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- Health & MedicineOpen access
Background Menopause is a major life transition with diverse physical, psychological, and social symptoms. More than 70% of women experience musculoskeletal (MSK) pain during the menopausal transition, and around 25% are disabled by it; this symptom cluster was recently character...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Management education has been criticised for over-reliance on transmission-oriented pedagogies poorly suited to developing the competences contemporary business graduates require. The case for moving beyond the lecture is strengthened by generative artificial intelligence, which...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Purpose To perform a systematic review evaluating the efficacy of orthobiologic injections as adjuncts to cartilage‐preserving surgery in improving clinical, radiographic, and histologic outcomes in adults with focal knee cartilage defects. Methods Four databases (PubMed, MEDLINE...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Abstract Purpose Despite the benefits of the internet for cancer care, there is also a substantial risk of exposure to misinformation. Our paper aims to explore the susceptibility of cancer patients and caregivers to online cancer misinformation. Method We conducted semi-structur...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Quantitative companion to Constant capture counts and witnessed realization
I study the minimum total weight of two-trace masks needed to realize a prescribed array on the eight-dimensional Boolean cube. The demand is specified separately for each cube point and each four-coordinate support, so the support labels are retained. For the four-support parity...
- Health & Medicine
OBJECTIVE: This review will map the factors affecting patient safety in teleconsultations for health care services. INTRODUCTION: The use of communication technologies has gained prominence in the new paradigm of health care delivery. However, despite this expansion, patient safe...
- Health & Medicine
Background: Mental illness and tobacco use are often associated. This study aimed to analyze the trends in tobacco use and mental health research published from 2014 to 2024, including oral health-related research within this literature, and to identify gaps for future work. Mate...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
BACKGROUND: Falls are the most common cause of hospitalisation amongst older adults in Ireland. Structured exercise programmes are recommended to manage falls, and the Falls Management Exercise (FaME) programme has been shown to reduce falls and improve physical function. However...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
An Environmental Scan of Alternate Level of Care (ALC) Policies in Ontario, Canada
Background: Alternate level of care (ALC) patients occupy hospital beds despite no longer requiring acute services, impacting patient flow and contributing to overcrowding. Ontario hospitals have updated legislation and policies to address this issue, yet protocols vary across ce...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Irish dancing (ID) is widely practiced internationally, but like many Western genres, struggles to attract and retain male participants. This mixed-methods study collected data about the lived experiences of current and former male Irish dancers via 109 questionnaires and 17 focu...
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An asymptotic model for drug dissolution in a standardized flow-through apparatus
Abstract Asymptotic methods are employed to analyse, interpret and improve on an often-used model for the dissolution of drug particles in a standardized flow-through dissolution cell, United States Pharmacopeia Apparatus 4 (USP4). The model is based on a simplified description f...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
LLM-Driven Cost-Effective Requirements Change Impact Analysis
Requirements are inherently subject to change throughout the software development lifecycle. Within the limited budget available to requirements engineers, manually identifying the impact of such changes on other requirements is error-prone and effort-intensive, especially in reg...
- Health & Medicine
Abstract Tobacco use remains a significant public health concern in Uttarakhand, with 26.5% of adults reported to use tobacco (Global Adult Tobacco Survey [GATS] 2016–17). Although national frameworks such as the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA), 2003 and the Nat...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Preprint. This manuscript has been submitted to the Journal of Cleaner Production and is currently under peer review.Hidden batteries in small waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) are a safety risk because RGB images can identify the device type but cannot confirm whe...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Development of a Two Stage Pipeline for Robust Pulmonary Nodule Detection in Consecutive CT Slices
Background/Objectives: Current pulmonary nodule detection systems often neglect the spatiotemporal continuity inherent in computed tomography (CT) sequences within a single scan. They treat individual slices as independent images and lack mechanisms to recover missed detections....
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Older adults account for one of the largest users of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and require specialised care and tailored interventions during this time. The experiences of older adults and those important to them is crucial to ensure an age-friendly EMS. This review aims t...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Al-Ghayb, A Formal Mathematical Definition of the Unseen
The Qur'anic concept of al-ghayb (the Unseen) is central to Islamic theology, but scholarship usually treats it through exegetical, theological, mystical, or anthropological analysis. This paper develops a formal, time-indexed model separating actual discovery from accessibility...
- BiologyOpen access
Climate change poses significant threats to coastal communities, particularly in the Global South, where limited adaptive capacities and weak coping mechanisms exacerbate vulnerability. Coastal areas experience hazards, impacting both natural environments and coastal livelihoods....
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Women as functional leaders in alcohol affected families in coastal Kerala
The aim of the current study is to investigate how wives operate as leaders in alcohol-affected households in Kerala’s Alappad coastal region. A multi-method, qualitative research methodology was used. Twenty married women from households impacted by alcoholism in Kerala’s Alappa...
- BiologyOpen access
Preprint article submitted to a peer-reviewed journal. This version has not yet undergone peer review. Abstract: Precision oncology knowledge bases are central to interpreting cancer genomic variants and associating them with clinical implications, guiding therapeutic selection a...