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OBJECTIVE: The time after birth is a crucial period for women, involving both physical recovery and emotional challenges. Previous research indicates that postnatal care is a neglected area of maternity care. The aim of this study was to explore women's suggestions for health care improvements, based on their experiences during the first year after birth.METHODS: This study is based on data from a

This paper presents a participatory, qualitative focus group study with 13 young carers -- young people between 13 to 18 years old who take care of a parent due to either a chronic illness, mental health problem, or other condition connected with a need for care in Wales and England. We identify and assert young carers as an important, thus far unconsidered, user group in Human-Robot Interaction (

The higher education sector has been massively disrupted by COVID-19. The technological changes of the past two decades have enabled a ‘blended learning’ approach. Nonetheless, most academics were not prepared to become fully online teachers with very short notice (nor were most students prepared to learn online) in 2020. Our aim was to investigate and document changes in teaching from the perspec

Background: Dopaminergic medication is classically used in neurological disorders like Parkinson’s disease (PD) and restless legs syndrome (RLS), but also in psychotic disorders. As a common side effect of dopaminergic medication, patients can develop impulsive-compulsive disorders (ICDs) such as gambling disorder (GD) or compulsive sexuality. Many aspects of ICDs during dopaminergic therapy remai

Human pose forecasting is the task of predicting articulated human motion given past human motion. There exists a number of popular benchmarks that evaluate an array of different models performing human pose forecasting. These benchmarks do not reflect that a human interacting system, such as a delivery robot, observes and plans for the motion of the same individual over an extended period of time

Interpolations in the latent space of deep generative models is one of the standard tools to synthesize semantically meaningful mixtures of generated samples. As the generator function is non-linear, commonly used linear interpolations in the latent space do not yield the shortest paths in the sample space, resulting in non-smooth interpolations. Recent work has therefore equipped the latent space

This study applies a spatial multi-criteria analysis to assess ground suitability for pier-supported viaduct railways using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). By integrating expert judgments, the analysis evaluates six key geotechnical categories—soil type, soil depth, rock type, slope, wetness index, and groundwater occurrence—to map ground suitability. Three weight normalisation methods wer

Plesiosaurs are an iconic group of Mesozoic marine reptiles with an evolutionary history spanning over 140 million years (Ma).1 Their skeletal remains have been discovered worldwide; however, accompanying fossilized soft tissues are exceptionally rare.2 Here, we report a virtually complete plesiosaur from the Lower Jurassic (∼183 Ma)3 Posidonia Shale of Germany that preserves skin traces from arou

Seeleyosaurus guilelmiimperatoris is an early-diverging plesiosauroid from the lower Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) of the Posidonienschiefer Formation (Posidonia Shale) of Holzmaden, southwestern Germany. It is known from almost complete skeletons of two osteologically mature individuals, the holotype and a referred specimen that was largely destroyed during World War II. Although well-preserved and s

For more than a century, the dairy industry has used high-pressure homogenization for size reduction of fat globules. The prevailing break-up mechanism, turbulence, has been thoroughly investigated and the equipment continuously optimized thereafter. However, the high-pressure homogenizer is also used in size reduction of plant cell structures, for example in production lines of plant-based bevera

Purpose: To remedy the lack of a measure that jointly assesses the psychological status and impact of migration stressors among forced migrants, we developed and tested the Screening of Refugees Self-Report (ScoRE-SR) Questionnaire.Method: Four institutions with expertise on posttraumatic symptomatology and/or migration stressors developed the ScoRE-SR through an iterative process also involving c

Background: This study explored peer-led sex education for individuals with intellectual disabilities and/or autism (ID/ASD) from the perspective of project leaders within Swedish non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The purpose of this Grounded Theory study was to develop a conceptual model that characterizes the ways in which peer-led sex education is implemented by Swedish NGOs. This was done

Purpose: Infective endocarditis (IE) is diagnosed using the Duke criteria, which were updated in 2023. In the Duke-ISCVID 2023 criteria, Gemella was recognised as a typical IE pathogen. This study investigates the impact of this change and compares the clinical characteristics of Gemella IE to IE caused by other pathogens. Methods: Data on IE caused by Gemella species and other pathogens was retri

The intricate relationship between climate change and the building sector is characterized by a self-reinforcing loop. Rising temperatures driven by global warming will inevitably impact heating and cooling energy, while buildings simultaneously contribute significantly to carbon emissions throughout their lifecycle, further exacerbating climate change. However, current knowledge regarding the int

Fundamental characteristics of the reaction-zone structure for CH4-CO2 jets, mimicking a fuel of high CO2 contents such as biogas, burning in a heated coflow on a piloted jet burner have been investigated. Jet flames under diffusion and MILD combustion conditions were studied using planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) of O-atom radicals and CO for different CO2 contents of the fuel jet. Numeri

We study the magnetic Laplacian in a two-dimensional exterior domain with Neumann boundary condition and uniform magnetic field. For the exterior of the disk we establish accurate asymptotics of the low-lying eigenvalues in the weak magnetic field limit. For the exterior of a star-shaped domain, we obtain an asymptotic upper bound on the lowest eigenvalue in the weak field limit, involving the 4-m

This report, part of the CULTIVATE project, investigates the costs and benefits of food sharing initiatives (FSIs) in Barcelona, Spain. The study aims to understand the economic, social, and environmental impacts of FSIs, which include growing and composting together, cooking and eating together, and redistributing surplus food. The research employs a Mobile Research Lab (MRL) approach, combining

Multiple tipping points in the Earth system could be triggered when global warming exceeds specific thresholds. However, the degree of their impact on the East Asian hydroclimate remains uncertain due to the lack of quantitative rainfall records. Here we present an ensemble reconstruction of East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) rainfall since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) using nine statistical and m