Bleeding Through a Pandemic: Women’s Lived Experiences with Heavy Menstrual Bleeding During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Anto-Ocrah M, Affan NJ, Vempalli H, Chen M, Niyomugabo C, Glantz JC, Hollenbach S

“…A third objective was to explore women’s lived experiences with menorrhagia during the pandemic, including menstrual pain and impact on socialization, sex life, and product use.Methods: This was a secondary data analyses of a cross-sectional study that recruited adult women between the ages of 18– 45 years using Dynata, a survey sampling company that maintains a web panel of survey takers across the United States. …”
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Involving young people with lived experience in advancing mental health science: an exploratory qualitative study from Pakistan and India by Syed Usman Hamdani, Zill-e- Huma, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Syeda Wajeeha Zafar, Ayella Gillani, Vaishali Bagrodia, Amy Finlay Jones

“…Abstract Background Meaningful involvement of young People with Lived Experience (PWLE) in co-designing youth mental health interventions has been much emphasized globally. …”
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Exploring Adherence, Treatment Experiences, and Quality of Healthcare Services in HIV Management Among Iraqi Patients: Challenges and Influential Factors by Talabani SN, Mikhael EM

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Insomnia and depressive symptoms mediate childhood abuse and psychotic experience of male juvenile offenders: a chain mediation model by Yijie Wang, Zheng Zhang, Yanyue Ye, Juan Xu, Jiansong Zhou

“…Methods This is a convenience sampling survey, a total of 500 juvenile male offenders in a correctional facility in southwestern China were recruited. …”
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Efficient TD3 based path planning of mobile robot in dynamic environments using prioritized experience replay and LSTM by Yunhan Lin, Zhijie Zhang, Yijian Tan, Hao Fu, Huasong Min

“…The proposed method, named PL-TD3, integrates prioritized experience replay (PER) and long short-term memory (LSTM) neural networks, which enhance both sample efficiency and the ability to handle time-series data. …”
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Parameter development for near-fully dense LPBF-produced stainless steel 316 using a design of experiment approach by van Niekerk Marné, Dicks James, Kloppers C.P., Becker Thorsten Hermann

“…The study utilised the bootstrapping method to identify the minimum sample size required for reliable predictions, establishing that 15 samples are sufficient. …”
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Phenomenological study on lived experience of students and professors about virtual education during Covid-19 pandemic: Case study, University of Isfahan by Z. Maher

“…Based on the purposive sampling, a mixture was selected and interviewed. The data was evaluated using Colaizzi’s seven step method (1978).  …”
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Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Participation in Physical Activity of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: The True-Life Experiences of Parents by Kübra Durmuş, Halil Sarol, Rıfat Kerem Gürkan

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“…They were just treating her Symptom by Symptom”: maternal experiences of having a child with spinal muscular atrophy in Ghana by Esther Doe-Yo Tawiah, Jacob Owusu Sarfo

“…Methods We conducted an interpretative phenomenological study with a purposive sample of seven mothers whose children, aged between 8 and 24 months, were diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) and registered with the Rare Disease Ghana Initiative (RDGI). …”
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Analisis Faktor-Faktor yang Mempengaruhi Efektivitas Sistem Informasi Akuntansi Pada Koperasi Simpan Pinjam di Kecamatan Denpasar Selatan by Kadek Apriada, Putu Riska Wulandari, Ida Bagus Ngurah

“…The population in this study were all employees of the Savings and Loans Cooperative in South Denpasar District, totaling 365 people. The sample for this research consisted of 122 respondents with a purposive sampling method. …”
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Exploring service users’ and healthcare professionals’ experience of digital and face-to-face Health Checks in England: a qualitative study by Russell Jago, Frank de Vocht, Rona Campbell, Hugh McLeod, Carlos Sillero-Rejon, Ruth Salway, Chloe Forte, Patricia Jessiman, Rebecca Harkes, Paul Stokes, Elisabeth B Grey

“…A digital version of the Health Check was introduced by a local authority as an alternative for those hesitant or less able to attend an F2F appointment.Objectives This qualitative study aimed to understand service users’ (SUs) and healthcare professionals’ (HCPs) experiences and opinions of F2F Health Checks and digital Health Checks (DHC), identify barriers and facilitators of the F2F Health Check and DHC pathways, and recommend potential improvements.Design This is a qualitative study, involving interviews with a purposive sample of participants.Participants and setting A purposive sample of 30 SUs and 8 HCPs were recruited by an external market service company in the London Borough of Southwark.Methods Semistructured interviews were conducted, which included questions on understanding why SUs chose a type of Health Check, their experiences of the service and suggestions for improvement. …”
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The Effect of Service Quality, Corporate Image, Customer Trust, Customer Satisfaction, And Customer Experience on Customer Loyalty at PT Pelindo (Persero) (Case Study at Tanjung In... by Puput Tri Hantoro, Herni Justiana Astuti, Erny Rachmawati, Wida Purwidianti

“…The data collection technique uses a purposive sampling method, where the requirement to be sampled is service users who have used PT Pelindo (Persero) services for 1 year. …”
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Quantitative evaluation of brittleness of deep shale gas reservoirs of Wufeng- Longmaxi formations in Lintanchang area, southeastern Sichuan Basin by Shaoke FENG, Liang XIONG, Shuai YIN, Xiaoxia DONG, Limin WEI

“…With the increase in rock plasticity of deep shale gas reservoirs, their brittleness characteristics become difficult to be accurately characterized using traditional evaluation methods. Taking the deep shale gas reservoirs from the upper Ordovician Wufeng Formation to the first member of Lower Silurian Longmaxi Formation in the Lintanchang area of the southeastern Sichuan Basin as a case study, triaxial rock mechanics and fracture toughness experiments on shale samples were conducted. …”
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Multiphase flow simulations and experiments on electrochemical jet machining of rough surfaces of high-speed additive manufactured titanium alloys by Yang Liu, Xinyu Liu, Jinzhong Lu, Zhaoyang Zhang, Kaiyu Luo, Shu Huang, Haifei Lu, Gang Xu, Guoqing Dai, Siyu Zhou

“…The research findings indicated that the cut-in electrochemical jet machining method effectively circumvented the adverse effects of rough surfaces on electrolyte flow, thereby allowing for high-quality machining. …”
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Exploring pain management preferences: a discrete choice experiment on cannabis or opioids among middle-aged and older adults by Rudiel Fabian, Paul Brown, Ricardo Cisneros

“…A conditional logit model (CLM) was used to analyze the results for the entire sample, stratified by pain levels, and according to whether the participant had previous experience with taking medications for physical pain. …”
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Teacher-assisted peer assessment and self-efficacy in writing: A quasi-experiment among Ethiopian undergraduate EFL students by Alemayehu Leta Abo, Hailu Wubshet Degefu, Berhan Demeke Abeba

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The impact of digital banking channels and organizational culture on operational excellence in Jordanian banking by Abdallah Q. Bataineh, Dhia Qasim, Mohammad Alhur

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Perceptions, Experiences, and Beliefs About Patient Portals Among Women With Limited English Proficiency: Multicultural Qualitative Interview Study by Hae-Ra Han, Joyline Chepkorir, Tina Kim, Martha Zamora, Emma Huang

“…MethodsWe used a qualitative semistructured interview design and recruited a purposive sample of women through diverse methods. …”
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What shapes tertiary learners' experiences and challenges in mobile-assisted seamless vocabulary learning? A case of Chinese as a foreign language by Xiaosheng Zhou, Ying Soon Goh

“…The study involved a cohort of 32 intermediate-level students from three Chinese classes, with participants representing diverse Chinese proficiency levels. A purposive sampling method was used to select students who had actively engaged in the SCVL program. …”
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Bone Marrow Aspirate – A Diagnostic Tool in Hematology, Importance, and Applications: Experience from Jordanian Royal Medical Services by Mohammad J. Maaita, Abdullah Alshawabkeh, Manar AlJaafreh, Talal Mwafaq, Mohammad N. Almanaseer, Saif N. Alshoubaki, Elham A. Alsmadi

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