Qatar residents' satisfaction for using the Doha Metro Rail System: An analysis for sustainable transportation.

Doha's public transportation system was entirely dependent on publicly run ground transportation services, including buses, taxis, and limousines before the Doha Metro Rail System - a sustainable transportation system, was implemented. This study integrated the Social Exchange Theory (SET) with the SERVQUAL 5 dimensions as a higher-ordered construct to assess how satisfied Qatar residents were with the Doha Metro Rail System after three years of service. To encourage commuters to use sustainable public transportation, it is imperative to design methods to assess public travel satisfaction concerning public transportation use as Qatar moves toward a sustainable public transportation system.

Behavioral intention to use electronic cigarettes in the Philippines: The role of social influence, knowledge, price and health impact.

Electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes have gained significant popularity as an alternative to traditional cigarettes, yet limited research has examined the factors influencing their adoption, particularly in developing nations like the Philippines, where usage is rising. This study investigates the behavioral drivers of e-cigarette use, with a particular focus on the role of knowledge, alongside social influence, perceived price impact, perceived health impact, and perceived usefulness. Using purposive sampling, 310 valid responses were collected from current e-cigarette users, traditional cigarette users, or individuals with prior experience with these products.

Microlevel structural poverty estimates for southern and eastern Africa.

For many countries in the Global South traditional poverty estimates are available only infrequently and at coarse spatial resolutions, if at all. This limits decision-makers' and analysts' ability to target humanitarian and development interventions and makes it difficult to study relationships between poverty and other natural and human phenomena at finer spatial scales. Advances in Earth observation and machine learning-based methods have proven capable of generating more granular estimates of relative asset wealth indices.

Are Treatment Adherence Factors Apparent in Patients with Asthma and to Physicians? Results from the APPaRENT 3 Survey.

Introduction: Patient adherence to regular controller medication is critical for improving clinical outcomes in asthma, which is consistently associated with underlying pathophysiological inflammation. This survey aimed to identify types of treatment nonadherence and associated factors, including patient characteristics that predict poor adherence, in patients with asthma.

Methods: This cross-sectional online survey involved patients with asthma and physicians managing such patients from Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam) and the Middle East (Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates) included in the Asthma Patients' and Physicians' Perspectives on the Burden and Management of Asthma (APPaRENT) 3 study.

Beyond the Limit: Salvaging the Posterior Circulation Territory via Late Endovascular Thrombectomy.

Introduction: Posterior circulation infarctions, particularly basilar artery occlusions, contribute significantly to morbidity and mortality in ischemic stroke. However, literature supporting mechanical thrombectomy in the posterior circulation, especially beyond the 24-h window, is limited.

Case Presentation: We present the case of a 64-year-old male diagnosed with basilar artery occlusion who underwent a successful mechanical thrombectomy 11 days after symptom onset.

Emergence of Acinetobacter towneri harbouring a novel plasmid with bla and tet(X7) from hospital wastewater in the Philippines.

Objectives: The clinical effectiveness of carbapenem and tigecycline, which are last-resort antimicrobials used to treat multidrug-resistant bacterial infections, faces challenges due to emerging plasmid-borne resistance mechanisms, including the enzymatic inactivation of antimicrobials. Here, we investigate and report the co-occurrence of bla and tet(X7) genes in an Acinetobacter towneri isolate from hospital wastewater in the Philippines.

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Pharmaceutical waste management legislations: Where do ASEAN countries stand in harmonization? A review of regulatory documents.

Although healthcare waste management (HCWM) legislations prevail in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), there appears a prominent gap in standalone pharmaceutical waste management (PWM) legislation making harmonization of PWM challenging in the region. This review is aimed to comprehensively overview the PWM-related legislations in ASEAN, comprising of 10 economically rising countries in Southeast Asia. The relevant regulatory documents, that were promulgated till August 31, 2024 and that were in English or officially translated in English, were extracted from PubMed/Medline, Scopus, Science Direct, Google Scholar, and respective country's government websites.

Higher education students' perceptions of ChatGPT: A global study of early reactions.

The paper presents the most comprehensive and large-scale global study to date on how higher education students perceived the use of ChatGPT in early 2024. With a sample of 23,218 students from 109 countries and territories, the study reveals that students primarily used ChatGPT for brainstorming, summarizing texts, and finding research articles, with a few using it for professional and creative writing. They found it useful for simplifying complex information and summarizing content, but less reliable for providing information and supporting classroom learning, though some considered its information clearer than that from peers and teachers.

Attenuating Vibrio harveyi Virulence Through Quorum Sensing Interference Using Piperine: An In Vitro and In Silico Approach.

Aquaculture diseases caused by pathogens such as Vibrio spp., amplified by the emergence of antibiotic resistance, threaten the aquaculture industry. Due to its critical role in regulating the expression of genes related to antibiotic resistance and virulence, quorum sensing (QS) was proved to be an ideal target in disease control.

Pertussis in Southeast Asia: country-level burden and recommendations from the Global Pertussis Initiative.

The Global Pertussis Initiative met in March 2024 to discuss the burden of pertussis and prevention efforts in six Southeast Asian countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Except for Cambodia, pertussis is a notifiable disease; data accuracy varies within and between countries. Most cases in the region are diagnosed based on clinical suspicion.

The effects of physical activity on adolescent psychological sub-health: chain-mediated effects of self-control and mobile phone addiction.

This research examines the link between physical activity (PA) and adolescent psychological sub-health (PSH), emphasizing the intermediary roles of self-control (SC) and mobile phone addiction (MPA). Utilizing the Physical Activity Rating Scale (PARS), SC Scale (SCS), MPA Tendency Scale (MPATS), and the Multidimensional Subhealth Questionnaire of Adolescents (MSQA), data were gathered from 1,052 adolescents. The findings indicate that (1) PA is negatively associated with both PSH and MPA, yet positively correlates with SC.

Exploiting question-answer framework with multi-GRU to detect adverse drug reaction on social media.

Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) stand out as a pressing challenge in public health and a critical aspect of drug discovery. The dilemma arises from the inherent impossibility of conducting a comprehensive evaluation of a drug before its market release, constrained by the limitations in scale and duration of clinical trials. Therefore, the post-marketing detection of ADRs in a timely and accurate manner becomes imperative.

Brain CT image classification based on mask RCNN and attention mechanism.

Along with the computer application technology progress, machine learning, and block-chain techniques have been applied comprehensively in various fields. The application of machine learning, and block-chain techniques into medical image retrieval, classification and auxiliary diagnosis has become one of the research hotspots at present. Brain tumor is one of the major diseases threatening human life.

Disentangling metal diffusion from a highly industrial harbor and its bioaccumulation in different zooplankton groups.

Metal pollution in harbors has long threatened coastal ecosystems. However, elucidating their bioaccumulation and diffusion impacts is challenging due to complex marine communities-with zooplankton as an indicator. Metals in seawater, suspended particulate matter, and isolated zooplankton groups were analyzed using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry.

Established and novel quantitative electromyographic techniques with potential for planning nerve transfer surgery: a pilot study.

Donor nerve health likely underlies much variability in nerve transfer outcomes. Standard electromyography (EMG) and clinical examination suffer from subjectivity and a lack of standardization when assessing nerve health. Quantitative electromyography promises to assess nerve health more accurately.

Detection of tick-borne pathogens in blood-fed ticks from animals across nine Asian countries.

Unlabelled: Climate change, land development, and increased outdoor human activity have increased the prevalence and distribution of tick-borne pathogens, causing public health issues. Asia is a pivotal region of emerging infectious diseases caused by zoonotic disease. Therefore, this study aimed to construct effective surveillance systems and establish preventive strategies against novel tick-borne diseases.

Evaluating the Harmony Between Clinical Observations and Pathological Findings in Oral Soft Tissue Lesions: A Two-Decade Retrospective Study of Diagnostic Consistency.

Aim: This study aims to evaluate the concordance rate between clinical diagnoses and pathological findings of oral soft tissue lesions.

Methods: In this retrospective descriptive-analytical study, we analyzed 7901 cases of oral tissue lesions referred to the pathology department at Shahid Beheshti Faculty of Dentistry from 1996 to 2022. Data extracted from archived records included age, sex, lesion location, and both clinical and histopathological diagnoses.

Hidden Hunger in the Age of Abundance: The Nutritional Pitfalls of Modern Staple Crops.

Hidden hunger, characterized by micronutrient deficiencies despite adequate caloric intake, affects over 2 billion people globally, primarily due to deficits in iron, vitamin A, and iodine. This phenomenon underscores a critical paradox in global food security: the Green Revolution, which significantly increased crop production through high-yielding varieties (HYVs) of staple crops, has simultaneously contributed to widespread nutritional deficiencies. This article examines the dual legacy of the Green Revolution, exploring how its emphasis on yield over nutritional quality has led to decreased concentrations of essential micronutrients in staple crops, exacerbating hidden hunger.

Emerging squash leaf curl Philippines virus on pumpkin in India: their lineage and recombination.

Unlabelled: A roving field survey conducted during the year 2023, assessed the viral disease incidence of about 97% on pumpkin in a farmer holding at Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu, India). The diseased plants expressed symptoms such as severe mosaic, leaf malformation, upward cupping of terminal leaf, yellowing, and stunting. The disease was successfully transmitted by the whiteflies () to healthy pumpkin, with 24 h of acquisition access period and 12 h of inoculation access period.

Select Demographic Data, Disaster-Related Experience, and Disaster Attitudes as Predictors of Disaster Preparedness Among Student Nurses: A Descriptive Correlational Study.

Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes the critical need to enhance disaster preparedness among nurses and nursing students due to concerns over their current levels of competency in disaster management.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the influence of demographic characteristics, disaster-related experience, and attitudes toward disasters on the disaster preparedness of nursing students.

Design: A descriptive correlational design was employed to examine the relationships between selected variables and disaster preparedness.

Assessing pricing and affordability of HBV treatment in Asia-Pacific region: a barrier to elimination.

Background: The Asia-Pacific (AP) region carries a substantial burden of HBV. Affordable HBV treatment is crucial to attain WHO's elimination goal. This study assesses the pricing and affordability of HBV treatment in AP.

Culture studies of phytoplankton isolated from Sumiling Dam and their bioremediation capacity in aquaculture wastewater.

Sumiling Dam in Sarrat, Ilocos Norte, is home to diverse phytoplankton species. This study aims to isolate and identify phytoplankton species, optimize the cultivation of one phytoplankton under varying light, pH, and temperature conditions, and assess its bioremediation capacity in aquaculture wastewater. Three stations were set up at the site, each with three sampling points spaced 3-5 m apart.

Modelling the health, financial protection and equity impacts of upscaling the ACT NOW early intervention breast cancer pilot program in the Philippines: an extended cost-effectiveness analysis.

Introduction: Women in the Philippines experience significant health and economic burdens of breast cancer. The Philippines has reformed financial protection for breast cancer but does not have a national early detection and treatment programme. This study aims to model the health and economic impacts of ACT NOW (a pilot breast cancer programme that navigates women through free early detection to treatment) through an extended cost-effectiveness analysis.

Manifestation of Chronic and Non-Communicable Diseases Among Filipino Internationally Educated Nurses in Finland: A Qualitative Study.

Limited research has explored the impact of migration on the manifestation of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) among internationally educated nurses (IENs) in Finland. This study aimed to describe Filipino IENs' experiences with the manifestation of NCDs among them. Secondary data from 10 IENs working in two hospitals were analyzed using Braun and Clarke's thematic analysis.