Can socioeconomic factors and the availability of medicinal plant resources influence people's perception of risk in relation to diseases? by Cecilia de Fatima Castelo Branco Rangel de Almeida, Maria Lorena da Silva, Washington Soares Ferreira Junior, Taline Cristina da Silva

“…Methods The research was conducted in the community of Serra Grande, Lagoa do Ouro, Pernambuco, with 95 participants. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect data on socioeconomic factors, perceived risk of disease (using ranking and Likert scale), and perceived availability of medicinal plants. …”
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Maternity care providers' perspectives on late-term gestation management (LATE-study): A cross-sectional survey. by Anna E Seijmonsbergen-Schermers, Fatima Hammiche, Hannah de Klerk, Judit K J Keulen, Caroline J Bax, Lilian L Peters, Corine J Verhoeven

“…<h4>Methods</h4>An online questionnaire was developed, improved on the basis of four semi-structured interviews, piloted, and distributed to primary care and hospital-based midwives, residents, and obstetricians. …”
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Modélisation des objets historiques selon la fonction, l’espace et le temps pour l’étude des dynamiques urbaines dans la longue durée by Xavier Rodier, Laure Saligny

“….- Space, the most formalized of the three sets, is structured on the model of a planar topological graph without isthmi.- Time, always considered as continuous and linear, will be modelled by analogy with space using temporal topology defined in the field of artificial intelligence.The relationships between these three sets each characterize an interaction (social use-space, social use-time, time-space, or function-space-time). …”
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INTERNAL AUDIT EFFICIENCY AND PUBLIC SECTOR PERFORMANCE: A STUDY OF SELECTED MDAs IN KWARA STATE by Aminat Arike ARIYO-EDU, Ibrahim Ayodeji WOLI-JIMOH, Muhammed Lawal SUBAIR

“…Primary data was sourced through the administration of well-structured questionnaire using five-points Likert scale to measure the question items. …”
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Determinants of Nurses’ Compliance with Infection Prevention and Control Practices in Critical Care Units by Raghad Batran, Ahmad Ayed, Ahmad Batran, Moath Abu Ejheisheh, Bahaa Alassoud, Mohammed F. Hayek, Ali Batran

“…Data were collected using a structured questionnaire that measured sociodemographic characteristics, compliance, knowledge, and perceptions of infection prevention and control (IPC) practices. …”
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Association between physical activity level and cardiovascular disease: An empirical analysis based on CHARLS data in 2018. by Haiwei Li, Liang Luo, Jing Zhang, Yanhao Zhao, Peipei Cheng, Dan Liu, Liwei Guo

“…<h4>Methods</h4>The diagnosis of CVD was based on self-reported physician-diagnosed heart disease or stroke, while PAL were classified using calculations derived from a structured questionnaire. Both datasets were obtained from the 2018 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) survey. …”
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Passive social media use and depression among college students during public health emergencies: a chain mediation approach by Lin Wang, Shuhe Li, Yajing Liu, Lu Cheng

“…This study investigates the impact of passive social media use on depression among college students during the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically examining the mediating roles of vicarious traumatization and fear of missing out (FoMO).MethodsA structured survey was conducted among 322 college students. …”
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The method to study the competencies of the subjects of the digital economy by N. V. Dneprovskaya

“…The author’s method has been developed for studying the competences of digital economy subjects as a large set of knowledge and skills for using modern IT to solve current economic problems.The research method consists in structuring the bunch in the form of a matrix, the size of which is determined by the number of modern IT and economic activities. …”
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Comorbidity in patients with lobular panniculitis-lipodermatosclerosis by O. N. Egorova, B. S. Belov, E. G. Sazhina

“…The onset of LDS falls on the age of 50–60 years, when many patients already have comorbid pathology requiring complex therapy, which affects the course, the choice of treatment and prognosis of LDS, as well as the quality of life.Objective: to study the structure and frequency of comorbid conditions in patients with LDS.Patients and methods. 53 patients (3 men and 50 women), 18–80 years old, with a verified diagnosis of LDS were included, all of them had an average follow up of 10 years (they were observed in the V.A. …”
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Modeling the Meaning of Individual Words Using Cultural Cartography and Keystroke Dynamics by Tatiana A. Litvinova, Olga V. Dekhnich

“…., “cultural cartography using word embeddings”) and a new list of features developed by the authors to describe individual differences in the meaning of a word based on the data from neurobiology about the meaning structure of word. A set of data analysis methods (linear mixed models, principal components analysis, hierarchical clustering on principal components) implemented in R packages is used to reveal individual differences in the word meaning in terms of the proposed list of features and association of the revealed differences with participants’ characteristics. …”
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The impact of deprivation and neighbourhood food environments on home food environments, parental feeding practices, child eating behaviours, food preferences and BMI: The Family F... by Andrea D Smith, Alice Kininmonth, Kristiane Tommerup, David Boniface, Chiara Gericke, Tiffany Denning, Carolyn Summerbell, Christina Vogel, Clare Llewellyn

“…Greater deprivation was also associated with a more obesogenic home food environment (β = -0.19, p < 0.001) and lower meal structure (β = 0.17, p < 0.001). Exposure to less healthy neighbourhood food environments around and between home and school were associated with a more obesogenic home food environment (β = -0.07, p < 0.01), but no significant associations were found with feeding practices, child eating behaviours or child BMI. …”
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Fish Diversity Patterns in Rivers Receiving Ecological Water Supplement Driven by Riparian Land Use by LIU Han, LI Lu-dan, GUO Wei-jie, QIAO Qiang-long, GONG Dan-dan, DU Qi, LI Hang, ZHAO Wei-hua

“…Statistical analyses included: Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Permutational Multivariate Analysis of Variance (PERMANOVA) to test interannual differences; Non-metric Multidimensional Scaling (NMDS) to visualize community structure; Pearson correlation analysis to examine relationships among diversity indices; and Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) models to quantify the driving effects of riparian land use on fish diversity. …”
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Chasing environmental sustainability in healthcare organizations: insights from the Italian experience by Michela Bobini, Americo Cicchetti

“…The analysis also revealed a positive association between the number of sustainability domains addressed and the number of actions implemented, suggesting that broader engagement supports more structured implementation. Conclusions The findings suggest that organizations do not necessarily follow a linear or formalized pathway in adopting environmental sustainability practices. …”
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Optimising complexity and learning for photonic reservoir computing with gain-controlled multimode fibres by Giulia Marcucci, Luana Olivieri, Juan Sebastian Totero Gongora

“…In our approach, RC is implemented by structuring the pump and probe beams using phase-only spatial light modulators. …”
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Modeling a Standard Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Reaction and Its Modification Involving Additional Inner Primers by Liana U. Akhmetzianova, Constantin I. Mikhaylenko, Dmitry A. Chemeris, Valery D. Khairitdinov, Assol R. Sakhabutdinova, Irek M. Gubaydullin, Ravil R. Garafutdinov, Alexey V. Chemeris

“…Due to self-priming, Z6_dmb(1) transforms into hairpin structure Z9_hp(1) and then into linearized strand Z9_li(1), carrying also strand Z6_dmb(2). …”
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High-Frequency Ultrasonography As An Innovative Diagnostic Method in Dermatology by Aneta Rasińska, Piotr Rzyczniok, Anna Rzyczniok, Weronika Rasińska, Justyna Jachimczak, Filip Grydź, Joanna Filipow, Anna Rebizak, Paulina Bala, Aneta Rostkowska, Sebastian Kupisiak, Natalia Pasierb, Justyna Matusik, Mateusz Kopczyński

“…The physical conditions of  HFU make it possible  to estimate the parameters of the skin structure, such as thickness and echogenicity (a feature related to the center) of its layers in relation to the surrounding tissues. …”
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Short-term PM1 exposure and sleep duration: a nationwide study using consumer-grade wearable devices by Jiajun Liu, Mintao Su, Junxiong Ma, Qinfeng Zhou, Hanxu Shi, Yujie Shi, Shuyu Huang, Yuchuan Tang, Peining Zhou, Kunyao Yu, Rui Su, Rui Zhou, Jing Wei, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Zhang

“…Although individual sleep duration changes appear modest, the cumulative impact of PM _1 on sleep structure, especially in vulnerable populations, poses significant public health risks in physiological restoration. …”
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Improvement of the perovskite photodiodes performance via advanced interface engineering with polymer dielectric by Andrey P. Morozov, Lev O. Luchnikov, Sergey Yu. Yurchuk, Artur R. Ishteev, Pavel A. Gostishchev, Sergey I. Didenko, Nikita S. Saratovsky, Dmitry O. Balakirev, Ivan V. Dyadishchev, Andrey A. Romanov, Ekaterina A. Ilicheva, Anton A. Vasilev, Sergey S. Kozlov, Dmitry S. Muratov, Yuriy N. Luponosov, Danila S. Saranin

“…The integration of P(VDF-TrFE) into the perovskite film didn’t affect the morphology and crystal structure, but significantly changed the charge transport and device performance. …”
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Clinical analysis of vitrectomy combined with dexamethasone intraveal implant in the treatment of epiretinal membrane by WU Kunfang, GUO Meimei, LI Xiang, WANG Dingding

“…Both surgical methods can improve the structure, function, and microcirculation disorders in the macular area. …”
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Model Optimization for High-Yield Biocrude in Co-Hydrothermal Liquefaction of Municipal Sludge by Botian HAO, Yunfei DIAO, Ya WEI, Donghai XU

“…The RSM established a predictive model based on a second-order polynomial equation, achieving an R2 value of 0.9833 and demonstrating excellent linear fitting capability. In contrast, the ANN employed a three-layer topological structure (3-node input layer, 10-node hidden layer, and 1-node output layer). …”
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