Less shared decision-making in consultations with lower health literate cancer patients: an observational mixed-methods study by Merel D. van Eick, Maartje Binnendijk, Hanneke W. M. van Laarhoven, Ellen M. A. Smets, Danielle R. M. Timmermans, Mark I. van Berge Henegouwen, Marijke Melles, Olga C. Damman

“…The current study is preliminary work that needs further exploration, for example, in larger samples and with assessors blind to patient HL levels.…”
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Interlaboratory evaluation of high molecular weight DNA extraction methods for long-read sequencing and structural variant analysis by Alison S. Devonshire, Jordi Morata, Claire Jubin, Rui Pedro Abreu Pereira, Laura Hernandez-Hernandez, Dilek Yener, Eric Cabannes, Steven McGinn, Marc Delepine, Cédric Fund, Raúl Tonda, Simon Heath, Marc Dabad, Javier Gutierrez-Cuesta, Ignacio Sanchez Escudero, Maria Cristina Frias-Lopez, Simon Cowen, Alexandra Whale, Thorsten Voss, Jean-François Deleuze, Ivo Gut, Marta Gut, Carole A. Foy

“…Results All methods generally produced samples of acceptable purity although yield varied considerably between laboratories. …”
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A Step Forward in Hybrid Soil Laboratory Analysis: Merging Chemometric Corrections, Protocols and Data-Driven Methods by Bruno dos Anjos Bartsch, Nicolas Augusto Rosin, Uemeson José dos Santos, João Augusto Coblinski, Marcelo H. P. Pelegrino, Jorge Tadeu Fim Rosas, Raul Roberto Poppiel, Ednilson Batista Ortiz, Viviane Cristina Vivian Kochinki, Paulo Gallo, Eyal Ben Dor, Renan Falcioni, Marcos Rafael Nanni, João Vitor Ferreira Gonçalves, Caio Almeida de Oliveira, Nicole Ghinzelli Vedana Vedana, Renato Herrig Furlanetto, José A. M. Demattê

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Participatory Intervention Development of a Peer-Guided Self-Help App for Anxiety Disorders: Mixed Methods Study by Laura Duddeck, Timo Stolz, Christian Zottl, Thomas Berger, Johanna Boettcher

“…Insights from successful peer communities can inform a more intuitive, engaging design.…”
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One Health policy communities’ perspectives on zoonoses risk factors and management: A multiple qualitative methods approach by Lisset M. Dumet, Erin Kenzie, Julia Goodman, Veronika Merino Osorio, Vanessa Cruz Chavez, Ruth Atto, Percy Vilchez Barreto, Seth O’Neal

“…We completed 77 semi-structured interviews from June 2023 to November 2023, and the final analytical sample included 75 interviews, excluding 2 incomplete interviews. …”
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Insights into nurse educators' use of ChatGPT in active teaching methods: A cross-sectional pilot study by Asma Bouriami, Kamal Takhdat, Sana Barkatou, Hajar Chiki, Samia Boussaa, Ahmed Rhassane El Adib

“…Furthermore, male educators are five times more likely to believe that ChatGPT facilitates students cheating (OR = 5.147 (1.641; 16.141)).Despite being aware of the challenges associated with ChatGPT, educators in our sample demonstrate limited awareness of its potential applications in active teaching methods. …”
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‘Shift’ Adaptation and a New Croatian Standard for Haavikko Developmental Stages’ Timing by Ivan Bedek, Jelena Dumančić, Tomislav Lauc, Miljenko Marušić, Ivana Čuković-Bagić

“…Although used infrequently when compared to more established methods, the Haavikko method can be used in cases where other dental age estimation methods have proven ineffective. …”
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Radiometric dating of Middle Pleistocene carbonates: assessing consistency and performance of the U–Th and U–Pb dating methods by T. J. Pollard, J. D. Woodhead, R. N. Drysdale, R. L. Edwards, X. Li, A. N. Wainwright, M. Pythoud, H. Cheng, H. Cheng, J. C. Hellstrom, I. Isola, E. Regattieri, G. Zanchetta, D. S. Parmenter

“…They also suggest that, for some carbonate samples, the U–Pb dating method may provide superior age precision to the U–Th method prior to the latter reaching its upper age limit.…”
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Sustainable validated methodology for enzymeless determination of Tyrosine using 3D-printed PLA/CB electrodes in synthetic urine by Amanda Morais, Diego Pessoa Rocha, Maria Lurdes Felsner, Andressa Galli

“…In addition, the proposed method achieved a high greenness score of 0.79, calculated using the AGREE software, where higher scores indicate more environmentally friendly methods. …”
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Raman Spectroscopy in Optical Non-Invasive Diagnostics of Skin Neoplasms by O. I. Kaganov, I. G. Loginova, A. A. Moryatov, S. V. Kozlov, A. E. Orlov, I. A. Bratchenko, B. B. Dzhuraev

“…A 10-year study, conducted by the Department of Oncology, the Samara Regional Clinical Oncology Dispensary (SOKOD), included more than 500 observations. The study used samples of various skin neoplasms obtained during surgical treatment of patients. …”
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Pumping and hygiene practices are associated with bacterial load and microbial composition in human milk expressed at home by Sarah M. Reyes, Dainelle L. Allen, Janet E. Williams, Mark A. McGuire, Michelle K. McGuire, Kathleen M. Rasmussen, Anthony G. Hay

“…The microbiota of OWN milk samples expressed with home-sterilized kits more closely resembled STER samples even in the absence of pre-pumping handwashing (R 2 = 0.36; P < 0.001). …”
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High-fidelity learning-based motion cueing algorithm by bypassing worst-case scenario-based tuning technique by Mohammad Reza Chalak Qazani, Houshyar Asadi, Zoran Najdovski, Shehab Alsanwy, Muhammad Zakarya, Furqan Alam, Hassen M. Ouakad, Chee Peng Lim, Saeid Nahavandi

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Test–retest reliability of the SVO-Slider Measure and other psychometric measures of personality traits by Debora Frei, Stefan Wehrli, Alexander Ehlert, Fabian Winter, Heiko Rauhut

“…With regard to gender, we find that women behave generally more prosocial than men but that they do not differ in their stability. …”
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Thromboelastography in COVID-19 patients: An observational study in the South African context by Bavinash Pillay, Sarah A. van Blydenstein, Shahed Omar

“…What this study adds: Thromboelastograms may represent a more cost-effective and accessible option to the conventional anti-Xa test in patients receiving LMWH. …”
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Effects of Medicare predictors in health disparities in the risk of Alzheimer's disease by Igor Akushevich, Arseniy Yashkin, Julia Kravchenko

“…This study introduces an approach that leverages population attributable fraction (PAF) to analyze and explain AD/ADRD disparities using Medicare data. METHODS We applied our method to Medicare claims data from a nationally representative sample of the US adults aged 70, 75, 80, and 85. …”
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Antioxidant, bioactive, and nutritional potential of soybeans with brown and yellow seed coats by Victor Delino Barasuol Scarton, Ivan Ricardo Carvalho, Christiane de Fátima Colet, Jaqueline Piesanti Sangiovo, Willyan Júnior Adorian Bandeira, Murilo Vieira Loro, Ellen Cristina Perin, Solange Teresinha Carpes, Patricia Brugnerotto

“…The Ultrasonic Bath extraction method proved more effective in extracting ABTS and total flavonoids. …”
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Working experiences of remote interpreters in health care settings—insights from Austria and Germany by Sophie Klomfar, Sophie Klomfar, Anna Teufel, Gernot Gerger, Maria Kletečka-Pulker, Maria Kletečka-Pulker, Klara Doppler, Klara Doppler, Magdalena Eitenberger, Magdalena Eitenberger, Sabine Völkl-Kernstock, Sabine Völkl-Kernstock

“…Additionally, we analyzed qualitative data to uncover more enabling and hindering factors.MethodsA sample of 87 interpreters working in Austria and Germany was included in this multi-methods study. …”
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Predictive performance and uncertainty analysis of ensemble models in gully erosion susceptibility assessment by Congtan Liu, Haoming Fan, Yixuan Wang

“…A total of 25 Geo-Environmental Factors (GEFs) were selected to build datasets, supplemented by a gully inventory map comprising 823 gullies, resulting in 12,946 samples of both gully and non-gully occurrences. 3 ensemble methods including probability mean (PM), Probability Weighted Mean (PWM), and Probability Empirical Weighted Mean (PEWM) were used. …”
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A Hybrid Dynamic Path-Planning Method for Obstacle Avoidance in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Power Inspection by Zheng Huang, Chengling Jiang, Chao Shen, Bin Liu, Tao Huang, Minghui Zhang

“…The proposed method includes key components such as sampling-point search, random tree growth, global path-node optimization, and local dynamic obstacle avoidance. …”
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Agricultural sustainability assessment in Fars province of Iran through the lens of the elimination multi-criteria decision-making method by Naser Valizadeh, Dariush Hayati, Ezatollah Karami, Kurosh Rezaei-Moghaddam

“…In the end, it was recommended that the Elimination Method can be a useful approach for urgent decision-making and agricultural managers and decision-makers in Fars province should focus more intensively on the development of wheat production in Marvdasht.…”
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