The effects of decentralisation on patient and service outcomes: a case of the 2018 decentralisation of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Zambia by Tulani Francis L. Matenga, Malizgani Paul Chavula, Joseph Mumba Zulu, Adam Silumbwe, Patricia Maritim, Margarate N. Munakampe, Batuli Habib, Namakando Liusha, Jeremiah Banda, Ntazana N. Sinyangwe, Chris Mweemba, Angel Mubanga, Patrick Kaonga, Mwiche Musukuma, Henry Phiri, Hikabasa Halwiindi

“…Abstract Introduction The Zambian government decentralised tuberculosis control programs by transferring responsibility for the care and treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients from a two-national hospital model to provincial hospitals and other lower-level healthcare structures. …”
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Attitudes and behaviors toward vaccination among nursing students from Spain and Portugal: a cross-sectional study by Francisco Javier Pérez-Rivas, Laura Esteban-Gonzalo, David García-García, María Julia Ajejas Bazán, Maria Clara Roquette-Viana, Adriana Dutra Tholl, Cristina Maria Alves Marques-Vieira

“…Abstract Background/Objectives Since nursing students will be future promoters of immunization, it is essential to compare the attitudes and behaviors toward vaccination among nursing students in Portugal and Spain, to provide a comparative and contextualised view of the perceptions and practices of future health professionals in two countries with similar health systems and training structures, but influenced by different socio-cultural frameworks. …”
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Risk Factors for Hypertension in Koumbri Municipality, Burkina Faso, December 2016-April 2017 by Pedwindé Hamadou Séogo, Salam Ouedraogo, Simon Antara, Bernard Sawadogo, Denis Yelbeogo, Brice Wilfried Bicaba, Yacouba Savadogo, Hyacinthe Euvrard Sow, Agballa Mébiny-Essoh Tchalla Abalo, Amado Traoré, Moussa Kagoné, Abdoulaye Nitiema, Harouna Sawadogo, André McKenzie, Mamadou Sawadogo, Oumarou Batoure, Patrice Zabsonré

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The Effectiveness of Positive Psychotherapy on Physical and Emotional Dimensions of Girls with Persistent Depression by Froogh Abiri Bonab, Marziyeh Alivandi Vafa, Ali Khademi, Gholam Hossein Javanmard

“…The participants were selected based on a psychiatrist's diagnosis obtained through a structured clinical interview. Inclusion criteria for the study included: providing informed consent to participate in the intervention program, not having a concurrent psychiatric disorder as diagnosed by a psychiatrist, having no criminal record, not receiving other medical services in the past six months, and being literate. …”
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Neurological and Olfactory Disturbances After General Anesthesia by Antonino Maniaci, Mario Lentini, Rosario Trombadore, Loris Gruppuso, Santo Milardi, Rosario Scrofani, Giuseppe Cuttone, Massimiliano Sorbello, Rodolfo Modica, Jerome R. Lechien, Paolo Boscolo-Rizzo, Daniele Salvatore Paternò, Luigi La Via

“…The olfactory system is particularly susceptible to anesthesia-induced neurotoxicity given its proximity to central nervous system structures and its role in sensory and cognitive processing. …”
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‘I Don't Think There Is a One‐Size‐Fits‐All’: A Qualitative Study Exploring Healthcare Professional and Service Provider Perspectives of Using Innovative Models of Cervical Screeni... by Claire Bavor, Tessa Saunders, Mikayla Wolfe, Megan A. Smith, Nicola Creagh, Deborah Bateson, Angela Kelly‐Hanku, Paula Jops, Marion Saville, Natalie Taylor, Kate Broun, Julia M. L. Brotherton, Claire Nightingale

“…Methods We conducted online, semi‐structured interviews with healthcare professionals, pathology providers and community service providers (June–October 2023). …”
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Autonomous inverse encoding guides 4D nanoprinting for highly programmable shape morphing by Shuaiqi Ren, Zhiang Zhang, Ruokun He, Jiahao Fan, Guangming Wang, Hesheng Wang, Bing Han, Yong-Lai Zhang, Zhuo-Chen Ma

“…Using this strategy, the 4D-printed structures can be designed and accurately shift to the target morphing of arbitrarily hand-drawn lines under stimulation. …”
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Seasonal and Environmental Influences on the Gut Microbiota of South China Tigers (<i>Panthera tigris amoyensis</i>) by Li Zhou, Xiyao Xu, Zhirong Zhang, Xu Zhang, Kaixiong Lin, Hongxing Luo, Cheng Huang, Xipan Lin, Chunli Zhang, Yan Qing, Liwei Teng, Zhensheng Liu

“…Principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) based on Bray–Curtis distances revealed significant differences in the community structures of both bacterial (Adonis, R² = 0.2364, <i>p</i> = 0.001) and fungal (Adonis, R² = 0.1542, <i>p</i> = 0.001) communities across different seasons and environments. …”
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Axillary adipose tissue–derived lymphatic endothelial cells exhibit distinct transcriptomic signatures reflecting lymphatic invasion status in breast cancer by Asumi Iesato, Jun Suzuka, Kazutaka Otsuji, Tomo Osako, Nami Yamashita, Yuka Inoue, Tetsuyo Maeda, Natsue Uehiro, Kazuyo Yoshida, Yoko Takahashi, Kohei Kumegawa, Sumito Saeki, Liying Yang, Ai Tsuchiya, Kana Sakiyama, Miwa Tanaka, Takehiko Sakai, Shinji Ohno, Tetsuo Noda, Takayuki Ueno, Reo Maruyama

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Bringing a Systems Approach to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation by Anna Horton, Katya Loban, Peter Nugus, Marie-Chantal Fortin, Lakshman Gunaratnam, Greg Knoll, Istvan Mucsi, Prosanto Chaudhury, David Landsberg, Michel R. Pâquet, Marcelo Cantarovich, Shaifali Sandal

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Enhancing climate resilience through resource conservation practices in watershed of Western India by Gaurav Singh, Dinesh Dhakshanamoorthy, Dinesh Jinger, Dinesh Jinger, Raj Kumar, V. D. Kakade, Saswat Kumar Kar, Nandha Kumar Natrajan, Ashok Kumar Singh, M. J. Kaledhonkar, Vijay Singh Meena, M. Madhu

“…The watershed management programs achieved a rise in the Integrated Climate Resilience Index from 44.76% to 64.39%. …”
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Determinants of Caregivers’ Ability to Accurately Detect Acute Malnutrition Using Color-Coded Mid-Upper Arm Circumference Tape and Pitting Edema by Benson C Singano, Collina A Tchongwe, Numeri C Geresomo, Tinna Ng’ong’ola-Manani, Aaron T Chikakuda, Alfred Ngwira, Stanley Mwase, Elsie Mawala, Benson Kazembe, Emma Budalla, Alexander A Kalimbira

“…Background: In Malawi, inadequate community health workers are delaying admission of acute malnutrition cases into therapeutic programs. Training caregivers to screen their children for early identification of acute malnutrition has been shown to improve early admissions, prevent serious complications, and save lives. …”
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A Cross-Sectional Study of Body Composition and Cardiorespiratory Fitness: Insights from Romanian Physical Education Male Students and Non-Professionals by Mădălina-Gabriela Coman, Alina Stan, Andreea Maria Adam, Carmen Gheorghe, Carmen Pârvu, Corneliu Mircea Codreanu, Liviu Moraru, Daniel-Andrei Iordan, Ilie Onu

“…The significantly higher body fat and lower cardiovascular capacity in MSNP students highlight the urgent need for targeted physical activity interventions and nutritional education to mitigate obesity risk. Integrating structured exercise programs and lifestyle modifications into university curricula could enhance long-term metabolic health outcomes in young adults…”
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Fabrication of MPI-traceable alginate magnetic millirobots with multimodal selective-locomotion and heating capabilities by Armando Ramos-Sebastian, Ja-Sung Lee, Won-Il Song, Dong-Min Ji, So-Jung Gwak, Sung Hoon Kim

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FOXA1 enhances antitumor immunity via repressing interferon-induced PD-L1 expression in nasopharyngeal carcinoma by Ying Liu, Bo Xiang, Wei Xiong, Pan Chen, Zhaoyang Zeng, Junshang Ge, Guiyuan Li, Mei Yi

“…Forkhead box A1 (FOXA1) is one of the earliest discovered pioneer factors, which can open up compact chromatin structures to facilitate the binding of other proteins to chromatin.Methods By using RNA sequencing, it was discovered that FOXA1 suppresses the activation of the interferon signaling pathway and the expression of the related interferon-responsive genes in NPC cells. …”
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Pre-Implementation Assessment of a Sexual Health eClinic in Canadian Oncology Care by Taylor Incze, Dalia Peres, Steven Guirguis, Sarah E. Neil-Sztramko, Jackie Bender, Dean Elterman, Shabbir M. H. Alibhai, Antonio Finelli, Phil Vu Bach, Emily Belita, Gerald Brock, Julia Brown, Jeffrey Campbell, Trustin Domes, Andrew Feifer, Ryan Flannigan, Celestia Higano, Jesse Ory, Premal Patel, Monita Sundar, Luke Witherspoon, Andrew Matthew

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INDONESIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS OF CHATGPT FOR ENGLISH ESSAY WRITING [PERSEPSI MAHASISWA INDONESIA TERHADAP CHATGPT DALAM PENULISAN ESAI BAHASA INGGRIS] by Rentauli Mariah Silalahi

“…ChatGPT was deemed helpful for various reasons, with its ability to provide relevant materials, check vocabulary and sentence structures, generate ideas, and translate Indonesian sentences into English being the top five reasons. …”
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Post-conflict nutritional status of school-age children in North Wollo zone, Northeast Ethiopia: a multi-center cross-sectional study by Zelalem Dejazmach, Birtukan Gizachew Ayal, Woldeteklehaymanot Kassahun, Getinet Kumie, Muluemebet Kassa, Berihun Mulu Yayeh, Seada Seid Ahmed, Abebe Worku Gela, Habtu Debash, Selamawit Ayalew, Asmamaw Ameshe, Abebaw Alamrew, Mulu Shiferaw Asfaw, Sefineh Fenta feleke, Melese Abate Reta

“…Socio-demographic data was collected through a structured questionnaire, and anthropometric measurements were transformed into indices using the World Health Organization’s Anthro-software. …”
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The contribution of personalized video feedback to robotic partial nephrectomy training in realistic 3D tumor kidney models: design, production and implementation by Ahmet Furkan Sarıkaya, Kayhan Tarım, Ersin Köseoğlu, Arif Özkan, İbrahim Can Aykanat, Baris Esen, Umut Can Karaarslan, Mustafa Müdüroğlu, Şevval Kanlı, Murat Can Kiremit, Yakup Kordan, Mevlana Derya Balbay, Tarık Esen, Serdar Aydın, Serdar Aydın, Abdullah Erdem Canda, Abdullah Erdem Canda

“…This suggests that structured preparatory training with objective performance targets can enhance learning outcomes in surgical simulation. …”
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Virtual Intervention for Vertebral frActures (VIVA): protocol for a feasibility study of a multicentre randomized controlled trial by Ada Sevinc, Alexandra Papaioannou, Suzanne N. Morin, Jennifer A. Watt, Raheem B. Kherani, Sheila Brien, Larry Funnell, Lehana Thabane, Lauren A. Beaupre, Jenna C. Gibbs, Heather Keller, Caitlin McArthur, Matteo Ponzano, Sonia Singh, Sharon Straus, Jenny Thain, Zachary J. Weston, Timothy H. Wideman, Christopher D. Witiw, Lora Giangregorio

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