First microscopic and molecular identification of Cryptosporidium spp. in fat sand rats (Psammomys obesus) in Egypt and their potential zoonotic implications by Sara Abdel-Aal Mohamed, Fatma A. S. Anwar, Ahmed Gareh, Marwa M. I. Ghallab, Remigio Martínez, Asmaa Aboelabbas Gouda, Fatemah Enad Alajmi, Hind Alzaylaee, Ignacio García-Bocanegra, Ignacio García-Bocanegra, Ehab Kotb Elmahallawy, Ehab Kotb Elmahallawy

“…The specific role of fat sand rats (Psammomys obesus) in the transmission of Cryptosporidium spp. in Egypt and the genotypic characteristics of the circulating species in these animals remain poorly understood.MethodsIn this study, a total of 150 individual fat sand rat stool samples were collected from the saline marsh periurban areas of Abu-Rawash, Giza, Egypt. …”
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Insulin resistance surrogates are associated with all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality in population with metabolic syndrome: a retrospective cohort study of NHANES by Jinhao Liao, Linjie Wang, Lian Duan, Fengying Gong, Huijuan Zhu, Hui Pan, Hongbo Yang

“…Sensitivity analyses were then conducted by removing individuals with CKD, CHF, CAD, stroke, or cancer, respectively. …”
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Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in genes associated with the vitamin D pathway related to clinical and therapeutic outcomes of American tegumentary leishmaniasis by Iara Barreto Neves Oliveira, Ramon Vieira Nunes, Vanessa Rafaela Milhomem Cruz Leite, Camila Freire Araújo, Murilo Barros Silveira, Sebastião Alves Pinto, Lorena Andrade Lamounier, Clayton Luiz Borges, Edésio Martins, Iane de Oliveira Pires Porto, Rodrigo Saar Gomes, Fátima Ribeiro-Dias

“…SNP genotypes/alleles (in IL15, IL32, CYP27B1, and VDR) were evaluated by TaqMan PCR assays using DNA from the blood of patients and healthy individuals. Serum vitamin D levels were determined by chemiluminescence.ResultsVitamin D pathway-associated genes were expressed in cutaneous as well as mucosal lesions. …”
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Group Psychological Therapy Program in Adult Patients with Congenital Heart Disease and Anxious–Depressive Symptoms by Efrén Martínez-Quintana, Karen Codana-Alcántara, Hector M. Montesdeoca-Naranjo, Marta Isabel García-Suárez, María Pino Fleitas-Álvarez, María Alcántara-Castellano, Alejandro Ruiz-Castellano, Ana González-Isasi, Fayna Rodríguez-González, Esperanza Bosch-Casañas

“…<i>Introduction</i>: Anxiety and depression are significant mental health concerns for individuals with congenital heart disease (CHD). As group therapy has proven to be a valuable and effective treatment option for managing anxiety and depression, the aim of this study was to determine its effects on patients with CHD and anxious–depressive symptoms. …”
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A digital intervention to reduce home-office workers’ sedentary behaviour: protocol for the evaluation of the Click2Move programme, a cluster randomised controlled trial by Judit Bort-Roig, Iris Parés-Salomón, Bette Loef, Cristina Vaqué-Crusellas, Alan Coffey, Arnau Gustems-Morral, Anna M. Señé-Mir, Izabela Luznik, Maja Pajek, Kieran P. Dowd, Anna Puig-Ribera, Karin I. Proper

“…The intervention group will receive the novel multicomponent Click2Move intervention (including environmental, organisational, and individual strategies) for 12 months, and the control groups will maintain their usual work practices. …”
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Predictive factors' modeling of entrepreneurial opportunities in international companies by Ali Farahani, Younos Vakil Alroaia, Farideh Haghshenaskashani, Ali Faez

“…Capital, corporate factors, social learning, gathering and studying information, individual characteristics, and social factors were determined as the background factors of entrepreneurial opportunities. …”
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Developing an effective teaching model in order to improve the educational level of schools by Mehdi Mohammadi, fardin Abdollahy, Rafigh Hasani

“…Based on the results of the interviews, 11 themes in the form of 4 concepts of personal and scientific characteristics of teachers (social status of teachers, individual character of teachers, and empowerment of teachers), optimal management of the classroom and educational environment (use of educational technology, classroom management and effective educational implementation, and appropriate educational tools and equipment), active and motivating teaching (use of active teaching methods and motivational levers), and targeted teaching (objectification of teaching (meaningful learning), targeted research) were identified. …”
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Designing a defensive silence failure model of creative employees in organizations by Azam Khosravi, karam khalili, Esfandyar Mohammadi

“…The 20 main themes that have been identified as influencing factors on breaking the defensive silence of creative employees in government organizations are: facilitating policies, motivational factors, job security, collaborative management, governance of meritocracy, leadership style, improvement of individual skills, organizational learning., strengthening professional ethics, quality of relationships, health of relationships, mutual trust, spirituality in the workplace, creative and critical atmosphere, cooperation culture, consulting and positive organizational psychology, reducing psychological pressures, creating attitudinal changes, changing organizational strategies, and strengthening strategic thinking. …”
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Spatial Analysis of Factors Affecting the Formation of Smart Rural Tourism (Case Study: Tourism-Oriented Villages in Eastern Kermanshah Province) by Aliakbar Anabestani, Sajjad Barani Aliakbari

“…According to the 2016 census, these villages had a total population of 3,888 individuals in 1,191 households. To determine the sample size, Cochran’s formula was used with a 0.65 error rate, resulting in a sample of 215 individuals. …”
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Presenting the professional thinking model of employees based on the dimensions of ambivalence and psychological empowermen by Abdolmajid Kord, Mansur Garkaz, Alireza Maetoofi, Ali khuzin, Alireza Hasan Maleki

“…Theoretical Framework Professional thinking Professional thinking is the dimension that shows the individual's movement within the professional framework and principles, that is, the individual's point of view towards regular and logical activities in the profession from which he earns money, and mental activities that are reflective for solving professional tasks. …”
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Designing a Future Study Model: Examining Bank Employees’ Attitudes Towards Job Security in the Era of Blockchain Technology (Horizon 2031) by Saeid Ghazi Nezhad, Hasan Darvish, Mohammad Mahmoudi Meymand

“…The dimensions derived from the coding and theming processes were distributed among the experts in the form of a questionnaire.The experts were selected using the judgment method, resulting in a panel of 16 individuals. Subsequently, the self-interaction matrix, initial achievement matrix, and final achievement matrix were determined to facilitate dimension leveling. …”
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Designing the behavioral model of managers in the digital age with the foundation's data approach by Farahangiz Abdollahzadeh Namini, Rouhollah Samiei, Alireza Mazidi

“…The findings indicate that causal conditions include human factors, environmental factors, and organizational factors; the main phenomenon of managers' behavior include communications and interactions, trust, decision-making in uncertainty, personality traits, and digital behavior; background conditions include digital knowledge and understanding, digital education and culture, management of experience and digital talent and skills, future-oriented and digital strategic thinking, change management, and digital leadership ability; intervening conditions include digital mentality and attitude, manager's intelligence, manager's values, and the innovation and nature of business and industry; strategies and mechanisms include innovation and learning strategy, retention strategy, digital combination and focus, digital participation strategy, and digital leadership and governance strategy; and consequences includes consequences of individual dimensions and organizational dimensions. …”
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The moderating effect of self-efficacy on the relationship between parents and children and academic participation, considering the mediating variable of learning adaptation among... by meysam karamipour, samaneh mataji, rezvaneh kazem nezhad, maryam esfandyari

“…Adaptability of learning Adaptation in school is a multi-dimensional structure that should be distinguished between several types, i.e. academic, social and individual emotional adaptation (Lavasani et al, 2018). …”
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Wisdom of the Established Pattern by Joel Janhonen

“…Forms of affective sway over individual or societal attempts to be logical probably stem from the same roots as our moral sense. …”
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Patient-centred care and quality of life and hope among Japanese patients receiving home medical care: a multicentre, cross-sectional study by Nobuhiro Ikeda, Michiko Hinata, Noriaki Kurita, Tomoka Nakamura, Takashi Fujii, Chihiro Tsuchiya, Yukio Tsugihashi, Hidekazu Iida, Shinu Hayashi, Masakazu Yasunaka, Misaki Hirose, Yutaka Shirahige, Shinsuke Muto, Tatsunobu Natsubori, Wataru Nakagawa, Akihiko Yonenaga, Lina Inagaki, Shioto Itakura, Naoya Miyashita, Takuya Furugen, Takafumi Abo, Sadayuki Okudaira, Kazuhiko Takuma, Masahiro Deguchi, Yoshitaka Harada, Seiji Matsuo, Motomichi Nakagawa, Ken Tanigawa, Yoshio Ochi, Sadanobu Ogasawara, Kazuhiko Hoshino, Momoko Aruga, Yoshinori Nakamura, Nobuhiro Sawa, Yosuke Akashi, Nobuyuki Miyagi, Toyohiro Terasaki, Kunihiro Kinoshita, Masaji Kikukawa, Hisakazu Kato, Masayuki Amano, Kentaro Asakura, Naoto Fukui

“…Additionally, higher scores in individual JPCAT-SF domains were associated with higher HR-Hope scores: first contact (2.7, 95% CI 1.3 to 4.1), longitudinality (2.5, 95% CI 0.8 to 4.2), coordination (1.2, 95% CI 0.2 to 2.3), comprehensiveness (services available: 1.8, 95% CI 0.5 to 3.2; services provided: 1.3, 95% CI 0.4 to 2.3) and community orientation (1.8, 95% CI 0.5 to 3.1).Conclusions Higher quality patient-centred care is positively associated with enhanced QOL and hope among home medical care patients. …”
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Hypovitaminosis D in patients with oral leukoplakia: insights from a cross-sectional study by Andrea Maturana-Ramirez, Andrea Maturana-Ramirez, Juan Aitken-Saavedra, Dante Mora-Ferraro, Gabriel Rojas-Zúñiga, Iris Espinoza-Santander, Gonzalo Rojas-Alcayaga, Ana Ortega-Pinto, Montserrat Reyes, Diego Lazo, Egardo Caamanão

“…The present study aims to compare serum vitamin D levels between patients with and without oral leukoplakia, by smoking habit.MethodsThis cross-sectional study involved a group of 45 cases with oral leukoplakia and a control group with 45 individuals. In both groups a pathology report was done, and for leukoplakia a binary classification of low- and high-grade epithelial dysplasia was employed. …”
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The increasing burden of group B Streptococcus from 2013 to 2023: a retrospective cohort study in Beijing, China by Yingxing Li, Wenhang Yang, Yi Li, Kexin Hua, Ying Zhao, Taie Wang, Lingli Liu, Yali Liu, Yao Wang, Wenjing Liu, Li Zhang, Renyuan Zhu, Shuying Yu, Hongli Sun, Hongtao Dou, Qiwen Yang, Yingchun Xu, Lina Guo

“…The incidence of invasive GBS cases has risen since 2016, particularly among individuals over the age of 40. The 5,858 GBS isolates exhibited notably high resistance rates to erythromycin (72.2%), clindamycin (60%), and levofloxacin (50.1%), with 30.8% classified as multidrug-resistant. …”
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Cognitive decline in relation to later-life high temperature exposure in a Chinese nationwide cohort by Yu-Qian Huang, Lian-Sheng Zhang, Ji-Xing Yang, Fang Wang, Ya-Qi Wang, Li-Feng Zhu, Yuan-Yuan Zhang, Bo-Ning Deng, Qian-Qian Xiang, Yun-Quan Zhang

“…These results provided suggestive evidence for the role of exposure to heat in triggering cognitive impairment in middle-aged and older individuals. This finding may be crucial in developing public health strategies for managing climate change risks of neurobehavioral disorders in a healthy aging society.…”
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Robotic total knee arthroplasty safely reduces length of stay in an Asian public healthcare system by Kai C. A. Chan, Amy Cheung, Ping-Keung Chan, Michelle H. Luk, Kwong Y. Chiu, Henry Fu

“…Conclusion: R-TKA use has increased in recent years, and has been shown to reduce hospital stay despite having a slightly longer surgical time, proving a promising candidate to alleviate the burden on healthcare systems. Individual differences between R-TKA systems contributed to variable clinical outcomes. …”
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Multimorbidity latent classes in relation to 11-year mortality, risk factors and health-related quality of life in Malaysia: a prospective health and demographic surveillance syste... by Michelle M. C. Tan, Charlotte Hanlon, Graciela Muniz-Terrera, Tatiana Benaglia, Roshidi Ismail, Devi Mohan, Ann Breeze Joseph Konkoth, Daniel Reidpath, Pedro José M. Rebello Pinho, Pascale Allotey, Zaid Kassim, Matthew Prina, Tin Tin Su

“…Methods Using data from 18,101 individuals (aged 18–97 years) from the baseline Census 2012, Health Round 2013, and Verbal Autopsies 2012–2023 of the South East Asia Community Observatory (SEACO) health and demographic surveillance system, latent class analysis was performed on 13 chronic health conditions to identify statistically and clinically meaningful groups. …”
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