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Diphtheria seroprotection among Indonesian children: Community Health Surveys Riskesdas 2007, 2013 and 2018
Diphtheria remains a public health concern in Indonesia despite long-standing inclusion of diphtheria-containing vaccines in the national immunization program. This study assessed temporal trends in d...
The relationship between platelet count and postoperative acute kidney injury and long-term prognosis in neurosurgical critically ill patients: A retrospective study
Objective This study was designed to investigate the associations among platelet (PLT) count upon admission to the intensive care unit (ICU), postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI...
New approach for health assessment of high voltage motor using experimental case studies
This paper introduces a new approach for comprehensive Health Index (HI) assessment of high-voltage (HV) induction motors used in oil and gas plants. The proposed method is designed to be practical, r...
Multi-stakeholder perspectives on reproductive and adolescent healthcare schemes in tribal regions of India: A qualitative study
Tribal populations, comprising 8.9% of India’s population, remain highly vulnerable to poor health outcomes due to socioeconomic deprivation, cultural barriers, and limited access to healthcare. Triba...
Borax-based gel electrophoresis: A novel approach for RNA integrity analysis
This study investigates the unexpected utility of borax-based agarose gel electrophoresis for RNA integrity assessment. Accurate RNA integrity analysis fundamentally requires denaturation to fully res...
Parents’ perspectives on a national child oral health promotion program: Sociodemographic influences and behavioral insights – A cross-sectional analysis
Background Iran’s Students’ Oral Health Promotion Program (SOHPP) aimed to improve primary school children’s oral...
Reported adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination in gynecologic cancer patients in Thailand: A descriptive study
Objective Data on the safety of coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) vaccines in gynecologic cancer patients are scarce. The type of vaccine used in Thailand differs from what has bee...
Monitoring health and wellbeing in adolescent track and field (athletics) athletes: A co-creation study
Talent Development Environments, such as England Athletics’ Youth Talent Programme (YTP), aim to provide holistic support that promotes long-term athletic and personal development. There is a need for...
Understanding diverse subjectivities of medical students in seeking composite role models: A Q-methodology study
Background Role modeling, an integral part of medical education, is a complex and multifaceted process. To unravel the hidden dimensions of role model selection, a comprehensive un...
Explainable AI for gait speed analysis from multimodal data fusion
Gait speed analysis is vital for applications in healthcare, rehabilitation, human-robot interaction, and autonomous systems, necessitating robust methods to address its complexity. This study introdu...
Paternal effects without paternity? Testing non-genetic male influence on offspring size and brood size in a gynogenetic vertebrate, the Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa)
Paternal effects, i.e., effects of fathers on the phenotype of their offspring that are not mediated by the transmission of alleles, are increasingly recognized as a potentially significant source of...
Heterogeneous trajectories of exercise self-efficacy and its predictors in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease: A longitudinal study
Objective The developmental trajectory of exercise self-efficacy refers to the course of change in an individual’s belief in their capability to successfully perform exercise-relat...
Widening East-West inequality in life expectancy in Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic: An international comparative study
For decades, life expectancy in Eastern Europe has lagged behind that in Western Europe, although the gap has narrowed since the mid-2000s. We examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on these lon...
Effects of slide-board-based high-intensity interval versus moderate-intensity continuous training on aerobic and anaerobic capacity in young speed skaters
Purpose This study aimed to compare the effects of three slide-board training modalities—two high-intensity interval training protocols (HIIT1: 3 min work/2 min rest; HIIT2: 4 min...
Food-based multisensory stimulation ameliorates cognitive impairment after mild traumatic brain injury in male rats by modulating intestinal and brain inflammation
Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) often leads to cognitive impairment (CI), with neuroinflammation and gut microbiota dysbiosis playing pivotal roles in its pathogenesis. This study aimed to investig...
Antimicrobial use and documented infection among hospitalized adults in South American acute care facilities during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic
Background Despite low bacterial and fungal infection rates, increased antimicrobial use (AU) among hospitalized patients has been reported during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COV...
Sources and preferences for nutrition information among older adults: A scoping review
A nutritionally adequate diet is essential for older adults to support healthy ageing and reduce the risk of malnutrition. With over a million older adults in the UK affected or at risk, understanding...
Neuropeptide F-expressing neurons in Drosophila constitute centrifugal pathway to optic lobes
Neuropeptide F (NPF), the Drosophila homolog of mammalian neuropeptide Y (NPY), plays a central role in the integrative regulation of internal states and behavi...
Antibiotic consumption and medication cost in diabetic patients: Insights from Iran health insurance organization (IHIO) claims data
Background The rising prevalence of diabetes is increasing the healthcare costs especially when associated with infection. We aimed to assess the antibiotic consumption and medicat...
Patients’ perceptions of home-based imaging diagnostics: A qualitative study
Expanding access to diagnostic services through home-based imaging represents a promising strategy to reduce barriers to healthcare, particularly by eliminating the need for patient travel. For this m...
Coupling coordination between ecological environment quality and public health of residents in the Yellow River Basin, China: A modified coupling coordination model approach
The continuous development of industrial technology has led to significant environmental pollution and climate change, both of which have severely impacted human health. Investigating the coupling coo...
Optimized fault-tolerant data processing module for high-reliability CNN accelerator
Convolutional neural networks have become the foundation of image-inference tasks, with systolic array architectures providing enhanced computational performance and efficiency. However, the numerous...
Experimental study on the inhibitory effect of bolting position on crack propagation in cavity-containing sandstone
This study systematically investigated the effects of seven bolt anchorage positions on the mechanical behavior and failure of single-hole sandstone specimens using uniaxial compression tests and PFC...
Rethinking performance crises in professional soccer: German coaches’ insights into systemic vulnerabilities and escalating dynamics
Professional soccer, as a global phenomenon, is characterized not only by outstanding performances but also by frequent and sometimes prolonged periods of underperformance, which represent performance...
Stem cell therapy for female stress urinary incontinence: Results, limitations and lessons learned from a pilot clinical study
Objective This pilot clinical study aimed to develop and validate standardized manufacturing and quality control procedures for autologous skeletal muscle-derived (SkM-MSCs) and bo...