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Correction: Antecedents of the effectiveness of entrepreneurship policy: An integrated framework
Knowledge, awareness and attitude among practicing oral and maxillofacial surgeons towards tele-dentistry: A cross-sectional survey
Tele-dentistry can be defined as the utilization of digital and telecommunication technologies to facilitate remote dental care. This study assessed the knowledge, awareness and practices related to t...
A decade of triage with the Manchester Triage System-The MTS big data study
Background Over the past 25 years, numerous studies have evaluated triage system performance, but longitudinal data are limited. This study is the first to assess the Manchester Tr...
The influence of psychological ownership on pride in a Citizen Science project on wildlife ecology
Voluntary engagement is crucial for committed participation in Citizen Science (CS) projects. So far, the CS literature has argued that psychological ownership (i.e., subjective feelings of owning or...
Diagnostic performance of four hepatitis-B surface antigen conformité Européenne (CE) marked and one WHO prequalified rapid diagnostic tests in Uganda
Background Globally, over 254 million people are infected with chronic Hepatitis B (HBV). Eighty million of these reside in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). HBV claims an estimated one mi...
Minimum dataset with integrated scoring and indexing methods for soil quality assessment
Soil quality (SQ) is a key determinant of agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability, yet its assessment is challenged by the diverse functions of soil and the absence of universally a...
Cervical mucus viscoelasticity and sperm velocity are correlated and concentration-dependent in Vitro
Background Mucus in the endocervix serves as fertility gatekeeper in the reproductive tract through hormonally regulated changes in biophysical properties. Cervical mucus can thick...
Expression of Concern: Trends and disparities in Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma related mortality in the United States, 1999–2020
Enhancing intrusion detection in encrypted DoH traffic through a robust ensemble learning framework
The DNS over HTTPS (DoH) protocol enhances user privacy by encrypting DNS queries and responses within HTTPS. However, this encryption enables attackers to tunnel malicious traffic through covert DoH...
Plasma gelsolin as a potential biomarker for intrauterine inflammation in pregnant women with preterm premature rupture of membranes: A pilot study
Background Gelsolin is an actin-binding protein, the blood levels of which decrease in response to inflammation and tissue injury. However, the dynamics of gelsolin during pregnanc...
Mapping the role of tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) and its receptors in chronic kidney disease: A scoping review protocol
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is increasingly recognized as a global public health concern, impacting about 800 million people worldwide. Despite having different CKD etiologies, apoptosis, inflammatio...
Loss of ABC transporters, White, Brown, and Scarlet, prevents increase in mitotic divisions of germline stem cells in response to mating in Drosophila melanogaster
The replenishment of specialized cells depends on the activity of stem cells. Recent advances in stem cell research have shown that the germline stem cells (GSCs) in Drosophila mel...
Comparative evaluation of immunoserological detection of F-actin antibodies
Autoantibody detection remains essential in diagnosing autoimmune liver diseases (AILD), particularly autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), in which smooth muscle antibodies (SMA) targeting filamentous actin (F...
Workload perception and job satisfaction among Lebanese practicing dietitians: A cross-sectional study by employment location
Objective Workload perception and job satisfaction are fundamental components of human resource management. While these factors have been studied across healthcare professionals wo...
FAVABEAN and FALAPhyl: Open-source pipelines for scalable 16s rRNA microbiome data processing and visualization
Reproducible and scalable analysis of 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing data remains a persistent challenge in microbiome research due to the complexity of available tools, incompatibilities between platfo...
Spatial heterogeneity of the nonlinear impact of built environment on suburban railway commuting willingness: Taking Guiyang Loop Line Railway as an example
This study takes the Guiyang Loop Line Railway as a case study and, based on resident commuting survey data, applies an XGBoost model combined with Individual Conditional Expectation (ICE) analysis to...
Quadratic programming-based autonomous cruise control of an intelligent tugboat
To address the multi-objective control problem of autonomous cruising, collision avoidance, and input constraints in intelligent tugboats, a quadratic programming-based autonomous cruise control metho...
Expanding the toolkit of LacI/GalR chimeras
When creating synthetic transcription circuits, multi-input regulation is desirable. However, the size and complexity of prokaryotic circuits are constrained by the number of transcription factors tha...
Determinants of tuberculosis presentation and successful treatment outcome among tuberculosis patients in Geita, Tanzania
The Geita Region of Tanzania is known as critical focal point for tuberculosis (TB) control due to its persistently high disease burden and unique socio-economic landscape. Despite this, limited resea...
State impulsivity and substance use: A systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
The association between substance use and impulsivity has been documented extensively in the literature. More recently, there has been a shift from viewing impulsivity solely as a stable trait toward...
Retraction: Stacked-gait: A human gait recognition scheme based on stacked autoencoders
Retraction: Molecular detection of eukaryotes in a single human stool sample from Senegal
Genetic analysis of F1 cluster phages that infect Mycobacterium smegmatis identifies two distinct holin-like proteins that regulate the host lysis event
Phages Girr and NormanBulbieJr (NBJ) infect Gram-positive Mycobacterium smegmatis mc 2 155. Both phages contain conserve...
Wombs for rent: Exploring the motivations behind Ghanaian Women’s decisions to become surrogate mothers
This study explores the motivations behind Ghanaian women’s decisions to engage in surrogacy, a growing practice within the country’s assisted reproductive technology landscape. Using a phenomenologic...
Effects of controversial contexts on opinion changes through discussion and evaluation of decisions: A group decision experiment regarding the issue of removed soil in Fukushima
Designing settings that enable structured deliberation is crucial, particularly for contentious public issues, as debates can sometimes shift opinions toward extremes, create social division, and make...