A content analysis of religion and HPV vaccine news coverage in Canada by Xiaohe Sun, Tyler Sun, Sharlane C. L. Lau, Allison McArthur, Ishani Nath, Gilla K. Shapiro

“…In Canada, HPV vaccination is publicly funded, yet uptake has not consistently reached coverage targets. Media reporting on the perspectives of religious leaders may impact vaccine behavior; however, there has been limited exploration of media depictions of religious perspectives of HPV vaccination in Canada. …”
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Opioid-related harms and experiences of care among people in justice settings in New South Wales, Australia: evidence from the National Ambulance Surveillance System by Naomi Beard, Michael McGrath, Harry M. X. Lai, James Wilson, Anthony Hew, Amaya Muñoz Labiano, Dan I. Lubman, Rowan P. Ogeil

“…People in justice settings were identified using ambulance billing codes and manual review of paramedic case notes. …”
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IonoBench: Evaluating Spatiotemporal Models for Ionospheric Forecasting Under Solar-Balanced and Storm-Aware Conditions by Mert Can Turkmen, Yee Hui Lee, Eng Leong Tan

“…Compared to the C1PG baseline (the CODE 1-day forecast product), SimVPv2 achieves a notable RMSE reduction up to <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>32.1</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> across various subsets under diverse solar conditions. …”
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Exploring dental faculty awareness, knowledge, and attitudes toward AI integration in education and practice: a mixed-method study by Saeeda Abdullah, Syeda Rabbab Hasan, Muhammad Adil Asim, Ambreen Khurshid, Ali Waqar Qureshi

“…There is a need for targeted education initiatives, interdisciplinary and multi-institutional collaborations, the promotion of local manufacturing of such technologies, and robust policy initiatives by the governing body.…”
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A hybrid machine learning framework for functional annotation of mitochondrial glutathione transport and metabolism proteins in cancers by Luke Kennedy, Jagdeep K. Sandhu, Mary-Ellen Harper, Miroslava Cuperlovic-Culf

“…Conclusion These findings have implications for a better understanding of cancer cell metabolism and novel therapeutic targets with respect to GSH metabolism through potential novel functional annotations of genes. …”
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Concurrent prescriptions for opioids and benzodiazepines and risk of opioid overdose: protocol for a retrospective cohort study using linked administrative data by Kristian B Filion, Robyn Tamblyn, David L Buckeridge, Erin Y Liu

“…While opioid prescribing has been a target of research, benzodiazepine and opioid co-intoxication has emerged as a potential risk factor. …”
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A rapid qualitative methods assessment and reporting tool for epidemic response as the outcome of a rapid review and expert consultation. by Dong Dong, Sharon Abramowitz, Gustavo Corrêa Matta, Arlinda B Moreno, Elysée Nouvet, Jeni Stolow, Caitlin Pilbeam, Shelley Lees, E K Yeoh, Nina Gobat, Tamara Giles-Vernick

“…Data Collection and Analysis (x. concurrent data collection and analysis, xi. Targeted populations and recruitment procedures); III. …”
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The maternity care experiences of women living in a diverse UK urban city: a survey study by Kylie Watson, Charlotte Barber, Kimberley Farrant, Bethan McEvoy, Tracey Mills, Dame Tina Lavender

“…Conclusions Using a targeted approach ensured an ethnically diverse sample and despite overall positive experiences of maternity care, negative experiences reflect similar themes previously identified within UK maternity care.…”
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Optimizing Spatial Input Data for Techno-Economic Modeling of Least-Cost Electrification Pathways in Zambia by Katundu Imasiku, Gregory Ireland, Alison Hughes

“…While the Rural Electrification Authority of Zambia aims to increase electrification from 11% to 51%, this research targets achieving 100% access to electricity by 2030 to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7.1. …”
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The Association between Body Mass Index and Lymph Node Harvest After Elective Colon Cancer Resections by Jose L. Cataneo, Hanna Meidl, Gaurang Joshi, Michael S. Zhang, Luke Willand, Rami Lutfi, Francisco Quinteros

“…Setting: The National Surgical Quality Improvement Program-targeted colectomy database. Materials and Methods: The cohort was selected based on the codes corresponding to elective colectomies for colon cancer. …”
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Role of pre-existing adversity and child maltreatment on mental health outcomes for children involved in child protection: population-based data linkage study by Miriam Jennifer Maclean, Scott Anthony Sims, Melissa O'Donnell

“…Adversities in childhood along with genetic or environmental vulnerabilities resulting from maternal mental health issues also contribute to young people’s mental health outcomes, suggesting a role for broader social supports and early intervention services in addition to targeted mental health programmes.…”
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Assessment of Environmental Dynamics and Ecosystem Services of <i>Guadua amplexifolia</i> J. Presl in San Jorge River Basin, Colombia by Yiniva Camargo-Caicedo, Jorge Augusto Montoya Arango, Fredy Tovar-Bernal

“…For the social assessment, we held participatory workshops and conducted semi-structured interviews with artisans, fishers, authorities, and NGO representatives; responses were manually coded to extract key themes. The results show a 12% decline in total vegetated area from 2002 to 2012, followed by an 8% recovery by 2022, with bamboo-dominated stands following a similar pattern. …”
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics in Controversial Sectors: Analysis of Research Results by Włodzimierz Sroka, Richard Szántó

“…The data were achieved on the basis of data gathered through survey methodology. The target subjects included a group of 48 companies (25 Hungarian and 23 Polish ones). …”
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Pediatric Emergency Department-based Food Insecurity Screening During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Stephanie Ruest, Lana Nguyen, Celeste Corcoran, Susan Duffy

“…These results support the ED’s contributory role in FI screening, particularly during times of a public health crisis, and highlights the need for targeted outreach in this setting.…”
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GATOR1 gene variants in focal epilepsy by Kovačević Maša, Vojvodić Nikola, Novaković Ivana

“…The genes listed above code the three subunits that comprise the GTPase-activating protein (GAP) activity towards Rags 1 (GATOR1) complex, a negative regulator of the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) complex 1 (mTORC1). …”
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Correlations Between County-Level Social Determinants of Health and Traumatic Brain Injury-Related Mortality in the United States by Noor Shaik, Connor A. Law, Alexa E. Walter, Eric Stulberg, Andrea L.C. Schneider

“…Rural communities with limited access to ICUs should be targeted for prevention efforts of TBI-related deaths among younger individuals, while additional work is needed to determine factors related to variation in TBI-related mortality among older individuals.…”
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Identifying high quality medical education websites in Otolaryngology: a guide for medical students and residents by Nathan Yang, Sarah Hosseini, Marco A. Mascarella, Meredith Young, Nancy Posel, Kevin Fung, Lily H. P. Nguyen

“…Those that were free of charge and in English were included. Websites were coded for whether their content targeted medical students or residents. …”
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Region-based U-nets for fast, accurate, and scalable deep brain segmentation: Application to Parkinson Plus Syndromes by Mengyu Li, Magnús Magnússon, Ingibjörg Kristjánsdóttir, Sigrún Helga Lund, Thilo van Eimeren, Lotta M. Ellingsen

“…By dividing the brain image into targeted regions around the brainstem, ventricular system, and striatum, our method optimizes GPU usage and significantly reduces training times, while maintaining high accuracy. …”
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Acceptability of a personalised single-session feedback intervention for eating disorders: a qualitative content analysis by Laura Lapadat, Samantha Wilson, Lisa Y. Zhu, Sarah E. Racine

“…Anonymised transcripts were inductively coded and interpreted using content analysis in NVivo. …”
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Development of a Conceptual Model to Understand Disease Burden in Patients With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Organ Damage by Lynne Broderick, Wen-Hung Chen, Roger A. Levy, April Mitchell Foster, Cindy Umanzor Figueroa, Kerry Gairy, Deven Chauhan

“… # Methods There were three phases to this qualitative study. First, a targeted literature review was conducted to inform a draft conceptual model. …”
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