Community healthcare workers’ satisfaction with ward-based outreach team services in Tshwane district, South Africa by J. V. Ndimande, G. A. Ogunbanjo, S. N. Nyalunga, A. Masango-Makgobela, T. Bongongo

“…Using a 95% confidence level and 5% confidence interval, the sample size was 310. However, we over-sampled to 431 participants. …”
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Tunable Terahertz Plasmonic Sensor Based on Graphene/Insulator Stacks by Yi Huang, Shuncong Zhong, Haizi Yao, Daxiang Cui

“…From the analysis of theoretical resonance angle of the sensor and the finite element method (FEM) based simulation, we reveal that the number of graphene layer (<italic>N</italic>), the Fermi level energy <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$(E_{F})$</tex-math></inline-formula> of graphene, and refractive index of testing samples have a great effect on these performance parameters. …”
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Antimicrobial activity of silver nanoparticles and cold plasma in the treatment of hospital wastewater by Layth L. Hamid, Anas Yahya Ali, Marwah M. Ohmayed, Asmiet Ramizy, Thamer Y. Mutter

“…Melia azedarach (M. azedarach) leaf extract was used for the biosynthesis of Ag NPs by the green method. Various techniques were employed for Ag NPs characterization. …”
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HIV Incidence Estimates Using the Limiting Antigen Avidity EIA Assay at Testing Sites in Kiev City, Ukraine: 2013-2014. by Ruth Simmons, Ruslan Malyuta, Nelli Chentsova, Iryna Karnets, Gary Murphy, Antonia Medoeva, Yuri Kruglov, Alexander Yurchenko, Andrew Copas, Kholoud Porter, CASCADE Collaboration in EuroCoord

“…<h4>Objective</h4>To estimate HIV incidence and highlight the characteristics of persons at greatest risk of HIV in the Ukraine capital, Kiev.<h4>Method</h4>Residual samples from newly-diagnosed persons attending the Kiev City AIDS Centre were tested for evidence of recent HIV infection using an avidity assay. …”
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Physico-chemical characteristics of coffee parchment and its combustion residue to delineate the components required for gasification catalyst by Zahra Fona, Irvan, Rondang Tambun, Fatimah, Adi Setiawan

“…Moreover, the surface morphology of the CR600 sample was rougher and more irregular, similar to the CR700, but different from the CR500 and CP. …”
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ICT in religious education as a factor in fostering empathy by Ninoslav Z. Kačarić, Snežana Jokić

“…The limitations of the research include a relatively small sample size and the reliance on the respondents’ self-evaluation, while future research could include a larger sample size, longitudinal approaches, and more in-depth analyses of specific ICT tools.…”
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Mechanical properties and disintegration behavior of EICP-reinforced sea sand subjected to drying-wetting cycles by Kai Xu, Ming Huang, Zijian Liu, Mingjuan Cui, Shuang Li

“…Enzyme-induced carbonate precipitation (EICP) has emerged promising in various geotechnical applications, and has been presented as an alternative to the traditional cementitious materials-based ground improvement method. However, the study on mechanical properties and disintegration behavior of EICP-reinforced sea sand subjected to drying-wetting cycles are limited. …”
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An observational analysis of shade-related pedestrian activity by Michelle Levenson, David Pearlmutter, Or Aleksandrowicz

“…The impact of shade on pedestrian travel activity is examined through observation of a large sample of sidewalk users at a variety of urban sites under hot and sunny conditions. …”
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Performance of 119 Brazilian children on Stroop paradigm: Victoria version Desempenho de 119 crianças brasileiras no paradigma Stroop: versão Victoria by Helenice Charchat-Fichman, Rosinda Martins Oliveira

“…METHOD: A sample of 119 children, aged from 7 to 10 years, was submitted to the Victoria version of Stroop. …”
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Smartphone and tablet use pattern in children up to 5 years old in Spain: a cross-sectional study by Sonia de Paz-Cantos, Adrián González-Marrón, Cristina Lidón-Moyano, Maria Cerrato-Lara, Ana Díez-Izquierdo, Jose M Martínez-Sánchez

“…In children who have free access to the devices, 11.6% (95% CI: 6; 16) use these devices up to 30 minutes after waking up on weekdays, 15.4% (95% CI: 10; 21) during weekends and 14.0% (95% CI: 8; 19) use smartphone and/or tablet up to 1 hour before going to bed. Conclusion: more than 4 out of 10 children in our sample used smartphones and/or tablets daily. …”
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Sagittal Abdominal Diameter, Waist Circumference, and BMI as Predictors of Multiple Measures of Glucose Metabolism: An NHANES Investigation of US Adults by Shelby A. Firouzi, Larry A. Tucker, James D. LeCheminant, Bruce W. Bailey

“…Due to the ease of taking SAD measurements, we recommend that healthcare providers use this simple method to more precisely predict diabetes risk, especially among overweight and obese adults.…”
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USING HEATING AND VACUUM AS A NEW SYSTEM TO ACHIEVE SHORT COOKING TIME FOR PRODUCING BLACK HONEY by Tarek FOUDA, Ali HASSAN, Mohamed GEASA

“…The data shows an increasing of evaporation rate of water from sugar cane juice at vacuum pressure more than from atmospheric pressure. At vacuum pressure samples, evaporation rate ranged from 4.53to 26 gH2O/min. …”
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Adaptive ensemble spatial analysis by Alvaro F. Egaña, María Jesús Valenzuela, Mohammad Maleki, Juan F. Sánchez-Pérez, Gonzalo Díaz

“…The results obtained verify a good performance in the ability to capture the relevant spatial aspects, even in challenging conditions such as non-stationary cases or when there are few samples to perform the inference. In turn, the level of errors in validation contexts is similar to those obtained with traditional geostatistics (Ordinary Kriging method), in synthetic contexts that are suitable for the use of geostatistical techniques. …”
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Effect of grain refinement by ECAP on the corrosion resistance of anodic coating of AA6063 prepared by pulse constant voltage anodizing process by Maryam Mehdizade, Ali Reza Eivani, Mansour Soltanieh

“…The processed substrates were anodized using a two-step anodizing method under constant pulse voltage and identical electrochemical conditions. …”
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Multi-Scale Spatial Perception Attention Network for Few-Shot Hyperspectral Image Classification by Yang Li, Jian Luo, Haoyu Long, Qianqian Jin

“…To solve the above problems, we propose a multi-scale spatial perception attention network (Ms-SPA) for few-shot HSI classification in this article. This method is based on an encoder-decoder fully convolutional network (FCN) architecture, where the encoder combines a convolutional neural network (CNN) with a Transformer module to extract local and global spatial-spectral joint features simultaneously. …”
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Contamination of the Surfaces of a Health Care Environment by Multidrug-Resistant (MDR) Bacteria by Laila Chaoui, RajaaAit Mhand, Fouad Mellouki, Naima Rhallabi

“…A cross-sectional study was conducted from March 2017 to April 2018. Samples were collected by swabbing the hospital surfaces, and the isolated bacteria were checked for their susceptibility to antibiotics by the Kirby–Bauer disk diffusion method following the standards of the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI). …”
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Concordance of diagnostic tests, ultrasound of urinary tract versus non-contrast CT in urolithiasis in a four-level center in Bogotá, Colombia by Hugo López, Juliana Arenas, María P. Torres, Alejandra Niño-Alarcón

“…The objective of this research is to make a study of diagnostic concordance between urinary tract ultrasound and non-contrast CT in a fourth-level center in Bogot&aacute;. Method: Retrospectively, a base is developed with a sample of all the patients who were taken to non-contrast CT and renal ultrasound at the same time for a clinical course suggestive of stone disease. …”
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GSF-YOLOv8: A Novel Approach for Fire Detection Using Gather-Distribute Mechanism and SimAM Attention by Caixiong Li, Dali Wu, Xing Zhang, Peng Wu

“…We tested our method on the D-Fire dataset. The experimental results showed that GSF-YOLOv8 achieved higher mAP (80.65%) and faster detection speed (118 FPS). …”
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Raising to conformity without strictness: is it achievable? by Marta Alcaide, Oscar F. Garcia, Olga Gomez-Ortiz, Fernando Garcia

“…This study aims to analyze how two main parenting dimensions, warmth and strictness, are related to the psychosocial adjustment of children.MethodA sample of 1,224 Spanish adolescents and young adults was examined, divided into two groups: adolescents aged 12–18 years (51.14%) and young adults aged 19–35 years (48.86%). …”
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Living under threat: adolescents’ continuous traumatic stress reactions in relation to violence exposure by Inga Truskauskaite, Monika Kvedaraite, Aviva Goral, Ieva Daniunaite

“…CTS reactions have never been studied in relation to violence exposure in adolescent samples.Objective: We aimed to validate the Lithuanian version of the Continuous Traumatic Stress Response (CTSR) scale in the adolescent sample, to explore the adolescents’ CTS reactions using the person-oriented approach, and to study the relationship between different types of violence and CTS reactions.Method: In total, 321 adolescents (M(SD)age = 14.19 (1.26)) from Lithuania were included in the current study, of which 181 (56.4%) were female, 135 (42.1%) were male, and 54.5% (n = 175) were continuously exposed to violence over their lifetime. …”
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