The rural risk of digital exclusion: A case study of municipal digital health and social care services in Denmark by Barbara Fersch, Egon Bjørnshave Noe, Annette Aagaard Thuesen, Beate Langer

“…Digital solutions have the potential to contribute to a stronger inclusion of the rural population in health and welfare services in times of a more scattered infrastructure. However, in Denmark where there is a strong push towards a digitalization of these services, the demographic profile of the rural population, being older and with lower levels of education, implies that a large part of the population in digitally vulnerable positions resides here. …”
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Validity of the German Version of the Continuous-Scale Physical Functional Performance 10 Test by Irene Härdi, Stephanie A. Bridenbaugh, M. Elaine Cress, Reto W. Kressig

“…Concurrent validity was assessed using Pearson correlation coefficients between CS-PFP 10 and gait velocity, Timed Up and Go Test, hand grip strength, SF-36 physical function domain, and Freiburger Physical Activity Questionnaire. …”
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Application of a new type of Si–Al porous clay material as a solid phase support for immobilizing sp. PM3 to treat domestic sewage by Binhui Jiang, Yu Li, Haiyan Wang, Liping Jia, Fei Huang, Xiaomin Hu

“…After immobilization, the maximum biomass increased 2.7 times the specific growth rate and the removal rates of chemical oxygen demand (COD), ammonia (NH 4 + –N), and total phosphorus (TP) by the immobilized PM3 were 42.99, 29.19, and 11.76% higher than the free strain after 24 h. …”
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Development of Delivery Systems Enhances the Potency of Cell-Based HIV-1 Therapeutic Vaccine Candidates by Amin Hadi, Abbas Rastgoo, Maryam Eskandarian, Nooshin Haghighipour, Azam Bolhassani

“…Also, chemical transfection performed two times with 48-hour intervals further increased gene expression in both cells. …”
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Differences in Home Health Nursing Care for Patients with Parkinson’s Disease by Stage of Progress: Patients in Hoehn and Yahr Stages III, IV, and V by Yumi Iwasa, Izumi Saito, Miyoko Suzuki

“…The nurses visited each patient nine times per month, on average. The number of visits was positively correlated with HY stage. …”
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Quand des pesticides empoisonnent la recherche, la réglementation et la démocratie : by Louise Vandelac

“…Indeed, this analytical work, based on Seralini's first-hand experience and on, something utterly unique, 2.5 million pages of internal documents from Bayer-Monsanto, the Monsanto Papers, declassified during the first American trials against Bayer-Monsanto of the 125.000 victims of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), attributed to Roundup, and on the 20.000 pages where Seralini's name appears 55.952 times. Thus, for discerning the company's dubious schemes too clearly, he became its target. …”
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Legitimizing Factors of the American Hegemony: The Changing Role of Coalitions and Partnerships by A. N. Bogdanov

“…However, it generates additional risks and challenges in times of tensions.…”
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Economic loss attributable to premature deaths and morbidity among adolescents in India and its states by G Anil Kumar, Anamika Pandey, Rakhi Dandona

“…The total economic loss as a percentage of the state’s GDP varied 3.42 times between the states in 2021, ranging from 2.43% in Bihar to 0.71% in Sikkim. …”
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Evaluation and Correction of the Ambient Particle Spectral Light Absorption Measured Using a Filter-based Aethalometer by Gang Zhao, Yingli Yu, Ping Tian, Jing Li, Guo Song, Chunsheng Zhao

“…The results indicated that the AE33-measured σabs using either tape exceeded the PASS-3-measured value by approximately three times, mainly owing to the multiple-scattering effect. …”
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Tuberculosis commodities supply chain performance in the WHO African region: A scoping review. by Alison T Mhazo, Stanford Miyango, Lifton Palani, Charles C Maponga

“…Countries that rely on domestic mechanisms for procurement tend to be more vulnerable to stock outs due to inadequate and unpredictable financing, delayed disbursements of funds, longer procurement lead times and poor supplier management. We concluded that stock outs remain one of the foremost challenges to ending TB by 2030. …”
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Double Compressions of Atmospheric Depth by Geopotential Tendency, Vorticity, and Atmospheric Boundary Layer Affected Abrupt High Particulate Matter Concentrations at a Coastal Cit... by Hyo Choi, Mi Sook Lee

“…Maximum PM10 (PM2.5, PM1) concentration was detected with 3.8 (3.4, 14.1) times higher magnitude than one in non-Yellow Dust period. …”
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Additional lime of CaO in rearing medium with salinity for growing of catfish Pangasius hypopthalmus by Yuni Puji Hastuti, Daniel Djokosetiyanto, Ide Permatasari

“…During the study, the fish were fed with 28% protein content three times a day with FR 5%. Addition of CaO treatment dose 0 mg/L, 20 mg/L, 40 mg/L, 60 mg/L, 80 mg/L result in the survival rate of 100%, 100%, 100%, 96.29%, and 100% (p>0.05). …”
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A high-performance g-C3N5/Bi2SiO5 heterojunction photocatalyst induced by constructing S-scheme electron-highways by Shaowei Qin, Lili Huang, Yuan Zhang, Tao Zhang, Mingxia Tian, Jianhui Jiang

“…Furthermore, the removal rate for Ciprofloxacin (CIP) reaches 96.0%, which is double that of Bi2SiO5 and 14 times higher than that of g-C3N5. It is evident that the photodegradation efficiency of 10% CN/BS towards organic pollutants significantly surpasses that of the precursor composite materials. …”
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Laboratory biomarkers for multiple sclerosis and their role in clinical practice by I. Navickaitë, G. Žemgulytė, R. Balnytė

“…However, this has also raised new challenges in predicting the course and activity of the disease before the development of new neurological deficits that aggravate the disability and in prescribing the most appropriate disease-modifying therapy for the individual patient in a timely manner. One of the possible solutions that could help answer these questions is the use of laboratory biomarkers in MS. …”
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Is Breath Best? A Systematic Review on the Accuracy and Utility of Nanotechnology Based Breath Analysis of Ketones in Type 1 Diabetes by Kamal Marfatia, Jing Ni, Veronica Preda, Noushin Nasiri

“…Timely ketone detection in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is critical for the effective management of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). …”
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Six-month course and outcome of treatment-seeking individuals with alcohol dependence syndrome by Thenmozhi Sivaraman, Susan Solomon, Parthasarathy Ramamurthy, Pradeep Thilakan

“…Outpatients were found to have 2.91 times higher odds of remaining abstinent at 6 months when compared to inpatients. …”
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Improving Accuracy of Malaria Diagnosis in Underserved Rural and Remote Endemic Areas of Sub-Saharan Africa: A Call to Develop Multiplexing Rapid Diagnostic Tests by Rasheed O. Makanjuola, Andrew W. Taylor-Robinson

“…As a means to combat this major global public health threat, rapid and effective diagnosis remains the frontline action to initiate a timely and appropriate medical intervention. From all the approaches to parasite detection, rapid diagnostic tests, so-called RDTs, are the easiest to use and most cost-effective. …”
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Factors affecting negative and positive emotions among spouses caring for patients with psychotic or bipolar disorder by Haruka Ogawa, Nao Shiraishi, Hiroko Yatsu, Tatsuo Akechi

“…Husbands were caregivers to 1.4 times as many individuals diagnosed with psychotic disorder as were wives. …”
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Synergizing GIS and genetic algorithms to enhance road management and fund allocation with a comprehensive case study approach by Ahmed Gouda Mohamed, Fahad K. Alqahtani, ElHassan Reda Ismail, Mohamed Nabawy

“…The research is structured around three key objectives: (1) develop a detailed GIS-based road management database incorporating inspection data and attributes of road infrastructure for proactive M&R decision-making; (2) efficiently allocate funds to maintain service delivery on deteriorated roads; and (3) pinpoint the optimal type and timing of M&R interventions to boost the condition and performance of the road segments. …”
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Quantum computational infusion in extreme learning machines for early multi-cancer detection by Anas Bilal, Muhammad Shafiq, Waeal J. Obidallah, Yousef A. Alduraywish, Haixia Long

“…Abstract A timely and accurate cancer diagnosis is essential for improving treatment outcomes. …”
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