Enhancing the research enterprise at a health sciences university: A call for an institutional paradigm shift by Bryan G. Beutel, Taryn Bissing, Aaditya Patel, Nicolette Duong, Jan Talley

“…Results: Of 580 responses, the vast majority (78%) were “interested” or “very interested” in performing research, but only 36% were actively engaged in projects. The most commonly cited benefit of research was to improve competitiveness for future training opportunities (431 [18%] responses). …”
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Digital games and virtual reality applications in child abuse: A scoping review and conceptual framework. by Afsoon Asadzadeh, Hassan Shahrokhi, Behzad Shalchi, Zhila Khamnian, Peyman Rezaei-Hachesu

“…Serious games (SGs), computer simulation, and immersive VR were common technologies for children, students, and forensic medicine, respectively. …”
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Forensic Discrimination Potential of Blue, Black, Green, and Red Colored Fountain Pen Inks Commercially Used in Pakistan, by UV/Visible Spectroscopy, Thin Layer Chromatography, and... by Mehwish Sharif, Madeeha Batool, Sohail Chand, Zahoor Hussain Farooqi, Syed Azhar Ali Shah Tirmazi, Makshoof Athar

“…Overall, this study demonstrated the elevated worth of analysis of fountain pen inks commercially used in Pakistan as the study for fountain pen inks, while not very common, remains an interesting target study.…”
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Availability of Antimalarial Drugs and Evaluation of the Attitude and Practices for the Treatment of Uncomplicated Malaria in Bangui, Central African Republic by Alexandre Manirakiza, Siméon Pierre Njuimo, Alain Le Faou, Denis Malvy, Pascal Millet

“…Artemisinin derivatives used in monotherapy or in combination were commonly sold. In health care facilities, 93% of the uncomplicated malaria cases were treated in the absence of any laboratory confirmation and the officially recommended treatment, amodiaquine-sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine, was seldom prescribed. …”
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On The New Russian Eastern Policy by A. V. Torkunov

“…For more than a quarter of the century Russia has been pursuing a regional leadership in building among post-soviet states a mutual space for common interests open for other members of international community. …”
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Heart Shaped Anterior Neck Lipoma Mimicking Thyroid Mass: A Case Report by Abdus Samad Ansari, Dhiraj Chaurasia, Bikash Yadav, Season Shrestha, Inku Shrestha Basnet

“…ABSTRACT Lipomas, one of the most common benign tumors, rarely occur in the anterior neck, often misdiagnosed as thyroid masses. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Different Drying Methods on Strawberry Aroma Compounds via Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques by Nurten Cengiz, Aslı Abdulvahitoğlu, Adnan Abdulvahitoğlu

“…One of the oldest and most common methods of extending the shelf life of food products is the drying process. …”
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Corrosive induced esophageal and gastric injury: Histopathological evaluation of surgically resected specimens over a decade in a tertiary care center by Jimil Shah, Anuraag Jena, Shweta Shweta, Kim Vaiphei, Vikas Gupta, Naveen Kumar, Anupam K Singh, Rakesh Kochhar

“…The majority of patients (30; 76.9%) had a history of caustic ingestion more than three months before the surgery and the presence of long or refractory stricture was the most common indication for the surgery (20; 51.28%). In the resected specimen, a majority of patients had superficial esophageal or gastric ulcer (90.6%; 60.0%), transmural inflammation (68.8%; 65.6%), transmural fibrosis (62.5%; 34.4%), and hypertrophied muscularis mucosa (78.13%; 53.3%). …”
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The impact of economic, social and health crises on victims of domestic violence by Andrea Domokos

“…In the future, macro- and micro-level violence research must be continued, common global results must be aggregated, and complex, global solutions must be developed. …”
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Epidemiological Features of Clostridium difficile Colonizing the Intestine of Jordanian Infants by Eman N. Abu-Khader, Eman F. Badran, Asem A. Shehabi

“…Clostridium difficile is commonly found in the intestine of infants without causing any disease. …”
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Assessment of the Availability and Accuracy of Dosing Devices Packaged with Oral Liquid Medications in the Ho Municipality of Ghana by Yussif Saaka, David M. Nyamadi, Hilda Amekyeh, Adelaide Mensah

“…A total of 78.6% of the oral liquid medications were packaged with a dosing device. The most common dosing devices were cups (83.6%), followed by spoons (14.3%), droppers (1.4%), and syringes (0.7%). …”
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THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING PHYSICS TO STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW by Frank Angelo Pacala

“…Out of 892 articles initially identified, 13 met the inclusion and exclusion criteria and validation from the experts. The most commonly studied disability was visual impairment, followed by intellectual disabilities. …”
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Intussusception in the Setting of an Ulcerative Colitis Flare by Varag Abed, Alexis Faber, Cristina Jageka, Ryan Goleniak, Raef Fadel

“…In conclusion, intussusception has been very rarely reported in patients with UC with the most common treatment being surgical resection. However, conservative management in the absence of bowel obstruction can be attempted.…”
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Drug response is related to NR3C1 and FAAH polymorphism in Chinese pediatric epilepsy patients by Hongli Wang, Chu Li, Qian Li, Ning Li, Huiling Qin

“…Abstract Background Childhood epilepsy is a common neurological syndrome with complex etiology and recurrent seizures. …”
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Renal function in Ankylosing Spondylitis by Renu Saigal, Arun Kumar Agrawal, Laxmikant Goyal, Abhishek Agrawal, Naveen Gupta

“…Conclusions: In this study with small number of participants abnormalities in the renal function were common in patients with AS. No significant correlation was found between renal functions and markers of disease activity.…”
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Do Inflation, Labor, FDI, and External Debt Influence Economic Growth? Evidence from ASEAN Countries During the Fintech 3.0 by Aziz Zidan Maulana, Ida Ayu Putri Suprapti

“…For data analysis, a panel data regression model is utilized, incorporating three approaches: the Common Effect Model (CEM), Fixed Effect Model (FEM), and Random Effect Model (REM). …”
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCHOOLCHILDREN TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN THE TRANSITION TO A NEW TECHNOLOGICAL PARADIGM by D. A. Mahotin

“…The mentioned above necessity defines the quality of future vocational training of students according to the changing requirements of labour market, the last achievements in the technical field and technologies; serves as a warranty of maintaining competitiveness of national economy in global scales of social-economic and technological development of world production. The common regularities of changes in technological education under the influence of change of technological regimes (industrial revolutions) are described. …”
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miR-224-5p Attenuates Allergic Responses in Mice with Allergic Rhinitis by Modulating the Th1/Th2 Response by Yuxiao Li, Ran An, Mingjin Wu, Jiayan He, Xiaoguang He

“…Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a common chronic respiratory disease that has become a global health problem. miRNAs play an important role in multiple immune and inflammatory diseases, including AR. …”
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Increased mortality risk in people with schizophrenia in Lithuania 2001–2020 by Mingaile Drevinskaite, Auguste Kaceniene, Arunas Germanavicius, Giedre Smailyte

“…An increased all-cause mortality risk was found for both sexes (SMR = 1.96; 95% CI 1.88–2.04) compared to the general population. The most common cause-specific mortality risk was found for diseases of the circulatory system (SMR = 2.17; 95% CI 2.05–2.30). …”
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F4/80+ Host Macrophages Are a Barrier to Murine Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Hematopoietic Progenitor Engraftment In Vivo by Heather L. Thompson, Nico van Rooijen, Bryce T. McLelland, Jennifer O. Manilay

“…Murine embryonic stem cell-derived hematopoietic progenitors (ESHPs) were generated via coculture with the bone marrow stromal cell line, OP9, and then transplanted into NOD.SCID.Common Gamma Chain (NSG) knockout mice, which lack B, T, and natural killer cells. …”
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