Modeling a Telemedicine Screening Program for Diabetic Retinopathy in Iran and Implementing a Pilot Project in Tehran Suburb by Sare Safi, Hamid Ahmadieh, Marzieh Katibeh, Mehdi Yaseri, Homayoun Nikkhah, Saeed Karimi, Ramin Nourinia, Ali Tivay, Mohammad Zareinejad, Mohsen Azarmina, Alireza Ramezani, Siamak Moradian, Mohammad Hossein Dehghan, Narsis Daftarian, Davood Abbasi, Afshin Eshghi Fallah, Bahareh Kheiri

“…This screening model demonstrated its capacity for promoting diabetic eye care services at the national level. However, the sensitivity for detecting DME needs to be improved by modifying the referral pathway and promoting the skill of GPs.…”
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Global sustainable development programs: Challenges to the achievement of the goals by V. P. Vasiliev

“…It is noted that under these conditions, the Russian Federation is pursuing a long-term climate policy aimed at achieving a balance between anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and their absorption, in a way that is consistent with national interests and priorities of socio-economic development. …”
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The International Energy Agency's Role in Supporting the Sustainability of Renewable Energy Supply in Indonesia by Nurmasari Situmeang, Sindy Yulia Putri, Shafa Qisisina Desbrantoro, Yosua Saut Marulitua Gultom, Syifa Aprilia Putri

“…Given the International Energy Agency's (IEA) role in supporting national energy sustainability and reviewing Indonesia's energy policies, a pertinent question arises regarding its role in Indonesia. …”
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Unleashing green technology innovation in agribusiness: traditional environmental regulations, carbon trading, or synergies? by Wei Wang, Yanan She, Yue Peng, Yunqiang Liu

“…It was found that: (1) Although both traditional environmental regulatory tools and carbon trading provide incentive effects, the former tends to exhibit more pronounced direct effects, making it more suitable for adoption by local governments, while the latter demonstrates stronger spatial spillover effects, making it more appropriate for application in a national market context. (2) Command-and-control environmental regulatory instruments and carbon trading are complementary policy mixes, and other environmental policy mixes are to be used as appropriate in the context of the actual situation. (3) The incentive effects of environmental policies are more significant in eastern regions, non-heavily polluting, and state-owned agribusinesses, but not in the basic agricultural sector. …”
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AI for chemistry teaching: responsible AI and ethical considerations by Blonder Ron, Feldman-Maggor Yael

“…Ethical issues include digital poverty, lack of national regulatory adaptation, use of content without consent, unexplainable models used to generate outputs, AI-generated content polluting the internet, lack of understanding of the real world, reducing diversity of opinions, and further marginalizing already marginalized voices and generating deep fakes. …”
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Key innovation abilities on capability and the performance of women entrepreneurs: the role of entrepreneurial education and proactive personality by Eugine Tafadzwa Maziriri, Brighton Nyagadza, Tinashe Chuchu

“…Originality/value – This study will add to the body of knowledge on women's small business management and entrepreneurship in Africa, two topics that are typically ignored by academics in developing nations.…”
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Places and Cultures of Capitalism: Histories from the Grassroots by Elsa Devienne, Andrew Diamond

“…Over the past decade or so, the concept of capitalism has exploded within the domains of popular culture and mainstream political discourse in the United States, a phenomenon driven forward by the visibility of anticapitalist movements like Occupy Wall Street, the appearance of bestselling books like Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century and blockbuster movies like The Big Short, and the meteoric rise of nationally prominent democratic socialist politicians like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. …”
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Lifestyle Interventions to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review of Economic Evaluation Studies by Koffi Alouki, Hélène Delisle, Clara Bermúdez-Tamayo, Mira Johri

“…Eligible studies were identified through relevant databases including PubMed, Medline, National Health Services Economic Evaluation, CINHAL, EconLit, Web of sciences, EMBASE, and the Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature. …”
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Les prés vergers de pommiers à cidre et les agroforêts de cacaoyers by Samuel Perichon

“…In the three regions mentioned, each one of them corresponds to fruit lands recognized on a national and/or international scale with a quite close final assessment.…”
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THE CHANGES OF THE MEETING INDUSTRY IN KRAKOW IN THE CONTEXT OF THE GLOBAL CRISIS by KRZYSZTOF BORODAKO, JADWIGA BERBEKA, KATARZYNA KLIMEK, AGATA NIEMCZYK PhD, Senior Researcher, Tourism Department, Krakow Uni, RENATA SEWERYN

“…The number of participants of the events was analysed, divided into national and international participants. The results of the research allowed for the ascertainment that the economic crisis affected the changes of the level, and above all, the structure of MICE type events organised in the city, which was visible in 2010, therefore with some time delay. …”
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Contemporary Results of the Reforming of Higher Education in China by S. S. Donetskaya, Tsyan’nan Tszi

“…The paper also presents the dynamics of funding of the China’s universities according to official statistics of China.The national educational reforms led to a rapid growth of the number of the universities and the number of students. …”
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Comparison of FRAX Scores of Southern California Females of Mexican Descent Using US Hispanic and Mexico Database by Keaton M. Nasser, Augusto Focil, Stuart L. Silverman

“…Regional differences for fracture risk of US Hispanics may vary by national origin. In California, where a majority of the Hispanic population is of Mexican descent, it is of interest to compare the FRAX absolute risk using the US Hispanic and Mexico databases. …”
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Cognitive authorities of COVID-19 information: educational differences and outcomes of trust in health experts and social media influencers in Finland by Sanna Malinen, Aki Koivula

“…Data were collected through eight rounds of nationally representative repeated cross-sectional surveys in 2021. …”
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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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Preparation of Cathode-Anode Integrated Ceramic Filler and Application in a Coupled ME-EGSB-SBR System for Chlortetracycline Industrial Wastewater Systematic Treatment by Yuanfeng Qi, Suqing Wu, Fei Xi, Shengbing He, Chunzhen Fan, Bibo Dai, Jungchen Huang, Meng Meng, Xiangguo Zhu, Lei Wang

“…The coupled ME-EGSB-SBR system removed about 98.0% of CODcr and 95.0% of NH3-N and the final effluent met the national discharged standard (C standard of CJ 343-2010, China). …”
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Weight Misperceptions and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Adolescent Female Body Mass Index by Ramona C. Krauss, Lisa M. Powell, Roy Wada

“…This paper investigated weight misperceptions as determinants of racial/ethnic disparities in body mass index (BMI) among adolescent females using data from the National Survey of Youth 1997. Compared to their white counterparts, higher proportions of black and Hispanic adolescent females underperceived their weight status; that is, they misperceived themselves to have lower weight status compared to their clinically defined weight status. …”
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Literature Study of Formulating and Testing Physical Properties of Hand Sanitizer Preparations of Various Plant Extracts by Susi Yanti, Cory Linda Futri

“…The method used in this research is a study of literature from 6 journals, both national journals indexed by sinta 1-4 and international journals indexed by Scopus related to the title of the proposed research, namely the study of the formulation literature and testing the physical properties of hand sanitizer gel preparations from oil Nutmeg Essentials, Noni leaf extract, Trembesi leaf extract, Bay leaf extract, Cucumber extract, Papaya leaf extract. …”
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3HP preventive treatment among children and adolescents with HIV and child household contacts of TB patients by A. Kinikar, R. Borse, B. Randive, P. Kamath, S.K. Mattoo, M. Parmar, H. Solanki, V. Mave, A. Gupta, R.E. Chaisson, N. Suryavanshi

“…INTRODUCTION: India’s National TB Elimination Programme plans to roll out short-course TB preventive therapy (TPT) using 3 months of rifapentine and isoniazid (3HP). …”
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Dermatology education in U.S. ophthalmology residency: a survey of the program directors by Winnie Fan, Rojina Nekoonam, Saras Ramanathan, Amanda Twigg

“…Method The authors designed and electronically distributed a national survey in August 2022 to PDs of 124 ophthalmology residency programs. …”
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ON DIGNITY, VULNERABILITY, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND FISHERFOLKS: CHILEAN SUBSISTENCE FISHING ACCORDING TO INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS by Eduardo Roig Monge

“…Using the case of Chile due to its legal peculiarities, we aim to determine the scope of the Chilean legislation on subsistence fishing, integrating international treaties on human rights, case law, and reports from United Nations agencies regarding three issues. First, we examine how the Chilean legislation relates to the right to food and the promotion of decent social conditions. …”
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