Impact of Agroindustrial Waste Fermented with Bacteria and Yeasts and Their Effect on Productive, Hematological, and Microbiota Indicators in Guinea Pigs (<i>Cavia porcellus</i>) by José E. Miranda-Yuquilema, Juan Taboada-Pico, Daniel Luna-Velasco, Mercy Cuenca-Condoy, Wilfrido Briñez

“…In the last decade, the production of guinea pig meat in Andean countries has increased due to the growing number of consumers of this meat. …”
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Reasons for decline and measures to promote Nili Ravi buffalo in its breeding tract by M. Gururaj, Krishan Ahuja, F..C. Tuteja, N. Saxena

“…Currently, there are 208 million buffaloes spread across 77 countries; the majority of the buffaloes are found in India (56.67%), followed by Pakistan (19.28%) and China (13.46%). …”
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Practices supporting cue-based breastfeeding of preterm infants in neonatal intensive care units across Europe by Bente Silnes Tandberg, Hege Grundt, Ragnhild Maastrup, Annie Aloysius, Livia Nagy, Renée Flacking

“…Results The survey was completed by 105 neonatal units across 15 European countries. Less than half (46%) of the NICUs had no restrictions upon placing the infant in SSC with the parents. …”
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Systematic review of reviews on interventions to engage men and boys as clients, partners and agents of change for improved sexual and reproductive health and rights by Sanyukta Mathur, Julie Pulerwitz, Ann Gottert, Jesse Werner, Renay Weiner, Chantalle Okondo, Sarah Magni

“…We conducted a review of the effectiveness of interventions to engage men and boys across SRHR domains, lessons learnt about successful programming, and about harms/unintended consequences, in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC).Design Systematic review of reviews following Cochrane guidelines.Data sources PubMed, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Web of Science and Cochrane were searched (18 October–9 November 2022; 9 September 2024).Eligibility criteria Eligible reviews were published since 2015, covered WHO-defined SRHR domain(s) and focused mostly on LMIC.Data extraction and synthesis Data extraction by multiple reviewers focused on intervention effectiveness, implementation best practices, unintended consequences, and quality/risk of bias.Results Thirty-five systematic reviews were included, comprising ~960 primary studies. …”
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Factors Associated with Serious Injuries among Adolescents in Ghana: Findings from 2012 Global School Health Survey by Martin Ackah, Mohammed Gazali Salifu, Hosea Boakye

“…Injuries are of public health concern and the leading cause of residual disability and death among teenagers, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In Ghana, the burden of injury among adolescents is under-reported. …”
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Efficacy of acupuncture for primary osteoporosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by Tianyi Ma, Tiantian Zhang, Le Zhang, Haoming Zhao, Ke Liu, Jianjun Kuang, Liang Ou

“…However, since the included patients were all from China, there was a risk of sample bias, high-quality multicenter studies in different countries or regions should be conducted in the future.…”
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Factors influencing choice of residency program among medical intern doctors and medical students: a cross-sectional survey by Ali Al Ajmi, Masoud Kashoub, Ibrahim S. Al-Busaidi, Mohammed Al Rashdi, Moza AlHussaini, Arwa Alsaidi, Mohammed Al Rawahi, Abdullah M. Al Alawi

“…Abstract Introduction The global shortage of healthcare professionals is a critical concern, with an estimated deficit of 18 million workers by 2030, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Oman faces challenges with its doctor-to-population ratio falling below the global average. …”
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Association between the rifampicin resistance mutations and rifabutin susceptibility in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: A meta-analysis by Wenli Wang, Hongjuan Zhou, Long Cai, Tingting Yang

“…Results: Twenty-seven studies comprised 9222 clinical RIF-resistant MTB strains from 25 countries met the inclusion criteria. Of these strains, 14.93% (1377/9222) were susceptible to RFB. …”
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Shaping the future of primary healthcare: Factors influencing medical students’ preference for family medicine specialty in Qatar by Maryam A. Al-Rashid, Muna T Abed Alah, Areej S. Al-Hamad, Michail Nomikos, Marwan F. Abu Hijleh

“…BACKGROUND: As countries strive to strengthen primary healthcare systems, understanding medical students’ specialty preferences, particularly for Family Medicine, becomes crucial. …”
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The Effects of Employee Performance Appraisal on the Company Performance Results: The Mediating Role of HRM Outcomes With an Innovative Application of the Efficiency Index by Marzena Stor

“…Furthermore, the analysis did not consider potential differences in economic, legal, or social conditions among the various countries where foreign subsidiaries were located. …”
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FORMATION OF VALUE CHAINS FOR GREEN HYDROGEN by Svitlana O. Fedulova, Oleksandr A. Pivovarov, Andrii Ya. Kalynovskyi

“…Therefore, the production of green hydrogen from renewable energy sources is considered a potential solution to achieving the goal of reducing carbon emissions in industry, promoting the development of renewable energy sources, and ensuring energy security for countries. The study presents potential features of green hydrogen value creation and describes potential ways of using green hydrogen in the economy in the near future. …”
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Continuing the continuous harvests of food production: from the perspective of the interrelationships among cultivated land quantity, quality, and grain yield by Peng Cheng, Yang Zhang, Ke Liu, Xuesong Kong, Shiman Wu, Huafei Yan, Ping Jiang

“…Abstract The rapid population growth around the world has become one of the main challenges for countries to ensure adequate food supply. To address this difficulty and ensure adequate food production, sustainable land use, in particular sustainable cultivated land (CL) use, can make a great contribution. …”
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Le secteur de la santé en Algérie entre arabisation, défrancisation et anglicisation by Fatima Zohra Chebab, Karim Ouaras

“…It is an endless project, as in all Maghreb countries, evolving with constantly changing political contexts. …”
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Sexual and Reproductive Health Services Utilization and Associated Factors among College Students at West Arsi Zone in Oromia Region, Ethiopia by Demelash Wachamo, Yadessa Tegene, Abdisa Tibeso, Assefa Washo

“…It contributes a high burden of sexually transmitted disease, unsafe abortion, and premature mortality, especially in low-income countries like Ethiopia. Hence, this study aimed at assessing the SRH service utilization and associated factors among college students at West Arsi Zone in Oromia region, Ethiopia. …”
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Factors of suicide-related behaviors based on stress-vulnerability model and prevention strategies among nurses: a scoping review by Xiaoyu Yang, Xiaoyu Yang, Deying Hu, Lecheng Li, Lecheng Li, Rezvanguli Rezak, Rezvanguli Rezak

“…The process of data synthesis was carried out using narrative analysis.ResultsThe study encompassed 40 papers from 15 different countries. This study found that nurses’ suicide ideation ranged from 4.3 to 44.58%, while suicide attempts ranged from 2.9 to 12.6%. …”
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Survival Status and Predictors of Mortality among Newborns Admitted with Neonatal Sepsis at Public Hospitals in Ethiopia by Samuel Dessu, Aklilu Habte, Tamirat Melis, Mesfin Gebremedhin

“…One-fourth of neonatal death is due to neonatal sepsis and nearly 98% of these deaths are occurring at low- and middle-income countries. In Ethiopia, forty percent of under-five mortality occurs during the neonatal period, of which neonatal sepsis accounts for 30-35% of neonatal deaths next to prematurity and its complications. …”
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Perceptions of Fairness of Support Between Older Parents and Adult Children by Anna Willems, Dimitri Mortelmans, Anina Vercruyssen

“…This impacts mutual support within families and the care provided by public or private care organisations. Across OECD countries, on average, 60% of people aged 65 years and older in 2020 reported receiving support from family members, friends and people in their social network, living inside or outside their household but not care organisations. …”
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Impact of Sea Surface Temperature on City Temperature near Warm and Cold Ocean Currents in Summer Season for Northern Hemisphere by Muhammad Farhan Ul Moazzam, Byung Gul Lee, Sanghyun Kim

“…This study examined the impact of sea surface temperature (SST) on urban temperature across four cities located in three different countries (United States of America, Japan, and Morocco), all at nearly the same latitude, focusing on the summer season over the period from 2003 to 2020, because previously no one attempted to analyze the impact of SST on land surface temperature (LST). …”
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Impact of lay health worker programmes on the health outcomes of mother-child pairs of HIV exposed children in Africa: A scoping review. by Kathrin Schmitz, Tariro Jayson Basera, Bonaventure Egbujie, Preethi Mistri, Nireshni Naidoo, Witness Mapanga, Jane Goudge, Majorie Mbule, Fiona Burtt, Esca Scheepers, Jude Igumbor

“…<h4>Background</h4>Increased demand for healthcare services in countries experiencing high HIV disease burden and often coupled with a shortage of health workers, has necessitated task shifting from professional health workers to Lay Health Workers (LHWs) in order to improve healthcare delivery. …”
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High prevalence of undocumented SARS-CoV-2 infections revealed by analysis of nucleocapsid-specific IgG responses in diagnosed and undiagnosed individuals. by Kim Blom, Ilias Galanis, Philip Bacchus, Klara Sondén, Ioana Bujila, Tatiana Efimova, Fredrik Garli, Mikael Mansjö, Elin Movert, Aleksandra Pettke, Marie Rapp, Maike Sperk, Sandra Söderholm, Karin Valentin Asin, Sarah Zanetti, Magnus Gisslén, Andreas Bråve, Ramona Groenheit, Jonas Klingström

“…However, with the introduction of vaccines containing the spike protein it is no longer possible to use spike-IgG as a marker of infection. In many countries marketed vaccines do not include the nucleocapsid protein, allowing the use of nucleocapsid-specific IgG (N-IgG) as a specific marker for previous infection. …”
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