Perioperative hypothermia prevention: development of simple principles and practice recommendations using a multidisciplinary consensus-based approach by Fiona M Wood, Nicholas Ralph, Jed Duff, Judy Munday, David Sturgess, Mary-Anne Ramis

“…Objectives To develop a consensus on evidence-based principles and recommendations for perioperative hypothermia prevention in the Australian context.Design This study was informed by CAN-IMPLEMENT using the ADAPTE process: (1) formation of a multidisciplinary development team; (2) systematic search process identifying existing guidance for perioperative hypothermia prevention; (3) appraisal using the AGREE II Rigor of Development domain; (4) extraction of recommendations from guidelines meeting a quality threshold using the AGREE-REX tool; (5) review of draft principles and recommendations by multidisciplinary clinicians nationally and (6) subsequent round of discussion, drafting, reflection and revision by the original panel member team.Setting Australian perioperative departments.Participants Registered nurses, anaesthetists, surgeons and anaesthetic allied health practitioners.Results A total of 23 papers (12 guidelines, 6 evidence summaries, 3 standards, 1 best practice sheet and 1 evidence-based bundle) formed the evidence base. …”
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Aortic stenosis post-COVID-19: a mathematical model on waiting lists and mortality by Chris P Gale, Jonathan Weir-McCall, James H F Rudd, Mamas Mamas, Ramesh Nadarajah, Ben Gibbison, Louise Sun, Christian Philip Stickels, Houyuan Jiang, Kieran J Sharkey, Nick Holliman, Sara Lombardo, Lars Schewe, Matteo Sommacal, Katherine Cheema, Feryal Erhun

“…Objectives To provide estimates for how different treatment pathways for the management of severe aortic stenosis (AS) may affect National Health Service (NHS) England waiting list duration and associated mortality.Design We constructed a mathematical model of the excess waiting list and found the closed-form analytic solution to that model. …”
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Gender-Inclusive Language in Public-Facing Labor and Delivery Web Pages in the New York Tristate Area: Cross-Sectional Study by Sarah Mohsen Isaac, Mark Dawes, Emily Ruth Howell, Antonia Francis Oladipo

“…The hospitals’ web pages were further stratified by Healthcare Equality Index scores and population classifications defined by the 2013 National Center for Health Statistics Urban-Rural classification given to the county that each hospital was located in. …”
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Caring for Form: Ali Smith and Contemporary Refugee Life-Writing by Miriam Nandi

“…Refugee life writing draws attention to the actual stories behind the statistics (100 million refugees worldwide, more than 3,000 people drowned while attempting to cross the Mediterranean in 2023 alone) and calls for solidarity across national and ethnic divides. A particularly poignant, but also provocative example of such an act of solidarity is the Refugee Tales project, in which established literary authors collaborate with refugees to relate stories of war, flight, loss, and the brutality of asylum systems in the West. …”
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Gender differences in the price elasticity of demand for waterpipe and cigarette smoking in Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine: a volumetric choice experiment by Ramzi G Salloum, Mohammed Jawad, Aya Mostafa, Yousef Khader, Rima Nakkash, Niveen ME Abu-Rmeileh, Ali Chalak, Ruba Abla, Sameera Awawda

“…We also explored the levels of substitution and complementarity in tobacco products among men and women.Setting The study examines tobacco elasticities in three Arab countries: Lebanon, Jordan and the West Bank of Palestine.Participants We used data from nationally representative surveys of adults aged ≥18 years in Lebanon (n=1680), Jordan (n=1925) and Palestine (n=1679). …”
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Russian companies forming information and communication technology groundworks by P. V. Tereliansky

“…The object of the research is the data of annual reports on the volume of sales of products of five hundred leading Russian companies, collected and presented by the national business analytical resource “Expert Online”  together with the magazine “Russian reporter” and the media holding “RosBusinessConsulting”. …”
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Can Abies alba Needles Be Used as Bio-passive Samplers to Assess Air Quality? by Agnieszka Stojanowska, Maciej Górka, Anita Urszula Lewandowska, Kinga Wiśniewska, Magdalena Modelska, David Widory

“…Needle samples were collected in 2013 from 20 different locations within the Holy Cross National Park (Świetokrzyski Park Narodowy, Holy Cross Voivodship, Poland). …”
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Using systems mapping within the process evaluation of a randomised controlled trial of the ACE active ageing programme in England and Wales by Helen Hawley-Hague, Colin Greaves, Diane Crone, Afroditi Stathi, Nick Cavill, Amy Davies, Katie E Chatwin, Zsofia Szekeres, Janet Withall, Janice Thompson

“…These involved over 100 participants, volunteers and stakeholders (from National Health Service, statutory and voluntary sectors). …”
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Sex steroid hormones mediate the association between neonicotinoids and obesity among children and adolescents by Qian Su, Jinzhu Luo, You Zhou, Miao Liu, Shaohua Zeng, Yin Li, Jieying Gao

“…Methods: Data from the 2015–2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey were used for the analysis. …”
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An assessment of the progress made in the implementation of the regional framework for cholera prevention and control in the WHO African region by Miriam Nanyunja, Allan Mpairwe, Ibrahim Mamadu, Otim Patrick Cossy Ramadan, Mory Keïta, Tamayi Mlanda, Abdou Salam Gueye, Ebenezer Obi Daniel, Etien Luc Koua, Dick Chamla, Fiona Braka, Fred Kapaya, Vincent Dossou Sodjinou, Godwin Akpan, Shikanga O-tipo, Amarachi Tikal Abianuru, John Masina, Alice Igale Ladu, Fred Athanasius Dratibi, Philippe Barboza

“…Data were provided by national teams of experts on cholera based on the milestones of the framework. …”
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Recommendations for the primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in primary care: a systematic guideline review by Maren Bredehorst, Ana I. González-González, Lara Schürmann, Dennis Firmansyah, Christiane Muth, Jörg Haasenritter, Veronika van der Wardt, Svetlana Puzhko

“…IntroductionThis study systematically reviews and synthesizes recommendations from national and international clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) regarding the primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) in adults in primary care settings.MethodsCPGs were retrieved from MEDLINE, Trip, guideline repositories, and websites of guidelines-producing societies. …”
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Wages in the U.S. Manufacturing industry by N. E. Petrovskaya

“…A comprehensive study of wages in the most important sectors of the national economy has been carried out, based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the US Department of Labor. …”
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ACCESSING FINANCE FOR INNOVATIVE EU SMES – KEY DRIVERS AND CHALLENGES by Laura Vasilescu

“…In order to improve the access to finance for SMEs, the efforts should be focused at the European and national levels on solving the problems regarding working capital, improving entrepreneurship and financial environment in the long term, attracting new financial resources, facilitating dialogue and consultation between governments, SMEs and financial institutions. …”
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Decreased frequency of sugar-sweetened beverages intake among young children following the implementation of the health promotion levy in South Africa by H Salome Kruger, Tertia van Zyl, Makama A Monyeki, Cristian Ricci, Ruan Kruger

“…A decreased frequency of intake from SSB was observed following the implementation of the health promotion levy after baseline, in line with reports of national decreases in SSB sales in South Africa since 2017. …”
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Unsupervised detection of novel SARS-CoV-2 mutations and lineages in wastewater samples using long-read sequencing by Ignacio Garcia, Rasmus K. Riis, Line V. Moen, Andreas Rohringer, Elisabeth H. Madslien, Karoline Bragstad

“…We evaluated HERCULES on Norwegian wastewater samples collected from July 2022 to October 2023 as part of a national pilot on WBE of SARS-CoV-2. Strong correlations were observed between wastewater and clinical sample data in terms of prevalence of mutations and lineages. …”
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Reaching the Peripheral Regional Growth Centre by Jörgen Gren

“…More importantly, the centre-periphery concept is at the very heart of most national regional policies and aid schemes as well as being at the heart of the EU’s cohesion/convergence efforts undertaken in the framework of the Structural and cohesion funds. …”
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The Role of Iran’s «Soft Power» in Confronting Iranophobia by S. M. Mirmohammad Sadeghi, R. Hajimineh

“…Considering the public diplomacy and soft power of the Islamic Republic of Iran as a deliberate and conscious approach can be of great importance in the country's grand strategies that will strengthen national interests in the domestic sphere and influence them at regional and global levels. …”
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South Africa’s Weekly Media: Front-Page Reporting 9/11, Preventing Islamophobia by Muhammed Haron

“…It first describes and discusses their front-page reports as they captured the tragic 9/11 event, before it reflects on their editorials –columns providing one with insights into the respective editors’ understanding of this event and their perceptions of Muslims nationally and globally. Being a purely textual study, it conceptualizes Islamophobia as the essay’s conceptual frame. …”
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Navigating Privacy: A Global Comparative Analysis of Data Protection Laws by Sungjin Lim, Junhyoung Oh

“…The study also examines China’s Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), which prioritizes national security; Japan’s Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI), which navigates the tension between individual privacy and societal norms; and South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), which balances individual autonomy with a sense of community, reflecting Confucian values. …”
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The Epidemiology of Depression and Diabetes Distress in Type 2 Diabetes in Kuwait by Ebaa Al-Ozairi, Abdulla Al Ozairi, Clare Blythe, Etab Taghadom, Khalida Ismail

“…Depression caseness patients were more likely to be female (60%; p=0.001), have Kuwaiti nationality (68%, p=0.121), were on insulin (67%, p=0.001), have higher body mass index (p=0.047), were less physically active (78%; p=0.034), have a higher PAID score (p<0.001), and have hypertension (74%, p=0.047). …”
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