Guidance and Counselling and Learners’ Discipline in Kasese District: A Case of Selected Government-Aided Secondary Schools in Bukonzo County. by Kule, Samson

“…The sample sizes were determined using the RDNEA standard table, Krejcie & Morgan (1970). …”
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Guidance and Counselling and Learners’ Discipline in Kasese District: A Case of Selected Government-Aided Secondary Schools in Bukonzo County. by Kule, Samson

“…The sample sizes were determined using the RDNEA standard table, Krejcie & Morgan (1970). …”
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Accuracy of Automated Urine Analysis versus Manual Microscopic Examination for Routine Urine Analysis – A Cross-sectional Study by Kalyani Raman Reddy, Archana M. Joshi

“…The RBC cell presence in the sample was seen at 43.0% in automated and 40.6% in manual method and this finding was comparable. …”
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A multi-country comparison between mobile phone surveys and face-to-face household surveys to estimate the prevalence of non-communicable diseases behavioural risk factors in low-... by Gulam Muhammed Al Kibria, Saifuddin Ahmed, Dustin G Gibson, Kennedy Lishimpi, Jones K Masiye, Daksha Shah, Melanie Cowan, Wilbroad Mutale, Namasiku Siyumbwa, Julián A Fernández-Niño, Champika Wickramasinghe, Leanne Riley, Stacy Davlin, Rachael Phadnis, Romina Costa Beltrán, Juan Carlos Zevallos Lopez, Juan Vásconez, Hicham El Berri, Samir Mounach, Mangla Gomare, Gulnar Khan, Niraj Dave, Udara Perera

“…Currently, face-to-face household surveys reach a more representative sample of the population, including those in remote and lower educational demographics.…”
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Poor Sleep Quality and Associated Factors among People Living with HIV/AIDS Attending ART Clinic at Tirunesh Beijing Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Atsede Tadesse, Kufa Badasso, Afework Edmealem

“…A systematic sampling technique was used to select study participants. …”
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Feeding Practice during Diarrheal Episode among Children Aged between 6 to 23 Months in Mirab Abaya District, Gamo Gofa Zone, Southern Ethiopia by Teshale Fikadu, Shimels Girma

“…A multistage sampling technique was used to select the study participants. …”
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Nearly one-third of lactating mothers are suffering from undernutrition in pastoral community, Afar region, Ethiopia: Community-based cross-sectional study. by Getahun Fentaw Mulaw, Kusse Urmale Mare, Etsay Woldu Anbesu

“…Mothers with short birth intervals were also more than four (AOR = 4.800; 95% CI: 2.408, 9.567) time more likely to be undernourished.…”
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Diabetes distress and associated factors among adults with diabetes mellitus residing in a metropolitan city of India: a community-based study by Anam Anil Alwani, Ravneet Kaur, Mohan Bairwa, Puneet Misra, Baridalyne Nongkynrih

“…Female sex, low socio-economic status, 1 or more comorbidities, diagnosis of diabetes 10 or more years prior, being on treatment and an unmet need for social support were the factors found to be associated with distress. …”
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Relationships between neurodivergence status and adverse childhood experiences, and impacts on health, wellbeing, and criminal justice outcomes: findings from a regional household... by Charley Wilson, Nadia Butler, Zara Quigg, David Moore, Mark Bellis

“…The current study aimed to examine the associations between neurodivergence and experiences of ACEs, and the impact of being ND and experiencing ACEs on health, wellbeing, and criminal justice outcomes. Methods From November 2023 to April 2024, a household survey using representative sampling was undertaken with 5395 residents of an English region aged 18 + years. …”
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Cytomorphological changes of oral mucosal cells among smokeless tobacco users in low and middle-income country settings: new findings from Pakistan by Sabreen Hassan, Ayesha Sifat, Mohammad Munib, Saleha Saeed, Waqar U. Nisa, Sofia Haider Durrani, Abid Rahim, Naeem Ullah, Saima Afaq, Farhad Ali Khattak, Zia Ul Haq

“…This study investigates four distinct cytomorphological changes in oral mucosal cells among smokeless tobacco users, examining their association across different genders and age groups. Materials and methods This cross-sectional study involved collecting mucosal samples from smokeless tobacco (naswar/snuff) users through consecutive sampling. …”
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Assessing the Effect of Large Class Size and Pupils Academic Performance in Public Primary School in Rukungiri Municipality. by Kashumbusha, Robert

“…Both simple random and purposive sampling techniques were used in identifying the study sample size. …”
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Adoption barriers and facilitators of wearable health devices with AI integration: a patient-centred perspective by Haitham Alzghaibi

“…A total of 455 participants, comprising individuals with chronic conditions, were recruited through convenience and stratified sampling methods. Data were collected via an online questionnaire that included demographic questions, Likert-scale items, and multiple-choice questions to evaluate awareness of particular AI features and the functionalities of wearable devices.Results and discussionThe findings indicated predominantly positive perceptions, with most participants concurring that wearable devices improve proactive care, facilitate remote consultations, and deliver precise health insights. …”
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Insights into healthcare services for youth with autism spectrum disorder transitioning to adulthood: a focus on rural Atlantic Canada by Parisa Ghanouni, Tara Naimpally

“…The aim of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences of stakeholders, including individuals with ASD, parents of individuals with ASD, and service providers, during the transition to adulthood in rural communities.  Methods We recruited 26 individuals including 16 youth, 6 parents and 4 service providers through convenience and snowball sampling methods from Canadian Atlantic provinces. …”
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New Routes to Phylogeography: A Bayesian Structured Coalescent Approximation. by Nicola De Maio, Chieh-Hsi Wu, Kathleen M O'Reilly, Daniel Wilson

“…In this paper, we show that inference of migration rates and root locations based on discrete trait models is extremely unreliable and sensitive to biased sampling. To address this problem, we introduce BASTA (BAyesian STructured coalescent Approximation), a new approach implemented in BEAST2 that combines the accuracy of methods based on the structured coalescent with the computational efficiency required to handle more than just few populations. …”
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Dietary fiber, starch, and sugars in bananas at different stages of ripeness in the retail market. by Katherine M Phillips, Ryan C McGinty, Garret Couture, Pamela R Pehrsson, Kyle McKillop, Naomi K Fukagawa

“…The goal of this work was to evaluate changes in dietary fiber measured by the traditional enzymatic-gravimetric method (AOAC 991.43) and the more recently accepted modified enzymatic-gravimetric method (AOAC 2011.25), mono- and disaccharides, and starch as a function of assessed ripeness in a controlled study of a single lot of bananas and in bananas at the same assessed stages of ripeness from bananas purchased in retail stores, from different suppliers. …”
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Selective transfer learning with adversarial training for stock movement prediction by Yang Li, Hong-Ning Dai, Zibin Zheng

“…This paper contributes a new stock movement prediction model, Selective Transfer Learning with Adversarial Training (STLAT). Our STLAT method advances existing solutions in two major aspects: (i) tailoring the pre-trained and fine-tuned method for stock movement prediction and (ii) introducing the data selector module to select the more relevant training samples. …”
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Comparison of immediate postpartum contraception among women with a high versus low risk pregnancy in Mexico: a retrospective cohort study by Evelyn Fuentes-Rivera, Jacqueline Powell, Blair Darney

“…Objective We tested whether women who reported high-risk pregnancies or deliveries were more likely to receive immediate postpartum contraception prior to discharge compared with normal-risk women in Mexico.Methods This is a retrospective study using the National Health and Nutrition Survey. …”
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Exploring Patient Trust in Healthcare Provider Influenza Vaccine Information and Recommendations in a Medically Underserved Area of Washington State by Damianne Brand, Megan Giruzzi, Nick Giruzzi, Kavya Vaitla, Rose Krebill-Prather, Juliet Dang, Kimberly McKeirnan

“…The objective of this work is to explore the current level of trust that rural patients have in their healthcare providers concerning influenza vaccination and related recommendations and its impact on vaccine uptake in a rural county in Washington State. <b>Methods</b>: An anonymous survey was conducted by a survey research center using a random sampling of 3000 addresses for people living in Yakima County in Washington State. …”
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Knowledge and attitude towards plagiarism: a comparative study of students from medical and non-medical fields by Roha S Memon, Mahrukh M Ali, Marium Zafar, Asim Shaikh

“…This study, therefore, aims to compare the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of students from medical and non-medical fields towards plagiarism from different institutions in Karachi, Pakistan. # Methods We conducted an eight-week cross-sectional study in January 2017 in Karachi, Pakistan with 412 undergraduate students of ages 18 and above, using convenience sampling to assess their knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding plagiarism. …”
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Prediction on the Remaining Useful Life of Rolling Bearings Using Ensemble DLSTM by Miao Jiang, Yang Xiang

“…However, this method is less stable and can only forecast the RUL of bearings under training sample conditions. …”
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