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Community health systems and priority setting for elderly healthcare services in rural Tanzania: Experience from Nzega and Igunga districts
Introduction In the 1990s, Tanzania adopted health sector reforms with the aim of engaging the local communities in priority setting and decision-making for effective and efficient use of resources. C...
Change is never easy: Exploring the transition from undergraduate to dental student in a U.S.-based program
The goal of this study was to gain student-centered insights to better understand the challenges of transitioning from undergraduate to dental education. To this end, questionnaires were designed and...
The association between healthcare access and shingles vaccination among older adults in Virginia, United States
Introduction Shingles is a debilitating vaccine preventable disease that poses a health threat to older adults. However, the uptake of shingles vaccines remains low, and the factors contributing to th...
Beware of physiology: Anthropomorphism as a simplification mechanism for mastering complex human-machine interfaces
Humans’ remarkable technical reasoning skills have led to the development of increasingly sophisticated tools. In particular, society has welcomed the advent and democratization of machines that produ...
‘Great in theory’: Women’s care experiences in relation to Australia’s national maternity Strategy—Qualitative survey responses
Background The provision of woman-centred maternity care in Australia is guided by a national Strategy released in November 2019 titled Woman-centred care: Strategic directions for Australian maternit...
Alienation in Ethiopian cinema: “T’eza” (“Morning Dew”) and “Səlä ʾänəči” (“About you”) in focus
The main objective of this study was to show and analyze the representation of alienation in selected Amharic films. The films selected for the analysis include T’eza (Morning Dew) (2008) by Haile Ger...
Tending the sick: Observations of epimeletic behavior in humpback whales towards conspecifics during entanglement events
Anthropogenic impacts on marine systems are increasing in frequency, geographic range and severity. While changes in climate will likely lead to the greatest impacts at the system-level, for marine me...
Preferences of public sector medical doctors, professional nurses and rehabilitation therapists for multiple job holding regulation: A discrete choice experiment
Introduction Regulating multiple job holding (MJH) among health professionals is challenging for many health systems. The effectiveness of different MJH policy reforms depends on the behavioural respo...
Epidemiology of disorders associated with tall stature in childhood: A 20-year birth cohort study
Many primary and secondary disorders in childhood may cause tall stature (height of +2 standard deviations above the mean height for age and sex). Growth-monitoring programs are aimed at early detecti...
Variations in de novo donor-specific antibody development among HLA-DQ mismatches in kidney transplant recipients
Background HLA-DQ antibodies are the most prevalent de novo donor-specific antibodies (dnDSAs) after kidney transplantation (KT). The immunogenicity and impact of each HLA-DQ mismatch on graft outcome...
Leveraging agent-based modeling and a randomized intervention to advance childhood physical activity: A study protocol
This study (1R01HD107002-01A1) protocol describes the planned creation and use of an agent-based model (ABM) of early childhood physical activity (PA). Successful early childhood PA interventions can...
An application of YOLOv8 integrated with attention mechanisms for detection of grape leaf black rot spots
Aiming at the problems of low recognition rate of small target spots in grape leaf images and low detection accuracy due to low resolution of input images. In this paper, an improved recognition netwo...
A multidimensional quiet quitting scale: Development and test of a measure of quiet quitting
Growing attention has focused on employees’ repeated workplace decision to engage in work-related tasks and responsibilities at a minimum level that will not lead to their dismissal. This pattern of e...
Spruce vs. pine did not impact soil organic carbon density but strongly affected a functionally important dwarf shrub in a boreal production forest system
In the boreal zone, forestry is one of the most influential drivers of land-use changes. Tree species selection is a management decision which may strongly affect environmental factors that subsequent...
Extra virgin olive oil mitigates lung injury in necrotizing enterocolitis: Effects on TGFβ1, Caspase-3, and MDA in a neonatal rat model
Background Necrotizing enterocolitis (NE), which is common in premature babies, has been associated with lung damage. Our aim is to explore the effect of enterally administered extra virgin olive oil...
Assessing factors that influence graduate student burnout in health professions education and identifying recommendations to support their well-being
Background While well-being has become increasingly important in graduate education, limited information exists regarding factors contributing towards burnout and well-being in Pharmaceutical Sciences...
A real-world multicenter cross-sectional observational study to assess the clinical profile of peripheral neuropathy in patients with diabetes
Background There are limited studies on the prevalence of diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) and related foot deformities in patients with T2DM from India. Aim To investigate the prevalence, chara...
Association between advanced lung cancer inflammation index and gallstone prevalence among U.S. adults: A population-based study
Introduction Gallstones are a common digestive disorder, with a global prevalence of 10%–15%, posing a significant economic burden on public health. The formation of gallstones is closely associated w...
Tracking control of robotic manipulator end-effector trajectory based on robust sliding mode method
This paper addresses the precise trajectory tracking of robotic manipulators (RMs) in automation tasks, particularly in hazardous environments. A dynamic model of the end-effector in Cartesian coordin...
Fear of missing out, social media influencers, and the social, psychological and financial wellbeing of young consumers
This study examines the social, psychological, and financial wellbeing of younger consumers who follow social media influencers. The consumer panel MTurk was used to collect a U.S. sample of 863 adult...
Bioinformatics analysis and development of functional markers for TaMYB4-1A in wheat
MYB transcription factors play crucial roles in various stages of plant growth and development. Bioinformatics analysis revealed that wheat TaMYB4-1A contains two conserved MYB domain. The coding regi...
The distribution of technology induced job loss: Evidence from a population-wide study in Norway
Globalization and automation are leading to skill-biased structural changes in the labor market, resulting in the polarization of employment opportunities. These shifts are raising concerns about grow...
Maternal serum albumin in the late trimester and birth weight: a cross-sectional study from Jiangxi, China
Background The links of maternal serum albumin (ALB) concentration in the late trimester and infant birth weight remain equivocal. Accordingly, we focused on the investigation of the correlation of ma...
NgR1 knockout increased neuronal excitability and altered seizure pattern in traumatic brain injury mice brain after PTZ-induced seizure
The recovery process from traumatic brain injury (TBI) is significantly impeded by inhibitors such as Nogo-A, myelin associated glycoprotein, and oligodendrocyte myelin glycoprotein, which exert an im...
Mapping the temporal transcriptomic signature of a viral pathogen through CAGE and nanopore sequencing
Introduction Equid alphaherpesvirus 1 (EHV-1), a veterinary pathogen belonging to the Varicellovirus genus, is responsible for significant economic losses in the global equine sector. This research in...