Newborn Care Practice and Associated Factors among Mothers of One-Month-Old Infants in Southwest Ethiopia by Amanuel Nuramo Sakelo, Nega Assefa, Lemessa Oljira, Zebene Mekonnen Assefa

“…In this study, 31% of participants had good newborn care practice based on three composite variables such as 84% who have done early breastfeeding initiation, 32.9% who have done safe cord care, and 30.6% who have done thermal care. …”
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Identification of Behavioral, Clinical, and Psychological Antecedents of Acute Stimulant Poisoning: Development and Implementation of a Mixed Methods Psychological Autopsy Study by Marley Antolin Muñiz, Vanessa M McMahan, Xochitl Luna Marti, Sarah Brennan, Sophia Tavasieff, Luke N Rodda, James Knoll, Phillip O Coffin

“…We found that the interviews were stressful for both the interviewee and interviewer, especially when participants thought the study was intrusive or experienced significant grief during the interviews. …”
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Vision impairment in boys recruited to the iREAD study by Jonathan Levine, Ravid Doron, Lisa A. Ostrin, Einat Shneor

“…Methods Healthy boys, ages 5–13 years, were recruited to participate in the iREAD Study. Parents first answered a questionnaire to exclude children with a known history of amblyopia, strabismus, or hyperopia. …”
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Connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease – A multicenter observational study from India by Sham Santhanam, Pravin Patil, Mohit Goyal, C B Mithun, Parthajit Das, Kavitha Mohanasundaram, Neeraj Jain, Vijaya Prasanna, Keerthi Talari, Himanshu Pathak, Parshant Aggarwal, Deepika Ponnuru, Vikram Raj Jain, Sharath Kumar

“…Methods: Adult outpatients with CTD-ILD and interstitial pneumonia with autoimmune features (IPAF), who were seen at the 12 participating rheumatology centers at least once in the preceding 6 months, were recruited and information was retrieved from their medical records. …”
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Optimization of industrial symbiosis in coffee-based eco-industrial park design by N. Laili, T. Djatna, N.S. Indrasti, M. Yani

“…The utilization of data integration enhances the transparency and efficiency of information exchange among eco-industrial park participants, promoting predictability and reliability in material exchange. …”
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Attitudes of medical students in Croatia toward rural medicine education and practice by Nataša Mrduljaš-Ðujić, Nataša Mrduljaš-Ðujić, Ivana Radić, Nina Bašić Marković, Nina Bašić Marković, Toni Vrgoč, Maja Buljubašić

“…Responses were obtained from 690 participants from the Universities of Osijek, Rijeka, Split, and Zagreb. …”
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Internalizing and externalizing symptoms in individuals with neurofibromatosis type 1: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Dan Liu, Liyan Yu, Xian Wu, Julia Moreira, Benjamin Felipe Mujica, Elora Shelly Mukhopadhyay, Angelena Novotney, André B. Rietman, Yang Hou

“…Studies that included more participants with NF1 who had ADHD or a lower verbal IQ reported greater group disparities in total internalizing symptoms or aggression. …”
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Dentoskeletal effects of aesthetic and conventional twin block appliances in the treatment of skeletal class II malocclusion: a randomized controlled trial by Mohamed Najati Alsilq, Mohamed Youssef

“…Fifty-two patients (33 females and 19 males) aged 12.23 ± 0.77 years with skeletal class II division 1 malocclusion caused by mandibular retrognathism were included. The participants were randomly assigned to a study group according to a simple randomization method using a numbered and sealed envelope. …”
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Development of a machine learning-based prediction model for extremely rapid decline in estimated glomerular filtration rate in patients with chronic kidney disease: a retrospectiv... by Shingo Fukuma, Yukio Yuzawa, Daijo Inaguma, Hiroki Hayashi, Ryosuke Yanagiya, Akira Koseki, Toshiya Iwamori, Michiharu Kudo

“…We aimed to identify clusters of patients with extremely rapid eGFR decline and develop a prediction model using a machine learning approach.Design Retrospective single-centre cohort study.Settings Tertiary referral university hospital in Toyoake city, Japan.Participants A total of 5657 patients with CKD with baseline eGFR of 30 mL/min/1.73 m2 and eGFR decline of ≥30% within 2 years.Primary outcome Our main outcome was extremely rapid eGFR decline. …”
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Signs of Nervous System Sensitization in Female Runners with Chronic Patellofemoral Pain by Brian J. Eckenrode, David M. Kietrys, Allison Brown, J. Scott Parrott, Brian Noehren

“… # Conclusion Compared to healthy controls, female runners with chronic PFP symptoms exhibit signs of both peripheral sensitization. Despite actively participating in running, nervous system sensitization may contribute to continued pain in these individuals. …”
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A study of disability and socio-economic impact of mental morbidities from the state of Madhya Pradesh, India by Vijender Singh, Roshan F. Sutar, Suruchi Gupta, Abhijit P. Pakhare, Arun M. Kokane, B. A. Aravind, Gopalkrishna Gururaj, Mathew Varghese, Vivek Benegal, Girish N. Rao

“…Conclusion: We report a substantial magnitude of disability in social, work, and family life domains. Participants having CMDs, female gender, and those non-working had more disabilities and would require targeted interventions.…”
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A methodical approach for evaluating the variability of productivity and fruit quality in the genetic collections of strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) by V. I. Lapshin, V. V. Yakovenko, S. N. Shcheglov, V. N. Podorojny

“…At the same time, differences in the mean values of the traits of varieties can be both significant and partially or completely absent. To identify varieties with promise for cultivation in the areas studied, it is recommended to use cluster analysis on the informative complex of traits with the calculation  of the Euclidean distances for varieties that were grown under  different  conditions. …”
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Procedural tactics in the investigation of property damage to a law enforcement officer by A. P. Chyzh

“…It has been found that the tactical techniques which should be used during investigative experiments in the investigation of intentional destruction or damage to property of a law enforcement officer are: repeated conduct of experiments and control over their implementation; creation of an environment which will facilitate the provision of as much detailed information as possible about the circumstances of criminal offences; asking questions to a participant of an investigative experiment with a view to detailing his/her explanations and evaluating the answers; the use of models, application of scientific and technical means and involvement of specialists with special knowledge in the relevant field of science; application of technical means of recording, in particular, continuous video recording.…”
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Dietary Diversity among Children Aged 6–23 Months in Aleta Wondo District, Southern Ethiopia by Karisa Dafursa, Samson Gebremedhin

“…Similarly, household wealth index (β = 0.54, p=0.041), father’s literacy (β = 0.48, p=0.002), ownership of home garden (β = 0.38, p=0.01), mother’s participation in cooking demonstrations (β = 0.19, p=0.036), and child age in months (β = 0.04, p=0.001) were all positively associated with DDS. …”
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Need to clamp indwelling urinary catheters before removal after different durations: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Xiaoyan Fan, Sumin Ma, Jiayi Gu

“…Categorical variables were analysed using relative risk (RR) and 95% CI.Primary and secondary outcome measures The primary outcome was urinary tract infection incidence, and secondary outcomes included hours to first voiding, incidence of urinary retention and recatheterisation and residual urine volume.Results Seventeen papers (15 RCTs and 2 quasi-RCTs) comprising 3908 participants were included in the meta-analysis. The pooled results of the meta-analysis showed that the clamping group had a significantly higher risk of urinary tract infections (RR=1.47; 95% CI 1.26 to 1.72; p<0.00001) and a longer hour to first void (SMD=0.19; 95% CI 0.08 to 0.29; p=0.0004) compared with the free drainage group. …”
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Low handgrip strength with asymmetry is associated with elevated all-cause mortality risk in older Chinese adults with abdominal obesity. by Ling Wei, Binyou Wang, Yilin Wang

“…The proportions of participants with only AO, only low HGS, only HGS asymmetry, low HGS with asymmetry, both AO and low HGS, both AO and asymmetric HGS, and AO with both low HGS and asymmetry were 20.0%, 6.1%, 16.6%, 8.3%, 3.2%, 13.4%, and 3.9%, respectively. …”
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Effectiveness of the voluntary disclosure of corporate information and its commitment to climate change by F.G. Arredondo Trapero, E.M. Guerra Leal, J. Kim

“…This study used two data sources, the commitment of companies from Global Climate Action and the annual greenhouse gas emissions levels of each country from an open-access data platform called Our World in Data.FINDING: The findings demonstrate a significant and positive relationship between changes in greenhouse gas emissions from 2021 and 2020 and the number of companies participating in Global Climate Action (Pearson = .718*, significance = .013) and per capita (Pearson = 0.827** significance = 0.002). …”
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Evaluation of the Urine POC-CCA Test Accuracy in the Detection of Schistosoma mansoni Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Getaneh Alemu, Endalkachew Nibret

“…Thirty-seven studies published in 29 papers and enrolling 21159 study participants were included for analysis. Overall analysis of Point-of-Care Circulating Cathodic Antigen (POC-CCA) test against KK reference standard revealed a pooled sensitivity and specificity of 0.86 (95% CI: 0.85–0.87) and 0.66 (95% CI: 0.65–0.67), respectively. …”
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Impacts of environmental quality and employment resilience during the coronavirus disease 2019 recession and recovery by D.O. Ayuningsih, L. Hakim, A. Suryantoro, I. Mafruhah, S. Hassan, E. Gravitiani, N.Q. Fathoni, A.I. Hakim

“…The categorization of economic resilience and recovery indicates that a majority of provinces in Indonesia are primarily characterized by the group exhibiting positive values in both economic resistance and recovery. Partially, during the recession and recovery periods due to coronavirus disease 2019, technology and information, population, and population density negatively impacted the environmental quality index. …”
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Translation and Validation of the Italian Version of the Team-Based Learning Student Assessment Instrument (TBL-SAI) in Nursing Students by Valeria Vannini, Rosario Caruso, Sara Alberti, Sergio Rovesti, Paola Ferri

“…Convenience sampling was employed to recruit participants who had experienced at least one TBL session during the academic year 2022/2023. …”
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