Health literacy among the undergraduate students of Chhayanath Rara Municipality, Mugu by Pratikshya Gyawali, Nabina Malla, Dhirendra Kalauni, Upasana Basnet

“…Stratified random sampling with proportional allocation was used to divide students by academic year, followed by random selection within strata using a random number table. …”
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TerraSAR-X SAR data for classification of ice-free areas and glacier facies on Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, Antarctica by ANDRÉ M. DE ANDRADE, ROBERTO F.M. MICHEL, KÁTIA K. DA ROSA, ULISSES F. BREMER, CARLOS ERNESTO G.R. SCHAEFER, JEFFERSON C. SIMÕES

“…We used five images from the TerraSAR-X satellite, three of these data were obtained during the same period of fieldwork. …”
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Systematic review and consensus guidelines for environmental sampling of Burkholderia pseudomallei. by Direk Limmathurotsakul, David A B Dance, Vanaporn Wuthiekanun, Mirjam Kaestli, Mark Mayo, Jeffrey Warner, David M Wagner, Apichai Tuanyok, Heiman Wertheim, Tan Yoke Cheng, Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay, Savithiri Puthucheary, Nicholas P J Day, Ivo Steinmetz, Bart J Currie, Sharon J Peacock

“…PubMed (January 1912 to December 2011) was searched using the following MeSH terms: pseudomallei or melioidosis. …”
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Investigating key factors influencing the success of construction projects at international level by Büşra Göküz, İlknur Akıner

“…In addition, a correlation matrix was used to determine the relationship between the variables. …”
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Spray solution deposition and Asian rust control in soybean cultivars by Antonio L. Viegas Neto, Cristiano M. A. de Souza, Izidro dos S. de Lima Júnior, Lígia M. M. da S. Piletti, Karina de J. E. Martins, Bruno F. Bertoncello

“…This study aimed to evaluate Asian rust control and fungicide deposition using spray nozzles in three soybean cultivars. A randomized block design was used, with treatments arranged in a split-plot scheme; the plots were three soybean cultivars (SYN 1561 IPRO, M6410 IPRO, and M6210 IPRO) and the subplots three spray nozzles (11002 BD, AIXR 110015 and TTJ60 11002), in addition to a control with no fungicide application, and four replicates. …”
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A large-scale dataset of AI-related tweets: Structure and descriptive statisticsGitHubDataverse by Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin, Daniel Kouloukoui, Thierry Warin

“…These tweets were extracted from a larger initial corpus using the keyword “Artificial Intelligence” and subsequently filtered to ensure data quality, multilingual coverage, and public accessibility. …”
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Viral suppression among patients in HIV/AIDS care at healthcare facilities in Ethiopia: Same-day antiretroviral initiation. by Kidanu Hurisa Chachu, Kefiloe Adolphina Maboe

“…A probability simple random sampling technique was used in the selection of the clinical records of patients started on ART. …”
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A simple technique for impression taking of teeth and functionally generated paths by Takatsugu Yamamoto, Yohei Sato, Hidehiko Watanabe, Amit Punj, Minoru Abe, Yasuko Momoi, Chikahiro Ohkubo

“…This simple technique resulted in a well-fitting crown that accounted for mandibular movements. Using the custom closed-mouth impression tray incorporating an FGP table simultaneously aids in fabricating an accurately fitting restoration that incorporates harmonious mandibular movements using a single impression capture.…”
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Examining the implications of social determinants of health on hospital readmission for patients with heart failure: a scoping review by Kendra Duran, Linda C. Copel, Janice L. Hinkle

“…This scoping review examined literature from the United States (2009–2024) using the Joanna Briggs Institute and PRISMA-ScR guidelines to identify social determinants of health and their influence on heart failure-related readmissions. …”
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High-Quality Complete Genome Sequence of Xanthomonas phaseoli pv. dieffenbachiae Outbreak Strain D182: The Causative Agent of Anthurium Bacterial Blight in Hawaii by Shefali Dobhal, Shu-Cheng Chuang, Dario Arizala, Lisa M. Keith, Anne M. Alvarez, Mohammad Arif

“…In this study, we sequenced strain D182, representative of the Hawaiian anthurium blight outbreak (1981 to 1986), using PacBio RS II SMRT technology. High-quality de novo assembly of 5,217,888 bp (65% GC) was generated with a mean coverage of 351× using HGAP v4. …”
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Evaluation of Clinical Practicability of Hybrid Automatic Treatment Planning for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma by Enwei MO, Lei YU, Jiyou PENG, Long YANG, Jiazhou WANG, Weigang HU

“…For each patient, three different sets of clinical goals were used to generate three hybrid automatic plans based on 3D dose distribution prediction and three automatic plans based on script, respectively, which were compared with the manual plans used in clinic. …”
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The role of community health workers in cervical cancer screening in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic scoping review of the literature by James O’Donovan, Charles O’Donovan, Shobhana Nagraj

“…The aims of the scoping review were to understand the following: (i) where and how CHWs are currently deployed in screening in LMIC settings; (ii) the methods used to train and support CHWs in screening, and (iii) The evidence on the cost-effectiveness of using CHWs to assist in screening.Methods A scoping literature search of 11 major databases and the grey literature was performed between 1978 and 2018. …”
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Road traffic deaths and injuries are under-reported in Ethiopia: a capture-recapture method. by Teferi Abegaz, Yemane Berhane, Alemayehu Worku, Abebe Assrat, Abebayehu Assefa

“…Primary data were collected by accident investigators and hospital emergency nurses using a structured checklist. Four matching variables; name of the victim, sex, place and time of the accidents was used to get the matched cases. …”
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Determining the Critical Intensity for Crack Initiation in Concrete Arch Dams by Endurance Time Method by Mohammadreza Mashayekhi, Hasan Mostafaei

“…Results are obtained by using three different endurance time excitation series; ‘kn’, ‘kd’, and ‘lc’. …”
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Physical rehabilitation delivery by community health workers: Views of the users and caregivers by Miriam Mapulanga, Thembelihle Dlungwane

“…Methods: An exploratory qualitative approach using face-to-face, in-depth interviews was used to collect data from users and caregivers who receive physical rehabilitation services from untrained community health workers. …”
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Evaluating textural descriptors for automated image classification of stony reefs in turbid temperate waters by Saulė Medelytė, Yuri Rzhanov, Andrius Šiaulys, Kim Lowell

“…This study is the first to assess the potential of texture descriptors for classifying benthic species and habitats using turbid underwater imagery. Underwater images were collected in SE Baltic Sea reefs (4.4–42.2 m depth) using a drop-down camera. …”
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Financial security of tutors in Ghanaian colleges of education; a pre-retirement and post-retirement analysis by Bernice Oteng, Ronald Osei Mensah, Agyemang Frimpong

“…Frequency counts, percentages, and inferential statistics (independent samples test) were used to analyze the data obtained from the self-developed questionnaire (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.78), and themes were identified from the respondents’ responses using thematic analysis. …”
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Most human DNA replication initiation is dispersed throughout the genome with only a minority within previously identified initiation zones by Jamie T. Carrington, Rosemary H. C. Wilson, Eduardo de La Vega, Sathish Thiyagarajan, Tom Barker, Leah Catchpole, Alex Durrant, Vanda Knitlhoffer, Chris Watkins, Karim Gharbi, Conrad A. Nieduszynski

“…Importantly, initiation and termination events are identified on single molecules with high resolution, throughout S-phase, genome-wide, and at high coverage at specific loci using targeted enrichment. …”
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The quality of service assessment of eMBB and mMTC traffic in a clustered 5G ecosystem of a smart factory by Viacheslav Kovtun, Oksana Kovtun, Krzysztof Grochla, Oleh Yasniy

“…An information technology has been developed to calculate QoS indicators for different types of requests using these channel allocation scenarios. Studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of using one or another access strategy depending on the loads on the 5G cluster. …”
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Optimizing the lignin nanoparticles from different pulping by-products in developing cotton-based nanocrystalline cellulose for UV‑light blocking by Altaf H. Basta, Vivian F. Lotfy

“…Abstract The development of sustainable and non-toxic ultraviolet (UV) shielding materials is essential to address the limitations of conventional inorganic agents, which often suffer from biotoxicity and limited spectral coverage. In this study, lignin nanoparticles (LNPs) were extracted from rice straw-derived black liquors, a by-product of various pulping processes, using acid precipitation followed by solvent exchange with tetrahydrofuran (THF) and ethylene glycol (EG). …”
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