The Effects of Self-Efficacy and Physical Activity Improving Methods on the Quality of Life in Patients with Diabetes: A Systematic Review by Sajjad Hamidi, Zahra Gholamnezhad, Narges Kasraie, Amirhossein Sahebkar

“…(“Diabetes” OR “glycemic control”) AND (“exercise” OR “physical activity”) AND “self-efficacy” were searched as keywords in databases including PubMed, Google Scholar, Science Direct, Embase, Cochrane, Web of Science, and Scopus between 2000 and 2019 for relesvant articles. …”
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Laparoscopic Gastric Plication versus Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy: An Up-to-Date Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Konstantinos Perivoliotis, Eleni Sioka, Georgia Katsogridaki, Dimitrios Zacharoulis

“…A systematic literature search was performed in the electronic databases (MEDLINE, CENTRAL, and Web of Science and Scopus). …”
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A Dynamic Source Tracing Method for Food Supply Chain Quality and Safety Based on Big Data by Jun Song, Hong Huo, Teng Li, Lingyun Chu

“…Currently, there are many studies on the application of food quality source tracing systems; however, most of them are in the field of food quality databases, and few have concerned about its application in the field of big data. …”
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Comparison of physical fitness level among different competition categories in women's basketball: A systematic review by Adriano Vretaros

“…For this purpose, four databases were consulted (Google Scholar, PubMed, Scielo and LILACS) in Portuguese, Spanish and/or English, in which 32 primary scientific articles were found on physical fitness in women's basketball in the competitive categories and 51 manuscripts complementary secondary about the theme. …”
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Russian higher education problems through the comparative analysis of journal publications from 2011 to 2012 by Galina I. Saganenko

“…The analyzed sets contain, respectively, 291 and 262 single titles of publications, in these sets there were used 1728 and 1530 words, an each set contained 671 and 587«unique» words, respectively.The work was carried out with information arrays within the analytical modules of the “VEGA” computer program providing creation of databases, a set of ways of texts systematization, qualitative and quantitative analysis, convenient dictionaries. …”
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Public and Service Activity of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine: Current Issues by O. V. Dzhafarova, O. O. Mozhovyi

“…It has been proved that public and service activity of public administration authorities is really possible and actually feasible under the condition of creation and functioning of optimal normative, material and resource, organizational base for its guaranteeing (availability of legislative and other normative and legal documents, functioning of specialized service centers for providing administrative services with the staff of qualified civil servants and electronic databases, etc.). It has been emphasized that the content of public and service activity of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine is: a) a separate function of the service state, the content of which is to change the ideology, forms and methods in the work of law enforcement agencies; b) one of the externally-oriented functions of a specially created state institution along with such functions as regulatory, supervisory and law enforcement, c) the basis for the authorized entity to implement the tasks and functions of the state to ensure human rights and freedoms, as well as the interests of society and the state, keeping public order and security, combating crime, d) high-quality and affordable provision of administrative services to specific individuals in the form of licensing, registration and other similar actions in the law enforcement sphere.…”
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Adaptation of health systems to climate change-related infectious disease outbreaks in the ASEAN: Protocol for a scoping review of national and regional policies. by Adriana Viola Miranda, Bony Wiem Lestari, Annisa Indrarini, Fadilah F Arsy, Saut Sagala, Mizan Bustanul Fuadi Bisri, Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno

“…Literature search will be conducted on the ASEAN Secretariat website, government websites, Google, and six research databases (PubMed, ScienceDirect, Web of Science, Embase, World Health Organization (WHO) Institutional Repository Information Sharing (IRIS), and Google Scholar). …”
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Multidimensional challenges of internationalization among universities in Southeast Asia: A scoping review of empirical evidence by Kehinde Kazeem Kanmodi, Afeez Abolarinwa Salami, Jimoh Amzat

“…This scoping review was conducted based on Arksey and O’Malley's methodological framework and it was reported using the PRISMA‐ScR checklist. Ten research databases were systematically searched to retrieve all literature relevant to the review question. …”
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Understanding evidence and provision of services around social isolation and loneliness of military widow/ers: A scoping review. by Amy Johnson, Mary Moreland, Matthew D Kiernan, Tracy Collins, Gemma Wilson-Menzfeld

“…Therefore, this scoping review aimed to search and synthesise the current evidence base exploring experiences of loneliness and social isolation in this community.<h4>Method</h4>Six databases were searched; ASSIA; CINAHL; ProQuest Dissertation & Theses Global; PsycArticles; Medline; Web of Science. …”
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Intellectual Structure of Global Value Chain Research: Visualization and Bibliometric Analysis Based on VOSviewer by Jianhua Dai, Shuanglei Xu

“…Based on the Web of Science Core Collection SCIE and SSCI databases, this article searched 8273 articles published between 2001 and 2021 with the theme of “Global Value Chain” and used visualization and bibliometric analysis methods. …”
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Towards an HCV vaccine: an overview of the immunization strategies for eliciting an effective B-cell response by Gabriel L. Costa, Giuseppe A. Sautto

“…Our search criteria included the keywords ‘HCV,’ ‘Hepatitis C,’ and ‘vaccine’ using publicly available databases. Following the screening, 54 papers were selected.Expert opinion The investigation of novel vaccine platforms beyond traditional approaches is necessary. …”
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Diabetic Retinopathy and BDNF: A Review on Its Molecular Basis and Clinical Applications by Mehrdad Afarid, Ehsan Namvar, Fatemeh Sanie-Jahromi

“…We searched the Web of Science, PubMed, and Scopus databases with these keywords: “brain-derived neurotrophic factor” and “vascular endothelial growth factor” and/or “diabetic retinopathy.” …”
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Criteria to define rare diseases and orphan drugs: a systematic review protocol by Katie Kerr, Ghada Mohammed Abozaid, Amy McKnight, Hussain A Al-Omar

“…A SR will be conducted, including a search of the following databases: PubMed, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Scopus, Web of Science, GreyLit and OpenGrey. …”
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Prognostic value of circulating Chromogranin A in prostate cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Xiaoying Tang, Zhenyu Liu, Liangdong Song, Huixuan Zhu, Shuai Su, Delin Wang

“…Therefore, we conducted a meta-analysis of the available findings to explore the value of circulating Chromogranin A in the prognosis of prostate cancer.MethodsWe systematically searched the PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, and Clinical Trials databases for studies on the relationship between CgA and survival outcomes in prostate cancer from inception until December 2024, and we focused on articles detecting circulating CgA, with the primary endpoints of the studies being overall survival (OS), and progression-free survival (PFS).ResultsOf the 2049 articles retrieved, 10 articles met our inclusion criteria, involving a total of 1445 patients. …”
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Use of Multi-Tier Concept Diagnostic Tests in Biology Education: A Systematic Review of the Literature by Tugce Duran, Musa Dikmenli

“…In this process, four databases (Web of Science, SCOPUS, ERIC, and TR Index) were searched, articles were downloaded, elimination/inclusion criteria were applied, and the full texts of the remaining 71 articles were examined in detail. …”
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Management lag: can social management keep up with high technologies? by K. V. Isaeva

“…The Russian and foreign statistical agencies materials, major organisations electronic databases, keeping high-tech development records: Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Boston Consulting Group, United Nations, World Bank, Russian Government, etc., were used for the analysis. …”
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Predicting the structure and stability of oxide nanoscrolls from dichalcogenide precursors by Adway Gupta, Arunima K. Singh

“…By data mining bulk and two-dimensional materials databases, we first identify dichalcogenides that would be mostly amenable to plasma processing based on their vdW layering and thermodynamic stability. …”
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Prognostic role of prognostic nutritional index in patients with bladder cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Jing Sun, Zhenzhen Li, Xiaming Zhu

“…This study systematically investigates the prognostic value of baseline PNI in patients with bladder cancer through a meta-analytic approach.MethodsThe databases of PubMed, EmBase, and the Cochrane library were systematically searched for eligible studies from inception until April 2024. …”
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Literature review of lean, agile, resilient, green (LARG) in automotive manufacturing industry by Purba Humiras Hardi, Aisyah Siti, Hasibuan Sawarni, Jaqin Choesnul

“…The stages carried out in this study are: literature search from journal databases, filtering results based on keywords and criteria, systematic review of filtered papers to provide further understanding. …”
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Effect of Ginseng Supplementation on Exercise Endurance as a Support for Cardiovascular Disease Management: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Angelika Szymańska, Anna Nowak, Anna Lipert, Ewa Kochan

“…Medline, Pubmed, and ClinicalKey electronic databases were used to analyze data. The search strategy included the following criteria: ginseng and exercise; ginseng supplementation; and ginseng supplements. …”
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