Is Avian influenza virus still threatening humans? Preventative measures and treatment by Jacek Fordymacki, Ryszard Łagowski, Julia Kosęda, Barbara Fetner

“…Although pandemic influenza spread very rare, it is of great concern due to its global reach and high mortality rate [2]. Health experts are concerned that a future pandemic could be caused by the H5N1 strain of the virus, an infection that can spread from birds to humans [3]. …”
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Decentralized and Asymmetric Multi-Agent Learning in Construction Sites by Yakov Miron, Dan Navon, Yuval Goldfracht, Dotan Di Castro, Itzik Klein

“…Therefore, we develop two heuristic experts capable of achieving their joint goal optimally, by applying an innovative prioritization method. …”
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Examining effects of climate information utilization by climate-vulnerability groups in the northern region of Ghana by Iddisah Alhassan, Philip Antwi-Agyei, William Adzawla, Mihaela Sima, Alexander Siegmund, Alexander Siegmund, Emmanuel Eze, Emmanuel Eze, Emmanuel Eze

“…Using a concurrent nested mixed research (quantitative and qualitative) approach, we collected data from 384 sampled farm household respondents, focus group discussions, and experts’ (Key-informants) opinions on climate change in the region. …”
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Development and Validation of Rabies Health Education Module (RaHEM) for Dog Owners in Kelantan, Malaysia: An ADDIE Model by Mohammad Fazrul Mohammad Basir, Suhaily Mohd Hairon, Mohd Ismail Ibrahim, Wan Mohd Zahiruddin Wan Mohamad, Nik Mohd Hafiz Mohd Fuzi, Ainin Syakirah Rosli, Mohammad Sabri Abdul Rahman, Anas Rosedi

“…Validation was performed by a panel of six experts and ten dog owners through content and face validity indices, respectively. …”
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General views on treatment technologies for patients with incisional ventral hernia by E. E. Lukoyanychev, S. G. Izmajlov, V. A. Emelyanov, O. S. Kolchina, A. I. Rotkov, M. N. Kiselyov

“…According to the statistical data, the number of patients with postoperative ventral hernias has increased by more than 9 times over the past 25 years. Experts offer many solutions to this problem every year and the surgeon have to find the best method of postoperative rehabilitation in the flow of information. …”
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Psychosocial volunteer support for older adults with cognitive impairment: development of MyCare Ageing using a codesign approach via action research by Dave Vicary, Velandai K Srikanth, Darshini Ayton, Renée O'donnell, Helen Skouteris, Catherine Bateman, Chris Moran, Julie Lustig, Jane Banaszak-Holl, Peter Hunter, Elizabeth Pritchard, Heather Morris, Melissa Savaglio, Seema Parikh

“…We report on two co-design workshops with keystakeholders: Workshop 1: identification of components from three existing programmes to inform the development of the MyCare Ageing program logic and, Workshop 2: identification of implementation strategies.Participants The key stakeholders and workshop participants included clinicians (geriatricians, nurses and allied health), hospital staff (volunteer coordinators and hospital executives), Baptcare staff, a consumer, researchers and implementation experts and project staff.Results Workshop 1 identified the components from three existing programmes—the Volunteer Dementia and Delirium Care programme, Home-Start and MyCare for inclusion in MyCare Ageing. …”
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Chinese stroke association guidelines on reperfusion therapy for acute ischaemic stroke 2024 by Liping Liu, Anding Xu, Xin Wang, Yongjun Wang, Yilong Wang, Zhongrong Miao, Yuming Xu, Benyan Luo, Bin Peng, Yong Huo, Qiang Dong, Zixiao Li, Xingquan Zhao, Caiyun Wang, Hongqiu Gu, Chunjuan Wang, Zhengqi Lu, Yunyun Xiong, Shuo Wang, Lihua Wang, Linong Ji, Xiaoping Gao, Wenzhi Wang, Yi Yang, Kai Wang, Junbo Ge, Xunming Ji, Jun Pu, Tong Zhang, Bo Hu, Ning Wang, Yun Xu, Jinsheng Zeng, Gang Zhao, Zhong Chen, Aoming Jin, Xiaoyuan Niu, Jiong Shi, Shuya Li, Jianmin Zhang, Ling Yin, Dou Li, Dehong Lu, Chao Qin, Dapeng Sun, Kaifu Ke, Yanhui Du, Xiaoning Zhang, Fudong Shi, Jianxin Zhou, Lan Chu, Li Guo Li He, Shengnian Zhou, Weixin Cai, Xiaomu Wu, Zhiyi He

“…A comprehensive search of MEDLINE (via PubMed) was conducted up to 30 September 2024. Experts in the field of stroke engaged in extensive discussions, both online and offline, to evaluate the latest evidence. …”
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Presenting an Evaluation Model of Digital Libraries (Iran) by Alireza Isfandyari Moghaddam, Atefeh Zarei, Elham Naiich

“…With the quantitative method, an evaluation questionnaire of digital libraries was designed, validated, and completed with the consensus of experts, and then it was sent to digital libraries for completion. …”
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Reflecting on partnerships established and sustained over four cycles of a federally funded cancer prevention and control research program: lessons learned for community-academic n... by Swann Arp Adams, Swann Arp Adams, Lauren Workman, Lauren Workman, Mayank Sakhuja, Brooks Yelton, Karen E. Wickersham, Ciaran Fairman, Jan Eberth, Sue Heiney, James R. Hebert, James R. Hebert, Jaron H. King, Freda Allyson Hucek, Lauren Schaurer, Daniela B. Friedman

“…As community-based participatory research is a core value of our center, we examined the development and continued engagement of our community partners using a qualitative, inductive approach to identify emergent themes from focus group sessions with current and past investigators.ResultsSeveral key themes were identified from our analysis including long-term commitment to community partnerships and interconnectedness with other work, authentic approach, valuing our community as experts, and mutual benefits.DiscussionWith our results, we provide evidence of common community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles which have supported the sustained engagement with those racial minorities who are most vulnerable in our community. …”
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MGScoliosis: Multi-grained scoliosis detection with joint ordinal regression from natural image by Xiaojia Zhu, Rui Chen, Zhiwen Shao, Ming Zhang, Yuhu Dai, Wenzhi Zhang, Chuandong Lang

“…The two ways both rely on experts with high costs, which are not suitable for wide-range screening. …”
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ATTRIBUTION OF MEDIA TEXTS BASED ON A TRAINED NATURAL LANGUAGE MODEL AND LINGUISTIC ASSESSMENT OF IDENTIFICATION QUALITY by Vladimir A. Klyachin, Ekaterina V. Khizhnyakova

“…Manual marking of the corpus was carried out by experts based on the parameterization of the text content. …”
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Fighting Evaluation Inflation: Concentrated Datasets for Grammatical Error Correction Task by Vladimir Starchenko, Darya Kharlamova, Elizaveta Klykova, Anastasia Shavrina, Aleksey Starchenko, Olga Vinogradova, Olga Lyashevskaya

“…According to common metrics, they often reach the level of or surpass human experts. Nevertheless, they perform poorly on several kinds of errors that are effortlessly corrected by humans. …”
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Exploring the potential impact of the proposed UK TV and online food advertising regulations: a concept mapping study by Jean Adams, Martin White, Peter Scarborough, Richard Smith, Emma J Boyland, Hannah Forde

“…To guide the regulations’ implementation and evaluation, we aimed to develop a concept map to hypothesise their potential consequences for the commercial food system, health and society.Methods We used adapted group concept mapping in four virtual workshops with food marketing and regulation experts across academia, civil society, government organisations, and industry (n=14), supported by Miro software. …”
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Identifying and ranking the effective financial factors on rural entrepreneurial small businesses by Khosro Farahi, Parvaneh Gelard, Hamid Tohidi

“…The research method applied based on purpose and data collection is a semi-structured interview done through interviews with academic experts, implementers of rural employment and entrepreneurship projects, and entrepreneurs. …”
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Using ICT Tools for Exploring the Impact of Urban Blue-Green Spaces on Human Health and Well-Being by Sanja IVANKOVIC, Dragana JOVANOVIC, Predrag SAVIC, Vesna KARADŽIĆ, Milena VASIĆ

“…These wearable devices enable collection of biometric data, and project oriented mobile applications developed in collaboration between IT and medical experts guide participants on BGS visits, potentially monitor other health-related data and facilitate digital collection of socio-economic-medical questionnaires. …”
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Diagnóstico y tratamiento de los trastornos de la presión intracraneal: Documento de consenso del Grupo de Estudio de Cefaleas de la Sociedad Española de Neurología by J. García-Ull, N. González-García, M. Torres-Ferrús, D. García-Azorín, I.F.J. Molina-Martínez, I. Beltrán-Blasco, S. Santos-Lasaosa, G. Latorre, A.B. Gago-Veiga, J.M. Láinez, J. Porta-Etessam, C. Nieves-Castellanos, A. Mínguez-Olaondo, A. López-Bravo, S. Quintas, N. Morollón, S. Díaz-Insa, R. Belvís, P. Irimia

“…Therefore, the Spanish Society of Neurology's Headache Study Group considered it necessary to prepare this consensus document with the inclusion of diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms to facilitate and improve their management in clinical practice.This document was created by a committee of experts of the Spanish Society of Neurology's Headache Study Group based on a systematic review of the literature, incorporating the experience of the participants, and establishing practical recommendations with levels of evidence and grades of recommendation.…”
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The impact of digital transformation on sustainability: a case of the Iranian telecom industry by Jamal Aghayari, Changiz Valmohammadi, Mahmood Alborzi

“…Then, a questionnaire was designed and distributed among 120 Iranian experts, managers, and consultants, and 97 complete questionnaires were returned. …”
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Challenges of Research Performance Evaluation in Iran: A Qualitative Study by Nadia Saniee, Shahram Sedghi, Abdolreza Noroozi chakoli, Salime Goharinezhad, Leila Nemati anaraki

“…Participants in this qualitative study were selected using a purposive sampling method. 11 Out of 21 experts from the two areas of the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology and the Ministry of Health and Medical Education were interviewed face-to-face, by telephone, and WhatsApp social media based on an interview guide. …”
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A consensus statement on child and family health during the COVID-19 pandemic and recommendations for post-pandemic recovery and re-build by Caroline A. B. Redhead, Sergio A. Silverio, Sergio A. Silverio, Elana Payne, Elana Payne, Mari Greenfield, Mari Greenfield, Sara M. Barnett, Anna Chiumento, Beth Holder, Helen Skirrow, Ofelia Torres, Carmen Power, Staci M. Weiss, Laura A. Magee, Soo Downe, Lucy Frith, Claire Cameron

“…Drawing on findings from an expansive national collaboration, and with the well-being of children and young people in mind, we make recommendations here for post-pandemic recovery and re-build.MethodsThis consensus statement is derived from a cross-disciplinary collaboration of experts. Working together discursively, we have synthesised evidence from collaborative research in child and family health during the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Assessing the Safety Level of Hospitalized Patients: Analyzing Patient Activities by Sayedeh Somayyeh Mousavipour, Mousa Jabbari, Mahnaz Saremi, Abbas Ebadi, Ehsan Shariat Bahadori, Davoud Khorasani Zavareh

“…To assess the risk, the risk matrix model, which is one of the risk assessment models, was used. Experts' opinions were used to rank the risk, and finally the risk level of the identified hazards was determined before and after the control measures. …”
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