Factors Influencing Brucellosis Preventive Behaviors among Marginalized Iranian Women: An Application of the Health Belief Model by Majid Barati, Rezvan Shayghan Zahed, Marjan Bakhtiari, Yadollah Fathi, Maryam Afshari, Zahra Taheri-Kharameh

“…In this cross-sectional study, 289 women living in marginal areas were considered from April until May 2018. …”
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An Atypical Case of Rickettsial Spotted Fever Myocarditis Mimicking Weil’s Disease by N. D. B. Ehelepola, G. D. N. R. Kumara, S. A. C. S. Sapurugala, W. M. N. P. Buddhadasa, Wasantha P. Dissanayake

“…Empirical doxycycline in suspected cases of SFG infections in areas where rickettsioses are prevalent can save lives as in this case.…”
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SOSIODEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS ON CONTRACEPTIVE USE AMONG MARRIED WOMAN: EVIDENCE FROM THREE INDONESIA DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH SURVEY (IDHS) by Nur Faridah Latifah, Ratna Dwi Jayanti, Gatut Hardianto

“…Most married women who used contraceptives were in the age group of 30-39 years, had only 1-2 children, had a high school education and below, and worked as housewives. Women living in rural and urban areas have equal opportunities to obtain contraceptive services. …”
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Determination of genetic diversity between natural and cultured populations of Common Dentex (Dentex dentex) fish in the East Aegean Sea by Kayaci Ali, Can Mehmet Fatih, Güner Yusuf, Güleç Fatih

“…Common dentex (Dentex dentex) is a commercial species of fish that is a highly valuable food source living naturally near Mediterranean and Atlantic Coasts. …”
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Analyzing Policymaking for Tuberculosis Control in Nigeria by Nura M. R. Ahmad, Cristina Montañola-Sales, Clara Prats, Mustapha Musa, Daniel López, Josep Casanovas-Garcia

“…It also reveals that the persistence of the disease is related to a large number of latently infected individuals and quantifies the lives that could be saved by increasing the notification rate using active case finding strategy. …”
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Perspectives of high-risk pregnant women on home care program in high-risk pregnancies: A multicenter, qualitative study by Masoumeh Sayahi, Shahrbanoo Salehin, Mehrnoosh Zakerkish, Afsaneh Keramat, Shahrbanoo Goli

“…Conclusions: High-risk pregnancy affects various aspects of the lives of high-risk pregnant women and their families. …”
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Quantifying the Volume of Particulate Matter at Bus Stations by Branislav ŠARKAN, Michal LOMAN, Ondrej STOPKA, Jacek CABAN, Arkadiusz MAŁEK

“…Particulate matter seriously harms the environment, threatening human health and severely damaging all living organisms. The research purpose is to monitor particle emissions at the bus station in the city of Žilina (Slovakia), amassing data on exhaust emissions released from buses at the station premises. …”
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‘This settlement is just a launch pad to move to better city spaces’: radical sense of place and migration aspirations among youth migrants in the diaspora by Johannes Bhanye, Abraham Matamanda, Ruvimbo Shayamunda

“…The findings reveal that young migrants perceive their settlement as a launch pad to better opportunities in more affluent urban areas, driven by a combination of harsh living conditions and the allure of urban life. This perspective challenges existing migration theories by highlighting the temporary and strategic relationships with place among diaspora youths. …”
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The dengue fever and its explosive spread by Abedin Saghafipour, Ghobad Moradi

“…These factors include: 1-Global warming due to human activities and creating favorable living conditions and reproduction of Aedes mosquitoes. 2- Numerous seasonal rains that create temporary and suitable larval habitats and breeding places for Aedes mosquitoes. 3- The presence of numerous larval habitats for Aedes mosquitoes; They lay eggs anywhere there is stagnant water: in discarded used tires, in broken containers that hold water and septic tank valve pipes, and even in abandoned cans. 4-Unlike other mosquitoes that only bite once and feed once before laying eggs; Invasive Aedes mosquitoes, especially Ae. aegypti, have repeated bites daily, and multiple and repeated bites cause more transmission of dengue fever virus and its explosive spread. 5- Aedes mosquitoes infected with one of the dengue fever virus serotypes vertically transmit the virus to their next generation; That is, Aedes infected with the virus also lay infected eggs, and from the infected eggs, the infected adult mosquitoes eventually come out, which are infected with the virus from the beginning without having a blood meal from the infected human reservoir, and with their first blood meal, they get fever. …”
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Spatiotemporal distribution of rural multifunctionality and its influencing factors: a case study of the Liaoning Coastal Economic Belt, China by Yu Chen, Jun Wang

“…This study constructed the RMF index from the living function, production function, and ecological function and systematically analyzed and depicted the spatiotemporal distribution process of rural functions using trend surface analysis and exploratory spatial data analysis. …”
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Comparing Types of Statistical Data Between Turkey (the Case Study of Istanbul) and Selected Countries for Creating Fire Strategies by Erhan Bakırcı, Buket Karatop, Sümeyye Bayındır

“…The basic factor in the creation and establishment of measurable-evaluable and taken lessons from lived data systems is the establishment of a robust, scientific and objective statistical data pool and with awareness raising. …”
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A Comparative Study of the Most Commonly Used Metaphors in Covid-19 News Texts during the Outbreak and Peak of the Disease by Mansour Nikpanah, Mansoureh Delaramifar

“…Finally, the frequency of the most used metaphors including "Corona is war", "Corona is a natural phenomenon", "Corona is a travel" and "Corona is another living thing" in the two periods between the initial outbreak  and the third peak in October 2020 were determined. …”
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Prospects of green economy as a new paradigm of development by A. A. Pakina, V. A. Gorbanyov

“…The basic principles of a "green economy" (GE) correspond to the concepts of balanced development and of rational nature use: the "green economy's" concept focuses on the idea of living standards improvement and economic growth while reducing the environmental damage. …”
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Decision Tree Ensembles to Predict Coronavirus Disease 2019 Infection: A Comparative Study by Amir Ahmad, Ourooj Safi, Sharaf Malebary, Sami Alesawi, Entisar Alkayal

“…The detection of Covid-19 positive cases is an important step to fight the pandemic and save human lives. The polymerase chain reaction test is the most used method to detect Covid-19 positive cases. …”
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Odontogenic Facial Cellulitis by Yordany Boza Mejias, Clotilde Mora Pérez, Julio Romero Rodríguez, Surelys Sosa Suárez, Madialys Payo Monzón, Arelys Díaz Duménico

“…<strong>Background:</strong> odontogenic facial cellulitis is an acute inflammatory process manifested in very different ways, with a variable scale in clinical presentation ranging from harmless well defined processes, to diffuse and progressive that may develop complications leading the patient to a critical condition, even risking their lives. <br /> <strong>Objective:</strong> To characterize the behavior of odontogenic facial cellulitis.…”
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Incentive Mechanism Design for Distributed Autonomous Organizations Based on the Mutual Insurance Scenario by Yiguang Pan, Xiaomei Deng

“…Driven by cooperation efficiency and split supervision based on homogeneous clustering, the comprehensive application of the market elimination mechanism can effectively combat moral hazards, restrain the adverse effects of member flow, expand the living space of small- and medium-sized insurance organizations, curb the emergence of a large-scale monopoly risk pool, and improve market vitality. …”
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Acceptance of international criminal justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina by G. Šimić

“…When the XIV Winter Olympic Games took place in Sarajevo in 1984, nobody expected that war would begin only seven years later and kill hundreds of thousands of people living in the former Yugoslavia. That millions of them would be ethnically cleansed and displaced, most of them for good. …”
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Survivors’ Narratives of the Oklahoma City Bombing Retold Seven Years Post-Disaster by Elizabeth W. Pollio, Samir Abu-Hamad, Jennifer Wang, Carol S. North, David E. Pollio

“…<b>Conclusions:</b> The consistency of the material in these narratives over 7 years may reflect the persistence and salience of disaster memories, with the potential for its continuation for the rest of their lives.…”
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Do people like financial nudges? by Merle van den Akker, Cass R. Sunstein

“…Looking at demographics, we find that participants who were female, younger, living in metro areas and earning higher incomes were most likely to favor financial interventions, and this effect is especially strong for those aged under 45. …”
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Demarcation of the public and private in the interaction of the state and citizens on digital network platforms by V. V. Zotov

“…The empirical base was made up of a sociological study conducted to obtain information about the boundaries of privacy and publicity of personal data in the digital network space (n = 1 000 among the population over 18 years old living in metropolitan megacities and median regions by the level of informatization, 2020) and the results of Kaspersky Lab surveys conducted in 2019–2020.The conducted research allows us to assert that almost 2/3 of citizens have faced the misuse of confidential information on the Internet. …”
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