Online education in palliative care - A national exploratory multimethod study by Carina Lundh Hagelin, Christina Melin-Johansson, Jane Österlind, Birgitta Bisholt, Susanna Pusa

“…Quantitative data were analysed using descriptive statistics, while thematic analysis was applied to the free-text responses. Results Nine online courses provided by five different organisations were mapped. …”
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Study on Connectivity Mechanism and Robustness of Three-Dimensional Pore Network of Sandstone by Guannan Liu, Xiaopeng Pei, Dayu Ye, Feng Gao, Zongqing Zhou, Chenglu Gao

“…The results show that the structural characteristics of the sandstone seepage network are consistent with BA scale-free network, whose average path length increases with the size of the network. …”
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BWFER-YOLOv8: An Enhanced Cascaded Framework for Concealed Object Detection by Khalid Ijaz, Ikramullah Khosa, Ejaz A. Ansari, Syed Farooq Ali, Asif Hussain, Faran Awais Butt

“…Contact-free concealed object detection using passive millimeter-wave imaging (PMMWI) sensors is a challenging task due to a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and nonuniform illumination affecting the captured image’s quality. …”
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Treatment of Sarcoptic Mange in Wombats With Topical Moxidectin by Hayley J. Stannard, Marie B. Wynan, Ray J. Wynan, Amanda Cox, Howard Ralph, Gregory S. Doran

“…ABSTRACT Sarcoptic mange is a debilitating disease affecting free‐living/wild bare‐nosed wombats (Vombatus ursinus). …”
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Evaluation of the practice of applying state price regulation methods: Indian experience by E. A. Santovich

“…The problems of the functioning of individual instruments of the state pricing policy have been indicated, however, based on statistical data, a generalized conclusion has been made, that they are not critical and do not undermine the country’s economy or the free functioning of the market. The prospects for the use of certain elements of the state price policy of India in the Russian economy have been evaluated.…”
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Digital Three-Dimensional Atlas of Quail Development Using High-Resolution MRI by Seth W. Ruffins, Melanie Martin, Lindsey Keough, Salina Truong, Scott E. Fraser, Russell E. Jacobs, Rusty Lansford

“…The atlas is designed to be accessed using SHIVA, a free Java application. The atlas is extensible and can contain other types of information including anatomical, physiological, and functional descriptors. …”
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Muscle Relaxant and Sedative-Hypnotic Activities of Extract of Viola betonicifolia in Animal Models Supported by Its Isolated Compound, 4-Hydroxy Coumarin by Naveed Muhammad, Mohammad Saeed, Haroon Khan, Achyut Adhikari, Khalid Mohammed Khan

“…Our tested extract was found free of any antidepressant activity, while the movement was significantly (P<0.05) shortened in locomotor activity. …”
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Satisfaction Analysis of the Urban Landscape for 45-meter El-Goli Boulevard in Tabriz Using the SERVQUAL Model by saeedeh feizi, rasol darskhan, hasan sattarisarbangholi

“…Given the fact that the existence of dead, cold, and soulless spaces in cities is affected by heterogeneity and visual contamination that is free from eye-catching and desirability. Therefore, this research seeks to evaluate the visual quality of the urban landscape of the Eil Goli district of Tabriz through the scale of the SERVQUAL tool. …”
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Overcrowding in prisons: Health and legal implications by Eva Nudd, Maha Aon, Kalliopi Kambanella, Marie Brasholt

“…It is often associated with violations of human rights, including, among others, the right to be free from torture and ill-treatment, the right to health, and the right to liberty and security. …”
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Differential Private POI Queries via Johnson-Lindenstrauss Transform by Mengmeng Yang, Tianqing Zhu, Bo Liu, Yang Xiang, Wanlei Zhou

“…The growing popularity of location-based services is giving untrusted servers relatively free reign to collect huge amounts of location information from mobile users. …”
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Engineering Behavior of Municipal Solid Waste Incinerated Ash with Compressible Soil: An Approach Towards the Waste Utilization & Stabilization of Compressible Soil by Saurabh Kumar, Sneha Gupta

“…The findings showed that adding an adequate amount of bottom ash (20%) and soil sample (80%) made the soil more effective as a subgrade material by decreasing the value of differential free swell and consistency limitations of the soil and the value of UCS increased by more than 146 % and the soaked CBR values increased by 118% was noticed. …”
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The cholesterol metabolite 25-hydroxycholesterol suppresses porcine deltacoronavirus via lipophagy inhibition and mTORC1 modulation by Jia-lu Zhang, Xue-fei Wang, Jia-lin Li, Cong Duan, Jiu-feng Wang

“…The results revealed that 25HC decreased free cholesterol (FC) levels but increased triglyceride (TG) levels in PDCoV-infected cells and piglets. …”
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Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Metastatic Lung Cancer as Oligo-Recurrence: An Analysis of 42 Cases by Wataru Takahashi, Hideomi Yamashita, Yuzuru Niibe, Kenshiro Shiraishi, Kazushige Hayakawa, Keiichi Nakagawa

“…As for prognostic factor, the OS of patients with a short disease-free interval (DFI) months, between the initial therapy and SBRT for ORCL, was significantly worse than the OS of long DFI months (). …”
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Epitaxial growth of Pd clusters on N-doped Ag nanowires for oxygen reduction reaction by Qinhe Guan, Shiwei Sun, Xiaohang Ge, Fan Zhang, Lijie Qu, Chao Yin, Weiyong Yuan, Lianying Zhang

“…Efficient and stable Pt-free electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) are indispensable for future fuel cells. …”
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Corpus callosotomy for treatment of pediatric epilepsy: two clinical cases and a literature review by R. Matonytė, S. Ročka, J. Grikinienė

“…Overall, long-term follow-up studies after callosotomy have shown improvement in 80-90% of patients (seizure-free or reduction). The paper describes two pediatric patients treated in Vilnius University Hospital Santara Clinics, Department of Pediatric Neurology and Neurosurgery, who underwent a corpus callosotomy, and compares the outcome of these clinical cases with the results of recent clinical trials. …”
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Impact of a Novel Two-Phase Natural Deep Eutectic Solvent-Assisted Extraction on the Structural, Functional, and Flavor Properties of Hemp Protein Isolates by Yi Chen, Wellington S. Oliveira, Fernanda F. G. Dias, Baraem P. Ismail

“…Accordingly, a two-phase natural deep eutectic solvent (NADES)-assisted extraction was evaluated as a solvent-free alternative for co-extracting protein and oil from full-fat hemp flour. …”
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Barriers to Testing and Treatment for Chagas Disease among Latino Immigrants in Georgia by Rebecca M. Minneman, Monique M. Hennink, Andrea Nicholls, Sahar S. Salek, Francisco S. Palomeque, Amina Khawja, Lauren C. Albor, Chester C. Pennock, Juan S. Leon

“…Discussion. Providing free or low cost services, mobile clinics, and education regarding CD is critical to increase testing and treatment of CD in the US.…”
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An effective and ecofriendly suggestion to decrease atmospheric carbon dioxide by using NH3 gas by H. Eryilmaz

“…(NH₃+ CO₂) reaction is also quantitative in the cold atmosphere strata and there will be no more free ammonia in the atmosphere and no public health problem.…”
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Characterization of Cobalt Sulfide Thin Films Synthesized from Acidic Chemical Baths by Tizazu Abza, Dereje Gelanu Dadi, Fekadu Gashaw Hone, Tesfaye Chebelew Meharu, Gebremeskel Tekle, Eyobe Belew Abebe, Kalid Seid Ahmed

“…The scanning electron microscopic images revealed crack and pinhole free thin films with uniform and smooth background and few large polygonal grains on the surface. …”
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Transforming Soil Stability: A Review on Harnessing Plant Cell Compounds and Microbial Products for Modifying Cation Exchange Capacity by M. V. Shah, N. M. Rathod, D. N. Prajapati, P. J. Mehta, R. R. Panchal and Vijay Upadhye

“…The cation exchange capacity (CEC) can be defined as the ability of soil to absorb and exchange positively charged ions; thus, if free positively charged ions are not available, the soil will not exchange them with others. …”
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