Maternal care utilization and provision during the COVID-19 pandemic: Voices from minoritized pregnant and postpartum women and maternal care providers in Deep South. by Ran Zhang, Tiffany Byrd, Shan Qiao, Myriam E Torres, Xiaoming Li, Jihong Liu

“…Participants were recruited from Obstetrics and Gynecology clinics, pediatric clinics, and community health organizations in South Carolina, and all births took place in 2021. …”
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A Systematic Review of Urban Vegetation Research during 2000–2023: A Bibliometric Analysis by Hassan Boukita, Fathalah Elwahab, Mohamed El Ammari, Abdelazziz Chemchaoui, Boutaina Benchahid, Youssef Haouazine, Najiba Brhadda, Rabea Ziri

“…After being exported in CSV format, these data were analyzed using VOSviewer for data visualization, Scopus Analytics for performance evaluation, MS Excel for organizing data in graphical form, and CiteSpace for examining the emergence of keywords. …”
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NEGATIVE INTEREST RATES: CENTRAL BANKS INITIATED AN EXPERIMENT by A. N. Burenin

“…If we go up to a higher level of abstraction and imagine an economy as a live organism, which tries to rehabilitate itself, then the negative rates can be considered as a way through which the economy tries to solve the task of reducing liquidity. …”
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Re-imagining education in Haiti through a lens of de-coloniality by Rudolph Damas

“…Research limitations/implications – Since barriers such as societal norms need to be addressed through organic grassroots movements, which take time to be effective, reform from this perspective is better suited for the longer term than the shorter term. …”
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Health Risk Assessment of PM2.5-bound Components in Beijing, China during 2013–2015 by Tianchu Zhang, Yangfan Chen, Xiaohong Xu

“…Fossil fuel combustion and vehicle exhaust were the top two sources, accounting for 77% of total HQ. HQ by target organ were, in descending order, respiratory (15), reproductive (1.8), nervous (1.2), renal (0.22), fetus (0.1), and alimentary system (0.002). …”
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The assessment of the use of vehicles with different types of drive in car-sharing systems by Ewelina Sendek-Matysiak

“…The proposed method serves as a decision-making guide for implementing or modernizing fleets in car-sharing systems, which can be used by car-sharing operators to organize their vehicle fleets, as well as by city authorities in selecting car-sharing service providers whose fleet meets their expectations. …”
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Engaging Community Pharmacies in Promoting Outpatient Medication Safety – Identifying and Prioritizing Research Needs by Modified Nominal Group Technique by Mäkinen E, Taimi AK, Sandler C, Schoultz AM, Holmström AR

“…The collected data were analyzed using qualitative inductive thematic analysis and quantitative descriptive analysis by the van Breda technique.Results: The final data comprised 83 research needs organized under five main themes with 22 subthemes. …”
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Presence of Brucella spp. in Milk and Dairy Products: A Comprehensive Review and Its Perspectives by Md. Sadequl Islam, Md. Ariful Islam, Md. Moshiur Rahman, Khaleda Islam, Md. Mominul Islam, Md. Murtuza Kamal, Md. Nazrul Islam

“…Real-time PCR can rapidly detect organisms, reducing the risk of lab contamination and false positive results. …”
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Distribution of Microbes and Drug Susceptibility in Patients with Diabetic Foot Infections in Southwest China by Mingxia Wu, Hang Pan, Weiling Leng, Xiaotian Lei, Liu Chen, Ziwen Liang

“…A total of 555 strains were cultivated, including 205 (36.9%) strains of gram-positive organisms (GPOs), 283 (51.0%) gram-negative bacilli (GNB), and 67 (12.1%) fungal strains. …”
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Global burden of musculoskeletal disorders and attributable factors in 204 countries and territories: a secondary analysis of the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study by Binyan Wang, Ding Ye, Shiwen Liu, Shuzhen Fan, Yaxuan Wang, Yuxuan Zhan

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Outcomes after Surgery for Malignant Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors by Omar Hama Ghalib Azeez Hawramy, Karzan Seerwan Abdullah, Barham M.M. Salih, Qalandar Hussein A. Kasnazani, Dana Taib Gharib, Dara Ahmed Mohammed

“…The overall 5 year survival was 81.2% and the disease free survival was (75%) at 5 year, with grade of tumor (P-value 0.001), lymph node metastases (P-value 0.001), invasion of other visceral organs(P-value 0.018) and recurrence (P-value 0.001)were associated with decreased survival. …”
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FedBFGCN: A Graph Federated Learning Framework Based on Balanced Channel Attention and Cross-Layer Feature Fusion Convolution by Hefei Wang, Ruichun Gu, Jingyu Wang, Xiaolin Zhang, Hui Wei

“…The FedBFGCN improves the attention to important nodes by dynamically weighting and adjusting the weights of features through BCAM; Using CLF effectively integrates its own features with neighbor information, enhancing feature expression capability. Through the organic fusion of these two modules, the FedBFGCN achieves efficient, robust, and more comprehensive node embedding representation, demonstrating excellent performance in node classification and prediction tasks. …”
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A high fraction of inspired oxygen does not mitigate atelectasis-induced lung tissue hypoxia or injury in experimental acute respiratory distress syndrome by Kentaro Tojo, Takuya Yazawa

“…In contrast, hypoxemia observed in the low FIO2 group caused injury to organs other than the lungs. Raising FIO2 levels did not attenuate tissue hypoxia, inflammation, or injury in the atelectatic lung region in experimental ARDS. …”
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Production de Pennisetum sp. et son utilisation pour la culture de Pleurotus ostreatus au Burundi by Prosper Kiyuku, Samuel Bigawa

“…Physico-chemical analysis of stems of four clones of Pennisetum sp. showed the presence of different organic and mineral elements (phosphorus, calcium, potassium and magnesium), an average content of ashes ranging between 5.27 and 7.72 %, an average in cellulose ranging between 35.7 and 39.2 %, neutral hydrogen potential and a carbon/nitrogen ration higher than 50. …”
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Study on application of green-synthesized ZnO and Si nanoparticles in enhancing aquaculture sediment quality by Yaoqiang Zhu, Weidong Li, Waqas Ahmed, Mohsin Mahmood, Hayssam M. Ali, Muhammad Rizwan, Jochen Bundschuh, Muhammad Akmal, Sajid Mehmood

“…Abstract Background Fishpond sediments (FPS) are rich in organic carbon and nutrients, making them valuable as fertilizers and soil conditioners. …”
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El Alto - La Paz (Bolivia) : Las transformaciones socio territoriales del neoliberalismo y la derrota del movimiento obrero by Mariela Paula Díaz

“…It then became the capital city of the fourth section of the province of Murillo, and later in independent city in September 1988.The government reports and newspapers in those years indicate that this transformation of El Alto was the result of the thrust of its organized neighbors, mostly based at the Frente de Unidad y Renovación Independiente de El Alto.Surprisingly the literature misses to connect the process of city formation with a 16 days general strike led by the COB and the mine workers in March 1985. …”
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Study on the Influence of Regional Transportation on PM2.5 Based on the RAMS-CMAQ Model in Weihai, a Typical Coastal City of Northern China by Wentao Ning, Zhiwen Xing, Min Wei, Mingyan Li, Meigen Zhang, Houfeng Liu

“…The proportion of long-range transportation of nitrate had the highest value, and the contribution of regional transportation outside Weihai was 87.5–92.5% and 88.2–91.7%, followed by sulfate, which was 67.9–80.6% and 80.8–86.2%, and the proportion of ammonium salt is the lowest, contributed for 38.8–70.8% and 41.1–71.9% in February and March, respectively. Black carbon (BC), organic carbon (OC), and ions (ions here include chloride, sodium, magnesium, potassium, calcium, iron, aluminium, silicon, titanium, manganese, and other major nonspecific fine particles) were mainly influenced by short-range transportation and local emissions. …”
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HUMAN DESTRUCTIVENESS IN THE EXISTING PRACTICES OF LATE MODERNISM VIOLENCE: POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE DIMENSIONS by O. V. Marchenko, L. V. Martseniuk

“…At the metaphysical level, destructiveness appears as a connection between the entropy of world existence as a whole and the instability of human existence itself, which is a complexly organized and open to the world system. Self-transcendence as an anthropological prerequisite for human destructiveness has a dual nature and combines negative and positive characteristics, the content and significance of which were revealed in the study. …”
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FOOD SECURITY IN SOUTH ASIA: MAJOR CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS by N. V. Galistcheva

“…The research required to attract and summarize a large amount of statistical data that has been drawn from many sources including official-sites of international organizations and South Asian countries. The author also used Russian and Indian scientific journals and monographs.  …”
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Determinants of Mortality in Patients with Nosocomial Acinetobacter baumannii Bacteremia in Southwest China: A Five-Year Case-Control Study by Shuangshuang Yang, Jide Sun, Xianan Wu, Liping Zhang

“…The logistic regression analysis reported that mechanical ventilation and respiratory tract as origin of bacteremia were independent predictors of mortality among patients with nosocomial A. baumannii bacteremia and CRAB bacteremia, while high APACHE II score on the day of bacteremia and multiple organ dysfunction syndromes (MODS) during hospitalization were independent predictors of mortality among patients with nosocomial A. baumannii bacteremia but not CRAB bacteremia. …”
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