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Development of items to assess noticeability and sun sensitivity among patients with non-segmental vitiligo

OBJECTIVES: Non-segmental vitiligo (NSV) is a chronic skin disease characterized by progressive, bilateral skin depigmentation that can impact health-related quality of life and psychosocial well-being. To assess emerging and new NSV treatments, patient-reported outcomes (PROs) t...

Building intraprofessional partnerships between undergraduate nursing and nurse practitioner students through simulation

Background Nurses and nurse practitioners often find themselves working together on teams, yet there is limited literature regarding intraprofessional education among these learners. Method This quasiexperimental quantitative study began with piloting a conscious sedation simulat...

Moral Injury: A Systematic Review of Trauma Treatment Factors

Guilt, shame, and anger are widely recognized as core emotional features of moral injury. In the absence of a validated treatment for moral injury, understanding how patients respond to existing interventions is key. This systematic review assessed the impact of trauma treatments...

Robust adaptive graph signal estimation using Pseudo–Huber loss

Graph Signal Processing (GSP) has become a crucial tool for analyzing data distributed over irregular and complex domains. Most widely used representations in GSP are the Graph Fourier Transform (GFT) and the Graph Shift Operator (GSO). GFT is the frequency-domain representation,...

Quantification of nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions in a managed grassland following nitrogen fertilisation: A comparative analysis of cumulative emissions determined by automated and manual chamber methods

Accurate quantification of nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emissions from grasslands remains challenging owing to their episodic, spatially heterogeneous and diurnally variable nature. This study compared automated chamber (AC) and manual chamber (MC) methods to evaluate the influence of c...

Beyond the single gene: Integrating genomic selection and genome editing for the improvement of polygenic traits in crop plants

Polygenic traits such as yield, drought tolerance, water-use efficiency, and nutritional quality are central to crop improvement but remain challenging targets because they are controlled by numerous loci and influenced by complex genotype-by-environment (G×E) interactions. These...

Beyond Hand Skills: A Case Analysis of Empathy and Critical Thinking Instruction

Background In addition to scientific knowledge and technical proficiency, the compassionate care model of oral health care requires clinicians to develop and reliably demonstrate the skills of empathy and critical thinking. The benefits of these skills have been well documented a...

The clinical presentation and outcomes of dengue fever: a review of a tertiary care center in Saudi Arabia

Dengue fever (DF) is a viral infection spread by mosquitoes and is one of the most frequently reported infectious diseases in Saudi Arabia, particularly in Jeddah. Despite recurring outbreaks, recent data on the clinical characteristics, seasonal variation, and outcomes of affect...

Meaning in life and purpose in life as distinct constructs in the retirement transition: a scoping review

Retirement involves substantial changes in daily structure, social roles, and personal identity with consequences for psychological well-being. Two constructs are particularly relevant: Meaning in Life, the perceived coherence and significance of one’s existence, and Purpose in L...

A methodological framework for intelligent management and control systems in the AEC industry based on the double diamond model

The Double Diamond model, developed by [The British Design Council. (Citation2005). The Double Diamond-Design Council. Available at: https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/our-resources/the-double-diamond (Accessed: 29 August 2024)], structures system design through two diamond-shaped...

From Policy to Personal Wellness: Identifying Health Journalism Beats by Specialty Topic and Journalist Characteristics

Health journalists provide essential, verified information on a range of topics including wellness, medical research, health policy, and health business. We conducted a national online survey of US health journalists (N = 629) to investigate how occupational practices and percept...

From Corrector to Listener: A Practitioner’s Method for Dance Teachers

The article asks whether a teacher who has spent ten years training the corrector’s eye can grow a second eye beside it: a listener’s eye; not replacing the corrector, but beside it. I spent seven weeks examining myself and my own practice. The argument I make is that for all dan...

From IT-enabled organisational transformation to digital transformation: leadership strategies for value creation in manufacturing

Digital Transformation (DT), which encompasses Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0, has been conceptualised and often paralleled with IT-Enabled Organizational Transformation (ITOT) by academia and practitioners. Despite their shared foundation in organisational transformation, the goa...

A CD40-Targeted IL-21 fusokine enables rapid generation of human IL-10⁺granzyme B⁺ regulatory B cells

Regulatory B cells (Bregs) suppress pathogenic immune responses and maintain immune homeostasis, but their rarity and poor ex vivo expandability limit clinical translation as cellular therapeutics. Here, we describe a feeder-free platform for rapid generation of human IL-10⁺Granz...

Centering youth voices: youth satisfaction and disparities in Illinois child welfare residential care

Youth in child welfare residential care present with complex needs and strengths; systematic efforts are needed to improve their treatment. Youths’ perspectives are critical to these efforts. This study explores data from Likert-scale satisfaction surveys of youth receiving resid...

Nurses face extra 12.5-hour shift to ‘make up for’ unpaid breaks

Thousands of nurses are considering potential strike action over proposals that would see them work an extra shift to ‘make up for’ having an additional unpaid break at work.

Obstetric Factors Associated with Pelvic Floor Disorders and Surgery 30 Years After Childbirth: A Prospective Cohort Study

We aimed to compare symptoms of pelvic floor disorders (PFDs) and surgery risk by mode of delivery 30 years after first childbirth and assess symptom changes over time. We also examined associations between PFDs and pelvic floor muscle injuries. Prospective cohort study in 2024 o...

Identifying factors that underpin human-machine teamwork for joint crewed-uncrewed aerial vehicle operations: application of the grounded theory approach

Crewed-uncrewed aerial vehicle operations are being viewed as a novel concept of operations that could respond to increasing adversarial threats. Its realisation vastly depends on the partnership between human operators and advanced machine agents. This implicates the criticality...

Diagnostic performance of ultrasound-derived fat fraction for detecting hepatic steatosis in patients with tumor-related liver disease

Accurate assessment of hepatic steatosis is crucial for preoperative risk stratification in patients with liver tumors. However, the diagnostic performance of the noninvasive ultrasound-derived fat fraction (UDFF) remains uncertain, where tissue heterogeneity can impair measureme...

A multimodal cross-modal explainable retrieval-augmented generation framework for hallucination-grounded visual question answering

Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable performance on visual question answering (VQA) and multimodal reasoning tasks. But one overlooked failure case stubbornly persists: when answers require simultaneous synthesis of evidence from natural images...