Cognitive dysfunction and its associated factors in patients with epilepsy at referral hospitals in the Amhara region: an institutional-based cross-sectional study by Lemlemu Maru, Yibeltal Yismaw Gela, Mihret Getnet, Mihret Getnet, Dagnew Getnet Adugna, Desalegn Anmut Bitew, Ephrem Tesfaye, Hailu Aragie, Awgichew Behaile Teklemariam, Wondwosen Debebe, Mitku Mammo Taderegew, Nega Dagnew Baye, Mihret Melese

“…Patients with epilepsy often experience cognitive impairment or dysfunction that can negatively affect their quality of life. …”
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Effectiveness of exercise in reducing symptom burden among hemodialysis patients: a non-pharmacological intervention approach by Bushra Alshammari, J. Silvia Edison, Sameer A. Alkubati, Awatif M. Alrasheeday, Bander Albagawi, Laila Lafi Alharbi, Hajer I. Motakef, Layla Alshammari, Bahia Galal Abd El-Razik Siam, Nawal Abdullah Alharbi, Wejdan Assiri, Amirah Abdulaziz Almoqad, Abdulrahman Ibrahim Aldibas, Farhan Alshammari

“…Compared to other strategies that often target a limited range of symptoms—such as meditation for depression or music therapy for anxiety—exercise offers broader benefits, making it particularly promising for patients receiving HD.ObjectiveThis study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an exercise intervention in reducing the symptom burden among patients receiving HD in Hail City, Saudi Arabia.MethodsA quasi-experimental pre-post intervention design was employed, involving (n = 72) HD patients recruited through convenience sampling from King Salman Specialist Hospital and King Khalid Hospital. …”
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Prevalence of depression and its correlates among undergraduate health science students in Mogadishu, Somalia: a cross-sectional study by Bashiru Garba, Samiro Ali Mohamed, Maria Mowlid Mohamed, Hodo Aideed Asowe, Najib Isse Dirie, Yushau Umar, Jamal Hassan Mohamoud, Mohamed Hussein Adam, Jihaan Hassan, Fartun Abdullahi Hassan Orey, Abdullahi Abdirahman Omar, Ibrahim Abdullahi Mohamed, Mohamed Mustaf Ahmed, Samira Abdullahi Moalim

“…Hence, this investigation was conducted to assess the prevalence of depression and its correlates health science students in Somalia. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted on 321 health science students from some universities in Mogadishu, Somalia. …”
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Prostatectomy outcomes for patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia and its associated factors in East and West Gojjam zones comprehensive specialized hospitals, Northwest Ethiop... by Abebe Dilie Afenigus, Berhanu Kassahun, Megbar Dessalegn, Asmamaw Getnet, Mihretie Gedfew, Tiringo Kebede

“…Objectives To assess prostatectomy outcomes for patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia and its associated factors in East and West Gojjam Zones, 2021. Methods A facility-based cross-sectional study was employed among 412 patients with prostatectomy using systematic sampling. …”
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Assessment of Sleep Quality and Its Determinants Among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Mogadishu, Somalia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Mohamed NA, Haji Mohamud RY, Hilowle FH, Ali TA, Mohamed YA, Gabow AA, Mohamed HN, Sidow NO, Hassan MS, Waberi MM

“…This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence and determinants of poor sleep quality among T2DM patients in Mogadishu, Somalia.Methods: A hospital-based cross-sectional study was conducted between November 2024 and January 2025 at Mogadishu Somali-Turkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan Training and Research Hospital. …”
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E-Cigarette Narratives of User-Generated Posts on Xiaohongshu in China: Content Analysis by Tingfen Ji, Zhao Liu, Zheng Su, Xin Xia, Yi Liu, Ying Xie, Zhenxiao Huang, Xinmei Zhou, Min Wang, Anqi Cheng, Qingqing Song, Yuxin Shi, Shunyi Shi, Aihemaiti Ailifeire, Jiahui He, Yingman Gao, Liang Zhao, Liyan Wu, Dan Xiao, Chen Wang

“…ObjectiveThis study aimed to analyze the content, topics, user engagement, and sentiment trends of e-cigarette–related posts on Xiaohongshu and to assess the factors that influence engagement. MethodsE-cigarette–related posts published on Xiaohongshu between January 2020 and November 2024 were collected using web scraping, based on a predefined keyword list and a time-stratified random sampling strategy. …”
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Investigating the relationship between clinical competence and the incidence of needle-stick injuries (NSIs) and their contributing factors in nurses: a descriptive cross-sectional... by Omid Zarei, Fatemeh Zeraatpishe, Najimeh Beygi, Maryam talebi moghadam, Seyede Fatemeh Mousavi Shahraki, Mohammad Mehdi Naghizadeh, Mostafa Bijani

“…This study aimed to investigate the relationship between clinical competence and the incidence of NSIs, as well as the factors contributing to these injuries, among nurses in Fars Province, southern Iran, from March 2023 to May 2023. Methods This descriptive cross-sectional study included 264 nurses selected through convenience sampling. …”
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Event Discrimination of Fiber Disturbance Based on Filter Bank in DMZI Sensing System by Xiangdong Huang, Yuedong Wang, Kun Liu, Tiegen Liu, Chunyu Ma, Qinnan Chen

“…As the hard core, the proposed filter bank, which is derived from the classical frequency-sampling-based filter design method, greatly suppresses the interchannel interference and, thus, provides accurate feature description for the radial basis function (RBF)-based classifier. …”
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Critical Thinking Skills Using Science Technology Religion Engineering Arts and Mathematics (STREAM) Approach on Ecosystem Materials by Muhammad Hasymi Mujaddi, Tri Wahyu Agustina, Sri Maryanti

“…This research was conducted in one of the public high schools in Bandung Regency with a pre-experiment method whit one group pretest posttest design. …”
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Scale Development and Validation for Measuring Organizational Readiness in order to Implement Social Intranet (A Study in Fars Regional Electric Company) by habib allah Ranaei Kordshooli, mehdi ghahramanifard

“…By systematic random method, 262 personnel were determined as sample and the developed questionnaire were distributed among them. …”
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Self-reported knowledge and difficulties towards palliative care among healthcare professionals in rural China: a cross-sectional study by Junwei Niu, Min Feng, Changhui Song, Hui Xie

“…This study aimed to examine the difficulties in providing PC and their factors from the perspective of healthcare professionals in rural Henan province, China, where specific PC services are currently unavailable. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted between June and July 2024, using a convenience sample of 255 healthcare professionals from four secondary/tertiary hospitals participated. …”
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ChIP-seq Data Processing and Relative and Quantitative Signal Normalization for Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Kris Alavattam, Bradley Dickson, Rina Hirano, Rachel Dell, Toshio Tsukiyama

“…This protocol provides a guide to ChIP-seq data processing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with a focus on signal normalization to address data biases and enable meaningful comparisons within and between samples. Designed for researchers with minimal bioinformatics experience, it includes practical overviews and refers to scripting examples for key tasks, such as configuring computational environments, trimming and aligning reads, processing alignments, and visualizing signals. …”
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Fuzzy Expert System for Decission Support to Diagnosis Leukemia by Linda Perdana Wanti, Nur Wachid Adi Prasetya, Zahrun Nafisa, Rahmat Mulyadi, Muhammad Ramadani

“…In this study, a fuzzy method will be implemented to diagnose leukemia and the results will later be compared with expert diagnoses. …”
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STUDI FENEMONOLEGI: STRATEGI KOPING ORANG TUA DALAM MERAWAT ANAK AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER (ASD) by Ridhoyanti Hidayah, Ahmad Yusuf, Rizky Fitryasari

“…This descriptive phenomenology study used in-depth semi-structured interviews to explore parents experiences. Six participants were recruited from Pusat Layanan Autis Kota Malang by using purposive sampling. …”
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Agricultural Chemical Use in Tomato Farming in Kazova Region of Tokat Province by Bilge Gözener, Murat Sayılı, Aysun Çağlar

“…Data were gathered through Simple Random Sampling method with questionnaires made with 72 agricultural enterprises. …”
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Spatial-Temporal Distance Metric Embedding for Time-Specific POI Recommendation by Ruifeng Ding, Zhenzhong Chen, Xiaolei Li

“…Extensive experiments are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method and results show that ST-DME outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms for time-specific POI recommendation on two public LBSNs data sets.…”
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Factors related to cosmetic surgery based on theory of reasoned action in shahrekord students by Simin Tahmasbi, Zahra Tahmasbi, Farideh Yaghmaie

“…Objective: The aim of this study was to assess attitude, subjective norms and external factors for cosmetic surgery between Shahrekord students. Method: This study is a descriptive. 296 students of Shahrekord Azad University on 2012 randomly participated based on stratified sampling survey. …”
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STUDI FENEMONOLEGI: STRATEGI KOPING ORANG TUA DALAM MERAWAT ANAK AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER (ASD) by Ridhoyanti Hidayah, Ahmad Yusuf, Rizky Fitryasari

“…This descriptive phenomenology study used in-depth semi-structured interviews to explore parents experiences. Six participants were recruited from Pusat Layanan Autis Kota Malang by using purposive sampling. …”
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Exploring Teachers’ Perceptions of EFL Students’ Engagement in Collaborative Learning: Implementation Issues and Suggestions by Ali Abbas Falah Alzubi, Mohd Nazim, Jalal Ahmad

“…The descriptive survey design was employed to attain the study objectives. A sample of (45) EFL teachers chosen following the convenient sampling method answered a closed-item questionnaire and did an interview. …”
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AAD-YOLO: An Improved YOLOv8 Model for Complex Remote Sensing Scenarios by Yue Hong, Yi Shu, Shuo Guo

“…The Dynamic Upsampler (Dysample) module enhances multi-scale detection robustness by adaptively adjusting sampling point positions. Experiments on the SIMD dataset demonstrate that AAD-YOLO outperforms YOLOv8n in terms of precision (P), recall (R), and mean average precision (mAP50) by 3.6%, 0.8%, 2.5%, and 1.9%, respectively. …”
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