Accessibility and Quality of Palliative Care—Experience in Primary Health Care by Viljaras Reigas, Ingrida Šukienė

“…The issues of the accessibility and quality of these services should be a focus for health policymakers and researchers, although it is acknowledged that a significant portion of the public has not heard about this service. For this reason, it is important to investigate the experience of the accessibility and quality of palliative care services in primary healthcare facilities. …”
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Site Assessment for Astroparticle Detector Location in Evaporites of the Polkowice-Sieroszowice Copper Ore Mine, Poland by Jaroslaw Slizowski, Zenon Pilecki, Kazimierz Urbanczyk, Elzbieta Pilecka, Leszek Lankof, Rafal Czarny

“…The displacements indicated at the chamber contour are the reason that the alternative location in the anhydrite layer was more advantageous.…”
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Linking the Historical Sample of the Netherlands with the USA Censuses, 1850–1940 by Diogo Paiva, Francisco Anguita, Kees Mandemakers

“…Because of the sample character of the HSN even exact matches showed ambiguity that needs to be resolved. For this reason, a validation process comparing the household context was run to provide a more trustworthy result. …”
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The Effect of Obesity on Brain Diffusion Alteration in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea by Rukiye Kilicarslan, Alpay Alkan, Rasul Sharifov, Muhammed Emin Akkoyunlu, Ayse Aralasmak, Abdulkadir Kocer, Levent Kart

“…We observed increasing brain vasogenic edema with increasing BMI, suggesting that the main reason of brain diffusion alteration in patients with OSA could be obesity related.…”
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Molecular Profiling of Acute and Chronic Rejections of Renal Allografts by Hřibová Petra, Honsová Eva, Brabcová Irena, Hrubá Petra, Viklický Ondřej

“…Both antibody mediated (AMR) and T-cell mediated (TCMR) rejections either acute or chronic represent the main reason for late graft dysfunction. In this study we aimed to evaluate differences in the intrarenal expression patterns of immune system related genes in acute and chronic rejections. …”
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Administrative Views on Pedagogical Tolerance in Higher Education by Zhaniyat Baltabayeva, Sandugash Baisarina, Baizhuman Kashkhynbay, Miray Doğan

“…Tolerance is respecting and understanding individuals’ ideas, feelings, and behaviors. For this reason, tolerance also plays a vital role for administrators in higher education. …”
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Stress management and psychological resilience of healthcare workers: The role of job satisfaction, job performance, and continuance commitment by Hazal Koray ALAY, Emine OZTURK, Meri TAKSI DEVECIYAN

“…Stress management is very important, as healthcare professionals do not accept mistakes and have high risks while providing services. For this reason, stress management practices can be developed to alleviate the difficulties of working conditions in institutions and increase psychological resilience.…”
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The first rodent behavioral study (1822) and the diffusion of human-bred albino rats and mice in the 19th century by Raffaele d’Isa

“…The color of the rat played a key role in its fate, being the reason for which it was originally brought to Moss and for which Moss decided to keep it under his care. …”
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Comparing Efficacies of Biopsy and Rapid Urease Testing for H. Pylori at a Single Institution by Kathleen Hill, Aiden V. Ohning, Jonathan P. Mallory, Stella Self, Christine M. G. Schammel, Jenny Meredith, John Reddic, Patrick Kent, Jenny B. Knight

“…Histology and RUT testing yield similar results; therefore, there is no efficacious reason to run both tests on patients. Since histology has greater sensitivity (>95%) and the ability to identify other gastropathies, it should be considered the “gold standard,” for the identification of H. pylori.…”
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Eye Donation: Awareness, Knowledge, Willingness, and Barriers among Paramedical and Allied Health Science Students at a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in South India by Aimanfatima Kacheri, Rekha Mudhol, Sanjeev Chougule, Rhema Reny, Sagarika Kamath, Rajesh Kamath

“…However, other aspects assessed had much lower awareness rates; when the eyes are donated (53.3%), optimal time period for retrieval of tissue/organ (54%), ideal part transplanted (54%), age limit not restricting donation (67%), donation by donors using spectacles (48%), confidentiality of the donor and recipient (54%), hospital having the facility of an eye bank (63%). 49 percent of the respondents were willing to pledge themselves as eye donors, and a majority of the unwilling respondents reported that familial opposition was the reason for their hesitation. Conclusion. Knowledge levels appear to be below expectations, and more effort is required to ensure that knowledge is imparted to our healthcare practitioners, who will then transfer this knowledge to the population, resulting in an increase in donation rates.…”
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Potential Analysis of Kavir & Desert Region and Makran Coasts In Order To Obtain Energy From the Sun Using Fuzzy Logic and AHP by zahra hedjazizadeh, Aras Khosravi, Seyed Asaad Hosseini, Alireza Rahimi, ali reza Karbalaee doree

“…Each of the operators has a different sensitivity to the fuzzy overlap of the layers. For this reason, was considered the Gamma 0.9 operator, due to the high sensitivity for building power plants with high electrical power generation and the Sum Weighted Overlay operator, for the construction of smaller capacity plants. …”
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Who is Responsible for Instability in the Democratic Republic of Congo? by G. M. Sidorova

“…This is taking place for the reason that numerous mines and open-cast mines are being controlled by different illegal armed groups and not by the central government. …”
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The Influence of Cochlear Implant-Based Electric Stimulation on the Electrophysiological Characteristics of Cultured Spiral Ganglion Neurons by Na Shen, Lei Zhou, Bin Lai, Shufeng Li

“…Cochlear implant-based electrical stimulation may be an important reason to induce the residual hearing loss after cochlear implantation. …”
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A Critical Review of the Equality Iranian God/Goddess ‎with the Gods/Goddess of Greeks Case Study: Vanand, Ashi and Nike by Reza Mehrafarin, Shahin Aryamanesh

“…They continue to conclude that the figure of Nike goddess in the Parthian period was not identical with the Ashi and Vanand. For this reason, Vologases I, eliminated the figure of Nike goddess from his coins during his reign with the goal of Persianism and the abandonment of non-Iranian symbols.…”
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Isolation, Serotyping, and Molecular Detection of Bovine FMD Virus from Outbreak Cases in Abaʼala District of Afar Region, Ethiopia by Teshager Dubie, Tsedale Amare

“…The purposive sampling method was applied to select the study area for the reason of the presence of FMD outbreak case report during the study period. …”
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Od adaptacji do edukacji, czyli plakaty filmowe w praktyce szkolnej by Dominika Byczek

“…The author begins by explaining the reason for choosing this topic, which she sees primarily in the fact that, according to her own observations and research, students do not encounter the analysis of film posters in school, nor do they have a desire to respond to the demands of other researchers in the field of Polish language teaching. …”
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Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Interstitial Lung Disease Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure Admitted to the ICU by Sourabh Pahuja, Milta Kuriakose, Satyam Agarwal, Pradeep Bajad, Arjun Khanna, Deepak Talwar

“…Background: Acute respiratory failure is a dreaded complication of interstitial lung disease (ILD) and is the most significant reason for mortality in most forms of ILDs. Knowledge of outcome predictors that can be assessed early after intensive care unit (ICU) admission would help guide the use of specific treatments. …”
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Computational Modeling of Desiccation Properties (CW, LS, and VS) of Waste-Based Activated Ash-Treated Black Cotton Soil for Sustainable Subgrade Using Artificial Neural Network, G... by Kennedy C. Onyelowe, Jamshid Shakeri, Hasel Amini-Khoshalan, Thompson F. Usungedo, Mohammadreza Alimoradi-Jazi

“…Problematic soils or black cotton soils are not good pavement foundation materials except that they are pretreated in order to meet the basic strength characteristics required for roads in Nigeria. Due to this reason, there has been ongoing research to evaluate the best practices in which black cotton soils can be favorably utilized in earthwork construction. …”
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Agriculture Based Food Producing Countries Are Less Secured in Food by Jesmin Aktar, Khan Md Shaiful Islam

“…That means people involved in production of food are not getting food as much and this is the reason not to access food as they have less per capita income. …”
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Impact of climate change and human activities on the sustainable development of Xinjiang Aksu Oasis (China) by Duan Zhengrong, Ni Mingxia, Tao Ya, Marcin Sobota, Xia Jianxin

“…Water resources shortage is the most fundamental reason to restrict the expansion of oasis scale. The suitable oasis scale of Aksu Oasis in 1991, 2001 and 2016 is 12611.30, 15949.95 and 16631.59 km2, respectively, but the actual area of the oasis in the three periods is larger. …”
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