Modulation of brain activity in brain-injured patients with a disorder of consciousness in intensive care with repeated 10-Hz transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS): a... by David Williamson, Francis Bernard, Stefanie Blain-Moraes, Caroline Arbour, Virginie Williams, Louis de Beaumont, Catherine Duclos, Béatrice P De Koninck, Daphnee Brazeau, Amelie A Deshaies, Marie-Michele Briand, Charlotte Maschke

“…EEG signal analysis will focus on the alpha bandwidth (8–13 Hz) using spectral and functional network analyses. Phone assessments at 3, 6 and 12 months post-tACS, will measure long-term functional recovery, quality of life and caregivers’ burden.Ethics and dissemination Ethical approval for this study has been granted by the Research Ethics Board of the CIUSSS du Nord-de-l’Île-de-Montréal (Project ID 2021–2279). …”
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Preventive and curative dental services utilization among children aged 12 years and younger in Tehran, Iran, based on the Andersen behavioral model: A generalized structural equat... by Elaheh Amirian, Samaneh Razeghi, Alireza Molaei, Ahmad R Shamshiri, Simin Z Mohebbi

“…This study evaluated preventive and curative dental services utilization among children aged 12 years and younger in Tehran, Iran, based on the Andersen behavioral model using a generalized structural equation modeling. A phone-based cross-sectional study was conducted in Tehran, Iran, on 886 children in 2023. …”
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Increasing Access to Mental Health Supports for 18- to 25-Year-Old Indigenous Youth With the JoyPop Mobile Mental Health App: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial by Angela MacIsaac, Teagan Neufeld, Ishaq Malik, Elaine Toombs, Janine V Olthuis, Fred Schmidt, Crystal Dunning, Kristine Stasiuk, Tina Bobinski, Arto Ohinmaa, Sherry H Stewart, Amanda S Newton, Aislin R Mushquash

“…All participants will receive UP, which involves waitlist monitoring practices at the study site, which includes regular check-in phone calls to obtain any updates regarding functioning. …”
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For Carlos Castillo-Chavez by Dean Evasius

“…The emails he sent to me over the years typically arrived at some odd hour of the night, perhaps suggesting a follow-up phone call for early the next morning. I'd call Carlos upon my arrival in the office and find him fully energized with the work of the new day.…”
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Polielektrolitlerin Molekül Ağırlığı ve Harman Oranının Çok Tabakalı Filmlerin Gelişimine Etkisinin ve İlaç Adsorpsiyon/Desorpsiyon Uygulamalarında Kullanımlarının QCM-D Tekniğiyle... by Hüseyin Deligöz, Öznur Yolaçan, Dilara Yılmaz Aykut

“…Elde edilen sonuçlar, ilaç uygulamaları için LbL fonksiyonel filmlerin yapısına, yüzey özelliklerine, ortamın pH’ına ve ilaç-film arası etkileşimine bağlı olarak farklılıklar taşıması gerektiğini göstermiştir. …”
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The effect of educational intervention based on the mobile application on women’s knowledge, attitude, and practice on microplastics and health: study protocol for a randomized con... by Zahra Seifi, Fatemeh Zarei, Fazlollah Ahmadi

“…In parallel, a randomized controlled trial (RCT) aims to evaluate the effect of interventional education via a mobile phone application on improving women’s knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding the health effects of MPs. …”
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A perinatal psychiatry access program to address rural and medically underserved populations using telemedicine by Courtney King, Marie Hayes, Lizmarie Maldonado, Elizabeth Monter, Rubin Aujla, Erin Phlegar, Claire Smith, Liz Parker, Kerry Blome, Amanda Sandford, Edie Douglas, Constance Guille

“…Moms IMPACTT [Improving Access to Perinatal Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Care Through Telehealth and Tele-mentoring] leverages statewide partnerships and a virtual care model to provide: 1) people who are pregnant or within 1 year postpartum with immediate access by phone or internet to a clinician trained in perinatal psychiatric care coordination to assess and refer to an appropriate level of perinatal psychiatry services; 2) communication and care coordination with the person’s healthcare provider, as appropriate; and 3) healthcare provider training and real-time psychiatric consultation for the management and treatment of perinatal mental health and substance use disorders. …”
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Keeping Active with Texting after Stroke (KATS): a single-arm feasibility and acceptability study of a behavioural intervention to promote community-based physical activity after s... by Gozde Ozakinci, Stephan U Dombrowski, Andrew Murphy, Albert Farre, Jenna Breckenridge, Jacqui H Morris, Linda A Irvine, Keith Jenkinson

“…Objectives To test the feasibility and acceptability of a text-message-delivered behavioural intervention to promote and maintain physical activity and recovery after stroke rehabilitation.Design A single-arm acceptability and feasibility study.Setting Community rehabilitation services in two Health Board areas in Scotland.Participants People with stroke who could participate in physical activities and use a mobile phone were recruited during rehabilitation and community rehabilitation.Intervention Keeping Active with Texting after Stroke (KATS) is an automated text message-delivered intervention informed by behaviour change theory. …”
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A qualitative study exploring the acceptability of the TEXTPAD telehealth and virtual supervised exercise intervention and trial for patients with peripheral arterial disease livin... by Maddey Patterson, MPH, Letitia Sermin-Reed, MSc, James Prentis, MBBS, Arathi Radhakrishnan, MBBS, Eileen Kaner, PhD, Sandip Nandhra, MBBS, Maisie Rowland, BSc, Gabriel Cucato, PhD, Mackenzie Fong, PhD

“…The TEXTPAD pilot randomized controlled trial investigated the impact of the 12-week TEXTPAD intervention that involved weekly phone calls for behavioral counselling and twice-weekly virtual, supervised exercise sessions. …”
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Exploring the Diversity and Ecological Dynamics of Palm Leaf Spotting Fungi—A Case Study on Ornamental Palms in Portugal by Diana S. Pereira, Alan J. L. Phillips

“…The overall fungal community composition revealed a distinct assemblage dominated by <i>Neosetophoma</i>, <i>Alternaria</i>, <i>Phoma</i>, and <i>Cladosporium</i>, with a profusion of infrequent and rare taxa consistent with a logseries distribution. …”
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Fuzzy Logic-Based Arrival Time Estimation for Indoor Navigation Using Augmented Reality by Muhammad Hidayat Mohammed Sohif, Muhammad Imran Mardzuki, Azhar Mohd Ibrahim, Ahmad Jazlan

“…This study proposes a mobile AR application for indoor navigation that uses an intelligent signage algorithm based on fuzzy logic to estimate arrival time. The algorithm takes phone acceleration in the x and z directions as inputs and employs triangular-shaped membership functions for input and output variables. …”
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Safety of antenatal breastmilk expression from week 34 of pregnancy: a randomized controlled pilot study (The Express-MOM study) by Marie Bendix Simonsen, Sarah Bjerrum Bentzen, Sören Möller, Kristina Garne Holm, Christina Anne Vinter, Gitte Zachariassen

“…Results One hundred forty-four pregnant women were eligible for participation, 51 were excluded, and 33 declined participation/did not answer inclusion phone calls. 60 women were included and randomized. …”
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Impact of vitamin C on the reduction of opioid consumption for acute musculoskeletal pain: A double-blind randomized control pilot study. by Raoul Daoust, Jean Paquet, David Williamson, Vérilibe Huard, Caroline Arbour, Jeffrey J Perry, Marcel Émond, Simon Berthelot, Patrick Archambault, Dominique Rouleau, Judy Morris, Alexis Cournoyer

“…Participants completed a 14-day paper diary and were contacted by phone at 14 days, to document their analgesic use, vitamin C consumption, and pain intensity.…”
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Research Status of Home-Based Rehabilitation in Chronic Diseases and Construction of Intelligent Rehabilitation Treatment Platform by WANG Jinghua, YU Shaohong, LI Li

“…The diagnosis and treatment platform is a home-based intelligent and comprehensive rehabilitation comprehensive service platform which integrates service, management and operation and uses wearable devices, a network platform and mobile phone applications as media and utilizes variety of internet resources. …”
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Anxiety and depression in people with epilepsy during and one year after the COVID‐19 pandemic by Iris E. Martínez‐Juárez, Jimena Gonzalez‐Salido, Jimena Colado‐Martinez, Irving Fuentes‐Calvo, Santiago Philibert‐Rosas, E. Rodrigo Velásquez‐Coria, Salvador Martínez‐Medina, Mijail A. Rivas‐Cruz, Eithel Valenzuela‐Mendivil, Karen E. Guzmán‐Sánchez, Elizabeth M. Ruiz‐Peñaflor, Arnold R. Thomson‐Cerna, Emilia M. González‐Villagómez, Jimena Armenta‐Báez, Andrea Santos‐Peyret, Aurelio Jara‐Prado, Adriana Ochoa‐Morales, Daniel Crail‐Meléndez, Ángel Ruiz‐Chow, Mario A. Sebastián‐Díaz

“…HADS‐A and HADS‐D instruments were administered to adult patients diagnosed with epilepsy, initially through telemedicine and later through in‐person visits or phone calls after one year. Results A sample of 115 patients was obtained, with 62.5% being women. …”
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Financial Innovations and Financial Inclusion Among Commercial Banks in Uganda: Case Study Of Kabale District. by Mpirirwe, Christine

“…Additionally, because mobile banking has an impact on financial inclusion, banks should make sure to support mobile banking services by incorporating mobile phone usage as one of their innovations.…”
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Effect of Core Stability Training based on Bobath Concept on Motor Function of Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy by Yaojin SUN, Xiaoqin ZHANG, Jian TANG, Xiaoke ZHAO, Ran HE

“…The control group was given conventional rehabilitation treatment, which mainly included anti-spasm (joint movement, passive traction), homework, language, massage, sports training (trunk rotation, hip adduction, pelvic pronation and control, limb movement, standing and balance, walking with legs raised, knee bending), one time a day, 40 min a time, six days a week, continuous treatment for three months. …”
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Evaluation of a 2-day First Aid Course Including Basic Resuscitation With 1,268 Primary School Children Aged 6–13 Years – A Multicenter Intervention Study

“…Most children knew emergency phone number(s) pre-course. Afterward, this knowledge improved by 15% in the 6–7-year age group (reaching 80%) whereas it remained at 90% in children aged 8–13 years. …”
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Amplifying children’s leadership roles and voice in decision-making through co-production in outside of school hours care: qualitative findings from the connect promote and protect... by Alyssa C. Milton, Alyssa C. Milton, Alyssa C. Milton, Kristin Ballesteros, Helen Hernandez, Yenni Hwang, Nick Glozier, Nick Glozier, Tom McClean, Haley M. LaMonica, Haley M. LaMonica, Karen Thorpe, Karen Thorpe, Ian B. Hickie, Ian B. Hickie

“…Participants undertook semi-structured interviews/focus groups via multiple communication platforms (face-to-face, phone, and video-conferencing platforms). A representative research team (including researchers, OSHC educators/coordinators, OSHC administrators, clinicians, and parents of children in OSHC) used an inductive thematic analysis process. …”
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Evaluating the Safety and Usability of an Over-the-Counter Medical Device for Adults With Mild to Moderate Hearing Loss: Formative and Summative Usability Testing by Megan Elizabeth Salwei, Shilo Anders, Carrie Reale, Jason M Slagle, Todd Ricketts, Matthew B Weinger

“…Participants had the most difficulty with the task of pairing the hearing aids to the cell phone. Participants also had difficulty distinguishing the right and left earbuds. …”
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