groneberg, Anil Batra, Werner Seeger, Felix Herth, Julia Holzapfel, Tanja G Baudson, Katharina Sies, Lena Jakob, Hannah Maria Baumert, Marlene Heckl, Ana Cirac, Janina L Suhre, Verena Mathes, Hannah Spielmann, Nancy Rigotti, Tobias Raupach, Henning Gall, Claudia Bauer, Pat Marek, Chase H Harrison, Lava Taha, Andreas Owczarek, Felix J Hofmann, Roger Thomas

“…We took advantage of the widespread availability of mobile phones and adolescents’ interest in appearance to develop a free photoaging app which is promoted via a poster campaign in secondary schools. …”
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Oncology Clinicians' Perspectives of a Remote Patient Monitoring Program: Multi-Modal Case Study Approach by Ann Marie Mazzella-Ebstein, Robert Daly, Jennie Huang, Camila Bernal, Clare Wilhelm, Katherine S Panageas, Jessie Holland, Rori Salvaggio, Jill Ackerman, Jennifer Cracchiolo, Gilad Kuperman, Jun Mao, Aaron Begue, Margaret Barton-Burke

“…ResultsSurvey responses highlighted that RPM was easy to use and learn and verified symptom alerts during follow-up phone calls. Areas to improve identified practice changes from reporting RPM alerts through digital portals and its influence on clinicians’ workload burden. …”
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Tajemnice i pułapki chińskiego domu by Alicja Helman

“… Autorka za punkt wyjścia przyjmuje symboliczne traktowanie architektury chińskiej, którą w tej właśnie funkcji najczęściej przedstawiało kino. …”
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Improving capacity for advanced training in obstetric surgery: evaluation of a blended learning approach by Helen Allott, Alan Smith, Sarah White, Irene Nyaoke, Ogoti Evans, Michael Oriwo Oduor, Steven Karangau, Sheila Sawe, Nassir Shaaban, Ochola Ephraim, Charles Anawo Ameh

“…Additionally, we compared the cost of the blended delivery to the 5-day face-to-face delivery, in GB pounds. Results Sixty-five doctors participated in part 1, with 53 completing at least 90% of the assignments. …”
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Researchers and practitioners talk about users and each other: making user and audience studies matter by Brenda Dervin, CarrieLynn Reinhard

“…</b> Eighty-three international experts in the three fields were interviewed by phone; thirty-one local experts, public and academic librarians serving universities and colleges in central Ohio, were interviewed using self-journals and focus group reports. …”
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Novel Node Centrality-Based Efficient Empirical Robustness Assessment for Directed Network by Xiaolong Deng, Hao Ding, Yong Chen, Cai Chen, Tiejun Lv

“…Then, with the abundant experiments on the synthetic signed network and real-life networks derived from directed online social media and directed human mobile phone calling network, it has been proved that our ITG and IMpv based on directed social network robustness and node vulnerability assessment method is more accurate, efficient, and faster than several traditional centrality methods such as degree and betweenness. …”
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