Costs of surgical futility in emergency laparotomy by C.L. Downey, D.G. Jayne

“…Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted between 1st August 2021 and 1st August 2023 at a single high-volume acute hospital trust in the United Kingdom. A national patient-level costings system was used to determine the costs of hospital care from the day of surgery to the time of death. …”
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Composites of Heavy Rain Producing Elevated Thunderstorms in the Central United States by Laurel P. McCoy, Patrick S. Market, Chad M. Gravelle, Charles E. Graves, Neil I. Fox, Scott M. Rochette, Joshua Kastman, Bohumil Svoma

“…Composites were created for five National Weather Service County Warning Areas (CWAs) in the region. …”
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Conventional and complementary alternative medicine therapies for renal anemia: a literature review by Ching-Ming Lu, Ching-Ming Lu, Yuan-Hsuan Hsu, Yuan-Hsuan Hsu, I-Hsin Lin, Ko-Lin Kuo, Jian-Fu Liao, Hui-Fen Huang, Hui-Fen Huang, Ping-Hsun Lu, Ping-Hsun Lu

“…We conducted a comprehensive search across electronic databases including PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure, Airiti library, and Wanfang, to compile recent clinical trials and pilot studies on conventional and complementary alternative medicine approaches for renal anemia. …”
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Trends and determinants of exclusive and predominant breastfeeding practices for two decades (2000–2019) in Ethiopia by Hailemariam Mamo Hassen

“…BackgroundEthiopia has had a long-standing national commitment to improving child health. However, evidence on trends in breastfeeding has remained fragmented, and there is a paucity of information on the impacts of breastfeeding policy on breast feeding practices and associated factors influencing it. …”
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Intensive Cold-Air Invasion Detection and Classification with Deep Learning in Complicated Meteorological Systems by Ming Yang, Hao Ma, Bomin Chen, Guangtao Dong

“…In this paper, an improved recognition method of national ITR (NITR) path in China based on faster R-CNN in complicated meteorological systems is proposed. …”
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Knowledge, religiosity, and decision to use Sharia hospital services among residents in Central Java, Indonesia by Amelia Wilda, Sabrina Mutiara Putri, Bintang Ananda Afrilianti Vinalisa, Reefa Dyah Salsabila, Putri Sirry Nafisatussalimah, Arifin Santoso, Indriyati Hadi Sulistyaningrum

“…The increasing tendency of society to apply Sharia principles in all aspects of life today is supported by the presence of Sharia hospitals that integrate Sharia values in administration, healthcare services, and patient care standards as regulated in the fatwa of the National Sharia Council (Dewan Syariah Nasional) No. 107/DSN-MUI/X/2016. …”
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DETERMINANTS OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (HRM) ADOPTION AMONG SMALL AND MEDIUM SCALE ENTERPRISES (SMEs) IN KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA by Helen Afang Andow

“…This is expected to facilitate their ability to grow and build up the required capacity for the promotion of sustainable development in the nation. …”
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The Epidemiology of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis in China by Shang-Chen Yang, Sindy Hu, Sheng-Zheng Zhang, Jin-wen Huang, Jing Zhang, Chao Ji, Bo Cheng

“…To analyze the clinical characteristics, causality, and outcome of treatment for SJS/TEN in China, we reviewed case reports of patients with SJS/TEN from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) and Wanfang database from 2006 to 2016 and patients with SJS/TEN who were admitted to the First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University during the same period. …”
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Gendering the Decision-Making Positions in Higher Education: A Cross-Sectional Gender Audit in Three Selected Universities in Malawi by Juliet Chiwaya Kamwendo

“…The country ratified both international and regional gender protocols as well as enacting the national gender policy to safeguard gender equality at all levels to empower women. …”
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Does prism adaptation treatment reduce spatial neglect and improve function? by Peii Chen, Peii Chen, Kimberly Hreha, Catrina MacPhee, Amber Salter, Gail A. Eskes

“…We used the framework of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Stage Model for Behavioral Intervention Development which provides guidance on best practices for developing effective behavioral interventions that can be implemented in real-world settings. …”
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How to finance sustainable tourism: Factors influencing the attitude and willingness to pay green taxes among university students by Cristina Ortega-Rodríguez, Julio Vena-Oya, Jesús Barreal, Barbara Józefowicz

“…In addition, our study on green taxes has a direct relationship with the sustainable development goals promulgated by the United Nations, as both seek to promote balanced economic, social, and environmental development.…”
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Research on the Path and Effect Evaluation of Students’ Quality Improvement in Private Colleges by Yongjian Qiu, Xinghai Zhu, Zelong Li, Jing Lu

“…General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the National Education Conference that efforts should be made to enhance comprehensive quality and educate and guide students to cultivate comprehensive ability and cultivate innovative thinking. …”
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The 2020 IDS Release of the Antwerp COR*-Database. Evaluation, Development and Transformation of a Pre-Existing Database by Sam Jenkinson, Francisco Anguita, Diogo Paiva, Hideko Matsuo, Koen Matthijs

“…The Antwerp COR*-IDS database 2020 is a transformed and harmonized historical demographic database in a cross-nationally comparable format designed to be open and easy to use for international researchers. …”
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From Biophysical Calculation to Financial Risk Assessment: Three Worlds of Accounting for Nature by Sylvain Maechler, Valérie Boisvert

“…This was followed by the gradual development of natural capital monetary accounting projects, aimed at internalizing environmental externalities, initially at the national level and later extended to private accounting. …”
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Biofuel as an alternative for Sub-Saharan Africa’s transition to cleaner energy by Stephen Enyinnaya Eluwa, Oluwaseun Kilanko

“… Energy plays a vital role in the social and economic development of any nation. Compared to other regions of the world, Sub-Saharan Africa lags behind in energy access. …”
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Explaining the framework of sustainable competitiveness in the direction of spatial development of Arak District by Mina Eftekharnia, Keramatollah Ziari, Majid Naderi

“…Today, the concept of competition has spread in the world in such a way that all countries and governments at the national, regional or local levels are looking for a way to expand and improve economic conditions in favor of investments to stimulate competitiveness. …”
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Flywheel Energy Storage for Ancillary Services: A Novel Design and Simulation of a Continuous Frequency Response Service for Energy Limited Assets by Andrew J. Hutchinson, Daniel T. Gladwin

“…With National Grid ESO introducing a suite of new Frequency Response Services for the GB electricity market, there is an opportunity to investigate the ability of low-energy capacity storage systems to participate in the frequency response market. …”
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Empowering equality: Advancing quality education in the contemporary global landscape by Walter Odondi

“…In the context of Kenya, the research examines the nation's aspirations for equitable education with an emphasis on assuring access to quality secondary education, distributing resources' equitably, addressing disparities between public and private schools and promoting gender equity. …”
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Road Rescue Demand Prediction for the Improvement of Traffic System Resilience by Zhenzhen Yang

“…A case study in Beijing is used to verify the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed models, which can effectively predict the road rescue demand under various conditions, including the normal condition, the Spring Festival, National Day, the three-day holiday (e.g., Qingming, May Day, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and New Year’s Day,), and extreme weather (e.g., low temperature, high temperature, heavy snow, heavy rain, and rainstorm). …”
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Assessing the key factors contributing to non-adherence to pulmonary tuberculosis treatment: a descriptive study by Mariam Lakara, Anil Kumar Patidar, Anil Sharma

“… Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant public health challenge, particularly in developing nations like India, where it imposes a considerable burden. …”
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