A Qualitative Evaluation of the Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadian Public Safety Personnel Health and Wellbeing by Alyssa Smith, Paula M. Di Nota, Rosemary Ricciardelli, Gregory S. Anderson

“…Using an inductive thematic analysis approach, responses were coded to identify emergent, data-driven themes while drawing on existing theory for analysis. …”
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Open versus thoracoscopic approach in the surgical treatment of congenital pulmonary airway malformations: A retrospective cross-sectional analysis and review by Jean Dai, Jesse York, Baylor Schexnayder, Frankie Fike

“…These findings could inform clinical decision-making and resource allocation in pediatric surgical care. …”
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Experiences and perceptions of respectful maternity care among mothers during childbirth in health facilities of Eastern province of Rwanda: An appreciative inquiry. by Alice Muhayimana, Irene Josephine Kearns, Darius Gishoma, Olive Tengera, Thierry Claudien Uhawenimana

“…We employed the thematic analysis and used NVivo 12 to organize codes and develop a codebook.<h4>Results</h4>Three main themes, each with subthemes, emerged from the analysis. …”
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Interpersonal and intrapersonal leadership competencies: an interpretative phenomenological analysis on effective leadership strategies by Marion Koreen Andrea Aquino, Alicia Mae Bumacod, Arizzandra Gerriz Calapine, Jan Marie Therese Yaco, Margarett Luz Dimailig, Avon Pearl Amores, Joseph Francisco

“…The interviews were transcribed, coded, and thematically analyzed in accordance with IPA guidelines.Results and discussionCompetencies were categorized under the five competency areas, with further exploration of interpersonal and intrapersonal impacts. …”
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A novel simulation paradigm for medical ICU cardiopulmonary arrest training: the in situ mirror simulation by Meenu Johnkutty, Harry Kuperstein, Fatima Koroma, Jessi Chen, James Mattson, Sahar Ahmad

“…Confidence increased in skills related to flexible decision-making skills but not for fixed skills such as following ACLS protocol. …”
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Biomechanical Analysis of Pediatric Dental Crowns: A Comparative Study of Zirconia, Bioflex, and PEEK Using Finite Element Analysis by Leena Kumari, Aradhana Agrawal, Anusmita Mandal, Divyani Nandekar, Jagruti Narlawar, Shilpa Ghosh

“…Conclusion: Zirconia crowns remain the gold standard for their strength and minimal stress distribution, making them suitable for long-term restoration. However, BioFlex and PEEK crowns showed promising performance, offering biocompatibility and reduced stress distribution. …”
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Synergistic effects of crystal habit and confining pressure on the compressive mechanical behavior of crystalline rock: a grain-based modeling analysis by Zhifa Zhan, Jilin Wang, Jiahu Du, Bibo Wang, Zhigang Yang, Xiaolin Huang

“…Abstract This study investigates the synergistic effects of crystal habit and confining pressure on the compressive mechanical behavior of crystalline rocks using a grain-based model implemented in the Universal Distinct Element Code. Synthetic granite samples with euhedral, subhedral, and anhedral microstructures were simulated by adjusting grain boundary irregularity, quantified by fractal dimension (D), which increased from euhedral to anhedral. …”
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Grounds and conditions for the application of preventive measures during the pre-trial investigation of corruption criminal offenses by V. V. Romaniuk, R. I. Login

“…It is emphasized that when deciding on the application of preventive measures in the category of criminal proceedings under study, it is necessary to clarify the presence of risks stipulated in Part 2 of Article 177 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine and justify their sufficiency in relation to the elements of the mechanism of committing a specific corruption criminal offense. …”
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DAViT: A Domain-Adapted Vision Transformer for Automated Pneumonia Detection and Explanation Using Chest X-Ray Images by Michael Fu, Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Trung Le

“…The training code and pre-trained models are available at <uri>https://github.com/awsm-research/DAViT</uri>…”
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Multi-crop plant counting and geolocation using a YOLO-Powered GUI System by Renato Herrig Furlanetto, Nathan Schawn Boyd, Ana Claudia Buzanini

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The use of specific coordination behaviours to manage information processing and task distribution in real and simulated trauma teamwork: an observational study by Liselott Fornander, Maria Garrido Granhagen, Ida Molin, Kati Laukkanen, Karin Björnström Karlsson, Peter Berggren, Lena Nilsson

“…Abstract Trauma teams handle severely injured patients under high temporal demands and need to coordinate and achieve collaborative decision-making and task execution through communication. Specific coordination and communication behaviours are taught in simulation training to enhance team performance. …”
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DBY-Tobacco: a dual-branch model for non-tobacco related materials detection based on hyperspectral feature fusion by Cheng Shen, Cheng Shen, Yuecheng Qi, Lijun Yun, Xu Zhang, Zaiqing Chen, Zaiqing Chen

“…Future work will focus on addressing limitations such as stripe noise in HSI and expanding the detection to other types of NTRMs. The dataset and code are available at: https://github.com/Ikaros-sc/DBY-Tobacco.…”
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Controlling user access with scripting to mitigate cyber-attacks by Owusu Nyarko-Boateng, Isaac Kofi Nti, Anastasia Akyamaa Mensah, Emmanuel Kojo Gyamfi

“…The paper selected Bash because it excels at scripting existing command-line tools and utilities, making it a great choice for automating tasks by using Vim text editor tool. …”
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DMoC-UNet: A Dynamic Mixture-of-Convolution Network for Enhanced Pathological Image Segmentation by Jingwei Zhu, Lining Qin, Zixin Teng, Xiaomin Li, Kuiwu Li, Haoran Chu

“…Our code will be released after acceptance.…”
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<i>Lamiaceae</i> Plants and Cardiovascular Health: A Patent-Driven Path to Functional Foods by Reda El Boukhari, Ahmed Fatimi

“…Essential oils derived from <i>Lamiaceae</i> species have demonstrated diverse biological activities, including vasorelaxant, thrombolytic, and cytotoxic effects, making them valuable in nutraceutical formulations. …”
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Pembaharuan Hukum Terhadap Kekuatan Akta Autentik Elektronik by Grace Eli, Rasji Rasji

“…The results show that the practice of cyber notary can be legally recognised as long as all formal and material elements are fulfilled in accordance with the provisions of Article 1868 of the Civil Code. However, the absence of a special regulation that explicitly regulates the procedure for making deeds electronically creates a legal vacuum and potential disharmony between the Notary Office Law and electronic transaction regulations. …”
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Conformal Prediction for Uncertainty Quantification and Reliable HER2 Status Classification in Breast Cancer IHC Images by Surayuth Pintawong, Shanop Shuangshoti, Tikamporn Jitpasutham, Somruethai Shuangshoti, Kulachet Wiwatwarayos, Thananop Kobchaisawat, Thanarat H. Chalidabhongse

“…This study introduces a novel application of Conformal Prediction (CP) framework that, instead of making potentially incorrect predictions for uncertain cases, explicitly identifies them for further examination. …”
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Qualitative study of perceptions of factors contributing to success or failure among participants in a US weight loss trial of financial incentives and environmental change strateg... by Kevin G Volpp, Justin Clapp, Karen Glanz, Collin Kather, Annie Chung, Ji Rebekah Choi

“…Participants who were successful tended to attribute their success to intrinsic motivation and prior experience. Making incentives more salient may make them more effective for participants with greater extrinsic motivation.Trial registration number NCT02878343…”
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Patient reported experiences and readmissions for people with diabetes-related foot disease admitted to public hospitals, New South Wales, Australia, 2019-2022. by Alexander C R Burnett, Jennifer Williamson, Aedan G K Roberts, Sadaf Marashi-Pour, Liz Hay

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>The findings highlight that elements of care related to communication, coordination, and involvement in decision making may influence unplanned readmission rates for patients with chronic conditions, such as DFD. …”
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Representations of the Tree of Life in Ancestors’ Symbolics by Loredana Gașpar

“…Our ancestors connected their faith to trees that were their church and body and they also hoped that, when they would die, the tree would be the bridge that would make the transition towards the Other World. There are many and varied ways of expression of this symbol and there are numberless its codes. …”
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