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- Health & MedicineOpen access
Academic self-efficacy, defined as an individual’s belief in their capacity to complete academic tasks, may play a role in the learning and performance of medical students. Lifestyle factors such as sleep quality, physical activity, and mindfulness-based behaviors have been assoc...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Injection-related fear in school-aged pediatric patients may influence their cooperation with medical procedures and psychological wellbeing. However, few studies have characterized distinct latent profiles of injection-related fear in this pediatric population. To further clarif...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Repeat induced abortion remains a major reproductive health concern, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Although abortion is legal in Vietnam up to 22 weeks of gestation, the country continues to report high abortion rates in Southeast Asia, with limited recent dat...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Vitamin D deficiency remains highly prevalent in the Middle East and may influence both oral-health research planning and orthodontic trial feasibility. This study estimated vitamin D deficiency prevalence in adults screened for orthodontic treatment in Saudi Arabia and quantifie...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
To develop and validate a machine learning (ML) model based on the modified pancreatitis activity scoring system (mPASS) and imaging features for the early assessment of multiple clinically relevant outcomes in acute pancreatitis (AP). A retrospective cohort of 420 AP patients wa...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Perceived stress reflects an individual’s appraisal of a situation as overwhelming. It plays a crucial role in shaping pain experience and management. Dental pain, resulting from tooth decay, its sequelae or periodontal diseases, may adversely affect quality of life by contributi...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) is a rare neurological entity in the paediatric population, whose diagnosis relies primarily on brain MRI. Although at-risk populations are well established, cases occurring in the context of sepsis of gastrointestinal origin ar...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Background Cognitive symptoms represent a major determinant of long-term disability in chronic schizophrenia and only partially respond to pharmacotherapy. Evidence is growing about the potential effect of cognitive interventions to promote functional recovery. Immersive virtual...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
The one-dimensional Bin Packing Problem (1D-BPP) poses significant challenges in logistics, particularly for optimizing item packing sequences in warehouse conveyor belt systems. This paper proposes a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) approach using Advantage Actor-Critic (A2C) i...
- BiologyOpen access
This study investigates the effects of temperature on the growth, development, and bolting characteristics of Lactuca sativa , utilizing the late-maturing variety WS1 and the early-maturing variety WS3 as experimental materials. Three temperature gradients were established: 18 °C...
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This study aimed to evaluate differences in serum uric acid (SeUA) and salivary uric acid (SaUA) levels between patients with oral submucous fibrosis (OSF) and healthy controls. PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and the Cochrane Library were searched for studies rep...
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Familial tailgut cysts in two sisters presenting with sacral dimple sign: a case report
Tailgut cysts are rare congenital cystic lesions arising from remnants of the embryological postanal primitive gut. Familial clustering of tailgut cysts has been rarely reported, and the association with sacral dimple sign as an early diagnostic indicator remains underexplored. W...
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Community perceptions of primary health care in Oyo State, Nigeria: a cross-sectional study
Primary Health Care (PHC) is central to achieving equitable and cost-effective health systems, yet its potential in Nigeria remains underutilised. Despite the extensive network of PHC centres in Oyo State, utilisation remains low, partly due to misconceptions about PHC functions...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Advancing boundary-layer physics via Doppler wind LiDAR dynamic-thermodynamic profiling
Simultaneous, high-resolution measurements of boundary-layer dynamics and thermodynamics remain a longstanding observational challenge. We present a Doppler wind LiDAR–based retrieval that derives virtual potential temperature from TKE-budget buoyancy residuals, enabling concurre...
- BiologyOpen access
Galectin-1 (Gal-1, encoded by LGALS1) has been implicated in malignant progression across multiple cancer types, but its prognostic significance and association with tumor immune microenvironment features in gastric cancer (GC) remain incompletely understood. In this study, we in...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Early risk stratification remains challenging in patients with acute aortic dissection (AAD). This study aims to evaluate the prognostic value of neutrophil percentage-to-albumin ratio (NPAR) for in-hospital mortality in patients with acute aortic dissection. We performed a multi...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Intersectional fairness in vision-language models for medical image disease classification
Medical artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly multimodal vision-language models (VLM), often exhibit intersectional biases, with models systematically less confident in diagnosing marginalised patient subgroups and producing higher rates of missed diagnoses. Current...
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Post-stroke patients often experience cognitive, psychological, and self-care impairments. Comparative evidence on mindfulness-based interventions and cognitive rehabilitation interventions remains limited. This study compared two psychological interventions (Mindfulness-Based St...
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This study aimed to develop and validate a classification model for preoperative prediction of WHO grading of meningioma based on spatial habitat radiomics that can be explained by Ki-67 and p53 biomarkers. A retrospective cohort of 400 patients (261 WHO grade I; 139 grade II/III...
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Streptococcus mutans modulates local immune responses in the oral mucosa and has been implicated in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) pathogenesis. Emerging evidence suggests that certain oral bacteria can influence viral infections through immune modulation. This case-control...