by Allyson N. Beard, Donald J. Brown, Eric T. Hileman, Michael T. Jones, Jena M. Staggs, Ron A. Moen, Andrew F. Badje, Christopher M. Lituma
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by Roomi Aziz, Anuj Kapilashrami, Reza Majdzadeh
Planning for investment in human resources for health (HRH) is critical to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and establish a sustainable health system. Informed planning warrants a better understanding of the health labour market (HLM) to tackle a variety of health and care workforce challenges: from addressing critical supply shortage, to ensuring optimal skills mix and distribution, and addressing motivation and performance challenges. Читать дальше...
by Cathrine Sæthern Rye, Anne Pernille Ofstad, Bjørn Olav Åsvold, Pål Richard Romundstad, Julie Horn, Håvard Dalen
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by Zachary P. Neal, Jennifer Watling Neal
Childfree adults neither have nor want children, but estimates of their prevalence vary widely, leading to ambiguity about how common this family status actually is. The goal of this study is to examine the effects of sample composition, time, and question wording on estimates of the prevalence of childfree adults. We pool 83 nationally representative estimates of the prevalence of childfree adults in Japan since 2000 using meta-regression to identify the influence of sex... Читать дальше...
by François-Olivier Baudot
Benzodiazepines (BZDs) are drugs commonly used for treating insomnia and anxiety. Although they are known to induce cognitive and psychomotor impairments, their effect on the risk of causing accidents at work remains understudied. The objective of this study is to estimate this risk by differentiating between the recommended use and overuse of these drugs (i.e., uninterrupted use for four months). The data come from the French National Health Data System, which... Читать дальше...
by Dong Eun Yang, Sua Jo, Dong Hyun Lee, Won Suk An, Min Jae Jeong, Minkook Son
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by Caitlyn Henry, Mackenzie Wilcox, Angela L. Asirvatham
Although Schwann cells have been found to play a key role in inflammation and repair following nerve injury, the exact pathway is still unknown. To explore the mechanism by which Schwann cells exert their effects in the neuron microenvironment, we investigated two main inflammatory pathways: the NF-κB and cAMP pathways, and their downstream signaling molecules. In this study, lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a bacterial endotoxin, was used to activate the NF-κB pathway... Читать дальше...
by R. Constance Wiener, Eric W. Lundstrom
BackgroundA large proportion of United States (U.S.) youth play basketball, baseball, softball, or T-ball. Each of the activities poses a documented risk of craniofacial and neck injuries. However, few studies have assessed the national prevalence of pediatric craniofacial and neck injuries in this population, particularly following the COVID-19 pandemic.
MethodsThe National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) dataset was used... Читать дальше...
by Hao Tan, Jiayan Liu, Yingli Zhang
As a major concern shared by parents globally, COVID-19 vaccine safety is typically being messaged to the public in a negative frame in many countries. However, whether the COVID-19 vaccine safety framing have an effect on parents when vaccinating their children is unclear. Here we implement an online survey with a convenience sample of 3,861 parents living in mainland China, all over 18 years old and with at least one child under 18. The parents were... Читать дальше...
by Manhuai Lu, Langlang Li, Chin-Ling Chen
It is challenging to detect arbitrary-shape text accurately and effectively in natural scenes. While many methods have been implemented for arbitrary-shape text detection, most cannot achieve real-time detection or meet practical needs. In this work, we propose a YOLOv6-based detector that can effectively implement arbitrary-shape text detection and achieve real-time detection. We include two additional branches in the neck part of the YOLOv6 network to adapt the network to text detection... Читать дальше...
by Sandra G. Zimmerman, Celeste A. Berg
CO2 anesthesia is the most common method for immobilizing Drosophila for research purposes. But CO2 exposure has consequences—it can impact fertility, behavior, morphogenesis, and cytoskeletal dynamics. In this respect, Drosophila is an outstanding model for studying the impact of CO2 exposure on tissues. In this study we explored the response of intracellular pH (pHi) to a one-minute CO2 pulse using a genetically encoded, ubiquitously expressed pH sensor... Читать дальше...
by Anna Koprowicz, Robert Korzeniewicz, Wojciech Pusz, Marlena Baranowska
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by Swapan Kumar Paul, Dipali Rani Gupta, Masatoshi Ino, Makoto Ueno
Fusarium wilt, caused by the fungus Fusarium buharicum, is an emerging disease of okra in Japan. The disease was first reported in Japan in 2015, causing significant damage to okra seedlings. Due to the potential threat in okra cultivation, the development of an accurate detection method for F. buharicum is needed for the surveillance and management of the disease. In this study, we designed a primer set and developed conventional... Читать дальше...
by Katarzyna Arkusz, Kamila Pasik, Aleksandra Jędrzejewska, Tomasz Klekiel, Waldemar Woźniak, Marta Nycz, Roman Stryjski
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by Philipp Kanzow, Corinna Witt, Clemens Lechte, Sarah Barke, Bianca Rohland, Alexandra Schmidt, Annette Wiegand
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by Reem Hoteit, Imad Bou-Hamad, Sahar Hijazi, Dinah Ayna, Maya Romani, Christo El Morr
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by Shuliang Zhao, Huimin Jiang, Yiqun Miao, Wenwen Liu, Yanan Li, Yuanyuan Zhang, Aihua Wang, Xinghui Cui
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by Xinhao Hou, Yao Tang
Based on the analysis of data from listed enterprises in China between 2011 and 2022, we investigate the influence of digital transformation on the governance efficiency for minority shareholders. The results show that the extent of digital transformation exert a negative effect on the agency costs incurred from related-party transactions. The mechanism examination elucidates that digital transformation augments the governance efficiency for minority shareholders by... Читать дальше...
by Ana Maria Ochoa-Aristizábal, Edna Judith Márquez
Cyphocharax magdalenae, a Colombian freshwater fish species, plays a vital role in nutrients distribution and serves as a significant food source for other fish species and local fishing communities. Considered a short-distance migratory species, C. magdalenae populations face substantial extinction risk due to human activities impacting their habitats. To address the lack of knowledge on genetic diversity and population structure, this... Читать дальше...
by Mingchun Li, Yang Liu, Dali Chen, Liangsheng Chen, Shixin Liu
Although deep-learning methods can achieve human-level performance in boundary detection, their improvements mostly rely on larger models and specific datasets, leading to significant computational power consumption. As a fundamental low-level vision task, a single model with fewer parameters to achieve cross-dataset boundary detection merits further investigation. In this study, a lightweight universal boundary detection method... Читать дальше...
by Zai-Bao Zhang, Tao Xiong, Xiao-Jia Wang, Yu-Rui Chen, Jing-Lei Wang, Cong-Li Guo, Zi-Yi Ye
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by Alessandra Buja, Massimo Rugge, Claudia Cozzolino, Francesca Dossi, Manuel Zorzi, Antonella Vecchiato, Giuseppe de Luca, Paolo Del Fiore, Saveria Tropea, Luigi dall’Olmo, Carlo Riccardo Rossi, Giovanna Boccuzzo, Simone Mocellin
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by Safa Alqudah, Margaret Zuriekat, Aya Shatarah
by Lee A. Armstrong, Sven M. Lange, Virginia De Cesare, Stephen P. Matthews, Raja Sekhar Nirujogi, Isobel Cole, Anthony Hope, Fraser Cunningham, Rachel Toth, Rukmini Mukherjee, Denisa Bojkova, Franz Gruber, David Gray, Paul G. Wyatt, Jindrich Cinatl, Ivan Dikic, Paul Davies, Yogesh Kulathu