Post-Acute Care Interventions in Patients Hospitalized Due to COPD Exacerbation Before and After Implementation of an Integrated Care Program by Hübsch C, Clarenbach CF, Franzen DP, Schmid-Mohler G

“…Christine Hübsch,1,2 Christian F Clarenbach,2,3 Daniel P Franzen,2,3 Gabriela Schmid-Mohler1,2 1Centre of Clinical Nursing Science, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; 2Division of Pulmonology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; 3Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, SwitzerlandCorrespondence: Gabriela Schmid-Mohler, Email gabriela.schmid@usz.chPurpose: In Switzerland, while the quality of acute inpatient care for patients with AECOPD is high, a lack of post-acute care interventions has been identified. …”
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Addressing the mental health needs of India’s aging population: Understanding depression prevalence and social risk factors in tertiary care outpatients by Joanne Lydia Rajkumar, Surekha Viggeswarapu, Suja Kurian, Munaf B. Nandyal, Mahasampath Gowri

“…Methods: Consecutive patients aged over 60 years presented to the geriatric outpatient clinic of the Christian Medical College (CMC) and Hospital, Vellore, were screened using the Physical Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2) and Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS). …”
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Pinah Laman: The Construction of Religious and Ethnic Identity Within the Mentuka Dayak of West Kalimantan by Felisitas Yuswanto, Sekar Ayu Aryani, Ahmad Muttaqin

“…The results of this research show that Pinah Laman is a conversion process of a Christian or Catholic Dayak to Islam. This impacts the social sanctions one receives from one’s social group. …”
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Religious Practices and Its Impacts on a Sustainable Urban Environment in Nigeria: The Way Forward by Timothy Oyebamiji Ogunbode, Funke Elizabeth Oyekan

“…The test showed 67.6% at a significance level of p < 0.001 The results showed that 52.6% were of secondary school level, 52.2 were of Christian faith, and 61.6% were also of the male gender who were mostly in the age category of 46 to 65 years. …”
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A Systematic Review of Knowledge, Attitude, and Perception Towards Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) in Africa by Abaatyo J, Kaggwa MM

“…Joan Abaatyo,1,2 Mark Mohan Kaggwa3,4 1Department of Psychiatry, Uganda Christian University, Kampala, Uganda; 2King Ceasor University, Kampala, Uganda; 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Ontario, ON, Canada; 4Forensic Psychiatry Program, St Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, Ontario, CanadaCorrespondence: Joan Abaatyo, Email joandux@gmail.comBackground: Despite growing evidence showing ECT’s efficacy and efficiency in the management of severe mental health conditions, the knowledge, attitude, and perceptions (KAP) towards ECT vary around the globe. …”
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Examining the Relationship between Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Body Weight Status: Empirical Evidence from a Population-Based Survey of Adults in Taiwan by Tai-Hsiung Hung, Pei-An Liao, Hung-Hao Chang, Jiun-Hao Wang, Min-Chen Wu

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HUMAN IMAGE IN CLASSICAL ISLAM AND SUFISM: PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS by M. V. Nesprava

“…Achievement of this goal involves the application of methods such as philosophical analysis, comparative method, phenomenology, as well as the consistent solution of the following tasks: a) to analyze the main manifestations of anthropological ideas in Islam; b) to comprehend the specificity of Muslim ideas about a human in comparison with the corresponding Christian teaching; c) to consider disagreements between the interpretation of the essence and tasks of a human in the classical Islam and Sufism. …”
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Personal Names of Vilnius Residents in the 16th–17th Centuries by Alma Ragauskaitė

“…., descriptive, comparative and reconstructive, were purposely applied to study the collected historical anthroponymic material extensively. Traditional Christian names were predominant among the examined recordings. …”
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Unfaithful Words: Tolerance by Ferenc Ruzsa

“…These are essentially Christian concepts, and their use about other cultures is ‘Orientalism’ in Said’s sense. …”
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Challenges, Coping Strategies, and Social Support among Breast Cancer Patients in Ghana by Ruth Boatemaa Benson, Bernice Cobbold, Ellen Opoku Boamah, Cynthia Pomaa Akuoko, Daniel Boateng

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Paulus Vladimiri and Stanislaus de Scarbimiria – medieval Krakow law school and the Polish contribution to the formation of the rights of nations by Jacek Grzybowski

“…Their works and sermons espouse the craving for international justice, while securing national interests, and for a model of Europe as a “family of independent and sovereign nations” whose coexistence is founded on the Christian anthropology according to which a man as endowed by God with dignity and freedom. …”
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Comparative genetic diagnostic evaluation of pediatric neuromuscular diseases in a consanguineous population by Abdullah Al-Hedaithy, Fouad Alghamdi, Momen Almomen, Fawzia Amer, Shaikhah Al Dossari, Deeba Noreen Baig, Shahid Bashir

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“Archbishop” Vladimir (Ivanov) and the renovationist schism in Kuban in 1941–1945 by Toporov Maxim, Priest

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Z. Ivinskis: the first objective researcher of St. Casimir's life by Jonas Boruta

“…Rabikauskas) reveals the personality of Prince Casimir as kindred in his ideas to famous Christian politicians of the 20th century, such as Charles de Gaulle, Robert Schuman, and Alcide de Gasperi. …”
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Sacred Bonds or Sinful Ties? Interreligious Marriage in Islamic Law by Rafli Zidan Eka Ramadhan, Rohadhatul Aisy, Shofriya Qonitatin Abidah, Fateema Muslihatun Najihah, Bagus Hendradi Kusuma

“…Islamic jurisprudence, derived from the Quran, Hadith, and scholarly consensus, generally prohibits Muslim women from marrying non-Muslim men while allowing Muslim men to marry Christian or Jewish women under specific conditions. …”
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ChatGPT as a data analyst: an exploratory study on AI-supported quantitative data analysis in empirical research by Dimitri Prandner, Daniela Wetzelhütter, Sönke Hese

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The Qur’ans of the Spanish Moriscos and the Tatars of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Drawing Comparisons and Tracing Patterns by Katarzyna K. Starczewska

“… This paper is aimed at presenting a preliminary comparative study of the Qur’anic translations produced by two autochthonous European Muslim communities: Spanish Mudéjars (Muslims who remained in the Iberian Pen- insula after the Christian reconquest) and Moriscos (former Muslims forced to convert to Christianity) and, on the other side of Europe, the Tatars of Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL). …”
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Graphological Deviation: A Defamiliarizing Trope in Timothy Wangusa’s Poetry by Arineitwe, Evaristo

“…It is hoped to fill knowledge gaps in the Wangusaic scholarship as previous studies on Wangusa are on issues of originality of his poetry and conclude that the trajectory of his poetry is mainly Christian, African, and English traditions. The studies conclude that Wangusa’s poetry was greatly influenced by classical and western literary traditions (Alfredo Okello 2005). …”
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Fálétí’s Philosophical Sensibility by Adeshina Afolayan

“…Notable also are Akínwùnmí Ìsòlá, whose university campus novel Ó le kú (1974) broke new ground in social setting and ambience; Afọlábí Ọlábímtán, author of several novels, including Kékeré Ẹkùn (1967), which deals with the conflicts arising from early Christian conversion in a small village, and Baba Rere! …”
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Exploring in vivo human brain metabolism at 10.5 T: Initial insights from MR spectroscopic imaging by Lukas Hingerl, Bernhard Strasser, Simon Schmidt, Korbinian Eckstein, Guglielmo Genovese, Edward J. Auerbach, Andrea Grant, Matt Waks, Andrew Wright, Philipp Lazen, Alireza Sadeghi-Tarakameh, Gilbert Hangel, Fabian Niess, Yigitcan Eryaman, Gregor Adriany, Gregory Metzger, Wolfgang Bogner, Małgorzata Marjańska

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