Bridge Employment Model of Qualified Employees in Iran's Public Organizations by Seyedeh Sanaz Sadafi Mousavi, Mir ali Syed nagavi, Seyed Mehdi Alvani, Alireza Koushki Jahromi

“…Population aging can even be beneficial if countries can meaningfully engage with older people. Employment after retirement from regular full-time jobs and before complete withdrawal from income-generating activities is known as bridge employment, which is divided into two types: professional bridge employment and non-professional bridge employment.Case study The case study of the present research is to present the bridge employment model of expert employees in Iranian government organizations from the perspective of experts active in bridge employment as opinion leaders in this field.Materials and Methods This research is qualitative, developmental, interpretive and inductive, which was implemented with the foundation's data approach. …”
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Prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing in a subpopulation of older European clinical trial participants: a cross-sectional study by Manuel R Blum, Patricia M Kearney, Rose Galvin, Christine Baumgartner, Anette Van Dorland, Stephen Byrne, Nicolas Rodondi, Simon P Mooijaart, Carol Sinnott, Rosalinde K E Poortvliet, Jacobijn Gussekloo, David O Riordan, Carole Elodie Aubert, Kieran A Walsh, Robert S Du Puy, J Wouter Jukema, Vera McCarthy, Elaine K Walsh, Tinh-Hai Collet, Olaf M Dekkers

“…The odds of any PPOs were aOR 2.48 (95% CI 1.27 to 4.85, P<0.01) for Swiss participants and aOR 2.10 (95% CI 1.11 to 3.96, P=0.02) for Dutch participants compared with Irish participants.Conclusions This study has estimated and compared the prevalence and type of PIP and PPOs among this cohort of community-dwelling older people. It demonstrated a significant difference in the prevalence of PPOs between the three populations. …”
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Public and patient involvement (PPI) in the design, execution and dissemination of a trial: the BISTRO trial by David Coyle, Paula Ormandy, Nancy Fernandes da Silva, Simon Davies

“…Background For people receiving haemodialysis, a balance has to be struck between removing sufficient but not too much fluid during a treatment session and maintaining any remaining kidney function they might have. …”
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Passive exposure and perceptions of smoke-free policies in hospital and university campuses among nursing students: A cross-sectional multicenter study by Marcela Fu, Yolanda Castellano, Kenza Laroussy, Antoni Baena, Mercè Margalef, Ariadna Feliu, Jordi Galimany-Masclans, Montse Puig-Llobet, Carmen Moreno-Arroyo, Raül Sancho, Albert Bueno, Antonio López, Joseph Guydish, Esteve Fernández, Cristina Martínez

“…Results Of 4381 respondents, 99.1% had seen people smoking in outdoor areas of their university campus, and 75.2% had been exposed to SHS on the campus (6.0% indoors and 69.2% outdoors). …”
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Pathways Through Which Green Exposure Type Influences Cardiovascular Diseases Mortality in Shanghai, China by Jianzhong HUANG, Yanting XU, Lan WANG, Zhouqian HE

“…Second, using streets or neighborhoods as research units can more comprehensively capture the group effect on health from people’s use of green space, and more specifically reveal the integrated effect of social interaction among residents, group behaviors and community public resources on health. …”
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Fálétí’s Philosophical Sensibility by Adeshina Afolayan

“…They can, for instance, lead the reader to critical reflections on the type of leaders suitable for a given society and on the degree of civic consciousness exercised by the people in protecting their rights. Philosophy and literature, equally, offer critical evaluation of existing and possible forms of political arrangements, beliefs and practices. …”
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Inequity and vulnerability in Latin American Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations with rheumatic diseases: a syndemic approach by Bernardo A Pons-Estel, Rosana Quintana, Ruben Burgos-Vargas, Everardo Álvarez-Hernández, John Londono, Ana M Santos, Adalberto Loyola-Sanchez, Mario H Cardiel, Maria Victoria Goycochea-Robles, Ingris Peláez-Ballestas, Ysabel Granados, Flor Julián-Santiago, Celenia Rosillo, Jose Alvarez-Nemegyei, Natalia Santana, Mario Goñi, Ligia Cedeño, Romina Nieto, Silvana Conti, María Elena Calvo, Eugenia Picco, Rosa Chacón, Jorge Delgado, Alfonso Gastelum Strozzi, Sergio Guevara-Pacheco, Vicente Juarez, Mario Alberto Garza-Elizondo, Juan Camilo Rueda, Amaranta Manrique de Lara, Nora Mathern, Marisa Jorfen, Alvaro Sanabria, Cristina Prigione, Adriana MR Silvestre, Vanina García, Julio Miljevic, Daniel Dhair, Matias Laithe, Fadua Midauar, Maria Celeste Martin, Maria Cecilia Barrios, María Elena Crespo, Mariana Aciar, Emilio Buschiazzo, Natalia L Cucchiaro, Mario Ruiz, José Adolfo Sánchez, Rodolfo Franco, Natalia Estrella, Silvia Jorge, Cinthya Retamozo, Sofia Fernandez, Martina Fay, Cecilia Camacho, Graciela Gomez, Jazmin Petrelli, Andrés Honeri, Viviana Arenas Solórzano, Ana Bensi, Marcela Valdata, Rodrigo Giraldo, Ignacio Angarita, Jesus G Ballesteros, Sofia Arias, Andres Vásquez, Lina Valero, Ani Cortes, Estafania Castañeda, Elias Forero, Astrid Feicán, Fernando Vintimilla, Jaime Vintimilla, Veronica Ochoa, Angelita Lliguisaca, Holger Dután, Jacqueline Rodríguez-Amado, Julio Casasola-Vargas, Conrado Garcia, Imelda García-Olivera, César Pacheco, Susana Aidee Gonzalez-Chávez, Hazel Garcia Morales, Arturo Velasco Gutierrez, JF Moctezuma-Rios, Eduardo Navarro-Zarza, Angelia Angulo, Rosana Flores, Janeth Galván Padrón, B Lorena Pérez, Janett Riega, Brenda Vaquez Fuentes, Miguel A Villarreal, Cassandra Skinner Taylor, Sara Marín, Dionicio Galarza Delgado, Diana Flores Alvarado, Jorge A Esquivel Varerio, Luz Helena Sanín, Marco Maradiaga Ceceño, Jorge Zamudio Lerm, Ivan Stekman, Yanira Martínez, Gloris Sánchez

“…Twenty clusters were identified in the Indigenous population and 17 in the non-Indigenous population.Results The variables associated with RMD among Indigenous populations were rurality, public health system, high joint biomechanical stress, greater pain, disability and alcoholism; and among non-Indigenous people they were being a woman, urban origin, older age, private health system, joint biomechanical stress, greater pain and disability. …”
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Analysis of the Rights and Obligations of Stakeholders in China’s National Park Concession System by Le ZHONG, Zhicong ZHAO

“…For concessionaires, the ideal state encompasses comprehensive rights as delineated by the Administrative License Law of the People’s Republic of China and associated regulations, including the right to operate without interference, access to policy support, and claim compensation for damage to legal rights and interests. …”
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Epithelial NSD2 maintains FMO‐mediated taurine biosynthesis to prevent intestinal barrier disruption by Yue Xu, Xiuying Xiao, Chunxiao Ma, Ziyi Wang, Wenxin Feng, Hanyu Rao, Wei Zhang, Ningyuan Liu, Rebiguli Aji, Xiangjun Meng, Wei‐Qiang Gao, Li Li

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HIV self-testing positivity rate and linkage to confirmatory testing and care: a telephone survey in Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, and Senegal by Kra, Arsène Kouassi, Fotso, Arlette Simo, Rouveau, Nicolas, Maheu-Giroux, Mathieu, Boily, Marie-Claude, Silhol, Romain, d’Elbée, Marc, Vautier, Anthony, Larmarange, Joseph

“…Two-thirds (65%) went to a general public facility, and one-third to a facility dedicated to key populations.The ATLAS HIVST distribution strategy reached people living with HIV in West Africa. Linkage to confirmatory testing following a reactive HIVST remained relatively low in these first years of HIVST implementation. …”
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Editorial by Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche

“…But it could serve as a wake-up call for more and better prevention in the future, put differently: as a call to build a “preventive society”. When people look back to the year 2022 from the year 2200, will they think of the absence of mandatory vaccination as a dangerous anachronism? …”
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Molecular underpinnings of exceptional response in primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus to anti-PD-1 monotherapy by Yu Chen, Xuan Wang, Jie Dai, Li Zhou, Xuefeng Xia, Jun Guo, Xue Bai, Lu Si, Bixia Tang, Chuanliang Cui, Xiaoting Wei, Xinan Sheng, Siming Li, Zhihong Chi, Lili Mao, Bin Lian, Xieqiao Yan, Yan Kong, Caili Li, Xuan Gao, Lirui Tang, Linzi Sun, Zhonghui Qi, Zelong Xu

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SECTM1 acts as an immune-related biomarker of poor prognosis and promotes cancer progression by modulating M2 macrophage polarization in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by Pengzhou Kong, Pengzhou Kong, Pengzhou Kong, Ye Jiao, Ye Jiao, Meng Sun, Meng Sun, Zhinan Zhou, Zhinan Zhou, Yingying Zhang, Yingying Zhang, Xin Yang, Xin Yang, Jing Ren, Jing Ren, Mengyuan Yang, Mengyuan Yang, Yanyan Dong, Yanyan Dong, Yanyan Dong, Bin Song

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Authority and Moral Conflicts in the Films of Adébáyọ Fálétí: Àfọ̀njá, Gáà, Ṣawo Ṣẹ̀gbẹ̀rì and the Yorùbá Cosmopolis by Olayinka Agbetuyi

“…In addition, he stated that cultural studies deal with subjectivity and identity or how we come to be the kinds of people we are. Fálétí’s Afọnja and Gáà’s thematic preoccupation is how the Yorùbá subjectivity has been constituted over time through its political evolution. …”
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Child mortality in England after national lockdowns for COVID-19: An analysis of childhood deaths, 2019-2023. by David Odd, Sylvia Stoianova, Tom Williams, Peter Fleming, Karen Luyt

“…<h4>Background</h4>During the COVID-19 pandemic children and young people (CYP) mortality in England reduced to the lowest on record, but it is unclear if the mechanisms which facilitated a reduction in mortality had a longer lasting impact, and what impact the pandemic, and its social restrictions, have had on deaths with longer latencies (e.g., malignancies). …”
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Neoadjuvant apatinib addition to sintilimab and carboplatin-taxane based chemotherapy in patients with early triple-negative breast cancer: the phase 2 NeoSAC trial by Guoshuang Shen, Zhilin Liu, Miaozhou Wang, Yi Zhao, Xinlan Liu, Yujin Hou, Wenbiao Ma, Jingqi Han, Xiaofeng Zhou, Dengfeng Ren, Fuxing Zhao, Zitao Li, Shifen Huang, Yongzhi Chen, Yingjian He, Yan Liu, Zijun Zhu, Yongxin Li, Jinming Li, Mengting Da, Hongnan Mo, Feng Du, Liang Cui, Jing Bai, Zhen Liu, Fei Ma, Jiuda Zhao

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Global, regional, and national epidemiology of childhood neuroblastoma (1990–2021): a statistical analysis of incidence, mortality, and DALYsResearch in context by Jusen Nong, Cheng Su, Changhua Li, Congjun Wang, Wei Li, Yong Li, Peng Chen, Yanqiang Li, Zihao Li, Xinjin She, Zuxin Yuan, Sentian Liu, Chao Chen, Qian Liao, Yige Luo, Bo Shi

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A systematic review of the cost-effectiveness of anti-VEGF drugs for the treatment of diabetic retinopathy by Robert Hodgson, Matthew Walton, Helen Fulbright, Laura Bojke, Ruth Walker, Alexis Llewellyn, Sofia Dias, Lesley Stewart, David Steel, John Lawrenson, Tunde Peto, Mark Simmonds

“…Anti-vascular endothelial growth factor drugs represent a treatment option for people with diabetic retinopathy and are routinely used to treat various other eye conditions. …”
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New Insights into Duckweed as an Alternative Source of Food and Feed: Key Components and Potential Technological Solutions to Increase Their Digestibility and Bioaccessibility by Krisztina Takács, Rita Végh, Zsuzsanna Mednyánszky, Joseph Haddad, Karim Allaf, Muying Du, Kewei Chen, Jianquan Kan, Tian Cai, Péter Molnár, Péter Bársony, Anita Maczó, Zsolt Zalán, István Dalmadi

“…Sustainability is becoming increasingly important in the world we live in, because of the rapid global population growth and climate change (drought, extreme temperature fluctuations). People in developing countries need more sustainable protein sources instead of the traditional, less sustainable meat, fish, egg, and dairy products. …”
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Alimentation et gestion de l’eau sur la colline de Fourvière à Lyon : les aménagements hydrauliques, la ville et ses monuments by Aldo Borlenghi, Éric Leroy

“…In the 2nd century AD, the same district was home to a larger number of fountains, which met the needs of the people who frequented the theatre and the odeon. It is likely that the large number of fountains documented in this area during that period is related to the arrival of water from the Gier. …”
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