The efficiency of short-term crop rotations with different sunflower saturation by Zinaida Dehtiarova, Mykola Shevchenko, Yurii Dehtiarov, Victor Budyonny

“…Increasing the sunflower share to 60% led to a decline in the production cost, not only for other crops but also for the sunflower itself. …”
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Cell stress response to combined ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and magnetic fields: a review based on human buccal epithelium cells by К. А. Кузнецов, Г. М. Онищенко, О. Т. Ніколов

“…Irradiation with fast neutrons in low-to-medium dose range led to the development of cell stress signs (HGQ/CMP increase) which were smoothed under the dose increase.…”
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Breaking the cycle: a pilot study on autonomous Digital CBTe for recurrent binge eating by Rebecca Murphy, Charandeep Khera, Emma L. Osborne

“…This is especially true for those with recurrent binge eating because the shame that accompanies binge eating affects help seeking and there is a shortage of therapists to provide psychological treatments. Digital programme-led interventions have the potential to overcome both barriers.ObjectiveThis study examined the acceptability and effectiveness of a new digital programme-led intervention directly based on enhanced cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT-E), which is an empirically supported psychological treatment for eating disorders.MethodsOne hundred and ten adults with recurrent binge eating (self-reporting characteristics consistent with binge eating disorder, bulimia nervosa, and similar conditions) were recruited through an advertisement on the website of the UK's national eating disorder charity, Beat. …”
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Effects of culturally-appropriate group education for migrants with type 2 diabetes in primary healthcare: pre-test-post-test design by Katarina Hjelm, Emina Hadziabdic

“…The group education was conducted by a multi-professional team, led by a diabetes specialist nurse, in primary healthcare settings. …”
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Influence of Partially Substituting Wheat Flour with Tiger Nut Flour on the Physical Properties, Sensory Quality, and Consumer Acceptance of Tea, Sugar, and Butter Bread by Nazir Kizzie-Hayford, Joshua Akanson, Jerry Ampofo-Asiama, Ernest Ekow Abano

“…Substituting WF with 10% TNF for Bb or 25% TNF for Tb led to significantly higher consumer (N=56) scores for all attributes and overall acceptability. …”
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Parametric study and optimization of thermal performance and pressure drop in heat sinks with double-layer porous microchannels by Fahimeh Aliyari, Keivan Fallah, Hossein Zolfaghary Azizi, Farhad Hosseinnejad

“…The results indicated that increasing porosity improved thermal performance in all samples, though it also led to higher pressure drops at higher porosity levels. …”
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Clinical pharmacist interventions in patients with mental health disorders by Angela Bozhinoska, Dragana Dimkovic, Faton Veseli, Aleksandra Kapedanovska Nestorovska, Kristina Mladenovska

“…Our findings highlight the opportunity for more targeted approaches to identifying and managing MRPs in tertiary care where tailored clinical pharmacist-led interventions may be of value. Implementation of clinical pharmacist led services, such as medication therapy management (MTM), in routine clinical practice can have a positive impact on the efficient and safe use of medicines in this patient’s group.…”
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Inline Mapping of Amorphous Silicon Layer Thickness of Heterojunction Precursors Using Multispectral Imaging by Saravana Kumar, Christian Diestel, Saed Al-Hajjawi, Jurriaan Schmitz, Marc Hemsendorf, Jonas Haunschild, Stefan J. Rupitsch, Stefan Rein

“…The a-Si thickness extracted from the reflection data at the five chosen LED wavelengths shows good quantitative agreement with reference values from spectrally-resolved differential reflectance data. …”
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Comparative Study of Diode Laser Versus Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) for the management of Hirsutism in Sulaimani Government by Burhan Tahir Saeed

“…Over 53% and 35% of them had a family history of first- and second- degree hirsutisms, respectively. Both procedures led to good and very good primary outcomes in 43.9% and 36.4% of the patients, respectively. …”
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Populism in the political culture of Turkey: The foreign policy dimension by P. V. Shlykov

“…Institutionally the expansion of populism in the sphere of foreign policy led to its ‘domestication’ and ‘nationalization’ while its impact on the foreign policy discourse manifested itself in the spread of civilizationism. …”
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Qualitative analysis of patients’ feedback from a PROMs survey of cancer patients in England by Richard Wagland, Jessica Corner, Adam Glaser, Sir Mike Richards

“…Mediating factors assisting recovery incorporated both professional-led factors, such as quality of preparation for anticipated problems and aftercare services, and participant-led factors, such as learning from other cancer survivors and self-learning through trial and error. …”
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Impacts of a multipronged initiative with community HIV clinics to support retention and re-engagement in HIV care by Ellen Eaton, Claudia T. Martorell, Jewel Sawyer, Tanya S. Schreibman, Gregory S. Felzien, Jenniffer Meza Jimenez, Chelsie Anderson Chadha, Jeffrey Carter, Chris Napolitan, Laura Simone, Leah Molloy, Bonnie Douglas

“…Results Patient-oriented interventions led to improvements in patient-reported empowerment and confidence in their ability to remain in care. …”
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Sociodemographic Factors Associated with Purchasing Frozen, Fresh, Canned, and Dried Produce in a Nationally Representative Sample of United States Households by Graham E Bastian, Joslyn K Russell, Annie J Roe, Raveen Rani

“…Compared with White non-Hispanic-led households, Asian- and Hispanic-led households had higher odds of purchasing fresh FV and lower odds of purchasing frozen vegetables. …”
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Effect of probiotic and prebiotics supplementation on hemoglobin levels and iron absorption among women of reproductive age and children: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Aditi Apte, Ashwini Parge, Radhika Nimkar, Anju Sinha

“…However, there is low certainty of evidence that the intervention led to improvement in fractional absorption of iron as compared to placebo or iron [8 studies, n = 335, mean increase 0.74%, 95%CI-0.11–1.38, p = 0.02]. …”
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Public-Private Partnership and Early Childhood Education in Kasese District, Uganda. by Kategaya, Raymond Mwesigye, Adyanga, Akena Francis, Ocan, Johnson

“…Similarly, respondents indicated that Policy Guideline Formulation due to PPP led children to sort objects by color and shape. …”
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Investigating the Factors Affecting the Growth of Tourism in Kabale Municipality. by Amiidu, Muriisa

“…Based on results from the study, 100% of the respondents agreed that potential factors that have led to the growth in the Kabale district include; environment and events, community perception, accessibility of infrastructure, good reception, lodge owners and managers, natural attraction, perceived safety and security and Perceived safety and security. …”
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Effect of a prepartum and postpartum, complex interdisciplinary lifestyle and psychosocial intervention on metabolic and mental health outcomes in women with gestational diabetes m... by Umberto Simeoni, Antje Horsch, Arnaud Chiolero, Yvan Vial, Nicole Sekarski, Jardena J Puder, Pascal Bovet, Yvan Mivelaz, Adina Mihaela Epure, Bobby Stuijfzand, Leah Gilbert, Stefano Lanzi, Justine Gross, Didier Hans, Stefano Di Bernardo, Elena Gonzalez-rodriguez, Alain Lacroix, Jean-Benoît Rossel, Dan Yedu Quansah, Amar Arhab, Sandrine Estoppey Younes, Seyda Mayerat

“…The intervention also decreased gestational weight gain since the first gestational diabetes mellitus visit (–1.20 kg (–2.14 to –0.26)) and weekly weight gain throughout the entire pregnancy (–0.14 kg (–0.25 to –0.03)), and led to a higher proportion of women without weight retention at one year post partum (34.1% (28/82) v 20.8% (20/96), P=0.034).Conclusions Compared with active usual care based on guidelines, there was not enough evidence to conclude that the intervention led to decrease in weight or depression symptoms. …”
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Post-ERCP Emphysematous Cholecystitis in a Young Woman: A Rare and Potentially Fatal Complication by Roisin Stack, Joseph McLoughlin, Amy Gillis, Barbara M. Ryan

“…A low index of suspicion for emphysematous cholecystitis in this young, otherwise healthy woman led to a significant delay in making the correct diagnosis, and air in the gallbladder was wrongly attributed to a possible gallbladder perforation. …”
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Lyapunov Exponent-Based Study of Chaotic Mechanical Behavior of Concrete under Compression by Yuhu Quan, Xu Yang

“…Furthermore, the evolution and trends of the Lyapunov exponent indicated that the series with human intervention showed a stronger chaotic property, which led to the result that this kind of series might be more difficult to predict.…”
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“Dimmi di che morte dobbiamo morire”: dinamiche di persuasione strutturale nel post-terremoto del Centro Italia (2016-2017) by Francesco Danesi

“…On the basis of an ethnographic research led one year after the earthquake in some of the stricken areas, the article discusses both the ambiguous logic of the institutional strategy and the activation of the emergency dispositive. …”
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