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In contemporary society, a notable trend of diminishing family sizes has led to an increasing number of elderly individuals living in solitude, often facing the end of life alone. This phenomenon underscores a critical challenge: addressing the perva...

Background/Objectives: Dietary risk factors account for a substantial share of the non-communicable disease burden, and generation theory offers a lens for explaining why eating patterns differ between people socialised under different economic and f...

Objectives: Excessive gingival display (EGD), or “gummy smile,” is one of the most common esthetic issues among the young generation. However, the influence of age on the perception of gummy smile acceptance remains unclear. Hence, the cu...

This study investigates the influence of selected aspects of family language policies (FLPs) on language proficiency across three generations of Russian-speaking families in Germany using data from a sample of 18 families. The data were collected via...

Background: The legalization of euthanasia in Belgium in 2002 positioned nurses as possible participants in the euthanasia process. However, ethical and legal dilemmas necessitate clear definitions of their roles and competencies in this context. Giv...

Attitudes toward COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) prevention and control may have influenced general practitioners’ (GPs’) work during the COVID-19 pandemic. The present study aimed to investigate the attitudes and practices of GPs fro...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming higher education, yet comparative evidence from diverse international settings remains limited. This cross-national study examined undergraduate students’ adoption and perceived ac...

Background: Compassionate communication, professional self-efficacy, and generative altruism represent potentially related aspects of nursing practice. This study examined the adjusted association between professional self-efficacy and self-reported...

Generative artificial intelligence has been rapidly adopted by university students, yet there is limited evidence describing how and why medical students use it, particularly in regional settings. This cross-sectional study examined the use of genera...

The mental health of young adults, particularly students, is at high risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this study was to examine differences in mental health between university students in nine countries during the pandemic. The study...

Background/Objectives: The relationship between metabolic syndrome (MetS) and mental health disorders has gained increasing attention, yet evidence from large population-based studies remains limited. This study aimed to examine the association betwe...

Background: When compared to national averages in Canada, Saskatchewan has one of the highest rates of dental treatment under general anesthesia (GA) and average costs per child. Thus, the purpose of this cross-sectional study is to explore the risk...

Background/Objectives: Sleep quality, anxiety symptoms, physical activity, musculoskeletal pain, and multimorbidity are interrelated health domains, but evidence examining these factors together among adults aged ≥50 years in Saudi Arabia remains...

Limited evidence exists for the association between diet pattern and obesity phenotypes among Chinese adults. In the present study, we analyzed the cross-sectional data from 474,192 adults aged 30–79 years from the China Kadoorie Biobank baseline sur...

Large language models (LLMs) now generate fluent natural language and source code, creating challenges for authorship attribution, academic integrity, and software supply-chain security. Most existing detectors for AI-generated content are evaluated...

Background/Objectives: Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools are entering clinical documentation ahead of institutional governance, and little is known about whether clinicians who rely on them also check their output, particularly in Cent...

Stretching is commonly recommended to improve flexibility and reduce injury risk; however, its practical implementation among recreational snowboarders and alpine skiers remains inconsistent. A cross-sectional online survey was conducted during the 2...

Aim: This study examined how psychosocial characteristics might relate to adherence to democratic values among young and older people within two different cultural contexts in Afghanistan. Method: Self-report questionnaires were employed to measure e...

The prevalence of impaired mental health (MH) has increased in recent decades. The aim of the study was to analyze the prevalence of impaired MH amongst registered Spanish golfers using the GHQ-28 questionnaire. A cross-sectional online survey was ca...

To improve the performance of image super-resolution reconstruction, this paper optimizes the classical SRGAN model architecture. The original SRResNet is replaced with the EDSR network as the generator, which effectively enhances the ability to rest...

This study examines how domain-general (processing speed and receptive vocabulary) and domain-specific (symbolic and non-symbolic comparison) cognitive skills contribute to early informal mathematical thinking in preschoolers. The aim was to assess t...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by SARS-CoV-2, has posed major risks for healthcare workers (HCWs) worldwide. This study assessed the prevalence of infection and its relationship with demographic and clinical characteristics among HCWs at...

Our aim is to explore general practitioners’ (GPs’) knowledge about EMF, and to assess whether different knowledge structures are related to the GPs’ concern about EMF. Random samples were drawn from lists of GPs in Germany in 2008. Knowledge about E...

In this work, α-Ag₂WO₄ particles with different cross-sections were obtained using the co-precipitation method at different synthesis temperatures. The samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), field-scanning electron microscopy (S...

The Japanese government withdrew its recommendation for human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in June 2013 and resumed it in April 2022. This period is known as the vaccine crisis in Japan. This study aimed to elucidate the prevalence and genotype d...

Children are vulnerable to indoor environmental exposures, yet evidence from direct measurements in residential environments remains limited. This study included 115 observations from 74 children in Shenzhen during 2023–2024, with 111 observati...

Background/Objectives: Lung cancer outcomes depend strongly on early detection, highlighting the need for accurate, robust, and interpretable methods for identifying pulmonary nodules on computed tomography (CT). This study proposes a multi-organ ana...

Accurate and robust object detection in complex disaster scenes is essential for effective emergency response; however, severe occlusion, dense overlap, and cluttered backgrounds pose significant challenges to conventional single-model detectors. To...

Communities worldwide are increasingly required to support populations spanning multiple generations while maintaining social cohesion in the context of rapid demographic ageing and urban transformation. Although frameworks for age-friendly or inclus...

This commentary discusses the evolving dynamics and the intergenerational “rifts” that often arise in gender and women’s studies classes. The first section outlines the rise of women’s studies programs in the 1970s and the “women-centered” approach m...

Maternal dietary quality during pregnancy is associated with offspring outcomes. These associations have not been examined in three-generation families. We investigated associations between parental and grandparental dietary quality, determined by he...

As research on sustainability orientation across generations is still sparse, we contribute to literature by enriching this research field, focusing on Generation Z (‘Zers’) and X (‘Xers’). Moreover, no other study has analyze...

Background/Objectives: Orthosomnia has become a concern in the field of sleep medicine. The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to estimate the prevalence of orthosomnia in the general population. Methods: We collected data from 523 participant...

As the first generation in their families to pursue higher education, the mental health of first-generation college students has attracted significant attention from the academic community. Self-esteem and academic performance are significant factors...

General medicine, as the Japanese version of primary care or family medicine, is critical for healthcare in aging societies. Medical students’ perceptions of general medicine and education might be associated with changes in the number of gener...

Land subsidence and coseismic deformation can interact in groundwater-stressed sedimentary basins, yet basin-scale identification of event-timed vertical offsets in InSAR products requires explicit control of referencing and processing effects. This...

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional bowel disorder that is highly comorbid with mental disorders. However, few studies have examined the risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), bipolar disor...

With a focus on clothing, bodies, and emotions, this article examines girls’ First Holy Communions in twentieth-century Ireland (c. 1920–1970), demonstrating that Irish girls, even at an early age, embraced opportunities to become both the center of...

Background: Internal migrants (IMs) are a large, vulnerable population in China and are mostly driven by national economic reform. IMs who were born before and after 1980, when the general social and economic reform began to appear in China, are cons...

This paper examines the persistence of intergenerational ties within Latinx Protestant Congregations (LPCs) and the implications these ties have for the persistence of LPCs as distinctly ethnic institutions. Though studies of generational transitions...

Hesitancy about receiving vaccines has been deemed a global danger to public health by WHO. The sociocultural backgrounds of the people have an impact on vaccine acceptance. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of sociodemographic fact...

Social involvement of enterprises, i.e., sharing wealth with those in need, can be spoken of only in the case of owner-managed family firms (FB). These companies account for two-thirds of all enterprises in the global economy; they contribute to the...

Motivated by a growing body of research on heritage Spanish prosody, the current study uses the Sp_ToBi framework for the transcription of Spanish intonation to report trends in phonological targets of broad focus declaratives produced by heritage sp...

This study investigates traditional culture as one of the factors of the longevity and cross-generation sustainability of Sundanese small industries in Indonesia. The failure rate of small industries in Indonesia is high, and thus, this study is crit...

Caries development in children is a prevalent childhood disease. Factors affecting chronic teeth lesions include nutrition, parental involvement, and executing proper dental health attitude. Professional dentists are perceived as role models for the...

Background: General Practice is facing workforce shortages across Europe. In Italy, the estimated shortage was 5575 General Practitioners in 2024, with high retirement rates and persistent difficulties in attracting new physicians to the profession....

Background: Adolescent leisure has undergone significant technological, social, and cultural transformations. However, limited research has explored how these changes are retrospectively interpreted across generations within a shared sociocultural co...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is changing higher education. Understanding students’ perceptions, usage behaviour and ethical concerns is crucial for the responsible and sustainable use of AI in the academic environment. The aim of thi...

Background: Following the World Health Organization declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic, Yemen has taken preventive and precautionary measures against COVID-19 to control its spread. This study evaluated the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP...

Occupational therapists (OTs) are exposed to physical factors at work, which can lead to an increased risk of musculoskeletal disorders. Most studies examining musculoskeletal complaints in OT report that the neck, shoulders, and lower back are most...