Experiences of Young and Middle-Aged Stroke Patients with Hemiplegia Who Actively Participate in Rehabilitation Exercises and Their Perceptions of Well-Being: A Descriptive Qualita... by Si Y, Huang X, Zhao S, Ou Z, Pi M, Du J

“…In order to remedy the situation, it is advised that well-being be included in stroke rehabilitation, that commonly used rehabilitation and psychological intervention programs be covered by health insurance, as well as reimbursement rates be raised. …”
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Deep resequencing unveils novel SNPs, InDels, and large structural variants for the clonal fingerprinting of sweet orange [Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck] by Davide Scaglione, Angelo Ciacciulli, Stefano Gattolin, Marco Caruso, Fabio Marroni, Giuseppina Las Casas, Irena Jurman, Grazia Licciardello, Antonino Felice Catara, Laura Rossini, Concetta Licciardello, Michele Morgante

“…Moreover, the clonal nature of all sweet orange accessions hinders the traceability of propagation material and fruit juice using low‐density molecular markers. To build a catalog of somatic mutations in Italian varieties, 20 accessions were sequenced at high coverage. …”
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Recent HIV testing and self-reported HIV prevalence among men who inject drugs in Afghanistan: a nationwide survey in 2019–2020 by Ajmal Sabawoon, Sima Naderi, Said Iftekhar Sadaat, Abdul Rasheed, Alim Atarud, Fatemeh Tavakoli, Hamid Sahrifi, Ali Mirzazadeh

“…Method We visited 374 public venues and hotpots where PWID used to gather and meet their peers across 8 cities in Afghanistan to enroll eligible participants in our study. …”
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Landslide assessment considering spatial calibration zoning of physical and mechanical parameters of rock and soil mass by Weimin YIN, Yuanyao LI, Xing LI, Ming LI, Le JU, Ou XIE

“…To address these deficiencies, this paper explored an enhanced SINMAP model tailored to various spatial calibration zones.Using Dazhou Town, Wanzhou District, Chongqing as a case study and employing frequency ratio and sensitivity index analysis, the key indicator factors are determined as rock and soil type, vegetation coverage, and proximity to roads from the eight indicator factors reflecting the cause of landslides. …”
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Accurate detection of low concentrations of microplastics in soils via short-wave infrared hyperspectral imaging by Huan Chen, Taesung Shin, Bosoon Park, Kyoung Ro, Changyoon Jeong, Hwang-Ju Jeon, Pei-Lin Tan

“…The results demonstrated that the overall accuracy for detecting 0.01–12% microplastics was 93.8 ​± ​1.47% using the MCT sensor, which was higher than 68.8 ​± ​3.76 ​% using the InGaAs sensor. …”
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Oral and dental health utilization among patients with special health care needs: a qualitative study in Iran by Zahra Zare, Mohammad Amin Bahrami, Foad Iranmanesh, Zahra Kavosi

“…Informants were selected using purposive and snowball sampling. A semi structured interview guide was used to explore the perspectives of three groups: service providers, policymakers, and families of patients with SHCN. …”
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Determinants of postnatal care service utilization among mothers of Mangochi district, Malawi: a community-based cross- sectional study by Jonas, Sagawa, Allen, Kabagenyi, Godwin, Turyasingura, Saul Eric, Mwale

“…A multivariable logistic regression adjusted for confounding factors was used to identify predictors of PNC utilization using odds ratio with 95% confidence interval and p-value of 0.05. …”
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Synergistic interaction between a corrugated surface and hydrogen bonding affects selectivity in bond cleaving reaction: A case of coadsorbed hydrazine-OH on Ni(211) system by Novianto Nur Hidayat, Mohammad Kemal Agusta, Supriadi Rustad, Hermawan Kresno Dipojono, Hiroshi Nakanishi, Hideaki Kasai

“…In an ideal extended periodic system used in this study at specific coverage, the results demonstrate the effect of utilizing a corrugated surface in promoting first N–H bond cleaving instead of N–N.…”
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Toolkit for Monitoring and Evaluation of Indoor Residual Spraying for Visceral Leishmaniasis Control in the Indian Subcontinent: Application and Results by M. Mamun Huda, Dinesh Mondal, Vijay Kumar, Pradeep Das, S. N. Sharma, Murari Lal Das, Lolita Roy, Chitra Kumar Gurung, Megha Raj Banjara, Shireen Akhter, Narayan Prosad Maheswary, Axel Kroeger, Rajib Chowdhury

“…We field tested and validated a newly developed monitoring and evaluation (M&E) toolkit for indoor residual spraying to be used by the supervisors at different levels of the national kala-azar elimination programs in Bangladesh, India and Nepal. …”
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LC-MS-Based Metabolic Fingerprinting of Aqueous Humor by Karolina Pietrowska, Diana Anna Dmuchowska, Paulina Samczuk, Tomasz Kowalczyk, Pawel Krasnicki, Malgorzata Wojnar, Aleksandra Skowronska, Zofia Mariak, Adam Kretowski, Michal Ciborowski

“…Until now, global analysis of metabolites in AH has been mainly performed using NMR. Among the analytical platforms used in metabolomics, LC-MS allows for the highest metabolome coverage. …”
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Flame spreading and burning of high- and low-flash point fuels under compressed air foam suppression by Fengyuan Tian, Jun Fang, Shangqing Tao, Kun Wang, Hassan Raza Shah, Xuqing Lang, Zhijian Tian, Fei Tang

“…In this work, the flame spreading and burning of 0# diesel and n-heptane fuels were suppressed using pre discharged compressed air foam (half coverage of the pool). …”
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A recyclable magnetic piezoelectric composite Fe3O4/SrBi2Ta2O9 for efficient antibiotic removal in water under ball milling by Dongyi Chen, Xingsheng Li, Ning Li, Zhenjian Zhou, Zhikui Zhou, Xiaoyun Fan

“…Herein, we used the hydrothermal method to load Fe3O4 onto SrBi2Ta2O9 (Fe/SBTO). …”
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Biodiversity Patterns and DNA Barcode Gap Analysis of COI in Coastal Lagoons of Albania by Mariola Ismailaj, Francesco Zangaro, Valeria Specchia, Franca Sangiorgio, Francesca Marcucci, Hajdar Kiçaj, Alberto Basset, Maurizio Pinna

“…The collected species lists were taxonomically standardised using global public taxonomic databases like WORMS. …”
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Drone Insights: Unveiling Beach Usage through AI-Powered People Counting by César Herrera, Rod M. Connolly, Jasmine A. Rasmussen, Gerrard McNamara, Thomas P. Murray, Sebastian Lopez-Marcano, Matthew Moore, Max D. Campbell, Fernando Alvarez

“…We developed a novel method to assess beach usage on the Gold Coast, Australia, using 507 drone surveys across 24 beaches. The surveys covered 30 km of coastline, accounting for different seasons, times of day, and environmental conditions. …”
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Beyond Nyquist: A Comparative Analysis of 3D Deep Learning Models Enhancing MRI Resolution by Soumick Chatterjee, Alessandro Sciarra, Max Dünnwald, Anitha Bhat Talagini Ashoka, Mayura Gurjar Cheepinahalli Vasudeva, Shudarsan Saravanan, Venkatesh Thirugnana Sambandham, Pavan Tummala, Steffen Oeltze-Jafra, Oliver Speck, Andreas Nürnberger

“…When assessing performance using the SSIM metric in the test set, all models performed well. …”
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Persistence of Untreated Bed Nets in the Retail Market in Tanzania: A Cross-Sectional Survey by Benjamin Kamala, Dana Loll, Ruth Msolla, David Dadi, Peter Gitanya, Charles Mwalimu, Frank Chacky, Stella Kajange, Mwinyi Khamis, Sarah-Blythe Ballard, Naomi Serbantez, Stephen Poyer

“…We assessed the relationship between market share and population access using ANOVA and Pearson correlation. No counterfeit or misleading nets were found, consistent with results from 2017, 2021, and 2022 surveys. …”
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Studying pollen representation of vegetation and plant richness from Pampean coastal dunes (Argentina, South America): exploring from local to landscape quantitative linkages by Carolina Vásquez, Gonzalo Sottile, Victor Merino-Campos, Silvina Stutz

“…Multivariate analyses were used to classify pollen samples and compare them to landscape unit coverage (%). …”
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Institutional Delivery in the Philippines: Does a Minimum of 8 Antenatal Care Visits Matter? by Felly Philipus Senewe, Agung Dwi Laksono, Roy Glenn Albert Massie, Leny Latifah, Syarifah Nuraini, Rozana Ika Agustiya, Jane Kartika Propiana, Wahyu Pudji Nugraheni

“…Objectives This cross-sectional study investigated the association between the utilization of 8 antenatal care (ANC) visits and delivery in a healthcare institution in the Philippines, using data from the 2022 National Demographic and Health Survey. …”
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Status of infectious disease content in the professional pharmacy curriculum in Saudi Arabia: Results of a national survey by Fulwah Y. Alqahtani, Safiah H. Alattas, Thamer A. Almangour, Fadilah S. Aleanizy

“…It included questions regarding the faculty and institution, infectious disease topics, hours dedicated to each topic, and tools and strategies used in the courses for better understanding and assessment of students. …”
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Framework for the Georeferencing and Processing of BikePack LiDAR Data for Urban Tree Mapping by C. Zhao, S. Hyung, R. Manish, S.-Y. Shin, S. Park, S. Fei, A. Habib

“…However, they are often limited by the operator's mobility and time required for complete coverage of the area of interest. This paper introduces a BikePack LiDAR system, which uses a bicycle for efficient urban data acquisition. …”
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