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Pandemic preparedness in shaping psychosocial working conditions – insights for occupational safety and health from a longitudinal mixed-methods study during the COVID-19 pandemic at six company sites of one organization in Germany
Objectives This longitudinal mixed-methods study explores how one company group dealt with COVID-19 pandemic-related challenges and how employees and managers perceived work-related psychosocial deman...
Genetic and morphological variation in the Colombian Bombyx mori germplasm: A first SSR-based assessment
Centuries of domestication have produced over 4000 Bombyx mori L. ecotypes, many of which share similar morphological and reproductive traits that hinder genetic improvement and differentiation. In Co...
Design and implementation of a low-power position monitoring and control system for on-orbit focusing
To enable the optical remote sensing satellite to flexibly adjust the camera’s focal length for clearer imaging, a low-power position monitoring and control system suitable for space environments is d...
Long-term effects of air pollution on the incidence and progression of multiple sclerosis: A population cohort study in Isfahan, Iran
Background Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurodegenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by autoimmune inflammation. Recent research indicates that environmental factors, particu...
Evaluating the potential effect of PCSK9 inhibitors on the risk of sudden cardiac death and ventricular arrhythmias: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Background Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) inhibitors are a new class of drugs used for the treatment of dyslipidemia. PCSK9 inhibitors have been shown to remarkably reduce cardi...
A dynamical systems analysis of criminal behavior using national longitudinal survey of youth data
Building on previous work on the spread and sustenance of crime, we construct and analyze a dynamical systems model of criminal involvement, arrest, desistance, and rehabilitation to be estimated empi...
The PREDEP-SERT study protocol: A 6-month follow-up cohort study of predictors of effectiveness, tolerability and safety of sertraline for depression using Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
Sertraline is a common first-line pharmacological treatment of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). There is no established consensus nor clinical guidelines for personalized dose adjustments, which imply...
MSPA-informed SLEUTH urban growth modeling for green space protection in Ottawa
We created optimal urban expansion scenarios that also safeguard green spaces using SLEUTH-3r in the National Capital Region, Ottawa, Ontario. The scenarios were based on using two exclusion layers in...
Preliminary feasibility and clinical utility of the Unified Protocol for the transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders in people with long COVID-19 condition: A single case pilot study
Purpose The implementation of psychological interventions in long COVID-19 patients is still very limited. This study aims to analyze the feasibility and preliminary utility of the Unified Protocol (U...
Spatial epidemiology of tuberculosis diagnostic delays, healthcare access disparities, and socioeconomic inequities in Nairobi County, Kenya
Introduction Kenya ranks among the top 30 countries with a high tuberculosis (TB) burden globally. With a TB prevalence of 558 per 100,000, only 46% of TB cases are diagnosed and treated, leaving 54%...
Relationship between stress hyperglycemia ratio of one-year mortality in patients with heart failure: Analysis of the MIMIC-IV database
Background Stress Hyperglycemia Ratio (SHR) has been confirmed to be a predictor for adverse outcomes in cardiovascular diseases in recent years. However, the impact of SHR on one-year mortality in pa...
Frailty trajectory and its associated factors in older patients undergoing abdominal surgery involving the digestive system: A longitudinal study
Frailty is a common multifactorial clinical syndrome in older patients that seriously affects their prognosis. However, most studies to date have ignored the dynamics of frailty. Therefore, we employe...
Spatial distribution and factors associated with coexisting undernutrition among under-five children in Ethiopia: Evidence from the 2019 Mini-Demographic and Health Survey
Background Undernutrition remains a critical public health issue in Ethiopia, driving high under-five morbidity and mortality. Coexisting forms; stunting, wasting, and underweight magnify these risks...
Work-related stress and sleep problems among small-scale miners in Ghana: The role of psychological factors
Objectives Sleep problems (SP) are prevalent among small-scale miners, yet little is known about their psychological and occupational determinants. We examined the association between work-related str...
RETRACTED: Perennial plants and traditional medicine: Assessing the socio-demographic impacts on traditional remedies
This study assessed the curative uses of wild medicinal plants and investigated the socio-demographic aspects influencing traditional medicinal knowledge in Tehsil Hasilpur, Punjab. Using snowball sam...
Federated hierarchical MARL for zero-shot cyber defense
Cyber defense systems face increasingly sophisticated threats that rapidly evolve and exploit vulnerabilities in complex environments. Traditional approaches which often rely on centralized monitoring...
Impact of ventilation and ambient temperature on COVID-19 transmission in clinic waiting rooms: A computational fluid dynamics approach
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic underscores the necessity of understanding the transmission dynamics in enclosed, high-risk environments, such as clinic waiting rooms. This study used computational flui...
Development and validation of an adolescent health literacy scale in Ethiopia: A mixed methods approach
Background Adolescent health literacy (HL) is a significant public health concern, especially in developing countries with predominantly young populations like Ethiopia, as it impacts both their immed...
Suicide prevention training for allied health professionals within healthcare environments: A scoping review
Despite the knowledge that many individuals who die by suicide have contact with a health professional a short time prior to their death, the delivery and quality of clinical care is reportedly variab...
Debt vs. revenue share financing: A theoretical study on revenue share finance in a capital-constrained newsvendor
In the capital-constrained newsvendor paradigm, revenue share financing (RSF) presents a novel yet underexplored financing approach. This theoretical study conducts a comparative analysis of two finan...
The promotive effect of ocean literacy on marine conservation behavior: A qualitative study based on Chinese university students
Ocean literacy plays a crucial role in promoting sustainable marine conservation behaviors, yet its underlying psychological mechanisms among university students remain underexplored, particularly wit...
Identification of novel marker-trait associations for agronomic traits in bread wheat under WANA environments through GWAS
Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a primary staple crop globally and holds particular significance in the West Asia and North Africa region, where it plays a central role in food security and diet...
Assessing uncertainty: A study of entropy measures for Burr XII distribution under progressive Type-II censoring
This research study focuses on calculating five entropy measures (Shannon, Rényi, Havrda-Charvát, Arimoto, and Tsallis) for the Burr XII distribution, utilizing progressive Type-II censoring. The stud...
Association of germline variants in the ZFX gene with primary hyperparathyroidism
Somatic variants in the ZFX gene have been found in human sporadic parathyroid adenomas. This gene encodes a transcriptional factor recently described as a transcriptional activator in multiple types...
LKDA-Net: Hierarchical transformer with large Kernel depthwise convolution attention for 3D medical image segmentation
Since Transformers have demonstrated excellent performance in the segmentation of two-dimensional medical images, recent works have also introduced them into 3D medical segmentation tasks. For example...