Experiences of Oral Corticosteroid Use and Adverse Effects: A National Cross-Sectional Survey of People with Asthma by Jones AW, McDonald VM, McLoughlin RF, Vella TM, Flynn AW, Blakey JD, Wolfenden L, Hew M, Upham JW, Thomas D, Bardin P, Holland AE

“…Survey free-text responses were coded to the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) to elicit determinants of OCS use.Results: 1808 people with asthma participated between 3 and 16 May 2022. Most common reasons for using OCS were severe asthma symptoms (40%), doctor prescription (38%) or asthma action plan recommendations (20%). …”
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A visual walkthrough of robotic partial mesorectal excision using the Versius surgical system by Amro Mureb

“…Several publications have shown that partial excision of the mesorectum, also called tumour-specific mesorectal excision (TSME), with the division of mesorectum 5 cm below the tumour could be a reasonable approach although total mesorectal excision (TME) is still considered the gold standard for all rectal cancer in many studies. …”
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Exploring the benefits and prescribing informations of combining East Asian herbal medicine with conventional medicine in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis: A systematic review... by Hee-Geun Jo, Jihye Seo, Eunhye Baek, Donghun Lee

“…In particular, given that the ACR index integrates multiple aspects of RA patients, the results are expected to provide valuable complementary decision support for the management of RA patients who do not respond well to CM therapy, both for medical and economic reasons. Additionally, the key herbs derived through the multifaceted analysis, which actively reflect clinicians' implicit preferences for prescribing EACMs, may serve as important hypotheses for further research and clinical application. …”
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Investigation on willingness of psychiatric nurses to engage in dementia nursing and influencing factors analysis (精神科护士从事失智症护理工作意愿调查及影响因素分析)... by GU Liqin (顾丽琴), JI Caifang (季彩芳), TANG Xiaofang (唐晓芳)

“…Motivation and interest in dementia care was main influencing factors of willingness to engage in dementia nursing. The main reasons for unwilling to engage in the nursing work of patients with dementia included: difficulty in communication with elderly dementia patients, high nursing risk and high incidence of accidents, complicated physical diseases associated with the elderly, rapid changes in the disease condition, complex illness, lack of professional ability, lack of sense of value and their own development direction, uneven pay and income. …”
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Implementasi Algoritme Evolusioner NSGA-II pada Optimasi Daya Wireless Power Transfer Multi-Penerlima by Sabriansyah Rizqika Akbar, Eko Setiawan, Agung Setiabudi

“…In the optimization process with NSGA-II, the number of generations will determine the speed of the optimization process. For this reason, a running-metric evaluation was carried out to find the number of generations that show convergent results on the objective-function value. …”
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Research on time–frequency characteristics of electromagnetic signals from coal and rock blasting based on DBO-VMD filtering by Litao WANG, Liming QIU, Menghan WEI, Dazhao SONG, Rentao GOU, Lin LIU, Shiqiang ZHONG, Tianyi XIE

“…When comparing electromagnetic signals processed by the DBO-VMD and empirical mode decomposition (EMD), the DBO-VMD effectively avoids modal aliasing and provides more reasonable center-frequency distributions. After applying a consistent noise reduction process, the DBO-VMD model shows superior performance over EMD. …”
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Corporate Social Responsibility's Influence on Product Innovation: Spotlight on the Mediating Role of Employer Branding (A Case Study of Medium and Large Manufacturing Firms in Bus... by zahra hajizadeh, Ebrahim Rajabpour, Heidar Ahmadi, Majid Esmaeilpour

“…Put differently, firms focusing on socially responsible actions tend to innovate more in products and procedures for various reasons, primarily because the orthodox approach is no longer effective. …”
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State-of-the-art of loading and unloading tests for glaucoma: potentialities and informative value by O.S. Myakonkaya, A.S. Sarkisyan, A.V. Seleznev, A.V. Kuroyedov, I.R. Gazizova

“…Unloading tests are reasonable if the IOP level is the upper normal lim it or slightly higher. …”
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Sensory acceptability of buffalo meat compared to beef by Luis A. de la Cruz-Cruz, Cristian Larrondo-Cornejo, Patricia Roldán-Santiago, René Rodríguez-Florentino

“…The panelist highlighted various reasons why buffalo meat is not commonly consumed, such as there is no information on buffalo meat (93.42%/n=71), there are not many products made with buffalo meat (60.52%/n =46), and that it is not available at supermarkets (73.69%/n=56). …”
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Scaling climate information services and climate smart agriculture through bundled business models by Desire M. Kagabo, Livingstone Byandaga, Patrick Gatsinzi, Patrick Mvuyibwami, Yvonne U. Munyangeri, Nasson Ntwari, Mathieu Ouedraogo

“…This study reveals a reason for optimism about the future of agriculture; it suggests that scalable bundled CIS-CSA products and services can contribute significantly to attaining climate resilience and food security.…”
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Menciptakan Layanan Pengawasan Ketenagakerjaan secara Profesional, Moderm dan Bermartabat Berbasis Teknologi Digital by Yeni Nuraeni, Nurlia Rahmatika, Firdausi Nuzula, Faizal Amir Nasution

“…Abstract The limited human resources of labor inspection and the geographical condition of Indonesia, which is an archipelago, are the main reasons for the importance of using digital technology in the implementation of labor inspection. …”
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Three-dimensional omnidirectional characterization methods of rock anisotropic wave velocity and acoustic emission location optimization by Shengjun MIAO, Wenxuan YU, Mingchun LIANG, Pengjin YANG, Conghao LI, Zejing LIU

“…The location error for siltstone is greater than that for marble due to three primary reasons. First, siltstone exhibits high porosity, resulting in unstable and noisy acoustic emission signals, which complicate the extraction of the received signals. …”
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Determinants of Parental Attitudes towards Children’s Vaccination in Lithuania: An Online Survey by Kamilė Čeponytė, Eglė Narkevičiūtė, Aušra Beržanskytė, Sigita Burokienė

“…Protection of children and society from infectious diseases (31.7%) was mentioned as the main reason for vaccination. Whereas vaccine-hesitant parents were mostly concerned about already-occurring side effects or their risk (43.4%).Conclusions: Our findings confirmed that vaccine hesitancy was associated with not being vaccinated in childhood themselves, lack of information from medical practitioners and male gender. …”
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Influence of mental workload on professional identity of nursing students who were born between 1995 and 1999 (“95后”护生工作心理负荷对职业认同的影响) by LU Sheng (陆晟), WANG Zhenmeng (王振猛), SHENG Yuehong (盛月红)

“…Multiple regression analysis showed that occupation identity was influenced by multiple issues including place of residence、reasons of choosing the nursing specialty, degree of satisfaction with teacher and willingness to engage in nursing after graduation. …”
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Behaviour of a speargun with a novel muzzle by V. Nigrelli, M. Mucera, T. Ingrassia

“…This condition, moreover, could be really obtained by changing the kind of the elastic bands in the speargun with the roller muzzle. For this reason, during the results analysis phase, the strain values measured on the roller speargun have been ‘normalized’ by increasing them of a value equal to the ratio of the maximum forces due to the rubber bands. …”
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Impact of incorporating wheat straw together with basal nitrogen ratio on panicle formation and grain yield in rice by Li Qin, Chenyu Wang, Hong Zhao, Shenqi Zhou, Kun Liu, Lijun Liu

“…More secondary spikelet differentiation in the middle and basal parts per panicle was a main reason for increasing the spikelet number per panicle to increase grain yield under IP treatment.…”
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Pemanfaatan Fuzzy Logic dan Hill Climbing untuk Optimasi Pengelolaan Tempat Pengolahan Sampah Reduce-Reuse-Recycle (TPS 3R) pada Dinas Lingkungan Hidup (DLH) DKI Jakarta by Ramadana Arbi, Meinarini Catur Utami, Qurrotul Aini

“…The 3R TPS is still functionally not maximum way to be used as inadequate facilities such as quality degradation on organic counter, and there is no mechanical separation place and its room. With that reasons, the 3R TPS needs to be financial supported.  …”
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Guidance and Counselling and Learners’ Discipline in Kasese District: A Case of Selected Government-Aided Secondary Schools in Bukonzo County. by Kule, Samson

“…This could have been the reason some secondary schools continued to experience student violence. …”
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The Contribution of the Hotel Industry on Youth Empowerment in Mbarara City: A Case Study of Hotel Triangle Mbarara City. by Owomuhangi, Emmanuel

“…It was also found that prestige associated with working in renowned hotels contributes minimal reason for the youth to fancy the hotel industry with 74% in agreement to this however more than half of the respondents agreed that having higher levels of education increases the chances of finding employment in the hotel industry indicated by 87% of respondents agreeing. 61% agreed that a basic level of education is sufficient for entry-level positions in the hotel industry and surprisingly 63% agreed to the view that work experience is more important than formal education for succeeding in the hotel industry. …”
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Guidance and Counselling and Learners’ Discipline in Kasese District: A Case of Selected Government-Aided Secondary Schools in Bukonzo County. by Kule, Samson

“…This could have been the reason some secondary schools continued to experience student violence. …”
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