Diabetes is a chronic metabolic illness marked by high blood glucose levels, which can lead to serious complications if not recognized and treated promptly. Diabetes must be predicted accurately and early to allow for appropriate intervention and treatment planning. This study seeks to create a high performance predictive model for diabetes diagnosis by combining advanced pre processing, feature selection, and classification techniques.

Reading is the pathway to access knowledge generated by scholars and shared with students and society through printed or digital media. The research aimed to identify reading routines according to the gender of high school students in a rural community of a Mexican province during the 2022-2023 academic period. The population consisted of 187 students, including 103 female students and 84 male students, aged 15 to 18 years, originating from 11 cities, 32 municipal seats, and 144 rural communities. The purpose of the study was to describe and compare in a non-experimental cross sectional project (Rojas, 2006). To determine reading routines, a structured and validated test by the author was used, achieving a Cronbach's alpha of 0.859. The collected and organized data were analysed using statistical software for Social Sciences, calculating descriptive statistics, cross-tabulations, and the chi-square test, considering gender and the corresponding item. Reading habits were found to be better among females than males concerning family, institutional, and school human resource factors.

Background: Blood borne diseases are important diseases that can transmit their etiological agents in the medical office. One of the most feared due to its contagious remains hepatitis B virus (HBV). This infection is vaccine preventable. The present study aimed to assess the HBV infection and HBV vaccination status of Romanian dental professionals exposed to Toxoplasma gondii, a very common parasitic worldwide infection. We assessed HBV vaccination status, attitudes, knowledge, and fears. Methods: In 2024, an analytical cross-sectional observational survey was carried out in six months, from February to August, in dental offices in Romania. Using SPSS (version 23), data collected through a selfadministered questionnaire were examined. Where applicable, chi-square tests were employed. Results: Responses from 1708 individuals were examined. The median age of the cohort under study was 31.22 ± 12.7 years (range: 18–76 years). 742 (43.44%) of the participants had worked in dental offices for more than three years, and 1470 (86.07%) were from urban dental offices. 322 (18.85%) nurses, 308 (18.03%) dental technicians, and 392 (22.95%) dentists were present. 1120 dentists (65.57%) had received an HBV vaccination. 420 (24.59%) had received an HBV vaccination before to beginning work at the dental clinic. The dental technician category had the highest rate of HBV not-vaccination, at 154 (13.75%). The urban dental office had a significant (p<0.05) correlation with HBV vaccination status (OR = 0.38; 95% CI: 0.28-0.51). More than half of the respondents, 1456 (85.25%), had not been exposed to HBV while working in a dental office, and 882 (51.64%) were unaware of post-exposure HBV prophylaxis. 98 dentists (5.74%) were unaware of the HBV transmission mechanism. Of the dental professionals who worked with or for patients infected with HBV, 812 (47.54%) expressed fear of contracting the virus. Testing for antiHBs antibodies (OR = 0.38; 95% CI:0.29–0.51), knowledge of pre-exposure to HBV prophylaxis (OR = 0.49; 95% CI:0.37-0.67), and the respondents' role/occupation in the dental office (OR = 0.70; 95% CI:0.56–0.88) were all significantly correlated with the fear of contracting HBV (p<0.05, nonparametric Chi-square test). Conclusions: The current study found disparities in knowledge, attitudes, and opinions within the group under investigation, as well as a low level of HBV immunization in the dentist’s office. The dental technicians were terrified of the possibility of contracting HBV and had received fewer HBV vaccinations. They were unaware of the possibility of contracting HBV. Dental professionals in Romania should be encouraged to learn about HBV prevention before and after exposure. The level or titer of protective antiHBs antibodies should be measured to lessen the concern of contracting HBV while working with or for patients who have the virus. Romanian dental offices need to enhance their HBV vaccination status.

Lymphoma diagnosis relies on accurate and timely identification of lymphoma patterns, and Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems leveraging medical imaging have shown promise in this regard. This study proposes a novel framework that integrates deep learning and traditional learning methodologies to enhance CBIR systems for lymphoma diagnosis. The approach uses convolutional neural networks (CNNs), a type of neural network that is deep, to derive a high degree information from photos of lymphoma.

This study investigated the antecedents that influence users' acceptance of robots as they appear in daily life. The data used in the analysis is the 2022 Intelligent Information Society User Panel Survey data. As a result of the analysis, there was no difference in gender in the demographic variables used as control variables, and users in the younger age group showed a high intention to use robot technology. Beliefs about the usefulness of robots were found to increase the intention to use robot technology. Among robot commercialization beliefs, beliefs about the commercialization of baby care robots and disabled care robots were found to lower the intention to use robot technology. On the other hand, student education robots and construction site work robots were found to increase the intention to use robot technology. In the case of future privacy protection beliefs, beliefs about future expansion of privacy exposure were found to increase the intention to use robot technology. These results provide academic implications on the role of beliefs in consumer acceptance of robots awaiting future commercialization and also provide implications for practical preparation.

According to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), diabetes is a chronic condition that is just one of the glaringly increasing global health issues of our day. Unprocessed diabetes can harm the kidneys, nerves, and heart and initiate eye illnesses like diabetic retinopathy. The healthcare cost of diabetes was 760.3 billion in 2019 and is projected to upsurge to 824.7 billion by 2030, according to IDF.

The Baltic region faces significant geotechnical challenges related to its widespread soft soil deposits, particularly along coastal areas. This investigation examines an innovative foundation solution combining micropiles with soil-cement Load Transfer Platforms (LTPs) designed to address these challenges. Through comprehensive three-dimensional Finite Element Modelling, we assess various configurations of micropile arrangements in soft soil conditions typical of Baltic coastal environments. Results demonstrate remarkable improvements in bearing capacity: individual micropiles show 2.1-fold increases, three-pile groups achieve 9-fold enhancements, and integration with LTPs produces up to 19-fold increases in load-bearing capacity. The most substantial improvements were observed in larger pile groups, with up to 80-fold capacity increases when combined with optimized LTPs. These findings offer promising solutions for construction on problematic soft soil deposits throughout the Baltic region, particularly for transportation infrastructure and medium-rise structures in developing coastal areas.

Teachers’ socioemotional competencies are crucial for the development of an effective teaching-learning process. This study analyzes the relationships between these competencies, particularly, emotional communication, empathy and emotional intelligence. A total of 184 preschool and primary school teachers participated and completed three questionnaires assessing these competencies. The results indicate that there are relationships between them and that emotional intelligence acts as a mediator in the ability to communicate affectively. In addition, there is a different influence of cognitive empathy versus affective empathy on teachers’ emotional communication.

The study aimed to identify the concept of media literacy among students of media faculties in Jordanian universities, and it was based on the media survey methodology, by applying to a simple random sample of (385) male and female students at the Faculty of Mass Communication at the universities of Yarmouk and the Middle East, and the results of the study showed that the majority of media students know the meaning of the term media literacy, and they heard about it for the first time at the university, where the most prominent concept they have was associated with: Verify information, photos, videos, fake news, and distinguish information from opinion in media materials. The results indicated that the students did not receive specialized training in media literacy, despite their need for training, and the hypotheses of the study proved that the ability of media students to define the concept is positively related to the teachers` introduction of media literacy terms in their explanation of some courses, which was reflected in their ability to identify the most prominent concept of media literacy, and the study concluded the need to raise awareness of the importance of media and information literacy in universities, through holding training courses, with the aim of enhancing students` skills in understanding, analyzing and using media and social media.

Introduction: To assess the impact of delayed surgery on the prognosis of patients with operable stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods: A retrospective review of 140 patients with clinical operable stage NSCLC (I, II, IIIA) who underwent curative surgery was conducted. Patients were divided into two groups: those who underwent surgery within 3 months of initial lung tumor detection (non-delayed group, n=82) and those with surgery beyond 3 months (delayed group, n=58). Patient characteristics, reasons for surgical delay, pathology, surgical outcomes, and long-term survival were analyzed. Results: The median time from lung tumor detection to surgery was 13.7 months (range, 3.1 months-12.1 years) in delayed group, and 0.9 months (range, 3 days-2.8 months) in non-delayed group (P＜0.001). The delayed group had a higher proportion of patients at clinical stages I and II, and a lower proportion at clinical stage IIIA as compared with non-delayed group (P=0.046). The incidence of lymphovascular invasion was significantly lower in delayed group (P=0.031). There was no significant difference between groups in terms of pathological upstaging, positive surgical margins, surgical morbidity and mortality, adjuvant treatment, disease-free survival, and overall survival. Conclusions: The prognosis for patients with delayed diagnosis or surgery for NSCLC may not necessarily be worse than for those who receive timely surgery. For these patients, in spite of previous delay, surgical resection remains an important treatment option if lung cancer is assessed as an operable stage disease preoperatively.