Healthcare consumers' perceptions of incentive-linked prescribing: A scoping review. by Muhammad Naveed Noor, Haider Safdar Abbasi, Nina van Der Mark, Zahida Azizullah, Janice Linton, Afifah Rahman-Shepherd, Amna Rehana Siddiqui, Mishal Sameer Khan, Rumina Hasan, Sadia Shakoor

“…Quantitative and qualitative studies with patients and the general public, published in the English language were identified through searches of Scopus, Medline (OVID), EMBASE (OVID), and Google Scholar. …”
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Cytokine-armed oncolytic herpes simplex viruses: a game-changer in cancer immunotherapy? by Howard L Kaufman, Hongbin Wang, Dipongkor Saha, Samuel D Rabkin, Mia Borlongan, Uyen Le, Hans J Nauwynck

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Resultados evaluativos de los exámenes de diferentes rotaciones del quinto año de Medicina en Cienfuegos. Curso 2015- 2016 by Lino Ortiz Santiesteban, José Julio Ojeda González, Belquis de la Caridad Pérez Hernández

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Androgen Metabolism Gene Polymorphisms, Associations with Prostate Cancer Risk and Pathological Characteristics: A Comparative Analysis between South African and Senegalese Men by Pedro Fernandez, Charnita M. Zeigler-Johnson, Elaine Spangler, André van der Merwe, Mohamed Jalloh, Serigne M. Gueye, Timothy R. Rebbeck

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Association of urinary metabolites of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with urinary incontinence in adults: A cross-sectional study by ChunXiang Bao, Jie Luo, ShuYing Miao

“…This study aims to investigate the association between polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) metabolites and urinary incontinence (UI) in the general adult population. This study analyzed six urinary PAH metabolites in the general adult population from the 2005–2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). …”
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Serum Amyloid Alpha in Parapneumonic Effusions by Vagelis Boultadakis, Vasilis Skouras, Demosthenes Makris, Aggeliki Damianaki, Dimitrios J. Nikoulis, Theodoros Kiropoulos, Smaragda Oikonomidi, Irene Tsilioni, Konstantinos Gourgoulianis

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Drawing as a learning tool for anatomy: design and implementation of a method. by Elena Martínez Carracelas, Miguel Ángel Fernández-Villacañas Marín, Matilde Moreno Cascales, Diego Flores Funes

“…Likewise, the mean scores of the subject General Anatomy of the Locomotor System of the participants in the workshop and the rest of the students who did not participate were compared with the Mann-Whitney U test. …”
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The Effect of Intraoperative Sounds of Saw and Hammer on Psychological Condition in Patients with Total Knee Arthroplasty: Prospective Randomized Study by Erkam Kömürcü, Hasan Ali Kiraz, Burak Kaymaz, Umut Hatay Gölge, Gürdal Nusran, Ferdi Göksel, Hasan Şahin, Dilek Ömür, Volkan Hancı

“…Patients were randomly divided into two groups: 20 patients in the general anesthesia group and 20 patients in the spinal anesthesia group. …”
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Tasks of the National Police of Ukraine as a subject of implementation of the preventive function of the state by I. V. Ishchenko

“…It was emphasized that the general tasks of the Department of Preventive Activities of the National Police of Ukraine include: ensuring public safety and public order; protection of fundamental human rights and freedoms, as well as the interests of society and the state; providing, within the limits established by law, services to assist persons who, for personal, economic, social reasons or due to emergencies, need such assistance. …”
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Determining correct tracheal tube insertion depth by measuring distance between endotracheal tube cuff and vocal cords by ultrasound in Chinese adults: a prospective case-control s... by Xuanling Chen, Wenwen Zhai, Zhuoying Yu, Jiao Geng, Min Li

“…Objectives Unrecognised malposition of the endotracheal tube can lead to severe complications in patients under general anaesthesia. The purpose of this study was to verify the feasibility of using ultrasound to measure the distance between the upper edge of saline-inflated cuff and the vocal cords.Design Prospective case-control study.Setting A tertiary hospital in Beijing, China.Methods In this prospective study, 105 adult patients who required general anaesthesia were enrolled. …”
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Nudge strategies for behavior-based prevention and control of neglected tropical diseases: A scoping review and ethical assessment. by Fiona Vande Velde, Hans J Overgaard, Sheri Bastien

“…Most nudges targeted handwashing behavior and were focused on general health practices rather than targeting a specific disease. …”
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Vaccination coverage and its determinants in patients with multiple sclerosis—a multicenter cross-sectional study by Paula Schade, Hai-Anh Nguyen, Julia Steinle, Kerstin Hellwig, Teodor Pelea, Philipp Franken, Birte Elias-Hamp, Veit Becker, Stefan Merkelbach, Stephan Richter, Bert Wagner, Christian Geis, Matthias Schwab, Florian Rakers

“…Secondary endpoints included validated measures of general vaccination hesitancy, MS-specific vaccination beliefs, and trust in information sources. …”
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Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor α Reduces Endothelin-1-Caused Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy by Inhibiting Nuclear Factor-κB and Adiponectin by Hsu-Lung Jen, Po-Len Liu, Yung-Hsiang Chen, Wei-Hsian Yin, Jaw-Wen Chen, Shing-Jong Lin

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Application of the new ‘XU-line’ in the dynamic ultrasonographic evaluation of the spatial displacement of anterior cervical tissues for airway management: protocol for a prospecti... by Mao Xu, Yang Zhou, Yujie Wang, Mingfeng Mao, Wanrui Shi

“…Four hundred and eleven patients scheduled for anterior cervical decompression and fusion under general anaesthesia will be recruited. The parallel trunk reference line through the mentum is defined as the XU-line, and the spatial displacement of the anterior cervical soft tissue relative to the XU-line at six anatomical levels in the transverse plane and two distances in the sagittal plane will be measured on ultrasonography with the patient in the supine position and the sniff position. …”
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Cognitive Function Characteristics of Parkinson’s Disease with Sleep Disorders by Jing Huang, Wenyan Zhuo, Yuhu Zhang, Hongchun Sun, Huan Chen, Peipei Zhu, Xiaobo Pan, Jianhao Yang, Lijuan Wang

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Aportes del método inductivo a la enseñanza de la ética militar by Andrés Eduardo Fernández-Osorio, Marina Miron, David Whetham

“…A través de una metodología con un enfoque cuantitativo, se realizó un estudio con 230 participantes del curso en la Escuela Superior de Guerra General Rafael Reyes Prieto (ESDEG) de Colombia, para medir las actitudes sobre la ética militar, las reglas de enfrentamiento (RE) y la efectividad operacional. …”
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A scoping review of the post-discharge care needs of babies requiring surgery in the first year of life. by Francesca Giulia Maraschin, Fidelis Jacklyn Adella, Shobhana Nagraj

“…Sub-themes included monitoring (oxygen, weight, oral intake), additional supervision, general feeding, assistive feeding, condition-specific practices e.g., stoma care, and general care. …”
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Ukrainian SSR police activities in combating crime in the late 1950s by V. A. Grechenko

“…The maximum term of imprisonment has sharply decreased from 25 to 15 years. Statistics on the general state of criminal crime in this period are given. …”
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SOCS2 inhibits the tumorigenesis of GISTs and increases the sensitivity of GISTs to imatinib by suppression of KIT activation by Liangying Zhang, Kun Xiao, Shaoting Zhang, Sien Zhao, Zimei Liu, Ming Wang, Kaiyue Qin, Yuanyuan Yu, Shujing Li, Lijun Ma, Jianmin Sun

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One-step introduction of the hexafluoroisobutyl group, synthesis of (S)-5,5,5,5',5',5'-hexafluoroleucine, and its incorporation into peptides and proteins by Delamare, Aline, Naulet, Guillaume, Mummadi, Sandeep, Guichard, Gilles, Compain, Guillaume

“…This modification has been overlooked due to the absence of general, simple, and/or efficient synthetic methods for introducing such a group into small molecules, amino acids, peptides, and proteins. …”
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