Insights from a Pilot Study of Naloxone Education

“…Results: Both the controlled and the experimental sessions increased participants’ confidence to use first aid skills, specific confidence in an overdose situation and willingness to act. The educators reported low levels of learner literacy, which may have affected the reliability of the data gathered. …”
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Designing community-based strategies to reach non-household contacts of people with tuberculosis in Lusaka, Zambia: a rapid qualitative study among key stakeholders by Andrew D. Kerkhoff, Marksman Foloko, Evelyn Kundu-Ng’andu, Herbert Nyirenda, Zainab Jabbie, Mainza Syulikwa, Chanda Mwamba, Mary Kagujje, Monde Muyoyeta, Anjali Sharma

“…A “social-network strategy” was perceived as acceptable and feasible, where participants noted it was a caring act and could facilitate early diagnosis. For a “venue-based strategy,” most participants suspected TB transmission occurred at bars/taverns due to heavy alcohol use and prolonged time spent in crowded spaces; churches and betting halls were also commonly mentioned locations. …”
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NH3 release during the snow evaporation process in typical cities in Northeast China by Xiaoteng Liu, Hongsheng Jia, Yunze Zhao, Yachao Zhang, Haodong Hou, Yingying Xu

“…As particulate matter acts as a condensation nucleus for wet deposition, the NH4 + concentrations in precipitation are typically elevated. …”
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RETRACTED: Long non‐coding RNA Sox2OT promotes coronary microembolization‐induced myocardial injury by mediating pyroptosis by Liying Xuan, Danni Fu, Dong Zhen, Dongsong Bai, Lijun Yu, Guohua Gong

“…Compared with the sham group (1.05 ± 0.32), lncRNA Sox2OT level (4.41 ± 0.67) in the CME group was elevated (P < 0.05). Sox2OT acted as a competitive endogenous RNA (ceRNA) of miR‐23b to regulate TLR4. …”
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International education and diplomacy: Education of Serbian students in internship in the 21st century by Vasojević Nena A.

“…This paper identified the population of Serbian students studying abroad in the 21st century as scholarship recipients of the Fund for Young Talents of the Republic of Serbia, "Dositeja." Analysis of legal acts and quantitative data indicates that the scholarship program of the Fund for Young Talents of the Republic of Serbia, "Dositeja," is in an undefined academic space, somewhere between development, education, schooling, and graduation. when talking about academic mobility versus soft diplomacy (see: Kent, 2018). …”
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Corrosion behavior of Fe amorphous/Al-12Si piston composites with core-shell structure by Yingdong Wang, Zuxiang Lin, Chengzhou Liu, Deyong Zhao, Chunqiong Li, Yuan Wang

“…Spherical Fe amorphous particles act as “balls bearings” during hot extrusion, enhancing flowability and promoting the formation of a core-shell structure FACS with uniform composition distribution, high relative density, and low porosity when doping with 2–10% Fe amorphous particles. …”
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Calidad del cuidado de enfermería en la unidad de cuidados intensivos durante la COVID-19: estudio cualitativo by John Camilo Garcia Uribe, Susana Vallejo, Yuliana Cardenas Jaramillo

“…The pandemic was a complex emotional event, with tensions between values and emotions, caused by precarious working conditions, increasing morbimortality, the feeling that sometimes the effort was not recognized, the moral anguish of feeling that one could not act according to one's own principles and the imperious decision of having to choose which patients to save and care for, which had a negative impact on the quality of care. …”
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A relay race of ESCRT-III paralogs drives cell division in a hyperthermophilic archaeon by Junfeng Liu, Mickaël Lelek, Yunfeng Yang, Audrey Salles, Christophe Zimmer, Yulong Shen, Mart Krupovic

“…Here, we clarify how these components act sequentially to drive the division of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Saccharolobus islandicus. …”
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Attributable risk factors for asymptomatic malaria and anaemia and their association with cognitive and psychomotor functions in schoolchildren of north-eastern Tanzania. by Geofrey Makenga, Vito Baraka, Filbert Francis, Daniel T R Minja, Samwel Gesase, Edna Kyaruzi, George Mtove, Swabra Nakato, Rashid Madebe, Sif R Søeborg, Kathrine H Langhoff, Helle S Hansson, Michael Alifrangis, John P A Lusingu, Jean-Pierre Van Geertruyden

“…Given malaria infection in schoolchildren is mostly asymptomatic; an addition of interventional programmes such as intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in schoolchildren (IPTsc) would probably act as a potential solution while calling for an improvement in the current tools such as bednet use, school food programme, and community-based (customised) health education with an emphasis on nutrition and malaria control.…”
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The Rapid Formation of the Metal-poor Milky Way by Turner Woody, Charlie Conroy, Phillip Cargile, Ana Bonaca, Vedant Chandra, Jiwon Jesse Han, Benjamin D. Johnson, Rohan P. Naidu, Yuan-Sen Ting

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Semaphorin-4D signaling in recruiting dental stem cells for vascular stabilization by Lili Zhang, Dineshi Sewvandi Thalakiriyawa, Jiawei Liu, Shengyan Yang, Yan Wang, Waruna Lakmal Dissanayaka

“…This secretion recruited SM22α+SHED as mural cells by inducing endothelial PDGF production on a vasculature-on-a-chip platform, indicating a potential role for macrophages in facilitating vascular stabilization. Conclusions Sema4D acts on Plexin-B1, inducing METTL3-mediated PDGF-BB secretion to recruit SHED to stabilize vessels. …”
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Perspektywiczne kierunki rozwoju biologii człowieka w Polsce, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem auksologii by Napoleon Wolański, Anna Siniarska

“…At the beginning it was the practice of everyday life, the act of survival, what can be understood as “technique”. …”
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Carotenoids in the treatment of age-related macular degeneration: a drug delivery system does matter by M.L. Maximov, Zh.G. Oganezova, I.D. Kanner, Voznesenskaya A.A

“…Carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin are natural compounds with a proven efficacy in reducing AMD progression, which have been demonstrated to act as medications for patients with early AMD stages. …”
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Optical Coherence Tomography Guided Intravascular Lithotripsy in the Peripheral Vasculature: Technique and Case Series Analysis by Rohit Mehra, Vikram Patra, Rishi Dhillan, Rahul Merkhed, C V N M Dattatraya

“…Conclusion: The ability of OCT to delineate medial calcium, calcium nodules, along with an unparalleled edge of a transmural optical biopsy acts as a force-multiplier in strategically targeting IVL to obtain maximal outcome. …”
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Rock breaking regularity of layered rock mass blasting under the influence of different resistance lines by Jianxin YU, Pengzhan MENG, Xin ZHANG, Zhenzhen LI

“…However, when the resistance line is larger, the explosive energy acts upon the interior of the rock, making it difficult to project the rock. …”
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Право пацієнта на інформовану добровільну згоду при наданні психіатричної допомоги з використанням систем штучного інтелекту... by K. O. Beznos, N. V. Fedorchenko

“…Для зниження цих ризиків розглянуто засоби правового регулювання, зокрема через впровадження європейського законодавства, як-от Закону про штучний інтелект «AI Act», імплементації сертифікації та створення дієвих механізмів інформованої добровільної згоди на використання ШІ в психіатрії з урахуванням високих ризиків, які несе ця технологія. …”
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Physiology and Pathophysiology of Marathon Running: A narrative Review by Lorin Braschler, Pantelis T. Nikolaidis, Mabliny Thuany, Daniela Chlíbková, Thomas Rosemann, Katja Weiss, Matthias Wilhelm, Beat Knechtle

“…It further positively affects hematopoiesis and cytotoxic abilities of natural killer cells, and may act neuroprotective on a long-term basis. After a marathon, changes in biomarkers suggesting pathological events in certain organ systems such as cardiovascular, renal, gastrointestinal, liver, hematological, immune, musculoskeletal, central nervous, and endocrine systems can often be observed. …”
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Role of Sling Tuina Exercise Technique in Improving Paraspinal Muscle Asymmetry in Patients with Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis by LIU Min, MA Zhaoshui, XU Qiangqiang, LI Li

“…The experimental group was treated with sling Tuina exercise technique which mainly included adjusting the position of the spine to restore the neutral position, the methods of plucking, pressing and pushing and other techniques to act back and forth on the Governor vessel, bladder meridian and the convex-concave side of the paravertebral muscle dialectical tonifying and reducing therapy, neutral position control training in supine, prone and lateral position, trunk flexion, extension, rotation and lateral flexion closed chain movement training with the assistance of sling equipment. …”
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The Mediating Role of Avoidant Personality Disorder Features in the Relationship Between Stressful Life Events and Depression Among First-Year University Students by Zhou H, Niu S, Guo Y, Qin Y, Sun H, Mu F, Duan X, Zheng Y, Zhang Y, Liu Y, Liu N

“…The method of Bootstrap was adopted to determine whether the AVPD features act as mediating factors in the association between the NLEs and depression.Results: A total of 34.68% of the participants reported one to three AVPD features, and 18.15% reported four to seven AVPD features. …”
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Decoding gene expression dynamics in planktonic and biofilm cells of Streptococcus mutans: regulation and role of mutanofactin genes in biofilm formation by Muhammad Afzal, Miguel Carda-Diéguez, Susanne Bloch, Susanne Bloch, Leon G. S. Thies, Alex Mira, Christina Schäffer

“…MufC, a transcriptional regulator of the TetR/AcrR-family, acts as a positive regulator of the muf operon in strain NMT4863. …”
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