A narrative review of proactive palliative care models for people with COPD by Amy Pascoe, Xinye Chen, Natasha Smallwood

“…Each model describes a diverse set of interventions and many of these share common elements, including the normalisation of palliative principles within routine care and the provision of diverse delivery settings to accommodate individual preferences and needs. Successful palliative care models must be practical, accessible and innovative to respond to individuals’ complex and evolving needs, foster multi-disciplinary collaboration and input and optimally utilise local healthcare resources.…”
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Invoking spatial justice in urban mobility in Nairobi: A commuter’s perspective by Dorcas Nthoki Nyamai

“…This is based on the premise that space not only contains resources that can be distributed but also consists of individuals who are highly mobile within that space, and whose perceptions play a pivotal role in shaping the concept of justice in relation to mobility. …”
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Examining The Time Prisoners Study Using E-Learning While In Prison: Sustainability of E-Learning Programs in Prison by Mahlangu Vimbi Petrus

“…E-learning platforms offer jailed individuals a flexible and easily accessible method of acquiring knowledge and skills, enabling them to pursue academic interests and career goals. …”
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Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership: Perceptions of the LGBTQ in Turkiye by Fatoş Gökşen, Murat Ergin

“…The third dimension of personal morality is also limited, because boundaries against LGBTQ individuals also cut across religion and religiosity. …”
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Restricted Boltzmann Machine-Assisted Estimation of Distribution Algorithm for Complex Problems by Lin Bao, Xiaoyan Sun, Yang Chen, Guangyi Man, Hui Shao

“…Second, according to the energy function of the RBM, a fitness surrogate is developed to approximate the expensive individual fitness evaluations and participates in the evolutionary process to reduce the computational cost. …”
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Venous leg ulcer healing as a determinant of quality of life in patients treated with unna boot: A quasi-experimental study. by Mário Lins Galvão de Oliveira, Felipe León-Morillas, Isadora Costa Andriola, Carmelo Sergio Gómez Martínez, Bruno Araújo da Silva Dantas, Gilson de Vasconcelos Torres

“…A convenience sample of individuals receiving services was followed for at least one year while undergoing compression therapy. …”
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The Threshold of the Severity of Diabetic Retinopathy below Which Intensive Glycemic Control Is Beneficial in Diabetic Patients: Estimation Using Data from Large Randomized Clinica... by Yuqi Liu, Juan Li, Jinfang Ma, Nanwei Tong

“…Intensive glucose therapy can protect the retina of individuals with diabetes, but it is unknown if it provides the same protection to patients with different severity of diabetic retinopathy (DR). …”
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Enfoque de capacidades y cubo del curso de vida, aplicado a la migración de mujeres calificadas by Lidia Ivonne Munguía Ocampo, Arlette Covarrubias Feregrino

“…El cubo permite visualizar las interdependencias entre (1) la temporalidad del curso de la vida de las mujeres y el momento histórico en el que llevan a cabo su proceso migratorio, (2) los factores de conversión individual, social, y ambiental que brindan o restringen su capacidad para lograr funcionamientos que consideren de valor para su vida y cómo ejercen su agencia para alcanzar su bienestar, y (3) los niveles de interacción micro, meso y macro que en conjunto conectan los ámbitos de la vida a lo largo del tiempo desde lo individual, en las relaciones sociales y considerando las estructuras de la sociedad externa.…”
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Constraints on Neutrino Electric Millicharge from Experiments of Elastic Neutrino-Electron Interaction and Future Experimental Proposals Involving Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus... by A. Parada

“…In this work, we first carried out a statistical analysis by using data from reactor neutrino experiments, which include elastic neutrino-electron scattering (ENES) processes, in order to obtain both individual and combined limits on the neutrino electric millicharge (NEM). …”
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Régimen sensible corporizado. Las prácticas corporales reflexivas en Medellín desde 1980 by Julia Castro Carvajal

“…Se trata de la construcción de cuerpos sensibles que conciertan formas de autonomía individual con formas de gobierno de la vida relacionadas con el bienestar, el urbanismo social, la productividad y la salud. …”
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Leukocyte Telomere Length and Cognitive Function in Older Adults by Emily Frith, Paul D. Loprinzi

“…Individuals were excluded if they had been diagnosed with coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, heart attack or stroke at the baseline assessment. …”
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Single‐egg comet assay: A protocol to quantify DNA damage in natural bioarchives by Rejin Salimraj, Alessio Perotti, Marcin W. Wojewodzic, Dagmar Frisch

“…More generally, the SE‐CA is applicable to testing DNA integrity in individual propagules prior to genome sequencing or to quantify environmental impacts on natural sedimentary biobanks.…”
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Effectiveness of Three Types of Moisturizers on Senile Dry Skin: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial by Miku Aoki, Natsuki Hata, Junko Yotsuya

“…This interventional study involved elderly individuals aged >65 years who were living in a nursing home. …”
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Could the Incentive Policy of Shared Parking Be Sustainable? The Viewpoint of Personal Risk Aversion by Liangpeng Gao, Yue Zheng, Wenliang Jian, Yanjie Ji, Dounan Tang

“…This paper discusses an innovative mechanism of shared parking, “FlexPass,” which applies a reverse auction in which drivers propose bids in line with their individual expectations to share their idle parking spaces. …”
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Exploring Barriers, Facilitators, and Needs Related to Mental Health Promotion for Police Officers: A Qualitative Approach by Gi Wook Ryu PhD, RN, Ji Yeon Lee PhD, RN, GNP-BC

“…Poor mental health can lead to increased healthcare costs for individuals, organizations, and nations and negatively impacts public safety. …”
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The effect of digital literacy levels of sports sciences faculty students on e-learning attitude by Fikret Soyer, Nuri Berk Gungor, Alptug Soyer

“… The aim of this research is to determine the effect of digital literacy level of individuals studying at the Faculty of Sport Sciences on their e-learning attitude. …”
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Depression in adolescence and the understanding of health-A phenomenographic study. by Klara Danielsson, Mikael Ahlborg, Rebecca Mortazavi, Håkan Jarbin, Ingrid Larsson

“…Health is multifaceted, with divergent interpretations in diverse cultures and groups of individuals. The ways individuals understand health might aid in developing future interventions. …”
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COVID-19 death toll predictions show that triggering counterfactual thinking deteriorates judgmental performance by Matthias Seifert, Jeeva Somasundaram

“…Interestingly, this behavior is also observed among individuals who had recovered from COVID-19 (or someone in their close social circle). …”
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Inotersen to Treat Polyneuropathy Associated with Hereditary Transthyretin (hATTR) Amyloidosis by Christopher Robinson, Cynthia Pham, Alec M. Zamarripa, Chase S. Dugay, Christopher A. Lee, Amnon A. Berger, Avi Landman, Elyse M. Cornett, Hisham Kassem, Alan D. Kaye, Ivan Urits, Omar Viswanath, Latha Ganti

“…There are both acquired and hereditary forms of this disease, and this review focuses on the latter hereditary transthyretin-mediated (hATTR). hATTR affects about 50,000 individuals globally and mostly appears as one of three syndromes - cardiac, polyneuropathy, and oculoleptomeningeal. …”
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EthnoFilm: cinema-school and ethno-laboratory by Ivan Golovnev

“…On another hand, all the films were considered as individual works: the film’s style and content depended upon the chosen characters, environment and author's position. …”
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