Building knowledge to improve access to inclusive and equitable care for trans and gender-diverse survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence: a qualitative research... by Alexa R Yakubovich, Janice Du Mont, Sarah Daisy Kosa, Sheila Macdonald, Danielle Toccalino, C Emma Kelly, Sav Jonsa, Adam Davies

“…A diverse array of participants from across Canada will be recruited via purposeful and snowball sampling through partner organisations, Peer Leader Advisors and their networks, as well as promotion in physical and virtual spaces (eg, flyers and social media). …”
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RNA binding protein ILF3 increases CEP55 mRNA stability to enhance malignant potential of breast cancer cells and suppress ferroptosis by Sheng Chen, Yangyong Luo, Simin Ruan, Guosen Su, Guoxing Huang

“…Mechanistically, ILF3 stabilized CEP55 mRNA to regulate CEP55 expression in BC cells. CEP55 restoration partially rescued the malignant potential defects of ILF3-depleted BC cells and attenuates their ferroptosis. …”
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Street art in the space of urban environment of Ryazan by S. S. Pravdolubova, V. A. Egorova, A. O. Zubkova, A. D. Sidorova

“…The empirical base contains materials, including a statistical study of the opinion of the target audience of teachers, staff and students of the Ryazan Institute (branch) of the Moscow Polytechnic University regarding the existence of the social phenomenon of street art, its dynamics and impact on public opinion, an interview reflecting the view of the artist Alexander Sinitsyn on the state of the Street art movement in Ryazan and the authors’ own participation as artists in the social project “The City in Colours”, which took place in the summer of 2022. …”
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To use and engage? Identifying distinct user types in interaction with a smartphone-based intervention by Aniek M. Siezenga, Esther C.A. Mertens, Jean-Louis van Gelder

“…., HEXACO personality traits and self-efficacy. Method: Participants were Dutch first-year university students that interacted with the FutureU app aimed at increasing future self-identification. …”
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Involvement of transposable elements in Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis by R. N. Mustafin, E. K. Khusnutdinova

“…Investigation of these mechanisms is promising for effective methods of treatment and prevention of the disease. Possible participants in these mechanisms are transposons, which serve as drivers of epigenetic regulation, since they form species-specific distributions of non-coding RNA genes in genomes in evolution. …”
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Parenting with nutrition education and unconditional cash reduce maternal depressive symptoms and improve quality of life: findings from a cluster randomised controlled trial in ur... by Sheikh Jamal Hossain, Fahmida Tofail, Anisur Rahman, Jane Fisher, Jena Derakhshani Hamadani, Syed Moshfiqur Rahman

“…Community Health Workers (CHWs) delivered parenting and nutrition education sessions fortnightly in households for one year. The participants were mother-child (6–16 months) dyads. The MDS and QoL were measured using the Self-Reporting Questionnaire-20 and a brief version of the QoL questionnaire. …”
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Diabetes-Related Distress Assessment among Type 2 Diabetes Patients by Majed O. Aljuaid, Abdulmajeed M. Almutairi, Mohammed A. Assiri, Dhifallah M. Almalki, Khaled Alswat

“…A total of 509 T2D patients with a mean age of 58 ± 14 years were included. The majority of participants were male, married, not college educated, and reported a sedentary lifestyle. …”
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Serological and Molecular Diagnosis of Human Cytomegalovirus among Hemodialysis Patients in Kirkuk/Iraq by Eman Ammar Ihsan, Lezan Medhat Mohammed, Waleed Mohammed Ali

“…This study was carried out during the period November 2022 to March 2023. Participants’ sera were examined for the presence of CMV-IgM and CMV-IgG antibodies, as well as DNA by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR). …”
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Appointment of forensic examinations in the course of investigation of criminal offences related to raiding by S. A. Tiulieniev

“…Given the nature of raiders’ actions, the processes taking place in society and in the professional activities of individual participants in social relations, the author outlines the prospects for further scientific research.…”
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Altruistic values among students of Nursing, Midwifery, Physiotherapy, and Health Psychology: a cross-sectional study by J. Kraja, E. Fresku, L. Xhakollari

“…A total of 457 students participated in this study: 175 from the nursing program, 130 from the midwifery program, 107 from the physiotherapy program, and 45 from master program. …”
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A laboratory feasibility study using a computer algorithm for anastomosis segmentation of epicardial ultrasonography images from distal coronary artery bypass anastomoses by Alex Skovsbo Jørgensen, Martin Siemienski Andersen, Lasse Riis Østergaard, Samuel Emil Schmidt, Dorte Nøhr, Jan Jesper Andreasen

“…Trial registration The study was registered on September 29, 2016, before enrolment of the first participant (ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02919124).…”
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Tissue Doppler echocardiography predicts long-term cardiovascular mortality: the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial (ASCOT) legacy 20-year follow-up study by Simon Thom, Alice Stanton, Jamil Mayet, Amit Kaura, Darrel Francis, Anoop SV Shah, Andrew Sharp, Alun D Hughes, Neil R Poulter, Anenta Ratneswaren, Tong Wu, Somayeh Rostamian, Devan Wasan, PS Sever

“…Our aim was to evaluate whether this extends to predicting cardiovascular mortality after 20 years of follow-up.Methods Conventional (E) and tissue Doppler (e′) echocardiography was performed on hypertensive participants in the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial (ASCOT) with long-term follow-up ascertained via linkage to the Office of National Statistics. …”
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Clinical outcome of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: an 11-year follow-up study by Steven Dooley, Juan Du, Xiaoping Tang, Lan Chen, Jinzhu Jia, Fujun Li, Yanyan Shi, Christoph Meyer, Zhongwei Zhu, Yanming Zhang, Roman Liebe, Keming Hu, Tingting Zhou, Huier Zhang, Hong-Lei Weng, Tong Huang

“…Objectives To clarify non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) prevalence, risk factors and clinical outcome in an exemplary Chinese population, a cohort of company employees was followed up for 11 years.Design Retrospective cohort study.Setting Between 2006 and 2016 in Ning bo, China.Participants 13 032 company employees.Results Over 11 years, the prevalence of NAFLD increased from 17.2% to 32.4% (men 20.5%–37% vs women 9.8%–22.2%). …”
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Association of Fatty Acid Synthase with Level of Fatty Acids in Osteoporosis Patients by Abeer Hassan Alwan, Ekhlass M. Taha

“…The current study included 120 participants. Serum samples from postmenopausal women were collected and divided into three groups: 40 patients with OP (G2), 40 patients with osteopenia (G1), and 40 women as the control group. …”
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Efficacy of the Foodbot Factory digital curriculum-based nutrition education intervention in improving children’s nutrition knowledge, attitudes and behaviours in elementary school... by Wendy Lou, Michael Farkouh, JoAnne Arcand, Jacqueline Marie Brown, Saman Tahir, Beatriz Franco-Arellano, Ann LeSage, Janette Hughes, Bill Kapralos, Ellen Vogel, Claire Tugault-Lafleur

“…Generalised linear mixed models will assess changes in outcomes between groups.Ethics and dissemination The study protocol is approved by research ethics boards at Ontario Tech University and participating school boards. Results of the trial will be published in peer-reviewed journals and lay summaries will be available to stakeholders.Trial registration number NCT05979259.…”
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PPARβ/δ Agonism with GW501516 Increases Myotube PGC-1α Content and Reduces BCAA Media Content Independent of Changes in BCAA Catabolic Enzyme Expression by Caroline N. Rivera, Jason S. Hinkle, Rachel M. Watne, Trent C. Macgowan, Andrew J. Wommack, Roger A. Vaughan

“…PGC-1α regulates the expression of branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) metabolism, and thus, increased circulating BCAA in diabetics may be partially explained by reduced PGC-1α expression. PGC-1α functions in-part through interactions with peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor β/δ (PPARβ/δ). …”
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A Meta-Analysis of the Structural Validity of Original and Brief Versions of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 in Iran by Saeid Komasi, Andre Kerber, Christopher James Hopwood

“…According to the PRISMA, data from nine medium- to high-quality reports including 7,608 participants were analyzed using the random-effects method. …”
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CREATIVE COMMUNICATIVE BEHAVIOR AS A MEANS OF CREATIVE SELF-REALIZATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL by Galina I. Zhelezovskaya, Natalia V. Abramova, Yelena N. Gudkova

“…This behaviour can be implemented in oral and written speech of participants of process of communications, and also in nonverbal displays of dialogue, and may serve as a means of self-realisation of the person. …”
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Privacy-preserving federated learning framework with irregular-majority users by Qianxin CHEN, Renwan BI, Jie LIN, Biao JIN, Jinbo XIONG

“…In response to the existing problems that the federated learning might lead to the reduction of aggregation efficiency by handing the majority of irregular users and the leak of parameter privacy by adopting plaintext communication, a framework of privacy-preserving robust federated learning was proposed for ensuring the robustness of the irregular user based on the designed security division protocol.PPRFL could enable the model and its related information to aggregate in ciphertext on the edge server facilitate users to calculate the model reliability locally for reducing the additional communication overhead caused by the adoption of the security multiplication protocol in conventional methods, apart from lowering the high computational overhead resulted from homomorphic encryption with outsourcing computing to two edge servers.Based on this, user could calculate the loss value of the model through jointly using the verification sets issued by the edge server and that held locally after parameter updating of the local model.Then the model reliability could be dynamically updated as the model weight together with the historic information of the loss value.Further, the model weight was scaled under the guidance of prior knowledge, and the ciphertext model and ciphertext weight information are sent to the edge server to aggregate and update the global model parameters, ensuring that global model changes are contributed by high-quality data users, and improving the convergence speed.Through the security analysis of the Hybrid Argument model, the demonstration shows that PPRFL can effectively protect the privacy of model parameters and intermediate interaction parameters including user reliability.The experimental results show that the PPRFL scheme could still achieve the accuracy of 92% when all the participants in the federated aggregation task are irregular users, with the convergence efficiency 1.4 times higher than that of the PPFDL.Besides, the PPRFL scheme could still reach the accuracy of 89% when training data possessed by 80% of the users in the federated aggregation task were noise data, with the convergence efficiency 2.3 times higher than that of the PPFDL.…”
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Rationale and design for Healthy Hearts in Manufacturing (HHM): A pragmatic single-arm hybrid effectiveness-implementation study for hypertension management and tobacco cessation by Hanzi Jiang, Yao Tian, Jennifer Bannon, Amy E. Krefman, Lawrence C. An, Dustin D. French, Claude R. Maechling, Jane Holl, Richard Chagnon, Theresa L. Walunas, Christopher Burch, Anthony Musci, Darce Latsis, Dawn Carey, Megan McHugh

“…Methods: Two organizations that operate WHCs at manufacturing sites volunteered to participate in the 58-month HHM research study. The HHM intervention involves monthly coaching to assist WHCs with implementing evidence-based strategies for hypertension management and tobacco cessation advocated by the Million Hearts initiative and the U.S. …”
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