Microbiological Profile and Hygienic Quality of Foodstuffs Marketed in Collective Catering in Central Morocco by Rachid Amaiach, Sanae Lairini, Mouhcine Fadil, Moussa Benboubker, Rabia Bouslamti, Soukaina El Amrani, Abdelhakim El Ouali Lalami

“…This study was conducted retrospectively from January 2015 to December 2019 in Fez city, central Morocco. The samples collected by the competent authority during official control from restaurants and food outlets were analyzed. …”
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Structural analysis of the impact of learning from errors and organizational failures on innovative performance with the mediation role of knowledge absorptive capacity (case study... by Sara Mohammadi, Farajallah Rahimi, Eslam Fakher, Ilnaz Irani Behbahani

“…The statistical population of the research includes the employees of cooperative companies in the city of Ahvaz, from which 348 individuals were selected as a non-probability accessible sample and examined. …”
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STUDY ON THE ESTIMATION OF SARS-CoV-2 VIRUS PATHOGENS’ TRANSMISSION PROBABILITIES FOR DIFFERENT PUBLIC BUS TRANSPORT SERVICE SCENARIOS by Rafał BURDZIK, Niko SPEYBROECK

“…The potential of this approach was demonstrated through a comparison between two different categories of passenger transport in a city bus. Based on the presented case study and the calculated probability of pathogen transmission, it is estimated that the probability of SARS-CoV-2 infection during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland through the use of public transport was approximately 0.05%. …”
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Japi 2.0, a gaming platform to stimulate cognitive and non-cognitive skills in early childhood: protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial by Jorge Gaete, Saray Ramírez, Cristian A. Rojas-Barahona, Valentina Romo, Natalia Ríos, Ricardo Araya

“…A total of six schools with low socio-economic status located in the city of Santiago, Chile, are expected to be recruited and randomized with 1:1 allocation. …”
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Application of Clustering and Stepwise Discriminant Analysis Based on Hydrochemical Characteristics in Determining the Source of Mine Water Inrush by Weitao Liu, Jie Yu, Jianjun Shen, Qiushuang Zheng, Mengke Han, Yingying Hu, Xiangxi Meng

“…In order to explore the law of groundwater evolution, the water source connection between faults and aquifers and the main sources of mine water inrush in the deep mining area of Yangcheng Coal Mine in Jining City, 40 groups of hydrochemical samples were collected and analyzed by Piper Diagram and Durov Diagram. …”
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Comparison of Vitamin and Mineral Usage Status of Patients Applying to Family Health Centres Before and After Covid by Mercan Yağız, Hatice Cakir

“…Objective: Our aim in this study was to determine how the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic affects the use of vitamins and minerals and to determine the level of vitamin and mineral use compared with that in the pre-COVID-19 period.Materials and Methods: Our study is a cross-sectional descriptive study and was conducted with 306 volunteer participants over the age of 18 who applied to three different family health centers (FHCs) in Erzincan city center between February and April 2023. A survey of 25 questions was prepared and administered to the participants.Results: In our study, regular vitamin and mineral use (20.6%) was found to be low, but the use approximately doubled in cases of illness (39.9%). …”
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Risk factor clusters for non-communicable diseases in adolescents in Eastern Cape, South Africa by Avela Mathe, Maya M. van Gent, Leon R. van Niekerk

“…Setting: The study involved adolescents from eight schools in Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality and Amatole district, Eastern Cape. …”
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Study protocol: an observational study of distress, immune function and persistent pain in HIV by John A Joska, Mark R Hutchinson, Maia Lesosky, Victoria J Madden, Ncumisa Msolo, Luyanduthando Mqadi, Gillian J Bedwell, Jonathan Grant Peter, Romy Parker, Andrew Schrepf, Robert R Edwards

“…The study has been approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee of the University of Cape Town (approval number: 764/2019) and the City of Cape Town (ref: 24699).Trial registration number NCT04757987.…”
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Nurses’ Knowledge Regarding FoodDrug Interaction in the Intensive Care and Emergency Hospitals by Samir Y Lafi, Aram Salih Mohammed Amin Kamali, Bayan Omar Sharif

“…The main objective of this cross-sectional study has been conducted to assess the nurses' knowledge regarding food-drug interaction (FDI) at the intensive care in both of Shar and emergency hospitals in the Slemani city, the data were collected during the period of October up to the end of December. …”
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Pulmonary function among stone quarry workers in India: The effect of duration of exposure, smoking status and job profile on pulmonary function tests by Junaid Aziz Sheikh, Zahid Ali Khan, Tazeen Khan, Sumaira Chowdhary

“…This study was designed to analyse the effect of duration of exposure, job profile and smoking on lung function of stone quarry workers from Jammu city, Jammu and Kashmir State, India. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out among 100 male stone crusher workers, selected through multi-stage random sampling technique. …”
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Source material for breeding spring barley cultivars with high grain quality by I. Yu. Zaytseva, I. N. Shchennikova, E. M. Lisitsyn

“…Accessions k-15619, k-30379 and k-31046 demonstrated high plasti city in their protein content parameters. Accession k-5983 was characterized by consistently high grain protein content. …”
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Application of wetPf2 Data for Investigating Characteristics of Temperature and Humidity of Air Masses over Paracel and Spratly Islands by Khuong Le Pham, Anh Xuan Nguyen, Hiep Van Nguyen, Son Hai Hoang, Vinh Nhu Nguyen, Thang Van Vu

“…The satellite observational data were validated with the radiosonde data from three stations in Vietnam: Hanoi, Danang, and Ho Chi Minh City. Subsequently, the wetPf2 data are used to analyze the characteristics of temperature and relative humidity variations of the air masses over the Paracel and Spratly regions. …”
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Cohort profile: maternal and child health and parenting practices during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ceará, Brazil: birth cohort study (Iracema-COVID) by Marcia C Castro, Márcia Maria Tavares Machado, Simone Farías-Antúnez, David Augusto Batista Sá Araújo, Ana Luiza Penna, Francisco Ariclene Oliveira, Camila Machado de Aquino, Antônio Silva Lima Neto, Geziel dos Santos de Sousa

“…Results of this prospective cohort will generate novel knowledge on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and child health and parenting practices in a population of women and children living in fifth largest city of Brazil.…”
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Relationship between kidney function and healthy life expectancy: A historical cohort study by Hisayuki Ogura, Tadashi Toyama, Hikaru Samuta, Kohei Hirako, Tomoya Itatani, Shiori Nakagawa, Megumi Oshima, Shinji Kitajima, Akinori Hara, Norihiko Sakai, Miho Shimizu, Tomoyuki Takura, Takashi Wada, Yasunori Iwata

“…Methods This study of community-dwelling adults residing in Hakui City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan used data from the National Health Insurance database between 2012 and 2022. …”
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Outcome of autologous bone marrow transplant in patients with relapsed and refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in relation with prognostic factor: A single-center experience by Fawaz Salim Yousif, Bassam Francis Matti, Zina Ali Al-Bakri, Safa A. Faraj, Mazin A. Mohammed, Zahraa S. Shakir, Mahmood W. Khalid, Saba H. Al Hlali, Sarah M. Saeb, Kareem K. Khanjar, Maryam R. Humadi

“…PATIENTS, MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is retrospective study, conducted from May 2014 to December 2022, at Hematology and BMT Center of Medical City Complex in Baghdad. Thirty-six patients with R/R DLBCL were investigated pre- and post-ASCT; the recorded data included patient disease status pre-transplant, early mortality rate, and type of response at day 100 post-transplant and, survival rate, relapsed rate, and mortality at the end of the study were documented accordingly. …”
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Strengths use and thriving at work among nurses: a latent profile and mediation analysis by Jing Wu, Zhenrong Shen, Zidan Ouyang, Yuxuan Xiang, Ru Ding, Yuan Liao, Li Chen

“…Methods A convenience sample of 568 clinical nurses from two tertiary hospitals in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China, was recruited between January and March 2024. …”
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Use of dietary supplements among lactating women in western Algeria. [Prise des compléments alimentaires chez des femmes allaitantes de l'ouest Algérien] by Amina BAYAZID, Kheira MELIANI, Meriem LEBAINI

“…A cross-sectional study was carried out using a questionnaire among 510 BF women in the city of Sidi-Bel-Abbès (Algeria). Results. This study showed that almost half (49%) of BF women took dietary supplements. …”
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Characterizing pediatric discharge diagnoses associated with daily extreme heat exposure in the Midwestern US: A retrospective case-crossover study by Sarah Oerther, Zachary Phillips, Zidong Zhang, Joanne Salas, Sarah Farabi, Tamara Otey

“…Our analysis encompassed urgent care clinic visits, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations within a Midwestern healthcare network across Missouri, Wisconsin, the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, and Southern Illinois, in the United States. …”
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Personalized tourism recommendation model based on temporal multilayer sequential neural network by XueFei Xiao, ChunHua Li, XingJie Wang, AnPing Zeng

“…The TMS-Net model was trained on over six million trajectory data points from Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, spanning January 2016 to December 2022. …”
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Chemical Fingerprints and Source Profiles of PM10 and PM2.5 from Agricultural Soil in a Typical Polluted Region of Northwest China by Yaochuang Yu, Junji Cao

“…This study quantitatively analysed twenty-four elements, eight water-soluble ions, organic carbon (OC) and elemental carbon (EC) in PM10 and PM2.5 samples from agricultural resuspended SD to understand the chemical profiles of agricultural SD in Baoji city, Northwest China. The results showed that the elemental compositions in the PM10 and PM2.5 size fractions contributed 40.18% and 39.6%, respectively, followed by water-soluble ions (3.85% in PM10 and 6.62% in PM2.5) and carbonaceous fractions (3.46% in PM10 and 2.36% in PM2.5). …”
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