Childhood cancer and parental mental health: role of disease severity, socioeconomic status, and social dynamics by Hawkar Ibrahim, Azad Ali Ismail, Narin Ahmed Rahim, Benjamin Iffland, Frank Neuner

“…Data were collected through structured interviews at two major oncology hospitals in the KRI, utilizing standardized instruments to assess mental health symptoms, socioeconomic status, and social constraints. …”
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Moral competence of dental students: an explanatory mixed-methods study by Raheleh Mosavi, Fatemeh Foroughipour, Maryam Kazemipoor, Fatemeh Keshmiri

“…The students’ experiences were explored through semi-structured interviews in the qualitative phase. Data were analyzed using a conventional content analysis approach, which Graneheim and Lundman introduced. …”
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Clinical-epidemiological Characterization of Suicide in Elder Adults by Wilfredo Valiente Morejón, Bárbara Junco Sena, Yoel Padrón Vega, Yisel de la Caridad Ramos Águila, Alina Rodríguez Méndez

“…The most frequent suicides occurred in old men with elementary school level, without working or marital bond and living with other people but with noticeable problems in the familial structure and functioning. The most frequent method was hanging. …”
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Carabid beetles as indicators of stream zonation by Franziska Middendorf, Bernhard Eitzinger, Martin H. Entling, Jens Schirmel

“…Our findings clearly showed longitudinal changes in the community structure and trait composition of carabid beetles along streams. …”
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Prevalence and Predictors of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among Health Care Workers in Tertiary Health Care Institutions in a Developing Country: A Cross-Sectional Analytical Study by Chinedu Anthony Iwu, Pius Ositadinma, Victor Chibiko, Ugochukwu Madubueze, Kenechi Uwakwe, Uche Oluoha

“…Data was collected using a structured online questionnaire and bivariate and multivariate analyses were done using SPSS at a level of significance set at p≤0.05. …”
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Towards culturally inclusive healthcare in Peru: Mapping epistemic concepts in contemporary Indigenous Amazonian medicine-Traditional healers' perspectives. by Ilana Berlowitz, Maria Amalia Pesantes, Cynthia Cárdenas Palacios, Chantal Martin-Soelch, Ursula Wolf, Caroline Maake

“…We conducted systematic in-depth interviews (semi-structured) with a sample of 13 healers of three Peruvian-Amazonian regions (Loreto, Ucayali, San Martín). …”
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Estimation of the Wenchuan Earthquake Rupture Sequence Utilizing Teleseismic Records and Coseismic Displacements by Deyu Yin, Qifang Liu, Jingke Wu

“…Special attention should be paid to the point of 40 km northeast of the epicenter, in which the Xiaoyudong fault intersects the above two faults, creating a complex fault structure. Surface rupture data from field surveys and previous research of dynamics studies indicate that an important transformation may take place at the intersection. …”
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The appreciation of the jurisdiction of crimes committed during commercial space flights by D. A. Bulgakova, V. A. Bulgakova

“…It is specified that each partner of a space flight, both the state (in the case of public interests) and/or certain flight authorities operating under the auspices of a particular country, and a space company and/or a provider of relevant services (in the case of private interests), must register a commercial space flight and its structural objects as flight elements. In this case, each of these partners retains jurisdiction and control over the registered components.…”
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Practices of Healthcare Workers regarding Infection Prevention in Bale Zone Hospitals, Southeast Ethiopia by Demisu Zenbaba, Biniyam Sahiledengle, Daniel Bogale

“…Data were collected in interviews using pretested, structured questionnaires. Returned questionnaires were checked for completeness and then data were entered into a database and analyzed using SPSS Version 20. …”
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Engineering a tumor-selective prodrug T-cell engager bispecific antibody for safer immunotherapy by Amelia C. McCue, Stephen J. Demarest, Karen J. Froning, Michael J. Hickey, Stephen Antonysamy, Brian Kuhlman

“…Here, we solve the crystal structure of the antigen-binding fragment of a novel anti-CD3 antibody, E10, in complex with its epitope from CD3 and use this information to engineer a masked form of the antibody that can activate by the tumor-enriched protease matrix metalloproteinase 2 (MMP-2). …”
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Utilizing the subtractive proteomics approach to design ensemble vaccine against Candida lusitaniae for immune response stimulation; a bioinformatics study. by Habiba Naz, Rimsha Timotheous, Muhammad Farhan Sarwar, Tariq Nadeem, Mudassar Fareed Awan, Sajed Ali, Sophia Awais, Irfan Ahmed

“…Furthermore, the whole proteome (WP) vaccine was constructed accordingly. The structural modelling of all the selected vaccine candidates was then performed to proceed them further for docking with the human toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2). …”
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Patient autonomy and metabolic bariatric surgery: an empirical perspective by Shelly Kamin-Friedman, Nili Karako-Eyal, Galya Hildesheimer

“…Methods The study employed a qualitative methodology, conducting 21 in-depth semi-structured interviews with adults who had undergone bariatric surgery. …”
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Reduced avoidance behaviour in Daphnia magna due to agrochemical-induced vulnerability by María Eugenia López-Valcárcel, Ana del Arco, Cristiano V.M. Araújo, Gema Parra

“…In heterogeneously contaminated habitats, a lower avoidance capacity is responsible for the differential spatial distribution of the affected species, which impacts the ecosystem structure. Additionally, agrochemically induced vulnerability and its effect on avoidance behaviour may affect ecosystem functioning through the altered spatial distribution of zooplankton populations.…”
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Identifying and ranking the effective financial factors on rural entrepreneurial small businesses by Khosro Farahi, Parvaneh Gelard, Hamid Tohidi

“…The research method applied based on purpose and data collection is a semi-structured interview done through interviews with academic experts, implementers of rural employment and entrepreneurship projects, and entrepreneurs. …”
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Influence of Drying–Wetting Cycles on the Water Retention and Microstructure of Residual Soil by Xu-tang Xu, Dao-qi Liu, Zhen-xing Xian, Feng Yang, Wen-bin Jian, Xiang Xu, Jian-bin Huang

“…The NMR results indicated a double-pore structure, and the porosity of the residual soil as well as the internal water content increased smoothly with more drying–wetting cycles. …”
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Exploring the perspectives of new-in-practice specialists about the Health Advocate role: “I didn’t even know where to start” by Jacqueline Dorothy Cochrane, Nancy Dudek, Kelsey Crawford, Lindsay Cowley, Kori A LaDonna

“…Methods: Ten early-career physicians participated in semi-structured interviews exploring their perceived competence and motivation to engage in health advocacy. …”
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THE CONTENDING ISSUES AND REALITIES IN NIGERIAN FEDERALISM by BENJAMIN SHAIBUME, AONDOAKAA AFONGU IORNUMBE

“…The uneven distribution of resources, power and structural imbalances, and ethnic rivalries among others have continued to challenge Nigerian federalism. …”
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Synthesis, in silico and antimicrobial activity study of substituted aromatic imines and their corresponding amines by Hanna Abbo, Darin Edward Holman, Mohamed-Deen Hendricks, Christiana Abimbola Salubi, Marshall Keyster, Salam Titinchi

“…These compounds featured diverse structural components, including alkyl chains, phenyl and methoxy groups. …”
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Legal support of corporate legal relations: priority in terms of imperative or discretionary nature by Yu. M. Zhornokui

“…Although the corporate agreement contains provisions on the exercise (refusal to exercise) of corporate rights by participants (shareholders), they are not local, but are individual regulators that do not apply to the scope of the company's functioning and activities, which does not indicate the normative nature of such a contractual structure.…”
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Features of Measuring the Hardness of a Metal Surface Modified with Ultrafine Particles of Minerals by A. V. Skazochkin, G. G. Bondarenko, P. Żukowski

“…An additional difference in the results of measurements performed by two methods at shallow indentation depths may be due to the fact that the object under study has a complex structure consisting of a metal matrix and particles distributed over the depth of the sample. …”
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