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Ongoing circulation of emerging tick-borne viruses in Poland, Eastern Europe
In order to investigate previously reported expansion of tick-borne pathogenic viruses in Eastern Europe, we conducted this study using pooled ticks collected from various locations in Poland, utilizi...
Start learning coding without computers? A case study on children’s unplugged gamified coding education tool with explanatory sequential mixed method
Instruction in coding for children has emerged as a significant means of fostering computational thinking, with gamification serving a crucial reinforcing function in this educational process. This ex...
New insights into the molecular biology of Alzheimer’s-like cerebral amyloidosis achieved through multi‐omics approaches
Background One of the neuropathologic hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is amyloid plaques composed of fibrillar amyloid beta (Aβ) that accumulate in the hippocampus and cerebr...
Correction: Allochthonous marsh subsidies enhances food web productivity in an estuary and its surrounding ecosystem mosaic
Star Power: Early life stages of an endangered sea star are robust to current and near-future warming
The sunflower star, Pycnopodia helianthoides , was a top benthic predator throughout its former range from Alaska to...
Transcriptome analysis reveals rootstock-driven effects on growth and photosynthesis in Camellia chekiangoleosa: A phenotypic and biochemical perspective
Camellia chekiangoleosa is a significant oil-bearing tree species, known for its high oleic acid content and shorter reproductive cycle compared to traditional oil-tea plants. However, there are few s...
Introducing CACIE: Development of the first Conceptual Assessment of Children’s Ideas about Evolution
The theory of evolution is the core theory of the life sciences. However, due to its counterintuitive nature, learners of all ages have difficulties building coherent knowledge about evolution. Resear...
Radiotherapy continuity for cancer treatment: Lessons learned from natural disasters
Background The contemporary world is challenged by natural disasters accelerated by climate change, affecting a growing world population. Simultaneously, cancer remains a persistent threat as a leadin...
A Later Stone Age quartz knapping workshop and fireplace dated to the Early Holocene in Senegal: The Ravin Blanc X site (RBX)
Well-dated and well-preserved Later Stone Age sites are unfortunately scarce in West Africa. The few known ones exhibit significant typo-technical variability, reflecting diverse socio-cultural behavi...
LSWOA: An enhanced whale optimization algorithm with Levy flight and Spiral flight for numerical and engineering design optimization problems
Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) suffers from issues such as premature convergence, low population diversity in the later stages of iteration, slow convergence rate, low convergence accuracy, and an...
One health approach unravels worrying antimicrobial resistance patterns: A cross-sectional study in Kisii, Kenya
Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major public health challenge, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, where diagnostic and surveillance capacities are limited. Enterobacterales significant...
Lung and abdominal ultrasound accuracy for tuberculosis: An Indian prospective cohort study
Background Tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis remains a challenge, particularly in low-resource settings. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has shown promise, but most studies focus on HIV-infected population...
Correction: Canadian natural science graduate stipends lie below the poverty line
A novel Leishmania infantum reference strain for gene editing and the study of visceral leishmaniasis
Parasites of the Leishmania donovani complex are responsible for visceral leishmaniasis, a vector-borne disease tran...
Development, optimization, and preliminary evaluation of a novel artificial intelligence tool to promote patient health literacy in radiology reports: The Rads-Lit tool
Radiology reports are an integral part of patient medical records; however, these reports often contain complex medical terminology that are difficult for patients to comprehend, potentially leading t...
Who continued travelling by bus in different periods of COVID-19? A data-driven analysis from Shanghai, China
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented disruptions to individual travel behavior in the public transport (PT) system. To attract more travelers to use PT in the post-pandemic era, it is necess...
Funerary practices of cremation at the megalithic societies of South-Eastern Iberia: The cemetery of Los Milanes
The archaeological excavations undertaken at the Chalcolithic necropolis of Los Milanes have revealed a previously unknown variability in funerary practices in the south-eastern Iberia. For the first...
Assessing Knowledge, Uptake and Factors associated with cervical cancer screening among women in selected communities of Wakiso district in Uganda: A population-based study
Background Uganda has the highest prevalence and incidence of cervical cancer in the East African region, with 80% of women diagnosed at advanced stage when survival is minimal. Li...
Comparative evaluation of four fully automated immunoanalyzers for the simultaneous detection of HBeAg and Anti-HBe
Background Hepatitis B envelope Antigen (HBeAg) and anti-hepatitis B envelope Antigen (anti-HBe) are crucial markers for evaluating hepatitis B virus infection status and guiding clinical decisions. C...
SARS-CoV-2 antibody and neutralization dynamics among persons with natural- and vaccine-induced exposures
Previous SARS-CoV-2 research indicates that antibody levels and corresponding neutralization potential increase with additional exposures (comprising vaccination or infection), and that hybrid immunit...
Do third age adults benefit equally in well-being from activity participation? The moderating effect of financial status
The relationship between activity participation and well-being has been well documented for third age adults. However, little has been known about how the financial status influences this relationship...
Real-time and immediate effects of backward walking exercise on pain intensity and lumbopelvic movement control in individuals with chronic non-specific low back pain with lumbar flexion syndrome
Objective Backward walking may promote the preferential recruitment of lumbar extensors to optimize flexed spinal posture adopted LBP flexion subgroup. This cross-sectional study investigated the back...
Solving multi-scenario hybrid flow shop scheduling problem based on an improved probe machine model
The hybrid flow-shop scheduling problem is widely present and applied in industries such as production, manufacturing, transportation, and aerospace. In recent years, due to the advantages of nonlinea...
Financial burden of cancer in Nepal: Factors associated with annual cost and catastrophic health expenditure
Background There is a dearth of comprehensive research on the financial burden of cancer in low-resource settings. This study aims to identify factors associated with annual cost of cancer care and ca...
Sectoral linkages and their influence on structural change: The case of China
Structural change is a fundamental aspect of a country's economic development process. Unlike traditional literature, our research integrates input-output analysis with a multisector general equilibri...