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Social determinants and risk factors associated with non-communicable diseases among urban population in Nepal: A comparative study of poor, middle and rich wealth categories of urban population using STEPS survey
Background Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are significant public health concern globally, and the burden is disproportionately high among urban populations. This study aims to compare the social det...
Truss structure optimization of heavy-duty escalators via finite element analysis
To adapt to the characteristics of high load and long-term operation of heavy-duty escalators, traditional trusses often adopt redundant structural designs to meet higher safety and reliability requir...
Correction: Surgical Site Infection after Craniotomy in Neuro-Oncology (SINO): A protocol for an international prospective multicentre service evaluation across the United Kingdom and Ireland
The dilemma of frontline servant leadership: The conflict between top management directives and grassroots employee wellbeing and retention
Servant leadership in the workplace involves providing services and cultivating trust amongst subordinates. However, leadership dynamics can be distorted when hospitality frontline managers assume lea...
Confronting the uncertainty: Vulnerability to climate change among smallholder farmers in the Sidaama region, Ethiopia
Smallholder farmers’ vulnerability to climate change varies due to socio-economic and biophysical factors, requiring a context-specific assessment. This study examines livelihood vulnerability in the...
Comprehensibility and impact of vehicle dashboard indicator light symbols on drivers’ preventive maintenance compliance
Background Dashboard indicator light symbols convey information about vehicles status and functioning, but action taken to address issues associated with these symbols depend on drivers’ familiarity a...
Influences of familiarity and recollection on value-based decision-making
We regularly retrieve information from memory to inform decisions in daily life. For example, when choosing a place to eat, we may be enticed by a brand name because of its familiarity or drawn to an...
Creating an arena for being in the same boat: A qualitative study of course instructors’ experiences with the Coping with Depression course’s group setting
Background Depression is a common mental disorder. Recovering from depression, a positive connection has been found between having a social network and having supportive relationsh...
Correction: Screening potential anti-osteoarthritis compounds using molecular docking based on MAPK and NFκB pathways and validating their anti-osteoarthritis effect
Effective remediation programs for vulnerable students to overcome learning loss
In March 2020, the world was forced to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, and as a result, schools in many countries closed to minimize the spread of the coronavirus. Students were required to shift to...
A high throughput method for isolation of plasmatocytes from hemolymph of adult Drosophila
Macrophages are essential innate immune system components, exhibiting diverse functions crucial for disease prevention. While much is known about their role in innate immunity, studying their function...
Factors influencing wildlife roadkill in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Northern, Tanzania
Globally, extension of road network is among the major threats affecting different fauna survival. Roads traversing protected areas, usually harm wildlife species (e.g., wildlife roadkill). Wildlife r...
Ensuring equitable access to quality HIV care for affected populations in complex sociocultural settings: Lessons from Nigeria
Background HIV infection remains one of the major diseases of public health importance globally with an estimated 40.4 million deaths and 39 million people living with the virus by 2022. About 40 coun...
Waist rotation angle as indicator of probable human collision-avoidance direction for autonomous mobile robots
The likelihood of pedestrians encountering autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) in smart cities is steadily increasing. While previous studies have explored human-to-human collision avoidance, the behavior...
Swin-HSSAM: A green coffee bean grading method by Swin transformer
A novel shifted window (Swin) Transformer coffee bean grading model called Swin-HSSAM has been proposed to address the challenges of accurately classifying green coffee beans and low identification ac...
Tyrosine kinase inhibitor, masitinib, limits neuronal damage, as measured by serum neurofilament light chain concentration in a model of neuroimmune-driven neurodegenerative disease
Background Masitinib is an orally administered tyrosine kinase inhibitor that targets activated cells of the innate neuroimmune system. We have studied the neuroprotective action o...
Lobectomy versus sublobar resection on survival in patients with stage T1-2N0M0 small cell lung cancer
Purpose To compare survival outcomes of lobectomy versus sublobar resection in patients diagnosed with stage T1-2N0M0 small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Materials and methods A comprehensive retrospecti...
Improved transcriptome assembly and functional annotation of Pleurodeles waltl for regeneration research
In this study, we present an updated transcriptome assembly for the Iberian ribbed newt, Pleurodeles waltl (P. waltl), a widely used model organism in regeneration research. The existing publicly avai...
Magnetic resonance imaging characteristics and survival outcomes of metaplastic breast carcinoma
Objective Metaplastic breast carcinoma is a rare type of breast carcinoma, and there are limited data about the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings of metaplastic carcinoma. This study evaluates...
Correction: Predictors associated with successful weaning of veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and mortality in adult patients with severe acute lung failure: Protocol of a pooled data analysis of cohort studies
Revised phylogeny of mouflon based on expanded sampling of mitogenomes
Mouflons are flagship species of the Mediterranean islands where they persist. Once thought to be the remnants of a European wild sheep population, archaeology suggests they were introduced by humans...
Segmentation-based lightweight multi-class classification model for crop disease detection, classification, and severity assessment using DCNN
Leaf diseases in Zea mays crops have a significant impact on both the calibre and volume of maize yield, eventually impacting the market. Prior detection of the intensity of an infection would enable...
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the diagnostic accuracy after preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy
Objective Aneuploidy accounts for many pregnancy failures and congenital anomalies. Preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A) is a screening test applied to embryos created from in vitro...
Anticoagulant effects, substance basis, and quality assessment approach of Aspongopus chinensis Dallas
Background Aspongopus chinensis Dallas holds both medicinal and culinary significance in China. Notably, in regions such as Guizhou and Yunnan, it has been traditionally used as an ethnic remedy for t...
Application of open domain adaptive models in image annotation and classification
In the field of computer vision, the task of image annotation and classification has attracted much attention due to its wide demand in applications such as medical image analysis, intelligent surveil...