‘I no longer worry about money for transport to the health centre’ - economic empowerment of caregivers of children living with HIV through Village Savings and Loan Associations: e... by Joseph Rujumba, Carmen Roebersen, Susan Namara, Richard Ochen, Sharon Eva Ahumuza, Allen Tushabe, Mathias Akugizibwe, David Bitira, Innocent Mwesigye, Stella Kentusi, Henry Zakumumpa, Japheth Kwiringira, Merian Natukwatsa Musinguzi

“…Group training, integration of expert clients in VSLA groups, provision of VSLA kits, provision of financial top-up and linking groups to other service providers were critical success factors. …”
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A User-Centered Design Approach for a Screening App for People With Cognitive Impairment (digiDEM-SCREEN): Development and Usability Study by Michael Zeiler, Nikolas Dietzel, Fabian Haug, Julian Haug, Klaus Kammerer, Rüdiger Pryss, Peter Heuschmann, Elmar Graessel, Peter L Kolominsky-Rabas, Hans-Ulrich Prokosch

“…MethodsThis research used qualitative and quantitative methods and involved 3 key stakeholder groups: the digiDEM research team, the software development team, and the target user group (older adults ≥65 years with and without cognitive impairments). …”
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Smart phone-based transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation as adjunctive therapy for hypertension (STAT-H trial): protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial by Yu Wang, Xiao Wang, Ying Lin, Chao-Qun Yan, Guang-Xia Shi, Cun-Zhi Liu, Jing-Wen Yang, Jian-Feng Tu, Shi-Yan Yan, Xin-Tong Su, Li-Qiong Wang, Si-Bo Kang, Bao-Hong Mi, He-Wen Li, Xue-Zhou Wang

“…The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of the smart phone-based TEAS as adjunctive therapy for hypertension.Methods and analysis This study is a 52-week cluster randomised controlled trial with 1600 hypertension patients in 32 community health service centres. Patients who meet the inclusion criteria will be randomised into usual care group or TEAS group in a 1:1 ratio. …”
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AdaptiveDet: Defect Detection for Digital Printing Fabric with Complex Background by Zebin Su, Xingyi Zhang, Jiamin Li, Yunlong Shao, Pengfei Li, Huanhuan Zhang

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E-PORTFOLIO IN STUDENTS' LEARNING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT by Oksana Polyakova

“…The monitoring of 18 experimental group members while compiling individual electronic portfolios in English helped us explore their progress in terms of both linguistic and professional proficiencies. …”
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Spatio-temporal patterns of the construction and development of urban open spaces in Macau from 1889–2020 by Jitai Li, Fan Lin, Yile Chen

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Research on Formation Identification Based on Drilling Shock and Vibration Parameters and Energy Principle by Yu Ding, Zhuoying Tan, Shuguang Li, Zizhen Miao, Huifen Qu

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CROSS-CULTURAL ASPECTS OF METAPHORICAL FRAMING IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE by T. V. Andryukhina

“…The latter is heterogeneous as it is structured by the objectified individual, group, and national verbal and nonverbal experience. …”
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Health interventions to promote light physical activity in children and adolescents with physical inactivity – a review of research progress by Siji WANG, Jian LI, Jiu CHEN, Wenlai CUI, Yibing WANG, Zhe KONG, Jun XIE

“…Physical inactivity refers to an individual′s failure to meet the recommended amount of physical activity for their age group as outlined in physical activity guidelines. …”
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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice toward Youth-Friendly Reproductive Health Services among Mizan-Tepi University Students, South-Western Ethiopia by Samuel Getachew, Lema Abate, Abyot Asres, Abel Mandefro

“…Participants were chosen from the target group using a simple random selection procedure. …”
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Factors influencing the integration of planetary health topics into undergraduate medical education in Ireland: a qualitative study of medical educator perspectives by Aisling Walsh, Oisin Brady Bates, Debbi Stanistreet

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The communicative evaluation of Spanish in non-Spanish-speaking students of the Medical Sciences preparatory course by Adrian Abreus González, Guadalaupe García González, Nancy Castillo Mauri, Zaydelys Lucrecia Torres Calzadilla, Juan Manuel Cala Corrales

“…<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> Qualitative research methods and techniques such as observation and discussion groups were used, through workshops developed with the group of Spanish teachers for foreigners at the Medicine Latin American School and the Cienfuegos University. …”
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Criminological portrait of a professional criminal by N. K. Makarenko

“…It is established that professional criminals are a group of the most dangerous and active criminals who deliberately oppose themselves to society and have a significant deformation of the value and normative sphere. …”
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Application of educational data mining in subject learning at university by Irina A. Kotiurova

“…The paper presents charts and tables from this database and determines to what extent they can be used to analyze the progress of a particular student, a certain academic group or an entire course in the acquisition of a foreign language. …”
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Optical Fresnel zone plate flat lenses made entirely of colored photoresist through an i-line stepper by Ryohei Yamada, Hiroyuki Kishida, Tomohiro Takami, Itti Rittaporn, Mizuho Matoba, Haruyuki Sakurai, Kuniaki Konishi

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Beyond Finance: Enhancing Support for New Technology Start-Up Founders by Pawel Ziemianski, Katarzyna Stankiewicz, Jan Wyrwinski, Sylwiusz Retowski, Bartosz Lipnicki

“…The article addresses a gap in the literature by examining the stressors and challenges specific to new technology start-up founders, an under-researched group of entrepreneurs operating at the intersection of innovation and business. …”
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A Comprehensive Review of Key Cyber-Physical Systems, and Assessment of Their Education Challenges by Imre Kocsis, Boglarka Burjan-Mosoni, Istvan Balajti

“…The conclusions are based on individual and group interviews conducted with students in Hungarian and international mechatronics undergraduate programs.…”
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Zoom Auxiliary Imaging Lens Design for a Modulation Transfer Function Test System by Yicheng Sheng, Sihan Xu, Caishi Zhang, Binghua Su, Dingxiang Cao, Zhe Chen

“…The auxiliary imaging lenses of the current MTF test system typically use fixed-focus optical systems, which are unable to meet the test scenarios of fast and batch measurement and measure lenses with an extensive focal length range. …”
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Sequence Analysis-Enhanced AI: Transforming Interactive E-Book Data into Educational Insights for Teachers by Yaroslav Opanasenko, Emanuele Bardone, Margus Pedaste, Leo Aleksander Siiman

“…Participants provided explicit feedback on CustomGPT, appreciating its potential for group and individual analysis, while suggesting improvements in visualization clarity, legend design, descriptive explanations, and personalized tips to better meet their needs. …”
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Stability and Control of Retracement Channels in Thin Seam Working Faces with Soft Roof by Binbin Qin, Fulian He, Xiaobing Zhang, Xuhui Xu, Wei Wang, Liang Li, Chen Dou

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