A Consensus Decision-Making Model considering Empathetic Preferences and Power Structure of the Poverty Alleviation E-Commerce Supply Chain by Ruili Shi, Lianming Zhao, Chunxiang Guo, Xin Gu

“…This article focuses on the conflict consultation process and empathetic decision-making behavior of a poverty alleviation supply chain composed of farmers, retailers, and third-party e-commerce platforms (e-platforms), and proposes an empathetic preference-based consensus decision-making model. …”
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Challenging museum narratives: the case of a Rhodesia Railways carriage by Will Sims, William Law

“…By tracing the carriage’s archival trail in Britain and consulting SMG’s technical files, this paper highlights the importance of foregrounding such untold narratives. …”
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Information Seeking Behavior Among Final Year Students at National Teachers' College Kabale. by Nduhukire, Bonus

“…The findings show that final-year students' need for course-related information was highest in each of the programs studied. The use of consultations from lecturers references through the Librarian was the common strategy for seeking information while the purpose for information varied over the years -from examination, and self-development to selecting a project topic (long essay). …”
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Navigating Emergency Management of Cancer Patients: A Retrospective Study on First-Time, End-Stage, and Other Established Diagnoses in a High Turnover Emergency County Hospital by Mihaela Corlade-Andrei, Radu-Alexandru Iacobescu, Viorica Popa, Alexandra Hauta, Paul Nedelea, Gabriela Grigorasi, Monica Puticiu, Roxana Elena Ciuntu, Andreea Ivona Sova, Diana Cimpoesu

“…Risk analysis was performed to understand these patients’ care needs (such as medical care, surgical care, specialty consults, intensive care, ward admission, and other hospital transfers) and immediate care outcomes (such as in-hospital mortality and home discharge). …”
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Towards person-centred maternal and newborn care in Ethiopia: a mixed method study of satisfaction and experiences of care by Tigist Eshetu, Eshcolewyine Fekadu, Ahmed Abdella, Adiyam Mulushoa, Girmay Medhin, Merga Belina, Atalay Alem, Roxanne Keynejad, Tanya Robbins, Nadine Seward, Andrew Shennan, Louise M. Howard, Martin Prince, Jane Sandall, Charlotte Hanlon

“…Structured observations of ANC consultations rated health worker competencies (n = 65) and adherence to guidance promoting person-centred care (n = 53). …”
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Feasibility pilot of a novel coaching intervention to optimize cannabis use for chronic pain management among Veterans by Kevin F. Boehnke, Gabrielle Bowyer, Jenna McAfee, Tristin Smith, Catherine Klida, Vivian Kurtz, Evangelos Litinas, Poonam Purohit, Anne Arewasikporn, Dana Horowitz, Laura Thomas, Jennifer Eckersley, Mia Railing, David A. Williams, Daniel J. Clauw, Kelley M. Kidwell, Amy S. B. Bohnert, Rachel S. Bergmans

“…Methods The intervention drew from scientific literature, consultation with cannabis experts, Veteran input via a Community Advisory Board, and tenets of motivational interviewing. …”
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Broker bureaucracies: The subsidiary offices of the digitalizing state by Fenna Imara Hoefsloot, Neha Gupta, Dennis Mbugua Muthama, José de Jesús Flores Durán

“…Drawing on interviews with brokers and key informants in land administration and ethnographic observations in Nairobi, Guadalajara, and Mumbai, we explore the interplay between digital technologies, paper-based systems, typists, consultants, and citizens in the digitalizing state. …”
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Tuberculous Lymphadenitis Mimicking Nodal Metastasis in Follicular Variant Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma by Marc Gregory Yu, Jenny Maureen Atun

“…We present the case of an asymptomatic 50-year-old Filipino who sought consult for a gradually enlarging anterior neck mass and a single palpable cervical lymph node. …”
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Abdominal plexiform neurofibroma. Case report by José Rolando Rodríguez Núñez, Fernando Karel Fonseca Sosa, Juan Guillermo Bauzá López, Pedro Rafael Casado Mendez

“…It was evaluated in a multidisciplinary consultation and pharmacological treatment was decided. …”
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Maritime Pilots’ Risky Operational Behavior Analysis Based on Structural Equation Model by Tingliu Xu, Yingjie Xiao, Zhuohong Jiang

“…The biggest influence on maritime pilots’ safety behavior is crowd psychology, which indicates that the maritime pilot’s mental health course, the psychological guidance course system, the psychological health consultation management, and safety training should be carried out regularly. …”
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Implementasi asas keterbukaan dalam pelaksanaan konseling individu pada siswa SMA by Nuning Kurniawati, I Ketut Dharsana, Kadek Suranata

“…The results obtained, students or counselees feel more confident and comfortable during consultations to solve problems as well as possible with the guidance of a counselor…”
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Expertise and community juridification: Defense of subsoil and communal lands in Oaxaca, Mexico by Salvador Aquino-Centeno

“…This article analyzes how the indigenous community of Capulálpam defended its territorial rights by filing an injunction before a federal court to invalidate the mining concessions that the government authorized without free, prior and informed consultation. The mining companies, the court and the federal government sought to undermine rights to indigenous community identity; the mining companies argued that they had private property and land concessions, whereas the government defended the nation's sovereignty over the subsoil. …”
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Optimizing the management of psoriasis in patients with skin of color: A Canadian Delphi consensusCapsule Summary by Geeta Yadav, MD, Yvette Miller-Monthrope, MD, Jaggi Rao, MD, David N. Adam, MD, Rachel N. Asiniwasis, MD, Parbeer Grewal, MD, Christina Han, MD, Marissa Joseph, MD, Richard G. Langley, MD, Charles W. Lynde, MD, Andrei Metelitsa, MD, Loukia Mitsos, MD, PhD, Boluwaji Ogunyemi, MD, Kerri S. Purdy, MD, Maxwell Sauder, MD, Jensen Yeung, MD

“…Four core faculty members drove the content of the study, and 12 additional panel members were consulted to vote and provide consensus on the content produced by the core faculty. …”
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Theoretical considerations on the pedagogical competencies of Imaging and Medical Radiophysics teachers by Fernando Machado Acuña, Geovanis Olivares Paizan, Marhyam Solano Pérez, Susel Moll Varela

“…Results: the authors' approach to the theoretical references consulted allowed them to demonstrate the regularities of pedagogical competencies in medical education and the need for their continuous and upward development in the aforementioned teachers. …”
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Medicine Students’ Opinions on the English Discipline. University Polyclinic "Fabio Di Celmo" by Maira Pérez Pérez, Geisi Fernández Gómez, Isabel del Rosario Bagattín Martínez, Ditza Viera Álvarez, Maicel Eugenio Monzón Pérez

“…The most important motivation for its study was communication with English speaking patients, followed by the interest to consult technical literature (72.7% and 13.6% respectively). …”
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Massive Central Pulmonary Embolism with Riding Embolus and Concomitant Aortic Arch Embolism—Should We Diagnose Patients Earlier for Blood Clotting Disorders? Case Report by Anna Lis, Paweł Kowalski, Marcin Wita, Tomasz Zawadzki, Tomasz Ilczak, Wojciech Żurawiński, Mateusz Majewski

“…The Pulmonary Embolism Response Team (PERT) consulted the patient on several occasions; he was treated initially with an intravenous infusion of unfractionated heparin under activation partial thromboplastin time (APTT) and AT III substitution. …”
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A Comprehensive Review on Pharmacotherapeutics of Herbal Bioenhancers by Ghanshyam B. Dudhatra, Shailesh K. Mody, Madhavi M. Awale, Hitesh B. Patel, Chirag M. Modi, Avinash Kumar, Divyesh R. Kamani, Bhavesh N. Chauhan

“…Thus, bibliographic investigation was carried out by analyzing classical text books and peer-reviewed papers, consulting worldwide-accepted scientific databases from last 30 years. …”
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Thinning Southern Pines - A Key to Greater Returns by Chris Demers, Michael Andreu, Babe McGowan, Alan Long, Jarek Nowak

“…Landowners are encouraged to consult with or hire a professional forester to assist with thinning and other forest management activities. …”
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Impact of surgery on visual acuity and life quality of senile patients by Mariela Julia Curbelo Gómez, Maria Adela Llull Tombo

“…<strong><br />Methods:</strong> A prospective, descriptive, study including variables as age, gender, general and visual personal pathological history of all the patients who attended to the provisional consultation of the General Hospital “Dr. Gustavo Aldereguía Lima” in Cienfuegos between January, 1st 2008 and March 31st, 2008. 285 patients of 60 years and more were studied using questionnaires and a complete ophthalmological study. …”
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Development and test of reliability and validity of the Health Belief Scale for Prostate Cancer Screening by YU Lina, LUO Cui, LIU Shuangtai, XU Huan, LI Xiaoyan, ZHANG Xiaomeng, WANG Ting

“…Objective To develop the Health Belief Scale for Prostate Cancer Screening, and to examine its reliability and validity.Methods Based on the health belief model as the theoretical framework, and considering the literature review and the cultural context of China, a pre-test scale was developed after two rounds of expert consultations. A total of 284 inpatients in a tertiary general hospital in Wuhan were selected for investigation using convenience sampling, and the item analysis, reliability and validity test of the scale were carried out.Results The formal Health Belief Scale for Prostate Cancer Screening consist of 6 dimensions with a total of 27 items. …”
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