Gender disparities and barriers to access and use of essential health services in Ethiopia: Designing primary health care through gender lens. by Agumasie Semahegn, Yohannes Mehretie Adinew, Gizachew Tadele Tiruneh, Mesele Damte Argaw, Biruhtesfa Bekele, Metadel Tesfaye, Nebreed Fesseha, Samrawit Hagos Tiku, Asmeret Gebrehiwet, Addis Girma, Mebrie Belete, Chala Tesfaye, Mikiyas Teferi, Hillina Tadesse, Nuru Hussien, Anne Austin, Salsawit Shiferraw, Sintayehu Abebe Woldie, Muluken Dessalegn Muluneh, Lidiya Tefera, Frank DelPizzo, Addis Tamire, Temesgen Ayehu, Dessalew Emaway, Misrak Makonnen

“…Maximum variation sampling use used to identify participants.. Collected data were coded and gender-related barriers were categorized using the USAID's gender analysis domains. …”
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Barriers and facilitators to contraception provision among rural healthcare providers by Alexandra Buscaglia, Annie Glover, Nicole Smith, Al Garnsey

“…Abstract Background Access to a full range of contraceptive options ensures that individuals can make autonomous decisions about their health and wellbeing. …”
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Informed-Learning-Guided Visual Question Answering Model of Crop Disease by Yunpeng Zhao, Shansong Wang, Qingtian Zeng, Weijian Ni, Hua Duan, Nengfu Xie, Fengjin Xiao

“…In contemporary agriculture, experts develop preventative and remedial strategies for various disease stages in diverse crops. Decision-making regarding the stages of disease occurrence exceeds the capabilities of single-image tasks, such as image classification and object detection. …”
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Heightened Awareness of Oppressive Systems May Impact Black Library Workers’ Perceptions of Inequitable Hiring and Retention Practices in Public and Academic Libraries by Hilary Jasmin

“…However, Black participants were also more likely to refute that their employers were making efforts to hire, retain, and promote BIPOC library workers than their non-Black counterparts. …”
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Modeling Foreground Spatial Variations in 21 cm Gaussian Process Component Separation by Kangning Diao, Richard D. P. Grumitt, Yi Mao

“…However, the 21 cm signals are highly contaminated by foreground emission, making accurate component separation vital for cosmological analyses. …”
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ELTrack: Events-Language Description for Visual Object Tracking by Mohamad Alansari, Khaled Alnuaimi, Sara Alansari, Sajid Javed

“…Event cameras offer promising solutions that capture changes in a scene as they happen because of their reduced latency, making them highly effective in scenarios where traditional visible cameras often struggle, such as in low-light environments or when tracking rapid motion. …”
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Insight into pharmacy students’ perspectives on mandatory COVID-19 vaccines in schools and healthcare settings by Fahamina Ahmed, Saja Ottallah, Azeem Siddiqui, Candice Smith, Amne Borghol

“…The survey was distributed to all 291 XULACOP students through email, text message, and GroupMe as a web link or QR code from August 25th to August 31st, 2023. Demographic data collected in the survey included age range, gender, and race/ethnicity. …”
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National and Alternative Reports on the Implementation of the European Social Charter (Revised) as a Principle of Human Rights Compliance by Yu. F. Ivanov, M. V. Ivanova

“…Three main stages in the reporting procedure have been established: examination of reports on compliance/non-compliance with the Charters; adoption of conclusions (making recommendations if necessary); consideration of the recommendations made. …”
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Media Image of the Region and Features of its Formation (The Case of the Republic of Mordovia) by Ksenia V. Dementieva, Diana A. Bakeeva, Natalya M. Frolova

“…Marketing tools are used to determine the image-making frames of the territory: for example, the theses "Saransk is a cultural, national and sports center", "Saransk is a comfortable city to live in", etc. …”
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Comparing the actual and preferred viewpoint of patients about observation of their autonomy in the process of nursing care: A cross-sectional study in Iran, 2023 by Nayereh Baghcheghi, Hamid Reza Koohestani, Mohammad Hasan Keshavarzi

“…Background: Patient autonomy is a fundamental principle of nursing ethics and is prominently highlighted in the Code of Ethics for Nurses. However, there is a notable gap in the existing literature regarding patients' actual versus preferred perceptions of the respect for their autonomy within nursing care.Objectives: This study aims to compare patients' actual and preferred perspectives on the observation of their autonomy during nursing care.Methods: A cross-sectional analytical study was conducted on 231 patients hospitalized at an educational hospital in Saveh, Iran, from February to June 2023. …”
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Lived Experiences of Tabriz University Faculty Members About Information Anxiety and Its Consequences: A Phenomenological Study by Ali Imanzadeh, Maryam Marandi Heidarloo

“…After the written implementation of the interviews, the data of the interviews were analyzed based on the hermeneutic approach and based on the method of Dickelman, Tanner and, Allen (1989).Findings: From the analysis of the experiences of faculty members of Tabriz University, 513 codes, 4 main themes: the nature of the profession (job culture, job promotion, professional interaction, knowledge production), Intervening factors of information anxiety (large volume of information and lack of time, emergence of new technologies, fear of losing important information, inability to manage the cognitive system, culture of sharing knowledge and achieving findings) Consequences of information anxiety (anxiety and mental anxiety, feelings of loneliness, decision-making crisis, professional performance and accumulation of professional duties) and information anxiety management strategies (improving cognitive and metacognitive skills, improving information evaluation skills, improving media literacy, self-care and self-restraint and skill management) were achieved.Conclusion: Considering the job nature of university faculty members and the fact that this group is more exposed to information anxiety and this anxiety can affect their job performance, it is possible to adopt strategies such as the development of cognitive and metacognitive skills, information management. …”
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Seismic Enhancement Techniques for Reinforced Concrete Frame Buildings: A Contemporary Review by Jiaxin Li, Nikita Igorevich Fomin, Shuoting Xiao, Kaixuan Yang, Shuaiwei Zhao, Hao Yang

“…How to retrofit and upgrade existing reinforced concrete frame structures with insufficient seismic performance in accordance with current codes and policy requirements, and how to appropriately incorporate new seismic isolation and energy dissipation technologies to enhance their seismic performance, are the focus of this study. …”
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Emotional impact on healthcare providers involved in medical assistance in dying (MAiD): a systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis by Alexander Simpson, Alireza Bagheri, Saumil Yogendra Dholakia

“…Data from 35 studies (393 physicians, 169 nurses, 53 social workers, 22 allied healthcare professionals) employing diverse qualitative research methodologies from five countries were coded and analysed. The thematic meta-synthesis showed three descriptive emotional themes: (1) polarised emotions including moral distress (n=153), (2) reflective emotions with MAiD as a ‘sense-making process’ (n=251), and (3) professional value-driven emotions (n=352).Discussion This research attempts to answer the question, ‘what it means at an emotional level’, for a MAiD practitioner. …”
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‘We don’t get money in our own hands’: evidence from focus group discussions on economic abuse against women in two states of India by Sangeeta Chatterji, Janina Isabel Steinert, Ines Boehret, Rucha Vasumati Satish, Sanchita Sharma

“…Discussions were recorded, transcribed verbatim and translated to English. Transcripts were coded using thematic analysis and emerging themes were discussed among all authors.Results Women suffered from four distinct forms of economic abuse. …”
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Understanding the challenges, opportunities, and drivers to addressing health inequalities within local health systems: the UNFAIR case study qualitative project by Lorraine McSweeney, Joanne Lally, Charlotte Parbery-Clark, Kylie Murrell, Richard G. Thomson, Sarah Sowden

“…Interviews and documents were coded and analysed independently before being integrated to synthesise findings. …”
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Optimized spectral indices for camouflage detection in multispectral imagery by Tobias Hupel, Peter Stütz

“…Many of these applications make use of spectral indices, such as normalized difference or ratio indices, created by merging multiple raw bands. …”
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“I’d keep going until somebody said no and nobody ever said no”: exploring identity-strengths amongst medical students from widening participation backgrounds by Kathrine Gibson Smith, Jennifer A. Cleland, Kim Walker, Colin Lumsden, Anita Laidlaw

“…Interviews were recorded electronically and transcribed verbatim. Data were coded inductively and in accordance with thematic analysis.ResultsFive main themes were constructed from the analysis. …”
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Criminological analysis of the state and particularities of determination of the illegal possession of vehicles in Ukraine under conditions of armed aggression by Yu. B. Danylchenko

“…The mass displacement of citizens from the northern, eastern and southern regions of Ukraine to the western region has created a shortage of secure, properly equipped parking spaces, making it easier for criminals to gain access to vehicles.…”
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TreeLearn: A deep learning method for segmenting individual trees from ground-based LiDAR forest point clouds by Jonathan Henrich, Jan van Delden, Dominik Seidel, Thomas Kneib, Alexander S. Ecker

“…Laser-scanned point clouds of forests make it possible to extract valuable information for forest management. …”
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The impact of technological mega trends on the development of universities in Iran; A case study of the effects of technological developments on the financing of public universitie... by Reza Naghizadeh

“…Interviews with experts were coded and in the article some of the experts' points of view related to each mega trend are presented.  …”
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