The Positive Effect of Video-Game Play on College Students’ Anxiety and Depression Symptoms During the COVID-19 Pandemic Shelter-in-Place Lockdowns: Mixed Methods Study by Fengbin Hu, Zixue Tai, Jianping Liu

“…ObjectiveThis study investigated the effect of video games on mental disorders among Chinese college students during the COVID-19 pandemic shelter-in-place lockdown mandates. MethodsA mixed methods approach was adopted. The quantitative portion included a cross-sectional survey of a national sample of 2818 (n=1396, 49.54% male vs n=1422, 50.46% female) college students from 8 provinces spanning 16 geographic regions during the extended COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns in late 2021 and early 2022. …”
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Penalised regression improves imputation of cell-type specific expression using RNA-seq data from mixed cell populations compared to domain-specific methods. by Wei-Yu Lin, Melissa Kartawinata, Bethany R Jebson, Restuadi Restuadi, Hannah Peckham, Anna Radziszewska, Claire T Deakin, Coziana Ciurtin, CLUSTER Consortium, Lucy R Wedderburn, Chris Wallace

“…Computational deconvolution can be used to estimate cell fractions from bulk expression data and infer average cell-type expression in a set of samples (e.g., cases or controls), but imputing sample-level cell-type expression is required for more detailed analyses, such as relating expression to quantitative traits, and is less commonly addressed. …”
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Unraveling relevant cross-waves pattern drifts in patient-hospital risk factors among hospitalized COVID-19 patients using explainable machine learning methods by Fernanda Cristina Barbosa Lana, Carolina Coimbra Marinho, Bruno Barbosa Miranda de Paiva, Lucas Rocha Valle, Guilherme Fonseca do Nascimento, Leonardo Chaves Dutra da Rocha, Marcelo Carneiro, Joanna d‘Arc Lyra Batista, Fernando Anschau, Pedro Gibson Paraiso, Frederico Bartolazzi, Christiane Corrêa Rodrigues Cimini, Alexandre Vargas Schwarzbold, Danyelle Romana Alves Rios, Marcos André Gonçalves, Milena Soriano Marcolino

“…Overall, inflammatory response markers were more important than clinical characteristics. Limitations included sample representativeness and confounding factors. …”
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Epidemiology of intestinal parasite infections and multiparasitism and their impact on growth and hemoglobin levels during childhood in tropical Ecuador: A longitudinal study using... by Rojelio Mejia, Irina Chis Ster, Martha E Chico, Irene Guadalupe, Andrea Arévalo-Cortés, Andrea Lopez, Aida Y Oviedo-Vera, Philip J Cooper

“…<h4>Methods</h4>Random sample of 401 children from an Ecuadorian birth cohort followed up to 8 years of age. …”
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Do couples who use fertility treatments divorce more? Evidence from the US National Survey of Family Growth by Anna Barbuscia, Maria Sironi

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Comparative effect of in-person and virtual methods of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing on the fear of COVID-19 among nurses: a three-armed randomized control trial by Mohammadreza Sheikhi, Seyyed Mehdi Mousavi, Mohammad Moradi Baglooei, Mark D. Griffiths, Zainab Alimoradi

“…No significant difference was observed regarding anxiety, depression and work-related quality of life after intervention between all three groups. In-person EMDR is more effective than the virtual EMDR as a non-pharmacological method in the treatment of fear of COVID-19 among nurses. …”
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ADHD Children Take More Time to Inhibit Automatic Responses: A Comparison with Anxiety Disorders Using NEPSY-II by Fabiola Panvino, Valerio Zaccaria, Michela Pica, Nunzia Amitrano, Francesco Pisani, Carlo Di Brina

“…It also sought to identify potential neuropsychological markers that differentiate ADHD from AD and ADHD + AD comorbidity. Methods: Cognitive and executive functions were assessed in a sample of 48 school-age children and adolescents (aged 8–15 years) using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children—Fourth Edition (WISC-IV) and the NEPSY-II battery. …”
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Are more muscle-strengthening exercise participations associated with weight status in children and adolescents? Results from 67,281 participants by Huadong Su, Xinli Chi, Hui Li, Songjian Du, Jin Yan

“…Results In total, 34,909 boys (51.9%) and 32,372 girls (48.1%), respectively, were included in the current study. In the overall sample, those who engaged in MSE for 2 or more days had lower odds of overweight and obesity (p for trend < 0.001; OR for 2 days: 0.88, 95%CI: 0.84–0.93; OR for 3 days: 0.91, 95% CI: 0.86–0.96; OR for 4 days: 0.79, 95%CI: 0.74–0.85; OR for 5 days: 0.82, 95%CI: 0.76–0.88; OR 6 days: 0.69, 95%CI: 0.60–0.79; OR for 7 days: 0.71, 95%CI: 0.66–0.77). …”
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Going beyond the fifth child: Exploring the determinants of desire for more children among high parity partnered women in Uganda. by Godfrey Tumwizere, Yiga Joseph Douglas, Allen Kabagenyi, Betty Kwagala

“…The study sample comprised of a weighted sample of 4502 women aged 15-49 years with five and more children. …”
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Technical evaluation and usability of a quantitative G6PD POC test in cord blood: a mixed-methods study in a low-resource setting by François Nosten, Rose McGready, Mary Ellen Gilder, Borimas Hanboonkunupakarn, Verena Ilona Carrara, Germana Bancone, Elsie Win, Gornpan Gornsawun, Laypaw Archasuksan, Nan San Wai, Sylverine Win, Penporn Penpitchaporn, Phaw Khu Moo, Ko Ko Aung, Ahmar Hashmi

“…Objectives New point-of-care (POC) quantitative G6PD testing devices developed to provide safe radical cure for Plasmodium vivax malaria may be used to diagnose G6PD deficiency in newborns at risk of severe neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia, improving clinical care, and preventing related morbidity and mortality.Methods We conducted a mixed-methods study analysing technical performance and usability of the ‘STANDARD G6PD’ Biosensor when used by trained midwives on cord blood samples at two rural clinics on the Thailand–Myanmar border.Results In 307 cord blood samples, the Biosensor had a sensitivity of 1.000 (95% CI: 0.859 to 1.000) and a specificity of 0.993 (95% CI: 0.971 to 0.999) as compared with gold-standard spectrophotometry to diagnose G6PD-deficient newborns using a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis-derived threshold of ≤4.8 IU/gHb. …”
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Glucocorticoid Receptor (GR) Expression in Human Tumors: A Tissue Microarray Study on More than 14,000 Tumors by Maria Christina Tsourlakis, Simon Kind, Sebastian Dwertmann Rico, Sören Weidemann, Katharina Möller, Ria Schlichter, Martina Kluth, Claudia Hube-Magg, Christian Bernreuther, Guido Sauter, Andreas H. Marx, Ronald Simon, Ahmed Abdulwahab Bawahab, Florian Lutz, Viktor Reiswich, Davin Dum, Stefan Steurer, Eike Burandt, Till S. Clauditz, Till Krech, Christoph Fraune, Seyma Büyücek, Neele Heckmann, Natalia Gorbokon, Maximilian Lennartz, Sarah Minner, Florian Viehweger

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Specific and Rapid Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex in Clinical Samples by Polymerase Chain Reaction by Anamika Singh, Vijendra Kumar Kashyap

“…This method, by well distinguishing between MTB complex and NTM, presented a fast and accurate method to detect and diagnose mycobacterial infections more efficiently and could thereby help in better patient management particularly considering the increase in mycobacterial infections due to emergence of NTM over the past decades.…”
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Proposal of Low-Speed Sensorless Control of IPMSM Using a Two-Interval Six-Segment High-Frequency Injection Method with DC-Link Current Sensing by Daniel Konvicny, Pavol Makys, Alex Franko

“…These results confirm that the enhanced method offers more reliable rotor position and speed estimates compared to the existing sensorless technique, making it particularly suitable for applications requiring high precision in motor control.…”
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A fault diagnosis model for pumping units based on small sample electric parameters by Chunhua Yuan, Zhupei Liao, Xiangyu Li

“…However, due to the difficulty in obtaining sufficient fault electrical parameter samples, intelligent methods find it difficult to learn the characteristics and patterns of electrical parameter data. …”
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A Diagnosis Framework for High-reliability Equipment with Small Sample Based on Transfer Learning by Jinxin Pan, Bo Jing, Xiaoxuan Jiao, Shenglong Wang, Qingyi Zhang

“…As a result, the fault diagnosis rate increases by 28.6% through our proposed model, which is more precise than other classical methods. The results of feature visualization further demonstrate that the features are more distinguished through the proposed method. …”
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Learning Distinctive Feature Representation for Descriptors on Multimodal Images by Incorporating Multiple Negative Samples by Bohan Li, Yixuan Li, Yong Li, Guohan Zhang

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Miniaturized analytical method to evaluate the profile of biogenic volatile organic compounds from Spanish tree species by gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry and chemo... by Adrián Fuente-Ballesteros, Ana M. Ares, José Bernal, Silvia Valverde

“…A novel miniaturized analytical method has been optimized to study the biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) profile from tree leaves using headspace solid-phase microextraction gas chromatography-quadrupole time-of-flight spectrometry (HS-SPME-GC-QTOF-MS). …”
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Comparison of magnetron sputtering systems for high-rate deposition of thick copper layers for microelectronic applications by M. V. Nazarenko

“…Although the cheapest method, liquid-phase magnetron sputtering achieved the lowest sputtering efficiency.Conclusions. …”
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Designing a model of mutual expectations in the relationship between the person and the organization in governmental organizations and service providers in Isfahan based on the phe... by Abbas Nosouhi, Akbar Etebarian, Mehraban Hadi Peykani

“…They were selected by purposive sampling method, and data were collected through semi-structured interviews. …”
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Evaluation of the cervical liquid-based cytology sample as a microbiome resource for dual diagnosis. by Chiwoong Lim, Young-Jun Seo, Ji-Yeong Lee, Eun Sung Jung, Sunyoung Lee, Hayoung Kim, Kidong Kim, Jun-Mo Kim

“…The analysis of differential abundance highlighted variations in microbial abundance among individuals, which were more prominent than those resulting from the sampling methods. …”
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