Extreme drought-heatwave exacerbates water quality deterioration in China by Jie Jiang, Zhaoli Wang, Zhenxing Zhang, Xushu Wu, Chengguang Lai, Zhaoyang Zeng, Xiaohong Chen

“…Water quality deteriorated notably during this event, evidenced by ever-increased total nitrogen (TN) concentration (∼25 % to ∼30 % higher than non-drought period), higher TN extremes (27.5 mg/L), and decreased dissolved oxygen (DO) (∼−1.0 to ∼−0.5 mg/L lower than non-drought). …”
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USE OF INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE IN THE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF INTERNATIONAL ENTERPRISES by Maryna V. Kovbatiuk, Ivanna I. Strilok, Viktoriya V. Shklyar, George O. Kovbatiuk

“…High-tech management solutions allow companies to respond effectively to global market challenges and remain competitive in an ever-changing business environment.…”
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Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency and Pulmonary Morbidity in Patients with Primary Immunodeficiency Disease: A Single-Center Experience by Georg Evers, Arik Bernard Schulze, Michael Thrull, Jan-Philipp Hering, Christoph Schülke, Rainer Wiewrodt, Helmut Wittkowski, Lars Henning Schmidt, Michael Mohr

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Yield and Water Use Efficiency of Potato under Alternate Furrows and Deficit Irrigation by Kassu Tadesse Kassaye, Wubengeda Admasu Yilma, Mehiret Hone Fisha, Dawit Habte Haile

“…The benefits of water-saving techniques such as alternate furrow and deficit irrigations need to be explored to ensure food security for the ever-increasing population within the context of declining availability of irrigation water. …”
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Raman and ATR-FTIR unmask crystallinity changes and carboxylate group and vinyl group accumulation in natural weathering polypropylene microplastics by Raihan Anshari, Motohiro Tsuboi, Harumi Sato, Kohji Tashiro, Yukihiro Ozaki

“…This may be the first time that the carboxylate bands have ever appeared more strongly than the carbonyl bands in the IR spectra of NWPP. …”
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Sustainable Distance E-Learning for Enhanced Students Retention and Support: Faculty of Law National Open University of Nigeria in Focus by Erimma Gloria Orie

“… The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) was primarily conceived to afford the teeming population of prospective university candidates the opportunity to access tertiary education in order to fulfill their life dreams, contribute to national socio-economic development in our ever competitive, contemporary and globalised world. …”
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Prevalence and Correlates of Hypertension Unawareness among Lebanese Adults: The Need to Target Those “Left Behind” by Fatima Ghaddar, Lama Hammad, Rania A. Tohme, Tamar Kabakian-Khasholian, Nahla Hwalla, Abla M. Sibai

“…Those responding negatively to the face-to-face interview question “whether they had ever been told by a health worker that they have hypertension” were labelled as “apparently healthy.” …”
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Association between cancer stigma and cervical cancer screening uptake among women of Dhulikhel and Banepa, Nepal. by Bandana Paneru, Aerona Karmacharya, Alina Bharati, Soniya Makaju, Bikram Adhikari, Dikshya Kafle, Sunila Shakya, Donna Spiegelman, Sangini Seth, Anne Stangl, Aamod Dhoj Shrestha, Archana Shrestha

“…<h4>Results</h4>Twenty-three percent of women had cancer stigma and 27 percent reported that they had ever been screened for cervical cancer. The odds of being screened was 0.23 times lower among women who had stigma compared to those who had no stigma (95% CI: 0.11-0.49) after adjusting for confounders: age, ethnicity, occupation, religion, education, parity, contraceptive use, age of menarche and age at first sexual intercourse.…”
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Sustainable Distance E-Learning for Enhanced Students Retention and Support: Faculty of Law National Open University of Nigeria in Focus by Erimma Gloria Orie

“… The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) was primarily conceived to afford the teeming population of prospective university candidates the opportunity to access tertiary education in order to fulfill their life dreams, contribute to national socio-economic development in our ever competitive, contemporary and globalised world. …”
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Operationalising user behaviour: a study on the life cycle assessment of smart home technologies by Mareike Tippe, Henning Wigger, Urte Brand-Daniels, Thomas Vogt

“…Abstract Background Smart home technologies (SHT) make it easier than ever to track energy demands and are expected to contribute to the implementation of sustainability strategies. …”
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Prevalence and associated factors of diabetes among adult populations of Hawassa town, southern Ethiopia: A community based cross-sectional study. by Getu Kassa Belete, Hlupheka Lawrence Sithole

“…Being male (Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR):2.10; 95% CI: 1.34, 3.29), being unable to read and write (AOR: 3.38; 95% CI: 1.09, 10.47), read and write (AOR: 3.38; 95% CI: 1.09, 10.47) and medium cycle (AOR 2.79; 95% CI: 1.02, 7.63) compared to college and above, consume less than 5 servings of fruits on daily base (AOR: 2.80; 95% CI: 1.18, 6.62), having ever chewed khat (AOR 6.50; 95% CI: 4.07, 10.39) and being overweight and obese (AOR: 2.43; 95% CI: 1.54, 3.83) were independently associated with diabetes mellitus (DM).…”
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Do The Facts of Voting Rights Support Chief Justice Roberts’s Opinion in Shelby County? by Morgan Kousser

“…Based on the largest database of voting rights “events” – successful lawsuits, Section 5 Justice Department objections and “more information requests,” and consent decrees or settlements out of court that led to pro-minority changes – ever compiled, this paper provides a unique overview of the history of U.S. voting rights from 1957, when the first U.S. civil rights law in 82 years passed, through 2013. …”
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Evaluation of Zenith Tropospheric Delay Derived from Ray-Traced VMF3 Product over the West African Region Using GNSS Observations by Samuel Osah, Akwasi A. Acheampong, Collins Fosu, Isaac Dadzie

“…The growing demand for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technology has necessitated the establishment of a vast and ever-growing network of International GNSS Service (IGS) tracking stations worldwide. …”
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Public health programmes to promote mental health in young people: a systematic integrative review protocol by Mihiri Chami Wettasinghe, Nuwan Darshana Wickramasinghe, Tine Van Bortel, Antony Morgan, Antonis A Kousoulis, Nelum Samarutilake, Julie Feiler

“…Introduction In light of the ever-growing mental health disease burden among young people worldwide, we aim to systematically review the global literature to identify the public health programmes targeted at promoting mental health and well-being in young people, the reported/anticipated mental health-related outcomes of the implemented public health programmes and the reported facilitators and barriers in relation to the implementation of those public health programmes.Methods and analysis A comprehensive literature search will be carried out in the following electronic bibliographic databases: MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Scopus, ASSIA, Web of Science, Global Health, AMED, Health Source and The Cochrane Library. …”
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The role of climate change and niche shifts in divergent range dynamics of a sister-species pair by Summers, Jeremy, Lukas, Dieter, Logan, Corina J, Chen, Nancy

“…Understanding the factors governing species range dynamics remains a challenge that is ever more important in our rapidly changing world. …”
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Chinese economic presence in East Africa: the case of Kenya by K. A. Gemueva

“…The first ever Russia-Africa Summit and Economic Forum in October 2019 demonstrates not only interest of both sides in developing bilateral cooperation, but also has every chance of becoming a turning point in translating words into action. …”
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Effect of alcohol consumption on haemoglobin level among non-pregnant reproductive age women in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional secondary data analysis of the 2016 Ethiopian Demographi... by Melese Linger Endalifer, Gedefaw Diress

“…Women who drunk alcohol less than once a week ((AOR=0.54 (95% CI: 0.31 to 0.94), those who drunk alcohol at least once a week (AOR=0.50 (95% CI: 0.28 to 0.88)) and who drunk alcohol almost every day in the last 12 months (AOR=0.42 (95% CI: 0.21 to 0.81)) had significantly lower odds of having anaemia than women who had not ever taken a drink that contain alcohol.Conclusion This study showed that nearly a quarter of non-pregnant women in Ethiopia were found to be anaemic. …”
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Quality of antenatal care services in Afghanistan: findings from the national survey 2022–2023 by Essa Tawfiq, Muhammad Haroon Stanikzai, Zabihullah Anwary, Khalid Akbari, Hadia Sayam, Abdul Wahed Wasiq, Omid Dadras

“…Methods This study analyzed the data from the 2022–23 Afghanistan Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey (MICS), including 9,243 ever-married women aged 15–49 years who had given birth two years prior to the survey. …”
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Hybrid Quality-Based Recommender Systems: A Systematic Literature Review by Bihi Sabiri, Amal Khtira, Bouchra El Asri, Maryem Rhanoui

“…Although there are more products available than ever before, only a small portion of them are noticed; as a result, a few items gain disproportionate attention. …”
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COMPARISON OF ABBREVIATED BURN SEVERITY INDEX (ABSI) SCORE WITH R-BAUX SCORE AS A PREDICTOR OF MORTALITY IN BURN PATIENTS by Melissa Anita Ayu Iustitiati, Beta Subakti Nata’atmadja

“…ABSTRACT: Background: Several studies regarding the mortality predictor model in burn patients have been carried out in several cities and countries. However, none have ever happened in Dr. Soetomo General Academic Hospital, Surabaya, Indonesia. …”
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