THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ACUPRESSURE THERAPY FOR DYSMENORRHEA IN ADOLESCENT GIRLS by Ardiyanti Hidayah, Rista Dian Anggraini, Siti Nur Farida

“…The population of this study was all 60 young women attending Patriot Peterongan High School, Jombang Regency. The sampling technique used in this research was purposive sampling, so that the total research sample was 42 respondents. …”
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Exploring the potential forage quality of some halophytic species at different phenological stages by Maryam Shahi, Hossein Azarnivand, Ehsan Zandi Esfahan, Mohammad Jafari

“…All samples were collected in spring 2023 (April 20–30). …”
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Role of information and communication technology in development of instruction ‎and science of nursing from the view point of nursing students at Shahrekord ‎Medical Sciences Unive... by ali dehkordi

“…‎ Objective: This study, designed to study the role of information and communication ‎technology in development of nursing science from the view point of nursing students of ‎Shahrekord Medical Sciences University in ‎‏2005‏‎.‎ Methods: In this descriptive research nursing students of third and fourth year of nursing ‎course (BSC) at Shahrekord medical sciences university were selected using easy sampling ‎procedure. …”
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Diversity and distribution of testate amoebae in freshwater ecoregions of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil by Larissa Souza Monteiro, Karen Helena Costa Santos, Manoela dos Santos Moreira, Ana Caroline Quirino da Silva, Viviane Bernardes dos Santos Miranda, Christina Wyss Castelo Branco

“…Conclusions The records in Rio de Janeiro are underestimated due to insufficient sampling in some ecoregions. Future studies are needed to produce a taxonomic inventory more faithful real diversity.…”
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Language play on Russian-language Internet forums by Marina V. Radchenko

“…For the purposes of the study, methods of continuous sampling, direct observation of language use, contextual, semantic and stylistic analysis, analysis of word-formation processes as well as descriptive and analytical approach were applied. …”
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SELF-DISCLOSURE OF ADOLESCENTS AS THE MOST INFLUENTIAL FACTOR IN THE PROVISION OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INFORMATION TO ADOLESCENTS by Tanjung Anitasari Indah Kusumaningrum, Muhamad Taufik Hidayat, Anny Fauziyah, Rahmawati Setyaningrum, Tasya Aulianisa Hidayat, Mayang Widya Saputri

“…The sampling technique used was proportional random sampling. …”
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A Spatial Analysis of Atmospheric Ammonia and Ammonium in the U.K. by M.A. Sutton, Y.S. Tang, U. Dragosits, N. Fournier, A.J. Dore, R.I. Smith, K. J. Weston, D. Fowler

“…Additionally, improved passive sampling methods for NH3 have been applied to explore local variability. …”
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Diagnosis of Biliary Strictures Using Probe-Based Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy under the Direct View of Peroral Cholangioscopy: Results of a Prospective Study (with Video) by Yuki Tanisaka, Shomei Ryozawa, Kouichi Nonaka, Masami Yasuda, Akashi Fujita, Tomoya Ogawa, Masafumi Mizuide, Tomoaki Tashima, Ryuichiro Araki

“…The aim of the present study was to prospectively evaluate the clinical utility of probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (pCLE) under the direct view of peroral cholangioscopy (POCS) for the diagnosis of biliary strictures. Methods. Consecutive patients with biliary strictures were included. …”
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ANXIETY WITH QUALITY OF LIFE ELDERLY SUFFERING FROM HYPERTENSION AT PUSKESMAS BABADAN PONOROGO by Iswatun Iswatun, Cherlys Tin Lutfiandini, Endah Sri Wijayanti, Khotibul Umam, Ali Sairozi, Joko Susanto, Rindayati Rindayati, Fanni Okviasanti

“…Statistical test with Spearman Rank (Rho). Results: For more than half of the total sample, elderly anxiety was in the moderate category (63.1%) and most of the elderly's quality of life was in the poor category (80.8%). …”
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Prevalence, predisposing factors, and turnover intention related to low back pain among health workers in Accra, Ghana. by Philip Apraku Tawiah, Emmanuel Appiah-Brempong, Paul Okyere, Geoffrey Adu-Fosu, Mary Eyram Ashinyo

“…A multi-stage sampling technique was adopted, and the study participants were selected through proportion-to-size simple random sampling. …”
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National survey on availability, use and clinical impact of point-of-care blood analysis systems in Swedish emergency departments by Matthias Jörg, Tim Lundgren, Jens Wretborn, Daniel B. Wilhelms

“…The aim of this study was to determine the accessibility of POCT, with particular emphasis on blood gas analysis, in all Swedish EDs and to describe its incorporation into workflow. Methods This was an exploratory survey study conducted in 2024 using a digital questionnaire focusing on POCT availability, perceived reliability, sampling, analysis and workflow integration. …”
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The Role of Urine Liver Fatty Acid Binding Protein in Early Detection of Acute Kidney Injury in Septic Patient by Adrian Hartomuljono, Andi Salahuddin, Hisbullah Amin, Syafruddin Gaus, Haizah Nurdin, Faisal Muchtar, Evan Kristiono

“…Objective Assesing uL-FABP as an early biomarker of the occurrence of AKI in septic patient. Methods The design used is a diagnostic test. Sampling in cross-sectional consecutive sampling in ICU Dr. …”
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Bridging gaps in medical education for digital healthcare: A Singapore case study by Humairah Zainal, Xin Xiaohui, Julian Thumboo, Fong Kok Yong

“…Clinical-year medical students from all three local medical schools were recruited using convenience and snowball sampling, while purposive sampling ensured diverse representation of clinicians across Singapore’s public healthcare organisations, focusing on those engaged in education-related activities. …”
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Multiplexed Methylated DNA Immunoprecipitation Sequencing (Mx-MeDIP-Seq) to Study DNA Methylation Using Low Amounts of DNA by Inam Ridha, Chenxi Xu, Yining Zhang, Yunro Chung, Jin G Park, Joshua LaBaer, Vel Murugan

“…In this method, 10 different DNA samples were fragmented, purified, barcoded, and pooled prior to immunoprecipitation. …”
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RETURNABLE BAKING WASTE — A NEW TYPE OF RAW MATERIALS FOR DISTILLATES PRODUCTION (PART IV. SPIRIT DRINK) by L. N. Krikunova, E. V. Dubinina, O. N. Obodeeva

“…The mineral composition of the soften water samples prepared by the method of ion exchange and reverse osmosis was studied. …”
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Investigating the Factors Influencing the Behavior of Wheat Growers in Kermanshah County toward Adaptation to Climate Change by Yousof Azadi, Masoud Yazdanpanah

“…Considering that the increasing importance of farmers' adaptation to these changes and their adverse effects, the need to study the factors influencing adaptation behavior with climate change is becoming more and more important. The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors influencing the behavior of wheat growers in Kermanshah County toward adaptation to climate change. …”
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Error Analysis and Compensation of 3‒PTT Parallel Robot by CHEN Mingfang, LIANG Hongjian, WEI Songpo, HE Chaoyin

“…The mean error decreases from 5.86, 8.02, and 1.12 mm to 0.45, 0.46, and 0.33 mm, respectively, and the mean distance error decreases to 0.82 mm, increasing the operating accuracy of the robot by 92.1%.ConclusionsTherefore, through simulation and experimental results, the maximum and average position errors of the mobile platform after compensation are significantly reduced by more than one order of magnitude, indicating the effectiveness of the proposed compensation method. …”
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Presenting a Quantum Leadership Model to Establish Organizational Civilization in the Iranian Higher Education System by reza heydari, hamidreza rezaeekelidbari, musa chaman zamin

“…Abstract The aim of this study is to present a quantum leadership model to establish organizational civilization in the Iranian higher education system. The research method is fundamental in terms of its purpose, and qualitative in terms of its implementation method, with inductive-deductive logic. …”
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Stabilizing training of affine coupling layers for high-dimensional variational inference by Daniel Andrade

“…As the source of the problem, we identify that, during training, samples often exhibit unusual high values. As a remedy, we propose a combination of two methods: (1) soft-thresholding of the scale in Real NVPs, and (2) a bijective soft log transformation of the samples. …”
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One Health intervention for elimination of animal to human disease transmission of Anthrax in an endemic district of Odisha: A baseline and endline study by Dr. Debaprasad Parai, Mr. Matrujyoti Pattnaik, Dr. Hari Ram Choudhary, Dr Arun Kumar Padhi, Dr. Niranjana Sahoo, Dr. Sanghamitra Pati, Dr Debdutta Bhattacharya

“…Methodology: This is a repeated cross-sectional survey conducted both as a baseline survey in mid of 2020 among 2670 respondents and again as endline survey during end of 2022 among 2511 respondents using a structured 85 item questionnaire by multi-stage sampling method. Descriptive statistics were reported and logistic regression was performed to estimate the relationship between the variables and knowledge of anthrax. …”
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