Quiet Quitting Among Nurses: A Case Study in a Northern Italian Hospital by Sara Rinaldi, Ester Pomarolli

“…The aim of this study is to assess QQ among nurses in a northern Italian hospital. <b>Methods:</b> A cross-sectional study with a convenience sample of 91 nurses in a single-specialist orthopedic hospital was conducted. …”
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Use of Machine Learning Algorithms to Predict Almen (Shot Peening) Intensity Values of Various Steel Materials by Murat İnce, Hatice Varol Özkavak

“…The supplied experimental data was utilized to estimate the SP Almen intensity value using a number of machine learning (ML) methods, eliminating the need for costly and time-consuming experimentation. …”
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ADHD symptoms and psychosocial challenges: a North-West University case study by Mpho Mpetha, Curwyn Mapaling, Frans Koketso Matlakala, Herman Grobler

“…The psychosocial impacts of ADHD symptoms on university students remain inadequately understood.MethodsThis exploratory qualitative case study aimed to investigate the psychosocial challenges faced by students with ADHD symptoms at North-West University (NWU). …”
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Thermal released mercury: a new exploration technology for natural gas hydrate exploration in Tibetan Plateau permafrost area by Chaoqing Zhao, Yu Tang, Shouji Pang, Shunyao Zhang, Fugui Zhang, Fugui Zhang

“…In this study, we conducted a thermal released mercury (TRM) exploration experiment in the Juhugeng area, covering an area of 11.75 km2 with a sampling density of 16 points per square kilometer. …”
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Contrastive learning enhanced pseudo-labeling for unsupervised domain adaptation in person re-identification. by Xuemei Bai, Yuqing Zhang, Chenjie Zhang, Zhijun Wang

“…Through a series of experimental validation, the method experiments on two large-scale public datasets, Market1501 and DukeMTMC, and the Rank-1 accuracy of the proposed method reaches 91.4% and 81.4%, with the mean average precision (mAP) of 79.0% and 67.9%, respectively, which proves that the research in this paper provides a good solution for the Person re-identification task with effective technical support for label noise processing and model generalization capability improvement.…”
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Employing visual thinking skills in the techniques of advertising art by Bydaa Sabih Al-Gharawi

“…Actions came in third chapter where it contained research society and its sample and the research tool prepared by researcher as a test of visual thinking at the end of experiment. …”
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Longitudinal Associations of Experiential and Reflective Dimensions of Meaning in Life With Psychopathological Symptoms by Albert Anoschin, Michael K. Zürn, Carina Remmers

“…We expected that experiencing more meaning would predict fewer depressive symptoms and fewer personality functioning impairments six months later, whereas reflecting about meaning would predict more psychopathological symptoms. [Method] A German-speaking sample of N = 388 completed self-report measures assessing meaning in life, depression, and personality functioning at baseline and six months later. …”
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Digital divide and operational digital literacy in deaf and hard-of-hearing students by Krasavina Yulia, Ponomarenko Ekaterina, Shishkina Anastasia, Gareyev Andrey

“…This study is aimed at assessing operational digital literacy in deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) university students and revealing potential grounds for hearing disability digital divide. Methods. The selection of study participants involved purposive sampling. …”
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Explaining the Current Status of General Medicine Curriculum from the Perspective of Cancer Education Based on SWOT Analysis by Dariush Muslimi, Tahereh Aghamirzaee Mahali, Jamileh Aqatabar Roudbari, Farzin Sadeghi, Mostafa Javanian, Mohammad Ranaee

“…The present study aims to determine the current status of general medical curriculum with a focus on cancer-related topics and education based on Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT)analysis. Methods: This qualitative phenomenological study was conducted during the academic year 2022-2023 at Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran. …”
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Ground-Truth-Free 3D Seismic Denoising Based on Diffusion Models: Achieving Effective Constraints Through Embedded Self-Supervised Noise Modeling by Zhonghan Zhang, Guihe Qin, Yanhua Liang, Minghui Sun, Yingqing Wang, Jiaru Song

“…In the experimental section, we comprehensively compare the proposed algorithm with six different types of seismic denoising methods. Various comparative experiments demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieves exceptional denoising performance on 3D seismic data, even without ground truth or any prior knowledge about the noise distribution.…”
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Hatching of Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) resting eggs from permanently hydrated and temporarily dehydrated sediments of an Amazon lake by Camila de Araújo Couto, Raize Castro-Mendes, Renan Gomes do Nascimento, Alexander Armando Flores Arzabe, Luis Geraldes Primeiro, Maiby Glorize da Silva Bandeira, Edinaldo Nelson dos Santos-Silva

“…Abstract: Aim i) to characterize the composition of the Cladocera species hatched from the resting eggs of permanently hydrated and temporarily dehydrated sediments; ii) to test whether periodic dehydration reduces the hatching of the resting eggs. Methods Cladocera resting eggs were collected from the sediment of Tupé lake, Amazonas, Brazil. …”
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EEG Baseline Analysis for Effective Extraction of P300 Event-Related Potentials for Welfare Interfaces by Yuta Sasatake, Kojiro Matsushita

“…Since stimuli are presented before the EEG stabilizes, it remains unclear whether conventional neuroscience baseline correction methods are suitable for such applications. To address this, the present study conducted a P300 induction experiment based on continuous 400 ms interval visual stimuli. …”
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ReliefSeq: a gene-wise adaptive-K nearest-neighbor feature selection tool for finding gene-gene interactions and main effects in mRNA-Seq gene expression data. by Brett A McKinney, Bill C White, Diane E Grill, Peter W Li, Richard B Kennedy, Gregory A Poland, Ann L Oberg

“…The gwak-Relief-F algorithm outperforms Random Forests for detecting relevant genes in all simulation experiments. In addition, Relief-F is comparable to the other methods based on computational time. …”
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The EmpaTeach intervention for reducing physical violence from teachers to students in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp: A cluster-randomised controlled trial. by Camilla Fabbri, Katherine Rodrigues, Baptiste Leurent, Elizabeth Allen, Mary Qiu, Martin Zuakulu, Dennis Nombo, Michael Kaemingk, Alexandra De Filippo, Gerard Torrats-Espinosa, Elizabeth Shayo, Vivien Barongo, Giulia Greco, Wietse Tol, Karen M Devries

“…We tested whether the EmpaTeach intervention could reduce physical violence from teachers to students in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp, Tanzania.<h4>Methods and findings</h4>We conducted a 2-arm cluster-randomised controlled trial with parallel assignment. …”
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Robust visual tracking using temporal regularization correlation filter with high-confidence strategy by Xiao-Gang Dong, Ke-Xuan Li, Hong-Xia Mao, Chen Hu, Tian Pu

“…Extensive experiments on various benchmarks demonstrate that the proposed method achieves a competitive performance compared with the state-of-the-art methods. …”
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Evaluation of the effects of dimethyl fumarate on transforming growth factor beta levels in the liver of rats with bile duct ligation-induced cholestasis by Hannaneh Vossoughi, Pejman Mortazavi, Mahsa Ale-Ebrahim, Razieh Hosseini

“…Objective: This investigation focused on assessing the impact of Dimethyl Fumarate on liver levels of transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) to mitigate biochemical, histopathological, and immunohistochemical alterations in cholestasis-induced rat models. Methods: Forty male adult Wistar rats were divided into eight groups (healthy control treated with distilled water, healthy rats treated with 50, 100, and 200 mg/kg of Dimethyl Fumarate, bile duct ligation (BDL), and experiment BDL groups were treated with 50, 100, and 200 mg/kg of Dimethyl Fumarate). …”
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Recommendation‐making in the emergency department: A qualitative study of how Canadian emergency physicians guide treatment decisions about resuscitation in critically ill patients... by Henry Ajzenberg, Katie N. Dainty, Erin O'Connor

“…The objective of this study is to explore emergency physicians’ attitudes toward recommendations about resuscitation in critically ill patients in the emergency department (ED). Methods We recruited Canadian emergency physicians via multiple recruitment strategies to ensure maximum variation sampling. …”
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Bridging Theory and Practice: Challenges in Clinical Skill Application Among Radiology Technology Trainees in Ethiopia by Alo Edin, Ashenafi Abraha, Yenuse Molla, Takala Utura, Angefa Ayele

“…This qualitative study focused to explore the challenges faced by Medical Radiology technology students and instructors during clinical practice at Hawassa University. Methods A qualitative exploratory approach was conducted from June 15, 2022, to July 15, 2022. …”
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A qualitative study to examine hidden care burden for older adults with overweight and obesity in England. by Gargi Ghosh, Hafiz T A Khan, Salim Vohra

“…<h4>Methods</h4>Participants were recruited from a local National Health Service (NHS) health centre in London England using a purposive sampling strategy to the point of analytical saturation. …”
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The effect of pro-self-pain control and its plus guided imagery on pain in breast cancer outpatients: A quasi-experimental study by Nurnianingsih A. Yasin, Rosyidah Arafat, Andi Masyitha Irwan

“…This study aims to determine the effect of pro-self-pain control and guided imagery interventions on reducing pain intensity in outpatient breast cancer. Methods & Materials: A quasi-experimental design, using convenience sampling on 49 patients, and allocated into an intervention group (n=25) that received pro-self-pain control and guided imagery intervention and a control group as a comparison (n=24) that received pro-self-pain control only. …”
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