What drives potential accessibility decomposition? Temporal and spatial variability of the impact of infrastructure and population components in France, Spain, and Poland in the ye... by Piotr Rosik, Marcin Mazur, Marcin Stępniak, Tomasz Komornicki, Sławomir Goliszek, Patryk Duma, Paweł Churski

“… Changes in potential accessibility are the effect of both the expansion of transport infrastructure and shortening travel times, as well as land-use processes, e.g., changes in population size and distribution. …”
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Development and Implementation of a Comprehensive Quality Assurance Program at a Community Endoscopy Facility by Robert J Hilsden, Alaa Rostom, Catherine Dubé, Darlene Pontifex, S Elizabeth McGregor, Ronald J Bridges

“…QA activities include monitoring the patient experience through surveys, creating endoscopist report cards on colonoscopy performance, tracking and evaluating adverse events and monitoring wait times.…”
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Comparison of outcomes with and without intrastent placement during PMS surgery by Yusaku Miura, Ken Fukuda, Kenji Yamashiro

“…These findings suggest that intrastent placement effectively prevents postoperative hypotony, regardless of nylon suture diameter or insertion length; however, timing is crucial as hypotony may occur after removal.…”
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Decreased mental health care utilization following a psychosocial intervention in caregivers of hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients by Rita Ouseph, Calvin Croy, Crystal Natvig, Teresa Simoneau, Mark L. Laudenslager

“…At six months caregivers in TAU had predicted marginal probabilities of mental health services utilization over 10 times as high as caregivers in PEPRR (18.1% <em>vs</em> 1.5%). …”
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Analysis of kinematic and kinetic changes in scoliosis following spinal manipulation by Yanyun Gou, Lin Meng, Shaoqing Chen, Zheng Jiang, Huangwei Lei

“…The treatment protocol consisted of spinal manipulation sessions three times a week, each lasting 40 min, administered over a span of six weeks. …”
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Management of Marfan Syndrome, with a Specific Focus on the Significance of Physical Activity in this Patient Population by Patrycja Jędrzejewska-Rzezak

“… Introduction: Marfan syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder of connective tissue. Timely diagnosis and effective therapy are essential for individuals with Marfan syndrome, as they are susceptible to severe cardiovascular consequences, including aortic aneurysms and aortic dissection. …”
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Exclusive Cutaneous and Subcutaneous Sarcoidal Granulomatous Inflammation due to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: Report of Two Cases with Unusual Manifestations and Review of the Lit... by Narciss Mobini, Rummit Dhillon, Jason Dickey, Jordan Spoon, Kaviyon Sadrolashrafi

“…It is crucial to have a high index of suspicion and perform timely biopsies to implement appropriate management strategies.…”
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Investigation of changes in surface urban heat-island (SUHI) in day and night using multi-temporal MODIS sensor data products (Case Study: Tehran metropolitan) by Sirous Hashemi Darebadami, Ali Darvishi Boloorani, Seyed Kazem AlaviPanah, Mohammad maleki, Reza Bayat

“…So that during warm days the surface urban cool island (SUCL) is formed in Tehran. At night times, SUHI index values was different between 2 and 5 ° C (maximum in the spring). …”
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Daptomycin-Induced Acute Eosinophilic Pneumonia: Late Onset and Quick Recovery by Mohamad Rachid, Khansa Ahmad, Meghan Saunders-Kurban, Aelia Fatima, Aditya Shah, Anas Nahhas

“…Obtaining bronchoalveolar lavage or lung biopsy is needed to confirm the diagnosis. Timing of the drug use and clinical presentation is crucial in the diagnosis of drug-induced AEP. …”
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SPICE-Level Demonstration of Unsupervised Learning With Spintronic Synapses in Spiking Neural Networks by Salah Daddinounou, Anteneh Gebregiorgis, Said Hamdioui, Elena-Ioana Vatajelu

“…In addition, it uses a dedicated unsupervised learning rule based on optimized Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity (STDP). To facilitate the design of the SNN, its training and evaluation, an open-source Python-based platform is developed; it takes as input the SNN parameters and discrete circuit components, and it automatically generates the associated full netlist in SPICE then launches the simulation; moreover, it extracts the simulation results and makes them available in python for evaluation and manipulation. …”
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Tweeting democracy: analyzing twitter's role in public participation during the Philippine election 2022 by Christine B. Tenorio, Yammie Palao Daud, Lalevie Casas Lubos

“…Future studies should look beyond pre-election times to provide a complete picture of online debate, using Twitter's API for easy data gathering and analysis. …”
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Structural Health Monitoring of Precast Concrete Box Girders Using Selected Vibration-Based Damage Detection Methods by Zhengjie Zhou, Leon D. Wegner, Bruce F. Sparling

“…All methods were capable of detecting and localizing damage to a region within approximately 1.6 times the longitudinal spacing between as few as six uniformly distributed accelerometers. …”
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The impact of health information seeking and social influence on functional food purchase intention by Yaoze Gong, Fareyha Said, Wajiha Haq, Jiankun Gong, Iffat Aksar

“…This study assessed healthy food product purchasing intention in a timely manner by incorporating health communication. variables and social influence into consumer behavior research in the context of COVID-19. …”
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Adjuvant Hormonal Therapy in Postmenopausal Women with Breast Cancer: Physician’s Choices by Asim Jamal Shaikh, Shiyam Kumar, Sajjad Raza, Maria Mehboob, Osama Ishtiaq

“…Data support (67.8%) and safety concerns (30%) were given as the main reasons for the choice, 63.7% switched their therapy, and 24% had to switch because of side effects. 73.6% used 5 years of adjuvant hormonal therapy, 6.6% for 7 years, and 4.4% for 10 years. 61.5% follow their patients 3 times monthly, and 73.2% used laboratory and radiological assessment at each followup. …”
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Growing demand for housing and the productivity challenges in developing housing projects in Iraq by Ali Hassoon, Farid Ezanee Mohamed Ghazali, Tareq Khaleel, Ahmed Hadi

“…However, productivity challenges continue to hinder the timely and efficient delivery of residential projects. …”
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Comparing ALADIN-CZ and ALADIN-LAEF Precipitation Forecasts for Hydrological Modelling in the Czech Republic by Martin Vokoun, Martin Hanel

“…Surprisingly, the high-resolution ALADIN-CZ does not yield higher success rates than ALADIN-LAEF even at short prediction lead times. This is due to spatial aggregation into hydrological regions, with an area significantly larger than the resolution of the forecasting models. …”
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Guided Discovery with Socratic Questioning by M. Hakan T&uuml;rk&ccedil;apar, Melis Sedef Kahraman, A. Emre Sarg&yacute;n

“…It was first used by in ancient times by the Greek philosopher Socrates who taught his followers by asking questions; these conversations between them are known as &#147;Socratic dialogues&#148;. …”
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HSV-1 Encephalitis: High Index of Clinical Suspicion, Prompt Diagnosis, and Early Therapeutic Intervention Are the Triptych of Success—Report of Two Cases and Comprehensive Review... by Dimitrios Patoulias, Georgios Gavriiloglou, Konstantinos Kontotasios, Mairi Tzakri, Petros Keryttopoulos, Christos Koutras

“…Through the presentation of two cases of HSV-1 encephalitis that we managed in our department over the last 1 year and after systematic and comprehensive research of the relevant literature, we aim at showing the crucial role of medical history and physical examination, along with the high index of clinical suspicion, in order to make promptly the diagnosis and administer timely intravenous acyclovir, limiting the possibility of complications during the disease’s course.…”
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Guillain-Barré syndrome in patients with multiple myeloma: three cases report and literature review by Zhichao Li, Fang Huang, Siguo Hao

“…The symptoms of bortezomib-induce peripheral neuropathy overlap with those of GBS, which can easily lead to misdiagnosis or missed diagnosis of GBS. Timely lumbar puncture and nerve conduction studies may help to diagnose GBS and improve the prognosis.…”
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Fountain Water as a Source of Opportunistic Escherichia coli and Aeromonas hydrophila Strains in Atmospheric Air by Iwona Gołaś, Anna Gotkowska-Plachta

“…The counts of E. coli and A. hydrophila were highest in bioaerosols (A0), and they were 10–100 times lower in A20 samples. Most E. coli and A. hydrophila strains isolated from air samples were resistant to CIP, TE, ampicillin (AMP), and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (SXT), and 6.7–46.2% of the isolates exhibited multidrug resistance. …”
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