Performance and feasibility of self-microsampling of capillary blood and saliva for serological testing of SARS-CoV-2. by Ivonne Morales, Josh Bueggeln, Anna Denzler, Vera Sonntag-Buck, Kathleen Börner, Petr Chlanda, Lisa Koeppel, Andreas Deckert, Till Bärnighausen, Michael Knop, Claudia M Denkinger

“…To ensure accuracy and reliability, additional training in self-sampling techniques may be essential. The positive user experience further underscores the microsampling device's potential for scalable serosurveillance and strengthening pandemic preparedness efforts.…”
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Infection prevention and control in daycare centers—a survey of caregivers’ knowledge and practices in Ogbomoso Community, Southwest Nigeria by Rafiat Omotayo Ishola, Dolapo Emmanuel Ajala, Grace Olayanju, Deborah Oluwadamilola Ilugbaro, Ronke Gbonjubola Ajala, Taiwo Omotayo Dosumu, Eunice Oluwakemi Ogunmodede

“…Caregivers at DCC play a crucial role in preventing and controlling these diseases.ObjectiveThis study aimed to assess the knowledge and practice of infection prevention and control (IPC) among caregivers in DCC.MethodsA descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted involving daycare caregivers in the Ogbomoso community, Southwest Nigeria. …”
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Occupational violence against nursing staff in the surgical wards of Murzuq locality hospitals, Libya (2024) by Eltagi Elsadeg Sulliman Rahama, Mohammed Elmadani, Malak Mokhtar Mohammed, Zainab Ali Osman Eqrer

“…This study investigated the prevalence, types, and effects of such violence on nursing staff in surgical wards in Murzuq locality hospitals, Libya, to inform effective prevention strategies. Methods This cross-sectional study examined occupational violence against nursing staff in surgical wards across three hospitals in Murzuq, Libya. …”
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Creativity and job satisfaction among nurses in iran: a descriptive-correlational study by Mostafa Gholami, Maryam Maleki, Alice Khachian, Mansoureh Ashghali Farahani, Abbas Mardani

“…This study aimed to investigate the association between creativity and job satisfaction among nurses, while also examining the relationship between them and individual and occupational characteristics. Methods A descriptive, correlational design was employed, involving 285 nurses from three university-affiliated hospitals in urban Iran. …”
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Pregnant Women's Knowledge and Attitudes About Pregnancy Care: The Effect of Using the Ebumil Android Application by Kartini, Farming, Fitriati Sabur

“…Objective: The purpose of the study was to determine the knowledge and attitudes of pregnant women after being given education through the Ebumil android application. Methods: The study used a quasi-experimental approach. …”
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The adaptation of the infertility distress scale into Chinese: cross-cultural adaptation, reliability and validity by Siyan Liu, Pei Zhang, Xian Tian, Lingrong Xiao, Junru Li, Jinwei Yang, Ziwei Feng, Hongmei Wu, Yingze Zheng

“…Objective This study focused on the translation and cultural adaptation of Infertility Distress Scale (IDS) to Chinese, and the subsequent evaluation of its validity and reliability. Methods Using Brislin translation model, the IDS was translated and culturally adapted for Chinese women. …”
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Factors Contributing to Work‐Life Balance Among Iranian Nurses Working in Clinical Settings: A Multicenter Cross‐Sectional Study by Reza Jotare, Akram Ghahramanian, Mansour Ghafourifard, Tonia C. Onyeka

“…Design This multicenter cross‐sectional study collected data from 205 nurses using structured questionnaires. Methods Stratified random sampling was employed to select 205 nurses from three teaching hospitals in Tabriz, northwest Iran. …”
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Knowledge, Symptoms, Quality of Life, and Health-seeking Behavior in Menopausal Nuns by Jolly Joseph, Leena Sequira, soumya christabel

“…Objective: To assess the knowledge on menopause, analyze the symptoms, understand the health-seeking behavior, describe the quality of life, and evaluate the effect of a multimodal intervention on knowledge, symptoms, health-seeking behavior, and quality of life among menopausal-age women.  Materials and Methods: A quantitative, pretest-posttest experimental study was conducted among 78 nuns of menopausal age residing in selected convents in Kottayam District, India, through an enumeration sampling technique. …”
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Application of the health belief model to study weight management behavioral intentions among adults in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: a cross-sectional study by Thang T. Vo, Quoc-Duy Le

“…Objective This study aims to identify factors influencing the behavioral intentions for weight management among adults in Ho Chi Minh City through the Health Belief Model (HBM) and assess their impact levels. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted on 387 adults recruited in Ho Chi Minh City from July to October 2023, using a stratified quota sampling technique based on age and educational attainment. …”
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The Relationship Between Occupational Stress and Quality of Care Among Emergency Department Nurses in Government Hospitals by Sae’d M. Abu El-Kass, Lama Abu El-Kass, Nasayem Alswarka, Sabah Abu Behiri, Aysha Alderawy, Tahreer Abu El Khair, Maram Alaraj, Nibal Aldahdouh

“…Objective To examine the relationship between occupational stress and the quality of care among emergencydepartment nurses at government hospitals in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. Methods A descriptive cross-sectional design was used to examine stress levels and quality of care using the convenience sampling technique between July and September 2023. …”
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Effect of complete bed rest duration on vascular complication after angiography ‎in hospitalized patients in post angiography units in health centers in Rasht by rabiolah farmanbar, maryam guozliyan, mojgan Baghaie, moohamad taghi moghadamniya, majid chinikar, zahra atrkarruoshan

“…‎ Objective: This study was conducted to determine the effect of CBR duration on vascular ‎complication after angiography. ‎ Methods: This is a clinical trial method with random sampling. …”
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Board director reputation capital and financial performance of listed firms in Nigeria by Peter Ehizokhale Okpamen, Sunday Oseiweh Ogbeide

“…Descriptive statistics and system general method of moment estimation methods were used to undertake the data analysis. …”
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Associated factors of anxiety and depressive symptoms among coal miners in Shanxi, China: a cross-sectional study by Jiajun Hao, He Bai, Leying Hou, Wenhan Xiao, Jiali Zhou, Weidi Sun, Jingyi Wang, Peige Song, Therese Hesketh

“…Our study aimed to identify these associated factors among Chinese coal miners in Shanxi Province. Methods In August and September 2022, a cross-sectional study was conducted using a cluster sampling method to enroll all workers from the L coal mines in Linfen City, China. …”
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Quality of intrapartum and newborn care in public healthcare facilities of Wolkite town, Central Ethiopia: facility-based cross-sectional study by Berhanu Semra Mulat, Amare Zewdie, Abebaw Wasie Kasahun, Molla Gashu, Adiam Nega, Tamirat Melis

“…A consecutive random sampling method was applied. Data were collected through document review, interview, health service provision observation, and health facility audit against the standard checklist. …”
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Phase Demodulation of Rotor Torsional Vibration Measurement under Time-Varying Speed by Moli Chen, Nan Zheng, Jun Zheng, Zhu Jin, Guihuo Luo

“…Such noise is difficult to remove using frequency domain, time-frequency-domain, or threshold sampling methods and seriously affects the accuracy of torsional vibration measurements. …”
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Designing and Validating an Educational Model of Accounting Graduate Students in the Knowledge and Skills Required in Qualitative and Quantitative Research by Akram Taftiyan, Nasrin Alraji, Fatemeh Mansouri Mohammad Abadi

“…In this section, in-depth semi-structured interview was used to collect data and to identify experts, the snowball technique, which is one of the targeted sampling methods, was used. The statistical population of the research in the qualitative part were all the experts (professors of accounting and financial management) who, in addition to having full experience, expertise on the subject of knowledge and skills required in qualitative and quantitative research, are also experts in this field an the quantitative part, the statistical population of the study is made up of Ph.D. graduates in the field of accounting. …”
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Investigating on the relationship between plant measurements of Parapholis incurva with environmental factors and water point distance in rangelands of Incheh Borun Golestan provin... by Amin Mahmodian, Ghasem Ali Dianati, jalil Alavi

“…The sampling method was randomized-systematic. In the sampling area, the presence of P. incurva species was recorded. …”
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Intelligent Recognition and Parameter Estimation of Radar Active Jamming Based on Oriented Object Detection by Jiawei Lu, Yiduo Guo, Weike Feng, Xiaowei Hu, Jian Gong, Yu Zhang

“…In this paper, ablation experiments from the perspective of Non-Maximum Suppression (NMS) are conducted to simulate and compare the OBB method with the traditional horizontal bounding box-based detection approaches, highlighting OBB’s detection superiority in dense jamming scenarios. …”
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Instance-Level Weighted Contrast Learning for Text Classification by Xinhui Liu, Jifa Chen, Qiubo Huang

“…Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated through several experiments.…”
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Development of Professional Competencies in IT-specialists by Anatolii V. Karpov, Aleksandr A. Karpov, Sergei O. Prisyazhnyuk

“…The research was based on the synthesis of the judgments concentration method, the method of focus groups and the method of “frequency-significant selection”, as well as on a specially developed methodology for exporting two categories of competencies: hard-skills and soft-skills. …”
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