Are the Nurses Competent to Give Spiritual Care? by KR Anoopa, Annal Angeline, Jimi Patrishia Jerome

“…Fifty staff nurses were selected by purposive sampling technique. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. …”
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The Weather Radar as a Tool for Collecting Quantitative Data on Migrating Birds by Roberto Nebuloni, Carlo Capsoni

“…However, turning a radar sensor into a tool for quantitative measurements of birds in flight requires calibration, ad-hoc data sampling strategies, models of birds as radar targets and methods for extracting data from the raw radar echoes. …”
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Job stress and work-related stressors in prison staff by R Akbari, J Akbari, F Farasati, N Amiri, B Mahaki

“…The aims of this study was survey of stress and work-related stressors among prison staff. Methods: The subjects were 177 employees of the Prison staff of Ilam province that was selected using census sampling. …”
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Racism and health service utilisation: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Jehonathan Ben, Donna Cormack, Ricci Harris, Yin Paradies

“…Limitations to the literature reviewed in terms of study designs, sampling methods and measurements are discussed along with suggested future directions in the field.…”
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Presenting the agility model of the organization in order to improve the productivity of human resources by Asie Mohmedi, Rashid Zolfaghari, Mahsa Gholam hossein zadeh

“…The statistical population of the research in the qualitative part includes 10 academic specialists, professors and senior managers in the field of human resources and experts in the field of organizational behavior, and sampling was carried out by the theoretical saturation method; and in the quantitative part it includes 2500 people from all employees of Shomal Drilling Company, 333 of whom were selected through the Cochran formula by stratified random sampling method. …”
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Evaluating the Urinary Iodine Concentration in Operating Room Personnel After Using Povidone-iodine Hand Scrub by Fateme Karbalai, Farzaneh Jafari, Soheila Bakhtiari

“…One week after the study, morning urine samples were collected to measure the UIC using the Sandell-Kolthoff reaction method. …”
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Knowledge and attitude towards plagiarism: a comparative study of students from medical and non-medical fields by Roha S Memon, Mahrukh M Ali, Marium Zafar, Asim Shaikh

“…This study, therefore, aims to compare the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of students from medical and non-medical fields towards plagiarism from different institutions in Karachi, Pakistan. # Methods We conducted an eight-week cross-sectional study in January 2017 in Karachi, Pakistan with 412 undergraduate students of ages 18 and above, using convenience sampling to assess their knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding plagiarism. …”
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Dental anxiety among students in Indonesia: the role of demographic, behavioral, social, and spiritual support by Herry Novrinda, Kamila Pangestuti, Anton Rahardjo, Han Dong-Hun, Iwany Amalliah Badruddin, Armasastra Bahar

“…Objectives This study aimed to (1) identify factors related to DA and (2) construct a model from various factors, including oral health habits and social support, among students in Indonesia. Methods A cross-sectional study design was used in the form of a self-report questionnaire administered online to 554 students selected using convenience sampling. …”
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The value of publishing case reports for the professional development of Chinese residents: a qualitative study by Zhihui Yang, Wen Chen, Ruoyu Li, Xiaowen Wang, Mi Yao

“…Purposive sampling was used to recruit 15 residents who were in the first or second stage of standardized residency training and had successful experience in publishing case reports. …”
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Behaviors and influencing factors of Chinese oncology nurses towards frailty care: A cross-sectional study based on knowledge-attitude-practice theory in 2024. by Xiaoxue Chen, Fang Xiao, Yuhua Miao, Huiying Qin, Lirong Yang, Fang Shen, Xiuhong Yuan

“…This study aims to describe the current situation of frailty care behaviors in oncology nurses and to explore the factors influencing frailty care behaviors.<h4>Methods</h4>From August 1, 2023, to March 31, 2024, this cross-sectional study was conducted among nurses from oncology-related departments in 5 Secondary A (mid-tier hospitals providing comprehensive care) or above hospitals in South China. …”
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Assessing the Conditions for the Occurrence of Unintentional Injections among Nurses and the Prospects for the Use of Safe Devices by E. V. Glushkova, A. Yu. Brazhnikov, A. Yu. Kamenskaya, A. D. Repetyuk, R. V. Polibin

“…The majority (56.52%) had more than 15 years of experience in their specialty, 24.81% had 6-15 years of experience, and 18.67% had 0-5 years of experience. …”
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Exploring perceptions of dignity among older adults living in nursing homes: a qualitative study by Kejimu Sunzi, Hui Luo, Lina Yin, Yadi Li, Xin Zhou, Cheng Lei

“…Although dignity is widely acknowledged as a fundamental human right and is critical for maintaining older adults’ psychological well-being and overall quality of life, limited attention has been paid to understanding how Chinese nursing-home residents perceive, experience, and preserve their dignity. Clarifying these dignity-related experiences is essential to inform interventions and policies aimed at improving care practices and enhancing residents’ quality of life.AimTo address the limited qualitative evidence on dignity in Chinese nursing homes, this study explored residents’ perceptions of dignity, the factors that undermine or enhance it, and the strategies they employ to preserve it.MethodsWe adopted a descriptive phenomenological design to explore nursing-home residents’ perspectives and lived experiences regarding dignity. …”
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Natural compounds from ethno-medicinal plants exhibit multiple binding activities on SARS-CoV-2 spike protein receptor-binding domains by Trizah K. Milugo, Trizah K. Milugo, Bethwell Owuor, Patrick W. Okanya, Kennedy Chepukosi, George F. Obiero

“…We used purposive sampling and snowballing to identify traditional health practitioners (THPs) and documented their experience and response to COVID-19. …”
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DriftShield: Autonomous Fraud Detection via Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning With Dynamic Feature Reweighting by Jialei Cao, Wenxia Zheng, Yao Ge, Jiyuan Wang

“…This article presents DriftShield, a novel adaptive fraud detection framework that addresses these limitations through four key technical innovations: (1) the first application of Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) reinforcement learning with continuous action spaces to fraud detection, enabling simultaneous fine-grained optimization of detection thresholds and feature importance weights; (2) a dynamic feature reweighting mechanism that automatically adapts to evolving fraud patterns while providing interpretable insights into changing fraud strategies; (3) an adaptive experience replay buffer combining sliding windows with prioritized sampling to balance catastrophic forgetting prevention with rapid concept drift adaptation; and (4) an entropy-driven exploration framework with automatic temperature tuning that intelligently balances exploitation of known fraud patterns with discovery of emerging threats. …”
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An exploratory investigation of psychosocial effects of service dogs on veterans’ families from the perspective of family members by Linzi Williamson, Grace Rath, Colleen Dell

“…A non-probability sample of veterans’ family members (i.e., spouses, parents, siblings, friends) were recruited via convenience and snowball sampling methods. …”
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The Impact of Personal Hygiene Practices on the Incidence of Vaginal Discharge Among Adolescent Girls at Junior High School 29 Surabaya, 2023 by Rani Siti Nur Aini, Eighty Mardiyan Kurniawati, Budi Utomo

“…The sample was selected using purposive sampling. Data analysis employed univariate and bivariate methods, with the Chi-Square Test used for statistical analysis. …”
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Barriers and facilitators of recovery in drug users under addiction treatment: A qualitative study by Hananeh Abdi, Azam Farah-Bijari, Batul Ahadi, Roshanak Khodabakhsh-Pirkalani

“…The participants included all drug users under treatment, parents of patients under treatment, and addiction therapists in winter of 2023-2024 in Tehran, who were selected using a targeted sampling method. Theoretical sampling continued until data saturation. 30 individual interviews of 45-90 minutes were conducted and the data reached saturation. …”
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Evaluation of the Clinical Educational Environment from the Perspective of Residents at Sari Imam Khomeini Hospital Using the DREEM Inventory by Ramin Shekarriz Foumani, Salomeh Peyvandi, Pezhman Mohammadalizadeh, Siavsh Moradi, Fattane Amuei, Hoda Esmaeili

“…Therefore, this study aims to evaluate residents’ perceptions of the educational environment at Imam Khomeini Hospital in Sari. Materials and methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in 2023 on 135 residents of Imam Khomeini Hospital using a census sampling method. …”
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The relationship between compassion fatigue and psychological resilience among Chinese midwives: a cross-sectional study by Jingyi Li, Wan Shu, Qunfang Miao, Yahong Wang, Xiaolei Wang, Lulu Yang, Peiqing Li, Siying Xin

“…It provides a basis for midwifery managers to develop relevant interventions aimed at enhancing midwifery services and ensuring the stable, healthy development of the midwifery workforce. Methods A convenience sampling method was used to select 479 midwives from 20 public hospitals in 11 provinces of China as the study population between May and October 2021. …”
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Assessment and Comparison of Occupational Health and Safety Management Performance in Two Edible Oil Production Factories Utilizing the Total Quality Safety Management (TQSM) Model by Ali Mohammadi, Mahmood Samadiyan, Ali Behroozy

“…The study population consisted of 20 individuals from each factory, including managers, supervisors, and members of the OHS Committee, all with at least one year of experience in their respective roles. Participants were selected using a convenience sampling method. …”
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