Precipitation Trends and Andean Snow Cover: Climate Interactions and Hydrological Impacts in the Acre River Basin (1982–2023) by Kennedy da Silva Melo, Rafael Coll Delgado, Ana Pâmela Tavares Mendonça

“…These are rainy seasons with major floods and record water levels and, later in the same year, severe droughts that last for more months than is normal for the dry season. In this sense, remote sensing acts as an important tool for monitoring the meteorological variables involved in this dynamic, and for predicting future climate trends. …”
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Talent management in volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) health environment, nurses’ psychological contract fulfillment, cordial relation and generation: mode... by Nancy Sabry Ellethiey, Heba Mohamed Al-Anwer Ali Ashour, Nadia Hassan Ali Awad

“…GEN negatively predicted psychological contract fulfillment, meaning baby boomers predicted more psychological contract fulfillment than Z gen. …”
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Assessing the effectiveness of the Pregnancy And Newborn Diagnostic Assessment system on the quality of antenatal care in Burkina Faso: A cluster-randomised controlled trial by Abou Coulibaly, Armel Emmanuel Sogo, Nutsa Chikvaidze, Cecilia Capello, Tsion Kefene Gerbaba, Séni Kouanda

“…The primary outcome was a binary variable derived from the ANC quality score, coded yes or no. …”
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The impact of feedback literacy on reflective learning types in Chinese high school students: based on latent profile analysis by Yuhong Gong, Yuhong Gong, Shang Zhang, Ting Zhang, Xinfa Yi

“…This study shifts the research focus from a singular feedback to a comprehensive exploration of feedback literacy, and delves into the internal dynamics of groups to investigate the sub-group characteristics of reflective learning. It aims to provide more detailed empirical evidence, as well as more targeted and operational improvement recommendations for reflective learning practice.Methodsthis study has developed a research design that encompasses latent variable profile analysis and subsequent analyses. …”
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Factors Associated with Attitude towards Wife-Beating among Married Women of the Reproductive Ages in Arba Minch Town, Southern Ethiopia: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study by Eshetu Andarge, Zeleke Gebru, Yordanos Sisay, Yohannes Shiferaw

“…Evidence from demographic and health surveys in various countries and Ethiopia too showed that more women are generally believed to justify intimate partner violence (IPV) than men do. …”
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Prevalence and predictors of medication non-adherence among people living with multimorbidity: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Richard Lombard-Vance, James Larkin, Louise Foley, Emer Galvin, Andrew W Murphy, Gerard J Molloy, Lisa Hynes

“…Results suggest that future attempts to improve adherence among people with multimorbidity should determine for which conditions individuals require most support. The variable levels of medication non-adherence highlight the need for more attention to be paid by healthcare providers to the impact of multimorbidity on chronic disease self-management.PROSPERO registration number CRD42019133849.…”
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Model of oral rehabilitation with immediate or delayed implant-supported complete dentures: Radiographic evaluation by Alex Semenoff-Segundo, Alvaro Henrique Borges, Natalino Francisco da Silva, Edinei Rocha de Almeida Bocardi, Claudia da Fonseca Granjeiro, Ana Luisa Lima Pereira Medeiros, Tereza Aparecida Delle Vedove Semenoff

“…The odds ratio indicated that a loss of more than 4 mm was 17 times more likely in the maxilla. …”
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High temperatures will likely limit establishment success of the Brazilian peppertree thrips, Pseudophilothrips ichini (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) in the USA, despite variation... by Nathan Harms, Megann Harlow, Ian Knight, Aaron Schad

“…Based on LLTIZ and ULCIZ, thermal injury accumulates rapidly at temperatures above 33.08 ± 0.15 °C and more slowly at decreasing temperatures below 7.85 ± 0.82 °C. …”
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Pathogen delivery route impacts disease severity in experimental Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae infection of domestic lambs by Bryan Tegner Jacobson, Jessica DeWit-Dibbert, LaShae Zanca, Sobha Sonar, Carol Hardy, Michael Throolin, Patricia C. Brewster, Kaitlyn Andujo, Kerri Jones, Jonathon Sago, Stephen Smith, Lizabeth Bowen, Diane Bimczok

“…In addition, histological signs of  alveolar, bronchiolar, and interstitial inflammation were significantly more severe in the LRT compared to the URT group. …”
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Environmental gradients strongly affect functional composition and biomass C stocks within aquatic plant meadows by Roel Lammerant, Jenna Hölttä, Janina Pykäri, Nishant Nishant, Anna Villnäs, Sofia A. Wikström, Alf Norkko, Camilla Gustafsson

“…The functional community structure of aquatic plant meadows shifted from more conservative strategies under high hydrodynamic forces to more acquisitive strategies under relatively benign environmental conditions. …”
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Modulation of microbiota, inflammation, iron status and gene expression of affected receptors in Parkinson’s disease rat model by synbiotic and dark chocolate by Sahar Y. Al-Okbi, Asmaa A. Ramadan, Rasha S. Mohamed, Hoda B Mabrok, Enas S. K. Al-Siedy

“…It could be concluded that treatment with dark chocolate and Sb improved experimental PD with variable degrees.…”
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KSZTAŁTOWANIE SIĘ MIESZANEGO SYSTEMU SZKOCKIEGO PRAWA PRYWATNEGO W XIX I XX WIEKU by Aleksander Stępkowski

“…This spécifie mixture of légal cultures which is Scots law, owes most of its peculiarity to, variable in its character, relationships with England and its precedent based legal culture. …”
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A blood test-based machine learning model for predicting lung cancer risk by Lihi Schwartz, Naor Matania, Matanel Levi, Teddy Lazebnik, Teddy Lazebnik, Shiri Kushnir, Noga Yosef, Assaf Hoogi, Dekel Shlomi, Dekel Shlomi

“…A majority of the blood tests made a highly variable contribution to the complex ML model; however, some tests, such as red cell distribution width, mean corpuscular hemoglobin, prothrombin time, hematocrit, urea, and calcium, contributed slightly more to a dichotomous prediction.ConclusionBlood tests can be used in the proposed ML model to predict LC. …”
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Analysis of equity in the distribution of human resources and hospital beds and its association with the COVID-19 mortality rate: a case of Iran by Habib Jalilian, Seyed Mohammad Riahi, Somayeh Heydari, Masoomeh Taji

“…The Gini Coefficient of health care system financial (0.006) resources distribution was more equitable, while that of hospital beds (0.229) and intensive care beds (0.320) was more inequitable. …”
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Maternal parity modifies the association of birthweight polygenic score with fetal growth by Prabhavi Wijesiriwardhana, Tesfa Dejenie Habtewold, Guisong Wang, Jessica L. Gleason, Ronald J. Wapner, Katherine L. Grantz, Fasil Tekola-Ayele

“…Abstract Low birthweight is more common among children born to nulliparas (women with no prior pregnancy lasting ≥20 weeks of gestation) compared to those born to multiparas (women with one or more prior pregnancies lasting ≥20 weeks). …”
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Ionospheric Prediction With High Temporal Resolution Using a Local Data Ingestion Technique Over the Chinese Region by Junchen Xue, Peng Guo, Weihua Wang

“…The electron density profiles from the updated model align more closely with the COSMIC-2 observations than those from the standard model. …”
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Sexual function and predictors of sexual dysfunction among pregnant women receiving Primary Health Care by Aline Lara Cavalcante Oliva, Hanna Beatriz Bacelar Tibães, Giovana Gabriela Alves Taffarel, José Walter Fagundes de Souza Filho, Bruna Rayane Gomes Silva, Carolina Amaral Oliveira Rodrigues, Maria Fernanda Santos Figueiredo Brito

“…Methods: a cross-sectional, analytical study carried out with 1,279 pregnant women in Montes Claros/MG, between 2018 and 2019. Variable: dependent sexual satisfaction; independent variables: sociodemographic and obstetric characteristics, physical and mental health conditions and complaints during pregnancy. …”
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Optimization of thermal stress thresholds on regional coral bleaching monitoring by satellite measurements of sea surface temperature by Bailu Liu, Bailu Liu, Bailu Liu, Shawna A. Foo, Lei Guan, Lei Guan

“…Coral bleaching events have become more frequent in recent years due to the impact of widespread marine heatwaves. …”
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Predictors of caffeine consumption patterns in high school athletes by Eamonn M. O’Connell, Disa L. Hatfield, Amanda Stors, Steven A. Cohen

“…Athletes identifying as Caucasian reported significantly more caffeine use (55.9%), compared to athletes from underrepresented backgrounds (32.6%) (p < 0.001). …”
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Correlation of patient reported outcomes among patients with chronic low back pain and controls by Spencer A. Baker, Kelsey A. Clark, Andrew K. Gibbons, Ammon Gallart, Anton E. Bowden, Ulrike H. Mitchell, David T. Fullwood

“…Furthermore, PROs have evolved over time, and there exist strong correlations between more recently developed outcomes, such as PROMIS PROs, and legacy PROs. …”
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