Oral Antibacterial Drug Prescribing in Primary Care Out-of-Hours Services: A Scoping Review by Sarah Khalid Al Hussain, Rhian Deslandes, Deborah Edwards, Karen Louise Hodson

“…Antibacterial prescribing rates are often high and complicated in out-of-hours (OOH) services, including weekdays outside regular hours, weekends, and holidays, potentially exacerbating AMR. This review aims to identify the existing literature on oral antibacterial drug prescribing within primary care OOH services. …”
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Effect of seasonality on the dynamics of an imitation-based vaccination model with public health intervention by Bruno Buonomo, Giuseppe Carbone, Alberto d'Onofrio

“…We heuristically explain this apparently paradoxical phenomenon as a beneficial effect of the phase when the transmission rate is under its average value: the reduction of transmission rate (for example during holidays) under its annual average over-compensates its increase during periods of intense contacts. …”
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Elicitation of Health-related Quality-of-life Concepts Associated with Overactive Bladder: A Qualitative Study by Natalia Hawken, Zalmai Hakimi, Samuel Aballéa, Jameel Nazir, Isaac A. O. Odeyemi, Mondher Toumi

“…Factors which affected more than 50% of patients were going for a short walk, waking up at night, travelling/holidays, socializing/going out, embarrassment/shame, need to plan activities, and restriction of places visited. …”
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Impact of sand and dust storms on mortality in Jinan City, China by Chaofan Shen, Mingjun Li, Qingchang Wang, Jinjiao Luan, Jiliang Si, Liangliang Cui

“…We initially utilized a time-stratified case-crossover design and logistic regression model to examine the short-term relationship between SDSs and mortality risks, adjusting for specific variables such as mean temperature, humidity, wind speeds, and holidays. Subsequently, we conducted stratified analyses by age, gender, and season.ResultsA total of 53 SDSs were observed, lasting for 88 days during the study period, which accounted for 2% of the study period. …”
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Is Nighttime Really Not the Right Time for a Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy? by Anna C. M. Geraedts, Meindert N. Sosef, Jan Willem M. Greve, Mechteld C. de Jong

“…We defined out of hours as during weekends, national holidays, and daily between 5PM and 8AM. Results. Most patients operated on were female (n=988; 63.6%) and the majority of procedures were electives (n=1341; 86.3%). …”
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Child Injury in Israel: Emergency Room Visits to a Children's Medical Center by Michal Hemmo-Lotem, Claudia Jinich-Aronowitz, Liri Endy-Findling, Michal Molcho, Michal Klein, Yehezkel Waisman, Yehuda L. Danon, Joav Merrick

“…In examining injuries over the year, there were no significant differences between the different months, but there were clusters of injuries around various holidays—bicycle and skateboard accidents at Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Succoth; pedestrian accidents around Lag BaOmer; burns on Purim, Hannukkah, and Passover; and accidental poisoning around Passover. …”
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Advanced Learning Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems: Prospects and Challenges by Ruhul Amin Khalil, Ziad Safelnasr, Naod Yemane, Mebruk Kedir, Atawulrahman Shafiqurrahman, NASIR SAEED

“…Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) operate within a highly intricate and dynamic environment characterized by complex spatial and temporal dynamics at various scales, further compounded by fluctuating conditions influenced by external factors such as social events, holidays, and weather. Navigating the intricacies of modeling the intricate interaction among these elements, creating universal representations, and employing them to address transportation issues. …”
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Impact of SARS-CoV-2 on Ambient Air Particulate Matter in Tehran by Sasan Faridi, Fatemeh Yousefian, Sadegh Niazi, Mohammad Rezvani Ghalhari, Mohammad Sadegh Hassanvand, Kazem Naddafi

“…Contrary to expectation, the average concentrations of both the PM2.5 and the PM10 were markedly higher during the former, increasing by 20.5% and 15.7%, respectively, for the first month of the outbreak (20 February–19 March 2020) and by 23.5% and 20.0% for the subsequent Nowruz New Year holidays (from late March till early April), which resulted in overall increases of 20.5% and 16.5% for the entire period. …”
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Exploring Risk Factors with Crash Severity on China Two-Lane Rural Roads Using a Random-Parameter Ordered Probit Model by Shikun Xie, Xiaofeng Ji, Wenchen Yang, Rui Fang, Jingjing Hao

“…., fatigue driving, speeding, and converse driving), weekends, and holidays are found to have significant contribution to increasing the probability of traffic crash injuries and fatalities on two-lane rural roads.…”
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Efficacy and safety of home-based transcranial direct current stimulation as adjunct treatment for cognitive improvement in major depressive disorder: A double-blind, randomized, m... by CW Lee, K Park, JE Ahn, Y Jang, YS Park, H Yu, D Lee, HK Ihm, J Lee, J Kim, YI Lee, S-E Lim, SS Kwon, HY Park, TH Ha, I-Y Yoon, Woojae Myung, Ji Hyun Baek

“…Methods This double-blind, sham-controlled, randomized trial divided participants into low-intensity (1 mA, n = 47), high-intensity (2 mA, n = 49), and sham (n = 45) groups, receiving 42 daily tDCS sessions, including weekends and holidays, targeting the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex for 30 minutes. …”
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CHALLENGES FOR UNIVERSITIES TO ONLINE TECHNOLOGIES IMPLEMENTATION IN THE CONDITIONS OF WAR IN UKRAINE by Yuliia Sytnykova, Tаtyana Petrenko, Oksana Bezkorovaina, Anastasiia Ptushka

“…After the Russian-Ukrainian war beginning, in a month of so-called "holidays", in spring 2022, from April, 1, by the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the rectors' orders of universities, online education started. …”
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Can post-mining territories become landscapes in motion?A Spatial Strategy to Build a (Landscape) Reputation for a Neglected Area in Tuscany, Italy by Camilla Perrone, Maddalena Rossi, Flavia Giallorenzo

“…It finds itself in-between several renowned branded landscapes, such as Chianti (or Chiantishire as named by British citizens who began coming to this area for holidays in the late 20th Century), the small city of San Giovanni Valdarno and other prestigious Tuscan landscapes. …”
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„... nenábožnost nynějšího věku ...“ Proměny zbožnosti ve druhé polovině 19. století očima katolických kněží by Hana Stoklasová

“…During the “long” 19th century, in these periodicals, we could find more than twenty contributions concerning this problem directly and a lot of other ones dealing with this topic marginally, especially in connection with pastoral work, teaching religion at schools, raising children and young people in families, churchgoing, confessing, Holy Communion and celebrating religious holidays. The objective of the paper is to find the answer to the question of how the concept of “non-devoutness” was defined by Catholic priests themselves, and what it meant exactly in their interpretation and what its manifestations were. …”
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Sacredness of the Landscape of Vokė River in the Geography of Tatar Life Stories by Lina Leparskienė

“…Operating cemeteries are still visited during Mus- lim holidays and Ramadan, and those that have disappeared are remembered via storytelling. …”
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Changes in the Advertisement of Goods and Services in the Lithuanian Periodic Press during 1918-1940 by Giedrė Polkaitė

“…., theatres, restaurants, holidays in local and foreign resorts, and dance lessons) were mostly placed in dailies and were almost completely absent in publications for rural residents. …”
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Is it Time to Recognize Political Anxiety as a Social Determinant of Health? by Brandon Ambrosino

“…If a patient reports that she is not visiting her parents for the holidays because of their political differences, a physician could consider including this information in the patient’s clinical chart. …”
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Evaluation of Arabic lesson teaching in higher education based on the Kirkpatrick model by Ali Akbar Mollaie, Mohammad Aslam Raiesi

“…Various factors are involved in the formation of the national identity of a nation, for example, in the cultural dimension, important indicators can be mentioned such as rituals and traditions, celebrations and holidays and public culture, traditional values, clothing and dress, architecture of buildings and places, customs, national and native arts. …”
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