A scoping review of substance use brief interventions in Africa. by Florence Jaguga, Sarah Kanana Kiburi, Eunice Temet, Matthew C Aalsma, Mary A Ott, Rachel W Maina, Juddy Wachira, Cyprian Mostert, Gilliane Kosgei, Angeline Tenge, Lukoye Atwoli

“…BIs were defined as those targeting substance use and delivered over 1-4 sessions, or interventions delivered over more than four sessions if the authors referred to them as 'brief'. Results of the review have been summarized descriptively and organized by three broad outcomes: BI effect and feasibility; feasibility and effectiveness of training providers to deliver BIs; Other outcomes i.e. cost-effectiveness, BI adaptation and development, and knowledge attitude and practice of BIs by providers.…”
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Quality Evaluation of Bioactive Ingredients in Lianhua Qingwen Capsule Based on Quantitative Analysis of Multicomponent by the Single Marker Method and the Chemical Recognition Pat... by Qianqian Zhou, Lin Yang, Yiwu Wang, Jiajia Zou, Shuya Li, Lei Dai, Yan Li, Dan He

“…It can provide scientific basis and reference of quality consistency evaluation for the formulation manufacturers and drug regulatory authorities.…”
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Regular human insulins versus rapid-acting insulin analogues in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes: a protocol for a systematic review with meta-analysis and Trial Seque... by Johanne Juul Petersen, Sophie Juul, Caroline Barkholt Kamp, Pascal Faltermeier, Christina Dam Bjerregaard Sillassen, Tiago Jeronimo Dos Santos, Janus Christian Jakobsen

“…We will include published and unpublished randomized clinical trials comparing regular human insulins versus rapid-acting insulin analogues (lispro, aspart, or glulisine). Two review authors will independently extract data and conduct risk of bias assessments. …”
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Perioperative or neo/adjuvant chemoimmunotherapy versus chemotherapy for resectable non-small cell lung cancer: a systematic review and network meta-analysis by Qiong Zhang, Jia Duan, Yuanmei Zhang, Lei Yang, Duo Li

“…Methods This systematic review and network meta-analysis followed PRISMA guidelines and was registered with PROSPERO. The authors searched PUBMED, Embase, and Cochrane databases for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) involving patients with resectable NSCLC treated with neoadjuvant/adjuvant immunotherapy or chemotherapy. …”
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What made people (more) positive toward the COVID-19 vaccine? Exploring positive and negative deviance perspectives by Mitchell A. M. Matthijssen, Mariëlle Cloin, Florian van Leeuwen, Ien van de Goor, Peter Achterberg

“…Negative deviants did not get vaccinated because they did not perceive the vaccine as appropriate, the disease not as a threat, for religious reasons, or did not trust the authorities. The most important barriers and strategies that were identified that could improve vaccination uptake were unrelated to underlying beliefs and worldviews but related to characteristics of the vaccine such as effectiveness and (potential) side-effects. …”
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Z. Ivinskis: the first objective researcher of St. Casimir's life by Jonas Boruta

“…Casimir was written by an Italian bishop, Zacharias Ferreri, already in the first decade of the 16th century. Later, authors—not excepting even the fairly critical and soberly-thinking famous bishop of Samogitia of the 19th century, Motiejus Valančius—merely repeated the poor information gathered by the first biographer. …”
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Genetic resources of vegetable crops: from breeding non-traditional crops to functional food by Yu. V. Fotev, A. M. Artemyeva, O. A. Zvereva

“…In this review, the authors considered the promising species of vegetable crops for introduction and breeding in the Russian Federation. …”
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Comparison of anonymization techniques regarding statistical reproducibility. by David Pau, Camille Bachot, Charles Monteil, Laetitia Vinet, Mathieu Boucher, Nadir Sella, Romain Jegou

“…<h4>Methods</h4>The French data protection authority (CNIL) defines anonymization as a processing activity that consists of using methods to make impossible any identification of people by any means in an irreversible manner. …”
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Study protocol for the COPE study: COVID-19 in Older PEople: the influence of frailty and multimorbidity on survival. A multicentre, European observational study by Thomas Lee, Sandeep Singh, Phyo Kyaw Myint, Sheila Jones, Ben Carter, Susan Moug, Terry Quinn, Michael Thomas, Emma Bhatti, Angeline Price, Fenella Barlow-Pay, Siobhan Duffy, Lyndsay Pearce, Arturo Vilches-Moraga, Michael Stechman, Philip Braude, Emma Mitchell, Alessia Verduri, Kathryn McCarthy, Jonathan Hewitt, Charlotte Davey, Kiah Lunstone, Alice Cavenagh, Charlotte Silver, Thomas Telford, Rebecca Simmons, Dolcie Paxton, Francis Rickard, Mark Holloway, James Hesford, Tarik Jichi, Norman Galbraith, Jenny Edwards, Carly Bisset, Ross Alexander, Abigail Ingham, Roxanna Short, Aine McGovern, Jemima Collins, Eilidh Bruce, Alice Einarsson, Enrico Clini, Giovanni Guaraldi, Madeline Garcia, Shefali Sangani, Thomas Kneen, George Kyriakopoulos, Denise Tan

“…All analyses will be presented as crude and adjusted HR and OR with associated 95% CIs and p values.Ethics and dissemination This study has been registered, reviewed and approved by the following: Health Research Authority (20/HRA1898); Ethics Committee of Hospital Policlinico Modena, Italy (369/2020/OSS/AOUMO); Health and Care Research Permissions Service, Wales; and NHS Research Scotland Permissions Co-ordinating Centre, Scotland. …”
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The inaccurate citation of the “Universal Declaration of Animal Rights” (UDAR) in the scientific literature: a scoping review by Alexandre Azevedo, Martin Whiting, Manuel Magalhães-Sant’Ana

“…Conclusions The misappropriation of the UDAR risks providing a false sense of legitimacy and moral compass to editors, reviewers, and readers regarding animal use and highlights that the authors are unaware of ethical or regulatory frameworks governing the proper use of animals in science. …”
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Robust Prediction of Healthcare Inflation Rate With Statistical and AI Methods in Iran by Mohammad Javad Shaibani, Ali Akbar Fazaeli

“…In this context, a robust approximation of HCIR will be a helpful tool for health authorities and other decision makers. Using monthly time series data of HCIR in Iran, we developed various forecasting techniques based on classical smoothing methods, decomposition ETS (error, trend, and seasonality) approaches, autoregressive (AR) integrated moving average (ARIMA), seasonal ARIMA (SARIMA), and a multilayer nonlinear AR artificial neural network (NARANN) with several training algorithms including Bayesian regularization (BR), Levenberg–Marquardt (LM), scaled conjugate gradient (SCG), Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno (BFGS) quasi-Newton, conjugate gradient with Powell–Beale restarts (CGB), conjugate gradient with Fletcher–Reeves updates (CGF), and resilient propagation (RPROP) algorithms. …”
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Causes of the exceptionally high number of fatalities in the Ahr valley, Germany, during the 2021 flood by B. Rhein, B. Rhein, H. Kreibich

“…Thus, the main causes for the exceptionally high number of fatalities were the extreme severity of the flood and its underestimation by the population and authorities, as well as inadequate early warning and evacuation. …”
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Optimize the Synthesis Error in an Eight‐Bar Peaucellier–Lipkin Mechanism Using an Objective Function Maximization Approach and Application to Load Lifting by Abdel Axis Bodie Nguemiengo, Frédéric MBA MBA, Alban Fabrice Lionel Epee, Claude Valery Ngayihi Abbe, Charles Hubert Kom

“…The minimum error of Case 1 is compared with the results of authors in the literature on the generation of the right trajectory because the search space is approximately equal. …”
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Validation of a New Cognitive Screening Method for Stroke Patients by Katri Saar, Hannu Nyrkkö, Asko Tolvanen, Pekka Kuikka, Erja Poutiainen, Tuija Aro

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The Experience of Patients with Schizophrenia Treated with Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Auditory Hallucinations by Priya Subramanian, Amer Burhan, Luljeta Pallaveshi, Abraham Rudnick

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Missed Opportunities for Prevention of Perinatal Transmission of Hepatitis B: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Julie van Schalkwyk, Melica Nourmoussavi, Andrea Massey, Reka Gustafson, Elizabeth Brodkin, Martin Petric, Mel Krajden, Simon Dobson, Jane Buxton, Mark Bigham, Neora Pick, Richard Schreiber, Christopher H Sherlock, Deborah Money, Eric M Yoshida

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First report of the invasive snail Pomacea canaliculata in Kenya by Alan G. Buddie, Ivan Rwomushana, Lisa C. Offord, Simeon Kibet, Fernadis Makale, Djamila Djeddour, Giovanni Cafa, Koskei K. Vincent, Alexander M. Muvea, Duncan Chacha, Roger K. Day

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Analysis of Cost Overrun and Schedule Delays of Infrastructure Projects in Low Income Economies: Case Studies in Ethiopia by Solomon Melaku Belay, Seifu Tilahun, Mitiku Yehualaw, Jose Matos, Helder Sousa, Endalew Temesgen Workneh

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Lockdown to Contain the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Opportunity to Create a Less Polluted Environment in India by Preet Lal, Amit Kumar, Supriya Bharti, Purabi Saikia, Dibyendu Adhikari, M. L. Khan

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Exploring the Impact of Negative Words Used in Online Feedback in Hotel Industry: A Sentiment Analysis, N-gram, and Text Network Analysis Approach by DOI: 10.7172/2449-6634.jmcbem.2023.1.3 Journal of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour in Emerging Markets 1(16)2023 39 (39–50) © 2023 Authors. This is an open access journal distributed under the Creative Commons BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Exploring the Impact of Negative Words Used in Online Feedback in Hotel Industry: A Sentiment Analysis, N-gram, and Text Network Analysis Approach Daniel Dan

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