Evaluation and adaptation of a two-way text messaging intervention in the WIC breastfeeding peer counseling program: A qualitative analysis. by Josefa L Martinez-Brockman, Josephine R Granner, Brice Buchanan, Lisbette Acosta, Marilyn Lonczak, Lori Goeschel, Xiao Xu, Leslie Curry, Marcella Nunez-Smith, Rafael Pérez-Escamilla

“…The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides BF peer counseling prenatally and up to 1-year postpartum among low-income women in the United States. The Lactation Advice Through Texting Can Help (LATCH) intervention is an evidence-based two-way text messaging intervention that provides BF education and support in the WIC peer counseling program. …”
Get full text

Internet-delivered emotional awareness and expression therapy for somatic symptom disorder: one year follow-up by Henrik Hallberg, Daniel Maroti, Mark A. Lumley, Robert Johansson

Get full text

Use of Hospital Patient and Family Advisory Councils: A Scoping Study by Barbara Lewis MBA, Chris Cochran PhD, Erika Marquez PhD, MPH, Neeraj Bhandari PhD, Jennifer Pharr PhD, Soumya Upadhyay PhD, Stowe Shoemaker PhD

“…Despite their inception in the early 1980s, only 54% of United States hospitals field a PFAC. This scoping study entailed searching 6 databases in July 2024 and reviewing 143 articles about hospital PFACs from around the world to understand how hospitals use PFACs, measure the results, and acknowledge the success factors. …”
Get full text

Russian and Foreign Experience of AntiCrisis Planning of 2008-2010 and Efficiency Estimation of Conducted AntiCrisis Programs by A. R. Shakirov, O. Yu. Sinyaeva

“…The global financial crisis of 2008, which is under our consideration, originated in the United States as a result of the mortgage crisis. The phenomenon was spreading rapidly in the rest of the world. …”
Get full text

Advances in regenerative medicine-based approaches for skin regeneration and rejuvenation by Nathalia Silva Dutra Alves, Gustavo Roncoli Reigado, Mayara Santos, Izabela Daniel Sardinha Caldeira, Henrique dos Santos Hernandes, Bruna Leticia Freitas-Marchi, Elina Zhivov, Felipe Santiago Chambergo, Viviane Abreu Nunes

Get full text

ASEAN Defence Ministers MeetingPlus: Institutional structure, specific features, and evolution (2010–2022) by K. G. Muratshina

“…While other dialogue partners, primarily the United States and China, are pressurising ASEAN in order to ‘win over’ the Southeast Asian countries to their side, Russia consistently promotes an equal, practice-oriented dialogue, and adheres to the principles of non-interference in internal affairs and in local conflicts. …”
Get full text

Blood Borne Viral Infections in Transplantation: Hepatitis Viruses and Retroviruses by RP Bryce Larke

“…Current estimates of residual risk from transfusion based on United States data are: one in 200,000 units for HBV; one in 2000 to one in 6000 units for HCV; one in 40.000 lo one in 60,000 units for HIV-1; and one in 69,272 units for HTLV-1/11. …”
Get full text

Integrating Modern Technologies into Traditional Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tissue Engineering by Aris Sopilidis, Vasileios Stamatopoulos, Vasileios Giannatos, Georgios Taraviras, Andreas Panagopoulos, Stavros Taraviras

“…The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is one of the most injured ligaments, with approximately 100,000 ACL reconstructions taking place annually in the United States. In order to successfully manage ACL rupture, it is of the utmost importance to understand the anatomy, unique physiology, and biomechanics of the ACL, as well as the injury mechanisms and healing capacity. …”
Get full text

A Multiagent Alphavirus DNA Vaccine Delivered by Intramuscular Electroporation Elicits Robust and Durable Virus-Specific Immune Responses in Mice and Rabbits and Completely Protect... by Lesley C. Dupuy, Michelle J. Richards, Brian D. Livingston, Drew Hannaman, Connie S. Schmaljohn

Get full text

Impact of human body shape on free convection heat transfer. by Shri H Viswanathan, Ankit Joshi, Lyle Bartels, Kambiz Sadeghi, Jennifer K Vanos, Konrad Rykaczewski

“…Using the validated model, we simulated free convection around a family, or diverse group, of virtual manikins representing the 1st to 99th percentile body mass index (BMI) and height variation in the United States adult population. Our results show that the free convection heat transfer coefficient is independent of human sex and height but decreases slightly with increased BMI. …”
Get full text

Men’s internet sex addiction predicts sexual objectification of women even after taking pornography consumption frequency into account by Pavla Novakova, Edita Chvojka, Anna Ševčíková, Lukas Blinka, Paul Wright, Steven Kane

Get full text

Design and Implementation of an Ethical AI-Based Teaching Assistant for IoT Security Education by Matilda Isaacs, Anwar Majeed, Karim Moussa, Dolapo Shodipo

Get full text

Refugees as a new emigration channel from Tajikistan to Western and Eastern Europe by A. Kh. Rakhmonov

“…Deportations, decline in earnings after the 2015 currency crisis, and tightening of Russia’s migration policy towards migrants from Tajikistan forced some migrants to reorient themselves in other countries, primarily in European countries, the United States and Canada. There are cases of deliberate destruction of their passports by Tajik migrants when moving to Germany, followed by an appeal to the authorities under the guise of refugees from Afghanistan (since both Tajiks and Afghans speak Farsi (Dari)) to obtain refugee status and corresponding benefits in Germany. …”
Get full text

Humanitarization of University and Social Engagement Mission by O. V. Zinevich, T. A. Balmasova

“…Humanitarization is a priority task, which is reflected in the University education practices in the United States and European countries. The idea of upbringing a humanitarianly educated and humanitarianly oriented personality is declared in the discourses of the world leading Universities’ missions, whose activities are aimed at achieving public good for the society and its sustainable development. …”
Get full text

Novel gene manipulation approaches to unlock the existing bottlenecks of CAR-NK cell therapy by Fatemeh Dehghan, Yekta Metanat, Mandana Askarizadeh, Ehsan Ahmadi, Vahid Moradi

Get full text

Durable Effect of Radioactive Iodine in a Patient with Metastatic Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma by Aubrey A. Carhill, Rena Vassilopoulou-Sellin

“…Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignancy and fastest increasing of all cancers in both men and women in the United States. Traditionally, differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) carries a good prognosis when diagnosed early, but increasingly patients are presenting with late-stage disease and bone metastasis which carries a poor prognosis. …”
Get full text

Cricket Flour and Pullulan Microparticle Formation via Electro-Blow Spinning as a New Method for the Protection of Antioxidant Compounds from Fruit Extracts by Sabina I. Wilkanowicz, Keara T. Saud

Get full text

Experiences and perceptions of clinical research participation at an academic medical center by Joshua T. CLARK, Angela BURRELL, Amber ARNOLD, Travis W. SCHMITZ, Lei ZHANG, Daniel W. JONES, Richard L. SUMMERS, Whitney BONDURANT, Vinayak K. NAHAR

“…Introduction: The purpose of this study was to capture experiences and explore perceptions of clinical faculty research participation at an academic medical center in the southeastern United States to allow leadership to train, recruit, and retain faculty members and increase research production by better understanding motivations for and barriers to academic research participation. …”
Get full text

Les monolingues parlent aux bilingues : Plurilinguisme et parole politique aux États-Unis et au Canada by Charles Brasart

“…Conversely, if a monolingual speaker tries to adopt a strategy of convergence, that may be perceived as over-accommodation, a rhetorical trick likely to result in a face-threatening act both for bilingual speakers and other monolingual speakers.The present article is a reflection based on three case studies, namely the way or ways in which Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau address (or do not) linguistic minorities. In the United States, where Hispanics form the largest minority, they are both vilified for threatening the unity of a wider community supposed brought together by English, and courted for their votes as the famed electoral “sleeping giant.” …”
Get full text

Age-related disparities in national maternal mortality trends: A population-based study. by Ryan S Huang, Andrea R Spence, Haim A Abenhaim

“…<h4>Objective</h4>An upward trend in maternal age has been observed in the United States (US) over the last twenty years. The study objective was to examine the association of maternal age with maternal mortality in the US and examine temporal trends in mortality by maternal age.…”
Get full text