Technostress Among Older Workers: A Central European Perspective by Rašticová M, Šácha J, Lakomý M, Mishra PK

“…A Quota sampling method in combination with Computer Assisted Web Interviewing (CAWI) was used to collect data. The overall response rate was 42% (varied by country) in total data collected. …”
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Presence of Malassezia Species in Patients Admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Antifungal Sensitivity of Malassezia furfur by Mehmet OKUL, Özmert Muhammet Ali ÖZDEMİR, Hacer ERGİN, Çağrı ERGİN

“…Thus, we aimed to evaluate the rate of skin colonization by Malassezia species, factors associated with its colonization, and antifungal sensitivities of M. furfur strains in our hospital’s NICU. …”
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Morphological and Physico-Mechanical Properties of Nano-Graphene-Oxide from Sugarcane Bagasse for Polymer Composite Reinforcement by Harrison Okechukwu Onovo, Ademola Abiona Agbeleye, Theddeus Tochukwu Akano, Solomon Onaolapo Oyegbami, Kenechukwu Joshua Orafunam, Olugbenga Peter Odediran

“…Tensile strength and modulus peaked at 1.5 wt% SBGO, hardness rose from 20.9 to 26.1 VHN, and wear rate dropped by up to 58%. These results confirm that SB-derived GO is an effective, eco-friendly reinforcement that enhances composite strength and durability for high-performance applications. …”
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A Retrospective Study of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Utilization and Quality of Antibiotic Use in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in Low-Resource Settings by Vedrana Barišić, Tijana Kovačević, Maja Travar, Ana Golić Jelić, Pedja Kovačević, Dragana Milaković, Ranko Škrbić

“…<b>Results:</b> Antibiotic utilization peaked during the COVID-19 period, with the highest rate observed in 2021 (91.5 DDD/100 bed-days), despite a decrease in hospital admissions. …”
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CABAD: A video dataset for benchmarking child aggression recognition by Shehzad Ali, Md Tanvir Islam, Ik Hyun Lee, Mohammad Hijji, Khan Muhammad

“…Compared to CNN-based models, CABA_Net achieves up to 20.9% higher accuracy while maintaining a competitive frame rate. Against Transformer-based architectures, it offers a 5.8–9.9% gain in accuracy, 14–16.9% lower energy requirements, up to 14.8% less memory usage, and 21%–23% reduction in implementation cost. …”
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Pollination efficiency by bee guilds (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) to annatto flowers, Bixa orellana L.1753 (Bixaceae) by K. S. Arteman, M. A. Uchoa, V. V. Alves-Junior, E. A. B. Almeida, M. R. Maestre

“…Bees recorded from 6h to 9h were responsible for higher efficiency in the pollination rate; represented by the following species: Bombus morio, Centris sponsa, Centris fuscata; Epicharis flava, Epicharis affinis, Epicharis analis, Euglossa sp., Eulaema nigrita, Geotrigona mombuca, Melipona quadrifasciata, Hylaeus sp., and Pseudaugochlora graminea. …”
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Association of socioeconomic deprivation with asthma care, outcomes, and deaths in Wales: A 5-year national linked primary and secondary care cohort study. by Mohammad A Alsallakh, Sarah E Rodgers, Ronan A Lyons, Aziz Sheikh, Gwyneth A Davies

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>In this study, we observed that the most deprived asthma patients in Wales had different prescribing patterns, more A&E attendances, more emergency hospital admissions, and substantially higher risk of death. …”
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Study on Dust Distribution Law in Open-Pit Coal Mines Based on Depth Variation by Dongmei Tian, Xiyao Wu, Jian Yao, Weiyu Qu, Jimao Shi, Kaishuo Yang, Jiayun Wang

“…When the depth surpasses the threshold of 150 m, the wind speed attenuation rate at the pit bottom exhibits a marked change, and the dust dispersion distance decreases by 62% compared to shallow mining conditions. …”
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Reproductive health services utilization and associated factors among university youth students in Ethiopia: A mixed-methods study by Tsiyon Birhanu Wube, Solomon Gebremichael Asgedom, Dawit Gebregziabher Abrha, Lielt Gebreselassie Gebrekirstos

“…Results: The study found that the prevalence of adequate reproductive health service utilization rate was 42.5 % (95 % CI: 38.81 % - 46.20 %), which is comparable to similar studies conducted in other low- and middle-income countries. …”
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Network control theory uncovers aberrant connectome controllability in trigeminal neuralgia by Tiantian Chu, Juan Peng, Feng Gao, Fei Xiong, Ye Tu

“…No regional differences survived False Discovery Rate correction. Notably, controllability metrics correlated significantly with age in TN patients across multiple networks, whereas HCs showed no age-related correlations. …”
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Effect of the deflector plate on hydraulic performance and optimization of impact sprinkler nozzle by LI Haoyu, LI Tao, DI Yahe

“…Hydraulic performance indicators such as throw range, flow rate, point irrigation intensity, and irrigation uniformity were measured during the experiment. …”
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Interaction of bacterial extracellular microvesicles with eukaryotic cells. by D. S. Shlykova, V. M. Pisarev, A. M. Gaponov, A. V. Tutelyan

“…The heterogeneity of the biogenesis mechanisms causes differences in the BMV and their characteristics including virulence rate. BMVs host cells entering is mediated by several mechanisms and helps to activate innate and adaptive immune reactions. …”
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Averting obesity and type 2 diabetes in India through sugar-sweetened beverage taxation: an economic-epidemiologic modeling study. by Sanjay Basu, Sukumar Vellakkal, Sukumar Vellakkal, Sutapa Agrawal, David Stuckler, Barry Popkin, Shah Ebrahim

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>Sustained SSB taxation at a high tax rate could mitigate rising obesity and type 2 diabetes in India among both urban and rural subpopulations.…”
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Growth traits and nitrogen assimilation-associated physiological parameters of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) under low and high N conditions by Fei-fei ZHANG, Si GAO, Yuan-yuan ZHAO, Xiao-lei ZHAO, Xiao-man LIU, Kai XIAO

“…Moreover, the high UpE and UtE cultivars also displayed higher photosynthetic rate under deficient-N than the medium and low NUE cultivars. …”
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Efficacy of Pharmacological Treatments in Managing Generalized Anxiety Disorder among Adults in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-sectional Analysis by Abdulsalam Mohammed Aleid, Abdulaziz Matar Alharthi, Rana Abdulmohsen Alotaibi, Ahmed Mohammed Alasmari, Sharifah Ahmed Alzabdawi, Imtinan Jafar Asaeed, Sarah Mousa Alshuqayfi, Shuruq Mohammed Alzahuf, Aliyah Matar Alharthi, Mostafa Habeeb Alhodibi

“…The most commonly used pharmacological strategy was classified as “Others,” with a high satisfaction rate reported by users. Adverse effects were infrequent, affecting only a minority of patients frequently. …”
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Deep learning approach with ConvNeXt-SE-attn model for in vitro oral squamous cell carcinoma and chemotherapy analysis by Abhay Nath, Om Roy, Priyanka Silveri, Sanskruti Patel

“…Globocan predicts that, OSCC will result in 389,846 new cases and 188,438 deaths globally during 2022 while maintaining an extremely poor 5-year survival rate at about 50%. Our method applies residual connections with Squeeze-and-Excitation blocks along with hybrid attention systems and enhanced activation functions and optimization algorithms to boost gradient movement throughout feature extraction. …”
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Gender differences in the relationship between big five personality traits and aggression among physical education students by Yugang Guo

“…A cross-sectional study was conducted using a convenience sampling method to recruit physical education undergraduates aged 18–24. an online questionnaire was distributed via WeChat groups, yielding 410 valid responses (94% effective response rate) from students in Henan, China (245 males, 165 females). …”
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Shoreline time series analysis through the Isoradiometric method: Bridging landscape evolution and coastal management by F. Caldareri, N. Parrino, L. Balsamo, G. Dardanelli, S. Todaro, A. Sulli, A. Maltese

“…Moreover, we calculated the shifts’ gradient to quantify the rate of change in shoreline position. These results demonstrate: i) the necessity of creating shoreline time series as a tool for geological interpretation through the principle of actualism and as a framework for rationalizing contemporary shoreline monitoring approaches; ii) the Isoradiometric Method enables accurate Earth Observation image processing for this purpose.…”
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Single-cell RNA sequencing technology was employed to construct a risk prediction model for genes associated with pyroptosis and ferroptosis in lung adenocarcinoma by Longfei Ji, Binyu Wang, Danfei Shi, Weiyun Shen, Xinmin Li, Yong Li

“…Abstract Background Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) is one of the most common subtypes of non-small cell lung cancer, and its mortality rate remains high. As a programmed cell death mode closely related to inflammation, pyroptosis has been found to play an important regulatory role in the tumor immune microenvironment and tumor progression in recent years. …”
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Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals immunological link between house dust mite allergy and childhood asthma by Lingyun Zou, Kang Chen, Xianou Hong, Bo Ye

“…Nevertheless, the diagnostic rate remains below 60% due to the absence of specific symptoms and diagnostic markers, which hinders the implementation of targeted personalized therapies. …”
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