Sources of HIV information and women’s HIV knowledge in Southwest Sumba Indonesia: a cross-sectional study with mediation analysis by Angela Kurniadi, Judith A. Levy, Timothy P. Johnson

“…This study investigates comprehensive HIV knowledge among reproductive-age women in Southwest Sumba, Indonesia, and the sources through which they report having learned about HIV along with potential mediators of the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and HIV knowledge. Methods This cross-sectional study using convenience sampling recruited 159 married women ages 15–49 years old living in 4 selected church parishes in Southwest Sumba on March 12–20, 2023. …”
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Self-reported hypoglycemia and associated factors among patients living with T1D s at University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Northwest, Ethiopia: a cross-sectiona... by Yilkal Belete Worku, Masho Tigabe Tekle, Abaynesh Fentahun Bekalu, Mulat Belay Simegn

“…BackgroundHypoglycemia is a major public health problem that negatively influences blood glucose control in the treatment of type 1 diabetes. It has more severe clinical and economic effects in patients living with T1D patients. …”
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Breast Feeding Practice: Positioning and Attachment during Breast Feeding among Lactating Mothers Visiting Health Facility in Areka Town, Southern Ethiopia by Nega Degefa, Befikadu Tariku, Takalign Bancha, Gizachew Amana, Abdo Hajo, Yisehak Kusse, Eshetu Zerihun, Zeleke Aschalew

“…A poor attachment was also more apparent among primipara mothers which were more (31.1%) than the multipara (27.1%) mothers. …”
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The construction and validation of the novel nomograms for the risk prediction of prenatal depression: a cross-sectional study by Lanting Huo, Xingfeng Yu, Anum Nisar, Lei Yang, Xiaomei Li

“…Moreover, two novel nomograms were constructed for the quantitative risk prediction.MethodsIn this cross-sectional study, the participants were recruited using convenience sampling and administered with the research questionnaires. …”
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Changes in sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in the first two years (2018 - 2020) of San Francisco's tax: A prospective longitudinal study. by Lynn D Silver, Alisa A Padon, Libo Li, Bethany J Simard, Thomas K Greenfield

“…Likelihood of high SSB intake declined significantly more in San Francisco by year 2 and more so among low-income respondents.…”
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The Impact of Sex Education Towards Moral Development Among Pupils in Kebisoni Sub-County Rukungiri District. by Kamagara, Annet

“…Both simple random and purposive sampling techniques in identifying the study sample population. …”
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Designing the alignment model of petrochemical projects with the country's industrial strategies in the Ministry of Petroleum by Abdolrasoul Shojaeian, ghanbar abbaspour esfadan, Changiz Valmohammadi, Aboutorab Alirezaei

“…Abstract The purpose of this research is to design a model for the alignment of petroleum refinery projects with the country's industrial strategies in the Ministry of Oil. The research method is applicable in terms of purpose, qualitative in terms of data collection, and data-based type. …”
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Helicobacter Pylori Infection among Patients Attending the Gastroenterology Department in Tertiary Care Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal by Tulasi Bhandari, Ujjwal Laghu, Prem Ratna, Rajani Shrestha

“…Hence, the RUT was found to be more efficient than the direct smear and the culture method for finding H. pylori in the biopsy sample. …”
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Fast Ways to Detect Outliers by Emad Obaid Merza, Nashaat Jasim Mohammed

“…In this paper, it was concluded that the Hample's test method suffers from a serious weakness when the zero values in the data constitute more than 50% of the number of elements. …”
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Attention-fused residual transformer CNN for robust lower limb movement recognition by A. Anitha, D. Jeraldin Auxillia

“…Detecting lower limb movements from surface electromyography (sEMG) signals has received more attention, because of its importance in prosthetic control, robotic applications and medical rehabilitation. sEMG signals offer a non-invasive and accurate method to recognize movement intent. …”
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Modification of The Online Gunning Fog Index for Readability Analysis of Indonesian Texts : A Prototype Development by Juliana Tirza Mangilaleng, Hananto Hananto, Eklesia Khesywani Gea

“…This study's findings provide an improved tool for evaluating the readability of Indonesian texts, offering educators, writers, and literacy enthusiast a more accurate and accessible method to assess and enhance text comprehension for Indonesian readers.…”
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The Impact of Academic Staff Appraisals on Job performance in Rwanda's Private Universities. by Ngirabakunzi, Felicien, Ocan, Johnson, Adyanga, Francis Akena

“…Based on these findings, it is recommended that higher education institutions in Rwanda consider enhancing their staff appraisal systems to further improve job performance. Implementing more regular and comprehensive appraisal processes, along with diverse appraisal methods, could potentially lead to increased motivation and productivity among academic staff.…”
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Disease knowledge, medical experience, health-related quality of life and health-care costs among patients with advanced colorectal cancer in China: protocol for a nationwide multi... by Xi Zhang, Yin Liu, You-Lin Qiao, Hui-Fang Xu, Yan-Qin Yu, Yu-Qian Zhao, Shao-Kai Zhang

“…More than 4445 patients with CRC in the selected hospitals with stage III or IV will be enrolled in this study. …”
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Phylogeny and species delimitation of ciliates in the genus Spirostomum (class Heterotrichea) using single-cell transcriptomes by Shahed Uddin Ahmed Shazib, Auden Cote-L’Heureux, Ragib Ahsan, Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez, JunMo Lee, Laura A. Katz, Mann Kyoon Shin

“…We also provide a workflow for reconstructing nuclear ribosomal RNA gene sequences from transcriptome sequences using a read mapping approach, and compare different mapping methods to reconstruct reliable contigs. Conclusion Our sampling of closely related Spirostomum populations and comprehensive single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data allowed us to reveal the hidden crypticity of species within the genus Spirostomum and to resolve and provide much stronger support than hitherto to the phylogeny of this model ciliate genus.…”
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A Stochastic Learning Algorithm for Machine Fault Diagnosis by Zhipeng Dong, Yucheng Liu, Jianshe Kang, Shaohui Zhang

“…The proposed method consists of three steps: firstly, to increase the computational efficiency of the model, the dimension of the high-dimensional data is reduced by establishing a random matrix; secondly, for enhancing the clustering influence of the sample, the input data are enhanced by feature processing; thirdly, to make the clustering effects more pronounced, the noise and interference of the data need to be processed, and the singularity value denoising method is used to denoise training data and test data. …”
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Music is scaled, while speech is not: A cross-cultural analysis by Elizabeth Phillips, Steven Brown

“…In the current study, we developed a new computational method for measuring what we call the “scaledness” of an acoustic sample and applied it to three cross-cultural ethnographic corpora of speech, song, and/or instrumental music (n = 1696 samples). …”
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Random Finite Element Analysis and Random Factor response Mechanism for Geocell-reinforced Soil Retaining Walls by ZHANG Bingbing, SONG Fei

“…For this reason, a finite element analysis method based on random field theory is proposed in this paper, which can more realistically reflect the non-homogeneous characteristics of the reinforced soil retaining wall system by introducing a spatial random distribution model of the soil parameters and the mechanical properties of the geocells, so as to more accurately assess the influence of the spatial variability of the material parameters on the deformation behavior and stability of the retaining wall.MethodsFirstly, in parameter random field modeling, an innovative combination of Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS) and exponential autocorrelation function is used to construct parameter random fields. …”
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Research on leaf identification of table grape varieties based on deep learning by PAN Bowen, LIN Meiling, JU Yanlun, SU Baofeng, SUN Lei, FAN Xiucai, ZHANG Ying, ZHANG Yonghui, LIU Chonghuai, JIANG Jianfu, FANG Yulin

“…[Objective] With the continuous development of grape varieties, problems such as variety confusion and inaccurate identification would occur in the actual production and scientific research work, and accurate identification of grape varieties has become more and more difficult It is urgent to explore a nondestructive, efficient and environment-friendly identification method. …”
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Ocean Eddy Signature on SAR‐Derived Sea Ice Drift and Vorticity by Angelina Cassianides, Camille Lique, Anton Korosov

“…The robustness of our method will allow us to detect more eddies as more SAR observations become available in the future.…”
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Smart approach for cost-effective genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms by Muhammad Usman Ghani, Muhammad Farooq Sabar, Muhammad Akram

“…Modified protocol was assessed for reproducibility on more than 50 human DNA samples and it was observed that this modified method is at least five times more productive than original protocol recommended by the manufacturer. …”
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