Knowledge and attitude of nosocomial infection prevention and control precautions among healthcare personnel at Kiruddu Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda by Newton Ekakoro, Ritah Nakayinga, Martha A. Kaddumukasa, Maria Mbatudde

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Machine learning-driven prediction of medical expenses in triple-vessel PCI patients using feature selection by Kuan-Yu Chen, Yen-Chun Huang, Chih-Kuang Liu, Shao-Jung Li, Mingchih Chen

“…Additionally, six machine-learning algorithms and five cross-validation techniques were employed to identify key features and construct the evaluation model. …”
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Compliance with maternal HIV retesting for pregnant women attending care in selected health facilities in Namutumba district, Uganda by Shafik Malende, Edward Buzigi, Esther Bayiga

“…HIV retesting prevalence was 85%. Key factors associated with retesting included secondary education [APR 1.55, 95% CI (1.03-2.34)], tertiary education [APR 1.72, 95% CI (1.10-2.61)], attending at least five ANC visits [APR 1.11, 95% CI (1.01-1.21)], and spousal accompaniment for ANC or delivery [APR 1.18 (1.05-1.34)]. …”
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Why should we strive to let them thrive? Exploring the links between homecare professionals thriving at work, employee ambidexterity, and innovative behavior by Terje Slåtten, Barbara Rebecca Mutonyi, Gudbrand Lien

“…Thus, the study contributes to a relatively neglected area, homecare, within the domain of health services research. Methods In this cross-sectional study, N = 258 Norwegian homecare professionals in nine municipalities were selected through convenience sampling. …”
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Uptake and hesitancy of the second booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine among the general population in China after the surge period of the COVID-19 pandemic: a large-scale national st... by Xin Liu, You Xin, Ling Zhang, Yijin Wu, Shu Jing, Zhenwei Dai, Tianrui Ren, Xiaoyang Liu, Jiaqi Fu, Xu Chen, Weijun Xiao, Hao Wang, Yiman Huang, Wenjun Wang, Xiaofen Gu, Li Ma, Shaokai Zhang, Yanqin Yu, Li Li, Tianzuo Gao, Tianyou Zhao, Yimin Qu, Xinyan Liu, Xiaoyou Su, Youlin Qiao

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New perspectives on H.R. Haggard: from South Africa to the Imperial Dream by Patricia CROUAN-VÉRON

“…H. R. Haggard dedicated Nada the Lily (1892), the first romance of his Zulu trilogy1 to Theophilus Shepstone. …”
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Assessment of public literacy in TB prevention and control in the National 13th Five-Year plan for Tuberculosis Prevention and Control (2016–2020) in China by Shuaihu Ni, Gang Chen, Jia Wang, Yuhong Li, Hui Zhang, Yan Qu, Yanlin Zhao, Xiaofeng Luo

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Healthcare performance of leprosy management in peripheral health facilities of Dhanusa and Mahottari, Nepal by Ram Kumar Mahato, Uttam Ghimire, Bijay Bajracharya, Binod K. C., Deepak Bam, Deepak Ghimire, Uttam Raj Pyakurel, David T. S. Hayman, Basu Dev Pandey, Chuman Lal Das, Krishna Prasad Paudel

“…The knowledge and skills of paramedical staff (Leprosy Focal Person, LFP) and case documentation and management by health facilities are therefore key to the performance of health care services. …”
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A novel virulent core genome multilocus sequence type CT 11424 of Listeria monocytogenes isolate causing stillbirth in Bangladesh by Muntasir Alam, Md Saiful Islam, M. Ishrat Jahan, Arpita Shyama Deb, Afruna Rahman, Zahidul Islam, Atique Iqbal Chowdhury, Kazi Munisul Islam, Mohammad Zahid Hossain, Dilruba Ahmed, Shams El Arifeen, Emily S. Gurley, Mustafizur Rahman

“…SNP-based phylogenetic analysis found Lm-BD-CHAMPS-01 to be the most distant from other CC1 isolates in the database. Possible sources of infection included the consumption of contaminated raw vegetables or exposure to pigeons. …”
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Insights into prescribing patterns for antidepressants: an evidence-based analysis by Hua Min, Farrokh Alemi

“…The accuracy of predictions was measured through the Area under the Receiver Operating Curve (AROC). Results Our analysis revealed several key factors influencing prescribing patterns, including patients’ comorbidities, previous medications, age, and gender. …”
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Association between Single Nucleotide Polymorphism of Vitamin D Receptor Gene FokI Polymorphism and Clinical Progress of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia by Li Ruan, Jian-guo Zhu, Cong Pan, Xing Hua, Dong-bo Yuan, Zheng-ming Li, Wei-de Zhong

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Development and validation of a nomogram model for prolonged length of stay in spinal fusion patients: a retrospective analysis by Linghong Wu, Xiaozhong Peng, Yao Lu, Cuiping Fu, Liujun She, Guangwei Zhu, Xianglong Zhuo, Wei Hu, Xiangtao Xie

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Development of a set of monosomic alien addition lines from Gossypium raimondii in Gossypium hirsutum toward breeding applications in cotton by Zhenzhen Xu, Xiaoxi Lu, Wenjie Ding, Wei Ji, Wuzhimu Ali, Heyang Wang, Shan Meng, Qi Guo, Peng Xu, Xianglong Chen, Liang Zhao, Huan Yu, Xinlian Shen

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Usages et gestion du domaine forestier de Regina/Saint-Georges by Pauline Sévelin-Radiguet

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MSEANet: Multi-Scale Selective Edge Aware Network for Polyp Segmentation by Botao Liu, Changqi Shi, Ming Zhao

“…The model consists of three key components: (1) an Edge Feature Extractor (EFE) that captures polyp edge features with precision during the initial encoding phase, (2) the Cross-layer Context Fusion (CCF) block designed to extract and integrate multi-scale contextual information from diverse receptive fields, and (3) the Selective Edge Aware (SEA) module that enhances sensitivity to high-frequency edge details during the decoding phase, thereby improving edge preservation and segmentation accuracy. …”
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Predicting the risk of gastroparesis in critically ill patients after CME using an interpretable machine learning algorithm – a 10-year multicenter retrospective study by Yuan Liu, Songyun Zhao, Wenyi Du, Wei Shen, Ning Zhou

“…To assess the model’s generalization performance, we employed 10-fold cross-validation, while the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was utilized to evaluate its discriminative capacity. …”
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Bearing Fault Classification Based on Conditional Random Field by Guofeng Wang, Xiaoliang Feng, Chang Liu

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Soft computing paradigm for climate change adaptation and mitigation in Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey: A systematic review by Muhammad Talha, A. Pouyan Nejadhashemi, Kieron Moller

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Net zero carbon buildings: A review on recent advances, knowledge gaps and research directions by Nwe Ni Myint, Muhammad Shafique, Xiangming Zhou, Zhuang Zheng

“…Additionally, innovations in new building materials, such as Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT), Cold-Formed Steel (CFS), and Highly Sulfated Calcium Silicate Cement (HSCSC), were found to have substantial potential for reducing embodied carbon. …”
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Bullying roles, moral disengagement, and motivational perceptions among university students by Sohni Siddiqui, Anja Schultze-Krumbholz, Muhammad Kamran

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