Tobacco control environment: cross-sectional survey of policy implementation, social unacceptability, knowledge of tobacco health harms and relationship to quit ratio in 17 low-inc... by Annika Rosengren, Li Wei, Khalid Yusoff, Martin McKee, Clara K Chow, Rajeev Gupta, Koon Teo, Sumathy Rangarajan, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Rafael Diaz, Alvaro Avezum, Fernando Lanas, Noorhassim Ismail, Romaina Iqbal, Jephat Chifamba, Gilles Dagenais, Salim Yusuf, Anna B Gilmore, Scott Lear, Wang Yang, Omar Rahman, Katarzyna Zatonska, Prem Mony, Rajesh Kumar, Afzalhussein Yusufali, Daniel J Corsi, Ehimario Igumbor, V Mohan, Annamarie Kruger, Krishnapillai Vijayakumar, Yuksel Altuntas, Ahmad Bahonar

“…Summary scores of policy implementation, social unacceptability and knowledge were positively and significantly associated with quit ratio and the associations varied by gender, for example, communities in the highest quintile of the combined scores had 5.0 times the quit ratio in men (Odds ratio (OR) 5·0, 95% CI 3.4 to 7.4) and 4.1 times the quit ratio in women (OR 4.1, 95% CI 2.4 to 7.1).Conclusions This study suggests that more focus is needed on ensuring the tobacco control policy is actually implemented, particularly in LMICs. …”
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Genome Architecture and Its Roles in Human Copy Number Variation by Lu Chen, Weichen Zhou, Ling Zhang, Feng Zhang

“…Some recent studies showed that DNA replication timing, which reflects the high-order information of genomic organization, is involved in human CNV mutations. …”
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The Institutionalization of Political Humor as a Form of Reflection by S. S. Melnikov

“…A fundamental distinction between humor formed in the modern period and humor of previous times is the presence of reflexivity. New kind of humor has also dealt with political relations began to be interpreted by means of humor culture. …”
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A Comparative Study of Competencies of Future Management Accounting Professionals in Lithuania and Latvia Using a Multi-Criteria Model by Daiva Tamulevičienė, Aistė Vareikaitė, Inga Būmane

“… Management accountants' high level of competence is essential for every company, as they manage a large amount of financial and non-financial information based on which managers make appropriate and timely decisions. However, the question arises as to whether the knowledge, skills and values of a management accountant, as referred to in the academic literature, are equally important in assessing such professionals' competence. …”
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On the Multimodal Resolution of a Search Sequence in Virtual Reality by Nils Klowait

“…The players’ inability to resort to complex language to resolve this issue results in a dense sequence of back-and-forth activity involving gestures, object manipulation, gaze, and body work. Most crucially, timing and modified repetitions of previously produced actions turn out to be the key to overcome both technical and communicative challenges. …”
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Aggregation stability and organic carbon fraction in a soil amended with some plant residues, nanozeolite, and natural zeolite by Milad Mirzaei Aminiyan, Ali Akbar Safari Sinegani, Mohsen Sheklabadi

“…The analysis of variance showed that the effects of applied nanozeolite, zeolite, plant residues, and their interaction and incubation times on MWDw and OC in aggregate size fractions were statistically significant. …”
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A problem of "Raseiniai tank's" history by Arvydas Žardinskas

“…Describing the progression of the battle and establishing exact times and other facts became possible after reviewing archival documents (e.g., war diaries, radiograms) found in archives. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF DERIVATIVE MARKET IN 2000-2012 by E. V. Vasina

“…Today volumes of the OTC market of derivatives are several times greater than the volume of world trade and world GDP. …”
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Screening of <i>Polyalthia longifolia</i> and <i>Aloe vera</i> for their phytoextractability of heavy metals in tropical soil of the Niger Delta by FBG Tanee, N Amadi

“… The work focuses on the screening of Polyalthia longifolia and Aloe vera for their phytoextractability of  heavy metal in soil of the Niger Delta. 5kg of soil was polluted with 100 mg of Zn, Fe and Pb each  replicated 9 times. Each set was separated into 3 subgroups. The subgroups were phytoextracted with Polyalthia longifolia and Aloe vera alongside a control (no phytoextraction) respectively. …”
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Reducing the risk of visual disability for children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis uveitis through disease surveillance: past and future challenges by Ameenat Lola Solebo, Ivan Foeldvari

“…The Multinational Interdisciplinary Working Group for Uveitis in Childhood (MIWGUC) has brought some much-needed standardisation to JIA surveillance, developing a consensus-based screening proposal which simplifies the protocol, supporting implementation amongst non-specialists, and ensuring that children at risk receive the timely eye examination necessary to avoid life-changing visual disability. …”
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Ethnoecology of pollination and pollinators by Marie Roué, Vincent Battesti, Nicolas Césard, Romain Simenel

“…In Indonesia, honey harvesters have an exacting local knowledge of the giant honeybees and the timing and nature of blooms. They use this knowledge to attract migratory swarms and to decide the optimal moment to harvest honey so that the bees are incited to return.The authors, specialists in social system/ecosystem interactions, decided to pool their expertise so as to render more accessible their research results, which are often dispersed amongst journals specialized in different cultural areas. …”
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La recolocación de monumentos dentro del juego de pelota como mecanismo de activación ritual durante el periodo Clásico maya by Octavio Quetzalcóatl Esparza Olguín, Rogelio Valencia Rivera

“…The monument relocation phenomenon during Prehispanic times in the Maya area, which includes engraved and plain elements, has been documented by various researchers since the realization of the very first archaeological excavations, such as those made during the last century at Tikal, Cobá, and La Milpa. …”
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Impact of E-Learning, Perception and Attitude among Students and Faculty following the COVID-19 Pandemic by Syed Hamza Zia, Ghina Rizwan, Afifa Ehsan, Zarnab Rizwan, Rabia Masood, Naila Umer

“… Background and Aim: The Novel coronavirus disease has grasped the world as one of the most devastating pandemics of recent times. Many efforts such as social distancing was made to cut down the spread of the virus in its early days and restrictions were followed by numerous countries worldwide which resulted in serious hurdles in all sectors of our daily lives such as education, financial and social activities. …”
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Dibenzo[b,f][1,5]Diazocines/ZnO Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Photoanodes for Efficient Photo Electrochemical Water Splitting by Sissembayeva Yana, Soo Kyung Cho, Yoon-Hwae Hwang

“…RHE which is almost two times higher than bare ZnO NR arrays (0.716 mA/cm2 at 1.23 V vs. …”
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Erythema Nodosum and Pyoderma Gangrenosum in 50 Patients with Crohn’s Disease by Hugh J Freeman

“…Of these, 45 (4.4%) had erythema nodosum and seven (0.7%) had pyoderma gangrenosum, including two (0.2%) with both dermatological disorders at different times during their clinical courses. Recurrent erythema nodosum was also detected in nine patients (20%) including eight women, while recurrent pyoderma gangrenosum was seen in two patients (28.6%). …”
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Fabrication of ZnS-Bi-TiO2 Composites and Investigation of Their Sunlight Photocatalytic Performance by Xuewei Dong, Fan Zhang, Chuan Rong, Hongchao Ma

“…As compared to pure TiO2, the ZnS-Bi-TiO2 exhibited enhanced photodegradation efficiency under xenon lamp irradiation, and the kinetic constant of methyl orange removal with ZnS-Bi-Ti-0.005 (0.0141 min−1) was 3.9 times greater than that of pure TiO2 (0.0029 min−1), which could be attributed to the existence of Bi4+/Bi3+ species, the ZnS/TiO2 heterostructure.…”
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Cross-Layer Greedy-Based Routing in VANETs: Virtual Multibackbones Approach by Mohamed Nabil, Said El Kafhali, Abdelmajid Hajami, Abdelkrim Haqiq

“…In addition, our proposal gives priority to those that travel toward the destination vehicle avoiding the forwarding of data several times by the same vehicle. The substantial simulations show that our protocol outperforms certain of the well-known existing schemes in the VANET area by varying the vehicle density on the highway. …”
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Sudden Onset of Coma and Fulminant Progression to Brain Death in a 48-Year-Old Male With Cerebral Malaria by Marina Costa, Cristiana Barbosa, Mauro Pereira, Luís Ribeiro, Pedro Silveira

“…The early recognition of the diagnosis is of major importance for the establishment of definitive treatment, as its timely administration has a crucial impact on the outcome.…”
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The use of technology in civil and family oral trials as an innovative source of human rights in Mexico by Dra. Blanca Torres Espinosa, Carlos Ernesto Arcudia Hernández, Sara Berenice Orta Flores

“…Since this historical event, people’s rights have evolved, and new rights have arisen in accordance with the times, such as the right to express oneself and to be communicated through the Internet, using appropriate devices. …”
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Therapeutic Benefit of Dillenia indica in Diabetes and Its Associated Complications by Parul Kamboj, Narayan C. Talukdar, Sanjay K. Banerjee

“…Although several medicinal plants known for the antidiabetic property are reported in the ancient medical textbook, there is always a scope to identify and validate less explored medicinal plants that are still practiced regularly by local and tribal people since ancient times. Here, in the present article, we would like to review a less explored medicinal plant, Dillenia indica, which has promising effects in treating diabetes and other diabetic-associated complications. …”
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