Scoping Review of the Zika Virus Literature. by Lisa A Waddell, Judy D Greig

“…The global primary literature on Zika virus (ZIKV) (n = 233 studies and reports, up to March 1, 2016) has been compiled using a scoping review methodology to systematically identify and characterise the literature underpinning this broad topic using methods that are documented, updateable and reproducible. …”
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Dream of European Army: Is It a Feasible Objective or Not? by Sevil Şahin, Mustafa Ozan Şahin

“…We have witnessed new security and military efforts from the EU in the first two decades of the 2000s, such as the European Security Strategy, EU’s Global Strategy and Security Compass. 2013 marked a turning point when the USA deployed its new nuclear weapons in Europe. …”
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Machine Learning-based Disease Classification in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) Plants by Md Towfiqur Rahman, Sudipto Dhar Dipto, Israt Jahan June, Abdul Momin, Muhammad Rashed Al Mamun

“…This nondestructive processing holds immense promise for improving disease detection efficiency and reducing losses in tomato production, both locally in Bangladesh and globally.…”
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Equity and gender mainstreaming in public policy: A scoping review protocol. by Michelle Amri, Jinny Yang, Geneviève Jessiman-Perreault, Amne Haikal, Kathryn Barrett, Jesse B Bump

“…<h4>Background</h4>Despite growing attention paid to health equity and efforts to promote gender mainstreaming-a global strategy to promote gender equality-how policymakers have 'institutionalized' this in their work is less clear. …”
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A study of the impact of urban business credit environment on environmental pollution. by Jing Wu, Qing Guo

“…Environmental pollution has become a global concern, so it is critical to find out the elements that influence it. …”
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Multi-scenario modeling of regional dual-carbon target achievement and air quality improvement: A case study of Zhejiang province by Yuxin Yang

“…The rise in carbon emissions is a major driver of global warming, and China faces the dual challenge of reducing emissions while addressing air pollution. …”
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Roqueros y roqueras, pavitos y pavitas, skaters, lesbianas y gays. El papel del consumo cultural en la construcción de representaciones de identidades juveniles (El caso de algunos... by Emilia T. Bermúdez H.

“…Asimismo, que existen diferentes maneras de ser joven y que estas identidades se construyen en el entrecruzamiento de espacios y símbolos globales y locales.…”
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Carbapenem-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections at a Tertiary Health Care Center in Nepal: An Observational Study by Dimpi Konwar, Navin Kumar Chaudhary, Poonam Yadav

“…During the last several years, there has been an alarming global increase in the detection and spread of Carbapenem-resistant organisms among gram-negative bacteria. …”
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Scientific support to plant breeding and seed production in Siberia in the XXI century by N. P. Goncharov

“…The article explains the need for fundamental reform in this economic sector: the recognition of plant breeding as being a fundamental science; a fair increase in its funding; the development of a breeding strategy, nationally and regionally; the further expansion of the network of the Breeding Centers; the re-establishment and improvement of the universities’ departments specialized in plant breeding and seed production; having more state-funded places in the universities for training plant breeders to be able to maintain and cement the country’s advanced position in plant breeding and to develop new globally competitive next-generation cultivars of main crops. …”
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Orientia, Rickettsia, and the microbiome in rodent attached chiggers in North Carolina, USA. by Elise A Richardson, Reuben Garshong, Kaiying Chen, Dac Crossley, Bryan S Mclean, Gideon Wasserberg, Charles S Apperson, R Michael Roe, Loganathan Ponnusamy

“…Chiggers are larval mites that pose a significant health risk globally via the spread of scrub typhus. However, fundamental studies into the bacterial microbiome in North America have never been considered. …”
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Spatially Varying Relation between Built Environment and Station-Level Subway Passenger-Distance by Hongtai Yang, Zhihao Zhao, Chaozhe Jiang, Yi Wen, Malik Muneeb Abid

“…The comparison shows that the MGWR model that considers both global and local variables has the best goodness of fit. …”
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Characterising the scale-up and performance of antiretroviral therapy programmes in sub-Saharan Africa: an observational study using growth curves by Benjamin Bigelow, Stéphane Verguet

“…Growth curves are a class of mathematical models that can parameterise dynamic phenomena and estimate rates of change summarising these phenomena; however, they are not commonly used in global health. We sought to characterise the changes over time in antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage in sub-Saharan Africa using growth curve models.Design This was a retrospective observational study. …”
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Why do patients with ‘primary care sensitive’ problems access ambulance services? A systematic mapping review of the literature by Ali R G Shaw, Sarah Purdy, Matthew J Booker

“…A number of subcategories were developed to explore these factors in more detail.Conclusions This review reports important factors that may impact on ambulance use for primary care problems across a global setting, including demographic measures associated with deprivation, minority status and individual social circumstances. …”
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Creencias, actitudes y comportamientos de los estudiantes universitarios de la Comunidad Andina ante la desinformación by Oscar Ivan Londoño-Pardo, Maria Paula Arbelaez, Julio-César Mateus

“…Los resultados confirman que los estudiantes ven en la desinformación un problema que afecta a la sociedad a nivel global, pero atribuyen su distribución y el riesgo de establecer percepciones erróneas a las personas más adultas, dada su confianza en los medios tradicionales. …”
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LITHUANIAN EMIGRANTS’ SATISFACTION WITH THEIR HOLIDAY IN HOMELAND by Viktorija Grigaliūnaitė, Lina Pilelienė

“… Contemporary global environment leads to a situation when citizens of many countries emigrate to search for better carriers, education, or life opportunities. …”
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Detection of multidrug resistant Vibrio parahaemolyticus and anti-Vibrio Streptomyces sp. MUM 178J by Ke-Yan Loo, Loh Teng-Hern Tan, Jodi Woan-Fei Law, Priyia Pusparajah, Learn-Han Lee, Vengadesh Letchumanan

“… The growing global population has increased the demand for seafood, making the aquaculture industry a vital food source. …”
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Assessment of Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Afi River Forest Reserve Cross River State, Nigeria by C. I. Duru, U. D. Chima, C. Fredrick

“…Forest conversion remains a pressing concern for the global environmental community. This study evaluated the impact of land use and land cover (LULC) changes on selected ecosystem components in the Afi River Forest Reserve, Cross River State, Nigeria. …”
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Large language model usage guidelines in Korean medical journals: a survey using human-artificial intelligence collaboration by Sangzin Ahn

“…Conclusion While the adoption of LLM guidelines among Korean medical journals is lower than the global trend, there has been a clear increase in implementation over time. …”
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Phenomic characterization of Crotalaria germplasm for crop improvement by Joshua Kiilu Muli, Johnstone O. Neondo, Peter K. Kamau, Eddy Odari, Nancy L. M. Budambula

“…Abstract Background Diversification of global food systems through exploration of traditional varieties and wild edible plant species is a focal mitigation strategy for food security worldwide. …”
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Stochastic differential equations to model influenza transmission with continuous and discrete-time Markov chains by Kazi Mehedi Mohammad, Md. Kamrujjaman

“…For all the models, the threshold quantity, R0 is calculated which is the key reason to prove the global and local stability analysis of disease-free equilibrium and endemic equilibrium points. …”
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