Experiences and practices of people categorised as being ‘at risk’ based on age during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study in the UK and Germany by Susannah Mayhew, Stephanie Drössler, Katharina Wabnitz

“…Objectives The aim of this study was to comparatively explore the social representations of risk in individuals categorised ‘at risk’ based on age during the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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#emergencymedicine: A TikTok Content Analysis of Emergency Medicine-related Content by Madison Stolly, Erika Wilt, Nathan Gembreska, Mohamad Nawras, Emily Moore, Kelly Walker, Rhonda Hercher, Mohamad Moussa

“…Background: TikTok has rapidly become one of the most extensively downloaded and used social media platforms worldwide. Our focus on emergency medicine (EM)-related content on TikTok is to identify what specific video characteristics result in higher degrees of audience engagement, defined in this study as a total of video likes, comments, and shares. …”
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Theoretical Cognition and Practical Design of a High-Quality Teacher Education System for Building a Country Strongin Education: An Interview with Professor Liu Haimin from Northea... by LIU Haimin, MAN Ying

“…Following the introduction of the discourse on high-quality development in the field of economy, Professor Liu led his team to pioneer research on high-quality education development, and was successively approved fortwo major projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China, namely"Research on the Paths and Countermeasures for the High-Quality Development of Chinese Education in the New Era"and "Research on the Connotation, Comparison, and Construction Paths of a High-Quality Education System". …”
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mHealth-based intervention by community workers to support family caregivers of persons with dementia living at home: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial by Pankaj Bhardwaj, Hanne Konradsen, Manoj Kumar Gupta, Abhik Sinha, Nitin Kumar Joshi, Suresh K Sharma, Naresh Nebhinani, Marie Tyrrell, Åsa G Craftman, Zarina Nahar Kabir

“…This study protocol outlines an Indo-Sweden collaborative effort, funded by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Forte, to develop and assess the effectiveness of a mHealth application designed to improve caregiving skills, reduce caregiver burden and support family caregivers of persons with dementia.Methods and analysis The study will be conducted through a community-based cluster randomised controlled trial in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, with Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) serving as the unit of randomisation. …”
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Clinical Evaluation of the Diagnostic Role of MicroRNA-155 in Breast Cancer by Fatemeh Hosseini Mojahed, Amir Hossein Aalami, Vahid Pouresmaeil, Amir Amirabadi, Mahdi Qasemi Rad, Amirhossein Sahebkar

“…Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software. Results. The mean age of subjects in breast cancer and control groups was 47.64±8.19 and 47.36±7.52 years, respectively. …”
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Cohort profile: Health and Attainment of Pupils in a Primary Education National Cohort (HAPPEN) – a hybrid total population cohort in Wales, UK by Amrita Bandyopadhyay, Michaela James, Gareth Stratton, Sinead Brophy, Emily Marchant, Hope Jones, Amy Locke, Jonathan L Kennedy, David W E Burdett

“…Health, education and social care data are linked and held in the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank. …”
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The Role of Technical Car Features in Managing and Promoting New Peer-to-Peer Car-Sharing Systems: Insights from Potential Users and Strategic Implications for Service Providers by Katarzyna Turoń, Andrzej Kubik, Piotr Folęga, Andrzej Wilk, Peter Bindzar, Truong M. N. Bui

“…Addressing this gap, and in the context of launching a new peer-to-peer car-sharing service in Katowice, Poland, this article investigates the technical features influencing the choice of vehicles in peer-to-peer car-sharing systems, particularly from the perspective of individuals who currently do not use such platforms. The study employs Social Network Analysis (SNA) to examine the interrelationships between vehicle attributes. …”
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Privacy protection of sexually transmitted infections information from Chinese electronic medical records by Mengchun Gong, Yue Yu, Zihao Ouyang, Wenzhao Shi, Chao Liu, Qilin Wang, Jiale Nan, Endi Cai, Fen Ding, Sheng Nie

“…Abstract The comprehensive adoption of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) offers numerous benefits but also introduces risks of privacy leakage, particularly for patients with Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) who need protection from social secondary harm. Despite advancements in privacy protection research, the effectiveness of these strategies in real-world data remains debatable. …”
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Gastrostomy uptake in motor neurone disease: a mixed-methods study of patients’ decision making by Natalie James, Emma Power, Anne Hogden, Julie Labra, Victoria M Flood

“…Other reported factors included: reducing carer burden, improving quality of life, increasing independence, continuing participation in social outings and gaining control.Conclusions Future research may give greater insight into how healthcare organisations can better facilitate gastrostomy decision making, to meet the needs of people living with MND. …”
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Ecosystem services value for water provisioning in the Shule River Basin of northwestern China: Spatial and temporal evolution and drivers from 2000 to 2022 by Peng Shi, Dongmei Zhou, Jing Jiang, Jing Ma, Xiaoyan Zhu, Jun Zhang, Zihe Li, Qinghan Dong

“…The economic and social functions of water provision have become increasingly important with the gradual scarcity of water resources due to global change. …”
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Artificial intelligence-driven ensemble deep learning models for smart monitoring of indoor activities in IoT environment for people with disabilities by Munya A. Arasi, Hussah Nasser AlEisa, Amani A. Alneil, Radwa Marzouk

“…The support in longer-term care includes nursing, intricate medical, recovery, and social help services. The price is large, but advanced technologies can aid in decreasing expenditure by certifying effective health services and enhancing the superiority of life. …”
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The global energy challenge: second-generation feedstocks on marginal lands for a sustainable biofuel production by Claudio Russo, Valerio Cirillo, Nausicaa Pollaro, Fabio Terribile, Andrea Chiodini, Albino Maggio

“…Based on the scientific literature, we addressed the following critical points: (i) whether marginal land worldwide can be considered a reasonable alternative to arable lands for biofuel production; (ii) evaluate the sustainability of biofuel production with respect to unintended negative consequences of crop cultivation such as indirect land use change, social insecurity and loss of biodiversity. It was concluded that the amount of land for growing plants can possibly sustain both food and biofuel production if marginal land are included. …”
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Mean field limits of co-evolutionary signed heterogeneous networks by Marios Antonios Gkogkas, Christian Kuehn, Chuang Xu

“…These networks are used in different areas including telecommunication, neuroscience, computer science, biochemistry, social science, as well as physics, where Kuramoto-type networks have been widely used to model interaction among a set of oscillators. …”
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Robótica Educativa como Estrategia de Aprendizaje y Desarrollo de la Personalidad en Niños con Autismo by Cristhy Nataly Jiménez Graniz, Manuel Joaquín Machado Sotomayor

“…La implementación parcial de estas estrategias mostró resultados positivos en el desarrollo de habilidades académicas y sociales de la niña con autismo, destacando la eficacia de la tecnología como herramienta educativa inclusiva. …”
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Hybrid Quality-Based Recommender Systems: A Systematic Literature Review by Bihi Sabiri, Amal Khtira, Bouchra El Asri, Maryem Rhanoui

“…As a result, recommender systems have achieved considerable economic, social, and global advancements. Companies are improving their algorithms with hybrid techniques that combine more recommendation methodologies as these systems are a major research focus. …”
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Strategies to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child and youth well-being: a scoping review protocol by Jeanna Parsons Leigh, Henry T Stelfox, Perri R Tutelman, Diane L Lorenzetti, Melanie C Anglin, Kirsten M Fiest, Stephana Julia Moss, Emily A FitzGerald, Stacie Smith, Micaela Harley, Kathryn Birnie, Sara J Mizen

“…Wide-ranging negative effects (eg, social isolation, lack of physical activity) of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and youth are well established. …”
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A percepção dos servidores técnico-administrativos da UFJF quanto à adoção do trabalho remoto no contexto pós pandemia da COVID-19 by Mariana Marta Paschoal Ferreira da Silva, Denis Alves Perdigão

“…Se destacaram na pesquisa questões como o isolamento social, a hiperconexão, o direito à desconexão e os recursos para trabalhar. …”
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Apoio psicossocial a povos indígenas em desastres e emergências em saúde pública by Luiz Felipe Barboza Lacerda, Camila Pinheiro Medeiros, Beatriz Schmidt, Míriam Dantas de Almeida Tembé, Débora da Silva Noal, Kwarahy Tenetehar

“…Dentre as categorias a serem consideradas na formulação de estratégias de apoio psicossocial a populações indígenas afetadas por desastres e emergências em saúde pública, foram destacadas: Diversidade de compreensões sobre os fenômenos; Comunicação intercultural; Respeito aos mais velhos; Corpo-território; Identidade e elaboração coletiva da situação potencialmente traumática; A cidade como território indígena; Respeito à organização social; Uma ciência e uma medicina própria; O luto e a centralidade da espiritualidade. …”
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Exploring the dynamics of human resources apology in organizational communication by A. Rajabipoor Meybodi, M. Sabokro, A. Solhjoo, E. Hosseini, F. Forghani Elahabadi

“…BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The emotional expression of feelings and the satisfaction of social needs are two primary purposes of many communication interactions in an organization. …”
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Protocol for the development of a reporting guideline for causal and counterfactual prediction models in biomedicine by Yi Guo, Hua Xu, Fei Wang, Jie Xu, Jiang Bian, Robert Lucero, Mattia Prosperi

“…The dissemination of PRECOG and its products will be done through journal publications, conferences, websites and social media.…”
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