Determinants of food insecurity among Syrian refugee women and their coping strategies by Kübra Esin, Feride Ayyıldız

“…Women who are older, have more children, lower income, lower education, and higher BMI are more likely to experience food insecurity. …”
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Persistent effects of legal status on healthcare access and outcomes: findings from a state-wide representative cross-sectional survey in California by Lei Chen, Michelle Kao Nakphong, May Sudhinaraset, Nadereh Pourat, Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young

“…Citizens who were previously undocumented were more likely to delay medical care (aOR=2.32, p<0.05) compared with CLS. …”
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Quality of life and issues related to body image and intimacy in breast cancer survivors by Kim Sadler, Sarah Alsaif, Ghadeer Alsaffar, Shahd Melibari, Norah Albedah, Rania Abed Salah, Meaad Abdullah Alharbi, Ruth Evangelista

“…Setting and Design: A cross-sectional design was used in a tertiary care center in Saudi Arabia. Materials and Methods: Data were collected through the self-reported Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy–Breast (FACT-B) with women two or more years posttreatment and between 18 and 75 years. …”
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Hydrodynamic Analysis of Bi-finswimming Relay Diving Athletes in Central Java Province by Sungkowo, Tandiyo Rahayu, Bambang Widjanarko, Taufiq Arif Setyanto, Dewangga Yudhistira

“…Future researchers are likely to employ a bigger sample size so that the data acquired can be more broadly generalised.…”
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Role of oral health literacy in demand for oral healthcare services for missing teeth replacement among dental patients visiting a dental teaching hospital in India by Duggineni Chalapathi Rao, Sudhakar Vundavalli, Meignana Arumugham Indiran, Atluri Kaleswara Rao, Doppalapudi Radhika, Mahmoud Gamal Salloum

“…Settings and Design: This cross-sectional study was conducted in a dental teaching institute, Andhra Pradesh, southern part of India. Materials and Methods: Based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria, a sample of adult participants was selected through systematic random method from the patients who visited the outpatient department. …”
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ESTIMATING EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE USING SPATIAL INTERPOLATION WITH THE INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTING AND ORDINARY KRIGING APPROACH by Fitri Amalia, Achmad Fauzan

“…This research was conducted to find out a more precise spatial interpolation method in estimating the strength of the earthquake in West Java in 2022. …”
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The "hypnotic state" and eye movements: Less there than meets the eye? by Etzel Cardeña, Barbara Nordhjem, David Marcusson-Clavertz, Kenneth Holmqvist

“…s experiment). Highs reported being more deeply in hypnosis than Lows but only in the hypnotic condition, as expected. …”
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Mislabeled out-of-hospital patient care records during transitions of care: a quality improvement intervention using root cause analysis (RCA) in an EMS system. by Luis Mauricio Pinet-Peralta, Nicole Y. Duppins

“…The purpose of this quality study is to identify the cause of mislabeled EMS patient care reports in an EMS agency and develop an intervention to reduce the rate of mislabeled patient care reports. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This quality improvement study follows the model for improvement process, using PDCA cycles and root cause analysis, and used the two-sample unmatched Wilcoxon rank-sum to test for differences in the number of mislabeled records after intervention implementation. …”
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Consequences of Delayed Endoscopies on the IBD Population during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Karen C. Young, Vitaliy Poylin

“…There were more IBD related surgeries in the on-time group (16) compared to the delayed group (4), P=0.03. …”
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Intraocular pressure variations in rhegmatogenous retinal detachment: Does it point towards an alternate biomechanical response? by R Aswathy, Padma B. Prabhu, Ranjini Kotancheri

“…Objective: To evaluate the variations in intraocular pressure and its relation with the severity and chronicity of Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD), as well as the type of break and presence of myopia. Methods: Design: A descriptive cross-sectional study; sample size 75 (4 pq/d2); duration 1 year; exclusion-combined Retinal Detachment (RD), exudative Rd, associated choroidal detachment, and anterior Proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR). …”
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Physical activity and excess weight in pregnancy have independent and unique effects on delivery and perinatal outcomes. by Kelly L Morgan, Muhammad A Rahman, Rebecca A Hill, Shang-Ming Zhou, Gunnar Bijlsma, Ashrafunnesa Khanom, Ronan A Lyons, Sinead T Brophy

“…A total of 466 women sampled from the Growing Up in Wales: Environments for Healthy Living study. …”
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Is it safe? The effect of narrative vs. non-narrative messages on story-related knowledge of medicated abortion by Judy Watts, Austin Hubner, Jun Pei, Michaella Barros Coelho

“…This study aims to investigate the potential for media-based learning from exposure to narratives.MethodsWe conducted a between subjects (format: narrative vs. non-narrative) by within subjects 2 (time: immediate post-test vs. delayed post-test) on a college population sample (time 1: n = 220; time 2: n = 125). …”
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THE EFFECT OF PBL INTEGRATED WITH PHET VIRTUAL LABORATORY AND SELF-EFFICACY ON STUDENTS’ SCIENCE PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS by Indah Lastari Siregar, Aan Hendrayana, Lukman Nulhakim

“…The sample consisted of 61 randomly selected grade VIII students. …”
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The Association of ITGBL1 and LPPR4/PRG1 Expression Profile in Patients with Prostate Cancer History by Asmaalsadat Nikkhouy-Tanha, Nazanin Nazari, Maryam Moradi, Mahsa Talebi, Fatima Masoomi Sarvestani, Fatemeh Rahmanzad, Maryam Mahmoudi, Zahra Jafarinia, Banafsheh Rastegari

“…Conclusion: According to the role of ITGBL1 in several tumor phenotypes, we cannot ignore the importance of ITGBL1 genes as one of the critical regulatory proteins in prostate cancer development or progression. Therefore, more studies are required to explore the associations of prostate cancer with these regulatory proteins in more Iranian populations.…”
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Identifying HEXACO personality types: what do type characteristics tell us about student misconduct? by Ana Cristina Veríssimo, Pedro Oliveira, Paula Mena Matos, Laura Ribeiro

“…The distribution of the personality types was also compared across sociodemographic groups and fields of study. Methods A sample of 1,398 health and non-health university students replied to a multiple-choice questionnaire covering HEXACO personality traits, eight forms of academic misconduct, and background information. …”
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Isolation and Identification of Toxoplasma gondii from Aborted Fetuses of Goats by PCR in Lorestan Province by Morad Beiranvand, Hossein Hamidinejat, Somayeh Bahrami, Mohammad Reza Tabandeh, Meysam Makki

“…The study was performed in three aborted fetus groups, less than 2 months, 2 to 4 months and more than 4 months. Results: From a total of 100 examined samples, conventional PCR detected the T. gondii infection in 6 (6%) and 2 of the brain and liver fetuses respectively. …”
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Assessment and Comparison of Distress and Suicidal Behavior in Medical and Paramedical Students by Mitra Safa, Maryam Sadat Mirenayat, Mohsen Abedi, Atefeh Fakharian, Negin Ansari, Mahsan Norouz Afjeh, Farzaneh Haji Zadeh, Fatemeh Ghassem Boroujerdi

“…The sample members (302 participants) were selected by accessible method from medical students in Masih Daneshvari Hospital in 2023-2024. …”
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DC-Mamba: A Novel Network for Enhanced Remote Sensing Change Detection in Difficult Cases by Junyi Zhang, Renwen Chen, Fei Liu, Hao Liu, Boyu Zheng, Chenyu Hu

“…We propose a dynamic loss function to address the issue of sample imbalance, giving more attention to difficult samples during training. …”
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Design of Command and Dispatch System for Automatic Reading of Meter Images in Substations by UAV Inspection Photos by Guanghong Deng, Liangpei Lin, Baihao Lin, Wenlong Jing, Xiaodan Zhao, Yong Li, Rui Yang, Shidun Xie, Pengfeng Wei

“…In order to solve the problem of inaccurate pointer meter readings, to begin with, the segmented image is corroded; in addition, the circular dial area is flattened into a rectangular area by concentric circle sampling method. Finally, the meter reading is calculated by the position of the pointer, the scale and the total range of the meter. …”
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Transcultural approach to the health-related quality of life of cancer patients by Namie Okino Sawada, Bianca Sakamoto Ribeiro Paiva, Carlos Eduardo Paiva, Helena Megumi Sonobe, María Paz García-Caro, Francisco Cruz-Quintana

“…The scores of health-related quality of life in the health global status and the functions of role performance and cognitive functions were higher in the Brazilian sample, whereas fatigue, pain, dyspnea, insomnia and diarrhea symptoms were more present in the Spanish population, with statistically significant differences. …”
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