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Artificial intelligence (AI) in nursing administration: Challenges and opportunities
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly transforming nursing administration by enhancing operational efficiency and supporting data-driven decision-making. This study explores registered nurses p...
Correction: The efficacy of acupuncture in relieving postoperative pain in patients with low simple anal fistula: Protocol of a prospective, randomised, controlled trial
Cabergoline as a preventive migraine treatment: A randomized clinical pilot trial
Background Beneficial effects of dopamine agonist treatment on migraine have been reported but remain to be properly tested. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of cabergoline as preventiv...
Prevalence of scabies and associated factors among school age children in Qoloji IDP in Babile district, Somali, Eastern Ethiopia
Background Scabies is a contagious ectoparasite of the skin. It is caused by the mite Sarcoptes scabiei var. Scabies occurs worldwide among people of all ages, races, genders and social classes and ha...
Impact of value-based care on quality of life, clinical outcomes, patient satisfaction, and enhanced financial protection among hypertensive patients in Ghana: A protocol for a mixed method evaluation, 2024
Background Evidence on which hypertensive intervention is cost-effective is essential to inform strategy, policy development, practice, implementation, and resource allocation. Value-Based Care (VBC)...
Correction: Cost-effectiveness of Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs) as destination therapy in the UK: An economic modelling study
Meta-analytical approaches to ordinal outcome data in clinical interventional studies: A scoping review with reproducible research
Background Conducting meta-analyses on ordinal outcome data is more complex than on binary or continuous data. This study aims to summarise the current biomedical literature on met...
Assessing construct reliability through open-ended survey response analysis
Online surveys often include quantitative attention checks, but inattentive participants might also be identified using their qualitative responses. We used the software Turnitin™ to assess the origin...
Optimism/pessimism and associations with life event perceptions
Optimism is the generalized sense that good things will happen in the future, and people higher in optimism typically experience a host of positive personal and relational outcomes. However, when oste...
Exploring the prevalence of chronic diseases and health status among international Hajj pilgrims
Background and aims Pilgrims with pre-existing Chronic Diseases are at high risk of physical stress that can lead to unexpected health outcomes, including multiple visits to the hospital, organ failur...
The incidence and predictors of peripheral arterial disease among type 2 diabetes mellitus patients at Felege Hiwot Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia, 2023: A retrospective follow-up study
Background Peripheral arterial disease is a blockage or narrowing of arteries transporting blood from the heart to the legs and feet. Type 2 diabetes mellitus is the second most common risk factor for...
Correction: Cultural framing of giftedness in recent US fictional texts
African Youth in Mind – Protocol of a Pilot feasibility trial of a brief psychological Intervention for older adolescents with depression delivered through senior high schools in Navrongo, Ghana
In Ghana, one in three adolescents are at risk of experiencing depression. However, access to treatment is limited due to the poor integration of mental health services into primary healthcare systems...
Experimental study of pore-scale flow mechanism of immiscible CO2 flooding under in-situ temperature-pressure coupling conditions
The flow mechanism of CO2 flooding serves as the theoretical foundation for examining the synergic integration of oil recovery and CO2 storage. Immiscible CO2 flooding has attracted considerable resea...
Correction: Biomechanical effects of saddle height changes in leisure cycling with unilateral transtibial prostheses: A simulated study
Correction: From tradition to progressiveness: Analyzing Thailand’s image on youtube amid post-cannabis legalization
Correction: Novel deep reinforcement learning based collision avoidance approach for path planning of robots in unknown environment
Trends of inequities in healthcare seeking behavior for diarrhea, fever, and ARI symptoms among women in reproductive age groups for their under-five children in Ethiopian: A multilevel Analysis of EDHS Surveys from 2000 to 2016
Background Ethiopia is one of the developing countries with the highest inequity in the healthcare seeking behavior for under-five children. Despite this fact, not much is known about the trend of in...
Intraoperative phrenic nerve stimulation to prevent diaphragm fiber weakness during thoracic surgery
Thoracic surgery rapidly induces weakness in human diaphragm fibers. The dysfunction is thought to arise from combined effects of the surgical procedures and inactivity. This project tested whether br...
Selection index for economically important traits in Boer crossbred goats using principal component analysis
The optimal strategy for genetic selection is a selection index based on economic weight; however, in developing countries where economic weight estimation is not always evident and easy for breeders...
Characterization of Human Balance through a Reinforcement Learning-based Muscle Controller
Objective characterization of human balance remains a challenge and clinical observation-based balance tests during physical rehabilitation are often affected by subjectivity. On the other hand, compu...
Study of the survival of patients with head and neck cancer in relation to Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs)
Distant metastasis in head and neck cancer are one of the first factors contributing to death. Currently, it is difficult to detect them early with our conventional techniques such as Positron Emissio...
Inhibition of PHB1/PHB2 suppresses atherosclerotic plaque formation by interrupting PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling
Prohibitin 1 (PHB1) and prohibitin 2 (PHB2) are highly conserved proteins belonging to the stomatin-prohibitin flotillin-HflC/K (SPFH) protein superfamily. They are ubiquitously expressed and implicat...
Correction: Historical precipitation and flood damage in Japan: Functional data analysis and evaluation of models
Socio-demographic drivers of household food waste management practices in Thailand
Objective The escalating food waste crisis, with millions of tons of food being discarded annually, highlights the pressing necessity to improve household food waste management practices. This comple...