Lessons Learned From Co-Designing Educational Programs for Student and Practicing Healthcare Professionals in Nursing Homes: A Participatory Qualitative Study by Irene J.M. Muller-Schoof, Marjolein E. A. Verbiest, Miranda Snoeren, Katrien G. Luijkx

“…Three themes influenced the co-design processes: (1) facilitation of the processes, (2) team members’ attributes and (3) diverse interests and structures. Participants’ diversity slowed down and deepened the collaboration. …”
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Cost-Effectiveness of an Interdisciplinary, Internet-Based Transgender Health Care Program in Germany: Economic Evaluation Alongside a Randomized Controlled Trial by Thomas Grochtdreis, Hans-Helmut König, Janis Renner, Susanne Sehner, Arne Dekker, Peer Briken, Timo O Nieder, Judith Dams

“…In remote areas outside the metropolitan regions, however, transgender health care structures are rarely adequate or within reach. In order to improve transgender health care for TGD people, an interdisciplinary, internet-based transgender health care program (i²TransHealth) has been developed. …”
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A Peer Health Educator Program for Breast Cancer Screening Promotion: Arabic, Chinese, South Asian, and Vietnamese Immigrant Women’s Perspectives by Joanne Crawford, Angela Frisina, Tricia Hack, Faye Parascandalo

“…The findings provide insights into strategies used to promote breast health, mammography screening, and the improvement of public health programming. Perceived barriers that continue to persist are structural barriers, such as the provision of information on breast cancer and screening by family physicians. …”
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Acceptability, Feasibility, and Preliminary Effectiveness of a Wellbeing Coordination Program in an Integrated Health and Social Care Hub: A Mixed Methods Study by Lingling Chen, Natalie White, Emma Patten, Danielle Barth, Leanne N. Constable, Teresa Hall, Ashraful Kabir, Harriet Hiscock, Sarah Loveday

“…Discussion: Future WBC program enhancements could include a robust communication strategy to ensure what the program offers is clearly understood by practitioners and caregivers, establishing organisational structures to provide adequate support for the wellbeing coordinator and adopting flexible eligibility criteria. …”
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Partnerships as Professional Learning: Early Childhood Teaching Assistants’ Role Development and Navigation of Challenges Within a Culturally Responsive Robotics Program by Hannah R. Thompson, Lori A. Caudle, Frances K. Harper, Margaret F. Quinn, Mary Kate Avin, The CRRAFT Partnership

“…Further, we are able to identify the structural and systemic factors that may have affected their participation and implementation. …”
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The role of firm resources, capabilities, and export promotion programs in enhancing export performance: the mediating effect of product adaptation in Ethiopia’s leather industry by Mohammed Hassen Yimam, Aschalew Degoma Durie, Gashaw Moges Yimer

“…Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) was applied to test the hypothesized relationships. …”
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Effectiveness of Educational Program Based on the Theory of Reasoned Action to Decrease the Rate of Cesarean Delivery Among Pregnant Women in Fasa, Southern Iran by Ali Khan-Jeihooni, Fatemeh Shahidi, Seyed Mansour Kashfi

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In silico screening by AlphaFold2 program revealed the potential binding partners of nuage-localizing proteins and piRNA-related proteins by Shinichi Kawaguchi, Xin Xu, Takashi Soga, Kenta Yamaguchi, Ryuuya Kawasaki, Ryota Shimouchi, Susumu Date, Toshie Kai

“…We screened 20 nuage proteins for 1:1 interactions and predicted dimer structures. Among these, five represented novel interaction candidates. …”
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Elevating equity: advancing diversity and inclusivity through trialing bias reduction tools in the general internal medicine program resident application process by Dominic Mudiayi, Farha Shariff, Lindsay Bridgland, Pamela Mathura, Jennifer Ringrose

“…Abstract Background Decades of medical data show worse patient outcomes among racial and gender minorities due to implicit, explicit, and structural biases. Increasing representation of marginalized groups among care providers is imperative to help address this. …”
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Mean-Field Modeling of Green Technology Adoption: A Competition for Incentives by Luca Grosset, Elena Sartori

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Integrating wind damage vulnerability into long-term forest planning: An optimisation-based model for spatial decision support by Karin Öhman, IreneDe Pellegrin Llorente, Teresa Fustel, Inka Bohlin, Tomas Lämås, Jeannette Eggers

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Advances to modeling and solving infinite-dimensional optimization problems in InfiniteOpt.jl by Evelyn Gondosiswanto, Joshua L. Pulsipher

“…The InfiniteGDP abstraction builds upon traditional GDP techniques to enable intuitive modeling of discrete events and complex logic over continuous domains (e.g., position, time, and/or uncertainty); this abstraction is implemented in InfiniteDisjunctiveProgramming.jl. Moreover, the InfiniteSIMD-NLP abstraction, implemented in InfiniteExaModels.jl, exploits the recurrent structure of transcribed InfiniteOpt problems to efficiently discretize, differentiate, and solve such problems on high performance CPU and GPU architectures. …”
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Pedagogical design of a digital teaching assistant in massive professional training for the digital economy by E. G. Andrianova, L. A. Demidova, P. N. Sovetov

“…The solutions were checked using automated testing methods.Results. The developed structure of the proposed DTA system was presented. …”
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Debunking the speed-fidelity trade-off: Speeding-up large-scale energy models while keeping fidelity by Diego A. Tejada-Arango, Juha Kiviluoma, Germán Morales-España

“…The resulting formulation is more compact, without sacrificing accuracy, and leverages the inherent graph structure of energy systems. To evaluate performance, we implemented and compared four common modelling approaches varying in their use of building blocks and flow representations. …”
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Improved method of targeted user interface updates for enhancing the efficiency of web applications based on reactive streams and virtual DOM by M.V. Havatiuk, I.O. Saiapina

“…Special attention is given to the architectural structure of the solution, the mechanisms for detecting changes, and the evaluation of dependencies between state and UI components. …”
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International Medical Graduate Integration into the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service (SCHHS): A practice note by Thi Aung

“…The program, structured into three phases—robust selection, structured orientation and onboarding, and ongoing mentorship—has demonstrated high retention rates, enhanced IMG confidence, and positive feedback from both participants and supervisors. …”
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Factors Influencing Patient Enrollment in a Community-based Physical Activity Program After Healthcare Provider Referral: A Mixed Methods Study by Leah M. Schumacher, Jennifer L. Trilk, Lia K. McNulty, Kelly R. Ylitalo, Stephanie Eskuri, John M. Brooks, Paul A. Estabrooks, Meenu Jindal, Mark Stoutenberg

“…Introduction and Objectives: Structured physical activity (PA) programs help to prevent and manage chronic diseases, yet systematic approaches to identify and enroll patients in these programs are lacking. …”
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Acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of an online facilitation training program designed to support the implementation of person-centered care in Swedish healthcare—a qu... by Ewa Carlsson Lalloo, Anna Bergström, Leif Eriksson, Lars Wallin, Emmelie Barenfeld

“…An online facilitation training program targeting healthcare staff was developed in Sweden. …”
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The impact of a school garden program on children's food literacy, climate change literacy, school motivation, and physical activity: A study protocol. by Anna Stage, Marie Caroline Vermund, Mads Bølling, Camilla Roed Otte, Alberte Laura Oest Müllertz, Peter Bentsen, Glen Nielsen, Peter Elsborg

“…<h4>Design</h4>It comprises a multimethod, quasi-experimental inquiry into an existing Danish school garden program, Gardens to Bellies (GtB). Data will be collected using surveys, accelerometry, semi-structured and focus-group interviews. …”
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Bridging research and practice in a learning health system: Developing and refining an embedded scholars program through insights from scholars and clinical mentors by Windsor Westbrook Sherrill, Luke Hall, Lawrence Fredendall, Janet Hoffman Evatt

“…Particularly, this study aims to explore the interpersonal and structural factors influencing the success of an embedded scholar program, focusing on enablers and barriers to collaboration, knowledge integration, and mentorship within the LHS. …”
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