Contested and nervous spaces: exploring the environment of healthcare provision for international migrants in the Gauteng province of South Africa by Janine A. White, Laetitia C. Rispel

“…Background Notwithstanding the global goal of inclusive universal health coverage, and the notion of migrant-sensitive health systems, limited healthcare access or the exclusion of migrants from national health systems persists. South Africa has a rights-based constitution, but there is an inability or a failure of the health system to recognise and address the health needs of migrants. …”
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Identifying Priority Areas for Increasing the Supply of Medication-Assisted Treatments for Opioid Use Disorder: A Geospatial Approach by Michael Topmiller, Peter J. Mallow, Aaron T. Vissman, Jene Grandmont

“…Measures included estimates of illicit drug dependence and unmet treatment need from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), opioid-related admissions from the Treatment Episode Data Set: Admissions (TEDs-A), and Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) waiver practitioner data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). …”
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Lake Iriqui’s Remarkable Revival: Field Observations and a Google Earth Engine Analysis of Its Recovery After over Half a Century of Desiccation by Adil Moumane, Tarik Bahouq, Ahmed Karmaoui, Dahmane Laghfiri, Mohamed Yassine, Jamal Al Karkouri, Mouhcine Batchi, Mustapha Faouzi, Mohamed Boulakhbar, Ali Ait Youssef

“…This event has drawn considerable attention from international and national media. The revival was monitored using satellite imagery from Landsat 8 and 9 and Sentinel-2A, processed through Google Earth Engine (GEE), with the Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) applied to detect water presence. …”
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Commercial and household food waste separation behaviour and the role of Local authority: A case study by Mamun Jamal, Aleksandra Szefler, Colman Kelly, Nicholas Bond

“…In addition to organizing appropriate infrastructure for recycling of food waste, continuous awareness raising through education, leaflets and local and national media is also crucial. Conclusion The role of local authorities should include facilitating the development of appropriate facilities such as composting, anaerobic digestion within communities and to encourage communities to take ownership of these facilities and reuse the resultant material within the local area.…”
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El paisaje monumental conmemorativo de la batalla de San Carlos en la diacronía: latencias y tensiones (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1872) by Carlos Landa, Graciela Waks, Jimena Doval, Jerónimo Angueyra

“…Initially, this monument was intended to symbolize the triumph of civilization over the so-called barbarism of the desert, casting the indigenous population as the defeated, relegated to invisibility through their forced incorporation into the Argentine nation-state. However, the memory of the defeated persists, latent within the city and embedded in the landscape’s folds.…”
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Feminine Irony in the Religious Poetry of Gwyneth Lewis by Daniel SZABO

“…L’ironie chez Gwyneth Lewis, première “National Poet” du Pays de Galles, est surprenante car elle est utilisée principalement en rapport à, ou même à l’encontre de, semble-t-il, de la religion comme pour mettre une distance avec le lecteur, avec le critique mais surtout une distance entre le poète et Dieu. …”
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Chloroplast DNA Diversity of Tunisian Barley Landraces as Revealed by cpSSRs Molecular Markers and Implication for Conservation Strategies by Marwa Snoussi, Leila Riahi, Mériam Ben Romdhane, Ahmed Mliki, Nejia Zoghlami

“…These high-value genetic resources present a potential source of resistance genes to biotic and abiotic stresses useful for both national and international breeders. Actually, they are represented by threatened small populations, which face a high risk of genetic erosion and progressive substitution by modern varieties. …”
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The Secret Life of Secret Agents: Alan Bennett and John Schlesinger’s An Englishman Abroad (1983) and A Question of Attribution (1991) by Nicole Cloarec

“…While displaying a sustained concern for “national biography”, both films prove early examples of biopics conceived as self-reflexive and intermedial allegories. …”
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THE PERSPECTIVES OF INTERNATIONAL REGULATION OF PRIVATE MILITARY AND SECURITY COMPANIES’ by M. A. Nebolsina, A. I. Nikitin

“…Various approaches towards regulation of the abovementioned actors within the framework of national and regional legislation clarify their status in a way. …”
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Socio-demographic differences in the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases and the association with risk factors in the population of Serbia by Šašić Bojana M., Čanković Dušan K., Mijatović-Jovanović Vesna P., Ukropina Snežana N., Ostojić Zorana Z., Milijašević Dragana S., Stamenković Kristina D., Čanković Sonja I.

“…Material and Methods: The data of the 2019 National Health Survey of the Population of Serbia were analyzed, on a sample of 13,178 respondents over the age of fifteen, which was conducted in accordance with the methodology of the European Health Interview Survey (Wave 3). …”
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Analysis of sports injuries in training and competition for handball players by Banu Kabak, Muharrem Karanfılcı

“…A total of 705 athletes (male, 492; female, 213), who are the ones at different ages participated in handball tournaments in 2011 in Turkey and young male and female national team players (22 male, 22 female) joined voluntarily to the study. …”
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Females in higher education and leadership: insights from a multi-method approach by Alicia Correa, Maria Gracia Glas, Jana Opara

“…This study, aligned with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals 4 and 5, examines the gender gap in higher education and leadership across regional, national, and institutional contexts. Through descriptive analyses, surveys, and interviews, the research assesses female representation at various academic levels and identifies key factors influencing career progression. …”
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Prevalence, Diagnostics and Treatment of Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth in the Clinical Practice in Southern Federal District of the Russian Federation by N. V. Korochanskaya, I. L. Kliaritskaya, S. N. Serikova, A. V. Tkachev, M. V. Koroleva, M. A. Basenko

“…In the group of people with a predominance of hydrogen-producing microbiota, there are fewer men than women (30.8 % vs. 69.2 %), in the group with a predominance of methane-producing microflora, the ratio of men and women was 27.4 % vs. 72.6 %, and in the group with a predominance of hydrogen- and methane-producing microbiota, this ratio was 16.6 % vs. 83.4 %, respectively.Antibacterial therapy after confirmation of the diagnosis is carried out in accordance with national clinical guidelines; probiotics, mainly Saccharomyces boulardii, are prescribed to prevent antibiotic-associated diarrhea.Conclusions. …”
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Estimation of internal displacement in Ukraine from satellite-based car detections by Marie-Christine Rufener, Ferda Ofli, Masoomali Fatehkia, Ingmar Weber

“…Despite data sparsity hindered fine-grained evaluation, we distinguished a clear positive and non-linear trend between the number of people and cars in most cities, which further allowed to predict the sub-national people dynamics. While our approach is resource-saving and innovative, satellite imagery and computer vision models present some shortcomings that could mask detailed IDPs dynamics. …”
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Prevalence and factors of physical punishment and psychological aggression toward children under five in Mongolia: an analysis of the 2018 Social Indicator Survey by Anujin Enkhbat, Seungman Cha, Ermias Tadesse Beyene, Yan Jin

“…Methods We used data from the nationally representative 2018 MICS6 dataset. To examine the association between independent and dependent variables, we used multilevel Poisson regression because it provides a better estimate and is more interpretable when the prevalence is relatively high. …”
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Decomposition of social problems of management digitalization by A. V. Raychenko

“…This is especially relevant today, when national, sectoral and regional programs for the digitalization of the economy and management define one of the key trends in breakthrough socio-economic development.The examples of the manifestation, study and resolution of social problems of digitalization from the actual practice of managing leading, efficiently operating domestic enterprises in the real sector of their sectors have been analyzed. …”
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Balances of Power, Threat, and Interests: The Logic behind China-Russia Strategic Alignment in the Post-Cold War Period by A. N. Korolev

“…This strategic alignment is based on a complex of shared views on the United States as the main source of threats for national security and the commitment of both states to the idea of a multipolar world. …”
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Cause and consequences of Common Snook (Centropomus undecimalis) space use specialization in a subtropical riverscape by Rolando O. Santos, Mack White, W. Ryan James, Natasha M. Viadero, Jordan A. Massie, Ross E. Boucek, Jennifer S. Rehage

“…Here, we used long-term tracking of Common Snook (Centropomus undecimalis) movement and trophic dynamics in the Shark River, Everglades National Park from 2012 to 2023 to test how specialization in the space use of individuals (i.e., Eadj) changes seasonally, how it is influenced by yearly hydrological conditions, and its relationship to the between individual trophic niche. …”
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Association between dietary intake of live microbes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a cross-sectional study of NHANES 2007–2012 by Yifeng Xu, Zhaoqi Yan, Liangji Liu

“…Methods Participants from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 2007 to 2012 were selected. …”
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Du déchet au Technosol fertile : l’approche circulaire du programme français de recherche SITERRE by Laure Vidal-Beaudet

“…The national research program (SITERRE, 2011-16) funded by the French Environmental Agency (ADEME) was dedicated to the construction of soils with urban wastes for city greening, as an alternative to the consumption of natural resources (agricultural earth and quarry stones). …”
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