Development of a territory-wide household-based composite index for measuring relative distribution of households by economic status in individual small areas throughout Hong Kong by Eva L.H. Tsui, Philip L.H. Yu, K. F. Lam, Kelvin K.Y. Poon, Adam C.M. Ng, K. Y. Cheung, Winnie Li, Michael L.H. Leung, David H.Y. Lam, James L.Y. Cheng, Sharon P.W. Ng

“…Globally, this is the first study that presents the distribution of domestic households by the territory-wide economic status index decile groups within each of the 2,252 small subunit groups (SSUGs) throughout Hong Kong, with a median study population of 1,300 and a median area of 42,400 m2. Methods The index development involved 248,000 anonymized sampled household-based data collected from the population census, representing 2·66 million domestic households and 6·93 million population in mid-2021. …”
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Burnout syndrome and accidents in primary healthcare nursing workers: a scoping review by Célia Cristina Franco de Godoy, Anacleta Rodrigues Lima, Paula Hino, Mônica Taminato, Meiry Fernanda Pinto Okuno, Hugo Fernandes

“…Conclusion The materials were published mainly in English, produced in various regions of the world and using different methods. Primary healthcare nursing professionals providing direct patient care, with less experience and with a medium level of education were those who most frequently reported accidents resulting from burnout. …”
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A National Survey of Pilonidal Disease Treatment Preferences in Belgium by Marie Gaillard, Gabriel Perlberger, Sylvie Van den Broeck, Niels Komen

“…Settings: The survey targeted Belgian surgeons treating PSD and was distributed via the Royal Belgian Society of Surgeons and promoted on LinkedIn. Methods: The 32-item survey, hosted on Qualtrics, collected data on surgeon demographics, clinical practices, surgical techniques, postoperative care, and adjunct treatments. …”
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دور رأس المال البشري والاداء المتميز للعاملين في تحقيق التفوق المنظمي بحث ميداني في وزارة النفط العراقية... by د.غني دحام الزبيدي, .آمنة عبد الكريم المشهداني

“…Abstract The research aims to reach that how to achieve Organizational superiority through development of human capital and Belding the culture of employee's excellent performance . the Ministry of Oil in Baghdad Was selected to applied the field study. the field research problem was that there are Challenges facing the Ministry of Oil such as Quickly to changes in the external environment and the emergence of the knowledge economy which requires an administration capable of building a culture of excellence in employees performance and Organizational superiority by developing Human capital. the questionnaire was adopted as a main tool to collect data and information, and distributed to a random sample of ( 86) managers. The research includes a set of assumptions that illustrate the correlation and effect relationships between variables. some statistical methods was reached set of results Perhaps the most important human capital is increasing its influence in Organizational superiority through the mediation of performance Excellence' the most important recommendations is encourage innovation and new ideas and experience in the work for the purpose of obtaining new methods to solve problems and develop performance to reach excellence. …”
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Evaluating Validity and Test-retest Reliability on Indonesian Basketball Talent Scouting Model for Athletes Aged 10 to 14 by Kukuh Hardopo Putro, Suharjana Suharjana, Agus Susworo Dwi Marhaendro, Awan Hariono, Siswantoyo Siswantoyo, Fauzi Fauzi, Endang Rini Sukamti, Trisnar Adi Prabowo

“…To assess the effectiveness of the revised model, the study evaluated its validity and test-retest reliability using data from both male and female athletes. Materials and methods. To ensure validity, four doctoral-qualified experts and seven experienced basketball coaches with an average of 12.78±2.2 years coaching experience, with a type B license and bachelor’s degree in sports, evaluated the test. …”
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Talented but Not Chosen—A Cross-Sectional Study—Do Coaches Release Late-Maturing Under-14 Players When Making Decisions? by Fabiana Parreira Bonito, Júlia Teles, Tiago Matos, Filipe Jesus, Anna Volossovitch, Carlos Barrigas, Maria Isabel Fragoso

“…<b>Methods</b>: A total of 360 male soccer players participating in the U14 national inter-association tournament, Lopes da Silva, were assessed. …”
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THE ORGANISATION OF DISTANCE ENGLISH TEACHING TO FUTURE LAWYERS DURING THE WAR PERIOD by Bykonia Oksana, Shenderuk Olena, Borysenko Iryna, Ihnatovych Tetiana

“…According to the aim and tasks of the study, it is proposed to carry out future lawyers’ distance learning of English with the use of a multimedia textbook during the war period on the basis of personal-activity, competent and reflexive approaches. Research methods include theoretical methods (analysis of domestic and foreign resources on the theme of this research, analysis of modern programmes for teaching English for Specific Purposes and the Council Recommendation on a comprehensive approach to teaching and learning languages; the experience in forming English communicative competence to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning English; analysis of online platforms for forming English communicative competence); empirical ones (testing of cadets and students to determine their level of formation of English communicative competence and the requirements of the programme for teaching foreign languages in a higher education institution; identifying the difficulties to improve the process of organizing the distance teaching English to future lawyers with the use of a multimedia textbook during the war period). …”
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Using telehealth in motor neuron disease to increase access to specialist multidisciplinary care: a UK-based pilot and feasibility study by Susan Mawson, Cindy Cooper, Mike Bradburn, Pamela J Shaw, Esther V Hobson, Wendy O Baird, Ann Quinn, Theresa Walsh

“…The methods and intervention were acceptable to participants who were highly motivated to participate to research. …”
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AI-enabled obstetric point-of-care ultrasound as an emerging technology in low- and middle-income countries: provider and health system perspectives by Sara Della Ripa, Nicole Santos, Dilys Walker

“…This study explored stakeholders' opinions about how AI-enabled point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) might change current antenatal care (ANC) services in LMICs and identified key considerations for introduction. Methods We purposely sampled midwives, doctors, researchers, and implementors for this mixed methods study, with a focus on those who live or work in African LMICs. …”
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Evaluating the need for magnesium administration following cardioplegic arrest with del Nido cardioplegia solution by Whittaker Striker Carrie, Reagor James A.

“…We postulated that patients may experience hypermagnesemia under this protocol. Methods: To determine if exogenous magnesium is necessary post-clamp removal in our practice, a study examining serum magnesium levels during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) was completed from January 2022 through October 2023 (IRB #2021-0816). …”
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Using a Co-Designed Implementation Enhancement Plan to Increase the Adoption of a Digital Fall Prevention Platform: A Non-Randomized Pre-Post Interventional Study by Delaforce A, Li J, Niven P, Maddock E, Grujovski M, Fahy MJ, Good NM, Jayasena R

“…The platform shows the potential to reduce falls among cognitively intact patients, but longer periods of observation and a larger sample are needed to confirm the effect. Aside from falls, a reduction in nurse response time is likely to improve patient care and experience.Plain language summary: This paper outlines methods to improve the implementation of falls prevention interventions using a co-designed implementation enhancement plan. …”
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Determining the Relationship Between Oxidative Stress and Subclinical Ketosis in Dairy Cows by Seyyed Mohammad Hosein Ghaheri, Seyedeh Ommolbanin Ghasemian, Behnam Pedram

“…Serum MDA, SOD, GPX, and TAC indices were measured by taking blood samples one week before and after calving. Serum antioxidant enzymes and biochemical indices were measured with commercial kits and the spectrophotometric method. …”
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An Unsupervised Learning Approach for Coal Spontaneous Combustion Warning Level Classification Using t-SNE and k-Means Clustering by Pengyu Zhang, Xiaokun Chen

“…To address the ambiguity in classification standards of coal spontaneous combustion warning levels, 21 groups of coal samples from different mining areas were subjected to experiments with programmed temperatures, generating a database of 336 sets of temperatures and data on indicator gas concentrations. …”
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PLZero: placeholder based approach to generalized zero-shot learning for multi-label recognition in chest radiographs by Chengrong Yang, Qiwen Jin, Fei Du, Jing Guo, Yujue Zhou

“…Finally, we propose a hallucinated class-based prototype learning module (HCPL), which leverages contrastive learning to control the distribution of hallucinated classes around seen classes without significant deviation from the original data, encouraging high dispersion of class prototypes for seen classes to create sufficient space for inserting unseen class samples. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method exhibits sufficient generalization and achieves the best performance across three classic and challenging chest X-ray datasets: NIH Chest X-ray 14, CheXpert, and ChestX-Det10. …”
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Simultaneous Determination of Several Fiber Contents in Blended Fabrics by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Multivariate Calibration by Hui Chen, Zan Lin, Chao Tan

“…Two sample sets including 39 and 25 samples were designed by simplex mixture lattice design methods and used for experiment. …”
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Postslaughter state of muscle tissue of pigs depending on the duration of pre-slaughter fasting by A. A. Semenova, V. A. Pchelkina, V. V. Nasonova, T. G. Kuznetsova, A. I. Sinichkina, S. I. Loskutov, M. G. Chabaev, N. V. Bogolyubova

“…Myopathic changes in muscle tissue were assessed using a semi-quantitative method developed earlier. All studied samples were characterized by the uniform condition of muscle tissue. …”
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The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the stress and depression of nursing students across two countries: a cross-sectional study by Rachel A Joseph, Mala Singh, Kavitha Krishnamoorthy, Khulood Shattnawi, Nahla AlAli, Tracey M. Turner

“… The COVID-19 pandemic brought significant stress to nursing students when the global lockdown resulted in immediate changes to the method of delivery or complete cessation of education. …”
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Resilience revisited: a systematic review and synthesis of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) and its relation with resilience by Daphne Weedage, Nienke Kool-Goudzwaard, Dwayne Meijnckens, Robert R. J. M. Vermeiren, Cyril Boonmann

“…Results Included were 17 studies with a total sample size of 12,273 participants (Mage = 17.56, range: 12.93–27.50, SD = 3.95; female: 59.5%) and a NSSI sample size of 4,767 (38.8%). …”
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Determinants of Having Online Health Consultations During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults in Germany: Representative Longitudinal Survey Study by Ariana Neumann, Hans-Helmut König, André Hajek

“…Past experience with online health consultations was reported by 10.3% (561/5456) of the sample. …”
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Mental health symptom burden in elite ice hockey players and its association with self-reported concussive events by Mitchell J. Andersson, Göran Kenttä, Emma Claesdotter-Knutsson, Anders Håkansson

“…Methods We surveyed 648 active ice hockey players from the top two men’s tiers and the top women’s tier in Swedish elite ice hockey on lifetime concussive events, hazardous alcohol use, problematic social media use, depression, anxiety, and burnout. …”
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