Prevalence of Internet Addiction among Medical Students and Its Association with Psychiatric Disorders during 2021 by Leila Kashani, Fatemeh Sadat Samsam Shariat, Najmeh Shahini, Gholamreza Veghari, Aazam Sadat Heydari Yazdi

“…A convenience sampling method was used, and all students were taken into account as the statistical population. …”
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Predictors of receiving care and folic acid supplementation prior to pregnancy: a large cross-sectional study in Shiraz, Iran by Niloufar Izaddoost, Leila Amiri-Farahani, Fatemeh Sajjadian, Sally Pezaro

“…Multi-stage sampling occurred from May 2021 to February 2022 in 18 comprehensive urban health centers and 20 gynecology offices via the proportional allocation method. …”
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Familial Aggregation and Heritability of Myopia: A Local Population Survey in Shanxi, China by Qin Wang, Hao-Yu Bi, Chun-Fang Wang

“…The guidance for myopia-susceptible people is established which might help prevent or delay the onset and development of myopia. Methods. 1,852 students were recruited using the multistage sampling approach from the Gaoping county in Shanxi. …”
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Management education in technology-mediated ODL platform – implications for educators in context of shifting learning path and digital divide by Smritishikha Choudhury, Chayanika Senapati, Nripendra Narayan Sarma

“…Design/methodology/approach – This study uses triangulation method covering literature review, personal interview and survey. …”
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Association between self-reported sleep quality and body mass index among Jimma University academic staff: structural equation modeling by Essa Ahmed, Getu Gizaw, Alemayehu Argaw

“…A two-stage cluster sampling procedure was used to select study participants from their departments. …”
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Micronutrient deficiencies and anaemia associated with body mass index in Australian adults: a cross-sectional study by Evan Atlantis, Canaan Negash Seifu, Paul Patrick Fahey

“…To address complex sampling, survey weights were used when estimating the prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies (vitamin B12 deficiency; serum vitamin B12<145 pmol/L; iron deficiency; ferritin<30 µg/L and vitamin D deficiency; 25-hydroxyvitamin D<50 nmol/L) and anaemia (haemoglobin <120 g/L for females and <130 g/L for males) and when assessing associations with logistic regression models with adjusted ORs (AORs) for BMI categories: healthy weight (BMI 18.5 to <25.0 kg/m2), reference; overweight (BMI 25.0 to <30.0 kg/m2), obesity class I (BMI 30.0 to <35.0 kg/m2), obesity class II/III (BMI 35.0 kg/m2 or more).Result The prevalence of vitamin B12 deficiency (range 0.9%─2.8%) and anaemia (range 3.9%─6.7%) were variable across BMI groups. …”
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Predictive ability of plasma concentration of triglyceride/high density lipoprotein-cholesterol ratio for cardiometabolic variables in a sub-Sahara black African adolescent populat... by Susan J Holdbrooke, Bamgboye M Afolabi

“…A total of 650 adolescent participants were recruited using a four-stage stratified sampling method but statistical analysis was restricted to the 613 who had complete anthropometric and clinical data. …”
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Assessment of in Vitro Comparative Dissolution Kinetics of Moxonidine Products as a Factor Potentially Determining Effectiveness of Antihypertensive Treatment by G. V. Ramenskaya, I. E. Shokhin, N. I. Gaponova, V. R. Abdrakhmanov

“…An high performance liquid chromatography method with ultraviolet detection at 220 nm was used to assay. …”
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Effect of COVID-19 on Severity of Signs and Symptoms of Autoimmune Diseases by Ramand Mohammed Haji, Nabaz Ali Ahmed, Shakhawan Azad Ahmed

“…It is an observational cross-sectional study, the data collected by convenience sampling method from 33 patients in the Ranya General Hospital and private clinics for follow-up patient’s autoimmune diseases state in the Ranya city from the 10th November 2020 to the 20th May 2021 and the study included all the patients had autoimmune diseases that recovered from the COVID-19 disease. …”
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Cancer risk in individuals with psychiatric disorders: population-based cohort study by Tak Kyu Oh, Hye Yoon Park, In-Ae Song

“…Conclusions Individuals with psychiatric disorders were more likely to develop cancer than those without. …”
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Improving Surgical Site Infection Prediction Using Machine Learning: Addressing Challenges of Highly Imbalanced Data by Salha Al-Ahmari, Farrukh Nadeem

“…Grid search five-fold cross-validation was employed for comprehensive hyperparameter optimization, in conjunction with balanced sampling techniques. Features were selected using a filter method based on their relationships with the target variable. …”
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Nurses\' Knowledge and Practice regarding the Prevention of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections in Intensive Care Units of Hospitals for Iran University of Medical Scien... by Mahla Edalati Nasab, Mehri Bozorgnejad, Tahereh Najafi Ghezeljeh, Shima Haghani

“…This study aims to determine the knowledge and practice of nurses in preventing CLABSI in intensive care units (ICUs) of hospitals for Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), Tehran, Iran. Materials & Methods In this descriptive study, 200 nurses working in the ICUs of hospitals affiliated to the IUMS in 2023 were included using a convenience sampling method. …”
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New Generation of Clinical Epigenetics Analysis and Diagnosis for Precision Medicine by Pengtao Song, Biaoru Li

“…We then present procedures, including the detection procedure of clinical epigenetic approaches from clinical samples, clinical epigenomic methods applied to those samples, the small cell number of epigenetics, and epigenomics. …”
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Relationship between assertiveness and reporting of job errors among nurses by Leili Borimnejad, Marjan Mardani Hmouleh, Naeimeh Seyed Fatemi, Mehrdad Mostaghaci

“…The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between assertiveness and reporting of job errors among nurses. Methods: This descriptive and cross sectional study was performed on 153 nurses from Fatemeh Zahra hospital of Najafabad through census sampling. …”
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STRATEGY BRAND REPOSITIONING DALAM MENINGKATKAN CITRA MEREK LE’PARADIS by Chynthia Evelyne

“…This research is a qualitative research. The data collection methods used in this study are structured interviews and documentation, while purposive sampling is used to select informants. …”
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Gaussian-binary restricted Boltzmann machines for modeling natural image statistics. by Jan Melchior, Nan Wang, Laurenz Wiskott

“…Based on our analysis we derive a better training setup and show empirically that it leads to faster and more robust training of GRBMs. Finally, we compare different sampling algorithms for training GRBMs and show that Contrastive Divergence performs better than training methods that use a persistent Markov chain.…”
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Quality of Life of the Family Caregivers of Children with the Cerebral Palsy and its Determinants: A Study from India by Manasi S. Vaidya, Vijay K. Domple

“…This study was designed to assess the QoL and its determinants amongst family caregivers of children with CP. Materials and Methods: A study was conducted in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Yavatmal, Maharashtra, from March to May 2021, involving 126 participants selected through systematic random sampling. …”
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Outpatient-based buprenorphine-assisted opioid withdrawal management: A preliminary prospective observational study by Avinash Jhajharia, Priyanka Saha, Piyali Mandal, Atul Ambekar

“…Aim: This is the first study aiming at assessing the feasibility aspects of outpatient-based buprenorphine-assisted opioid withdrawal treatment for opioid dependence. Methods: In this prospective observational study, 30 men with opioid dependence, planned for outpatient-based withdrawal management, were recruited by purposive sampling and were assessed at baseline, 2, 4, and 12 weeks using validated tools. …”
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Presenting a model of ecotourism and sustainable tourism development with an emphasis on foreign exchange and economic development of Qeshm Island by Naser Rajabi, Vahid Reza Mirabi, Khosro Moradi Shahdadi

“…The statistical population in the qualitative section includes 19 experts, including managers and experts in the field of tourism, hoteliers, travel agencies, tours and ecotours; by means of the snowball sampling method, and in the quantitative section, it includes 244 employees of the Cultural Heritage Organization, handicrafts and tourism of Qeshm Free Zone. …”
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Precise Dissemination of E-Commerce Information and Behavior of Social Media Users by Yun Zhang

“…In order to solve the problem that the e-commerce system provides users with more and more choice information, it makes it difficult for users to find the desired products in a large amount of product information, and a research method for accurate dissemination of e-commerce information and behavior of social media users has been proposed. …”
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