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Initial validity and reliability testing of the SGBA-5
Background A growing body of research indicates that sex (biological) and gender (sociocultural) influence health through a variety of distinct mechanisms. Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis (SGBA) techni...
Heterogeneity of diagnosis and documentation of post-COVID conditions in primary care: A machine learning analysis
Background Post-COVID conditions (PCC) have proven difficult to diagnose. In this retrospective observational study, we aimed to characterize the level of variation in PCC diagnose...
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of cardiac rehabilitation and barriers to referral among cardiologists in Saudi Arabia: A cross-sectional survey
Background Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is an effective secondary prevention intervention, yet it is globally underutilized. Physicians play a key role in CR uptake by eligible patients through encoura...
Modeling the spectrum and determinants of multimorbidity risk among older adults in India
Background India is passing through a parallel phase of demographic and epidemiological transition coupled with the shifting burden of multimorbidity. Unhealthy ageing and escalating morbidity burden...
Seroprevalence of hepatitis A virus infection in urban and rural areas in Vietnam
Background/objectives The prevalence of hepatitis A virus (HAV) is associated with socioeconomic conditions, access to clean drinking water, and improvements in sanitation. In Vietnam, epidemiological...
Evaluation of the accuracy of a low-cost external tocodynamometer in a pilot study in Malawi
Uterine contraction monitoring during labor has been linked to improved maternal outcomes. However, performing this monitoring can be challenging for financial and logistical reasons in low resource s...
Robust performances of a nocturnal long-term ECG algorithm for the evaluation of sleep apnea syndrome: A pilot study
Obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) is one of the most common sleep disorders affecting nearly one billion of the global adult population, making it a major public health issue. Even if...
Adaptive mechanism-based grey wolf optimizer for feature selection in high-dimensional classification
Feature Selection (FS) is a crucial component of machine learning and data mining. Its goal is to eliminate redundant and irrelevant features from a datasets, thereby enhancing the classifier's perfor...
The impact of serological testing implementation on tick-borne encephalitis detection in Poland
Introduction Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) infections remain underreported in Poland, leading to inadequate public awareness of the potential severity of the disease and its preventive measures...
Larval surveys reveal breeding site preferences of malaria vector Anopheles spp. in Zanzibar City
In Zanzibar City - the capital of the Zanzibar archipelago in Tanzania - the incidence of malaria has decreased over the past few decades due to standardized treatment protocols and public health inte...
Analysis of proposed carbon capture projects in the US power sector and co-location with environmental justice communities
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of new federal investments and policy support for “carbon management” technologies, such as carbon capture and storage (CCS), as a strategy to mitigate...
Multi-class rice seed recognition based on deep space and channel residual network combined with double attention mechanism
Accurately recognizing rice seed varieties poses significant challenges due to their diverse morphological characteristics and complex classification requirements. Traditional image recognition method...
Evaluation of the 22G Franseen needle and 22G Lancet needle for endoscopic ultrasonography-guided tissue acquisition sampling in solid pancreatic lesions: Propensity score weighting
Background and Aim Advantages of endoscopic ultrasonography-guided tissue acquisition (EUS-TA) using a Lancet and Franseen needles have been evaluated and compared. However, little is known about the...
A criterion for assessing obstacle-induced environmental complexity in multi-robot coverage exploration
In many applications, such as coverage exploration and search and rescue missions, accurately assessing environmental complexity is valuable for performance evaluation and algorithm adjustments. Despi...
Ovulatory and anovulatory cycle phase influences on QT interval dynamics during the menstrual cycle
Background Ovarian hormones affect cardiovascular health yet few sufficient-sized studies with reliable ovulatory documentation have assessed the QTc-hormonal relationship. This study investigated QTc...
Assessing compliance to reporting mandates in glioblastoma-related clinical trials
Introduction Accurate and timely reporting of scientific knowledge is crucial to clinical research ethics. ClinicalTrials.gov allows researchers to register trials and report results to the public and...
Work-related musculoskeletal disorder and its associated factors among bank workers in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Introduction Work-related musculoskeletal disorders are among the major global public health problems and contributors to disability and workers’ absence in occupational areas which certainly disrupts...
Professional identity and its relationships with AI readiness and interprofessional collaboration
Background In contemporary healthcare practices, the convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and interprofessional collaboration represents a transformative era marked by unprecedented opportuniti...
First-line durvalumab therapy alone or in combination with tremelimumab for metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: A cost-effectiveness analysis
Objective In patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (R/M HNSCC), the KESTREL study evaluated durvalumab with or without tremelimumab, as well as the EXTREME regime...
Emergent climate protection strategies in German hospitals: A cluster analysis
Hospitals emit large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions during healthcare delivery due to their extensive resource utilization and substantial waste generation. By implementing climate actions, hospi...
Infection with the entomopathogenic nematodes Steinernema alters the Drosophila melanogaster larval microbiome
The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is a vital model for studying the microbiome due to the availability of genetic resources and procedures. To understand better the importance of microbial composi...
Effects of access to a well-resourced environment on dairy calf cognition and affective state
Dairy calves are often raised without maternal contact and in environments of low complexity. Environments that limit natural behaviors are known to impair cognitive development and affective states....
Signal mining and analysis of adverse events of Brentuximab Vedotin base on FAERS and JADER databases
Objectives Brentuximab Vedotin (BV) is a novel antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) approved for the treatment of classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma and systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma. However, as a relat...
Minocycline inhibits rosacea-like inflammation through the TLR4-mediated NF-κB signaling pathway in vivo and in vitro
Background Rosacea is a chronic inflammatory skin disease characterized by multiple intricate pathogenic factors. Previous studies have substantiated the anti-inflammatory properties of minocycline an...
Incidence and predictors of cardiovascular disease mortality and all-cause mortality in patients with type II diabetes with peripheral arterial disease
Objective This cohort study estimated the incidence and predictors of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and various stages of per...