Navigating complex choices through legitimation: Narrative strategies in risk-reduction mastectomy decision-making among unaffected women with genetic risk for breast cancer in Swi... by Maria Caiata-Zufferey, Reka Schweighoffer, Monica Aceti, Carla Pedrazzani, Maria C. Katapodi, Souria Aissaoui, Mekdes Alemu, Murat Aykut, Fulvia Brugnoletti, Rachel Bunger, Nicole Bürki, Pierre O. Chappuis, Muriel Fluri, Rossella Graffeo, Karl Heinimann, Ashley Machen, Christian Monnerat, Olivia Pagani, Manuela Rabaglio, Eveline Schönau, Simon Wieser, Ursina Zürrer-Härdi

“…Narrative data were collected in Switzerland through biographical interviews with 38 unaffected women carrying BRCA pathogenic variants. Participants had either undergone RRM or were planning the surgery in the future. …”
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Delving into discrepancies, a single-center experience with Accelerate Pheno for gram-negative bacteremia, a rapid phenotypic susceptibility testing method by Zoe Freeman Weiss, Dimitar Zelenkov, Jon Englert, Maureen Campion

“…Setting: Academic teaching hospital. Patients (participants): All patients admitted to the hospital with gram-negative bacteremia from January 2020 to December 2022. …”
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Voluntary isometric contractions at maximal shortening as a new technique to achieve neuromuscular re-education in healthy subjects by Julio-Artemi Hernández-Trujillo, María-Dolores González-Rivera, Jorge M. González-Hernández

“…Methods: Sixty healthy, recreationally active participants (mean age: 46.4 ± 5.5), were randomly assigned to three groups (VICAMS, ballistic stretching, and control) who were trained for eight weeks. …”
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Saúde das pessoas com deficiência no Brasil by Bárbara Bowoniuk Wiegand, Jussara Marial Leal de Meirelles

“…Esta pesquisa procurou identificar, em produções científicas, as dificuldades enfrentadas por pacientes com deficiência no Brasil, no âmbito do acesso à saúde, o que, na prática, acentua a sua vulnerabilidade. Dessa forma, por meio da associação dos descritores “saúde”, “pessoa” e “deficiência”, realizou-se uma busca de publicações de 2009 a 2018 nas bases de dados Periódicos Capes, Lilacs e scielo Brasil. …”
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Mentoring in education: an analysis of international practices and their implementation in Russia by N. V. Tikhonova, F. L. Ratner, I. Y. Vergasova

“…The main challenges and shortcomings of the participants were identified, and their interactions with mentors were analysed. …”
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Publication of studies registered in Clinical Trials Registry of India: An audit of mood disorder research protocols from 2009-2019 by Vikas Menon, Natarajan Varadharajan, Rini Joseph, Samir Kumar Praharaj, Chittaranjan Andrade

“…We also examined the frequency and nature of protocol deviations among the published articles. Methods: Using a systematic search strategy, we examined the publication status of all mood disorder-related research protocols registered in the CTRI database from inception till December 31, 2019. …”
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Association of Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase C677T Gene Polymorphisms with Mild Cognitive Impairment Susceptibility: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Jiahui Sun, Xuefan Jiang, Ming Zhao, Lina Ma, Hui Pei, Nanyang Liu, Hao Li

“…Forest plots of pooled odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were generated. Results. Eight articles with 2,175 participants were included in the present meta-analysis. …”
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Tensiones en el campo católico. La cuestión del peronismo después de 1955 by Claudia Touris

“… El propósito de este artículo es analizar los diagnósticos, opiniones y debates que se produjeron en el campo católico con posterioridad a la Revolución Libertadora (1955). Partimos de la idea de que dicho campo atravesaba una profunda transformación respecto de las décadas anteriores, donde más allá de los conflictos, la identidad católica era en sí misma una divisoria de aguas respecto de aquellos que se ubicaban por fuera de dicho universo. …”
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Diagnostic Accuracy of the Triglyceride and Glucose Index for Insulin Resistance: A Systematic Review by Adriana Sánchez-García, René Rodríguez-Gutiérrez, Leonardo Mancillas-Adame, Victoria González-Nava, Alejandro Díaz González-Colmenero, Ricardo Cesar Solis, Neri Alejandro Álvarez-Villalobos, José Gerardo González-González

“…We identified 15 eligible studies with 69,922 participants and an overall quality of low to moderate. …”
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The Composition of Emissions from Sanding Corian® with Different Sandpapers by Seungkoo Kang, Huayan Liang, Yong Qian, Chaolong Qi

“…The results from the direct-reading instruments reveal that the size distribution of particulate from sanding Corian® differs from that of sawing Corian®, showing that the size distribution of dust is affected by the fabrication process. …”
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Development and Testing of a Patient Outcome Measure for Interprofessional Tuberculosis Care: A Delphi Study by Bau D. Ardyansyah, Reinie Cordier, Margo Brewer, Dave Parsons

“…Results: A total of 65 international and 61 Indonesian participants in the Delphi studies. The final instrument consists of 44 items organized into five domains. …”
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Neural correlates of the non-optimal price: an MEG/EEG study by Aleksei Gorin, Elizaveta Kuznetsova, Andrew Kislov, Egor Levchenko, Vasily Klucharev, Victoria Moiseeva, Anna Yurchenko, Alexander Luzhin, Natalia Galkina, Anna N. Shestakova

“…Conversely, setting a “non-optimal price”—one that is perceived as much lower or higher than the product's true market value—can negatively influence consumer decisions and business results.MethodsWe conducted two electroencephalography (EEG) studies and one magnetoencephalography (MEG) study to investigate brain mechanisms underlying the perception of prices during a price judgment task. In each trial, participants were exposed to a mobile phone image (iPhone, Nokia, or Xiaomi) followed by a price, and instructed to judge whether the price was high or low based on a target word (“cheap” or “expensive”).ResultsIn both EEG experiments, we found a strong N400-like response to the incongruent target words following prices that substantially differed from the real market value of the mobile phone. …”
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RISK RANKING OF OPEN-END INVESTMENT FUNDS IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA by Ivana Srdarević, Ivan Kristek

“…These are separate assets controlled by investment fund management companies and investors participate in income return of the overall portfolio fund by purchasing shares in investment funds. …”
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The impact of internet use on physical activity among Chinese older adults: the mediating role of social support by Yifei Shen, Yifei Shen, Chuntian Lu, Bin Wang

“…Additionally, the SPSS macro PROCESS is used to test the mediation effect, examining the mediating role of social support in this relationship.ResultOur research findings indicate the following: (1) Internet use significantly and positively predicts physical exercise among the old adults; (2) Social support exerts a positive influence on physical exercise in this population; and (3) Social support partially mediates the relationship between internet use and physical exercise among the old adults.ConclusionThe study concludes that increasing Internet penetration among the old adults is of great practical significance in expanding their social support network and promoting physical activity. …”
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Knowledge of Future Dental Practitioners towards Oral Cancer: Exploratory Findings from a Public University in Malaysia by Akshaya Srikanth Bhagavathula, Nazrin Bin Zakaria, Shazia Qasim Jamshed

“…A total of 162 undergraduate (third, fourth, and fifth year) dental students at International Islamic University, Malaysia, were approached to participate in the study, and those who agreed were administered. …”
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Cross-Regional Capacity Mechanism for Emergency Power Support in Extreme Weather Events by WU Zifeng, YUAN Jiahai, ZHANG Jian, ZHANG Haonan

“…Furthermore，a scenario-based analysis is applied to determine the lower and upper bounds of the capacity compensation price for coal-fired power units participating in cross-regional emergency power support within the electricity market during extreme weather conditions. …”
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By the time you read this it is already too late by Theron Schmidt

“…Putting these approaches into practice, an artist like John Hall might use the dimensions and affordances of the printed page as a space to enact, not just describe, the encounters it produces (Hall 2004), or the lecture performances of Rabih Mroué simultaneously describe the effects of representation and participate generatively within their own representational dispositifs (Mroué and Martin 2012; Mroué and Saneh [2005] 2013). …”
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Human&vehicle-in-the-loop test method in human factors research on automated vehicles: Conceptualization, realization, case-study, and lessons learned by Markus Steimle, Vanessa Stange, Mark Vollrath, Markus Maurer

“…To investigate these needs during vehicle development, studies with participants can be conducted using test vehicles and driving simulators. …”
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Prevalence and sociodemographic characteristics of functional impairment in community-dwelling older adults in China: a cross-sectional study by Yun Li, Li Zhang, Zhe Tang, Lina Ma, Pan Liu, Xiaxia Li, Wenhua Yu, Yaxin Zhang

“…This study aimed to explore the prevalence and socio-demographic characteristics of functional impairment in Chinese community-dwelling older adults using the Function Impairment Screening Tool (FIST), which was previously developed based on the Delphi method.Design Cross-sectional study.Setting Community-based.Participants The study included 6444 community-dwelling older adults from the China Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Study.Results The FIST identified functional impairment in 31.3% of Chinese community-dwelling older adults. …”
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Association between the use of electronic cigarettes and subsequent initiation of tobacco cigarettes in the youth population of a city: A retrospective cohort study by Khadeejah Hussain, Sancheti P. V., Agrawal M, Parande M. A., Tambe M. P., Borle P

“…In present study, 'Curiosity' stood out as the factor reported by most (70.45%) of the participants, which led to the initiation of smoking combustible cigarettes in E-cigarette users, followed by 'Adventure' (40.91%), 'Peer Pressure' (31.82%), 'Need for more nicotine' (29.55%) and lastly, 'Stressful life' (25%). …”
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