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Background: Inpatient care is a key driver of mental healthcare costs in South Africa (SA). Schizophrenia is a common psychiatric diagnosis amongst hospitalised patients in the public sector of SA. Determining the lengt...

Background: Liver hepatocellular carcinoma is a highly prevalent and lethal malignancy. The orphan cytokine receptor-like factor 3, although evolutionarily conserved and implicated in hematopoiesis and neuroprotection, r...

Background: Digitalisation has become a priority for organisations in their quest to improve service delivery and efficiency, and to increase their market share. To achieve this, organisations need to assess their stren...

Abstract Background Pancreatic portal hypertension (PPH) is a distinct form of sinistral (left-sided) portal hypertension, primarily resulting from pancreatic diseases such as acute or chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic...

IntroductionSurvival rate after polytrauma increased over the past decades resulting in an increase of long-term complaints. These include physical and psychological impairments. The aim of this study was to describe the...

Abstract Background There exists a scarcity of information on risk factors associated with case outcomes in goats diagnosed with encephalitic listeriosis. Objective Evaluate risk factors associated with outcomes in 36 ca...

The inherent variability of soil properties has currently received considerable attention in slope reliability analysis. However, the geological uncertainty is often ignored in analysis. This paper proposes a method for ...

Abstract Research on the dynamics and driving mechanisms of submerged macrophytes communities during the natural restoration period of lakes with different trophic level remains relatively scarce. This study aims to inve...

The main objective of this Campbell systematic review was to provide a systematic review of the evidence on the effects of microcredit on women's control over household spending in developing countries. More specifically...

BackgroundSeptic cardiomyopathy (SCM) is one of the most common and serious complications of sepsis. Earlier research has identified reciprocal regulation between SCM and gut microbiota (GM), but the mechanistic basis of...

Abstract Background Dietary behaviors during adolescence greatly influence lifelong health habits, with patterns and nutritional deficiencies at this stage potentially carrying into adulthood and affecting long-term heal...

"He construct validity in relation to the dimensionality or factor structure of the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) has long been debated in psychometrics. Irrelevant variance due to item wording (method effects) can disto...

Fine-flavor cocoa can lose sensory attributes when fermented without time and temperature control. This study aimed to assess the effect of micro-batch fermentation time on five organic cocoa cultivars from Upala, Costa ...

INTRODUCTION. This study is devoted to a comprehensive analysis of transformed paremiological units (paremias-transformers) as a dynamic component of contemporary Russian speech. The aim of the research is a comprehensiv...

Injectable platelet-rich fibrin (i-PRF) refers to second-generation platelet concentrate. In this study, the results of i-PRF centrifugation were fractionated into three layers: yellow i-PRF, buffy coat, and red i-PRF. I...

The article focuses on a comprehensive analysis and forecast of Ukraine’s foreign policy amid the profound transformations of the international system in the early 21st century. It explores the main trends, influencing...

Abstract Background This study aimed to develop and validate a nomogram for predicting the risk of prolonged somnolence in hospitalized patients receiving intravenous midazolam. Methods We retrospectively collected clini...

Abstract Background The household registration system in China places migrants in a vulnerable status regarding access to local public services, including limited access to health services. Most studies on migrants’ he...

Abstract Background The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges to healthcare systems worldwide, necessitating rapid adaptation and strategic responses. This article aims to explore the structural factors, c...

ABSTRACT This study aimed to typify smallholders’ dairy systems using quali-quantitative measures of feeding practices and detect the main discriminatory elements identifying the systems. We collected data from 30 farm...

Abstract Drawing from the transformational leadership theory, this study aims to translate and analyse the psychometric properties of a Spanish version of the Transformational Teaching Questionnaire (TTQ). A cohort sampl...

Abstract Exercise is clinically recommended for patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD); however, their physical activity levels remain low. Guided by the theory of planned behavior, this study developed the Exercise Behav...

BackgroundCyberbullying (CYB) is an increasing problem, especially among young people, requiring new ways to measure this construct. Currently, there are gaps in the development of a scale to validate the identification ...

Background The importance of psychosocial functioning in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD) is widely recognised. However, there is a lack of effective scales to assess psychosocia...