Change in intention and hesitancy regarding COVID-19 vaccines in a cohort of adults in Quebec during the pandemic by Maude Dionne, Louis Rochette, Denis Hamel, Ève Dube

“…A series of cross-sectional surveys were conducted in Quebec between March 2020 and March 2023, with a representative sample of 3,330 adults recruited biweekly via a Web panel. …”
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Improvement of Motor Imagination and Manual Ability Through Virtual Reality and Selective and Nonselective Functional Electrical Stimulation: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled T... by Montserrat Santamaría-Vázquez, J Hilario Ortiz-Huerta, Aitor Martín-Odriozola, Olalla Saiz-Vazquez

“…The preparation phase will involve finalizing project protocols and obtaining ethical approvals. …”
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Choosing a starting professional trajectory: job-education mismatch effect by A. D. Melnik, A. E. Sudakova, N. L. Antonova

“…The reduction of the job-education mismatch can be enhanced through project-based learning, which fosters direct interaction between industry partners and students. …”
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“I lock myself in my room and cry in frustration”: an analysis of adolescent behaviors of child-to-parent violence by Shirley Arias-Rivera, Barbara Lorence, Barbara Lorence, Jesus Maya

“…This study aims to describe the behaviors of adolescents following violent actions in both mild and severe cases of CPV. A randomized sample of 1,067 Spanish adolescents, participating in a national CPV project, was studied using the Child-to-Parent Aggression Questionnaire. …”
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Endothelium-mediated vasodilation: associations with cardiometabolic diseases and their risk factors in aging by A. N. Ryabikov, M. S. Troshina, M. N. Ryabikov, Yu. Yu. Palekhina, E. O. Butakov, S. K. Malyutina

“…The PMD test demonstrated a high incidence of ED in a population sample of 55-84 years old. ED is associated with metabolic risk factors in men and smoking in women. …”
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Phenol compounds in the borehole 5G, Vostok station, after the unlocking of the subglacial lake by I. A. Alekhina, A. L. Moskvin, A. A. Ekaykin, V. Ya. Lipenkov

“…Our data have demonstrated that using of such complex organic liquids, like aviation kerosene formerly used in many drilling projects, is undesirable when exploring deep Antarctic subglacial lakes. …”
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Reducing surgical cancellations: a successful application of Lean Six Sigma in healthcare by Stijn Schretlen, Paulien Hoefsmit, Suzanne Kats, Jos Maessen, Reinier Zandbergen, Godefridus van Merode

“…Statistical process control charts visualised the change and impact over time. Students two-sample t-test was used to test statistical significance. …”
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Elucidating the causal relationship between gut microbiota, metabolites, and diabetic nephropathy in European patients: Revelations from genome-wide bidirectional mendelian randomi... by Siyuan Song, Li Ning, Jiangyi Yu

“…However, the exact causal relationship among these factors remains unclear.MethodWe conducted a two-sample bidirectional Mendelian randomization study using summary statistics from the IEU OpenGWAS Project database to investigate gut microbiota, metabolites, and diabetic nephropathy. …”
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Microbial prevalence and understanding of their antimicrobial susceptibility in urinary tract of patients attending at shar teaching hospital (2018–2022) by Othman Abdulrahman Mohammed, Karzan Taha Abubakr, Abbas Yaghoobi, Hokar Haji Khdhir, Derin Hussein Ali, Paiwand Karim Abdalrahman, Bilal Mohammed Ali, Sahar Hussein Hamarashid

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The impact of educational live action role-playing games on social–emotional competence: a mixed-method study with Chinese college students by Jiayi Zhang, Jing Xu, Muru Li

“…Over an 8-week period, the experimental group engaged in the educational live action role-playing games project for 2–5 h per week. To comprehensively evaluate the social–emotional competence of the participants, the Social–Emotional Competence Questionnaire was employed for quantitative assessment. …”
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The role of innovation in the internationalisation process of Slovakian businesses by Jakub Garncarz, Adam Michalik

“…We based the empirical analysis on a sample of 292 firms, whose secondary data included measures of export performance and innovation indicators. …”
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Cost-effectiveness of intra-arterial thrombolysis after successful thrombectomy by Albert J Yoo, Charles B L M Majoie, Johannes Kaesmacher, Arturo Renú, Angel Chamorro, Anne-Laure Bocquet, Thomas Barthe, Bart Jeroen Emmer, Victor Durieux

“…The early termination, small sample and limited power of the CHOICE trial reduce generalizability of our results. …”
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Variations of the Physicochemical Parameters and Metal Levels and Their Risk Assessment in Urbanized Bagmati River, Kathmandu, Nepal by Rukumesh Paudyal, Shichang Kang, Chhatra Mani Sharma, Lekhendra Tripathee, Mika Sillanpää

“…During post-monsoon 2013, surface water samples were collected form 34 sites from the Bagmati River and its tributaries within the Kathmandu Valley to assess the river water quality. …”
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Alterations in the metabolic signature of full-term infants of diabetic mothers by Hesham A. Awad, Ghada I. Gad, Ola A. Khalifa, Amal A. Ibrahim, Dina M. Shinkar

“…Amino acid and acylcarnitine concentrations were measured in dried spot samples of cord blood using ultra-performance liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS). …”
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CO44 | First interlaboratory validation workshop of immunofluorescence microscopy on the peripheral blood smear for recognizing patients with inherited platelet disorders

“…Results: Six European and one Australian Institution performing diagnosis of bleeding disorders participated in the project. By investigating blood films obtained from healthy controls, the reproducibility of preanalytical conditions, as well as of the staining- and observation method was initially ensured. …”
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Plasma and breast milk adipokines in women across the first year postpartum and their association with maternal depressive symptoms and infant neurodevelopment: Protocol for the AP... by Fernanda Rebelo, Cintia Oliveira de Moura, Layla Galvão Ranquine, Thaisa de Mattos Teixeira, Mariana Terra Nunes Ribas, Raquel Santiago Vitorino, Andrea Dunshee de Abranches, Roozemeria Pereira Costa, José Augusto Alves de Britto, Daniele Marano, Fernanda Valente Mendes Soares, Maria de Fátima Junqueira-Marinho, Carlos Augusto Moreira de Sousa, Ana Beatriz Franco-Sena, Antônio Egídio Nardi, Tatiana El-Bacha, Maria Elisabeth Lopes Moreira

“…<h4>Results</h4>The research received funds in August 2022, and participant recruitment began in September 2022. The sample size will consist of 95 mother-child pairs. …”
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Blinded Validation of Breath Biomarkers of Lung Cancer, a Potential Ancillary to Chest CT Screening. by Michael Phillips, Thomas L Bauer, Renee N Cataneo, Cassie Lebauer, Mayur Mundada, Harvey I Pass, Naren Ramakrishna, William N Rom, Eric Vallières

“…The algorithm predicted discriminant function (DF) values in blinded replicate breath VOC samples analyzed independently at two laboratories (A and B). …”
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A decade of hospital costs for firearm injuries in the United States by region, 2005–2015: government healthcare costs and firearm policies by David A Spain, Thomas G Weiser, Joseph D Forrester, Lakshika Tennakoon, Sarabeth A Spitzer

“…Understanding regional differences in firearm injury burden may be useful for crafting appropriate policies, especially with widely varying state gun laws.Objective To estimate the volume of, and hospital costs for, fatal and non-fatal firearm injuries from 2005 to 2015 for each region of the United States and analyze the proportionate cost by payer status.Methods We used the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Nationwide Inpatient Sample to identify patients admitted for firearm-related injuries from 2005 to 2015. …”
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Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) invasion, forest-steppe fragment size and isolation jointly constrain arthropod communities and their functional traits by Róbert Gallé, Ágota Réka Szabó, Edina Török, Tamás Lakatos, Dávid Korányi, Attila Torma, Nikolett Gallé-Szpisjak, Péter Batáry

“…The primary objective of restoration projects should be restoring habitat of appropriate size and connectivity and eradicating invasive species while concurrently supporting the revival of native species and their ecological relationships. …”
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Nature-based approaches: a mixed methods study of facilitators and barriers to implementation in CAMHS by Siobhan B. Mitchell, Beth Chapman, Rachel Hayes, Hélène Bonnici, Hazel Banks, Silvana Mareva, Rebecca Hardwick

“…All participants were sampled from one NHS Trust and the study was open to both those who had attended the NatureWell training and those who had not. …”
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