Usability and accessibility in mHealth stroke apps: An empirical assessment by Pontus Svensson, Shuanglan Lin, Leonardo Horn Iwaya

“…Heuristic evaluations also highlighted several usability violations, such as a lack of “Visibility of System Status” and “Insufficient Error Messaging.” Conclusion: Overall, most apps presented deficiencies in several aspects of usability and accessibility. …”
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Characterizing Lactic Acid Bacteria and Thermotolerant Coliforms in Spoiled Dairy Products from Bosnia and Herzegovina by Berina Muhović1, Nadia Islam1, Murtaza M. Tambuwala2, 3, Altijana Hromić-Jahjefendić1*

“…Two enumeration methods (pour plating and most probable number) were employed alongside morphological, biochemical, and molecular analyses (Gram staining, oxidase test, catalase test, indole test, lipolytic activity assay, and RT-qPCR). …”

Investigation of factors influencing sugar consumption in early life: a cross-sectional study by Tainá Fontes de SOUZA, Aline Gama FREITAS, Mariana Leonel MARTINS, Andréa FONSECA-GONÇALVES

“…The mother was the primary caregiver (86.1%), with ≤ 30 years of age (52.0%), < 12 years of education (75.2%), and previously instructed on caries prevention (58.2%). Most children were breastfed (45.5%) for 23.2 (±9.7) months on average, received EB (87.1%), consumed SSB (87.6%) and CS (90.9%) 3 times/day. …”
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A NEW METHOD FOR PREDICTING SURVIVAL AND ESTIMATING UNCERTAINTY IN TRAUMA PATIENTS by V. G. Schetinin, L. I. Jakaite, V. F. Kuriakin, V. I. Gorbachenko

“…The method involves Bayesian methodology of statistical inference which, being computationally expensive, in theory provides most accurate predictions. We implemented and tested this approach on a data set including 571,148 patients registered in the US National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB) with 1–20 injuries. …”
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Accounting for visual field abnormalities when using eye-tracking to diagnose reading problems in neurological degeneration by Carla Daniela Guantay, Laura Mena-García, Miguel Angel Tola-Arribas, María José Garea García-Malvar, Marta Para-Prieto, María Gloria González-Fernández, Agustín Mayo-Iscar, José Carlos Pastor-Jimeno

“…Abnormal conditions such as visual field defects, however, can seriously confound most of today’s existing methods for interpreting reading gaze patterns. …”
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Magnetohyrodynamic Turbulence in a Spherical Shell: Galerkin Models, Boundary Conditions, and the Dynamo Problem by John V. Shebalin

“…Instead, we conclude that the model with Dirichlet conditions on both the outer and the inner surfaces is the most appropriate because it provides for a correct transition of the magnetic field, through an electrically conducting mantle, from the Earth’s outer core to its surface, solving the dynamo problem. …”
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Enhancing Security for Resource-Constrained Smart Cities IoT Applications: Optimizing Cryptographic Techniques with Effective Field Multipliers by Atef Ibrahim, Fayez Gebali

“…Cryptographic protocols represent the most viable solutions for the mitigation of these security vulnerabilities. …”
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Collagen VI microfibril structure reveals mechanism for molecular assembly and clustering of inherited pathogenic mutations by Alan R. F. Godwin, Mark H. Becker, Rana Dajani, Matthew Snee, Alan M. Roseman, Clair Baldock

“…Abstract Collagen VI links the cell surface to the extracellular matrix to provide mechanical strength to most mammalian tissues, and is linked to human diseases including muscular dystrophy, fibrosis, cardiovascular disease and osteoarthritis. …”
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Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS): Implications for the Clinician by Jean-Guillaume Starnini, Giulio Natalello, Federico Nigroli, Chiara Diana, Elena Bargagli, Andrea Sisto Melani

“…Although ENDS are not Food and Drug Administration (FDA)- and European Medicines Agency (EMA)-approved for quitting, they are one of the most widely utilized pharmacological support devices for smoking cessation. …”
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Synergistic Influence of Non-Thermal Plasma and Hydrogen Peroxide on Oxidative Desulfurization (ODS) of Model Fuel by Noor M. Abdullah, Hussien Q. Hussien, Rana R. Jalil

“…Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in an aqueous solution is the most commonly used oxidant in oxidative desulfurization. …”
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Exploring experiences of work-related inequitable treatment among international medical graduates (IMGs): A sequential explanatory mixed methods study. by Sunita Joann Rebecca Healey, Kristy Fakes, Bunmi Malau-Aduli, Lucy Leigh, Balakrishnan R Nair

“…<h4>Results</h4>We surveyed and interviewed 286 and 36 IMGs respectively. Most survey respondents reported that IMGs were disadvantaged when compared to Australian graduates, primarily due to registration and bureaucratic processes. …”
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Alcohol use as a modifiable risk factor in cardiology: A qualitative study of patient perspectives in Sweden. by Paul Welfordsson, Anna-Karin Danielsson, Caroline Björck, Bartosz Grzymala-Lubanski, Kristina Hambraeus, Ida Haugen Löfman, Frieder Braunschweig, Matthias Lidin, Sara Wallhed Finn

“…Implementation strategies that prioritize quality of life, respect autonomy, and align with individual expectations and goals may be among the most acceptable. We also identified an opportunity to improve access to treatments for alcohol dependence within multidisciplinary heart teams or hospital-based addiction care services.…”
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Trends in the use of non-nutritive sweeteners among female university students in the United Arab Emirates by Dalia Haroun, Aseel Ehsanallah, Wafa Mubarak

“…Results: Only 24 % of participants reported current consumption of artificially sweetened foods and beverages, while 15.1 % used sweeteners in pill or powder form. The most common reasons for using NNS were weight management and adopting a healthy diet. …”
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Az önreflexió megváltozott tartalma online oktatás idején a vallástanárok nézőpontjából by Gabriella GORBAI

“…Teachers around the world exhibited a wide array of responses to the changed situation, some of them having no real problem with the transition to online teaching, while the majority of them having suffered a considerable loss of faith concerning their effectiveness as teachers when coming up against the changed environment and the new challenges. Most teachers of religion were experiencing a sense of lack due to the enforced suspension of the day-to-day interpersonal relationships, considering that personal encounters have a particular relevance to religion as a subject on ac-count of its pastoral care and spiritual aspects. …”
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Curcumin increases the sensitivity of Paclitaxel-resistant NSCLC cells to Paclitaxel through microRNA-30c-mediated MTA1 reduction by Yimin Lu, Jun Wang, Lei Liu, Lequn Yu, Nian Zhao, Xingju Zhou, Xudong Lu

“…Non-small-cell lung cancer is one of the most lethal cancers in the worldwide. Although Paclitaxel-based combinational therapies have long been used as a standard treatment in aggressive non-small-cell lung cancers, Paclitaxel resistance emerges as a major clinical problem. …”
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Intelligent air traffic control using NLP-enhanced speech recognition and natural language generation by Amany M. Sarhan, Rawda Fathy, Hesham A. Ali

“…The architecture enables understanding the main ATC instructions via a specific list of most common keywords through a natural language understanding module (NLU), thus enabling the pilot to communicate with the ATM system. …”
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An Analytical Study of the Institutionalization and Consolidation of Prayer in Society Based on the Chronological Order of Quranic Surahs by Abdolhadi Feghhizadeh, Mojtaba Mohammadi Anviq, Farzad Dehghani

“…Prayer (ṣalāh) is one of the most central ritual practices in Islam and a fundamental requirement of religious commitment. …”
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Survivability of Imaginal Forms of Deer Louse Flies (Diptera, Hippoboscidae) by A. I. Bakhtushkina

“…Caught imagoes were put into mattresses after suffocation with ether-chloroform mixture; the most viable insects were used in experiments. Research for L. cervi lifespan except host of volatiles (not fed) and taken off from marals were conducted under exposure of different temperature conditions and humidity as well as in different types of cages, in wool on skins that were taken off. …”
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QuantiFERON-TB Gold Test Conversion Is Associated with Active Tuberculosis Development in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients Treated with Biological Agents: An Experience of a Med... by Hsiang-Chun Lai, Chia-Hsi Chang, Ken-Sheng Cheng, Tsung-Wei Chen, Yuan-Yao Tsai, Jen-Wei Chou

“…The present study demonstrates that the prevalence of LTB before and after biological treatment is higher in Taiwan than in most Western countries and similar to other Asian countries. …”
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Soluble immune mediators orchestrate protective in vitro granulomatous responses across Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex lineages by Ainhoa Arbués, Sarah Schmidiger, Miriam Reinhard, Sonia Borrell, Sebastien Gagneux, Damien Portevin

“…MTBC lineages exhibited distinct propensities to accumulate triglyceride lipid droplets—a phenotype associated with dormancy—that was particularly pronounced in lineage 2 and reduced in lineage 3 strains. The most favorable granuloma responses were associated with strong CD4 and CD8 T cell activation as well as inflammatory responses mediated by CXCL9, granzyme B, and TNF. …”
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