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Improving residents’ satisfaction with administrative boundary changes: A comparative analysis based on the township-town merger policy
Administrative boundary changes driven by policies are pivotal instruments for improving resource allocation efficiency. Studying the factors driving residents’ satisfaction with these policies is cru...
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adults accessing specialist psychiatric care: A cross-sectional Canadian analysis
Background The COVID-19 outbreak presented significant psychological challenges, placing individuals with pre-existing psychiatric conditions at disproportionate risk. Identifying...
Late Antique—Early Byzantine urban transformation in Mid-Northern Anatolia: A multiproxy approach from Pompeiopolis
During the 6th century CE, many Late Antique cities in the eastern Mediterranean—especially in Anatolia—underwent major changes. By the 7th century CE, most had gradually lost their urban functions. A...
Congratulations, it’s a risk factor! Varied social determinants of health at different ages of becoming a parent in Canada
Teen (<20 years of age) and young (<25 years of age) parents made up nearly 10% of new parents in Canada in 2023. Despite this, research on the socioeconomic and health outcomes of these young p...
A method for recognizing positive and negative electrodes of buzzer circuit board based on machine vision
In order to automate the soldering of coils to circuit boards in buzzers, this study proposes a method for recognizing positive and negative electrodes of buzzer circuit board based on machine vision....
Sociodemographic and lifestyle factors associated with the Planetary Health diet in the Korean adult population
This study aimed to examine the associations of sociodemographic and lifestyle factors with adherence to the planetary health diet in the Korean adult population. A total of 25,336 participants aged ≥...
Correction: The importance of structure: Using targeted rewiring to explore social networks property interdependencies
Alkyl gallates disrupt Trypanosoma brucei lipid droplets
African trypanosomiasis is a deadly disease that affects humans and animals, with treatment hindered by drug toxicity and resistance, highlighting the need for alternative therapies. Alkyl gallates, w...
Molecular surveillance of malaria in Tanzania: Baseline surveillance of vectors that drive persistent malaria transmission in regions with varying transmission intensities
Malaria has remained persistently high in some regions of Tanzania despite increased control interventions. To address the burden of malaria in these regions, monitoring malaria vector dynamics is cru...
Revisiting the exposure criterion for PTSD: Using the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to assess measurement invariance of PTSD symptoms across event types
Introduction There is an ongoing debate about the exposure criterion of PTSD since its introduction in the DSM-III in 1980 and the global COVID-19 pandemic has fueled it. Studies e...
Age of diagnosis with endometriosis and potential predicting factors: A single-center cross-sectional study
Objective To evaluate the behavioral and clinical characteristics of endometriosis patients at the largest tertiary healthcare center in Lebanon and to analyze the effect of endome...
Down-regulation of circ0001361 induces apoptosis and suppresses the progression of glioma
Background Circ0001361 is a novel circRNA identified by our previous high-throughput sequencing of glioma. Here we explored the functional involvement of circ0001361 in gliomagenes...
Exploring scalable assessment methods for terminated trials in ClinicalTrials.gov: A cohort analysis of German and Californian trials
Introduction Clinical trials can terminate early for many reasons, including non-scientific reasons. We aimed to develop scalable semi-automated methods to characterize terminated...
Validating the 2-minute walk test MCID for subacute stroke patients: A Pakistani multicenter cohort analysis
Background The 2-Minute Walk Test (2MWT) is a simple and reliable test used by clinicians to evaluate mobility gains in stroke populations....
An algorithm to identify less invasive surfactant administration using a real-world database of preterm infants
Background Surfactant replacement therapy is central to respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) management in preterm infants, which can be delivered using a variety of methods. Less i...
Nutritional prehabilitation in head and neck cancer patients (PreHead) – A randomized controlled trial study protocol
Rationale Up to 60% of patients with head and neck cancer are malnourished upon first presentation. Malnutrition has been associated with a higher risk of adverse events and decrea...
The impact of grandparent-grandchild interactions on the imagination of aging among Chinese youth groups: The chain mediating role of intergenerational relations and filial piety concept
Centered on respecting elders and intergenerational responsibility, Confucian filial piety culture serves as a core cultural norm in Chinese society. This study integrates this cultural framework with...
Postnatal cytomegalovirus infection and bronchopulmonary dysplasia in very low birth weight infants: Influence of diagnostic criteria and viral load in a propensity score–matched cohort study
Objective To determine the association between postnatal cytomegalovirus (pCMV) infection and bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) under three different criteria as well as the impact...
Retraction: The impact of agricultural water salvation investment on economics development: Evidence from Eastern China
Higher order synthetic lethals are keys to minimize cancer treatment effects on non-tumor cells
Metabolic rewiring in cancer cells facilitates the supply of essential precursors for uncontrolled tumor growth. Exploring these cancer-specific metabolic alterations offers potential selective therap...
Integrated malaria service delivery and its determinants among pregnant women in Ethiopia: Multi level analysis of 2021/22 National Service Provision Assessment Survey
Background Malaria in pregnancy poses significant health risks to mothers and their, fetuses, and newborns children in Tropical and subtropical countries including Ethiopia. The de...
Perspectives of women, healthcare providers and health managers on Group Antenatal Care implementation in Geita, Tanzania: A qualitative study
Background Among the root causes of high maternal and neonatal mortality is low utilization of antenatal care (ANC) services and sub-optimal quality of care during pregnancy. Group...
Topography-driven movement of biomolecular condensates
Biomolecular condensates are assemblies of proteins or nucleic acids that exhibit liquid-like properties and organize intracellular biochemical reactions within many cells. Some condensates require me...
Low-toxic and organic solvent-free isolation of RNA
RNA is the central molecule that connects genetic makeup to the function of living cells and organisms. Since genes will also cease to be transcribed, RNA must decay so that the cellular RNA-pool can...
Modest google trends associations with mental health patient and general population deaths by suicide: A time-series analysis using patient-provided search terms
Background Suicide-related internet use (SRIU), particularly online information seeking, seems to be highly prevalent among mental health patients. Most research using Google Trend...