Microbial flora surrounding orthodontic temporary skeletal anchorage devices: A systematic review by Navia Jose Paul, Haritha Pottipalli Sathyanarayana, Vignesh Kailasam

“…Methods: A search of studies in six electronic databases – Cochrane Library, PubMed, OVID, Scopus, LILACS and Web of Science were performed until 30 May 2024 without any restriction in date or language of publication. …”
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Association between parity and gravidity & hypertension and blood pressure: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis by Sofia B Ahmed, Sonia Butalia, Magali Robert, Tyrone G Harrison, Sandra M Dumanski, Nabilah Gulamhusein, Badal S B Pattar, Jane A Schulz

“…Therefore, we propose to estimate the association between parity and gravidity with hypertension and blood pressure in a systematic review of the literature.Methods and analysis A systematic review will be conducted to estimate the association between parity and gravidity and hypertension and blood pressure. Electronic databases (Excerpta Medica Database, Ovid MEDLINE, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature Plus and Web of Science) will be searched from inception to January 2025. …”
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Nexuses of critical minerals recovery from e-waste by Abdel Mohsen O. Mohamed

“…Recycling these minerals from electronic waste (e-waste) offers a sustainable solution to meet the growing industrial demand, if done technically effectively and with appropriate process inputs and rewards. …”
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Sexual violence victimisation and response among university students in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review protocol by Sylvia Kaaya, Rehema Chande Mallya, Marie Lindkvist, Ester Steven Mzilangwe, Faustine Kyungu Nkulu Kalengayi

“…A team of five reviewers will screen eligible documents and articles for relevance from various data sources including electronic databases such as MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Google Scholar, PubMed and websites for government and agencies. …”
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Clinico-epidemiology and aetiopathogenesis of gallstone disease in the South Asian region: a scoping review protocol by Harshi Weerakoon, Ishari Vithanage, Oshadhi Alahakoon, Kosala Weerakoon

“…Accordingly, population, concept and context strategy will be used to formulate the scoping review question, eligibility criteria and search strategy. In the search, electronic databases, MEDLINE/PubMed, ScienceDirect, Scopus, Cochrane library, CINAHL, Trip, and Google scholar, as well as various grey literature sources will be used in synthesising and presenting the findings on clinico-epidemiology and aetiopathogenesis of GS disease in South Asia.Ethics and dissemination As secondary data will be used in the study, ethical approval will not be required. …”
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Psychosocial Life Aspects among Substance Misuse Clients who are at Rehabilitation Phase: A Narrative Review by Salman Alsubaie

“…The search process was performed in the following electronic databases “MEDLINE, PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO”. …”
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Preparation of Colored Polymer Microspheres by Lei Wang, Weiting Ma, Shuheng Zhang, Mengke He, Ping Song, Hongying Wang, Xianxiao Song, Botian Li

“…This review offers a comprehensive overview of the preparation techniques for colored polymer microspheres and their dyeing mechanisms, introducing the fundamental concepts of these microspheres and their applications in various fields, such as biomedicine, optical devices, and electronic display technologies. It further presents a detailed discussion of the different preparation methods, including physical adsorption, chemical bonding, and copolymerization. …”
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Time-Dependent Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Flow of an Exothermic Arrhenius Fluid in a Vertical Channel with Convective Boundary Condition by M. M. Hamza, S. Abdulsalam, S. K. Ahmad

“…There are several scientific and infrastructure capabilities that use this type of flow, such flow including solar communication systems exposed to airflow, electronic devices cooled at room temperature by airflow, nuclear units maintained during unscheduled shutoffs, and cooling systems occurring in low circumstances. …”
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Influence of Implant Surfaces on Peri-Implant Diseases – A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Ahmad Hussein, Maanas Shah, Momen A. Atieh, Sara Alhimairi, Fatemeh Amir-Rad, Haitham Elbishari

“…Materials and Methods: Randomized controlled trials were searched in electronic databases. Risk of bias within the selected studies was assessed using the Risk of Bias Tool 2. …”
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Accidents and injuries related to paragliding on mount Babadağ, Turkey: A cross-sectional study by Ömer Faruk Karakoyun, Yalcin Golcuk

“…METHODS: This cross-sectional retrospective study utilized data on adverse paragliding events on Mount Babadağ in Turkey, collected by the Muğla Sports Tourism Board (STB) between January 2020 and December 2021, with data sources including out-of-hospital STB forms and in-hospital electronic health records. RESULTS: Out of 241,420 paragliding flights, a total of 44 accidents were identified, with only three resulting in fatalities. …”
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Decisions about the use of psychotropic medication during pregnancy: a qualitative study by Irene Petersen, Vanessa Pinfold, Sarah Hamilton, Fiona Stevenson, Charlotte Walker, Ceri R J Dare, Harminder Kaur, Ruth Lambley, Paulina Szymczynska, Vicky Nicolls

“…In nearly all cases, the women expressed the view that healthcare professionals had access to limited information leaving women to rely on experiential and common sense evidence when making decisions about medicine taking during pregnancy.Conclusions The findings complement existing work using electronic health records by providing explanations for the discontinuation of psychotropic medicines in pregnancy. …”
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Interaktion im wissenschaftlichen Fachtext aus kontrastiver Sicht. Untersucht anhand von deutschen und lettischen linguistischen Aufsätzen by Agnese Dubova, Diāna Laiveniece, Dzintra Lele-Rozentāle

“…The study is based on two parallel mini corpora of 30 linguistic papers each, which were published in electronic form in the period from 2020 to 2022. Papers representing German and Latvian as profiling languages were selected. …”
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Commercial Diplomacy and Internationalization of SMEs: A Scoping Review by Fatima Alsuwaidi, Muhammad Raziq, Uzma Batool

“…A systematic literature review was conducted using electronic databases with predefined inclusion-exclusion criteria. 191 articles were screened, yielding 19 relevant studies for final analysis. …”
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Vaccination status of nursing and medical students against measles and associated factors by Pallysson Paulo da Silva, Lairton Batista de Oliveira, Luisa Helena de Oliveira Lima

“…Methods: This is a cross-sectional and quantitative study, carried out with nursing and medical students in a municipality in the semi-arid region of Piauí, through an electronic questionnaire and verification of the vaccination card. …”
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Volatile profile and multivariant analysis of Sanhuang chicken breast in combination with Chinese 5-spice blend and garam masala by Rani Andaleeb, Danni Zhang, Shui Jiang, Yin Zhang, Yuan Liu

“…The flavour profiles of Sanhuang chicken breast (CB) and its blends with CS and GM were obtained by electronic nose (E-nose), solid-phase microextraction gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (SPME GC-MS) and GC-ion mobility spectrometry (GC-IMS). …”
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Efficacy and Safety of Topical Corticosteroids for Management of Oral Chronic Graft versus Host Disease by Basma Abdelaleem Elsaadany, Eman Magdy Ahmed, Sana Maher Hasan Aghbary

“…This systematic review aims to determine the clinical efficacy and safety of topical corticosteroids for the management of the mucosal alterations of oral cGVHD. Data Sources. Electronic search of different databases was conducted: PubMed, Cochrane library, Grey literature, WHO, and clinical trials.gov for clinical trial registration as well as hand search in the references of relevant articles up to November 2016. …”
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Crosscultural Validation of the Community Integration Questionnaire–Revised in an Italian Population by Melissa Ioncoli, Anna Berardi, Marco Tofani, Francescaroberta Panuccio, Annamaria Servadio, Donatella Valente, Giovanni Galeoto

“…The test also showed a good test-retest reliability, with an Intraclass Correlation Coefficient of 0.78, and a significant correlation between the total score of the CIQ-R and the Physical Component Summary (PCS) of the SF-12 (r=0.118), between the “social integration” subscale’s score and PCS12 (r=0.121) and between the “Electronic Social Networking integration” subscale’s score and PCS12 (r=0.184), with p<0.05. …”
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Policy brief: Optimising antimicrobial usage in paediatric inpatient hospital settings by J Cloete, M Karsas, T Chetty, A Pillay, M Archary, D Moore, T Reddy, Y Balakrishna, F Nakwa, R Lancaster, A Goga, P Jeena

“…Individualized treatment plans, improved infection prevention and control measures, ongoing surveillance, and exploring electronic technology for antimicrobial stewardship are also crucial. …”
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High-Precision Heading Determination Based on the Sun for Mars Rover by Yinhu Zhan, Shaojie Chen, Donghan He

“…A prototype comprising a sun sensor, electronic inclinometer, and chip-scale atomic clock is developed for testing the algorithms, models, and methods presented in this paper. …”
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MHD Analysis of Couple Stress Hybrid Nanofluid Free Stream over a Spinning Darcy-Forchheimer Porous Disc under the Effect of Thermal Radiation by Muhammad Zubair, Muhammad Jawad, Ebenezer Bonyah, Rashid Jan

“…The analysis of such kind of mixed convective flow is most important due to numerous industrial applications such as electronic devices, atomic reactors, central solar energy equipment, and heat transferring devices. …”
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