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Correction: Investigation of injury severity level in truck-related crashes at school zones using mixed generalized ordered models
Role conflict, satisfaction, and performance in administrative staff at public universities: The role of optimism and sex differences
Background This study addresses a critical gap in the literature by examining how optimism can moderate the effects of role conflict specifically among administrative staff at public universities. Rol...
Exploring the prevalence of atopic disease among adult cancer survivors: insights from the 2021 NHIS
Cancer survivors who undergo radiotherapy, immunotherapy, and chemotherapy experience a decline in immune system function. Atopic diseases (ADs) are associated with systemic immunosuppressant medicati...
How have unintended pregnancies and contraceptive use among adolescent girls and young women changed in Uganda? Evidence from the 2014 and 2019 PMA national surveys
Unintended pregnancies among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), and any pregnancy among adolescent girls are still a challenge, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa and Uganda. We assess prevalence...
Addressing the immigrant screening gap: A protocol for a systematic review on interventions to enhance colorectal cancer screening among immigrants in the United States
Introduction Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates are lower among immigrant populations in the United States (US) than the general population. Immigrant communities face structural barriers that di...
In vitro activity of seven antifungal agents against Fusarium oxysporum and expression of related regulatory genes
Fusarium oxysporum (F. oxysporum) is one of the main pathogenic fungus causing maize ear rot. In this study, the aims were to screen highly effective pesticides for F. oxysporum, reduce peasants’ misu...
Factors influencing the guest-host knowledge transfer for pro-poor tourism in China’s western ethnic-minority areas
The crucial transfer of knowledge through pro-poor tourism enables poor people to enhance their own endogenous-development dynamics. However, it is difficult to use existing knowledge transfer theorie...
Incisional Negative Pressure Wound Therapy devices applied after Total Ankle Arthroplasty: A Hospital-Based Health Technology Assessment
Introduction A portable, single-use incisional Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (iNPWT) device could be used directly on the wound incision following Total Ankle Arthroplasty (TAA). In order to support...
Different results despite high homology: Comparative expression of human and murine DNase1 in Pichia pastoris
The prolonged persistence of extracellular chromatin and DNA is a salient feature of diseases like cystic fibrosis, systemic lupus erythematosus and COVID-19 associated microangiopathy. Since deoxyrib...
Exploring mechanical work changes in controlled ankle motion (CAM) boot walking: The effects of gait speed and shoe levelling
Preferred walking speed (PWS) is lower when wearing a controlled ankle motion (CAM) boot, which can potentially make comparisons between footwear conditions difficult. Standardising walking speed acco...
Modifying the platform-mediated avoidance task: A new protocol to study active avoidance within a social context in rats
The platform-mediated active avoidance (PMA) task has been used to study the behavioral and neural mechanisms of a decision-based form of active avoidance. Across 10 days of PMA conditioning, rats lea...
Salivary biomarkers of tactical athlete readiness: A systematic review
Tactical athletes must maintain high levels of physical and cognitive readiness to handle the rigorous demands of their roles. They frequently encounter acute stressors like sleep deprivation, muscle...
Provision of employment-related settlement services and relationship with paid employment for immigrants in Canada
Immigrant workers are overly represented in high risk and precarious jobs that are not commensurate with their background, skills and experience. Some evidence exists to suggest that access to employm...
Non-menstrual pelvic symptoms and women’s quality of life: a cross-sectional observational study
Background Endometriosis-related pain duration and burden are associated with poorer psychological well-being and health-related quality of life (HQoLife). This study aimed to compare the relative bur...
Semantic enhancement and cross-modal interaction fusion for sentiment analysis in social media
The rapid development of social media has significantly impacted sentiment analysis, essential for understanding public opinion and predicting social trends. However, modality fusion in sentiment anal...
A mix-and-match reverse genetics system for evaluating genetic determinants of orthobunyavirus neurological disease
The encephalitic orthobunyaviruses have tri-segmented, negative sense RNA genomes and can cause severe neurological disease in humans, including La Crosse virus (LACV), which is the leading cause of p...
Evaluation of a combination adherence strategy to support HIV antiretroviral therapy for pregnancy and breastfeeding in Malawi: A pilot randomized clinical trial
Background There has been tremendous progress in reducing vertical transmission of HIV in the past two decades due to the broad availability of antiretroviral therapy (ART) globally. Despite this prog...
The comparative effectiveness of progressive relaxation training on pain characteristics, attack frequency, activity self-efficacy, and pain-related disability in women with episodic tension-type headache and migraine
Background and purpose Episodic tension headache (TTH) and migraine, both categorized as primary headache types, account for 60–90% of headache complaints and are three times more common among young w...
Multi-parametric quantitative MRI of the lower limb muscles in a longitudinal study of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy R9
Background and Objectives Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy R9 (LGMD-R9) is a rare neuromuscular disease with no curative treatment. Sensitive non-invasive biomarkers are necessary to monitor disease pro...
Vitelline Warbler (Setophaga vitellina) songs, calls, and habitat preferences: novel acoustic descriptions of a range-restricted Caribbean songbird
The Vitelline Warbler (Setophaga vitellina) is an understudied species endemic to a few small islands in the western Caribbean. Little is known beyond its phylogenetic relationship to other New World...
Follow-up of bowel endometriosis resections performed using the double circular stapler technique: A decade’s experience
Study objective To report individual early and long-term functional outcomes of 43 women who underwent double circular stapler technique (DCST) for colorectal deep endometriosis (DE). Methods This m...
What is the global perspective on advanced practice physiotherapy: A qualitative study across five countries
Background Despite the growth of advanced practice physiotherapy (APP) and the evidence of its effectiveness, challenges persist in implementing and sustaining this model of care. The main challenge i...
Induction of autophagy in one-cell stage somatic cell nuclear transfer embryos improves preimplantation embryonic development in goat species
Autophagy is a lysosome-mediated catabolic pathway that is dependent on the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR). It plays a crucial role in the degradation of aged organelles and macromolecules. Seve...
Prompt architecture induces methodological artifacts in large language models
We examine how the seemingly arbitrary way a prompt is posed, which we term “prompt architecture,” influences responses provided by large language models (LLMs). Five large-scale, full-factorial exper...
The German Auditory and Image (GAudI) vocabulary test: A new German receptive vocabulary test and its relationships to other tests measuring linguistic experience
Humans acquire word knowledge through producing and comprehending spoken and written language. Word learning continues into adulthood and knowledge accumulates across the lifespan. Therefore, receptiv...