Participatory epidemiological approaches for risk assessment of bed bug (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cimicidae) infestation in public hospitals in the city of Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan by Arzoo Ashraf, Muhammad Sohail Sajid, Hafiz Muhammad Rizwan, Kashif Hussain, Muhammad Asif Mahmood, Muhammad Imran Arshad, Zain ul Abdin, Shumaila Ashraf, Malcolm K. Jones, Dalia Fouad, Farid S. Ataya

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Development of specialist palliative care in Dutch hospitals between 2014 and 2020: a repeated survey by N. van Velzen, L. Brom, M. J. D. L van der Vorst, M. L. Kiers, M. F. M. Wagemans, H. Kazimier, M. S. A. Boddaert, N. J. H. Raijmakers, A. Stoppelenburg

“…Key members of the hospital SPCTs completed questionnaires about the preceding year that included items on hospital and PC program characteristics, hospital-wide integration of specialist PC, and SPCT characteristics (92 hospitals in 2015, 79 in 2018 and 74 in 2021). …”
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The relationship between health-related quality of life and academic success in nursing students: the mediating role of academic burnout and academic motivation by Fatemeh Torkani, Seyed-Hasan Ahmadi, Alireza Binazir, Marjan Moradi Fath, Navid Shafigh, Hanieh Asadiparvar-Masouleh, Parvaneh Vasli

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Community knowledge of Australia’s national preventive health strategy focus areas: a nationally representative survey of 1509 adults by Amie Steel, Hope Foley, Jon Adams

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Prevalence of undernutrition and associated factors among adolescent pregnant women in Dolo-Ado town, Somali region, Ethiopia by Abdirahman Ahmed, Abdulkarim Mohammed, Mahamed Dol Ateye, Saleha Abdusamed

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Development of a short version of the perceived social support scale: based on classical test theory and ant colony optimization by Yunchou Wu, Jingqi Tang, Zhuoran Du, Ke Chen, Fei Wang, Xiaonan Sun, Guoying Zhang, Yibo Wu

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Association of alcohol abstinence with risk of hyperuricemia in rural Chinese adults: the Henan Rural Cohort Study by Xiaokang Dong, Lulu Zhang, Ning Kang, Huanxiang Zhang, Wei Liao, Xiaotian Liu, Pengling Liu, Lei Yin, Chongjian Wang

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Enhancing furcation involvement classification on panoramic radiographs with vision transformers by Xuan Zhang, Enting Guo, Xu Liu, Hong Zhao, Jie Yang, Wen Li, Wenlei Wu, Weibin Sun

“…Results Among the evaluated models, the ViT model outperformed all others, achieving the highest precision (0.98), recall (0.92), and F1 score (0.95), along with the lowest cross-entropy loss (0.27) and the highest accuracy (92%). …”
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The prevalence of small airways disease and association with handgrip strength in young Hispanic farmworkers by Yutong Dong, Pam Cromer, Debbie Layman, Michelle Altvater, Yanbin Dong, Haidong Zhu

“…Age and FEF25-75%predicted were associated with FEV1/FVC. Smoking, body mass index, blood pressures, hemoglobin A1C and lipids were not predictors in either model. …”
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Characterisation of cardiovascular disease (CVD) incidence and machine learning risk prediction in middle-aged and elderly populations: data from the China health and retirement lo... by Qing Huang, Zihao Jiang, Bo Shi, Jiaxu Meng, Li Shu, Fuyong Hu, Jing Mi

“…Model performance was evaluated via analyses including the area under the ROC curve (AUC), precision, recall, F1 score, and SHAP plots for interpretability. …”
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Factors influencing malnutrition among adolescent girls in The Gambia: a mixed-methods exploratory study by Haddy Jallow-Badjan, Tanefa A. Apekey, Maria J. Maynard

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Determinants of family planning services uptake among women within the reproductive age in the Yendi municipality in Northern Ghana by Iddrisu Sulemana, Collins Gbeti, Maxwell Dalaba, Adadow Yidana, Gifty Apiung Aninanya

“…The child welfare clinic (CWC) served as the point for the sampling of study respondents. …”
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Entrepreneurial Climate in India, China and the USA by Mahalakshmi S, Thiyagarajan S, Ranbir Sodhi, Naresh G

“…Further, confirmatory factor analysis was attempted to cross-validate the results. Key Points: • The results unveil that the Public conditions and Business Promotions (EFC) in the USA are superior to India and China. …”
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Pathological and radiological assessment of benign breast lesions with BIRADS IVc/V subtypes. should we repeat the biopsy? by Wesam Rjoop, Anwar Rjoop, Alia Almohtaseb, Lama Bataineh, Zeina Nser Joubi, Maha Gharaibeh, Abdalrahman Al-Qwabah, Yousef Alasheh, Ismail Matalka

“…Abstract Background Timely diagnosis is a crucial factor in decreasing the death rate of patients with breast cancer. BI-RADS categories IVc and V indicate a strong suspicion of cancer. …”
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Unlocking the link: predicting cardiovascular disease risk with a focus on airflow obstruction using machine learning by Xiyu Cao, Jianli Ma, Xiaoyi He, Yufei Liu, Yang Yang, Yaqi Wang, Chuantao Zhang

“…Models were evaluated by AUC, accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, and Brier score, with the SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) enhancing explainability. …”
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The association between rapid antiretroviral therapy initiation and brain structure and function based on multimodal magnetic resonance imaging in HIV-positive men who have sex wit... by Yihui He, Yang Zhang, Taiyi Jiang, Miaotian Cai, Guangqiang Sun, Yundong Ma, Jiahao Ji, Bo Yang, Bin Yang, Junyi Duan, Dongxia Wu, Lijun Sun, Lili Dai, Yulin Zhang, Hao Wu, Wenhao Jiang, Tong Zhang, Lei Wang

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Process evaluation of Project Daire: a food environment intervention that impacted food knowledge, wellbeing and dietary habits of primary school children by Naomi Anderson, Sarah F. Brennan, Fiona Lavelle, Sarah E. Moore, Dilara Olgacher, Amy Junkin, Moira Dean, Michelle C. McKinley, Patrick McCole, Ruth F. Hunter, Laura Dunne, Niamh E. O’Connell, Chris T. Elliott, Danielle McCarthy, Jayne V. Woodside

“…Methods The Medical Research Council’s (MRC) framework for process evaluation was followed. …”
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Evaluating the differences in healthy lifestyle behaviors between Chinese urban and rural residency after the termination of social distancing: analysis based on propensity score m... by Yudong Miao, Dongfang Zhu, Zhanlei Shen, Yi Li, Wanliang Zhang, Junwen Bai, Ruizhe Ren, Jingbao Zhang, Dan Guo, Clifford Silver Tarimo, Wenyong Dong, Rongmei Liu, Qiuping Zhao, Xue Zhou, Jianping Hu

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Wealth-based inequalities in tuberculosis prevalence among households having children and young adults in India: insights from Indian demographic and health surveys (2015–2021) by Saurabh Singh, Quazi Syed Zahiruddin, Sorabh Lakhanpal, Suhas Ballal, Sanjay Kumar, Mahakshit Bhat, Shilpa Sharma, M Ravi Kumar, Yogesh Kumar Dhandh, Sarvesh Rustagi, Mohammed Alissa, Muhammad A. Halwani, Mohammed Garout, Hayam A Alrasheed, Maha F. Al-Subaie, Nawal A. Al Kaabi, Ali A. Rabaan, Sanjit Sah, Muhammed Shabil, Mahalaqua Nazli Khatib, Prakasini Satapathy

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Development of a clinical prediction model for benign and malignant pulmonary nodules with a CTR ≥ 50% utilizing artificial intelligence-driven radiomics analysis by Wensong Shi, Yuzhui Hu, Guotao Chang, He Qian, Yulun Yang, Yinsen Song, Zhengpan Wei, Liang Gao, Hang Yi, Sikai Wu, Kun Wang, Huandong Huo, Shuaibo Wang, Yousheng Mao, Siyuan Ai, Liang Zhao, Xiangnan Li, Huiyu Zheng

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