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This study translated and validated the model Student Questionnaire (SQ) among 13- to 18-year-old Sri Lankan adolescents. A systematic procedure was followed to translate the SQ into Sinhala language. The Sinhala version was titled Adolescent Substance Use Student Questionnaire (ASUSQ). A Delphi process was conducted t…

Genome-wide association studies showed the relationship of,,,, andwith chronic periodontitis. The study's objective was to investigate different molecular patterns and evolutionary forces acting on the mentioned genes. The investigation of molecular patterns encompasses the study of compositional parameters, expression…

This study examined the moderating effect of perceived organizational support on the link between employee engagement and the job performance of medical staff at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital. The study adopted a purely quantitative approach, using the explanatory research design. Data were collected from 310 full-t…

Merging is one of the key maneuvers where autonomous vehicles (AVs) can perform significantly better in decision-making and execution than human-driven vehicles (HDVs). However, past studies have investigated AV merging in simulation environments but have not comprehensively analyzed the interactions between AVs and HD…

This letter addresses the study by van Es et al. on multivitamin adherence after bariatric surgery and the implementation of patient-centered care (PCC) by healthcare professionals (HCPs). The authors commend the study's efforts to advance PCC but offer critical insights into the limitations of its methodology. The let…

Whilst the field of maternal cognition is gaining interest, with a recent increase in publications, there are still only a handful of existing studies. This presents a unique opportunity for reflection and growth, advancing scientific rigor to ensure that future interpretations of maternal cognitive functioning are bas…

This study measured the extent to which pregnancy outcomes of adolescents are related to the environment of the prenatal clinic where they receive care. The study sample consisted of women aged 18 years and under living in a medium-sized urban city in the Northeast, and who delivered their babies during 1984 or 1985 (N…

Prior research on affect elicitation indicates that stimuli with social content (pictures or videos) are more arousing than nonsocial stimuli. In particular, they elicit stronger physiological arousal as measured by electrodermal activity (EDA; i.e., social EDA effect). However, it is unclear how this effect applies to…

Assays can be so expensive that interesting hypotheses become impractical to study epidemiologically. One need not, however, perform an assay for everyone providing a biological specimen. We propose pooling equal-volume aliquots from randomly grouped sets of cases and randomly grouped sets of controls, and then assayin…

OBJECTIVE: The study's aim was to evaluate the available evidence regarding the use of platelet-rich plasma in plastic and reconstructive surgery, through implementation of a systematic review of the literature. DATA SOURCES: PubMed and The Cochrane Library were searched using MeSH terms: 'platelet rich plasma' and 'p…

Given the crisis of representation (of) and complicated histories of othering, ethnography seems to be a methodology in need of cripping. Autoethnography, then, is one approach to solve said crisis of representation. Down to classics like Robert Murphy's, Disability Studies often use authors' autobiographical experienc…

Food allergies are common in preschool children. This study's aims are to establish prevalence, to clarify management practices, levels of preparedness and the perceived role of General Practitioners amongst Early Years Services providers. This study is an anonymous, quantitative, cross sectional study. An online quest…

Non-nursing workers have been advocated as a means of ameliorating high nursing utilizations, whether the cause be budgetary or the inability to recruit trained staff. The creation of a generic worker who would undertake domestic, catering and non-nursing activities has been seen as a way of improving the ward environm…

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess whether randomized controlled trials conducted in Africa with collaborators from outside Africa were more closely associated with health conditions that have a burden of disease that is of specific importance to Africa than with conditions of more general global importance or with…

The primary non-rodent species used in toxicology is the dog. It is generally agreed that, for ethical reasons, dog use should be reduced to the minimum consistent with maintaining the scientific quality of toxicology studies and ensuring human safety. Dog use in toxicology has been discussed widely, both from a scient…

The concept of state failure has only recently emerged in the political science and legal literature. Although state failure has been used to predict violent conflicts, and all citizens are affected by violence in failed/fragile states, women are especially at risk. Using data from the WomanStats project, this study's…

Nonprofit equine rescue organizations in the United States provide care for relinquished horses and may offer adoption programs. With an estimated 100,000 "unwanted" horses per year and few municipal shelters providing wholesale euthanasia, there is a need to minimize the number of unwanted horses and maximize their su…

The systemic immune-inflammation index (SII), an integrated and ground-breaking inflammatory measure, has been widely used in various fields. We aimed to assess the association between the systemic immune-inflammation index (SII) and α-Klotho (a new anti-aging biomarker). In this cross-sectional investigation, pe…

In response to the recent commentary on our pilot study using denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) for vocal fold structural pathology image augmentation, we clarify our study's rationale and methods. The original work evaluated the feasibility of synthetic image generation to address data scarcity and imba…

A large population-based cohort study by Gharbi et al. found an association between deferred or no antibiotic prescribing in patients with a urinary tract infection (UTI) or suspected UTI and an increased incidence of bloodstream infections and all-cause mortality. The study concludes that early initiation of antibioti…