Qualitative Study Examining the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Homelessness Community Using PhotoVoice: Methodology and Lessons Learned by Fiona M. Asigbee, Landon Ranck, Anna S. Pruitt, Rachyl L. Pines, Cara Silva, Luke Barrett, Julia K. Petras, Monica Ray

“…Conducting a PV study with IEH can present challenges and as a result, such studies often have small sample sizes (6-13 people). This study was able to recruit and engage 38 participants across multiple sub-populations of IEH during a global pandemic. …”
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Immunocytes Mediate the Effects of Gut Microbiome on Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Insights From a Mendelian Randomization Study by Linbin He, Jianhui Wei, Ziye Li, Suyan Guo, Shanyu Lin, Tingting Wang, Lizhang Chen

“…The two-sample MR was employed to examine the causal associations, with inverse-variance weighted (IVW) as the main statistical method. …”
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Rest-task modulation of fMRI-derived global signal topography is mediated by transient coactivation patterns. by Jianfeng Zhang, Zirui Huang, Shankar Tumati, Georg Northoff

“…We therefore tested rest-task modulation of GS topography by analyzing static GS correlation and dynamic coactivation patterns in a large sample of an fMRI dataset (n = 837) from the Human Connectome Project. …”
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Examining the Effectiveness of Teaching Strategies for Alleviating EFL Students’ Writing Anxiety: A Mixed-Method Study by Kurniasih, Eko Suhartoyo, Ferdinan Fransiskus

“…At higher education, students at the end of the study are required to write a final project. Writing English papers is challenging and might create writing anxiety. …”
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CMIP6 models overestimate sea ice melt, growth and conduction relative to ice mass balance buoy estimates by A. E. West, E. W. Blockley

“…In this study, the substantial Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) model spread in Arctic sea ice extent and volume is investigated using a novel, process-based approach. …”
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Experimental Study on Mechanical Properties of Reinforced Soil Interface under Dry-Wet Cycle by Liang Huang, Wenbo Ma, Yujie Hou, Bo Wang, Jiahua Zhu

“…The reinforced soil-retaining wall has been widely used in coastal projects, and the dry-wet cycles influence the mechanical properties of the reinforced soil interface. …”
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Contribution of NGOs Towards the Provision of Health Services in Kamuganguzi Sub-County Kabale District. by Orishaba, Papius

“…Other challenges included poor governance, failed projects, cultural norms and beliefs, understaffing, and lack of financial resources. …”
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Design and Construction of Operator-Alcohol Detection Interlock System with Automatic Machine Shutdown and Alarm. by Akampurira, Chrisbus

“…The objective of this project is to design a prototype circuit that prevents machine operators from working under the influence of alcohol reducing the number of fatalities caused by them while working. …”
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Circulation and Spillover of pdmH1N1 Influenza A Virus at an Educational Swine Farm in Chile, 2019–2023 by Soledad Ruiz, Constanza Díaz-Gavidia, María Antonieta González, Pablo Galdames, Cristóbal Oyarzún, Cecilia Baumberger, Camila Rojas, Christopher Hamilton-West, Bridgett Sharp, Shaoyuan Tan, Stacey Schultz-Cherry, Pedro Jimenez-Bluhm

“…As part of an active IAV surveillance project, monthly nasal swab samples were collected from pigs between June 2019 and September 2023 for IAV detection via RT-qPCR targeting the M gene, with positive samples subsequently sequenced. …”
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Efficacy and safety of an algorithm using C-reactive protein to guide antibiotic therapy applied through a digital clinical decision support system: a study protocol for a randomis... by Vandack Nobre, Pedro R Povoa, Vitoria Moura Leite Rabelo Rezende, Isabela Nascimento Borges, Cecilia Gomez Ravetti, Renan Pedra De Souza, Paula Frizera Vassalo, Ana Clara de Paula Caldas, Felipe Rodrigues Gatto, Getulio Hideyoshi Okamura, Raquel Lopes de Brito Lacerda

“…Collection of clinical and laboratory data from 200 patients is expected, extracted from electronic medical records and laboratory systems, along with serum samples stored for potential future analyses. Data will be preserved using the Research Electronic Data Capture platform, and serum samples will be stored in a regulated biorepository at UFMG. …”
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An investigator-blinded, 24-month, parallel-group, non-inferiority study to compare aesthetic restorations in primary anterior teeth in a paediatric dental clinic: study protocol f... by Ana Paula Taboada Sobral, Elaine Marcilio Santos, Marcela Leticia Leal Gonçalves, Lara Jansiski Motta, Anna Carolina Ratto Tempestini Horliana, Sandra Kalil Bussadori, Elza Padilha Ferri, Juliana Maria Altavista Sagretti Gallo, Thais Gimenez, José Carlos Pettorossi Imparato

“…There are no studies that have compared rehabilitative techniques of primary anterior teeth regarding patient-centred outcomes and even longevity of the restoration. Thus, this project aims to evaluate the effectiveness of restorative treatment of anterior primary teeth with monochromatic composite resin in single insertion through polyvinyl crowns, after selective removal of carious tissue compared with the effectiveness of conventional restoration.Methods and analysis This study proposes to conduct a randomised clinical trial, composed of a sample of 194 deciduous central and lateral incisors with active cavitated lesions, simplified International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS) C+ score (active and extensive stage caries: ICDAS 5 and 6), with involvement of more than two surfaces. …”
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WALLABY Pilot Survey: Star Formation Enhancement and Suppression in Gas-rich Galaxy Pairs by Qifeng Huang, Jing Wang, Xuchen Lin, Se-Heon Oh, Xinkai Chen, B. Catinella, N. Deg, H. Dénes, B. -Q. For, B. S. Koribalski, K. Lee-Waddell, J. Rhee, A. X. Shen, Li Shao, K. Spekkens, L. Staveley-Smith, T. Westmeier, O. I. Wong, A. Bosma

“…In contrast, the SFRs of galaxies with M _* > 10 ^9 M _⊙ increase monotonically toward smaller projected distances and radial velocity offsets. When a close companion is present, a pronounced SFR enhancement is found for the most H i -poor high-mass galaxies in our sample. …”
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Flanking monomer repeats define lower context complexity of sites containing single nucleotide polymorphisms in the human genome by N. S. Safronova, M. P. Ponomarenko, I. I. Abnizova, G. V. Orlova, I. V. Chadaeva, Y. L. Orlov

“…This tool allows for both (i) complexity estimation of phased samples, and (ii) rapid and effective identification of the frequency spectrum of oligonucleotides with fixed lengths, and a comparison of oligonucleotide frequencies in different samples…”
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The tissue and circulating cell‐free DNA‐derived genetic landscape of premalignant colorectal lesions and its application for early diagnosis of colorectal cancer by Qingjian Chen, Yu‐Hong Xu, Shiyang Kang, WuHao Lin, Linna Luo, Luping Yang, Qi‐Hua Zhang, Pan Yang, Jia‐Qian Huang, Xiaoni Zhang, Jing Zhang, Qi Zhao, Rui‐Hua Xu, Hui‐Yan Luo

“…To explore the utility of tissue DNA and circulating cell‐free DNA (cfDNA) in early diagnosis of CRC, we retrospectively sequenced paired tissue and plasma samples from 85 patients with conventional CRAs. The genetic alterations identified were compared with those from 78 stage‐I CRC patients (CRC‐I) in the ChangKang project. …”
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Assessing the suitability of sites near Pine Island Glacier for subglacial bedrock drilling aimed at detecting Holocene retreat–readvance by J. S. Johnson, J. Woodward, I. Nesbitt, K. Winter, S. Campbell, K. A. Nichols, R. A. Venturelli, S. Braddock, B. M. Goehring, B. Hall, D. H. Rood, G. Balco, G. Balco

“…We emphasise the importance of consulting a range of expertise prior to drilling and ensuring that sufficient field reconnaissance is undertaken (including obtaining detailed grids of radar survey data and bedrock samples).</p>…”
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Chemometrics-Assisted Calibration of a Handheld LIBS Device for the Quantitative Determination of Major and Minor Elements in Artifacts from the Archaeological Park of Tindari (Ita... by Gabriele Lando, Francesco Caridi, Domenico Majolino, Giuseppe Paladini, Giuseppe Sabatino, Valentina Venuti, Paola Cardiano

“…For this purpose, seventeen silica-based standard samples with known chemical composition were collected, pelleted, and analyzed using h-LIBS. …”
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MWA and VLA Observations of Diffuse Radio Lobes in M87 by Linhui Wu, Fu-Guo Xie, Qian Zheng, Quan Guo, Huanyuan Shan, Dan Hu, Stefan W. Duchesne, Nick Seymour, Jingying Wang, Junhua Gu, Qingwen Wu, Zhenghao Zhu, Melanie Johnston-Hollitt, Christopher J. Riseley, Xu-Liang Fan

“…This study investigates the projected, quasi-symmetric ∼46 kiloparsec-scale diffuse radio lobes surrounding the giant elliptical galaxy M87, utilizing well-sampled wideband (60 MHz–10.55 GHz) observations from the Murchison Widefield Array and Very Large Array, supplemented by data from the Low-frequency Array and Effelsberg. …”
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Distribution Characteristics and Source Analysis of “Three Nitrogen” in Shallow Groundwater in Hailun Area of Heilongjiang Province by Lijun LI, Qiang LIU

“…The proportion of unpolluted samples, mild pollution samples, heavy pollution samples and serious pollution samples was 65%, 25%, 2.5% and 0, respectively (Table 4). …”
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Prevalence, Antimicrobial Susceptibility, and Molecular Characterization of Escherichia coli Isolated From Raw Milk in Dairy Herds in Northern China by Huimin Liu, Huimin Liu, Lu Meng, Lu Meng, Lei Dong, Lei Dong, Yangdong Zhang, Yangdong Zhang, Jiaqi Wang, Jiaqi Wang, Nan Zheng, Nan Zheng

“…Among the samples, 67 (34.4%) samples were positive for E. coli. …”
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Development of Primer Panels for Whole-Genome Amplification and Sequencing of Human Seasonal Coronaviruses: hCoV-OC43, hCoV-HKU1, hCoV-229E, and hCoV-NL63 by Tamila Musaeva, Artem Fadeev, Maria Pisareva, Veronika Eder, Andrey Ksenafontov, Margarita Korzhanova, Valery Tsvetkov, Alexander Perederiy, Irina Kiseleva, Daria Danilenko, Dmitry Lioznov, Andrey Komissarov

“…The panel was validated using nasopharyngeal swab samples collected within the Global Influenza Hospital Surveillance Network (GIHSN) project. …”
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