Internet-based digital intervention to support the self-management of hypertension compared to usual care: results of the HALCYON randomized controlled trial by Björn Meyer, Antje Riepenhausen, Linda T. Betz, Kamila Jauch-Chara, Alexander Reshetnik

“…Results The study's statistical power was limited due to a smaller sample size (N = 102) than the a priori target sample size (N=676). …”
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The silent strain: a systematic review and meta-analysis on the prevalence of occupational stress among Pakistani nurses by Reza Ghanei Gheshlagh, Madiha Mukhtar, Kainat Asmat, Simin Sharafi

“…The prevalence of mild occupational stress was highest in other cities, moderate stress was most common in Lahore, and severe stress was more prevalent in Karachi. No significant relationship was found between occupational stress prevalence and publication year or sample size. …”
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Behavioral Markers in Older Adults During COVID-19 Confinement: Secondary Analysis of In-Home Sensor Data by Knoo Lee, Noah Marchal, Erin L Robinson, Kimberly R Powell

“…Results from paired-sample tt554Pt554Pt554Pt553Pt595P ConclusionsThis study highlights that home confinement during the pandemic significantly impacted the behavior and health of older adults, leading to more sedentary lifestyles and poorer sleep quality. …”
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A New Model for Simulating the Imbibition of a Wetting-Phase Fluid in a Matrix-Fracture Dual Connectivity System by Xuewei Ning, Robert Ewing, Qinhong Hu, Qiming Wang, Xiaoming Zhang

“…The rate of imbibition by fractured porous media is associated with physical parameters such as porosity and fracture distribution (e.g., the number and angle of fractures). Using Monte Carlo methods, we examined fracture parameters and predicted elapsed time and cumulative water imbibition, for the Barnett Shale samples. …”
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Food safety within the household: a cross-sectional study among domestic food handlers in Italy by Francesca Licata, Natascia Costantino, Emma Antonia Citrino, Aida Bianco

“…Almost one-third (29.8%) of the sample improperly stored leftovers in the refrigerator after two hours.The study findings highlighted the need for public health professionals and regulatory authorities to focus their information campaigns on occasions for hand hygiene, how to store leftovers safely and methods for defrosting food to raise awareness and encourage DFHs to modify unsafe practices during food handling.…”
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Metabolomics analysis uncovers metabolic changes and remodeling of anti-VEGF therapy on macular edema by Congcong Yan, Quanyong Yi, Lina Ge, Ying Huang, Chun Yang, Bing Lin, Dan Jiang, Meng Zhou

“…Abstract Background Anti-angiogenic therapy with anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) is currently the first-line treatment for macular edema (ME), but the specific metabolic changes in the aqueous humor (AH) after intravitreal anti-VEGF injections remain poorly understood. Methods A total of 120 AH samples from 60 ME patients before and after anti-VEGF treatment were collected from the ophthalmology clinic and ward of the Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University. …”
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Prevalence of unexpected red blood cell antibodies in pregnant women and follow-up of pregnancy outcome in pregnant women treated with intra-uterine transfusion by Sunil Golia, Aseem Kumar Tiwari, Geet Aggarwal, Anil Khetrapal, Sandeep Kumar Tyagi, Chetna Jain, Shubham Gupta, Samruddhi Pawar

“…RESULTS: A total of 539 consecutive samples were worked up and among these, 10 samples (1.85%) were found to be antibody positive. …”
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Dental utilization and expenditures by children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders: A population-based cohort study by Kai-Chun Chang, Ling-Yi Wang, Jen-Hung Wang, Cheng-Kuang Shaw, Ming-Jay Hwang, Chih-Hao Wu, Huai-Kuan Huang

“…Different conditions that affect these results will be examined, including area of residence, category of treatment, and preferences concerning type of dental institution in Taiwan. Materials and Methods: The health service research database of the National Health Research Institutes, which features population-based, randomly selected samples collected from 2001 to 2010, was utilized in this study. …”
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Global road extraction using a pseudo-label guided framework: from benchmark dataset to cross-region semi-supervised learning by Xiaoyan Lu, Yanfei Zhong, Zhuo Zheng, JunJue Wang, Dingyuan Chen, Yu Su

“…However, current road extraction methods face the following limitations: 1) Insufficient availability of accurate and diverse training datasets for global-scale road extraction; 2) Costly and time-consuming manual labeling of millions of road samples; and 3) Limited generalization ability of deep learning models across diverse global contexts, resulting in better performance for regions well-represented in the training dataset, but worse performance when faced with domain gaps. …”
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Translation and Validation of the Premenstrual Assessment Form-Short Form Questionnaire in Hungarian by Olívia Dózsa-Juhász, Alexandra Makai, Viktória Prémusz, Pongrác Ács, Márta Hock

“…Introduction: Premenstrual symptoms, including premenstrual syndrome and its more severe form premenstrual dysphoric disorder, are a set of somatic and psychological symptoms that occur during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle. …”
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Effect of deforestation of different genesis on spatial variability of nitrate concentration in stream water in the Tatra National Park by Miroslaw Żelazny, Marta Pufelska, Monika Sajdak, Łukasz Jelonkiewicz, Marcin Bukowski

“…Aim of the study: The aim of the study was to determine the effect of deforestation of different genesis on the spatial differentiation of NO3– concentration in the Polish Tatras. Material and methods: In 2018, 728 water samples were collected in the Tatras by hydrological and chemical survey. …”
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Men of Color Health Awareness intervention: changes in adrenocortical activity assessed using fingernail cortisol by Jerrold S. Meyer, Jeffery Markham, Lamont Scott, Luis A. Valdez, Dean E. Robinson, David R. Buchanan

“…The present paper presents an exploratory study of whether the intervention affected chronic output of the stress hormone cortisol using the novel approach of measuring cortisol accumulation in fingernail samples. Each fingernail sample was hypothesized to contain cortisol deposited over approximately a 3-month period before collection.MethodsSamples were obtained at three time points: prior to beginning of the intervention (T1; which provided an index of cortisol section during a 3-month wait-list control period); at the end of the 10-week intervention (T2); and at 12-week follow-up (T3). …”
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Length-weight relationship and condition factor of Tilapia (Coptodon zillii) from four water bodies in Kano State, Nigeria by Abdullahi M. Usman, Ibrahim O. Suleiman, Yusuf Garba, Lukman O. kareem, Usman S. Halidu, Hadiza Salihu

“…Length (L) and weight (W) of all fish sample from each location were measured using standard methods. …”
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Approaches to automation of the preanalytical phase of large-scale research in the biobank of the National Medical Research Center for Therapy and Preventive Medicine of the Minist... by M. S. Pokrovskaya, A. L. Borisova, V. A. Kondratskaya, I. A. Efimova, A. I. Ershova, O. M. Drapkina

“…To create and validate an algorithm for automatic aliquoting of serum and plasma samples for biobanking as part of a large-scale study.Material and methods. …”
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Transcriptome analysis of archived tumors by Visium, GeoMx DSP, and Chromium reveals patient heterogeneity by Yixing Dong, Chiara Saglietti, Quentin Bayard, Almudena Espin Perez, Sabrina Carpentier, Daria Buszta, Stephanie Tissot, Rémy Dubois, Atanas Kamburov, Senbai Kang, Carla Haignere, Rita Sarkis, Sylvie Andre, Marina Alexandre Gaveta, Silvia Lopez Lastra, Nathalie Piazzon, Rita Santos, Katharina von Loga, Caroline Hoffmann, George Coukos, Solange Peters, Vassili Soumelis, Eric Yves Durand, Laurence de Leval, Raphael Gottardo, Krisztian Homicsko, Elo Madissoon

“…We compare these methods on FFPE tumor samples in Breast, NSCLC and DLBCL showing 1) good-quality, highly reproducible data from all methods; 2) GeoMx data containing cell mixtures despite marker-based preselection; 3) Visium and Chromium outperform GeoMx in discovering tumor heterogeneity and potential drug targets. …”
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A group psychological intervention for postnatal depression in British mothers of South Asian origin – the ROSHNI-2 RCT by Nusrat Husain, Karina Lovell, Carolyn A Chew-Graham, Farah Lunat, Penny Bee, Matthias Pierce, Najia Atif, Saadia Aseem, Kamaldeep Bhui, Peter Bower, Traolach Brugha, Nasim Chaudhry, Akbar Ullah, Linda Davies, Nadeem Gire, Deepali Sharma, Jahanara Miah, Waqas Ahmed, Joe Kai, Ilyas Mirza, Jillian Morrison, Naeem Mohmed, Atif Rahman, Shanaya Rathod, Najma Siddiqi, Waquas Waheed, Christopher Williams, Nosheen Zaidi, Richard Emsley, Richard Morriss

“…Background Postnatal depression is more common in British South Asian women than white women in the United Kingdom. …”
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Ecological and Health Risks of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Particulate Matter in Chinese Cities by Yongfu Wu, Yuan Meng, Han Zhang, Lianglu Hao, Tao Zeng, Yan Shi, Yunhe Chen, Ni Qiao, Yibin Ren

“…By combining data from more than 6,695 individual samples covering 89 typical cities (population > 0.5 million people) across China, this study focuses on evaluating the health risks to urban residents and the ecological risks to the surrounding environment from PAHs in PM using the methods of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and sediment quality standards. …”
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Program for Providing Iron Tablets in Schools and Reducing the Incidence of Anemia among Adolescent Girls in Padang City by Rita Asriyanti, Azrimaidaliza Azrimaidaliza, Frima Elda, Khiky Dwinatrana

“…Objectives: This study aimed to analyze the effectiveness of the iron tablet program in schools and its relationship to the incidence of anemia among adolescent girls in Padang City. Methods: A mixed-methods approach was utilized, combining quantitative and qualitative techniques. …”
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Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter: Detection of ESBL, MBL, blaNDM-1 Genotype, and Biofilm Formation at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Eastern Nepal by Manisha Kumari, Narayan Raj Bhattarai, Keshav Rai, Tejendra Kumar Pandit, Basudha Khanal

“…The rapid development of resistance to multiple drugs and the ability to form biofilm make these bacteria more adaptable to survive in healthcare facilities, thus posing a challenge to their effective management. …”
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Assessment by Surface Electromyography in International Football Players with Cerebral Palsy—A Pilot Study by Alejandro Caña-Pino, María Dolores Apolo-Arenas, Iván Peña-González

“…The classification process traditionally relies on subjective tools like the modified Ashworth Scale, but there is a need for more objective methods. Surface electromyography (EMG) offers quantifiable data on muscle activation, which could enhance the accuracy and fairness of classification in this sport. …”
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