Revamping field practicum: insights for future health services management professionals by Fatemeh Mohabati, Marzieh Arefi, Seyed Pouria Hedayati

“…Thirteen core issues were identified and categorized into primary codes, including causal, contextual, intervening, focal, strategies, and outcomes. …”
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Prevalence and associated factors of corneal opacity among adults in Kolladiba town, Northwest Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study by Endalew Mulugeta Worku, Sofonias Addis Fekadu, Bersufekad Wubie Alemie, Merkineh Markos Lorato

“…Hence, concerned stakeholders should strive to reverse the effects of corneal opacity on the quality of life of the study and causal studies should be considered in the future.…”
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Enseñanza de Agronegocios en la Universidad de Costa Rica: Motivación y percepciones del estudiantado durante la COVID-19 by Alexis Villalobos Monge, Mario Villatoro-Sánchez, Gustavo Quesada Roldán, Melissa Aguzzi Fallas, Carlos Loría Quirós

“…Los datos recopilados fueron analizados utilizando modelos de ecuaciones estructurales para examinar las relaciones causales entre las variables de interés. Se observó que la motivación personal tuvo un efecto significativo (β=0.23) en la percepción del estudiantado sobre la enseñanza de Agronegocios durante la pandemia. …”
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Epigene functional diversity: isoform usage, disordered domain content, and variable binding partners by Leroy Bondhus, Aileen A. Nava, Isabelle S. Liu, Valerie A. Arboleda

“…Moreover, mutations in epigenes have been implicated as causal in germline pediatric disorders and as driver mutations in cancer. …”
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Análisis de los motivos de práctica en la actividad física dirigida by Fernando Picó-Martínez, Juan Pedro Fuentes, Rafael Martínez-Gallego

“…Futuros estudios deben abordar estas variables en entornos homogéneos y con un diseño longitudinal para establecer relaciones causales. …”
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Association between sleep patterns and depression in older adults: a cross-sectional study using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2007–2014 by Yi Niu, Yuqin Sun, Yijie Xie, Shun Yu

“…However, the study population was limited to Americans, and we recommend continued investigation of the causal relationship and mechanisms between the two in the future, and further expansion of data sources in order to assess the applicability of the findings.…”
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Association between C-reactive protein and chronic pain in US adults: A nationwide cross-sectional study. by Chunsheng Huang, Qizhen Tong, Qiaoling Tong

“…Additional investigation is necessary to explore the presence of a causal association between the two variables, as well as the potential underlying mechanisms.…”
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A multi-strain human skin microbiome model provides a testbed for disease modeling by Angela L. Maloney, Tyler Crawford, Jordan Hurlbut, Monica Martinez, Thomas J. Mulhern, Elizabeth L. Wiellette, Else M. Vedula, Vidhya Vijayakumar

“…This limits the ability to evaluate the causal roles of host and microbe during disease progression. …”
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Association between prior tuberculosis disease and dysglycemia within an HIV-endemic, rural South African population. by Alison C Castle, Susanne S Hoeppner, Itai M Magodoro, Urisha Singh, Yumna Moosa, Ingrid V Bassett, Emily B Wong, Mark J Siedner, Vukuzazi Study Team

“…Longitudinal studies are needed to better establish a causal effect and underlying mechanisms related to resolved TB, HIV, and diabetes.…”
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El desarrollo sostenible a través de empresas sociales en comunidades indígenas de América Latina by Mario Vázquez-Maguirre

“…La fase exploratoria del fenómeno invita a ser cautos al formular relaciones causales. Conclusiones: Las lecciones derivadas de estas empresas sociales indígenas contribuyen a replantear lógicas largamente establecidas en el ámbito del desarrollo regional y la administración de empresas. …”
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Genome scans of facial features in East Africans and cross-population comparisons reveal novel associations. by Chenxing Liu, Myoung Keun Lee, Sahin Naqvi, Hanne Hoskens, Dongjing Liu, Julie D White, Karlijne Indencleef, Harold Matthews, Ryan J Eller, Jiarui Li, Jaaved Mohammed, Tomek Swigut, Stephen Richmond, Mange Manyama, Benedikt Hallgrímsson, Richard A Spritz, Eleanor Feingold, Mary L Marazita, Joanna Wysocka, Susan Walsh, Mark D Shriver, Peter Claes, Seth M Weinberg, John R Shaffer

“…Cross-population comparisons indicated 10 association signals were shared with Europeans (seven sharing the same associated SNP), and facilitated fine-mapping of causal variants at previously reported loci. Taken together, these results may point to both shared and population-specific components to the genetic architecture of facial variation.…”
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Blockchain and cloud platforms in banking services: A paradox perspective by Piotr Łasak, Sławomir Wyciślak

“…In the second step, we propose a causal loop diagram research procedure, which is a research system dynamic tool used in modeling system dynamics. …”
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Carbon Budget Assessment and Influencing Factors for Forest Enterprises in the Key State-Owned Forest Area of the Greater Khingan Range, Northeast China by Hui Wang, Wenshu Lin, Jinzhuo Wu, Zhaoping Luan

“…Influencing factors are identified through correlation analysis and the optimal parameter geographical detector (OPGD), while their spatial-temporal variations and causal relationships are analyzed using the geographical and temporal weighted regression model (GTWR) and structural equation modeling (SEM). …”
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Can the Rwandan Catholic Church Overcome its History of Politicization? A Reply to Philippe Denis by Anthony Court

“…The question that I wish to pose is whether,by not broadening thefocus placed by the church on the problem of ethnic animosity or ‘ethnocentrism’ as the principal causal factor that ‘led’ to the genocide, Denis does not elide a range of trigger factors that shouldbe taken into account in any assessment of both the genocide and the church’s role in it. …”
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Abandono de adultos mayores en comunidades rurales by Rosa Evelyn Chuga Quemac, Roberth Alexander Anamá Tiracá, Melany Paulina Portilla Paguay, Melany Lorena Guerrero Hernández

“…Así como el apoyo de la mayoría de los encuestados a favor de fomentar la reforma del Código Civil para incorporar esta causal de indignidad. En consecuencia, se concluyó que es imperativo reformar la legislación ecuatoriana para proteger de forma efectiva a los adultos mayores. …”
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Inheritance of effective juvenile leaf rust resistance in six accessions of Aegilops speltoides Tausch by M. A. Kolesova, L. G. Tyryshkin

“…Background. Leaf rust (causal agent: Puccinia triticina Erikss.) is a serious disease of bread wheat in all crop-growing regions. …”
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Deep Learning-Based Speech Emotion Recognition Using Multi-Level Fusion of Concurrent Features by Samuel, Kakuba, Alwin, Poulose, Dong, Seog Han, Senior Member, Ieee

“…The proposed CoSTGA model uses a combination of dilated causal convolutions (DCC), bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM), transformer encoders (TE), multi-head and self-attention mechanisms. …”
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Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential and type 2 diabetes mellitus among patients with STEMI: from a prospective cohort study combing bidirectional Mendelian randomizatio... by Xiaoxiao Zhao, Jiannan Li, Shaodi Yan, Yu Tan, Runzhen Chen, Nan Li, Jinying Zhou, Chen Liu, Peng Zhou, Yi Chen, Hongbing Yan, Hanjun Zhao, Li Song

“…Moreover, bidirectional Mendelian randomization analyses provide supporting evidence for a potential causal relationship between TET2-related CHIP and the development of T2DM. …”
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Association between exposure to environmental pollutants and increased oral health risks, a comprehensive review by Li Zhu, Mengchen Tang, Yinyin Cai, Yinyin Cai, Panpan Wang, Panpan Wang

“…The findings highlight the pressing need for future research to validate the causal links between environmental pollution and oral diseases and to unravel the underlying biological mechanisms. …”
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Inverse relationship of oxidative balance score with hyperuricemia among Chinese adults: a population-based cross-sectional study by Hewei Peng, Ying Han, Jingru Huang, Wenxin Qiu, Huajing Chang, Jiangwang Fang, Xian-E Peng

“…Large prospective cohort studies and randomized controlled trials are required to verify the effect of OBS on hyperuricemia and elucidate its causal mechanism.…”
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