Knowledge, Self-Efficacy, and Correlates in Palliative and End-of-Life Care: Quantitative Insights from Final-Year Nursing and Medical Students in a Mixed-Methods Study by Germanus Natuhwera, Eve Namisango, Peter Ellis

“…Instruments included biodata sheet, the Palliative Care Quiz for Nursing questionnaire and the Palliative Care Self-Efficacy scale. Statistical analyses were performed using STATA version 14.0. …”
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Comparison of OnBaseU Tests with Biomechanical Motion Analysis in Youth Baseball Pitchers by Tessa Hulburt, Taylor Catalano, Kristen F. Nicholson

“…Further, OnBaseU and motion capture seated trunk rotation tests were not correlated (r = 0.003) and not found to be statistically associated (p = 0.83). # Conclusion Results from this study indicate that the OnBaseU clinical assessment screen may not have use in assessing pitching mechanics and that visual grading criteria used in the OnBaseU seated trunk rotation test may not be accurate…”
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The head position and cervical alignment in patients with Chiari malformation: A retrospective case–control study by Resul Karadeniz, Zeynep Dağlar, Emin Çağıl, Göksal Günerhan, Buse Sarıgül, Yılmaz Aslan, Ahmet Deniz Belen, Ali Dalgıç

“…Angular parameters, including cranial incidence (CI), cranial slope (CS), cranial tilt (CT), C7 slope (C7S), and spinocranial angle (SCA), were analyzed to determine correlations with the COG of the head. Statistical analyses were performed using t-tests, ROC analysis, and Pearson/Spearman correlation tests. …”
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The Effect of Self-Myofascial Release on the Pennation Angle of the Vastus Medialis Oblique and the Vastus Lateralis in Athletic Male Individuals: An Ultrasound Investigation by Queenie Mae Torrente, Alban Killingback, Philip J Adds, Claire Robertson

“… # Results There was a statistically significant (p < 0.001) decrease in the pennation angles of the VMO and VL after the SMR regime. …”
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ESTIMATED ELECTRICITY BILLING SYSTEM AND ITS EFFECTS ON CONSUMERS IN RESIDENTIAL AND BUSINESS CENTRES IN WUKARI METROPOLIS, TARABA STATE by Abubakar Ahmadu, Vyonkhen Tanko Nacho

“…Descriptive and inferential statistics like percentages and linear regression were used respectively to address the research questions and test the hypothesis. …”
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Influence of dual stratification on the magnetohydrodynamic flow of Jeffrey nanofluid over an exponentially stretching permeable sheet with viscous dissipation and Joule heating by M. Siva Sankari, M. Eswara Rao, Fuad A. Awwad, Emad A. A. Ismail, O. D. Makinde, Waris Khan

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LASSO–MOGAT: a multi-omics graph attention framework for cancer classification by Fadi Alharbi, Aleksandar Vakanski, Murtada K. Elbashir, Mohanad Mohammed

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Analysing COVID-19 Verified, Recuperate and Death Cases in Ethiopia Using ARIMA Models by Birhanu Betela Warssamo

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CHALLENGES OF LOCALIZATION OF THE POLICY FRAMEWORK AND NATIONAL ACTION PLAN FOR PREVENTING VIOLENT EXTREMISM IN PLATEAU STATE, NIGERIA by BEJI GOWAL BEKUMA, JOHN UKAWUILULU

“…Simple descriptive statistics presented in tables using frequency and percentages were used to analyse the quantitative data collected in the study. …”
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Bridging gaps in healthcare: child health services and specialist care collaboration for young children with autism and coexisting conditions by Gudrun Nygren, Gudrun Nygren, Christopher Gillberg, Emilia Carlsson, Emilia Carlsson

“…AimThis study aimed to evaluate a clinical project aiming to address gaps in healthcare for young children in an immigrant, low-resource district from early identification of regulatory problems, autism, and other neurodevelopmental symptoms by child health services to assessment and interventions in specialist care.MethodsA mixed-model design was employed, consisting of a description of the clinical project and data from healthcare statistics to evaluating the care chain. Qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted to capture the perspectives of participating child health nurses. …”
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CHILDREN ON ANTI EPILEPTIC DRUGS HAVE LOW SERUM CALCIUM AND RAISED ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE LEVELS by Tanzeela Rani, Syeda Mamoona Qudrat, Salma Aziz, Nasar Um Min Allah, Ammara Khalid, Mobeen Tabassum

“…Data was entered on SPSS v 22 and descriptive statistics were applied.  Results: Of 95 epileptic children, 50.53% (n=48) were male and 49.47% (n=47) were females taking AEDs (either carbamazepine, valproate sodium or phenobarbital), 47.37% (n=45) were between 2-6 years of age while 52.63% (n=50) were between 7-11 years of age (Mean age: 6.53±2.54 years). …”
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Evaluation of Polymerization Shrinkage and Depth of Cure of Silorane Based Composite Resin and Methacrylate Based Composite Resin (Comparative Study) by Diyar kh Bakr

“…Results: The descriptive statistics for the degree of polymerization shrinkage among three groups cleared that the P90 showed the lowest value for polymerization shrinkage with significant difference among three groups. …”
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Efficient Handling of Data Imbalance in Health Insurance Fraud Detection Using Meta-Reinforcement Learning by Supriya Seshagiri, K. V. Prema

“…Data imbalance is one of the major challenges in health insurance fraud detection where the distribution of classes within the dataset is significantly skewed, leading statistical models to be biased toward the dominant class. …”
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Endovascular intervention in patients with blunt traumatic thoracic aortic injury: Early results by Hasan Toz, Yusuf Kuserli, Gulsum Turkyilmaz, Saygin Turkyilmaz, Ali Aycan Kavala

“…The most common cause of injury was motor vehicle accidents (81.4%, n=57). No statistically significant difference was found between patients regarding the locations of the landing zones (p&gt;0.05). …”
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Metabolome profiling dissects the oat (Avena sativa L.) innate immune response to Pseudomonas syringae pathovars. by Chanel J Pretorius, Paul A Steenkamp, Ian A Dubery

“…Chemometric modelling and multivariate statistical analysis indicated time-related metabolic reconfigurations that point to host and nonhost interactions in response to bacterial inoculation/infection. …”
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Exceeding expectations: A study on human resource management implementation in construction organisations by Munodani Chapano, Chux G. Iwu

“…Collected data were processed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), version 28, and analysed using descriptive analysis and a one-sample t-test. …”
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Reduction in Healthcare Resource Utilization Following Treatment With a Home-Based Footworn Device in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis: A Retrospective Claims Analysis by Josh Mark, Shirley Shema-Shiratzky, Joel Sommer, Tim Nolan, Ganit Segal

“…Data prior to the index date and post-index date were used to monitor changes in HCRU while in treatment. Descriptive statistics, including frequencies, means and standard deviations, were used to present patient characteristics. …”
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Prevalence of Risk Factors of the Female Athlete Triad among Young Elite Athletes of Pakistan by Jaweria Syed, Anam Jamil, Nazma Namroz, Madiha Shakeel, Ayesha Malik, Sumaira Kanwal, Huma Riaz

“…The data were analyzed using SPSS-20 and descriptive statistics applied. # Results A sample of 60 elite athletes, (23.57 <u>+</u> 2.37 years, BMI 21.97 <u">+</u>1.90) who participated in various sports were included. …”
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Evaluation of the readability of informed consent forms commonly used in dermatology and cosmetology in Turkiye by Mine Mujde Kus

“…These data were then statistically compared. The mean readability of all ICFs was at the high school level according to the Bezirci-Yılmaz formula and at a medium difficulty level according to the Ateşman formula. …”
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Response to induction chemotherapy as a prognostic indicator in locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma by Francesca Huwyler, Roland Giger, Ruben Bill, Daniel Rauch, Simon Haefliger

“…This effect was not statistically significant in tumors of the oral cavity or oropharynx, where it was only observed as a trend. …”
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