Effect of a Narrative-Based Online Course Aimed at Reducing Stigma Toward Transgender Children and Adolescents: Longitudinal Observational Study by Merlin Greuel, Van Kinh Nguyen, Doron Amsalem, Maya Adam, Till Bärnighausen

“…Future interventions should include participants with more variable baseline levels of stigma, ideally in the setting of a randomized controlled trial. …”
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Soil conservation efficiency and improvement potential of forestry sector in China during 2006 to 2018 by Keke Li, Zhanhang Zhou, Hua Yan, Yanxian Li, Cai Li, Yuemin Yang, Wei Li, Zhen Wang

“…This calls for more effective financial allocation to optimize forestry efficiency. …”
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Sustainable and innovative biological control strategies against Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato, Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. phaseolicola and Xanthomonas spp. affecting vegetable c... by Davide Giovanardi, Enrico Biondi, Nina Biondo, Nicolás Quiroga, Francesco Modica, Gerardo Puopolo, Set Pérez Fuentealba

“…Biopesticides, such as essential oils (EOs), are nowadays studied, tested and formulated by employing nano- and micro-technologies as innovative biological control strategies to obtain more sustainable products using less heavy metal ions. …”
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Examining the Impact of Topography and Vegetation on Existing Forest Canopy Height Products from ICESat-2 ATLAS/GEDI Data by Yisa Li, Dengsheng Lu, Yagang Lu, Guiying Li

“…Forest canopy height (FCH) is an important variable for estimating forest biomass and ecosystem carbon sequestration. …”
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SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia follow-up and long COVID in primary care: A retrospective observational study in Madrid city. by Sara Ares-Blanco, Marta Pérez Álvarez, Ileana Gefaell Larrondo, Cristina Muñoz, Vanesa Aguilar Ruiz, Marta Castelo Jurado, Marina Guisado-Clavero

“…Embolism was more frequent in patients who still had symptoms >4 weeks than those with symptoms ≤4 weeks (9.1% vs 1.8%, p value 0.034).…”
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Evaluation of a digital reporting and supporting tool in breast cancer prevention trials (KarmApp) by José Tapia, Marike Gabrielson, Mattias Hammarström, Yvonne Wengström, Jenny Bergqvist, Aki Tuuliainen, Mikael Eriksson, Kamila Czene, Per Hall, Magnus Bäcklund

“…Conclusions A vast majority chose to use the KarmApp and reported side effects via the app. More prevalent use was seen among younger participants and use increased over calendar period. …”
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Sympathetic reactivity to physiological stress is associated with expanded cardiac extracellular volume in humans by Hazel C. Blythe, Zoe H. Adams, Katrina A. Hope, Richard P. Baker, Melanie J. Hezzell, M. Saadeh Suleiman, Ana Paula Abdala Sheikh, Nathan Manghat, Konstantina Mitrousi, Angus K. Nightingale, Emma C. Hart

“…We determined associations between ECV and MSNA variables using liner regressions, with ECV as the dependent variable. …”
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Spectrum of γ-Secretase dysfunction as a unifying predictor of ADAD age at onset across PSEN1, PSEN2 and APP causal genes by Sara Gutiérrez Fernández, Cristina Gan Oria, Dieter Petit, Wim Annaert, John M. Ringman, Nick C. Fox, Natalie S. Ryan, Lucía Chávez-Gutiérrez

“…Age at symptom onset (AAO) is relatively consistent among carriers of the same PSEN1 mutation, but more variable for PSEN2 and APP variants, with these mutations associated with later AAOs than PSEN1. …”
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Prevalence and determinants of female genital mutilation: current insights from ten at-risk countries in Sub-Saharan Africa by Pankras Luoga, Heavenlight A. Paulo, Jackline Vicent Mbishi, Huda Omary, Suleiman Chombo, John Andrew, Abdallah Zacharia, Isaac Y. Addo

“…Data were sample-weighted and our dependent variable was mutilation status whereas women’s socio-demographic characteristics constituted the independent variables. …”
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A configurational path study of adolescents’ intention to participate in ice and snow sports based on the TPB and NAM frameworks by Zhanjiang Fan, Lanbin Min, Wenbin He, Tao Shi, Yaorong Yang, Weiqiang Feng

“…This highlights the importance of exploring multiple condition-variable configurations to gain a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of adolescents’ participation intentions. (3) Four primary paths to promoting adolescents’ willingness to participate in ice and snow sports were identified: the comprehensive driver path (C1), the emotional and normative resonance path (C2), the integrated participation path (C3), and the knowledge-behavior co-driven paths (C4 and C5). …”
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Demonstration of Large Curvature Radius Shape Sensing Using Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry in Multi-Core Fibers by Zeen Chen, Chenhuan Wang, Zhenyang Ding, Dongfang Zhu, Haohan Guo, Ming Pan, Yin Yu, Kun Liu, Junfeng Jiang, Tiegen Liu

“…In distributed shape sensing, the shape reconstruction error is more and more sensitive to the strain measuring error along with curvature radius of reconstructed shape increasing, which causes a notable challenge for large curvature radius shape reconstructing. …”
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Decellularized tendon patch enhance biological and mechanical healing of large-to-massive rotator cuff tear in a rat chronic model: a comparison study of patch sterilization and st... by Yiyang Mao, Yirui Wang, Shen Liu, Zechun Liu, Pengling Yao, Buhua Sun, Can Chen

“…Results In-vitro results indicated that the four kinds of DTPs showed excellent biocompatibility, and EO/CP-DTP showed an orderly collagen arrangement and higher tensile properties than the other DTPs. More importantly, the EO/CP-DTP can induce more interacted stem cells toward tenogenic lineages as compared with the other kinds of DTPs. …”
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Financial and Non-Financial Information Seeking: The Role of Managing Anger and Fear in Investment Strategies and Decision-making by Vahid Oskou, Sahar Yousefizadeh, Fatemeh Asnad

“…When investors are fearful about a decision and its outcome, they seek additional information to boost their confidence. This often leads to more conservative decision-making. Conversely, investors experiencing anger are less inclined to seek new information or process the information they have and are more likely to make hasty decisions.…”
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Relationships between human development, economic growth, and environmental condition: The case of South Korea by Zeynab Giyasova, Shafa Guliyeva, Reyhan Azizova, Liliana Smiech, Irada Nabiyeva

“…The covariance matrix test indicates that the negative relationship between HDI and carbon emissions per capita is stronger and more variable compared to the more stable inverse association between HDI and GDP per capita. …”
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Morbidity from primary glaucoma and its gender-specific aspects amongst the population of Siberian industrial town by A. L. Onischenko, A. V. Kolbasko, N. M. Zhilina, A. V. Zacharova, A. E. Vlasenko

“…In male residents aged over 70 years, primary glaucoma was found more often than in female residents. Male glaucoma patients required in-patient treatment more often than female patients. …”
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Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses: a comparison of meta- and mega-analyses in the Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome (HAPO) study by Alan Kuang, Marie-France Hivert, M. Geoffrey Hayes, William L. Lowe, Denise M. Scholtens

“…For metabolomics analyses, the number of significant findings in the heterogeneous ancestry mega-analysis far exceeded those from the homogeneous ancestry meta-analysis and confirmed many previously documented associations, but genomic inflation factors were much more variable. Conclusions For multi-ancestry GWAS, heterogeneous ancestry mega-analysis generates a rich set of variants for analysis using a cosmopolitan reference panel and results in vastly more significant, biologically credible and previously documented associations than a homogeneous ancestry meta-analysis approach. …”
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Can Plant-Based Diets Facilitate Dietary Transition in Bolivia?: An Exploratory Study by Federico J. A. Perez-Cueto, Rosaluz Valda-Romero, Jean-Paul C. Garin, Inês Magalhães

“…A dietary shift toward more plant-based diets seems to be the most sensible societal change to empower individuals to act in response to climate change. …”
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A domain free of the zeros of the partial theta function by V. Kostov

“…More generally, for $q \in (0,1)$, the function $\theta (q,.)$ is the product of a real polynomial without real zeros and a function of the class $\mathcal{L-P}I$. …”
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Determinants of cervical cancer screening uptake in Lesotho: evidence from 2024 Demographic and Health Survey data by Mulugeta Wassie, Alebachew Ferede Zegeye, Gebreeyesus Abera Zeleke, Enyew Getaneh Mekonen, Deresse Abebe Gebrehana, Tadesse Tarik Tamir, Berhan Tekeba

“…A multilevel mixed-effects logistic regression model was employed to identify potential factors associated with the outcome variable. Variables with p-values less than 0.05 were considered statistically significant. …”
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Risk Factors for Hospital Mortality in Acute ST-Segment Elevation Coronary Syndrome Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock by O. V. Arsenicheva

“…Left ventricular ejection fraction below 40% was observed more often in the follow-up group than in the comparison group (46 (79,3%) vs 27 (58,7%), p=0,022). …”
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