Assessing health equity inconsistencies in the World Health Organization’s Urban HEART initiative: findings from key informant interviews by Michelle Amri, Patricia O’Campo, Theresa Enright, Arjumand Siddiqi, Erica Di Ruggiero, Jesse B. Bump

“…In other words, asking if past findings from investigating WHO key texts also transpire into Urban HEART and its practices. Methods Purposive sampling was employed to undertake synchronous electronic interviews with key informants to glean a multi-faceted perspective of how equity was operationalized through Urban HEART. …”
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The impact of long COVID on UK healthcare workers and their workplace: a qualitative study of healthcare workers with long COVID, their families, colleagues and managers by Amani Al-Oraibi, Carolyn Tarrant, Katherine Woolf, Laura B. Nellums, Manish Pareek

“…The aim of this study was to explore the intersection between work and long COVID for HCWs, to understand the impact of long COVID on their professional identify, their orientation to work, their wellbeing as professionals, and support needs and strategies for them as well as their managers to continue to work. Methods This qualitative study was conducted through semi-structured online interviews with three groups: HCWs with long COVID, their support network members, and healthcare managers between March 2023 and May 2024. …”
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Patient Satisfaction with Dental Services: A Cross-Sectional Studyof Five Public Sector Dental Hospitals in Karachi by Sana Iqbal, Sheeza Shah, Bismillah Naeem, Sameera Kazi, Atiya Noor, Mirza Hamid Baig

“… Objective: This study assessed patient satisfaction with dental facilities, services, and treatment while identifying key areas for improvement in five public sector dental hospitals in Karachi, Pakistan. Methods: This multi-centered cross-sectional study was conducted at five public sector dental teaching hospitals over three months. …”
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A Systematic Review of the Development and Implementability of Complex Interventions After Hospitalization for Survivors of Intensive CareTake-Home Points by Evelyn Sloan, DPT, Selina M. Parry, PhD, Alisha A. da Silva, BPhysio, AdvRes (Hons), Catherine L. Granger, PhD, Zoe Fehlberg, MPH, Owen Gustafson, PhD, Catherine Voutier, MInfoMgmt, Camille E. Short, PhD, Marlena Klaic, PhD

“…Research Question: What methods have informed the development and evaluation of complex interventions after hospitalization for survivors of the ICU. …”
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Biochemically Investigation of the Effects of Nettle Seed Herbal Mixture on Alcohol Damaged Liver by A. ÇELİK, A. ERMIŞ, O. KAYGUSUZ, G. GÖRK

“…Serum ALT and AST values of the obtained blood samples were studied by enzymatic methods in "Roche Cobas 6000" device.. …”
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Development of a Titanium Plate for Mandibular Angle Fractures with a Bone Defect in the Lower Border: Finite Element Analysis and Mechanical Test by Douglas Rangel Goulart, Daniel Takanori Kemmoku, Pedro Yoshito Noritomi, Márcio de Moraes

“…The computational model was transferred to an in vitro experiment with polyurethane mandibles. Each group contained five samples and was subjected to a linear loading test in a universal testing machine. …”
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Experimental evaluation of thermal accumulator capabilities for use in the oil system of shunter diesel motor by A. A. Svechnikov, Yu. K. Mustafaev, I. V. Metalnikov

“…The heat preservation method used in the thermal accumulator is versatile and may be applied to both oil and cooling liquid of transport diesel motors. …”
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Evenness and hairiness measurement of chenille yarn based on an improved pixel difference convolution for the pixel difference network by Chenghan Yang, Yun Xu, Jianpeng Zhang, Jianxin Zhang

“…Hairiness is then measured by subtracting the evenness measurement results from the Canny edge detection results. Experiments comparing the proposed method with other existing methods revealed that the yarn core coefficient of variation (CV%) and hairiness area index (HA) for 10 chenille yarn samples closely match manually measured values, highlighting the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed method for evenness and hairiness measurement.…”
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Identification of diabetic retinopathy lesions in fundus images by integrating CNN and vision mamba models. by Zenglei Liu, Ailian Gao, Hui Sheng, Xueling Wang

“…An evaluation of the suggested method was carried out by comparison experiments between state-of-the-art algorithms and the proposed methodology. …”
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Multi-Task Supervised Alignment Pre-Training for Few-Shot Multimodal Sentiment Analysis by Junyang Yang, Jiuxin Cao, Chengge Duan

“…We employ task-specific prompts to unify these diverse objectives into a single Masked Language Model (MLM), which serves as the foundation for our Multi-task Supervised Alignment Pre-training (MSAP) framework to enhance the alignment of visual and textual modalities. Extensive experiments on three datasets demonstrate that our method achieves a new state-of-the-art for the FMSA task.…”
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Enforcing Grammar in Code Synthesis with Transformers by Dmytro Vitel, Stephen Steinle, John Licato

“…It is therefore important to explore methods for ensuring syntactic correctness in generated code. …”
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PlayMINT—an effective digital learning game for leadership competencies of female STEM students by Ilse Hagerer

“…We comprehensively evaluated PlayMINT in a rigorous randomized long-term user experiment including a control group using traditional learning methods over nine months with a substantial sample size of 181 female STEM students from German universities. …”
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Training a Minesweeper Agent Using a Convolutional Neural Network by Wenbo Wang, Chengyou Lei

“…Both a Deep Q-Network (DQN) and supervised learning methods were successfully applied to optimize the training of the game. …”
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GraphGIM: rethinking molecular graph contrastive learning via geometry image modeling by Chaoyi Li, Hongxin Xiang, Wenjie Du, Tengfei Ma, Haowen Chen, Xiangxiang Zeng, Lei Xu

“…Results In this work, we revisit existing graph-based contrastive methods and find that these methods have limited diversity in the constructed sample pairs, resulting in insufficient performance gains. …”
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Neighborhood Information Aggregation and Multi-View Feature Extraction-Based Contrastive Graph Clustering by Liulong Yao, Jinrong Cui, Yazi Xie, Chengli Sun

“…In addition, we design a weight graph that allows the model to adaptively adjust the proximity between samples during the learning process. Extensive experiments on five benchmark datasets show that our proposed method outperforms most other clustering algorithms.…”
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Dominant Trends of Housing Market Development: Financing and Affordability by Svitlana Ianchuk

“…The methods of crosscountry statistical, graphical, and analytical analysis using the Excel 2010 software package for the sample from 25 European countries for 2011-2020 (limited data in 2019-2020 due to the availability of information on open information portals of The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and European Union Statistical Office) were applied to determine dominant trends of housing market development, to analyse the dynamics of house prices, and financing social and affordable housing. …”
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تأثیر استخدام التعلم الاتقاني في تعلم مھارتي الطبطبة والتصویب بكرة الید by حاتم شوكت ابراهيم, رافد حبيب قدوري, عبدالكريم ابراهيم جاسم

“…The research sample consisted of students Division (f) havebeen selected from among the people of school year second's (6) people, and at a rate of (25-35) called for each division, and this amounted to the sample (30), student, and the sample exploratory experiments being researchers working on totaling 10 students were from the Division (d) after the researchers that ruled out a number of students from the research sample, has homogenization process between the two groups of the research sample to adjust the following chronological age, height and weight variables, was parity with between the two sets of research in learning my skills clapotement and correction hand reel, and the art teacher to apply the curriculum of the College has been organizing exercises and repeat them on the use of style Alleghany learning the experimental group the control group used the technique, and the curriculum took (12) educational unit and by (2) unit learning per week for each group, and that the educational unit time (90 minutes), was the use of the user's program in the areas of statistics and system (spss) to extract the data for research. …”
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Contrastive learning for one-shot building shape recognition using vector polygon transformers by Longfei Cui, Haizhong Qian, Junkui Xu, Chao Li, Xinyu Niu

“…By employing contrastive learning, the model effectively distinguishes between various building shapes in an unsupervised manner, requiring only a single labeled sample per shape category. Experiments demonstrate 85.1% average accuracy on a 10-category dataset, surpassing existing few-shot methods. …”
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Knowledge and Practice of Nurses and Midwives Regarding Immediate Care after Birth at Two Tertiary Centers in the Kurdistan Region by Nergz Bayiz Abdulrahman, Sazan Bahram Ahmed, Nazeera Tahseen Kareem, Suham Mirhamad Abdullah

“…Most of the samples (71.2%) had trained less than 5 years. More than one-third (36.5%) of nurses-midwives have 15 years of experience. …”
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Lyme Disease Biobank: 10 years of 3 month follow-up visits from 2014 to 2023 by Elizabeth J. Horn, George Dempsey, Anna M. Schotthoefer, Matthew McArdle, Allison F. Weber, Cathy De Luca, Bobbi S. Pritt, Elizabeth L. Maloney

“…From 2014 to 23, 466 cases and 367 controls were enrolled on Long Island, NY, and in Central Wisconsin.MethodsThis study included 253 LDB participants who provided samples from an initial and a convalescent blood draw. …”
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