Determinants of Educational Procrastination among Medical Students at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences by SOLEIMAN AHMADY, HOSSEIN KARIMI MOONAGHI, ALI KHERADMAND

“…Other factors, including educational status, second job, workexperience, marital status, living arrangements, socioeconomic status, GPA, psychological issues, self-confidence, stress during tests, and motivation, did not significantly predict procrastination.These findings underscore the complexity of academic procrastination and its multifaceted determinants. …”
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Evaluating Knowledge, Attitude, and Behavior of Dentists on HIV/AIDS in West Java, Indonesia, in the COVID-19 Era by Irna Sufiawati, Muhammad Arib Rafi, Fidya Meditia Putri

“…It has been concerned that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has a serious impact on people living with HIV (PLWH). Therefore, dentists remain to have a significant role to play in the overall healthcare delivery to PLWH and reducing new HIV infections. …”
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Conceptual Approaches to the Problem of national Security Concept by Yu. O. Zahumenna

“…The system of such social relations is centered around the defining national interests, which usually include the vital interests of a man, society and the state and the implementation of which ensures the state sovereignty, its progressive development, and safe living conditions and welfare of citizens. It has been noted that the main purpose of national security reform is to improve legislation and governance in the national security sector, which can provide qualitative strengthening in accordance with current and future needs of society to protect key national interests from external and internal real and potential threats. …”
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Child-Centred Care in HIV Service Provision for Children in Resource Constrained Settings: A Narrative Review of Literature by Chipo Mutambo, Kemist Shumba, Khumbulani W. Hlongwana

“…Child-centred care approaches can potentially increase child-participation, promote positive health outcomes and resilience in children living with a communicable, highly stigmatised and chronic condition such as HIV. …”
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Key personal insights and changing needs of osteoarthritis patients: an international quantitative survey analysis by Zoltan Szekanecz, Diana Osadcii-Zaiat, András Bajkó, Hajnalka Minda, Dóra Szerencsés

“…Conclusions Patients with OA face considerable limitations in their daily lives, with a strong prefe­rence for immediate pain relief. …”
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Age determination of the wildcat (Felis silvestris): a case study of a sample from the North-Western Black Sea region (Ukraine) by Yuri Oleinik

“…The analysis of alveolar recession relative to the neck enamel can be considered a promising method for determining age groups in wildcats, including both deceased and living individuals. The use of basicranial sutures of the skull was found to be less informative: the sutures at the skull base ossify late, while the obliteration between the maxilla and premaxilla in the nasal area is only partially expressed.…”
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Biodiversity and specificity of planktonic ciliate communities from the zone of Volga and Kama Rivers confluence by S.V. Bykova, V.V. Zharikov

“…This paper is devoted to the study of free-living ciliates and generalization of data on their development in the reservoirs of the Volga and Kama confluence zone, i.e., directly in the Kuibyshev Reservoir and in other reservoirs adjacent to its basin considered as sources of the potential diversity of ciliates in the region. …”
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Livelihood training, food production, and food security among vulnerable communities in Bangladesh by Andy Tran, Theresa Fang, Beryl Oranga, Ryan Kopper, Yunhee Kang

“…This study explores intervention-related factors associated with food insecurity in the Bangladesh host households living near Rohingya refugees. Methods This secondary data analysis used the endline survey data from 660 host households who participated in the World Vision US Emergency Food System Security Project from 2019 to 2021. …”
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The impacts of antipsychotic medications on eating-related outcomes: A mixed methods systematic review. by Rasha Alkholy, Karina Lovell, Penny Bee, Rebecca Pedley, Helen Louise Brooks, Richard J Drake, Prathiba Chitsabesan, Anam Bhutta, Abigail Brown, Rebecca L Jenkins, Andrew Grundy

“…<h4>Strengths</h4>We used GRADE and GRADE-CERQual frameworks to enhance the transparency of our judgement of the certainty of the evidence. Lived experience perspectives were incorporated in different stages of the review to enhance its relevance and practical implications.…”
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Do goats recognise humans cross-modally? by Marianne A. Mason, Stuart Semple, Harry H. Marshall, Alan G. McElligott

“…Recognition plays a key role in the social lives of gregarious species, enabling animals to distinguish among social partners and tailor their behaviour accordingly. …”
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Disability‐Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) due to Breast, Cervical, Colorectal and Oral Cancers in Taiwan Regions by Cheng‐Chieh Hsieh, Si‐Yu Chen, Chun‐Hui Lin, Szu‐Chieh Chen, Chung‐Min Liao

“…Years of life lost (YLLs) and years lived with disability (YLDs) were calculated for each cancer, considering age, stage, and treatment. …”
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Educational Migration Bridge: From Metaphor to Project by O. M. Osiyanova, E. N. Levina, A. V. Osiyanova

“…The practical steps for the strategy realization within the project «Educational migration bridge» are described: formation of the united scientific, educational and cultural environment based on mutual activity in international scientific and educational community; arrangement of universities regional consortium for informing applicants from Asian countries, for training and living in universities campuses; establishment of the Faculty of foreign students’ education and digital educational platform ensuring logistics and student educational improvement management; development and realization of module network programs for foreign students; realization of additional educational programs in OSU Linguistic center. …”
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Development Mode of Recreation Belt around the City: Ecological Authenticity or Fashion Creativity? by Liang Zhao, Yuanyuan Shen, Nailin Gu, Jingyu Dai

“…The development of recreation space shows that the recreation space around the city is the product of the agglomeration of population and economic activities, and its occurrence and development process is closely related to the expansion of urban space and the change of human living space. This paper analyzes the spatial process of the development of recreation around the city, focuses on the types of recreation space that continue to appear in the development and evolution of modern recreation space, and then tries to find the context of the gradual development and evolution of recreation around the city with the process of urbanization and excavate the organic connection between the recreational space and the city and its surrounding areas in the process of development and evolution. …”
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Evaluating Older Adults’ Engagement and Usability With AI-Driven Interventions: Randomized Pilot Study by Marcia Shade, Changmin Yan, Valerie K Jones, Julie Boron

“…MethodsA randomized pilot trial was conducted for 12-weeks in adults aged 60 years or older, self-reported living alone, and having chronic musculoskeletal pain. …”
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Production of abiotic or biogenic hydrocarbons on rock particles in the presence of H2O and carbon compounds by Young Sang Cho, In-Hwan Oh, Ju Hee Kim, Jae Ik Kim, Kang-Bong Lee, In Wook Nah

“…The results of this study imply that abiotic H2 and diverse hydrocarbons are produced in the subsurface of Earth regardless of the presence of living organisms and suggest that solid acid-containing rocks near hot springs or volcanic areas can promote CO2 conversion into CH4 with the aid of H radicals supplied from H2O dissociation over the rocks.…”
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ECONOMIC WELFARE AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING OF THE POPULATION OF UKRAINE IN THE POSTWAR YEARS by Natalia Riabinina

“…The implementation of the priority goals of sustainable development, which envisages improving the standard of living of the population and overcoming poverty, is also manifested in the economic burden and moral and ethical norms of each person.  …”
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Family planning in Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs): A scoping review. by Relmah Baritama Harrington, Nichole Harvey, Sarah Larkins, Michelle Redman-MacLaren

“…The use of contraceptives for family planning improves women's lives and may prevent maternal deaths. However, many women in low and middle-income countries, including the Pacific region, still die from pregnancy-related complications. …”
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Learning deep forest for face anti-spoofing: An alternative to the neural network against adversarial attacks by Rizhao Cai, Liepiao Zhang, Changsheng Chen, Yongjian Hu, Alex Kot

“…Attackers could insert adversarial noise into spoofing examples to circumvent an NN-based face-liveness detector. Our experiments show that the CNN or ViT models could have at least an 8% equal error rate (EER) increment when encountering adversarial examples. …”
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'We don't have the right to get sick': A qualitative study of gaps in public health insurance among Im/migrant women in British Columbia, Canada. by Shira M Goldenberg, Shaina Schafers, Maggie Hamel-Smith Grassby, Stefanie Machado, Ruth Lavergne, Mei-Ling Wiedmeyer, IRIS Study Team

“…Globally, the exclusion of im/migrants from public health care systems remains a significant health and human rights issue, calling into question claims of 'universality' of public health systems where eligibility for coverage is determined by immigration status. We aimed to describe lived experiences of health insurance coverage and the health and social impacts of gaps in health insurance amongst im/migrant women in British Columbia (BC), Canada. …”
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Cross-sectional survey to explore knowledge, attitude, practices and impact of an intervention programme related to antibiotic misuse and self-medication among general population o... by Tahir Mehmood Khan, Arifa Saif, Allah Bukhsh, Muhammad Osama Yaseen, Alia Saif

“…Objective The objective of this study is to observe the knowledge, attitude and practices related to antibiotic use, the prevalence of self-medication and non-adherence to the prescribed course of antibiotics across Pakistan.Method A cross-sectional quantitative study on knowledge, practices, attitude and adherence to antibiotic therapy was conducted from January 2021 to March 2022 among the adult population living in different areas across Pakistan. Individuals with poor knowledge were selected for video-based intervention programme. …”
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