Evaluating novel approaches for estimating awake and sleep blood pressure: design of the Better BP Study – a randomised, crossover trial by Paul Muntner, Ligong Chen, Daichi Shimbo, Joseph E Schwartz, Maria Cepeda, Demetria Hubbard, Suzanne Oparil, Byron C Jaeger, Shakia T Hardy, Julia Medina

“…Following these visits, participants complete 24 hours of ABPM and one night of HBPM, in random order. …”
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The Comparative Mental Health Responses Between Post-Musculoskeletal Injury and Post-Concussive Injury Among Collegiate Athletes: A Systematic Review by Joseph Sabol, Cecelia Kane, Mark P Wilhelm, Jennifer C Reneker, Megan Burrowbridge Donaldson

“…Data extracted from the included articles included the study design, number of participants, type of injury, sex, age, sport participation, outcome measures, and time to return to play…”
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Teachers' perceptions of teaching mathematics topics based on STEM educational philosophy: A sequential explanatory design by Ibrahim Khalil, Amirah AL Zahrani, Bakri Awaji, Mohammed Mohsen

“…Limitations in student interaction were linked to students' limited understanding of STEM, teachers' beliefs, and students' weak mathematics skills. The participants viewed textbook content positively, citing STEM-related components.…”
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Moral competence of dental students: an explanatory mixed-methods study by Raheleh Mosavi, Fatemeh Foroughipour, Maryam Kazemipoor, Fatemeh Keshmiri

“…Method This is an explanatory mixed-method study conducted in two quantitative and qualitative phases. Participants included undergraduate students in clerkship courses in Dentistry schools (n = 180). …”
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Toward learning recovery: challenges of international students in China during COVID-19 online learning experience by Nilo Jayoma Castulo

“…It highlights lessons learned from the pandemic and presents mitigation strategies based on the participants’ perspectives. These strategies aim to address the learning poverty identified by the World Bank.…”
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Effect of a Stress-Management Intervention Based on Self-efficacy Theory for Enriching Marital Relationships and Sleep Quality in Primigravida Women by Zeinab Alizadeh, Farzaneh Noroozi, Mohammad Hossein Kaveh, Rosanna Cousins, Leila Ghahremani

“…Of the 128 eligible pregnant women consented to participate, 39 were randomly assigned to each condition. …”
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Statins and the incidence of post-stroke depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Chaohua Cui, Jue Li, Weicong Chen

“…Eligibility Criteria: Original observational cohort studies. Participants: Patients with ischemic stroke. Interventions: Use of statins. …”
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Experimental and Computational Approaches for the Classification and Correlation of Temperament (Mizaj) and Uterine Dystemperament (Su’-I-Mizaj Al-Rahim) in Abnormal Vaginal Discha... by Arshiya Sultana, Wajeeha Begum, Rushda Saeedi, Khaleequr Rahman, Md Belal Bin Heyat, Faijan Akhtar, Ngo Tung Son, Hadaate Ullah

“…This trial included a total of 66 participants with a vaginal discharge of reproductive age. …”
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Development and Complex Dynamics at School Environment by Miguel Angel Fuentes, Juan Pablo Cárdenas, Natalia Carro, Mariana Lozada

“…The aim of this study is to evaluate behavioral plasticity of social relationships between peers in 6-7 year-olds who participated in the intervention conducted in a school context. …”
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Association between the systemic immune-inflammation index and sarcopenia in older adults: a cross-sectional study by Esra Cataltepe, Eda Ceker, Ayse Fadiloglu, Fatih Gungor, Nermin Karakurt, Zekeriya Ulger, Hacer Dogan Varan

“…Results The average age of the participants was 74.8 ± 6.4, and 62.3% (n = 394) were female. …”
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PharmaLLM: A Medicine Prescriber Chatbot Exploiting Open-Source Large Language Models by Ayesha Azam, Zubaira Naz, Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan

“…Results from the questionnaire indicated that participants found the system easy to navigate and the responses useful and relevant. …”
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Digital assessment of muscle adaptation in obese patients with osteoarthritis: Insights from surface electromyography (sEMG) by Xinran Luo, Qiaojie Wang, Hongyu Tan, Wenbo Zhao, Yifei Yao, Shengdi Lu

“…Methods We recruited 119 obese participants with unilateral KOA from January 2021 to December 2023, all classified with mild to moderate KOA grades. …”
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Impacts of social restrictions on mental health and health behaviours of individuals with multimorbidity during Covid-19 pandemic by Valérie Chauvin, Resti Tito H Villarino, Paquito Bernard, Hanan Yazbek, Laurence Kern, Marie Hokayem, Lama Mattar, Gayatri Kotbagi, Melissa Rizk, Yannick Morvan, Aurélie Baillot, Ahmed Jérôme Romain

“…Methods Longitudinal multinational cohort study consisting of two online questionnaires with its first wave taken place while social restrictions were imposed (May 2020), and its second wave with less social restrictions in place (November 2020). Including 559 participants (wave 1) and 147 participants from wave 1 (wave 2) with an average age of 34.30±12.35 and 36.21±13.07 years old. …”
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Selective engagement of long-latency reflexes in postural control through wobble board training by Theodore Deligiannis, Mahsa Barfi, Brian Schlattmann, Ken Kiyono, Damian G. Kelty-Stephen, Madhur Mangalam

“…We investigated whether the wobble board could cultivate the engagement of LLRs selectively in healthy young participants executing a suprapostural Trail Making Task (TMT). …”
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Somatotypes and handgrip strength analysis of elite Serbian sambo athletes by Jelena Slankamenac, Tatjana Trivić, Damjan Jakšić, Miodrag Drapšin, Nemanja Lakićević, Patrik Drid

“…A total of 70 elite Serbian sambo athletes participated in the study, who were participants of the World Cadet Sambo Championship held in Novi Sad. …”
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Towards personalized cardiometabolic risk prediction: A fusion of exposome and AI by Zeinab Shahbazi, Slawomir Nowaczyk

“…Examination of 109 exposome variables from participants' baseline visits spanned physical measures, environmental factors, lifestyle choices, mental health events, and early-life factors. …”
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Les mots du Grand Débat national : les réseaux lexicaux des contributions déposées sur trois plateformes by Sabine Ploux, Michael Genay, Leu Ploux-Chillès

“…During the Grand Débat national, launched on January 15, 2019, several platforms such as the Grand Débat national (GDN), Le Vrai Débat (VD), or Entendre la France (EF) collected contributions from participants on societal issues. In this article, we present a method for extracting and analyzing lexical networks derived from the text corpora formed by these contributions using the Semantic Atlas geometric model. …”
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Relationships between the menstrual cycle and neuropsychiatric and physical symptoms in females with Tourette syndrome by Daisy T. Noriega-Makarskyy, Evan Realbuto, Ariadne Kaylor, Lisa Osiecki, Angela Essa, Dongmei Yu, Dongmei Yu, Cornelia Illmann, Carol A. Mathews, Carol A. Mathews, Carol A. Mathews, Jeremiah M. Scharf, Jeremiah M. Scharf, Jeremiah M. Scharf, Jeremiah M. Scharf, Jeremiah M. Scharf

“…One study published in 1992 reported that 34% of female respondents experienced tic fluctuations with their menstrual cycles; however, a subsequent 2001 study found no significant relationship between menstrual cycle-related hormonal changes and tic symptoms across participants. There has been no further published exploration of this topic in the intervening 20+ years, and thus these discrepant results have not been reconciled. …”
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Self-Rated Recovery and Mood Before and After Resistance Training and Muscle Microcurrent Application by Bernd A. C. Stößlein, Kim P. C. Kuypers

“…Before and after the workout and after their treatment (MS or Sham-MS), participants self-rated their mood state and mental and physical exhaustion levels.ResultsFindings showed that MS increased the self-ratings of well-rested and sociable and, most importantly, reduced the feeling of exercise-induced exhaustion. …”
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Determinants of Work-Related Risks among Veterinary Clinical Students in South West Nigeria by Oluwawemimo O. Adebowale, Monsurat O. Afolabi, Hezekiah K. Adesokan, Olubunmi G. Fasanmi, Olanike K. Adeyemo, Olajoju J. Awoyomi, Folorunso O. Fasina

“…For chemical hazards, 27.8% and 29.0% of participants indicated having had eye burn and choke on exposure to formalin. …”
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