Continuing education program and its relationship with the mental health of engineering faculty members by Josué Omar Nava-Manzo, Jesus Alfonso Beltran-Sanchez, Irma Marcela González-Treviño, Angeles Dominguez, Angeles Dominguez

“…Utilizing a quantitative, non-experimental, cross-sectional, correlational design, the study involved 307 professors from the School of Engineering and Sciences at a private university in northeastern Mexico. Tools included a burnout scale, a stress scale, an anxiety scale, and a self-report depression scale. …”
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Impacts of climate-driven insect population change on sawtimber provisioning, carbon sequestration, and water retention: a case study of bark beetle outbreaks in the USA by Haojie Chen, Matthew R. Sloggy, Samuel W. Flake, Samuel Evans, Charles J. Maxwell

“…A key issue in landscape management, whether public or private, is the mitigation of disturbance events that impact vegetation, ecosystem health, and thus ecosystem services (ESs). …”
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Identifying Incident Causal Factors to Improve Aviation Transportation Safety: Proposing a Deep Learning Approach by Tianxi Dong, Qiwei Yang, Nima Ebadi, Xin Robert Luo, Paul Rad

“…The number of incident reports is increasing rapidly due to the acceleration of advances in information technologies and the growth of the commercial and private aviation transportation industries. Consequently, advanced text mining algorithms should be applied to help aviation safety experts facilitate the process of incident data extraction. …”
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Contemporary Management of Patients With Chagas Cardiomyopathy in Bolivia by Evan Czulada, BS, Sascha Bercovitch, BA, Yazan Alshawkani, MD, Natalia Noya Weise, MD, Adriana E. Hernani Rodrigo, BS, Ronald Gustavo Durán Saucedo, MD, Marcelo Buhezo Chamón, MD, Robert H. Gilman, MD, David T. Martin, MD

“…While pacemaker therapy was generally available to cardiologists (66%), patients received devices only through private insurance or philanthropy, with few physicians (28%) offering implantable cardioverter-defibrillators regularly. …”
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Acute Stroke Care and Thrombolytic Therapy Use in a Tertiary Care Center in Lebanon by Mazen J. El Sayed, Tharwat El Zahran, Hani Tamim

“…Most patients arrived by private transport (85.1%). Weakness and loss of speech were the most common presenting signs (56.3%). …”
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Ethiopia's Potato Seed System: Regulatory Challenges, Quality Assurance Issues, and Pathways for Improvement ─ A mini review [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] by Ebrahim Seid, Lemma Tessema

“…Results our paper highlights key recommendations that includes enhancing training for regulatory staff, investing in research for disease-resistant varieties, and bolstering public-private partnerships to encourage innovation and resource sharing. …”
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Incremental cost of treating antimicrobial-resistant infections among hospitalised patients in India: a cohort study by Sanjay M Mehendale, Kamini Walia, Pallab Ray, Nusrat Shafiq, Shankar Prinja, Sagar Khadanga, Susmita Chatterjee, Raman Gangakhedkar, Samiran Panda, Sanjay Bhattacharya, Megha Mamulwar, Abhijit Kadam, Gayatri Bhambure, Shilpa Bembalkar, Shraddha Bapat, Arati Mane, Shobha Rajure, Jayanthi Mathaiyan, Yamunadevi Ramanathan, Vijayshri Suresh Deotale, Gourangie Gogoi, Ruchita Attal, Jharna Mandal, Venkateswaran Ramanathan

“…Here, we present the IC from patient perspective for treating antimicrobial-resistant pathogens in India.Methods This cohort study was conducted in eight hospitals including government (GH), private (PH) and trust hospitals (TH), considering their ownership, geographical location and categories of cities. …”
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Rate estimation and trend analysis of new HIV infections among the international migrant population in Chile from 2013 to 2022 by Rodrigo Puentes, María Alejandra Dünner, Natalia T. Santis-Alay, Mario E. Soto-Marchant, Cecilia Canales, Janepsy Díaz

“…Crude and standardized rates of new HIV infections reported by the Institute of Public Health of Chile (ISP) were calculated for the period 2013 to 2022, using data from public and private health facilities nationwide. Population estimates for international migrants and Chileans were obtained from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) and the National Migration Service (SERMIG). …”
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Emergence and polyclonal dissemination of NDM-5/OXA-181 carbapenemase-producing Escherichia coli in the French Indian Ocean territories by Thibaut Vedani, Matthieu Pot, Thomas Garrigos, Loïk Sababadichetty, Marion Daniel, David Wilkinson, Thierry Benoit-Cattin, Olivier Belmonte, Patrick Mavingui, Laurent Dortet, Guillaume Miltgen

“…Methods All E. coli isolates not susceptible to ertapenem from various public and private hospitals on Reunion and Mayotte islands were screened for carbapenemase production. …”
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Cumulative Incidence of Revision for a Balanced Knee System at a Mean 8-Year Follow-Up: A Retrospective Review of 500 Consecutive Total Knee Arthroplasties by Michael H. Bourne, Tony L. Miller, E. Marc Mariani

“…The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate mid-term survival of a Balanced Knee System in the first 500 total knee arthroplasty (TKA) cases using a fully cemented, posterior stabilized TKA at a high-volume private practice. Patients and Methods. In this IRB approved retrospective cohort study, data were extracted from a surgical registry at a high-volume orthopaedic practice for the first 500 total knee arthroplasty (TKA) cases performed using the Balanced Knee® System (BKS, Ortho Development®, Draper, Utah, USA). …”
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Male involvement in antenatal care follow-up and its determinants in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Gossa Fetene Abebe, Desalegn Girma, Melsew Setegn Alie, Lidiya Gutema Lemu, Yilkal Negesse, Zewditu Alelign

“…Recommendations include targeted education for males with no formal schooling, improved health education on ANC and pregnancy risks, and interventions for males in the private sector.PROSPERO registration number CRD42021258826.…”
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Bibliometric analysis of research trends in Green Human Resource Management and sustainable development by S. Pooja, J. Bhavani

“…The adoption of sustainable development goals by the United Nations in 2015 has led to an increasing focus on sustainable development and green practices among academics and private industry professionals. This study aims to explore the research landscape of "Green Human Resource Management” and "sustainable development". …”
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Evaluation of Specialization Preferences of Faculty of Dentistry Students by Nimet Ünlü, Atiye Tuğba Kuzgun Türkmen, Merve Gürses

“…In both grades, the rate of those who find it necessary to attend private teaching institutions is high. When choosing a department, 3rd-grade students (29.8%) mostly prefer Orthodontics; 5th graders (32%) chose Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. …”
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Exploring factors of physicians’ preferences for continuing medical education by Ruzica Nikolic Mandic, Vesna Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Zoran Bukumiric, Zorica Terzic-Supic, Jovana Todorovic, Sandra Grujicic, Dejan Nesic, Ulrich Laaser

“…The score in the communication domain was additionally associated with work in privately owned institutions (B = 0.563). The scores in the public health domain and the basic medical skills (essentials domain) were additionally associated with age (B = 0.077 and B = 0.100), work in a primary healthcare institution (B = 2.327 and B = 2.155) and being a specialist (B=-1.795 and B=-2.901). …”
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Prevalence of disability in Iranian older adults in Tehran, Iran: A population-based study by Vahid Rashedi, Mohsen Asadi-Lari, Mahshid Foroughan, Ahmad Delbari, Reza Fadayevatan

“…The majority of the participants were using services of private rehabilitation centers. There were statistically significant differences in terms of age, BMI, and educational background between the group of individuals who reported one or more types of disability and the group of individuals reporting none. …”
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Smell-ML: A Machine Learning Framework for Detecting Rarely Studied Code Smells by Esraa Hamouda, Abeer El-Korany, Soha Makady

“…This paper proposes a novel approach, called Smell-ML, for detecting five rarely studied code smells: Middle Man (MM), Class Data Should Be Private (CDSBP), Inappropriate Intimacy (II), Refused Bequest (RB), and Speculative Generality (SG). …”
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Identification and Correction of Abnormal, Incomplete Power Load Data in Electricity Spot Market Databases by Jingjiao Li, Yifan Lv, Zhou Zhou, Zhiwen Du, Qiang Wei, Ke Xu

“…Finally, validation on both public and private datasets demonstrates that the PLS-VAE-BiLSTM model achieves average performance metrics of 98.44% precision, 94% recall rate, and 96.05% F1 score. …”
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Using Blockchain in the Registration and Authentication of a Carpooling Application: From Review to Proposal by Lina Sofía Cardona Martínez, Cesar Andrés Sandoval Muñoz, Ricardo Salazar-Cabrera, Álvaro Pachón de la Cruz, Juan Manuel Madrid Molina

“…Strategies aimed at reducing the number of private vehicles on city roads are beneficial in this regard. …”
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A prospective, randomized, single-center, two-arm, open-label study to evaluate the efficacy of biotherapi®, a two-strain bacillus probiotic blend, as an adjunctive therapy in the... by Arindam Nandy Roy, Yarram Ashok Kumar, Syeda Sana Fatima

“…The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of twice-daily Biotherapi® (Sanzyme Private Limited, India) as an adjunct to standard of care on disease activity and functional ability of patients with RA. …”
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Rabies vaccinations at the rural–urban divide: successes and barriers to dog rabies vaccination programs from a rural and urban campaign in Zambia by Ricky Chazya, Chilufya Aneta Susan Mulenga, Andrew D. Gibson, Frederic Lohr, Cassandra Boutelle, Sarah Bonaparte, Oline Sinywibulula, Gareth Thomas, Patricia Bwalya, George Dautu, Linous Munsimbwe, Geoffrey Muuka, Luke Gamble, Ryan M. Wallace, Michelle A. Waltenburg

“…Prioritizing vaccinations in higher-density free-roaming dog populations could maximize effectiveness in resource-limited settings. Private veterinary services were commonly utilized among surveyed dog owners in urbanized communities in Lusaka, suggesting that they are an important collaborator for achieving rabies herd immunity. …”
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