How and What Do Women Learn About Contraception? A Latent Class Analysis of Adolescents and Adult Women in Delaware by Mónica L. Caudillo, Fatima Zahra, Michael S. Rendall

“…Results: Adolescents are more likely than adults to report having recently acquired any information about contraception (76% vs. 64%), but they are more likely to rely primarily on a single source. …”
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Internalized stigma mediates the relationship between pelvic pain severity and both depression and anxiety in women with chronic pelvic pain by Sarah E. Francis, Jamey T. Brumbaugh, Jeongwi An, Emily J. Bartley, Daniel W. McNeil

“…Design: Quantitative, cross-sectional design. Methods: A sample of 241 adult women with CPP from the United States completed a series of questionnaires via an online survey. …”
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Relationship between vascular age and atherosclerosis-related cardiovascular diseases by R. N. Najafov

“…Pearson's chi-squared test with Monte Carlo simulation showed that within 10-month followup, myocardial infarction (MI) in presented sample was more common in age subgroups of 50-59 (10,0%) and 60-69 (8,3%) years. …”
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The effect of obligatory versus voluntary school food standard implementation on the fulfillment of the school food standard requirements in Germany by Cordula Hundeshagen, Heike Rosmann, Jörg Lindenmeier

“…The aim of this first exploratory study is to analyze school lunch menus regarding their fulfillment of the SFS requirements and detect differences between obligatory and voluntary implementation of the SFS. Methods: After drawing a random sample of schools and reaching out for voluntary participation in this study, school menus of federal states with obligatory (OSFS) and voluntary (VSFS) SFS implementation were collected and analyzed. …”
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Providing a model of purchase intention and customer experience on customer behavior in virtual networks by Kazem Tolooee, Hossein budaghi Khajeh Noubar, Hossein Gharehbiglo, Mojtaba Ramazani

“…Sampling is random, and a multi-stage cluster type. …”
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Cannabis tolerance reduces symptom relief by Sarah S. Stith, Xiaoxue Li, Franco Brockelman, Keenan Keeling, Branden Hall, Jacob M. Vigil

“…The sample consists of the first ten cannabis self-administration sessions recorded by 16,395 medical cannabis patients between 06/05/2016 and 09/19/22, yielding a sample of 120,691 symptom-specific treatment-level observations, recorded during 42,005 sessions. …”
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Environmental disclosure analysis of manufacturing companies to realize sustainable green economy by Avi Sunani, Ulfa Puspa Wanti Widodo, R. Muh. Syah Arief Atmaja Wijaya, Nanda Wahyu Indah Kirana

“…Thus, further research might utilize more sample firms from multiple countries or provide a comparative study between firms that adopt sustainability reporting. …”
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Virtual Reality Interventions of Daily Versus Weekly Data Collection in Patient-Reported Outcomes Among Adults With Cancer: Pilot Survey Study by Matthew Browning, Olivia McAnirlin, Fu Li, Jeffrey Bertrand, Denise Davis, Kapil Madathil, George Fredric Mau, Teny Henry Gomez

“…While weekly assessments have benefits, VR devices enable more frequent in-device data collection. It remains unclear whether PROs collected more frequently provide more information on these interventions than PROs collected more infrequently. …”
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Blood cross-matching using gel card technique compared to conventional tube technique: A diagnostic evaluation study by Aditi Pandey, Sonal Chandrakar, Roshan Lal, Kajal Chandrakar

“…Thus, even though CTT with AHG was equally effective as that of the gel card method, but time taken was significantly more (P < 0.05). …”
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A Vehicle Reidentification Algorithm Based on Double-Channel Symmetrical CNN by Lijun Yang, Tangsen Huang

“…In this case, with limited training samples, the combination of inputs will be more diversified, and the training process of the CNN model will be more abundant. …”
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Assessment of a set of microbiological and molecular genetic studies for the diagnosis of tuberculosis by E. V. Sevastyanova, V. A. Puzanov, T. G. Smirnova, E. E. Larionova, L. N. Chernousova

“…Much clinical material (more than 9,500 diagnostic samples) was used to evaluate the efficiency of using different microbiological and molecular genetic studies for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in laboratory practice. …”
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Association of dietary patterns with the risk of central obesity in Chinese adults: the China Nutrition and Health Surveillance 2015–2017 by Jing Nan, Yuxiang Yang, Fusheng Li, Shuya Cai, Shuya Cai, Wei Piao, Wei Piao, Liyun Zhao, Liyun Zhao, Jiao Xu, Dongmei Yu, Dongmei Yu

“…Therefore, it is of great significance to study the association between dietary patterns and central obesity to promote the change of residents' dietary behavior in the direction of healthier.ObjectivesThe purpose of this study was to extract the dietary patterns among Chinese adults aged 18 and above and to explore its relationship with central obesity.MethodThe data was derived from the China Nutrition and Health Surveillance (2015–2017), and the sample participants were obtained by stratified, multi-stage, and random sampling. …”
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Determination of Arbutin in Herbal Medicinal Products by N. P. Antonova, S. S. Prokhvatilova, E. P. Shefer, A. M. Kalinin, I. M. Morgunov, T. A. Golomazova, U. S. Legon’kova

“…HPLC methods are more selective, but they require the use of reference standards. …”
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Optimal Parameter Selection and Indicator Design for Technical Analysis Strategies by Computer Software: An Empirical Analysis of the Taiwan Futures Market by Hsio-Yi Lin, Chieh-Yow ChiangLin, Hsuan-Wei Tseng

“…Through the four parameter selection methods and the system backtesting approach using rolling windows, we identified parameter combinations in-sample and then validated them out-of-sample. …”
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Targeting age-appropriate adults' vaccine hesitancy to the herpes zoster vaccine in Ningbo, China: A latent profile analysis by Jianmei Wang, Qiuhong Mei, Shaoying Zhou, Tianchi Yang, Mengqian Lyu, Yueyi Feng, Zhaya Wang, Lili Hu, Bingqian Huang, Rui Ma

“…A multistage stratified sampling method was employed to take samples We performed a face-to-face questionnaire survey among adults aged 40 years and older in late 2023. …”
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Pixel-super-resolved lens-free quantitative phase microscopy with partially coherent illumination by Yang Chen, Xuejuan Wu, Linpeng Lu, Jiasong Sun, Runnan Zhang, Wenhui Lin, Yufan Chen, Maciej Trusiak, Peng Gao, Chao Zuo

“…The use of partially coherent light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in LFOCM offers a more portable and cost-effective alternative to conventional coherent illumination sources. …”
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Food production diversity based on food groups is associated with minimum dietary diversity and dietary diversity among lactating mothers residing in subsistence farming households... by Edward Buzigi, Kirthee Pillay, Muthulisi Siwela, Blessing Mkhwanazi, Mjabuliseni Ngidi

“…This study examined the association between minimum food group production diversity (MFGPD) and minimum dietary diversity for women (MDD-W); and the correlation between food group production diversity (FGPD) and women’s dietary diversity (WDD) among lactating mothers in rural Kyankwanzi district, central Uganda. Method Lactating mothers residing in subsistence farming households (HH) were recruited by systematic sampling. …”
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Effectiveness of Dry Needling versus Trigger Point Compression Release among Patients with Neck Pain - RCT by Saad Tariq, Mamoona Tasleem Afzal, Anam Javed, Iqra Naseem, Nasir Khan, Muhammad Shakir Khan

“…Initially the patients were recruited using non-probability convenient sampling, later the allocation between the groups was done randomly using sealed envelope method. …”
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From Coarse to Crisp: Enhancing Tree Species Maps with Deep Learning and Satellite Imagery by Taebin Choe, Seungpyo Jeon, Byeongcheol Kim, Seonyoung Park

“…Deep learning (DL) model training data was constructed by strategically sampling information-rich pixels from the national tree species map. …”
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Colostrum feeding practice and associated factors among mothers who come for postnatal care to Asella referral and teaching hospital, Arsi Zone, South-East Ethiopia by Gisha Haji, Gebi Agero, Amde Eshete, Abdurahman Hasan, Ahmed Hiko

“…Systematic random sampling was employed to select study participants. …”
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