Assessing quality and biases in ethnomathematics-based numeracy worksheets: A Many-Facet Rasch Model analysis by Rahmi Ramadhani, Soeharto Soeharto, Fitria Arifiyanti, Rully Charitas Indra Prahmana, Alfa Saleh, Zsolt Lavicza

“…To achieve this objective, ten raters evaluated four learning activities based on five criteria: relevance, feasibility, construction and systematics, appearance, and language appropriateness. A total of 200 data points were coded in the FACETS software and subsequently analyzed. …”
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Knowledge and Practices Regarding Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT) Prevention Among Nurses in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia by Ruba M. Alharazi, Raiannah H. Alqahtani, Rahaf A. Alanazi, Walaa Alharbi, Shmokh M. Alshenen, Aisha Alhofaian, Afnan Tunsi, Loujain Sharif

“…A sample of 240 registered nurses were conveniently recruited to complete a self-administered online questionnaire. The data were coded and analyzed through SPSS version 24. …”
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Echo-ODE: A dynamics modeling network with neural ODE for temporally consistent segmentation of video echocardiograms by Wenliang Lu, Yuan Wang , Wenli Dai , Yingnan Wu , Hao Xu, Hao Xu, Dexing Kong

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Understanding the knowledge gap in parents’ and teens’ perceptions of cannabis laws by Grace Hajinazarian, Jier Yang, Gabriella Gaudier-Alemany, Sasha Fleary, Patrece Joseph, Rachael A. Sabelli, Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha, Margie R. Skeer

“…Interviews were conducted with 42 parents and teens (08/2018-07/2019) to assess their knowledge of cannabis laws, teens’ access to cannabis, and popular ways teens use cannabis. Data were coded and analyzed using deductive content analysis on NVivo. …”
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Risk of age-related macular degeneration according to the chronic kidney disease and proteinuria in Korea: a 10-year nationwide cohort study by Junhee Park, Kyungdo Han, Bongseong Kim, Kyungho Lee, Hye Ryoun Jang, Je Moon Yoon, Dong Hui Lim, Dong Wook Shin

“…AMD was identified according to International Classification Disease, Tenth Revision, codes in claims data. The Cox regression hazards model was used to estimate the association between CKD and risk of AMD. …”
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Alterations in Surface Electromyography Are Associated with Subjective Masticatory Muscle Pain by Davide Pietropaoli, Eleonora Ortu, Mario Giannoni, Ruggero Cattaneo, Alessandra Mummolo, Annalisa Monaco

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Smart Traffic Management at Intersections by Gezim Hoxha, Piotr Gorzelanczyk, RameLikaj, Shaban Thaqi, Flori Cikaqi

“…The prototype integrates sensors to collect real-time traffic data, enabling adaptive and efficient signal control. …”

Earthquake disaster resilience in Taiwan observed from the April 2024 ML 7.1 Hualien earthquake by Ryuta Enokida, Yo Fukushima, Chi-Hsien Tang, Tsung-Yi Pan, Chun-Lin Kuo, Kohju Ikago, Takako Izumi, Shinichi Kuriyama

“…Earthquake-resistant measures in Taiwan have high standards, such as building codes and seismic monitoring networks. At the 2024 earthquake, early warning systems and data-sharing networks for seismic records were useful for prompting immediate evacuation. …”
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Design of Secure Decentralized Car-Sharing System Using Blockchain by Myeonghyun Kim, Joonyoung Lee, Kisung Park, Yohan Park, Kil Houm Park, Youngho Park

“…Sensitive information, such as the user’s identity, location information, and access code, is transmitted through a public channel for car-sharing. …”
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Acceptability of a home-based visual field test (Eyecatcher) for glaucoma home monitoring: a qualitative study of patients’ views and experiences by David F Edgar, David P Crabb, Deanna J Taylor, Pete R Jones, Peter Campbell, Lee Jones, Tamsin Callaghan, Daniel S Asfaw

“…Transcripts were analysed using thematic analysis.Setting Participants were recruited in the UK through an advertisement in the International Glaucoma Association (now Glaucoma UK) newsletter.Participants Twenty adults (10 women; median age: 71 years) with a diagnosis of glaucoma were recruited (including open angle and normal tension glaucoma; mean deviation=2.5 to −29.9 dB).Results All participants could successfully perform VF testing at home. Interview data were coded into four overarching themes regarding experiences of undertaking VF home monitoring and attitudes towards its wider implementation in healthcare: (1) comparisons between Eyecatcher and Humphrey Field Analyser (HFA); (2) capability using Eyecatcher; (3) practicalities for effective wider scale implementation; (4) motivations for home monitoring.Conclusions Participants identified a broad range of benefits to VF home monitoring and discussed areas for service improvement. …”
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Challenges and management of venomous bites and scorpion stings in Lebanon: a qualitative study by Kamil Kadi, Tharwat El-Zahran, Mario Badr, Mohammad Mdaihly, Nesrine Ahmad, Atika Berri, Michelle E. E. Bauer, Samar Al-Hajj

“…This qualitative study investigates the management of these incidents in Lebanon by exploring the perceptions of healthcare providers and public health experts.MethodsThematic analysis, guided by sociocultural theory, examined qualitative data from 17 interviews with healthcare providers, including emergency physicians, paramedics, pharmaceutical providers, and ministry workers. …”
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It never happened to me, so I don’t know if there are procedures”: identification and case management of torture survivors in the reception and public health system of Rome, Italy... by Caterina Spissu, Gianfranco De Maio, Rafael Van den Bergh, Engy Ali, Emilie Venables, Doris Burtscher, Aurelie Ponthieu, Mario Ronchetti, Narciso Mostarda, Federica Zamatto

“…This study explores practices in the identification and case management of torture survivors in the reception structures and in the public health sector in Rome, Italy. Method: Data were analysed manually and codes and themes generated. …”
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CIBPartitioner: a computational intensity-balanced partitioner for enhancing distributed spatial join processing by Xiangyang Yang, Xuefeng Guan, Ming Zhang, Hang Wu, Bo Wang, Pengcheng Yin, Qingyang Xu, Huayi Wu

“…However, existing spatial partitioning methods focus more on balancing data quantity, and there is much less emphasis on accurately quantifying computational loads and generating partitioning layouts according to the derived loads. …”
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Korean dose coefficients for external exposures from air contamination by Bangho Shin, Chansoo Choi, Yumi Lee, Ji Won Choi, Yeon Soo Yeom

“…The DCs were calculated using the Geant4 radiation transport code, employing the same calculation methods and phase-space source data used to calculate the DCs in ICRP Publication 144. …”
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The Importance of Tidal Forces in Molecular Cloud Dynamics by JinWoo Lee, Alexa Saur, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Hui Li

“…To look at a range of environments, we use data from three different regions that evolve differently in the center, near the equivalent of the solar circle, and the outskirts of the modeled galaxy, at three different times, each spaced 2 Myr apart. …”
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Enhancing outlying growth simulation in urban cellular automata via intelligent extraction-fusion of land suitability and neighborhood effects: a case study of Wuhan, China by Qingyang Xu, Xuefeng Guan, Changlan Yang, Weiran Xing, Xiaoyu Chen, Huayi Wu

“…In addition, the source code of SEAF-CA is now available at GitHub (https://github.com/ohXu/SEAF-CA).…”
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Redox shuttle of cytosolic Thioredoxin to mitochondria protects against hyperoxia-mediated alteration of mitochondrial structure and dysfunction by Venkatesh Kundumani-Sridharan, Somasundaram Raghavan, Sudhir Kumar, Kumuda C. Das

“…Further, reduced Trx (Trx-SH) shuttle into mitochondria to protect against the downregulation of several mitochondrially coded genes and proteins of respiratory chain complexes in oxidative stress. …”
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TIM-FEM-ML synthetic technology for longitudinal optimization of tunnel excavated in the interlayered rock mass by Hui Li, Weizhong Chen, Xiaoyun Shu, Xianjun Tan, Qun Sui

“…Initially, geometric models of the geological formations and engineering structures are constructed on the TIM platform. Subsequently, data conversion is facilitated through the proposed transformation interface. …”
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DBF‐Net: A Deep Bidirectional Fusion Network for 6D Object Pose Estimation with Sparse Linear Transformer by Xuan Fan, Tao An, Hongbo Gao, Tao Xie, Lijun Zhao, Ruifeng Li

“…Recently, the widespread proliferation of RGB‐D sensors has precipitated a marked increase in interest towards 6D pose estimation leveraging RGB‐D data. A deep bidirectional fusion network is developed, DBF‐Net, achieving efficient yet accurate 6D object pose estimation. …”
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Observer-Linked Branching (OLB)—A Proposed Quantum-Theoretic Framework for Macroscopic Reality Selection by Călin Gheorghe Buzea, Florin Nedeff, Valentin Nedeff, Dragos-Ioan Rusu, Maricel Agop, Decebal Vasincu

“…Full reproducibility is ensured via the provided code notebooks and raw data tables in the appendices. …”
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