The mediating role of peritraumatic stress in the relationship between childhood psychological maltreatment and optimism and pessimism among earthquake survivors in Turkey by Zafer Güney ÇAĞIŞ, İslam AKÇE, Izaddin Ahmad AZİZ, Amelia RIZZO, Gabriella NUCERA, Nicola BRAGAZZI, Lukasz SZARPAK, Francesco CHIRICO, Arash ZIAPOUR, Mehmet Emin ŞAKAR, Şoreş Hakı ÇELİK, Murat YILDIRIM

“…Therefore, in this study, it was aimed to examine the mediating role of peritraumatic distress in the relationship between childhood psychological maltreatment and optimism and pessimism among earthquake survivors. Methods: Using a snowball sampling technique with a cross-sectional research design, the sample comprised 311 adults who survived earthquake survivors in Turkey. …”
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Needlestick and Sharp Injuries among Health Care Workers in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Manipur, India: A Cross-sectional Study by A Yanal Umar, Hanjabam Sanayaima Devi, Priya Laikhuram

“…Objective: To determine the prevalence of NSSI and identify the associated risk factors among HCWs of a tertiary care hospital in Manipur. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with a sample size of 383. …”
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The relationships of emotional expressiveness, positive affect, and negative affect with dark triad personality traits (Machiavellianism, narcissism, Psychopathy) by S Amiri, F Sepehrian Azar

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships of emotional expressiveness, positive and negative affect with dark triad personality traits. Materials and methods: In this descriptive correlational study, 300 students based on multi-stage cluster sampling from the Urmia University were selected. …”
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Barriers to implementing nursing evidence-based practice at the Palestinian Medical Complex: A cross-sectional study by Hamdallah H. Khaled

“…Background: The use of nursing evidence-based practice (EBP) has grown more and more important for healthcare professionals globally in their goal of delivering high-quality patient care. …”
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Catalyzing early ovarian cancer detection: Platelet RNA-based precision screening by Eunyong Ahn, Se Ik Kim, Sungmin Park, Sarah Kim, Hyejin Lee, Yeochan Kim, Sangick Park, Suyeon Lee, Dong Won Hwang, Heeyeon Kim, HyunA Jo, Untack Cho, Juwon Lee, Cheol Lee, TaeJin Ahn, Yong-Sang Song

“…Here, we proposed our two-step method for assessing the existence of pelvic mass either located at ovaries or uterus with more than 99% specificity by utilizing exon-exon junction features with a sampling invariant normalization technique; then next our model finds the malignancy of detected mass with more than 99% negative predictive value for ovarian cancer to practically assist clinicians’ further investigation via combined features of exon-exon junctions, and hematology parameters. …”
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A theoretical model of the mechanism of entrepreneurial leadership attributes and leadership behaviours on nursing team creativity in a new hospital: a grounded theory study by Jing Gong, Lorna Kwai Ping Suen, Binxu Yang, Yifei Yang, Xintong Deng, Jing Zhou

“…Therefore, this study uses Grounded Theory to explore the interactive qualities and leadership behaviors that promote nursing team creativity within the Chinese cultural context. Methods Data were collected from a new hospital in Guizhou, China, using purposive and theoretical sampling techniques. …”
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Peculiarities of cardiac intervalography and psychological state of young people at different risk of arterial hypertension development state of students with different risk of hyp... by О. V. Denefil

“…Psychological characteristics were studied by FPI questionnaire (form B). Parametric methods of statistical analysis were used. The sampling contingent was formed by means of stratified randomization. …”
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Identifying the factors affecting the growth of the employees of the country's property and documents registration organization by Najmeh Ahmadi, Kolsoum Nami, Nader Ghourchian, Parivash Jafari

“…The statistical population of this research included 15 experts in the field of employee growth and development. The sampling method is purposeful. A semi-structured interview was used to collect information. …”
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Exploring women’s perception and attitude towards antidepressant use: a cross-sectional study by Ghazwa B. Korayem, Yara Alanazi, Hanouf Alanazi, Rahaf Alkhodhairi, Shoug Alamer, Sultan M. Alshahrani, Nada A. Alsaleh

“…We aim to explore women’s perceptions and attitudes toward using antidepressants and to identify the factors that influence decision-making regarding antidepressant use. Method A cross-sectional survey, employing a convenience sampling method, was conducted on a university campus in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. …”
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The Blogosphere as a Specific Area of Digital Communication by A. V. Chechulin, V. A. Babenko, E. A. Stepanova, V. M. Ivanova

“…The study was carried out using a comparative method and is based on the analysis of the content of blogs in the social networks VKontakte, Dzen, Telegram, selected by a continuous sampling method for the period from February 2022 to October 2022. …”
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Effect of structural characteristics on the stability of multi-weak rock slopes considering the spatial variability of geotechnical parameters by Qingqing Zhang, Huabin Zhang, Laigui Wang, Quanen Li, Haoyi Yu

“…The Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS) method was employed to efficiently generate parameters random fields. …”
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Effects of Exercise on Mental Health of Elderly by Nafiseh Hekmati Pour, Hamid Hojjati

“…Objective: This study aimed to determine the effect of exercise on mental health of elderly in Golestan Province. Method: In this Quasi experimental study with Salamon design, 48 elderly referring to daily centers in Golestan province in 2011 were selected by convenience sampling method and randomly divided to control and test groups. …”
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How big data analytics improves hospital environmental performance through supply chain innovation, decision quality, and risk taking by Lu Xinqi, Ye Xinghai, Ye Shengyao, Hashem Salarzadeh Jenatabadi, Nadia Samsudin

“…The participants were recruited using a random sampling method to achieve broad representation. Variables in the survey include measures of big data analytics capability, supply chain innovation, quality of decision-making, risk-taking, and environmental performance. …”
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Randomized controlled trial evaluating the utility of urine HPV DNA for cervical cancer screening in a Pacific Island population by Brenda Y. Hernandez, Aileen C Tareg, Martina Reichhardt, Angelica Agapito, Xuemei Zhu, Angela Sy, Arnice Yuji, Jeffrey Killeen, Owen Chan, Lee E Buenconsejo-Lum

“…# Background Non-invasive, self-collection sampling methods for human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA detection have the potential to address logistical and cultural barriers to Pap screening, particularly in under resourced settings such as Yap state in the Federated States of Micronesia -- a population with low levels of screening and high incidence of cervical cancer…”
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Are Deep Tissue Cultures a Reliable Alternative to Bone Biopsy for Diagnosing Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis? A Comparative Diagnostic Study by Serap Ulusoy, İbrahim Kılınç, Belgin Coşkun, Müge Ayhan

“…However, their limited reliability in detecting Gram-negative and polymicrobial infections underscores the need for more accurate, less invasive diagnostic tools. Future research should focus on validating molecular and advanced diagnostic methods to improve clinical decision-making and patient outcomes in DFO.…”
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Evaluation of Arabic lesson teaching in higher education based on the Kirkpatrick model by Ali Akbar Mollaie, Mohammad Aslam Raiesi

“…The sampling method in this research is simple random sampling. …”
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Factors influencing type of contraceptive use among Ghanaian males: Insights from the 2022 Ghana demographic and health survey by Christiana Lokko, Jonathan Sackey, Francis Lokko

“…Men aged 15–54 were more likely to use modern methods, while those with lower education levels were more likely to use no method. …”
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A decade of change – lessons learned from prenatal diagnostics in Central Denmark region in 2008–2018 by Dorte Launholt Lildballe, Naja Becher, Else Marie Vestergaard, Rikke Christensen, Stina Lou, Puk Sandager, Lars Henning Pedersen, Kasper Gadsbøll, Olav Bjørn Petersen, Ida Vogel

“…The turnaround time more than halved from 14 days to an average of 5.5 days for chorionic villus sampling. …”
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Subsampling Algorithms for Irregularly Spaced Autoregressive Models by Jiaqi Liu, Ziyang Wang, HaiYing Wang, Nalini Ravishanker

“…To overcome this challenge, subsampling algorithms are widely used to perform statistical analyses on smaller, more manageable subsets of the data. The effectiveness of these methods depends on their ability to identify and select data points that improve the estimation efficiency according to some optimality criteria. …”
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Unsupervised Anomaly Detection on Metal Surfaces Based on Frequency Domain Information Fusion by Wenfei Wu, Tao Tao, Jinsheng Xiao, Yichu Yao, Jianfeng Yang

“…Metal products are widely used in industrial manufacturing, and the quality of metal products is becoming more and more demanding. At present, although there are many methods for detecting defects on metal surfaces, there are still various limitations. …”
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