Elevated blood glucose and unfavourable tuberculosis treatment outcomes in a low-income setting: findings from a prospective cohort study in Eswatini by Diederick E Grobbee, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, Kennedy Otwombe, Victor Williams, Alinda G Vos-Seda, Marianne Calnan, Colani S Ngwenya, Samson Haumba, Lindiwe Mdluli-Dlamini

“…Hypertension (AOR 4.84; 95% CI: 1.48, 15.7), unemployment (AOR 2.01; 95% CI: 1.08, 3.71) and high school education (AOR 0.32; 95% CI: 0.16, 0.64) were associated with unfavourable treatment outcome.Conclusion Our study shows the need to optimise care for patients receiving treatment for tuberculosis by integrating screening for and treatment of diabetes and hypertension, prioritising males, those aged ≥55 years and those with a reactive HIV status to limit unfavourable outcomes and death.…”
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A protocol to study the effect of targeted parental education intervention to identify early childhood development disorder – multisite interventional study by Vadivelan Kanniappan, Prakash Muthuperumal, P. Venkataraman, Anuradha Murugesan, Balaji Chinnasami, Manikumar Muthiah, Subramanian Sethuraman, Abishek J. R., Shrisruthi Suresh, Murali Krishnan Nambirajan, Angeline Grace G., Veeragoudhaman T. S., Kuberan Deivasigamani

“…These delays contribute to neurological and motor development delays, placing a significant financial burden on families. Maternal unemployment rates are also elevated in such cases. Delayed Developmental Milestones identification, often due to a lack of parental awareness, further compounds these challenges. …”
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School-to-work and school-to-university transition and health inequalities among young adults: a scoping review by Matthias Richter, Nico Dragano, Benjamin Wachtler, Stephanie Hoffmann, Max Herke, Katharina Diehl, Marvin Reuter, Paula Mayara Matos Fialho, Maria-Inti Metzendorf, Wiebke Schüttig, Christian Deindl, Sarah Schleberger, Claudia R Pischke

“…Data were summarised and grouped into five health outcomes and five institutional contexts (school, vocational training, university, work, unemployment).Results A total of 678 articles were screened for inclusion. …”
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The impact of nationality status and place of residency on health-related social needs and quality of life among Palestinian Refugees in Jordan by Hamza Alduraidi, Rahaf Issam Abu Zayid, Noor Mahmoud Jaber, Bassam Saleh Hijazi, Sa'ed Radwan Khamis, Hasan Fahed Awad, Marah Al-Khateeb, Saif alnour Mahmoud Aldhirat, Ahmad Amjed Toubasi

“…Introduction: Large number of Palestinian refugees reside in Jordan; most of whom enjoy Jordanian citizenship, and most of whom reside outside camps. Poverty, unemployment, and a poor health profile are more prevalent among camp-residing refugees and non-citizen refugees. …”
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Stroke Outcome and Determinants among Patients with and without Diabetes in a Tertiary Hospital in Ghana by Josephine Akpalu, Alfred E. Yawson, Foster Osei-Poku, Yacoba Atiase, Ernest Yorke, Patrick Adjei, Kodwo Nkromah, Albert Akpalu

“…Determinants of poor functional stroke outcome for diabetes patients were older age (Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR)-1.07; CI-1.03-1.12), female gender (AOR-3.74; CI-1.26-12.65), and pneumonia (AOR-11.32; CI-1.93-220.05) whereas the determinants for those without diabetes were unemployment (AOR-4.19; CI-1.24-19.50), speech abnormalities (AOR-1.99; CI1.08-3.73), and pneumonia (AOR-4.05; CI-1.83-9.77). …”
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Utilisation of alcohol-related treatment after a first alcohol use disorder diagnosis in Hamburg, Germany by Jakob Manthey, Kilian Huß, Sven Buth, Ludwig Kraus, Anna Schranz, Carolin Kilian, Jürgen Gallinat, Ingo Schäfer, Bernd Schulte

“…Treatment utilisation was associated with younger age, female sex, unemployment, German nationality, and lower physical comorbidity. …”
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Identifying pre-diabetes ‘hotspots’ in Northern California using geospatial analysis: opportunities to target diabetes prevention strategies and improve health equity by Tannaz Moin, Luis A Rodriguez, Obidiugwu Kenrik Duru, Julie Schmittdiel, Tainayah W Thomas, Maher Yassin, Yelba Castellon-Lopez

“…Census tracts within hotspots had lower levels of household income (HL estimate: −3651.00, 95% CI –7256.00 to –25.00), per cent of adults with bachelor’s degrees or higher (HL estimate: −9.08, 95% CI –10.94 to –7.24) and median home values (HL estimate: −113 200.00, 95% CI –140 600.00 to –85 700.00) and higher rates of household poverty (HL estimate: 0.96, 95% CI 0.55 to 1.37), unemployment (HL estimate: 0.39, 95% CI 0.24 to 0.54), household public assistance (HL estimate: 0.97, 95% CI 0.76 to 1.18) and per cent receiving Medicaid (HL estimate: 4.56, 95% CI 3.40 to 5.76) (p<0.05 for all).Conclusions We found that individual-level and census tract-level socioeconomic status, obesity prevalence and race and ethnicity categories of patients living in pre-diabetes hotspots differed from those not identified as a hotspot. …”
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Exploring the Interaction between Local Communities and Environmental Policies: A Qualitative Study of Conflicts between Natives and Rangers around the Protected Areas of Bojaq Nat... by Yaser Khoshsirat Salimi, Ali Ruhani, Hossein Afrasiabi, Sadegh Salehi

“…Discussion of Results & Conclusion The findings revealed 140 subthemes and 7 main themes, which included: employment challenges, feelings of discrimination, inheritance and disinheritance, internal solidarity and resistance, protection and management issues, and effective management practices. Due to seasonal unemployment, villagers heavily rely on income generated from exploiting local resources, including those within Bojaq National Park. …”
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Tax Incentives and Entrepreneurship Development in Nigeria by Iyen Don-Pedro Izevbigie

“…It is therefore recommended that the Nigerian Government should as a matter of urgency give policy direction targeted are granting tax incentives to entrepreneurs in its fiscal policy implementations to be able to attract more persons into the entrepreneurship and allied activities, as this will go a long way in changing the current narrative of mass unemployment in Nigeria. …”
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Call for Papers: Demography Prize for Young Researches 2016/2017 by IF and FRFG

“…While the results of these indices have been found to vary in the details, they all point in a similar direction: most industrialised countries are imposing increasing burdens on younger and future generations, as is evidenced, for example, by their high sovereign debts, youth unemployment and poverty, and perennial ecological crises. …”
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Higher education students' perceptions of ChatGPT: A global study of early reactions. by Dejan Ravšelj, Damijana Keržič, Nina Tomaževič, Lan Umek, Nejc Brezovar, Noorminshah A Iahad, Ali Abdulla Abdulla, Anait Akopyan, Magdalena Waleska Aldana Segura, Jehan AlHumaid, Mohamed Farouk Allam, Maria Alló, Raphael Papa Kweku Andoh, Octavian Andronic, Yarhands Dissou Arthur, Fatih Aydın, Amira Badran, Roxana Balbontín-Alvarado, Helmi Ben Saad, Andrea Bencsik, Isaac Benning, Adrian Besimi, Denilson da Silva Bezerra, Chiara Buizza, Roberto Burro, Anthony Bwalya, Cristina Cachero, Patricia Castillo-Briceno, Harold Castro, Ching Sing Chai, Constadina Charalambous, Thomas K F Chiu, Otilia Clipa, Ruggero Colombari, Luis José H Corral Escobedo, Elísio Costa, Radu George Crețulescu, Marta Crispino, Nicola Cucari, Fergus Dalton, Meva Demir Kaya, Ivo Dumić-Čule, Diena Dwidienawati, Ryan Ebardo, Daniel Lawer Egbenya, MoezAlIslam Ezzat Faris, Miroslav Fečko, Paulo Ferrinho, Adrian Florea, Chun Yuen Fong, Zoë Francis, Alberto Ghilardi, Belinka González-Fernández, Daniela Hau, Md Shamim Hossain, Theo Hug, Fany Inasius, Maryam Jaffar Ismail, Hatidža Jahić, Morrison Omokiniovo Jessa, Marika Kapanadze, Sujita Kumar Kar, Elham Talib Kateeb, Feridun Kaya, Hanaa Ouda Khadri, Masao Kikuchi, Vitaliy Mykolayovych Kobets, Katerina Metodieva Kostova, Evita Krasmane, Jesus Lau, Wai Him Crystal Law, Florin Lazăr, Lejla Lazović-Pita, Vivian Wing Yan Lee, Jingtai Li, Diego Vinicio López-Aguilar, Adrian Luca, Ruth Garcia Luciano, Juan D Machin-Mastromatteo, Marwa Madi, Alexandre Lourenço Manguele, Rubén Francisco Manrique, Thumah Mapulanga, Frederic Marimon, Galia Ilieva Marinova, Marta Mas-Machuca, Oliva Mejía-Rodríguez, Maria Meletiou-Mavrotheris, Silvia Mariela Méndez-Prado, José Manuel Meza-Cano, Evija Mirķe, Alpana Mishra, Ondrej Mital, Cristina Mollica, Daniel Ionel Morariu, Natalia Mospan, Angel Mukuka, Silvana Guadalupe Navarro Jiménez, Irena Nikaj, Maria Mihaylova Nisheva, Efi Nisiforou, Joseph Njiku, Singhanat Nomnian, Lulzime Nuredini-Mehmedi, Ernest Nyamekye, Alka Obadić, Abdelmohsen Hamed Okela, Dorit Olenik-Shemesh, Izabela Ostoj, Kevin Javier Peralta-Rizzo, Almir Peštek, Amila Pilav-Velić, Dilma Rosanda Miranda Pires, Eyal Rabin, Daniela Raccanello, Agustine Ramie, Md Mamun Ur Rashid, Robert A P Reuter, Valentina Reyes, Ana Sofia Rodrigues, Paul Rodway, Silvia Ručinská, Shorena Sadzaglishvili, Ashraf Atta M S Salem, Gordana Savić, Astrid Schepman, Samia Mokhtar Shahpo, Abdelmajid Snouber, Emma Soler, Bengi Sonyel, Eliza Stefanova, Anna Stone, Artur Strzelecki, Tetsuji Tanaka, Carolina Tapia Cortes, Andrea Teira-Fachado, Henri Tilga, Jelena Titko, Maryna Tolmach, Dedi Turmudi, Laura Varela-Candamio, Ioanna Vekiri, Giada Vicentini, Erisher Woyo, Özlem Yorulmaz, Said A S Yunus, Ana-Maria Zamfir, Munyaradzi Zhou, Aleksander Aristovnik

“…Students also felt that ChatGPT would boost demand for AI-related skills and facilitate remote work without significantly impacting unemployment. Emotionally, students mostly felt positive using ChatGPT, with curiosity and calmness being the most common emotions. …”
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Farmers’ climate change perception, impacts and adaptation strategies in response to drought in the Northwest area of Bangladesh by J.M. Adeeb Salman Chowdhury, Md. Abdul Khalek, Md. Kamruzzaman

“…During study period the rainfall output claim that Rajshahi station shows decreasing trend whereas Dinajpur station observes increasing trend but for temperature it is opposite in nature (vice versa).Drought mainly effects various types of agricultural related issues and productions such as increased cost of production, declining groundwater levels, crop failures, scarcity of soil water, lower income, food scarcity, health impacts, malnutrition, losses of livestock, water quality deterioration and unemployment. The farmers mainly offer to rank these effects by weighted average index for finding the main effects of drought.In the study area, we observed that farmers used various types of indigenous and traditional method for their farming such as drought tolerant rice varieties, agronomic management, re-excavation of traditional ponds, increase amount of surface water, rainwater harvesting, irrigation facility, crop intensification, alternative enter prize of land use change, crop rotation and changing planting date, extra income generating activities, adopting new technologies etc. …”
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Prognostic models for depression and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms following traumatic brain injury: a CENTER-TBI study by Kelly Jones, Antonio Belli, Suzanne Polinder, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Hester F Lingsma, Dick Tibboel, Ronny Beer, Raimund Helbok, Horia Ples, Ari Ercole, Peter Cameron, Marek Czosnyka, Catherine McMahon, Peter Vajkoczy, Paul Dark, Alexandra Brazinova, Marek Majdan, Rahul Raj, William Stewart, Ewout W Steyerberg, Giuseppe Citerio, Nino Stocchetti, Alessia Vargiolu, Hester Lingsma, Helen Dawes, Benoit Misset, Faye Johnson, David van Klaveren, Simon Stanworth, Fiona Lecky, Peter Smielewski, Alice Theadom, Peter Bragge, David Nelson, János Sándor, Paul M Vespa, Olli Tenovuo, Olav Røise, Wim Van Hecke, Vincent Degos, David Menon, Bart Depreitere, Audny Anke, Rolf Rossaint, Mark Coburn, Victor Volovici, Daan Nieboer, Jonathan Rosand, Nada Andelic, Hans Clusmann, Emma Donoghue, Jonathan Coles, stefan jankowski, Jonathan Rhodes, Guy Williams, Rolf Lefering, Mathieu van der Jagt, Daniel Kondziella, Noah D Silverberg, Arturo Chieregato, Sophie Richter, Endre Czeiter, Stefan Winzeck, Jan Verheyden, András Büki, Benjamin Gravesteijn, Evgenios Kornaropoulos, Virginia Newcombe, Lindsay Wilson, Lindsay Horton, Amra Covic, Dominique Van Praag, Cecilia Åkerlund, Krisztina Amrein, Lasse Andreassen, Anna Antoni, Gérard Audibert, Philippe Azouvi, Ronald Bartels, Pál Barzó, Romuald Beauvais, Bo-Michael Bellander, Habib Benali, Maurizio Berardino, Luigi Beretta, Morten Blaabjerg, Vibeke Brinck, Joanne Brooker, Camilla Brorsson, Monika Bullinger, Manuel Cabeleira, Alessio Caccioppola, Emiliana Calappi, Guillermo Carbayo Lozano, Marco Carbonara, Simona Cavallo, Giorgio Chevallard, Marta Correia, Nicola Curry, Véronique De Keyser, Hugo den Boogert, Đula Đilvesi, Abhishek Dixit, Jens Dreier, Patrick Esser, Erzsébet Ezer, Martin Fabricius, Kelly Foks, Shirin Frisvold, Alex Furmanov, Pablo Gagliardo, Damien Galanaud, Dashiell Gantner, Guoyi Gao, Pradeep George, Alexandre Ghuysen, Lelde Giga, Jagoš Golubovic Ben Glocker, Johannes Gratz, Francesca Grossi, Deepak Gupta, Iain Haitsma, Eirik Helseth, Jilske Huijben, Bram Jacobs, Mike Jarrett, Mladen Karan, Erwin Kompanje, Noémi Kovács, Ana Kowark, Alfonso Lagares, Linda Lanyon, Steven Laureys, Didier Ledoux, Valerie Legrand, Aurelie Lejeune, Leon Levi, Roger Lightfoot, Marc Maegele, Alex Manara, Geoffrey Manley, Costanza Martino, Hugues Maréchal, Julia Mattern, Béla Melegh, Tomas Menovsky, Ana Mikolic, Visakh Muraleedharan, Lynnette Murray, Ancuta Negru, József Nyirádi, Otesile Olubukola, Matej Oresic, Fabrizio Ortolano, Aarno Palotie, Paul M Parizel, Natascha Perera, Vincent Perlbarg, Paolo Persona, Wilco Peul, Matti Pirinen, Inigo Pomposo, Louis Puybasset, Andreea Radoi, Arminas Ragauskas, Malinka Rambadagalla, Sylvia Richardson, Samuli Ripatti, Saulius Rocka, Cecilie Roe, Christina Rosenlund, Guy Rosenthal, Sandra Rossi, Juan Sahuquillo, Oliver Sakowitz, Nadine Schäfer, Silke Schmidt, Herbert Schoechl, Guus Schoonman, Elisabeth Schwendenwein, Charlie Sewalt, Toril Skandsen, Abayomi Sorinola, Robert Stevens, Nina Sundström, Riikka Takala, Viktória Tamás, Tomas Tamosuitis, Mark Steven Taylor, Matt Thomas, Marjolein Timmers, Christos Tolias, Tony Trapani, Shirley Vallance, Egils Valeinis, Zoltán Vámos, Emmanuel Vega, Kimberley Velt, Anne Vik, Rimantas Vilcinis, Daphne Voormolen, Petar Vulekovic, Kevin K W Wang, Eveline Wiegers, Stefan Wolf, Zhihui Yang, Peter Ylén, Alexander Younsi, Frederick A Zeiler, Veronika Zelinkova, Agate Ziverte, Tommaso Zoerle, Joukje van der Naalt, Braden Te Ao, Caroline van Heugten, Francesco Della Corte, Ernest Van Veen, Andrew IR Maas, Andreas Unterberg, Thomas A van Essen, Mathilde Jost, Shuyuan Shi, Maria Luisa Azzolini, Maria Rosa Calvi, Jamie D Cooper, Claire Dahyot Fizelier, Guy Loup Dulière, Valery L Feigin, Pedro A Gomez, Russell L Gruen, Juanita A Haagsma, Peter J Hutchinson, Ji yao Jiang, Angelos G Kolias, Lars Owe Koskinen, Andrew I Z Maas, Ana M Castaño León, Jean François Payen, Anna Piippo Karjalainen, Dana Pisica, Jussi PPosti, Isabel Retel Helmrich, Jeffrey VRosenfeld, Daniel Rueckert Martin Rusnák, Renan SanchezPorras, Rico Frederik Schou, Cristina Maria Tudora, Gregory Van der Steen, Jeroen T J M van Dijck, Thijs Vande Vyvere, Roel P J van Wijk, Nicole von Steinbüchel

“…Symptoms assessed at 2–3 weeks had a large incremental prognostic value (delta R2=0.25, 95% CI 0.24 to 0.26 for depression symptoms; delta R2=0.30, 95% CI 0.29 to 0.31 for PTSD).Conclusion Preinjury characteristics, such as psychiatric history and unemployment, and injury characteristics, such as violent injury cause, can increase the risk of mental health problems after TBI. …”
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Designing a professional development model for technical teachers in order to teach entrepreneurship in technical schools by hosein hasankhani, Niloufar Mortazanejad, maryam sameri

“…In this regard, education and training, as the largest organization in charge of the human resources of the country's labor market plays a vital role in reducing the country's unemployment rate, with features such as wide and appropriate educational coverage, having the forthcoming generation at the right age to learn principles and concepts, and train human resources before entering the labor market. …”
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Natural Resource Rent and Financial Development: Testing Financial Resource Curse Hypothesis in Iran by Majid Aghaei, Mahdieh Rezagholizadeh, mohammad abdi, rawa mosavi

“…Iran is a country abundant in oil resources that has struggled to overcome the challenges and obstacles on the path to development, such as unemployment and economic growth fluctuations. Issues related to natural resources still persist in this country. …”
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Presenting the entrepreneurial school model in Iran by tayebeh shahrostambeig, esmat Masoudi Nadushan, zahra taleb

“…On the one hand, according to the researches, entrepreneurial opportunities in developing countries such as Iran are seven times more than that of developed countries; and on the other hand, the inefficiency of formal education for reasons such as low quality and inflexibility of the country's education system according to the current needs of the community and the increase in unemployment of graduates due to the lack of skill-oriented empowerment, doubles the movement towards the generation of entrepreneurial schools (Fathy karkaragh et al, 2021). …”
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Designing an entrepreneurial model in the banking network with a digital technology approach by Afshin Nobakht, majid nasiri, parviz Saeedi

“…The entrepreneurship of banks in the context of digital technologies, which is associated with information transparency, can remove the economy from recession by eliminating the problem of unemployment at the same time. One of the main issues and problems in the economy of developing countries is the creation of money without support by the banking system and the failure to direct these resources to appropriate and productive sectors. …”
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Perceived effects of the hidden curriculum of return to entrepreneurship with the mediation of goal orientation by Ahmad KarimiDashtaki, Mohammadbagher Akbarpour Zangalani

“…Since perhaps the biggest challenge of Iran's economy right now is the issue of employment, and research shows that schools are the best place to find the source of entrepreneurial problems; in response to this problem of unemployment, the bodies responsible for the planning of educational centers are encouraging them to take steps towards self-employment and entrepreneurship (Heidari, 2023). …”
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Investigating the mediating role of academic self-sufficiency and basic psychological needs in the relationship of social skills and social intelligence with academic achievement by Fatimeh Sabih Mahdi, Hasan ghalavandi

“…Academic decline is the negative aspect of it; one of the problems of the educational system, which manifests itself in various ways such as the failure of students to achieve the goals of their respective educational levels, failure and repetition of educational levels, early school leaving, unemployment and indecision (Khazaei, 2016). Studies show that social skills can have a positive and significant effect on the academic progress of students (Pourqorban Gourabi et al, 2021). …”
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The relationship between factors affecting the development of industrial startups using methodology Fuzzy cognitive mapping by Mirmahmood Naghibi, Changiz Valmohammadi, Kiamars Fathi Hefeshjani, mahmoud modiri

“…Startups play an essential role in reducing the unemployment crisis and economic growth of countries (Mirzadeh et al, 2021). …”
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