Occupational stress, anxiety, and depression among grassroots disease control and prevention staff in Hebei Province: A qualitative comparative analysis based on fuzzy sets by Mengru YANG, Jianguo LI, Junqin ZHAO, Lixin YANG, Qiuying DONG, Chunxiang ZHAO

“…BackgroundGrassroots center for disease control and prevention (CDC) staff undertake intensive work of disease prevention and control, and may be susceptible to occupational stress, anxiety, depression, and other health problems. …”
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Towards energy efficient scheduling in the olive oil extraction industry: Comparative assessment of energy consumption in two management models by Claudio Perone, Roberto Romaniello, Alessandro Leone, Antonio Berardi, Antonia Tamborrino

“…A review of literature to date reveals that there have been no assessments of the energy use and scheduling strategies for these two processes, therefore the current study undertakes such assessment and comparison of the Ba-PL and Co-PL configurations, within a single mill facility. …”
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Relation of Aortic Waveforms with Gut Hormones following Continuous and Interval Exercise among Older Adults with Prediabetes by Daniel J. Battillo, Steven K. Malin

“…Older adults (61.3 ± 1.5 yr; 33.2 ± 1.1 kg/m²) with prediabetes (ADA criteria) were randomized to undertake 60 min of work-matched continuous (CONT, <i>n</i> = 14) or interval (INT, <i>n</i> = 14) exercise for 2 wks. …”
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Noor-Eesti antifuturismist.On the Anti-Futurism of Young Estonia by Virve Sarapik

“…Young Estonia persists in Estonian cultural memory as a movement of renewal, among other factors through its impetus to the development of urban culture. This article undertakes to juxtapose Young Estonia’s efforts at cultural renewal, its rhetoric of the future, and futurism as a cultural phenomenon. …”
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Learnings from user feedback of a novel digital mental health assessment by Erin Lucy Funnell, Erin Lucy Funnell, Benedetta Spadaro, Jiri Benacek, Nayra A. Martin-Key, Tim Metcalfe, Tony Olmert, Giles Barton-Owen, Sabine Bahn

“…In summary, we recommend undertaking extensive co-design activities during the development of digital assessment tools, flexibility in answering modalities within digital assessment, customizable additional features such as reminders, transparency of diagnostic decision making, and an actionable results report with personalized mental health resources.…”
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The treatment of history in Austrian-Hungarian state primary school textbooks for Bosnia and Herzegovina by Oliver Pejić

“…Existing South Slavic textbooks, containing numerous texts that were offensive to Muslims, proved unsuitable for such an undertaking. The goal of this article is to address the treatment of history in the new textbooks written for Bosnia-Herzegovina’s state primary schools, considering both the selection of historical topics and the manner in which historical education was utilized in order to impart desirable loyalties among the students and further the government’s political goals. …”
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Performance of Multi-GNSS Real-Time UTC(NTSC) Time and Frequency Transfer Service Using Carrier Phase Observations by Pengfei Zhang, Rui Tu, Xiaochun Lu, Lihong Fan, Rui Zhang

“…In this contribution, we preliminarily built the prototype system of real-time multi-GNSS time and frequency transfer service in National Time Service Center (NTSC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), which undertakes the task to generate, maintains and transmits the national standard of time and frequency UTC(NTSC). …”
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Multi-event assessment of typhoon-triggered landslide susceptibility in the Philippines by J. N. Jones, J. N. Jones, G. L. Bennett, C. Abancó, M. A. M. Matera, F. J. Tan

“…This suggests that combined multi-event typhoon-triggered landslide susceptibility models will be more accurate and reliable for the forecasting of future typhoon-triggered landslides. Finally, by undertaking a high-level comparison of the Abuan and Itogon susceptibility models through space, we preliminarily suggest that there may be spatial dependency in typhoon-triggered landslides in the Philippines but that further work into issues of spatial dependency in this region is required.…”
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Genome-wide association analyses of agronomic traits and Striga hermonthica resistance in pearl millet by Armel Rouamba, Hussein Shimelis, Inoussa Drabo, Emmanuel Mrema, Christopher Ochieng Ojiewo, Learnmore Mwadzingeni, Abhishek Rathore

“…The objective of this study was to undertake genome-wide association analyses of agronomic traits and Sh resistance among 150 pearl millet genotypes to identify genetic markers for marker-assisted breeding and trait introgression. …”
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Randomised feasibility trial and embedded qualitative process evaluation of a new intervention to facilitate the involvement of older patients with multimorbidity in decision-makin... by Joanne Butterworth, Suzanne Richards, Fiona Warren, Emma Pitchforth, John Campbell

“…Interventions aimed at facilitating shared decision-making between doctors and patients are outdated in their assessments of today’s older patient population who need support in prioritising complex care needs in order to maximise quality of life and day-to-day function. Aims To undertake feasibility testing of an intervention (‘VOLITION’) aimed at facilitating the involvement of older patients with more than one long-term health problem in shared decision-making about their healthcare during GP consultations. …”
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Risk of noise-induced hearing loss in the spine surgeon by Matthew H. Meade, DO, Stephanie A. Kwan, DO, Mark E. Michael, DO, Nicholas J. Minissale, DO, Levi Buchan, DO, Jeffrey R. Gleimer, DO, Barrett I. Woods, MD, Christopher Kepler, MD

“…The risk spine surgeons undertake in regards to NIHL during operative intervention is unknown. …”
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Economics of Smokeless Tobacco Taxation in Bangladesh by Nasiruddin Ahmed

“…Significance of the study The significance of undertaking this study is due to several reasons. Firstly, SLT has received little attention in terms of quality research and evidence-based policy making in Bangladesh. …”
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Can Arhats Attain Buddhahood? An Issue in the Interpretation of the Lotus Sūtra by Robert F. Rhodes

“…Hence, he concludes, arhats have not actually rid themselves of all defilements but must still remain within the cycle of transmigration undertaking bodhisattva practices until they extinguish these subtle forms of defilements and achieve buddhahood. …”
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Ontario’s Experiment with Primary Care Reform by Arthur Sweetman, Gioia Buckley

“…However, the same challenges that make reform a formidable undertaking also make it difficult to readily, or quickly, measure success, especially since many changes are ongoing. …”
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Cost of peer mystery shopping to increase cultural competency in community clinics offering HIV/STI testing to young men who have sex with men: results from the get connected trial by Victoria L. Phillips, Ashley Xue, Marné Castillo, Dalia Santiago, Taylor Wimbly, Lisa B. Hightow-Weidman, Rob Stephenson, José A. Bauermeister

“…Methods Through consultation with study staff, we created a resource inventory for undertaking the community-based, peer-led mystery shopping program. …”
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CRÍTICA DEL PENSAMIENTO CRÍTICO. APUNTES PARA PENSAR LAS LUCHAS by Manuel E. Gándara Carballido.

“…It begins from the understanding that the reflective rigor from which you want to support the processes of social transformation requires undertake a creative reception of this tradition; entails, together with the recognition of its relevance, questions about the adequacy of concepts, categories and analytical perspective that gives us discernment of today’s society. …”
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Evaluating a Smartphone App (MeT4VeT) to Support the Mental Health of UK Armed Forces Veterans: Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial by Steven Parkes, Bethany Croak, Samantha K Brooks, Sharon A M Stevelink, Daniel Leightley, Nicola T Fear, Laura Rafferty, Neil Greenberg

“…MethodsParticipants were recruited at UK military medical centers, by advertising on social media, and through veteran third-sector organizations between February and November 2021, and assessed for eligibility (male, owned a smartphone, served at least 2 years in the UKAF, left the UKAF within the last 2 years, not undertaking formal mental health treatment). Eligible participants were assigned, on a 1:1 ratio, to either the intervention group (full app) or a control group (noninteractive app with signposting information). …”
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The Effects of Introducing a Mobile App–Based Procedural Logbook on Trainee Compliance to a Central Venous Catheter Insertion Accreditation Program: Before-and-After Study by Robert Tamblyn, Jorge Brieva, Madeleine Cain, F Eduardo Martinez

“…ConclusionsThe addition of an electronic app-based logbook to a preexisting paper-based logbook was associated with a higher rate of logbook compliance in trainee doctors undertaking an accreditation program for CVC insertion in an adult ICU. …”
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Postmenopausal women's experiences of weight maintenance following a very low energy diet by Claudia Harper, Judith Maher, Michelle Hsu, Anne Grunseit, Radhika Seimon, Amanda Sainsbury

“…Transcribed interviews were analyzed thematically using an inductive approach. Results Undertaking a VLED was reported by participants to confer advantages in weight maintenance that previous weight loss attempts had not been able to do for them. …”
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Temperature-induced modulation of stress-tolerant PGP genes bioprospected from Bacillus sp. IHBT-705 associated with saffron (Crocus sativus) rhizosphere: A natural -treasure trove... by Nilofer Ali, Nilofer Ali, Mohit Kumar Swarnkar, Raj Veer, Priya Kaushal, Aparna Maitra Pati, Aparna Maitra Pati

“…IHBT-705 isolated from the rhizosphere of saffron (Crocus sativus). To undertake the study, Bacillus sp. IHBT-705 was grown under varied temperature regimes, their PGP traits were assessed from very low to very high-temperature range and the expression trend of targeted stress tolerant and PGP genes were analyzed. …”
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