Systematic review of infant and young child feeding practices in conflict areas: what the evidence advocates by Jai K Das, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Amna Rabbani, Zahra A Padhani, Faareha A Siddiqui

“…To improve IYCF, several interventions were implemented; including, training of health workers, educating mothers, community networking and mobilisation, lactation-support service, baby friendly hospital initiative, mother–baby friendly spaces and support groups.Conclusion The evidence suggests that IYCF practices are generally poor in conflict inflicted settings. …”
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“I lock myself in my room and cry in frustration”: an analysis of adolescent behaviors of child-to-parent violence by Shirley Arias-Rivera, Barbara Lorence, Barbara Lorence, Jesus Maya

“…This study highlights practical implications for interventions, such as the importance of helping them express their emotions, recognize the harm caused, identify safe spaces, people, or activities, and support them in the process of apologizing.…”
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How far? Travel burdens for children admitted to hospitals in the Western Cape Province of South Africa by M Richards, D le Roux, D Pienaar

“…The Western Cape is a large land area with a wide array of human settlements- both in urban and rural spaces. For many children in the Western Cape, after-hours access to healthcare becomes constrained when primary care clinics close and hospitals are either far away or difficult to get to. …”
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Delineation of potential management zones for cowpea by factorial kriging and spatial Fuzzy C-Means of yield and soil chemical and texture properties by João Fernandes da Silva Júnior, Thiago Thomé da Silva, Devid Jackson da Silva Sousa, Rose Luiza Moraes Tavares, Benedito Dutra Luz de Souza, Daniel Pereira Pinheiro

“…From Farmer, 66 soil samples were collected at a layer of 0.00-0.20 m, at points with a regular spacing of 12 m, at Agropecuária Milênio in the municipality of Tracuateua, Pará State, to make the technology applicable to the most common data available to farmers. …”
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Multi-mode Motion Analysis of Sideward Opening Aircraft Doors Based on Position and Orientation Characteristic Theory by Wu Borui, Hang Lubin, Peng Jiyou, Huang Xiaobo, Wu Yang, Qiu Xudong

“…The study finds that the geometric constraint condition of the sideward opening aircraft door motion mode switching is that the rotation pair spacing of hinge arm mechanism is equal to the projection size of the parallel link mechanism length on the horizontal plane. …”
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Potential for circular economy in the construction sector. An explorative study about single-use masks and sustainable building material based on a customer and construction compan... by Daniela Ludin, Erika Mueller, Asli Ercengiz, Jannick Lumpp, Wanja Wellbrock

“…Background:: With the Covid-19 pandemic, there came a substantial growth in mask usage and therefore mask waste, as many countries introduced obligatory mask wearing in public spaces. Although many institutions have created waste management systems to overcome the overflow of waste created, these were all more in line with “firefighting” strategies than long terms solutions. …”
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Compressibility characteristics and modification effect of coal reservoirs in Longtan Formation, Nanchuan area, southeast Chongqing by Jinxian LIU, Tao GUO, Yatong ZHOU, Dongyang LI, Xiaobo JIN

“…The study shows that: (1) The coal rocks exhibit characteristics of medium to high evolution degree, medium to high vitrinite content, and medium to low ash content. The primary storage spaces in coal rocks are micropores and fractures, which facilitates gas adsorption. …”
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Rate capability and electrolyte concentration: Tuning MnO2 supercapacitor electrodes through electrodeposition parameters by Hamed Soltani, Hamed Bahiraei, Shahnaz Ghasemi, Mazdak Hashempour

“…Along with the positive structural impacts of the layered birnessite with large interlayer spacing, the porous morphology (vertically aligned two-dimensional interconnected columns) and low thickness (≈2 μm) of the electrode prepared at the lowest bath concentration and electrodeposition time (0.01 M in 1 min electrode) contributed to its fast ionic diffusion kinetics for pseudocapacitive charge storage and the consequent high rate capability.…”
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A conceptual framework for the instructional design of a Moodle-based e-learning course for mainstreaming informal master’s education outcomes into ESP teaching in a formal non-lin... by Larisa M. Galchuk

“…The significance of this work lies in the necessity to devise a mechanism for structuring students’ non-institutional learning activities as they engage with their academic discipline within an ICT-supported formal environment, which bears many similarities to contemporary informal learning spaces. Methodology . The research is comprehensive in nature, based on the use of general scientific and empirical methods with the subsequent interpretation of its results in terms of theoretical triangulation. …”
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Un manifeste patrimonial pour la gastronomie by Marie-Hélène Bénetière, Isabelle Chave, Julie Faure, Michaël Vottero

“…From objects to monuments, gastronomy, in its heritage sense, is linked to a wide range of specialized spaces: gardens, vegetable gardens and orchards, conservatories of food and horticultural plants, restaurants, cafés, food production plants, shops selling food products, kitchens, dining rooms, party rooms, collective catering places..., the typology of the places associated, in various ways, with the concept is one of the most rich. …”
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Implementing Namaste Care in nursing care homes for people with advanced dementia: a systematically constructed review with framework synthesis by Serena Salvi, Nancy Preston, Nicola Cornally, Catherine Walshe, on behalf of the In-Touch Consortium

“…Specifically, providing tailored training programmes for staff, creating dedicated Namaste Care spaces, and encouraging active family and volunteer participation can facilitate effective integration. …”
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ITALIANO E DIALETTO: ESPERIENZE DIDATTICHE PER UN CURRICOLO VERTICALE INTEGRATO IN PROSPETTIVA ECOLINGUISTICA by Rosalia La Perna, Antonio Serradifalco

“…In a primary school (class III), composed of Italian speakers with low competence in the local variety, the study of text types in Italian and the search for similar texts in Sicilian, carried out with the involvement of Sicilian-speaking grandparents, improved text analysis and communication skills and widened intergenerational language spaces. At secondary level, the students’ multilingual resources on Italian and the local variety allowed the discovery of the onomastic local repertoire and the creation of glossaries; the contrastive analysis activated metalinguistic processes and improved skills in dealing with different registers. …”
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Assessing type-2 diabetes risk based on the Indian diabetes risk score among adults aged 45 and above in India by Karthika Maniyara, Prakash Babu Kodali

“…Educational programs on diet and physical activity, creation of public spaces conducive to physical activity, promotion of fruit and vegetable intake, and discouragement of processed and ultra-processed diets can directly address inadequate physical activity and obesity, the two primary modifiable risk factors for type-2 diabetes. …”
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Impact of Weed Infestation on Growth and Yield of Carrot Plants. by Mutabazi, Cosma

“…On 15th May 2024, two carrot seedlings were sown directly per hole at a spacing of 5cm. These 5 cm were measured using a ruler and holes were dug using a debar. …”
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Analysis of the Effect of Planting Depths on the Growth and Yield of Carrots. by Muserero, Ronald Regan

“…The sowing of the carrot seeds was done using the recommended spacing of 30cm × 10cm. The sowing depths indicated in the treatment structure above were used based on the treatment, that is, shallow depth (0.6 cm), normal depth (1.6cm), and deep depth (2.6cm). …”
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Quais et ouvrages portuaires romains de Rouen/Rotomagus (Seine-Maritime) by Marie-Clotilde Lequoy

“…Covering, in part the stone dock, these rooms have been interpreted as storage spaces, which would have been associated with another unknown dock, built further south. …”
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Comparison of Diffusion Tensor Imaging Metrics in Normal-Appearing White Matter to Cerebrovascular Lesions and Correlation with Cerebrovascular Disease Risk Factors and Severity by Seyyed M. H. Haddad, Christopher J. M. Scott, Miracle Ozzoude, Courtney Berezuk, Melissa Holmes, Sabrina Adamo, Joel Ramirez, Stephen R. Arnott, Nuwan D. Nanayakkara, Malcolm Binns, Derek Beaton, Wendy Lou, Kelly Sunderland, Sujeevini Sujanthan, Jane Lawrence, Donna Kwan, Brian Tan, Leanne Casaubon, Jennifer Mandzia, Demetrios Sahlas, Gustavo Saposnik, Ayman Hassan, Brian Levine, Paula McLaughlin, J. B. Orange, Angela Roberts, Angela Troyer, Sandra E. Black, Dar Dowlatshahi, Stephen C. Strother, Richard H. Swartz, Sean Symons, Manuel Montero-Odasso, null ONDRI Investigators, Robert Bartha

“…Ten cerebral tissue types were segmented including NAWM, and vascular lesions including stroke, periventricular and deep white matter hyperintensities, periventricular and deep lacunar infarcts, and perivascular spaces (PVS) using T1-weighted, proton density-weighted, T2-weighted, and fluid attenuated inversion recovery MRI scans. …”
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Feasibility pilot of a novel coaching intervention to optimize cannabis use for chronic pain management among Veterans by Kevin F. Boehnke, Gabrielle Bowyer, Jenna McAfee, Tristin Smith, Catherine Klida, Vivian Kurtz, Evangelos Litinas, Poonam Purohit, Anne Arewasikporn, Dana Horowitz, Laura Thomas, Jennifer Eckersley, Mia Railing, David A. Williams, Daniel J. Clauw, Kelley M. Kidwell, Amy S. B. Bohnert, Rachel S. Bergmans

“…Participants received up to 4 individual coaching sessions via videoconference, spaced approximately 2 weeks apart. We assessed feasibility (adherence, satisfaction, acceptability) and preliminary effects on pain symptoms 14 weeks after baseline. …”
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Nebulized aminoglycosides for ventilator-associated pneumonia: Methodological considerations and lessons from experimental studies by Jean-Jacques Rouby, Jing Xia, Jayesh Dhanani, Gianluigi Li Bassi, Antoine Monsel, Antoni Torres, Kostoula Arvaniti, Mona Assefi, Matteo Bassetti, Stijn Blot, Matthieu Boisson, Adrien Bouglé, Jean-Michel Constantin, Jayesh Dhanani, George Dimopoulos, Jonathan Dugernier, Pauline Dureau, Stephan Ehrmann, Timothy Felton, Marin Kollef, Antonia Koutsoukou, Anna Kyriakoudi, Pierre-François Laterre, Marc Leone, Victoria Lepère, Gianluigi Li Bassi, Xuelian Liao, Shakti Bedanta Mishra, Olivier Mimoz, Antoine Monsel, Girish B Nair, Michael Niederman, Lucy B Palmer, Jose Manuel Pereira, Konstantinos Pontikis, Garyphalia Poulakou, Jérôme Pugin, Chuanyun Qian, Jie-ming Qu, Jordi Rello, Jason Roberts, Jean-Jacques Rouby, Christina Routsi, Gerald C. Smaldone, Antoni Torres, Melda Türkoğlu, Tobias Welte, Michel Wolff, Xia Jing, Li Yang, Ting Yang, Ying-gang Zhu

“…It is likely that the penetration into the consolidated lung, results from the bronchial diffusion of nebulized aminoglycosides toward adjacent non-aerated infected alveolar spaces and their penetration into mechanical ventilation-induced intraparenchymal pseudocysts and distended bronchioles. …”
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Microgeographical Variation in <i>Dirofilaria immitis</i> Prevalence in Dogs in Suburban and Urban Areas of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil by Marianna Laura Elis Chocobar, Elizabeth Moreira dos Santos Schmidt, Ângelo Joel Ferreira Mendes, Paul Christopher Duncan Johnson, William Weir, Rossella Panarese

“…Dogs aged over two years had a higher risk of being infected (<i>p</i> < 0.001), while features such as breed, sex, size, coat type, use of macrocyclic lactones or access to outdoor spaces were not found to be predictive factors. This study reinforces the evidence that the prevalence of <i>D. immitis</i> is increasing in areas previously considered to have low prevalence or to be non-endemic. …”
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