Patient-reported safety incidents in older patients with long-term conditions: a large cross-sectional study by Maria Panagioti, Peter Bower, Mark Hann, Thomas Blakeman

“…Older patients (n=3378 aged 65 years and over) with a long-term condition registered in general practices were included in the study. The main outcome was patient-reported safety incidents including availability and appropriateness of medical tests and prescription of wrong types or doses of medication. …”
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2b-RAD genotyping for population genomic studies of Chagas disease vectors: Rhodnius ecuadoriensis in Ecuador. by Luis E Hernandez-Castro, Marta Paterno, Anita G Villacís, Björn Andersson, Jaime A Costales, Michele De Noia, Sofía Ocaña-Mayorga, Cesar A Yumiseva, Mario J Grijalva, Martin S Llewellyn

“…<h4>Background</h4>Rhodnius ecuadoriensis is the main triatomine vector of Chagas disease, American trypanosomiasis, in Southern Ecuador and Northern Peru. …”
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Estimating the Risk of Maternal Death at Admission: A Predictive Model from a 5-Year Case Reference Study in Northern Uganda by Gasthony Alobo, Cristina Reverzani, Laura Sarno, Barbara Giordani, Luigi Greco

“…We aimed at exploring the main factors affecting maternal death and designing a predictive model for estimation of the risk of dying at admission at a major referral hospital in northern Uganda. …”
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Effectiveness of befriending interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Stefan Priebe, Joyce Siette, Megan Cassidy

“…We aim to conduct a systematic review of the benefits of befriending.Design Systematic review.Methods A systematic search of electronic databases was conducted to identify randomised controlled trials and quasi-experimental trials of befriending for a range of physical and mental health indications including depression, anxiety, mental illness, cancer, physical illness and dementia. Main outcomes included patient-relevant and disease-specific outcomes, such as depression, loneliness, quality of life, self-esteem, social support and well-being.Results A total of 14 trials (2411 participants) were included; 7 were judged at low risk of bias. …”
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Photovoltaic Farms: Economic Efficiency of Investments in South-East Poland by Joanna Żurakowska-Sawa, Arkadiusz Gromada, Anna Trocewicz, Adrianna Wojciechowska, Marcin Wysokiński, Anetta Zielińska

“…The main objective of this study was to identify the status and development opportunities and evaluate the economic viability of investments in large-scale photovoltaic installations in Southeastern Poland. …”
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Future perspectives for PDE5 inhibitors bridging the gap between cardiovascular health and psychological status by Andrea Sansone, Eugenia Guida, Susanna Dolci, Valeria Frangione, Amanda Asso, Gilberto Bellia, Emmanuele A. Jannini

“…Findings from a number of laboratories and clinics around the world unanimously demonstrated the following: (i) the major cause of ED is directly or indirectly related to cardiovascular disease (CVD); (ii) ED and CVDs share the same risk factors, which are related mainly to lifestyle choices; (iii) the first therapeutic approach to both ED and CVDs is to transform harmful lifestyles into virtuous lifestyles; and (iv) PDE5is in general, particularly sildenafil, are very safe, if not protective, for use in CVD patients. …”
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Rejected Products from Creamer and Milk Industry as Feeding Substrate for Maggot – Green Technology for Industrial Organic Waste Management and Circular Bioeconomy by Rodlia Fitriana Aulia, Yekti Bagastyo Arseto, Rizkivia Radita Deqi

“…These compositions were tested in the main research and added 1 more variation (3:3.5:3.5). …”
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Drought resistance of introgressive spring common wheat lines with genetic material of tall wheatgrass by L. Ya. Plotnikova, A. T. Sagendykova, S. P. Kuzmina

“…‘Pamyati Azieva’ was determined by the stable development of productive tiller number, seed number and grain yield per main ear, but plasticity in 1000 grain weight was observed. …”
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Russia and NATO’s ‘Open Door’ Policy in the Post-Bipolar Period by P. Ye. Smirnov

“…The first section of the article highlights the main stages of the NATO enlargement in the post-bipolar period. …”
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TRANSFORMING SOUTH AFRICA’S UNIVERSITIES OF TECHNOLOGY: A ROADMAP THROUGH 4IR LENSES by Muthoni Masinde, Peter A Roux

“…The content of the identified scientific publications on RSA was further subjected to thematic analysis leading to the revelation that decolonisation, community engagement and structural transformation, are the main research themes. It also emerges that RSA universities have not embraced 4IR as a lens through which to pursue transformation. …”
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Streptococcal periorbital necrotizing fasciitis: Case series on a rare but potentially life-threatening entity by Isabella D. Baur, Isabel Habert, Monica Markstaller, Kathrin Hartmann, Arthur Mueller

“…Patients and methods: The main outcome measures were laboratory and clinical findings at initial presentation, microorganism cultured, predisposing conditions and the number of debridements needed as well as final outcomes. …”
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Influence of psychological resilience on compassion fatigue in nurses in the operating room: a cross-sectional study in China by Cong Fu, Ying Wang, Xiaopan Shi, Yang Wang, Weihua Liu, Gaijing Wang

“…Conclusion Compassion fatigue among nurses in the operating room is severe and is mainly influenced by factors such as night shift work, the relationship between labor and personnel, and mental resilience. …”
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Barriers and Facilitators of Research in Pediatric Sports Medicine Practitioners: A Survey of the PRiSM Society by Dai Sugimoto, Michael Del Bel, Lauren Butler

“…Regarding research facilitators, having available time was the main facilitator for SM physicians while availability of mentoring was the leading facilitator in AH practitioners…”
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All-or-none activity as a correlate of object awareness in monkey visual cortex by Anne‑Claire Collet, Roger Koenig‑Robert, Denis Fize, Rufin VanRullen

“…However, this has been hard to prove, mainly due to the difficulty in dissociating low-level feature extraction from the actual object recognition activity. …”
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Features of student psychological well-being, self-organisation and motivation by L. V. Okonechnikova, E. E. Symanyuk, T. L. Foksha

“…The article discusses the main approaches to the study of psychological well-being, gives a general idea of self-organisation and educational motivation as components of the leading educational and professional activity of students. …”
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Improving the Quality of History Teaching in Non-Historical Specialties and Training Programmes through Systematic Implementation of the Historicism Principle by Elena N. Dyatlova

“…The positive impact on the quality of students' acquisition of historical knowledge was achieved through the systematic implementation of the principle of historicism both in constructing educational material and in the process of teaching historical knowledge. The main scientific provisions of the study, didactic developments can be used in the practice of teaching history.…”
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Effects of Different Heat Treatments on the Structure and Physicochemical Properties of Proteins from Skimmed Camel’s Milk by WANG Tao, WANG Danlin, HE Jing, JI Rimutu

“…Under the T1 and T2 conditions, protein polymers were formed mainly through disulfide bonding. However, with the increase in heating temperature, the disulfide bonds of camel’s milk proteins were broken under the T3 and T4 conditions, resulting in the formation of free sulfhydryl groups and the exposure of the hydrophobic groups of camel’s milk proteins. …”
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Distribution and Conservation of Ephedra rhytidosperma by Chao Tan, David Kay Ferguson, Yong Yang

“…The results show that E. rhytidosperma is mainly distributed in lowland Helan Mountains, while the range in the past and future show different patterns. …”
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Thermally Induced Phenomena in Amorphous Nifedipine: The Correlation Between the Structural Relaxation and Crystal Growth Kinetics by Roman Svoboda

“…Overall, nifedipine was found to be prone to the rapid glass-crystal growth that occurs below the glass transition temperature; a tendency of low-temperature degradation of the amorphous phase markedly increased with decreasing particle size (the main reason being the increased number of surface and bulk micro-cracks and mechanically induced defects). …”
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Enhancing value cocreation orientation in service innovation: a new service development and service design integrated process by João Francisco da Fontoura Vieira, Márcia Elisa Soares Echeveste, Maria Auxiliadora Cannarozzo Tinoco, Arthur Marcon, Érico Marcon, Fernando Henrique Lermen

“…As results, the model’s main feature is the development of each service prerequisite through the service design cycle, prescriptively incorporating customer input throughout the service innovation process. …”
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