Physical activity and happiness of college students: chain mediating role of exercise attitude and sleep quality by Kehan Li, Roxana Dev Omar Dev, Wenhao Li

“…A questionnaire survey was conducted with 1,308 college students from four universities in China.ResultsThe analysis yielded three key findings: (1) Physical activity significantly improves college students’ happiness, and this improvement can be achieved through direct and indirect effects. (2) Positive exercise attitude plays an important mediating role between physical activity and happiness, and a high level of exercise attitude can enhance happiness. …”
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La trascendente obra de vida del Dr. Joaquín María Albarrán Domínguez by Jennifer Smith-Groba, Hector Julio Piñera-Castro, Lisandra Aimé Ruiz-González, Marlene Fernández-Arias

“…Entre ellos se distingue la personalidad de Joaquín María Albarrán Domínguez, quien en su breve vida supo conjugar y aplicar sabiamente los conocimientos de clínica, cirugía, anatomía y fisiología a la especialidad de urología, hasta alcanzar logros de talla universal. En este artículo de revisión histórica se procuró analizar los principales hitos en la obra de vida del Dr. …”
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Chromosome-level genome assembly of the sweet potato rot nematode Ditylenchus destructor by Yiwei Yang, Ruirui Feng, Bo Hong, Yuchuan Fang, Chen Liu, Kui Wang, Deliang Peng, Yingmei Li, Huan Peng, Qing Chang

“…The genome assembly demonstrates a high level of completeness, with 73.8% complete the nematoda-specifc Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs (BUSCO) genes, significantly higher than that of other reported plant-parasitic nematode genomes. …”
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The Drosophila homologue of the amyloid precursor protein is a conserved modulator of Wnt PCP signaling. by Alessia Soldano, Zeynep Okray, Pavlina Janovska, Kateřina Tmejová, Elodie Reynaud, Annelies Claeys, Jiekun Yan, Zeynep Kalender Atak, Bart De Strooper, Jean-Maurice Dura, Vítězslav Bryja, Bassem A Hassan

“…Wnt Planar Cell Polarity (PCP) signaling is a universal regulator of polarity in epithelial cells, but it regulates axon outgrowth in neurons, suggesting the existence of axonal modulators of Wnt-PCP activity. …”
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MODIFICATION OF DYNAMIC CONSTITUTIVE RELATION OF440C STAINLESS STEEL BASED ON J-C MODEL (MT) by WANG Liang, JIA HaiShen, ZHANG JiLin, LUO WenCui

“…In order to construct a constitutive model that reasonably describes the changing relationship of flow stress of 440C stainless steel, quasi-static and dynamic compression experiments were carried out with the help of a universal testing machine and a Hopkinson compression bar device. …”
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Timing of Caffeine Therapy and Neonatal Outcomes in Preterm Infants: A Retrospective Study by Ivan Hand, Nahla Zaghloul, Lily Barash, Rudolph Parris, Ulrika Aden, Hsiu-Ling Li

“…Our results clearly demonstrate the need for further studies before caffeine prophylaxis can be universally recommended.…”
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Critical Period of Weed Control in Aerobic Rice by M. P. Anwar, A. S. Juraimi, B. Samedani, A. Puteh, A. Man

“…To determine critical period of weed control of aerobic rice, field trials were conducted during 2010/2011 at Universiti Putra Malaysia. A quantitative series of treatments comprising two components, (a) increasing duration of weed interference and (b) increasing length of weed-free period, were imposed. …”
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User satisfaction with the nursing care quality by Erika Marcela León Revelo, Alexandra Patricia Abata Erazo, Julio Rodrigo Morillo Cano

“…<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> descriptive cross-sectional study, in the Ibarra City Health Center №.1, Ecuador, from July to December 2022. The universe were 960 users and the sample by 173. The analyzed variables were: mood of the patient when it is not attended to quickly, rating of the care received, language used by the nursing staff, behavior of the nursing staff and aspects that the nursing staff should improve.…”
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Information and communications technologies use by medical sciences’ students by Rafaela Nayibe Curi Mendoza, Nayibe Reytor Curi

“…<br /><strong>Methods</strong>: a descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out. From the universe of 73 students of the Short Cycle Technicians, a sample of 30 students from the first year of the Short Cycle Higher Technician in Clinical Analysis and Transfusion Medicine, belonging to the Victoria de Girón Faculty, were selected from 2022 to 2023 academic year. …”
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Exploring Faculty Members’ Experiences with Virtual Classroom Platforms and Their Perceived Usability during the COVID-19 by Yunus Alkış, Zafer Kadırhan, Mustafa Şat

“…A stratified random sample of 913 faculty members from 167 universities was selected to participate in an online questionnaire that included the System Usability Scale, demographic information, and open-ended questions. …”
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Relationship between periodontal disease and respiratory conditions in patients admitted to the Internal Medicine ward by Beatriz María Borrell Fuster, Víctor René Navarro Machado, Ana Belkys Hernández Millán, Beatriz María Fuster Cabrera, Belkis Julia León Águila

“…<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> descriptive, prospective study of series of cases. Universe, admitted patients to the Internal Medicine Service from September 2015 to January 2016, with decompensated acute or chronic respiratory diseases and for more than five days in the service. …”
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Frequencies and functions of vocalizations and gestures in the second year of life. by Megan M Burkhardt-Reed, Edina R Bene, D Kimbrough Oller

“…Our observations also showed that about ¾ of gestures across these second-year data were deictics (primarily pointing and reaching), acts that while significant in supporting the establishment of referential vocabulary in both spoken and signed languages, are not signs, but have single universal deictic functions in the here and now. In contrast, words and signs, the primary semantic components of spoken and signed languages, are functionally flexible, making possible reference to abstractions that are not bound to any particular illocutionary force nor to the here and now.…”
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Response of the Municipal Health System to Irma Hurricane. Aguada de Pasajeros, 2017 by Midalys Otero Hernández, Víctor René Navarro Machado, Pedro López González, Lazaro Caballero Núñez

“…<br /> <strong>Methods:</strong> prospective cross study, in the health and service system, developed in the Aguada de Pasajeros Municipality between September the 7th and 30th, 2017. The universe was the territory total of workers and institutions, all involved in the response to Irma’s hurricane. …”
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L’abandon et l’appel, ou l’optimisme paradoxal de Graham Greene dans The Power and the Glory by René Gallet

“…In the narrative itself, a fragmented presence of beauty can be discovered as early as the opening scene, and more particularly within Mr Tench’s seedy universe. Two contrasting worlds are thus intermingled from the very beginning, and the rest of the novel is interspersed with similar examples. …”
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Desafios dos produtores de base familiar na produção do coco em reassentamentos públicos do Vale do São Francisco – Brasil by Guilherme José Ferreira de Araújo, Clélio Cristiano dos Santos, Edvânia Tôrres Aguiar Gomes

“…This thesis integrates the mission of the INNOVATE Project, a collaboration among Brazilian and German universities studying the use of water and soil in the Itaparica region of Pernambuco and Bahia, Brazil.…”
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A vida como projeto: a pedagogia do homo economicus e as iniciativas de fomento ao “espírito do capitalismo” via educação pública by Miqueli Michetti

“…Therefore, if the initiatives analyzed exist within the context of a broader rationality – named neoliberal for conciseness - they have privileged artificers and bear the marks of a specific ethos, conceived, nevertheless, as universal or at least universalizable. However, the homo economicus, if there is one, is historical and marked by class dynamics, in which some agents self-impute the design of public policies within which other agents are thought of as apprentices of an ethos as a nomos.…”
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Adaptation and validation of the Children’s Surgical Assessment Tool for Rwandan district hospitals by Sarah Nuss, Jean Paul Majyambere, Edmond Ntaganda, Callum Forbes, Jonathan Nkurunziza, Carol Mugabo, Vincent Cubaka, Bethany Hedt-Gauthier

“…Background/Aims Paediatric surgical care is a critical component of child health and basic universal health coverage and therefore should be included in comprehensive evaluations of surgical capacity. …”
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Knowledge about oral health in older adults from a medical office in Ciego de Ávila by Wendy Guerra López, Lina Isabel Torres Gárriz, Evelyn Sardiñas Montero, Yenise García Aldave, Daniela Rivas Torres, Marcos Daniel Estrada López

“…<br /><strong>Methods</strong>: a descriptive study was carried out from March to August 2023. The universe was made up of the population over 60 years of age belonging to the Family Medical Office No. 3 (242 patients), in the Ciego de Ávila municipality, and the sample was 120 patients, selected through simple random sampling. …”
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The Role of Traditional Environmental Knowledge in Taytnapam Toponyms by Eugene S. Hunn, Richard H. McClure Jr.

“…It is noteworthy that Taytnapam elders attribute these names to Coyote, primal messenger of the Creator, herald of the traditional law, tamánwit, which established proper order in the universe. The names are thus “not made by man.”…”
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Regional Variation in Rates of IVF Treatment across Australia: A Population-based Study by Louise Rawlings, Pauline Ding, Stephen J. Robson

“…**Background:** There is variation in uptake of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) between countries, and Australia has high incidence rates of IVF due to universal public funding. However, it remains unclear whether there is regional variation and, if present, what might cause this. …”
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