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The use of large language models in generating multiple choice questions for health professions education: A systematic review and network meta-analysis
Purpose Large language models (LLMs) have the potential to change medical education. Whether LLMs can generate multiple-choice questions (MCQs) that are of similar quality to those...
Correction: MultiFAR: Multidimensional information fusion with attention-driven representation learning for student performance prediction
Women empowerment and dietary diversity among Tripura Tribal women in Bangladesh
Background The empowerment of women is a global concern with significant implications both for individual well-being and societal progress. This study assessed the status of women’...
Mechanical behavior of reservoir bank slope–pile–sheet structures under reservoir operation: Field monitoring and numerical simulation analysis
Long-term fluctuations in reservoir water levels can lead to the deterioration of bank slope materials, representing a key trigger of instability. This study investigated the behavior of a slope–pile–...
DSN-STC: Leveraging Siamese networks for optimized short text clustering
In this paper, we present a novel deep Siamese network with a multi-scale hybrid feature extraction architecture, named DSN-STC (Deep Siamese Network for Short Text Clustering), that significantly imp...
Impaired estimated glomerular filtration rate and associated factors among adult patients living with HIV at Asella Referral and Teaching Hospital, Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study
Background Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) remains a major global health challenge, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. It is a multisystem disorder with significant renal invol...
Sustaining non-profit organizations: Strategic, managerial and financial perspectives
Purpose This study explores the complex challenges that Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) face. The research highlights the impact of strategic planning, managerial capabilitie...
Research on the relationship between work-family conflict and burnout among civil aviation pilots after the COVID-19 pandemic
To examine the impact of work-family conflict on occupational burnout among pilots following the COVID-19 pandemic, this study employed the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey and the Zhao Xinyua...
Correction: Prevalence of HIV-1 drug resistance in Eastern European and Central Asian countries
Correction: Improving Diagnostic Accuracy of Dermoscopically Equivocal Pink Cutaneous Lesions with Reflectance Confocal Microscopy in Telemedicine Settings: Double Reader Concordance Evaluation of 316 Cases
The impact of blockchain adoption on supply chain financing and E-commerce platform dynamics
The integration of blockchain technology is reshaping e-commerce supply chains and creating new dynamics for financially constrained firms. This study investigates the operational and financial implic...
Phenome-wide screening of the putative causal determinants of bipolar affective disorder using genetic data
Bipolar affective disorder (BPAD) is a chronic psychiatric condition with high heritability (60–85%) and significant phenotypic variability, complicating its etiological understanding. Genome-wide ass...
Understanding and assessing personality across cultures: A scoping review
Previous reviews of personality trait instruments have questioned whether meaningful cross-cultural comparisons of personality can be made. Personality, however, extends beyond personality traits. The...
The impact of data protection laws on Chinese digital cross-border mergers and acquisitions: A quasi-natural experiment based on the EU’s general data protection regulation
With the rapid growth of the digital economy, international investment activities exemplified by digital cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are increasingly active. Does the host country’...
A protocol for using rapid qualitative techniques to incorporate multi-level stakeholder feedback in a pragmatic clinical trial of mindfulness for chronic low back pain
Introduction Engaging community members and context experts is increasingly recognized as key to developing research that is responsive to community needs. Here, we describe a prot...
Predicting unsafe behaviour from the objective assessment of fatigue manifestation among scaffolders: Evidence from a Quasi-experimental simulation study
Background The burden of scaffolding-related accidents was growing. Individual attributes like unsafe behaviour and fatigue have been identified as the important precursors. Unders...
Association between household food security and socioeconomic status with paternal smoking: Findings from SEANUTS II Malaysia
Individuals burdened with socioeconomic disadvantages, including food insecurity, are often exposed to circumstances that may increase the likelihood of smoking, which may in turn affect the respirato...
TDP2 drives immune evasion and metastatic progression in prostate cancer
Immune evasion and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) are critical mechanisms driving tumor progression and therapy resistance in prostate cancer. In this study, we explored the role of TDP2 in m...
Economic evaluation of insulin glargine compared with human insulin for youth with type 1 diabetes in Tanzania and Bangladesh
Background Long-acting insulin analogues are the standard of care for Type 1 diabetes (T1D) in high-income countries but remain inaccessible in many low-resource settings. Cost-eff...