Beyond illness: how chronic conditions and unhealthy behaviors impact health-related quality of life among Iranian women by Satar Rezaei

“…Data were collected through face-to-face interviews using a structured questionnaire that included sociodemographic characteristics, lifestyle behaviors, chronic disease status, and the validated Iranian versions of the EQ-5D-5 L (hereafter referred to as EQ-5D) and EQ-VAS instruments to assess HRQoL. …”
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Paediatric Emergency Triage, Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) – preparedness for implementation at primary care facilities in Malawi by Carina King, Albert Dube, Beatiwel Zadutsa, Lumbani Banda, Josephine Langton, Nicola Desmond, Norman Lufesi, Charles Makwenda, Helena Hildenwall

“…Methods We conducted a concurrent mixed-methods study, including facility audit; healthcare provider survey; focus group discussions (FGD) and semi-structured interviews with facility staff. The study was conducted in two districts in Malawi, Zomba and Mchinji, between January and May 2019. …”
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Validation of the Eyesi Slit Lamp Simulator for a Simulated Training Curriculum for Residents in Ophthalmology: A National Delphi study by Kasper Ruotsalainen Hansen, Simon Joel Lowater, Kristina Sanne Lyngsø, Anne Helene Køllund Nissen, Anna Stage Vergmann

“…Further testing under an evidence-based framework is required to integrate them into a structured curriculum and assess their impact on clinical skills.…”
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Local perceptions of the cultural and ecological significance of Southern Mistbelt Forests in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa by Siboniso Magoso, Mfundo S.T. Maseko, Lindiswa Buthelezi, Colleen T. Downs

“…We investigated people’s perceptions of Southern Mistbelt Forests’ value, cultural and ecological services, and importance with varying degrees of anthropogenic disturbance. Using structured questionnaires, we surveyed selected communities residing near the natural forests in southern KwaZulu-Natal during 2023–2024 to (1) document their perceptions, values, and forest use, (2) understand how forest anthropogenic disturbances affect them, and (3) provide conservation implications. …”
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Building resilience, emotional regulation, kindness, and critical thinking in the digital age: An evaluation of the Superpowers Program on Philippine kindergarteners by Rebekah Luo, Sundance Zhihong Sun, Emma Carter, Therese N Hopfenbeck

“…These findings suggest that structured SEL and digital literacy programs can effectively promote character strengths crucial for navigating the digital age among young children in developing countries. …”
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Comparative analysis of Microsoft Kinect Azure and manual measurement methods in the sit and reach test among elite female weightlifters by Usame Ömer Osmanoğlu, Kenan Erdaği, Bülent IŞIK, Serkan Örücü, Erkan Özbay

“…The findings suggest that Kinect Azure may provide good reproducibility and agreement with manual goniometric measurements for joint angles under the specific structured conditions tested. For parameters such as the elbow, shoulder, wrist, trunk angles and distance traveled, high ICC values (> 0.90) indicated strong consistency between the methods. …”
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Core Regulation of Long Period Grating Based on Ring-Core Hollow Fiber and the Application of Temperature Sensing by Bin Dai, Xiang Shen, Jinyan Li, Nengli Dai, Luyun Yang, Xiongwei Hu, Yibo Wang, Yehui Liu, Jinggang Peng, Haiqing Li

“…We propose a novel long-period grating (LPG) based on a ring-core hollow fiber (RCHF) filled with functional liquid as a tunable material. The RCHF structure is simple. The effective refractive index tuning characteristics of the liquid-filled RCHF-LPG are investigated. …”
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Mixed ℋ-Infinity and Passive Synchronization of Markovian Jumping Neutral-Type Complex Dynamical Networks with Randomly Occurring Distributed Coupling Time-Varying Delays and Actua... by N. Boonsatit, R. Sugumar, D. Ajay, G. Rajchakit, C. P. Lim, P. Hammachukiattikul, M. Usha, P. Agarwal

“…The relevant data including limits of actuator faults, bounds of the nonlinear terms, and external disturbances are available for designing the controller structure. Novel Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional (LKF) is constructed to verify the stability of the error model and performance level. …”
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Seismic Response of Variable Section Column with a Change in Its Boundary Conditions by Alexandre de Macêdo Wahrhaftig, Moshe Eisenberger, Castro Baptista Elias, Luiz Antônio Malheiros Filho

“…The obtained generalized stiffness and mass are used to perform approximate seismic evaluation at low effort and examine the influence of the changes to the structure. The analysis indicated that with a spring coefficient of 5 <i>EI</i>/<i>l</i>, the displacement drops by 50%, meaning that this range can produce significant influence on the structural response. …”
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INFLUENCE OF MICROSTRUCTURED COLLAGEN HYDROGEL ON PANCREATIC ISLET CELL CULTURES by L. A. Kirsanova, N. V. Baranova, G. N. Bubentsova, G. N. Skaletskaya, N. V. Perova, V. I. Sevastianov, N. N. Skaletskiy

“…The presence of the microstructured collagen hydrogel matrix during the incubation of floating islet cell cultures promoted long-term preservation of the structural integrity and hormonal activity. Simultaneously the formation of cultures of pancreatic progenitor cells (islet cells precursors) was observed. …”
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Enhancement of optical limiting activity of para-aminobenzoic acid using silver nanoparticles by Shradha Lakhera, Meenakshi Rana, Vivek Dhuliya, L. P. Purohit, A. Dhanusha, T. C. Sabari Girisun, Shruti Sharma, Papia Chowdhury, Km Sakshi, Soumyendu Roy, Devendra Kumar

“…The XRD spectra for PABA + AgNPs confirm its crystalline structure. The absorption spectra of AgNPs and PABA + AgNPs indicate complete stability of the samples. …”
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Comparison of climate-phenology-hydrology associations at two long-term studied forest watersheds in subtropical mountainous Taiwan by Chung-Te Chang, Jun-Yi Lee, Jyh-Min Chiang, Hsueh-Ching Wang, Cho-ying Huang, Jr-Chuan Huang, Chiu-Hsien Wang, Chun-Wei Tseng

“…Structural equation modeling (SEM) revealed that an earlier start of growing season (SOS), driven by high spring rainfall (February–March), led to an extended growing season and higher P-Q deficit (precipitation minus runoff) during Leinhuachi's growing season (Goodness of fit index = 0.988, χ2 = 0.825, df = 2, p = 0.662). …”
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Temperature Insensitive and Integrated Differential Pressure Sensor for Liquid Level Sensing Based on an Optical Fiber Fabry&#x2013;Perot Interferometer by Tiegen Liu, Wanchen Zhang, Shuang Wang, Junfeng Jiang, Kun Liu, Xue Wang, Jinshi Zhang

“…The opened FP cavity constitutes a differential pressure sensing structure at the same time. To verify the performance of this sensor, an experiment with an optical fiber pressure and temperature experiment system is carried out. …”
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Approaches to Pharmaceutical Analysis of Modern Peptide and Oligonucleotide Products as Illustrated by a Small Interfering RNA-Based Novel Therapeutic for the Treatment of Bronchia... by L. M. Krasnykh, V. V. Smirnov, G. V. Ramenskaya, G. F. Vasilenko, I. P. Shilovsky, M. R. Haitov

“…Peptide identification is a difficult task and largely depends on the complexity of its structure. There does not exist a comprehensive and simple test, except for NMR, which, however, is rather expensive and time-consuming and involves complex data interpretations. …”
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Rapid Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of CuSe Nanoparticles for High-Sensitivity Serotonin Biosensing in Serum by Sankar Sekar, Ramalingam Manikandan, Shiva Kumar Arumugasamy, Saravanan Sekar, Youngmin Lee, Seung-Cheol Chang, Sejoon Lee

“…The fabricated CuSe nanostructures exhibited an interconnected, cluster-like morphology composed of irregularly shaped particles with a distinct hexagonal crystal structure. The electrochemical results revealed that the CuSe/SPCE sensor showed better electrochemical activity and good analytical sensing performance towards serotonin detection. …”
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Effects of europium doping on thermal property and failure behaviour of Gd2Zr2O7 thermal barrier coatings by Zaoyu Shen, Yuqing Luo, Guanxi Liu, Jianwei Dai, Limin He, Rende Mu

“…The thermo-physical property of the GdEuZrO ceramics are superior to Gd2Zr2O7 and YSZ due to the substitution of Eu. A feathery structure characterized by inner-gaps and linear pores is observable at the column tips. …”
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Assessing brain morphological correlates of premenstrual symptoms in young healthy females by Sara B. Marjanovic, Madelene Christin Holm Bukhari, Rikka Kjelkenes, Irene Voldsbekk, Claudia Barth, Lars T. Westlye

“…Premenstrual symptoms have been partly attributed to the brain's sensitivity to menstrual cycle-related hormonal fluctuations, which may be modulated by individual differences in the structural characteristics of the brain. In a population-based sample of 292 non-pregnant females aged 23–43 years, we tested for associations between self-reported premenstrual symptom load and T1-weighted MRI based brain measures of cortical thickness, volume, and surface area as well as subcortical volumes, not controlling for menstrual cycle phase. …”
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NSGT: A Plasma Position Prediction Method for the HL-2A Tokamak Device Based on Transformer by Ling Zhou, Bin Yang, Xiangcheng Lin, Kaihao Zhu, Ziran Lan, Xiangwen Li

“…In this model, we select data from historical discharge experiments as the input of the NSGT model, and use the improved Transformer structure to model the global features of the multi - source fused data. …”
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Novel polymer surfactants based on the branched silatrane-containing polyesters and polyethers by V. V. Istratov, V. I. Gomzyak, O. V. Yamskova, G. D. Markova, L. G. Komarova, B. A. Izmaylov, V. A. Vasnev

“…The polymers were modified with 3-isocyanopropylsilatrane and trimethylethoxysilane to obtain the amphiphilic compounds containing silatrane groups bonded to the polymer backbone by the urethane bond. The structure of the synthesized polymer silatranes was confirmed via nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and gel permeation chromatography. …”
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Thiophosphate-Based Covalent Organic Framework (COF) or Porous Organic Polymer (POP)? by Christophe Menendez, Yannick Coppel, Baptiste Martin, Anne-Marie Caminade

“…There are few examples of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) based on phosphorus as the building element, probably because the structure of most phosphorus derivatives is pyramidal, which may prevent the stacking expected for classical 2-dimensional COFs. …”
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