Teledentistry in Jordan: assessing knowledge and attitudes among dentists by Tamadur Mahmoud Falah, Sabha Mahmoud Alshatrat, Jumana M. Sabarini, Majd M. Alsaleh, Yousef Saleh Khader, Alaa Fawwaz Dalky, Bayan Jamal Almahasneh, Abedelmalek Kalefh Tabnjh, Abedelmalek Kalefh Tabnjh, Abedelmalek Kalefh Tabnjh

“…Conducted with a sample of 250 dentists selected through convenience sampling, the research assessed knowledge and attitudes using a pre-designed and validated questionnaire. …”
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Avoidance of healthcare service use and correlates among HIV-positive patients in Vietnam: a cross-sectional study by Huong Lan Thi Nguyen, Thu Minh Bui, Carl A Latkin, Cyrus SH Ho, Roger CM Ho, Don Bradley, Toan Van Ngo, Vu Anh Trong Dam, Tham Thi Nguyen, Hien Thu Nguyen, Ga Mei Zeng, Quang N Nguyen

“…This study investigates HIV-positive patients’ avoidance of healthcare services and its correlates.Design A cross-sectional study.Setting The secondary data analysis used cross-sectional data from a randomised controlled intervention, examining the effectiveness of HIV-assisted smartphone applications in the treatment of HIV/AIDS patients in the Bach Mai and Ha Dong clinics in Hanoi.Methods Simple random sampling was used to identify 495 eligible patients. …”
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Characteristics and contributing factors of adverse drug reactions: an analytical study of patients with tuberculosis receiving treatment under the National TB Program of India [ve... by Jay Patel, Priya Bhavsar, Harsh Shah, Sandul Yasobant, Deepak Saxena, Anish Sinha, Somen Saha, Yogesh Patel

“…A total of 593 reported TB patients were recruited with an adjusted unified distribution based on the type of cases, site of diseases, and service facility through a simple random sampling method. A semi-structured questionnaire tool was used to collect socio-demographic, clinical, and ADR-related data from the TB patients. …”
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Childbearing Tendency and Related Factors Among Married Women in Rasht City, north of Iran by Asieh Jahanbakhshi, Maryam Niknami, Sedigheh Pakseresht, Zahra Atrkar Roushan, Sara Shirzad Chenari

“…Objective: This study aimed to determine childbearing desire and its related factors among married women. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 550 women aged 15 to 49 referring to comprehensive health centers in Rasht City were selected by multi-stage random sampling. …”
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Dysbiosis and Metabolic Dysregulation of Salivary Microbiota in Schizophrenia by Wang J, Lu L, Ren L, Zhu R, Jiang Y, Qiao Y, Li Y

“…Clinical parameters, including oral health status, were also evaluated to minimize variability in sampling.Results: Patients with SZ exhibited significantly poorer oral health compared to healthy controls, with more missing teeth and worse periodontal status. …”
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First Insights into Macromolecular Components Analyses of an Insect Meal Using Hyperspectral Imaging by Flávia Matias Oliveira da Silva, Liliana G. Fidalgo, Rita S. Inácio, Rafaela Fantatto, Maria J. Carvalho, Daniel Murta, Nuno S. A. Pereira

“…The objective of this work was to perform a nutritional pre-characterization of <i>Hermetia illucens</i> (Black Soldier Fly-BSF) larvae meal, using hyperspectral images in the range of 400–1000 nm, with a spectral resolution of 7 nm and a spatial sampling of 512 pixels, and correlate them to traditional chemical analysis methods. …”
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Abundance and diversity of black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) in rivers of the Andean Eastern Hills of Bogotá (Colombia), and its relationship with water stream physicochemical vari... by Alexandra Buitrago-Guacaneme, Aura Sotelo-Londoño, Gabriel A. Pinilla-Agudelo, Alexander García-García, Ligia I Moncada, Peter H Adler

“…Black fly larvae and pupae were collected during four sampling periods during the dry season to the early rainy season of 2012. …”
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Healthy ageing and psychological resilience among the empty-nest older adults: a cross-sectional survey in China by Chunhong Shi, Xin Long, Silan Xia, Hao Zhao, Chenjun Wu, Yiliang Zhang, Xinying Tang, Chunyan Li

“…Empty-nest older adults were recruited from urban, suburban, and rural communities in Chenzhou, Hunan Province, using a stratified cluster sampling method. A face-to-face questionnaire survey was conducted using the sociodemographic questionnaire, the Healthy Ageing Instrument, and the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale. …”
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Relationships between nurses’ perceived social support, emotional labor, presenteeism, and psychiatric distress during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study by Hossein Ebrahimi, Farnaz Rahmani, Khadijeh Ghorbani

“…This study examined nurses’ knowledge, attitudes, use, and acceptance of the use of artificial intelligence in nursing care. Methods This was a cross-sectional survey study. A total of 296 nurses were recruited via stratified random sampling from 9 teaching hospitals in a province in the northwestern region of Iran in 2020. …”
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Understanding the marital self-disclosure experience during chemotherapy for gastric cancer: a qualitative study by Ye Zhou, Ye Zhou, Chong Chin Che, Mei Chan Chong, Haiyan Zhao, Yuzhu Hou, Min Zhao

“…The study aims to assist nurses in developing effective communication strategies for patients and their spouses, thus promoting their psychological well-being.MethodsThe study employed purposive sampling with a maximum variation approach to select participants. …”
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Thermal Infrared UAV Applications for Spatially Explicit Wildlife Occupancy Modeling by Eve Bohnett, Babu Ram Lamichanne, Surendra Chaudhary, Kapil Pokhrel, Giavanna Dorman, Axel Flores, Rebecca Lewison, Fang Qiu, Doug Stow, Li An

“…This study demonstrates the potential for spatially explicit methods for monitoring grassland mammals using TIR UAV as indicators of anthropogenic impacts and conservation effectiveness. …”
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High prevalence of periodontal disease and periodontopathogen colonization in adults with autism spectrum disorder: a pilot study by Ludivine Berbé, Ludivine Berbé, Marie Machouart, Marie Machouart, Amandine Luc, Eliane Albuisson, Catherine Strazielle, Catherine Strazielle, Catherine Bisson, Catherine Bisson

“…Oral microbiota samples were collected in crevicular fluid and supra-gingival plaque at inflamed sites in each patient and analyzed using PCR for bacteria and qPCR for protozoa. …”
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Quality of life, insomnia, attitudes and beliefs in women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer: a cross-sectional study in Amol city Northern Iran by Mohammad Eslamijouybari, Vipin Patidar, Shiv Kumar Mudgal, Rakhi Gaur, Zohreh Hosseini Marznaki, Andrew Fournier, Mohammad Hossein Hakimi, Sahar Khosravi

“…The goal of the current study was to examine the quality of life, insomnia, attitudes and beliefs in women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer. Methods A correlational study among 468 breast cancer patients (Stages I–III) selected through convenient sampling in northern Iran was conducted in 2024 to measure quality of life (QoL), insomnia, and patients’ attitudes and beliefs toward cancer via the EORTC QLQ-C30, the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), and the Cancer Attitude and Belief Questionnaire, respectively. …”
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Practice towards Hepatitis B Virus Infection Prevention and Its Associated Factors among Undergraduate Students at Hawassa University College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Hawas... by Amdehiwot Aynalem, Bedilu Deribe, Mohammed Ayalew, Abyalew Mamuye, Eskinder Israel, Andualem Mebratu, Dawit Getachew Assefa

“…The 404 sampled participants were recruited using a systematic random sampling technique. …”
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Risk factors of vitamin D deficiency among 15-year-old adolescents participating in the Malaysian Health and Adolescents Longitudinal Research Team Study (MyHeARTs). by Shiao Wei Quah, Hazreen Abdul Majid, Nabilla Al-Sadat, Abqariyah Yahya, Tin Tin Su, Muhammad Yazid Jalaludin

“…By identifying potential risk factors, prevention strategies and interventions can be carried out to improve the vitamin D status in adolescents.<h4>Methods and findings</h4>Stratified random sampling design was used to select adolescents from 15 urban and rural secondary schools in Selangor, Perak and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. …”
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Characterization of regional influenza seasonality patterns in China and implications for vaccination strategies: spatio-temporal modeling of surveillance data. by Hongjie Yu, Wladimir J Alonso, Luzhao Feng, Yi Tan, Yuelong Shu, Weizhong Yang, Cécile Viboud

“…Influenza surveillance should be strengthened in mid-latitude provinces, given the complexity of seasonal patterns in this region. More broadly, our findings are consistent with the role of climatic factors on influenza transmission dynamics. …”
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Effect of the Big Five Personality on the intention to use mHealth applications among the Chinese elderly: a national-based study by Jinghui Chang, Jinghui Chang, Anqi Li, Xixi Yang, Chunnan Li, Yanshan Mai, Dayi Zhang, Wende Yan, Yibo Wu, Jiangyun Chen

“…Promoting mHealth use by the elderly remains an imperative to realize health improvement.ObjectiveThe research aimed to identify the relationship between personality traits and the intention to use mHealth applications among the elderly in mainland China.MethodsUsing a multi-stage sampling method, a cross-sectional survey of 3,712 older adults across China was obtained out of 3,721 (validity rate was 99.76%) in 2022. …”
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Jump around: Selecting Markov Chain Monte Carlo parameters and diagnostics for improved food web model quality and ecosystem representation by Gemma Gerber, Ursula M. Scharler

“…Further, post hoc algorithm quality diagnostics with commonly used trace plots and the coefficient of variation (CoV) rarely address critical aspects of algorithm quality, such as (1) if the returned ensemble successfully targeted the solution space distribution (stationarity), (2) correlation between ensemble solutions (mixing), and (3) if the ensemble contains enough solutions to adequately capture input data variability (sampling efficiency). Therefore, we used several established MCMC convergence diagnostics to (1) quantify how algorithm parameters affect ensemble flow values and if these differences propagate to ecological indicators and (2) evaluate algorithm quality and compare to current evaluation and ecosystem modelling methods. …”
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Finite Element Analysis of the Influence that Bone Density and Implant Fixation Features have on Total Ankle Tibial Component Stability by Joshua E. Johnson PhD, Gabriel Clarke MS, Cesar de Cesar Netto MD, PhD, Bopha Chrea MD, Donald D. Anderson PhD

“…Methods: FEA was conducted in 4 TAR patients with relatively low-density (n = 2, lowest 10% of a sample including 58 patients) and average-density (n = 2, midrange of sample) bone as assessed from deidentified patient CT scans. …”
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Assessment of binary prediction of fraudulent advertisements in ATS candidate tracking cloud systems by V. V. Ligi-Goryaev, G. A. Mankaeva, T. B. Goldvarg, S. S. Muchkaeva, E. N. Dzhakhnaeva

“…However, it should be considered that the GBT classifier requires more time for training and prediction; GBT takes 208.738579 seconds, while LSVC and RF take 64.267132 and 71.024914 seconds, respectively. …”
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