Refugee entrepreneurship: Systematic literature review by Jan Brzozowski, Inna Voznyuk

“…We also recommend further investigation into the interactions between refugees and economic migrants, especially those from the same country or those who speak a similar language and share cultural ties. Such interactions could influence the evolution of opportunity structures in the destination countries, potentially leading to the creation of ethnic enclaves. …”
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Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Brain Health Indicators in Cuban Preschoolers by Yaser Ramírez Benítez, Miriela Díaz Bringas, Rodneys Mauricio Jiménez-Morales, Ijang Bih Ngyah-Etchutambe, Linda S. Pagani

“…We assessed archival reports on parental smoking, duration and frequency of exposure, and several indicators of brain health, including executive function, language development, sleep quality, and fluid intelligence. …”
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Mapping evidence on the regulations affecting accessibility, availability and management of snake antivenom globally: a scoping review protocol by Kabelo Kgarosi, Ramsha Majeed, Janette Bester, Morné Strydom

“…Articles in the English language and between 2009 and 2023 were included. The search results were collated, duplicates were removed and results were exported to Rayyan (https://www.rayyan.ai/) for screening. …”
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Attitudes Regarding the Use of Ventilator Support Given a Supposed Terminal Condition among Community-Dwelling Mexican American and Non-Hispanic White Older Adults: A Pilot Study by M. Rosina Finley, Johanna Becho, R. Lillianne Macias, Robert C. Wood, Arthur E. Hernandez, David V. Espino

“…Eligible subjects answered a questionnaire in their preferred language (English/Spanish) concerning ventilator use during terminal illness. …”
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ART AS COMMUNICATION IN HOTSPOTS OF THE PLANET (ON THE EXAMPLE OF MODERN SYRIA). PART ONE by Oksana Kosiuk

“…Communication not only states reality with the "language" of symbols but also demonstrates ways to escape from its ideological cataclysms. …”
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Development of ICF-based patient-reported outcome and experience measures to study social participation among people with chronic diseases: a mixed-methods protocol by Christophe Vanroelen, Maxim Van den broecke, Sarah de Jong, Régine Kiasuwa Mbengi

“…A mixed-method approach is used to create broad initial item pools based on patient (focus groups) and literature perspectives which are compared within ICF-standardised language by applying the refined ICF linking rules. …”
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Brain plasticity associated with prolonged shooting training: a multimodal neuroimaging investigation from a cross-sectional study by Keying Zhang, Tao Zhao, Yu Ding, Jia Cheng, Chunmei Cao

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Voice-related quality of life after total laryngectomy: a scoping review of recent evidence by Tatiana Pourliaka, Efcharis Panagopoulou, Vassiliki Siafaka

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Emerging practices supporting diabetes self-management among food insecure adults and families: A scoping review. by Enza Gucciardi, Adalia Yang, Katharine Cohen-Olivenstein, Brittany Parmentier, Jessica Wegener, Vanita Pais

“…A major limitation of this review is the lack of global representation considering no studies outside of North America satisfied our inclusion criteria, due in part to the English language restriction.…”
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3D BIOPRINTING IN DENTISTRY: BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS by Peter Frantsevich Litvitskiy, Alexander Tsymbal, Zhangirkhan Bolat, Yelaman Bazarbayev, Madina Bekentayeva, Raushan Nauryzbay, Azhar N. Zhexenova, Gulbanu Mukyshova, Lida Aliyeva, Aliya Zhylkybekova

“…A total of 107 publications were retrieved, with 102 being in the English language. Performance analysis and science mapping were performed using the Bibliometrix R package in the R-studio. …”
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Skeptic’s Comment: What Questions ‘Academic Writing’ Does Not Answer by Alevtina S. Robotova

“…The status of AW is discussed as if sidestepping the national achievements in investigating the language, speech, text (academic), discourse, linguistic and rhetoric conventions, and etc. …”
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Pediatric kidney transplant recipients are at an increased risk for dysbiosis by Gizem Yılmaz, Seha Saygılı, Ayşe Ağbaş, Esra Karabağ Yılmaz, Ahmet Variş, Nur Canpolat

“…The gut microbiota was assessed using 16S rRNA gene sequencing, with alpha and beta diversity, as well as all statistical analyses, conducted using the Phyloseq library in the R programming language. Taxonomic profiles were evaluated with QIIME2, and differences in gut microbiota profiles were compared using linear discriminant analysis effect size (LEFSe) with an LDA threshold of >2 and p < 0.05.ResultsNo significant differences were found in alpha and beta diversity between the KTx recipients and healthy controls. …”
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Comparative effectiveness of anterior and posterior approaches for interscalene brachial plexus block: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Luis Eduardo Ciconini, Theodoro Beck, Catreen Abouelsaad, Karandip Bains, Mauren F. Carbonar

“…We included randomized controlled trials comparing the anterior and posterior techniques for ISBPB while excluding studies with overlapping populations, comparisons of blocks other than interscalene, and articles written in a non-English language. Results: The search strategy identified 2229 articles, of which six Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) met the inclusion criteria for the meta-analysis. …”
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Mechanisms and Mediators of Inflammation: Potential Models for Skin Rejection and Targeted Therapy in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation by Theresa Hautz, Dolores Wolfram, Johanna Grahammer, Ravi Starzl, Christoph Krapf, Johann Pratschke, W. P. Andrew Lee, Gerald Brandacher, Stefan Schneeberger

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A Semantic-Context Embedding Enhanced Attention Fusion BiLSTM: Unraveling Multilingual Sentiments in Product Reviews with Advanced Deep Learning by Amit Purohit, Pushpinder Singh Patheja

“…For natural language processing (NLP), sentiment analysis (SA) is crucial since it helps to understand users' feelings and opinions in a variety of contexts. …”
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Prevalence of anabolic steroid users seeking support from physicians: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Andreas Kimergård, Paolo Deluca, Julio Mario Xerfan Amaral

“…Secondary objectives are to compare this prevalence in different locations and among subpopulations of AAS users, and to discuss some of the factors that could have influenced the engagement of AAS users with physicians.Design Systematic review and meta-analysis.Data sources MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Web of Science and SciELO were searched in January 2022.Eligibility criteria Quantitative and qualitative studies reporting the number of AAS users who sought support from physicians, with no restrictions of language or time of publication.Data extraction and synthesis Two independent reviewers extracted data and assessed the quality of studies, including publication bias. …”
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Voluntary Disclosures and their Drivers: A Study of MDA Reports in India by Himani Singla, Vijay Singh

“…The possible reason for this could be the use of “Management Impression Strategy” in the MD&A reports, which means managers disclose more only when the firm has earned more and use impressive language to attract stakeholders. The outcomes of this research offer valuable insights for regulators, policymakers, and listed companies in India, aiding in the enhancement of MD&A reporting quality. …”
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Parent skills training for parents of children or adults with developmental disorders: systematic review and meta-analysis protocol by Corrado Barbui, Chiara Servili, Brian Reichow, Cary Kogan, Isaac Smith, M Taghi Yasamy

“…To locate studies, we will conduct an extensive electronic database search and then use snowball methods, with no limits to publication year or language. We will present a narrative synthesis including visual displays of study effects on child and parental outcomes and conduct a quantitative synthesis of the effects of parent skills training programmes using meta-analytic techniques.Ethics and dissemination No ethical issues are foreseen and ethical approval is not required given this is a protocol for a systematic review. …”
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A meta-analysis on the impact of concurrent or pre-existing cancer diagnosis on acute myocardial infarction outcomes. by Jie Wang, Jia Yu

“…<h4>Methods</h4>A literature search was conducted across PubMed, EMBASE, and Scopus databases. English-language cohort studies published in peer-reviewed journals were included. …”
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The impact of using divergent thinking strategies on reading comprehension by A. Al Masri, T. Krishan, F. Al Talahin, S. Almassarweh

“…These strategies stimulate the minds of sixth graders to think of new stimuli such as finding a solution to a specific problem, or making a specific judgment, or predicting future events, which produces new and innovative solutions and achieves a deeper understanding of the target reading text.The present research aims to investigate the impact of divergent thinking strategies in developing reading comprehension skills among sixth-grade students in the English language.Methodology and research methods. The authors used the quasi-experimental approach. …”
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