Sociodemographic factors associated with acceptance of COVID-19 vaccine and clinical trials in Uganda: a cross-sectional study in western Uganda by Isaac, Echoru, Patricia, Decanar Ajambo, Emmanuel, Keirania, Edmund E. M, Bukenya

“…We anticipated fears in the larger part of this community that health experts need to address through reassurance of the community that vaccines are tested and that they are safe and important if we are to rapidly contain the COVID-19 pandemic.…”
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Factors influencing male involvement in family planning among married couples seeking maternity and pediatric services in Chuk by Mercy Nwankwo, Chinenye, Immaculate, Okoth

“…Study instrument validated by pilot testing and translating into local language and data collection lasted for a period of one month. …”
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Community Health Insurance Schemes and Access to Quality Health Services in Rural Areas: A Case of Kasaana Sub-County, Sheema District, Uganda by Nuwagaba, Ronald, Moses, Agaba

“…Finally, a sequence of Multiple Regression Analyses was employed to test the hypothesis and to identify the nature and extent of relationship. …”
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Kontrol Level Kecepatan Kipas Melalui Deteksi Gestur Jari Tangan Menggunakan MediaPipe dan Faster-RCNN by Muhammad Aldi Fakhruddin, Heri Pratikno, Musayyanah, Weny Indah Kusumawati

“…While the Faster-RCNN test results have an average classification accuracy at a distance of 10 cm (34%), a distance of 50 cm (24%), a distance of 100 cm (8.7%), and a distance of 175 cm (4.7%). …”
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Optimization of Identification and Zoning Method for Landscape Characters of Urban Historic Districts by Hong YUN, Zixuan HU, Zehao HU

“…The practical application of this method in Pun Tong Historic District has tested the operability of the method. In the future, the method can be extended to the general urban historic districts by superimposing the distribution of natural elements and other faceted elements to achieve a more comprehensive landscape character assessment.…”
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Kidney disease among adults on tenofovir-based second-line antiretroviral therapy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania by Sabina F. Mugusi, Grace A. Shayo, Philip G. Sasi, Lulu S. Fundikira, Eric A. Aris, Christopher R. Sudfeld, Ferdinand M. Mugusi

“…Socio-demographic and clinical data were gathered, and laboratory tests were conducted to determine the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR). …”
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The Impact of Exposure to Indoor Pollutants on Allergy and Lung Inflammation among School Children in Selangor, Malaysia: An Evaluation Using Factor Analysis by Khairul Nizam Mohd Isa, Zailina Hashim, Juliana Jalaludin, Dan Norbäck, Mohammed Abdulrazzaq Jabbar, Jamal Hisham Hashim

“…The students were surveyed using ISAAC and ECRHS questionnaires, their FeNO levels were measured and allergic skin prick tests were conducted. Active and passive sampling was used to measure the classroom indoor air concentration of NO2, CO2, formaldehyde, PM10, PM2.5, temperature and relative humidity. …”
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Concomitant abdominal organ transplantation alongside lung transplantation: An ISHLT transplant database analysis by Renita Wilson, BS, J. Asher Jenkins, MD, Juan Maria Farina, MD, Blake Langlais, MS, Bashar Aqel, MD, Ashraf Omar, MD, Jonathan D’Cunha, MD, PhD, Pedro Reck dos Santos, MD, PhD

“…Data were analyzed with Fisher’s exact, Wilcoxon rank sum tests, Kaplan-Meier methods, and Cox proportional hazards where appropriate. …”
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The effect of an information brochure on patients undergoing cardiac catheterization on their anxiety, knowledge and fear: A randomized controlled study. by Maria Malliarou, Vasiliki Pappa, Iokasti Papathanasiou, Ilias Andreanidis, Athanasios Nikolentzos, Ioannis Apostolakis, Pavlos Sarafis

“… # Aim The aim of the study was on the one hand to test the potential beneficial effects of an information brochure on undergoing a cardiac catheterization for the first time and on the other hand to highlight the importance of informing patients before coronary angiography and its beneficial effects on both reducing their fear and anxiety…”
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Predicting Exposure to Dust Particles Using Spirometric Index and Perception Studies among Farmers in Selected Farm Settlements in Ogun State, Nigeria by Funmilola Felicia Oyebanji, Godson Rowland E. E. Ana, Yahaya Mijinyawa, Olusola Olabisi Ogunseye

“…Thus, this comparative cross-sectional work employed a spirometric index and perception studies by conducting interviews and on-the-spot lung function tests on 195 farmers living in seven farm settlements of Ogun State and 195 non-farmers living in other areas to assess the ambient levels of the suspended particulate matter and estimate the dust exposure among the first group. …”
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Increasing the uptake of long-acting reversible contraception in general practice: the Australian Contraceptive ChOice pRoject (ACCORd) cluster randomised controlled trial protocol by Danielle Mazza, Angela Taft, Kevin McGeechan, Kirsten Black, Heather McKay, Marion Haas, Jayne Lucke, Jeffery F Peipert

“…This protocol paper describes the Australian Contraceptive ChOice pRojet (ACCORd), a cluster randomised control trial that aims to test whether an educational intervention targeting general practitioners (GPs) and establishing a rapid referral service are a cost-effective means of increasing LARC uptake.Methods and analysis The ACCORd intervention is adapted from the successful US Contraceptive CHOICE study and involves training GPs to provide ‘LARC First’ structured contraceptive counselling to women seeking contraception, and implementing rapid referral pathways for LARC insertion. …”
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Decade-Long Analysis: Unravelling the Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of PM10 Concentrations in Malaysian Borneo by Salwa Naidin, Justin Sentian, Farrah Anis Fazliatul Adnan, Franky Herman, Siti Rahayu Mohd Hashim

“…Statistical analyses were conducted using the Mann Kendall test to examine trends in PM10 concentrations. The study divided Sabah and Sarawak into three regions: Northern Malaysian Borneo, Central Malaysian Borneo, and Southern Malaysian Borneo. …”
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Influenza Vaccination Rates, Perceptions, and Vaccine Hesitancy in K-12 Teachers and Staff by Kevin Cleveland, Kathy Eroschenko, Dalys Davenport, Elaine Nguyen

“…Response differences between those who most recently received their influenza vaccine and those who did not were also compared using chi-square or Mann-Whitney U tests when appropriate.  RESULTS: A total of 503 surveys were completed, with all respondents college educated and teaching throughout the K-12 curriculum. …”
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Optimal Embryo Selection: The Irreplaceable Role of the Embryologist in an Age of Advancing Technology by Lauren Kendall Rauchfuss, Yulian Zhao, David Walker, Terri Galantis, Jolene Fredrickson, Kathrynne Barud, Chandra Shenoy

“…Using the ROC-determined cutoff that optimised both sensitivity and specificity, a binary outcome for each test was analysed using agreement statistics to determine if one method of embryo evaluation was superior to the other. …”
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Salir del sinhogarismo. Una aproximación a través de historias de vida by Fernanda Caro Blanco, Alfonso López-Bermúdez

“…Así, el objetivo principal de esta investigación se centra en conocer los factores que inciden positiva y significativamente en la superación del sinhogarismo a partir de los relatos de personas que han vivido estos procesos. Para cumplir este objetivo, se ha empleado una metodología cualitativa, mediante la utilización de la técnica de la historia de vida, la cuál ha permitido a las personas identificar el eco de su pasado y la visión de su futuro, señalando los acontecimientos más significativos en la vida de los individuos narrados en primera persona. …”
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VR-Based Workplace Training and Spaces of Learning: A Social Space Study of VR Training for Apprentice Electricians by Katrin Kraus, Martin Berger, Thomas Keller, Elke Brucker-Kley

“…It was one part of a project which developed a prototype VR environment that enables apprentices to practice testing an electrical installation in a virtual garage using VR headsets. …”
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FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GIRL CHILD IN AKPABUYO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA by NNANA OKOIOFEM, JULIANA JEROME ADIE, OMINI UBI UBI, RUNYI DANIEL JAMES

“…The two null hypotheses were rejected, two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance thus revealing that; there is a significant relationship between female genital mutilation and psychological development of the girl child, there is a significant relationship between female genital mutilation and social development of the girl child, and there is a significant relationship between female genital mutilation in the study area. …”
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Assessing the relationship between nursing process competency and work environment among clinical nurses: a cross-sectional correlational study by Reza Nemati-Vakilabad, Ehsan Kamalifar, Mobina Jamshidinia, Alireza Mirzaei

“…Data analysis was conducted using SPSS version 14, employing descriptive statistics and analytical methods, including Independent sample t-tests, ANOVA, and Pearson correlation, to examine relationships between variables. …”
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Prostate cancer screening knowledge and attitude among men over 50 at a referral Hospital in Oshana region, Namibia by Lonia Kashihakumwa, Daniel O. Ashipala, Yahaya Jafaru

“…Data were analysed with the aid of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26.0 using frequencies and percentages, and Chi-square test of association. Results: Majority of the respondents were knowledgeable about prostate cancer except in questionnaire items 3, 12 and 13 in which they (71.8%, 82.4% and 94.7%, respectively) were not knowledgeable. …”
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Desarrollo de nuevos diseños vegetales: Mejora genética vs transformación genética y edición génica by Pedro Martínez Gómez

“…Si bien, la obtención de organismos modificados mediante transformación genética y edición génica es un proceso con una mayor eficacia y eficiencia y un menor costo, se debe hablar por otro lado, de un rechazo social de estos organismos modificados genéticamente a nivel medioambiental, de salud pública, económico y religioso en un contexto anti tecnológico de rechazo. …”
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