Further validation of the Chinese short Warwick Edinburgh mental wellbeing scale in the adult population of Macau: an application of classic test theory and item response theory by Lawrence T. Lam, Lawrence T. Lam, Lawrence T. Lam, Mary K. Lam

“…Measurement invariance by gender was assessed using standard procedures. The Grade Response Model (GRM) of the IRT analysis was applied to the data, estimating the discrimination and difficulty parameters at different thresholds. …”
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Video prediction based on temporal aggregation and recurrent propagation for surveillance videosThe datasets analysed during the current study are available in the weblink reposito... by Mohana Priya P, UlagaPriya K

“…Video prediction is essential for recreating absent frames in video sequences while maintaining temporal and spatial coherence. This procedure, known as video inpainting, seeks to reconstruct missing segments by utilizing data from available frames. …”
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Ulnar polydactyly of the hand: a classification system and clinical series by Dan Chen, Wenyao Zhong, Liying Sun, Zongxuan Zhao, Wen Tian

“…Data collected included patient demographics, clinical presentation, radiographic findings, family history, associated anomalies, and surgical procedures. Based on detailed morphological and radiographic assessments, we developed a novel classification system comprising five main types (0–4) and associated subtypes. …”
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Nationwide Awareness Campaign and Call for Dental Screening for Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia in Germany by Urban W. Geisthoff, Frank Hölzle, Boris A. Stuck, Joachim Jackowski, Catherine Hand Goetz, Christina Grabowski, Freya Droege

“…Pulmonary VMs can lead to paradoxical embolism of thrombi or bacteria, e.g., due to dental procedures. Early detection can reduce morbidity and mortality and is recommended. …”
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Time to Treatment Delay and Clinical Indicators in Patients with ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study by Mahsa Motadayen, Hossein Feizollahzadeh, Mohamad Reza Taban, Javad Dehganneghad

“…To reduce delays, it is proposed to improve the logistics surrounding these procedures for patients with STEMI and to provide appropriate education about the STEMI management program to all stockholders.…”
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Does Renewable Energy Enhance Energy Security? Evidence from a Granger Causality Analysis of Countries in the Context of Geopolitical Risks and Socioeconomic Challenges by Oleksii Havrylenko, Iuliia Myroshnychenko

“…All renewable indicators were transformed using Box-Cox procedures to correct right-skewed distributions. The panel fixed-effects Granger causality models were estimated to have two-year lags to detect temporal causality while controlling for unobserved heterogeneity. …”
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Diagnostics of Professional Attitudes of Modern Adolescent Students by A.D. Andreeva, A.G. Lisichkina, L.A. Begunova

“… <p>The article presents the procedure for modifying the I.M. Kondakov questionnaire "Professional attitudes of adolescents", developed more than 35 years ago. …”
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Service Innovation in the Twenty First Century by Ian Miles

“…At present, researchers tend to lean toward one of two approaches: that service sector innovation can directly apply tools from manufacturing, or that there are distinctive features of services that require particular evaluation procedures and policies. In fact,  there is often convergence between the manufacturing and service sectors. …”
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Surgical Results in Unilateral Superior Oblique Muscle Palsy by Aylin Tenlik, Yaşar Duranoğlu, Hatice Deniz İlhan

“…Patients’ demographics, preoperative signs, surgical procedure, complications, and final results were recorded. …”
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Implementation of the quality-by-design concept for an adeno-associated viral vector-based gene therapy by D. S. Kopein, G. N. Poroshin, R. A. Khamitov

“…The authors listed the CQAs, developed the basic requirements for the applicable analytical procedures, and established the CQA specifications for the gene therapy product.CONCLUSIONS. …”
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Factors Working against Exclusive Breastfeeding among Working-Class Women Living around Dagiri Gwagwalada Area Council, Abuja by Olaolorunpo Olorunfemi, Ifedun Rachael Awe, Gbemisola Bolanle Ogbeye, Olamide Oluyemisi Oluwagbemi, Wakeel Adelani Tijani

“…Materials and Methods: The sample size (n = 196) for a descriptive cross-sectional study that ran from September 2022 to December 2022 was determined using a multistage sampling procedure. Tables, percentages, and Chi-square test statistics were employed at the 0.05 level of significance to examine the data using the Statistical Package Service Software (SPSS) version 23.0. …”
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Evaluation of live surgery continuing education course in implantology for dentists: a retrospective cross-sectional survey by Yunyi Xie, Junda Li, Qianmin Ou, Jinming Wang

“…In traditional dental continuing education, training for implant surgery is typically delivered through various forms of demonstrations (such as videos, images) in courses, but this learning method lacks interactivity and detailed information on surgical procedures. However, live surgery can address these limitations. …”
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Men's perspectives of prostate cancer screening: A systematic review of qualitative studies. by Laura J James, Germaine Wong, Jonathan C Craig, Camilla S Hanson, Angela Ju, Kirsten Howard, Tim Usherwood, Howard Lau, Allison Tong

“…Five themes were identified: Social prompting (trusting professional opinion, motivation from family and friends, proximity and prominence of cancer); gaining decisional confidence (overcoming fears, survival imperative, peace of mind, mental preparation, prioritising wellbeing); preserving masculinity (bodily invasion, losing sexuality, threatening manhood, medical avoidance); avoiding the unknown and uncertainties (taboo of cancer-related death, lacking tangible cause, physiological and symptomatic obscurity, ambiguity of the procedure, confusing controversies); and prohibitive costs.…”
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Age at Menarche, Level of Education, Parity and the Risk of Hysterectomy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses of Population-Based Observational Studies. by Louise F Wilson, Gita D Mishra

“…<h4>Background</h4>Although rates have declined, hysterectomy is still a frequent gynaecological procedure. To date, there has been no systematic quantification of the relationships between early/mid-life exposures and hysterectomy. …”
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Temporal Attention-based Vision Transformer for Source-Free Video Unsupervised Domain Adaptation by Shaimaa Yosry, Lamiaa Elrefaei, Rafaat ElKamaar, Rania R. Ziedan

“…Abstract Source-Free Video Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (SFVUDA) is a difficult video action recognition issue where the adaptation procedure restricts access to source domain data. To tackle this, we suggest Temporal Attention-based Vision Transformer for SFVUDA (TAViT-SFVUDA) that makes use of confidence-aware learning techniques and temporal consistency. …”
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MATHEMATICAL MODELING FOR BENZYLPENICILIN POTASSIUM AND STREPTOMYCIN SULPHATE POTENCY DETERMINATION OF ASCOMICIN by Viviana Ciuca, Victorita Burghelea, V.V. Safta, Despina Nita, Luciana Paraschiv

“…The stated potency is not less than 19400 international units/g benzylpenicillin potassium and 13960 international units/g streptomycin sulphate. The validation procedure includes details on protocol working to determine the potency of benzylpenicillin potassium and streptomycin sulphate, validation criteria, experimental results, mathematical modeling for determining the potency, interlaboratory comparisons.…”
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De novo regeneration of dentin pulp complex mediated by Adipose derived stem cells in an immunodeficient albino rat model (Histological, histochemical and scanning electron microsc... by Khaled El-Haddad, Medhat A. El-Zainy, Mohamed Nagy, Iman Fathy

“…Background: Dental tissue engineering is an alternative procedure for restoring damaged dental tissues. Adipose-derived stem cells are a new source of cells for regenerative endodontics in combination with scaffold materials. …”
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Surgical anatomy and histology of the levator palpebrae superioris muscle for blepharoptosis correction by Đorđević Boban, Novaković Marijan, Milisavljević Milan, Milićević Saša, Maliković Aleksandar

“…Using routine fixation, decalcination, dehydration, illumination, impregnation and molding procedures in paraplast, specimens were prepared for cross-sections. …”
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Organizational and legal forms and differences in the administrative and legal status of the territorial bodies of the federal executive authorities of the Russian Federation by A. P. Demin

“…By-laws may have a certain potential in terms of the distribution of powers within the structure of the territorial body of the federal executive authority, however, “status” norms should be present in the provisions of a separate federal law regulating the procedure for the establishment, transformation and liquidation of the territorial bodies of the federal executive authority.…”
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Frequency of Pre-Analytical Errors and Its Causes in Glucose Specimen Collection: A Cross-Sectional Analysis in Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Pakistan by Hafiza Asma Hafiz, Muhammad Umair Naseer, Seemi Tanvir, Raima Kalhoro, Misbah Hafeez, Memona Zia

“…During the data collection process, quality control procedures were in place to ensure accuracy and consistency.  …”
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