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Exploring Caregivers Lived Experiences in Accessing Comprehensive Cleft Care at Jimma University Medical Center: A Phenomenological Study in Southwest Ethiopia

Background: Orofacial clefts are one of the most common congenital anomalies worldwide. Comprehensive cleft care interventions aim to address the complex surgical, nutritional, dental, speech, audiology, and psychosocial needs of patients with clefts. While studies from other cou...

Observed Change in STABLE-2007 Scores Among Adult Males on Parole Participating in Treatment for Sexual Offending

The STABLE-2007 is a risk assessment tool used in sexual offending treatment programs to identify and monitor changes in criminogenic needs. We conducted multilevel growth curve analyses to examine changes in STABLE-2007 scores over a four-year period among 873 parolees participa...

Cleft Summit 2025: How to Ensure Psychosocial Assessments Actually Improve the Lives of Children with Cleft Lip and/or Palate

Objective The 3 rd Cleft Summit examined whether and how cleft teams assess the psychosocial impact of facial differences on children and their families and sought to develop actionable strategies for improving psychosocial outcomes. Design Expert consensus study followed by a de...

A decomposition approach for the multi-depot vehicle routing problem with heterogeneous fleets, pickup–delivery, time windows, and route balance

In this paper, we address the problem of equitable workload distribution in the multi-depot vehicle routing problem (MDVRP) with simultaneous pickup and delivery, time windows, and heterogeneous fleets. To ensure fairness, route balance is incorporated into the problem. This is m...