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Spatial distribution and determinants of improved shared sanitation facilities among households in Ethiopia: Using 2019 mini-Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey
Introduction Limited or shared sanitation services are considered improved sanitation facilities, but they are shared between two or more households. Globally, 600 million people use shared toilet fac...
Cardiorespiratory demands of firearms training instruction and 15m shuttle tests in British law enforcement
Objectives Law enforcement agencies require minimum fitness standards to safeguard their officers and training staff. Firearms instructors (FI) are expected to maintain the same st...
Tillage type and sentinel insect species affect the relative prevalence of the entomopathogenic fungus, Metarhizium robertsii, in soil
Because the use of synthetic agrochemicals is generally not allowed in organic crop production systems, growers rely on natural substances and processes, such as microbial control, to suppress insect...
Rabies transmitted from vampires to cattle: An overview
Rabies is a zoonotic infectious disease of global distribution that impacts human and animal health. In rural Latin America, rabies negatively impacts food security and the economy due to losses in li...
The mediating role of core self-evaluation in the association between perceived peer relationship quality and loneliness in university students
This study investigated the mediating role of core self-evaluation (CSE) in the relationship between the perception of peer relationship quality and loneliness among university students during the COV...
Detection of SARS-CoV-2 and a possible variant in shelter cats
SARS-CoV-2 is the cause of mild to severe acute respiratory disease that led to significant loss of human lives worldwide between 2019 and 2022. The virus has been detected in various animals includin...
"No pain, no gain": Simulation-based learning in teacher education: The mediating role of simulation hindrances
Research on educational simulations has attempted to decipher the simulation-based learning (SBL) process by examining factors that facilitate and impede this process. In the current study, we examine...
Development and validation of the Health Segment Classification of Population Encompassed within Singapore (HealthSCOPES) framework
Introduction The population is heterogeneous with varying levels of healthcare needs. Clustering individuals into health segments with more homogeneous healthcare needs allows for...
July effect in hospitalized cirrhosis patients: A US nationwide study using difference-in-differences analysis
Background The July effect in US teaching hospitals has been studied with conflicting results. We aimed to evaluate the effect of physician turnover in July on the clinical outcome...
Sociodemographic and behavioral factors associated with diet quality among low-income community health center patients with hypertension
Objective Identify the most important sociodemographic and behavioral factors related to the diet of low-income adults with hypertension in order to guide the development of a comm...
Measurement and evaluation of low-carbon tourism development on islands: A case study in Changdao, China
China’s island tourism is still in the exploratory stage, and the carbon emissions due to island tourism development are still prominent. This study assesses the development of low-carbon tourism on C...
An enhanced Transformer framework with incremental learning for online stock price prediction
To address the limitations of existing stock price prediction models in handling real-time data streams—such as poor scalability, declining predictive performance due to dynamic changes in data distri...
Retrospective exploratory evaluation of individual pigs’ behaviour involved in tail biting during rearing and fattening
Tail biting is one of the biggest welfare problems in pigs. However, depending on the individuals involved (e.g., tail biter/victim), pigs seem to change their behaviour prior to tail biting events, w...
What makes a city breastfeeding friendly? A qualitative analysis of interviews with breastfeeding women from Europe and Asia
Background The warm chain of support is the continuous enabling environment from the mother’s first contact with healthcare professionals during early pregnancy, birth and immediate post-partum period...
Drug-Drug interactions prediction calculations between cardiovascular drugs and antidepressants for discovering the potential co-medication risks
Predicting Drug-Drug Interactions (DDIs) enables cost reduction and time savings in the drug discovery process, while effectively screening and optimizing drugs. The intensification of societal aging...
How much time to figure out how to get where? Route planning and subjective stress under time pressure
From a daily commute to military operations in hostile territory and natural disaster responses, people frequently move from place to place. Cognition (e.g., wayfinding) occurs in conjunction with beh...
Trends in the levels, causes, and risk factors of maternal mortality in Pakistan: A comparative analysis of national surveys of 2007 and 2019
Background Maternal mortality ratio (MMR) has decreased worldwide but Pakistan is still striving towards achieving the SDG targets for maternal health. This study highlights the trends in maternal mor...
Supervised exercise-based rehabilitation for people with intermittent claudication–Study protocol for a Danish implementation process (StRiDE)
Introduction Intermittent claudication is a peripheral artery disease caused by arteriosclerosis. People with intermittent claudication experience leg cramping during walking, with relief of symptoms...
Changes in life satisfaction over six years in the general population: A longitudinal study with the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS)
Background Satisfaction with life is a key concept for most individuals. The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) for measuring general life satisfaction has been widely analyzed in terms of cross-sect...
Trazodone, dibenzoylmethane and tauroursodeoxycholic acid do not prevent motor dysfunction and neurodegeneration in Marinesco-Sjögren syndrome mice
There is no cure for Marinesco-Sjögren syndrome (MSS), a genetic multisystem disease linked to loss-of-function mutations in the SIL1 gene, encoding a BiP co-ch...
Specialty palliative care use among cancer patients: A population-based study
Background Rigorous population-based assessments of the use of specialty palliative care (SPC) in the US are rare. Setting...
Clinical course and neurological outcomes of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis: A single center retrospective observational study
Background Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is a rare type of thrombosis that affects the cerebral venous system. The data on neurological outcomes are limited. Objectives This study aimed to...
Prevalence of neonatal sepsis and associated factors among neonates admitted in the neonatal intensive care unit at Lira Regional Referral Hospital, Northern Uganda
Background Sepsis is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity among neonates. An estimated 5.29–8.73 million Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) are lost annually in SSA due to neonatal...
Unexpected effects of pandemic-related changes on mental health: Evidence from a nationwide survey in South Korea
Background Substantial evidence indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected population mental health globally. However, most studies assumed a linear relationship where only negative p...
Modeling maize aflatoxins and fumonisins in a Tanzanian smallholder system: Accounting for diverse risk factors improves mycotoxin models
Human exposure to mycotoxins is common and often severe in underregulated maize-based food systems. This study explored how monitoring of these systems could help to identify when and where outbreaks...