Submicroscopic malaria in pregnancy and associated adverse pregnancy events: A case-cohort study of 4,352 women on the Thailand-Myanmar border. by Mary Ellen Gilder, Makoto Saito, Warat Haohankhunnatham, Clare L Ling, Gornpan Gornsawun, Germana Bancone, Cindy S Chu, Peter R Christensen, Mallika Imwong, Prakaykaew Charunwatthana, Nay Win Tun, Aung Myat Min, Verena I Carrara, Stephane Proux, Nicholas J White, François Nosten, Rose McGready

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>In low transmission settings, uPCR identifies substantially more malaria infections at antenatal screening than conventional diagnostic methods. …”
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Substandard antibiotics and their clinical outcomes among hospitalized patients in southern Malawi: a pilot study by Francis Kachidza Chiumia, Adamson Sinjani Muula, Frider Chimimba, Happy Magwaza Nyirongo, Elizabeth Kampira, Felix Khuluza

“…We collected nine medicine samples of ceftriaxone and benzylpenicillin which were administered to these patients and subjected them to tests for the content of active pharmaceutical ingredients using methods adapted from the United States Pharmacopeia. …”
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LiDGS: An efficient 3D reconstruction framework integrating lidar point clouds and multi-view images for enhanced geometric fidelity by Li Yan, Jiang Song, Hong Xie, Pengcheng Wei, Gang Li, Longze Zhu, Zhongli Fan, Shucheng Gong

“…The experimental results show that the method achieves superior performance in both the new view synthesis task and the 3D reconstruction task, outperforming other classical methods. …”
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Nurses' Sleep Quality and Its Influencing Factors During the First Explosive COVID‐19 Outbreak in Zhejiang, China, After the Relaxation of Epidemic Prevention and Control Measures:... by Lifen Lu, Di Sheng, Yaling Zhu, Xiaowei Xia, Guanghui Chen, Jiali Liang, Xiulan Shen, Gui Zheng

“…The participants were recruited using convenience sampling, and the survey was distributed via the WeChat platform. …”
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Management practices of primary dysmenorrhea among female high school students in Nekemte town, East Wallaga Zone, Western Oromia, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study by Bekan Gudata Gindaba, Lemane Dereje Sebu, Ebisa Zerihun Gindaba, Misgana Tesgara Abdisa, Damiso Geneti Dinagde, Chala Regassa Hunde, Kidane Dinku Motuma, Takele Mitiku Tesema, Tesfaye Abera Gudeta

“…Tukey post hoc analysis revealed that ibuprofen (n = 13, M = 3.54, SD = 2.22) significantly reduced pain scores more than diclofenac did (n = 26, M = 1.65, SD = 1.70). …”
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Sustainable Practices and Microbial Quality of Cattle Offal in Slaughterhouses by Ana Raquel Cândido, Kamila Soares, Márcio Moura-Alves, Cristina Saraiva, Alexandra Esteves

“…Therefore, although 20.83% of the samples tested were presumptive for <i>E. coli</i> O157, it is important to note that a considerable number of these presumptive positives may in fact have been negative after confirmation by molecular methods. …”
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Unveiling viral diversity and dynamics in mosquitoes through metagenomic analysis in Guizhou Province, China by Yan Linghu, Rui-Si Hu, Xiao-Min Tang, Rong-Ting Li, Wei-Yi Li, Jia-Hong Wu

“…Results We collected more than 40,000 adult mosquitoes, primarily belonging to four genera: Aedes, Anopheles, Armigeres, and Culex. …”
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Effect of Slow Deep Breathing on Lung Function Among Individuals with Multi-Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) at a Regional General Hospital in Indonesia by Nur Hafizah, Widiharti Widiharti, Widya Lita Fitrianur, Ernawati Ernawati

“…These confounding variables may have played a more substantial role in the observed changes. Further research with rigorous experimental designs, involved larger sample sizes, and longer duration of intervention is needed.…”
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LOCALIZED DATA FOR EDUCATIONAL EQUITY: SMALL AREA ESTIMATION OF OUT-OF-SCHOOL CHILDREN IN BALI AND NUSA TENGGARA by Sherina Rafidah Khairunnisa, Azka Ubaidillah, Ahmad Sovi Hidayat, Alya Nur Septiyana, Shalihati Melani Putri, Ahmad Tegar Prananggalih, Arya Candra Kusuma, Shafiyah Asy Syahidah

“…To address this issue, SAE Hierarchical Bayes provides a solution by producing more accurate district-level estimates, utilizing additional data without the need for new sampling. …”
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Enhancing Ground-Based SAR Monitoring With PCA-Based Geometry Transformation for Improved Phase Unwrapping by Matthieu Rebmeister, Andreas Schenk, Stefan Hinz, Frederic Andrian, Maxime Vonie

“…In this letter, we present an approach based on principal component analysis to transform the GB-SAR interferograms into a suitable geometry, to ease the phase unwrapping, making it more efficient and more robust against unwrapping errors. …”
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Evaluation of the bag-mediated filtration system as a novel tool for poliovirus environmental surveillance: Results from a comparative field study in Pakistan. by Nicolette Angela Zhou, Christine Susan Fagnant-Sperati, Jeffry Hiroshi Shirai, Salmaan Sharif, Sohail Zahoor Zaidi, Lubna Rehman, Jaffer Hussain, Rahim Agha, Shahzad Shaukat, Masroor Alam, Adnan Khurshid, Ghulam Mujtaba, Muhammed Salman, Rana Muhammed Safdar, Abdirahman Mahamud, Jamal Ahmed, Sadaf Khan, Alexandra Lynn Kossik, Nicola Koren Beck, Graciela Matrajt, Humayun Asghar, Ananda Sankar Bandyopadhyay, David Scott Boyle, John Scott Meschke

“…A vaccine-derived PV type 2 was detected in one BMFS sample but not the matched two-phase. After the removal of SL PV type 2 (SL2) from the oral polio vaccine in April 2016, BMFS samples detected SL2 more frequently than two-phase (p = 0.016), with the last detection by either method occurring June 12, 2016. …”
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Modeling human capital strategies with an emphasis on organizational structure change by Shahriyar Emamdoust Haredasht, Musa Rezvani Chaman Zamin, Morteza Hazrati

“…This research is an applicable research in terms of its purpose, and quantitative in terms of its method. The statistical population of the research includes 325 senior managers, middle managers, and professors of management at the Azad University of Gilan Province, selected by means of available random sampling. …”
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A study on anxiety and depression symptoms among menopausal women: a web based cross sectional survey by Geetha Kandasamy, Dalia Almaghaslah, Mona Almanasef

“…The objective of this research was to assess anxiety and depressive symptoms among menopausal women in Asir region, Saudi Arabia.MethodsThe cross-sectional survey was carried out in February to June 2024, using a random sampling procedure, study participants were selected. …”
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Further validating of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 (Dass-21) in Chinese adolescents: factor structure and measurement invariance by Jie Luo, Guohui Xian, Chengkui Yao, Jie Jin, Jianhua Zhao, Xi Song, Jie Gong

“…., across genders, and across grade levels) of the DASS-21 among Chinese adolescents. Methods Two samples were collected by the convenience sampling. …”
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Prevalence and correlates of multimorbidity among individuals aged 50 and above in Bangladesh by Faroque Md Mohsin, Padam Kanta Dahal, Md. Badsha Alam, Sarah Tahera Mahmud, Cotton Chakma, Md. Iqbal Hossain, Md. Atikur Rahman Akanda, Maherun Nesa, Rajib Kumar Malakar, Sokal Roy, Shahriar Hasan, Nitai Roy

“…The presence of multimorbidity was determined based on self-reporting of two or more known diagnoses of chronic conditions. Logistic regression was used to assess the factors associated with multimorbidity. …”
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Automatic Multi-Point Turn-Around Assistance System: Planning &#x0026; Control by S. A. M. Managheb, Ali Ghaffari

“…Furthermore, simulations illuminate that the proposed strategy outperforms conventional approaches like sampling and optimization-based methods in terms of mission execution time, computation time, and driving path quality attributes. …”
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Unpacking the Mood States of Children and Youth in Saskatchewan, Canada, in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from the “See Us, Hear Us 2.0” Study by Nahin Shakurun, Tamara Hinz, Daniel A. Adeyinka, Nazeem Muhajarine

“…Multiple linear regression and mediation analyses were conducted, ensuring sample representativeness with sampling weights and addressing missing data through multiple imputations. …”
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Association Between Birth Weight and Quality of Life in Early and Middle Adolescence by Eva Latifatun Ni'mah, Dimas Tri Anantyo, Adhie Nur Radityo Suswihardhyono, Teddy Wahyu Nugroho

“…Objective: To analyze the association between birth weight and quality of life in early and middle adolescents. Methods: This cross-sectional study involved 120 students aged 13-16 years in Semarang City in which a consecutive sampling method was used.  …”
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Evaluating the impact of shift work length and time of day on musculoskeletal disorders among nursing assistants in long-term care by Ryan L. Bellacov, Kermit G. Davis, Chunhui He

“…REBA scores for the upper body on the day shift are more ergonomically challenging (risk rating: 7 to 5, respectively). …”
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Profile of maladaptive and normative eating behaviors in correlation with rumination: a cross-sectional study among Lebanese adults by Emmanuelle Awad, Diana Malaeb, Mirna Fawaz, Lara Youssef, Anna Brytek-Matera, Souheil Hallit, Sahar Obeid

“…The research team used a snowball sampling method to recruit volunteers from all governorates of Lebanon. …”
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