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Lowering the barriers to sexual health services: Impacts of free counselling and testing for sexually transmitted infections in Switzerland – an observational study
Background In Switzerland, tests for HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are usually not covered by health insurance in asymptomatic people. To improve access, Zurich la...
Serum presepsin level reflects macrophage activation and hemophagocytosis in bone marrow
Background Presepsin (soluble CD14 subtype) is a clinically used diagnostic biomarker for sepsis. It is secreted into the blood by activated macrophages, and serum concentrations a...
The impact of population aging on income gaps: Can digital finance play a buffering role?
Drawing on the panel data of 284 prefecture-level cities in China spanning from 2011 to 2022, this study empirically examines the impact and underlying mechanisms of population aging on urban income d...
LDIE-FDNet: Lightweight dynamic image enhancement-enabled real-time fatigue driving detection network
Aiming at the imbalance between accuracy and real-time of existing fatigue driving detection models, and the accuracy is lower in low illumination, an LDIE-FDNet (Lightweight Dynamic Image Enhancement...
Retraction: Perennial plants and traditional medicine: Assessing the socio-demographic impacts on traditional remedies
Editorial Note: Cumulative burden of non-communicable diseases predicts COVID hospitalization among people with HIV: A one-year retrospective cohort study
Saliva and plasma metabolome analysis during the five days before foaling in the mare
Saliva is a relevant biofluid for real-time welfare-friendly monitoring of systemic events in animals, because some bioanalytes have a systemic origin and its collection is painless, stress-free and n...
Experimental study on the coupling control of rock blasting vibration and rock fragmentation size
To address the issue that open-pit blasting delay designs struggle to concurrently mitigate vibration and optimize fragmentation, this article proposes an interval-based delay optimization framework i...
Electronic distance learning satisfaction, awareness, attitudes, and barriers among undergraduate nursing students following the october 7 war in Palestine
Background Education is one of the many facets of daily life that have been severely interrupted by the ongoing conflict in Palestine since October 7, 2023. Assessing the efficacy...
Design, comparison and selection of two competition incentive mechanisms
When facing multiple agent teams, principals often implement competitive mechanisms to mitigate moral hazard. These mechanisms can be categorized as either result-oriented or process-oriented, dependi...
Social determinants of vaccine hesitancy among the Lebanese parents: A cross-sectional Study
Background Vaccines are vital in preventing infectious diseases and saving millions of lives globally. However, the rise of vaccine hesitancy has hindered adequate vaccination cove...
Evaluating patient harm minimization during the COVID-19-driven reduction in benign gynecological care: a nationwide claims-based longitudinal study in the Netherlands
Objective To evaluate whether the COVID-19 pandemic influenced treatment modality, care intensity, and care setting in benign gynecological care in the Netherlands....
A meta-proteomics approach using autopsy material from the pre-antibiotic era from patients with untreated pulmonary tuberculosis to identify proteins present in early lesions of post-primary tuberculosis
Primary TB and post-primary TB (PPTB) are different disease entities. PPTB occurs only in humans, and no animal model mimics the actual pathology of PPTB. Information on the immune pathogenesis of PPT...
Effects of self-administered binaural beats on meditative and introspective states
Emerging evidence suggests select binaural beat (BB) frequencies may enhance regulatory mood states, yet questions remain regarding their efficacy in naturalistic, self-administered settings. This stu...