Publications by authors named "A Blau"
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- The study reveals that although the HPV vaccine can prevent infections and related cancers, it is underutilized, partly due to knowledge gaps among Israeli nurses and nursing students regarding the vaccine's efficacy and administration.
- A significant number of participants had misconceptions about the vaccine, such as believing it can cure existing infections and is given as a single dose, which underscores the need for better education.
- Findings suggest that community nurses and those with higher HPV knowledge and secular or traditional religious backgrounds are more likely to advocate for the vaccine, highlighting the importance of culturally sensitive educational programs to improve HPV vaccination rates in Israel.
Cell cultures play a crucial role in neuroscience research, facilitating the elucidation of the complexities of cellular physiology and pathology. The relative simplicity in producing cultures and the accessibility to cells that the cultures provide, in contrast to in vivo settings, allow users to manipulate and monitor cells more easily at higher throughputs and lower costs. These are ideal for screening purposes and electrophysiological characterizations.
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- Action segmentation involves labeling each frame in behavioral videos, essential for studying animal behavior across various species.
- A variety of algorithms, including supervised, unsupervised, and semi-supervised learning methods, are evaluated for their effectiveness in identifying discrete animal behaviors.
- The study introduces a new semi-supervised model, finding that fully supervised temporal convolutional networks, enhanced with temporal information, yield the highest performance on supervised metrics across different datasets.
Excessive calorie intake leads to mitochondrial overload and triggers metabolic inflexibility and insulin resistance. In this study, we examined how attenuated p38α activity affects glucose and fat metabolism in the skeletal muscles of mice on a high-fat diet (HFD). Mice exhibiting diminished p38α activity (referred to as p38α) gained more weight and displayed elevated serum insulin levels, as well as a compromised response in the insulin tolerance test, compared to the control mice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aimed to investigate the relationship between moral self, moral integrity, and moral sensitivity in decision-making among nurses. nurses face moral dilemmas almost on a daily basis. Studies have demonstrated that nurses with high moral sensitivity make thoughtful decisions and exhibit professional responsibility.
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