How far? Travel burdens for children admitted to hospitals in the Western Cape Province of South Africa by M Richards, D le Roux, D Pienaar

“…A wide variation exists across all parts of the province, but particularly in rural areas. …”
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Health promotion campaigns using social media: association rules mining and co-occurrence network analysis of Twitter hashtags by Atousa Ghahramani, Maria Prokofieva, Maximilian Pangratius de Courten

“…Result While #AmericanHeartMonth, #OurHearts, and #HeartMonth play central roles in all hashtag co-occurrence networks, the results of association rules mining indicate a significant association of #OurHearts within the networks. …”
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The Efficacy of Lubiprostone in Patients of Constipation: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis by Umar Akram, Obaid Ur Rehman, Eeshal Fatima, Zain Ali Nadeem, Omer Usman, Waqas Rasheed, Ramsha Ali, Khawaja Abdul Rehman, Abdulqadir J. Nashwan

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Effects of a nurse-led peer support intervention for stroke survivors: protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Ying Wu, Janita Pak Chun Chau, Xiaojuan Wan, Limei Xu, Weijuan Gong

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Designing a general employee management model with an emphasis on performance management by Maryam Nasiri, Ameneh Firozabadi, Sanjar Slajagheh, Mahdi Mohamad Bagheri

“…The participants in the qualitative part include 13 professors and experts in educational management and education managers, sampling by a targeted method, and the statistical population in the quantitative part includes 300 people from all the education and training staff of district one of Kerman, 187 of whom were selected through the Cochran formula by simple random sampling method. …”
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Providing an entrepreneurial marketing model based on teamwork with an emphasis on start-up companies by Parastoo Bafghi, Mahmoud Ahmadi Sharif, Sina Nematizadeh

“…When the entrepreneur is looking for new opportunities with regard to limited resources, he uses an innovative approach in facing this uncertainty (Clark et al, 2022).Team workA team is a limited number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common goal, the same performance results, and a single approach; who are also responsible for all of these things that they have determined. …”
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Exploring the drivers of adolescent sexual and reproductive healthcare-seeking behavior in northwestern Botswana: a cross-sectional analysis by Mackenzie Lawson, Helen Apps, Peggie Ramaphane, Francis Barchi

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Achievements and Lessons Learned From Successful Small Satellite Missions for Space Weather‐Oriented Research by Harlan E. Spence, Amir Caspi, Hasan Bahcivan, Jesus Nieves‐Chinchilla, Geoff Crowley, James Cutler, Chad Fish, David Jackson, Therese Moretto Jorgensen, David Klumpar, Xinlin Li, James P. Mason, Nick Paschalidis, John Sample, Sonya Smith, Charles M. Swenson, Thomas N. Woods

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Expatriation-enhanced competencies: A multiple case study of technology-based entrepreneurs by Hilka Pelizza Vier Machado, Jörg Freiling

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Effect of Kinases in Extracellular Vesicles from HIV-1-Infected Cells on Bystander Cells by Gifty A. Mensah, Anastasia Williams, Pooja Khatkar, Yuriy Kim, James Erickson, Alexandra Duverger, Heather Branscome, Kajal Patil, Hafsa Chaudhry, Yuntao Wu, Olaf Kutsch, Fatah Kashanchi

“…As of 2023, there were 39.9 million people living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 (HIV-1). …”
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Poverty Dynamics and the Fundamental Root Causes in Iran by Zahra Azari, Parviz Mohamadzadeh, Davoud Behboudi

“…There is no specific problem in a system and all problems are related. According to the aggregated model and the self-reinforcing causal relationship, to break the causal relationships, planned policies in the form of main and sub-themes are suggested as follows: Ensuring property rights for a large part of society, so that different people are motivated to invest and participate. …”
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The Diagnosis Value of a Novel Model with 5 Circulating miRNAs for Liver Fibrosis in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B by Qingqing Zhang, Qidi Zhang, Binghang Li, Ying Qu, Zhenghong Li, Lungen Lu, Rongzhou Li, Xiaobo Cai

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Structural and iron content changes in subcortical vascular mild cognitive impairment: a combined voxel-based morphometry and quantitative susceptibility mapping study by Yushuang Liu, Yingqi Lu, Liyu Hu, Jinping Xu, Xingchen Liu, Nan Yang, Shangjie Chen, Zhongling Zhang

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Supporting primary care clinicians in caring for patients with alcohol use disorder: study protocol for Records for Alcohol Care Enhancement (RACE), a factorial four-arm randomized... by Kara M. Magane, Richard Saitz, Sarah Fielman, Marc R. LaRochelle, Christopher W. Shanahan, Christine A. Pace, Michael LaValley, Kaley Penington, Skylar Karzhevsky, Emily Hurstak

“…Methods PCPs from an urban safety-net hospital-based primary care clinic are randomized to one of four groups (1) EHR best practice advisory (BPA) and clinical decision support tools for unhealthy alcohol use (BPA), (2) BPA plus population health manager support, (3) BPA plus clinical care manager support, and (4) all three. All PCPs will have access to the EHR BPA and decision support tools which provide chart-based advisories and order set navigation. …”
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Deconstruction of “The Pilgrim’s Progress” by John Bunyan in Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade” by Nataliya Krynytska

“…The use of a SF concept of non-linear time allows Vonnegut to reach a new level of understanding the problems of destination, choice, and responsibility. …”
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Soil loss and runoff characteristics in response to varying underground fissure ratios on karst slopes with thin soil layers in Southwest China by Tianyang Li, Yunfei Bi, Lan Song, Binghui He

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Predicting purulent meningitis in very preterm infants: a novel clinical model by Xiaowei Sun, Rui Jing, Yang Li

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COVID-19 vaccination: challenges in the pediatric population by Alice Nicoleta Azoicai, Ingrith Miron, Ancuta Lupu, Monica Mihaela Alexoae, Iuliana Magdalena Starcea, Mirabela Alecsa, Vasile Valeriu Lupu, Ciprian Danielescu, Alin Horatiu Nedelcu, Delia Lidia Salaru, Felicia Dragan, Ileana Ioniuc

“…The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), affected people of all ages worldwide. In response, several pharmaceutical companies rapidly leveraged their resources to develop vaccines within a very short period of time, leading to the introduction of new, improved, and combination vaccines for community-wide immunization. …”
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Reading from the Guts: of Text and Disgust by Solveig Dunkel

“…“So it will be with this new sadism,” Canby wrote, “the novel cruelty by which the American scene with all its infinite shadings is made into something gross, sordid, or, as here, depraved with an ironic depravity in which the trivial by a kind of perversion becomes more horrible than professional evil.” …”
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Transcending the painful boundaries...: a few additions to Vanda Zaborskaitėʼs biography by Žydronė Kolevinskienė

“…The author of the article is interested in what kind of boundaries Vanda Zaborskaitė crossed, and how she did that. Are all boundaries crossed? And how does the (non-)crossing of boundaries create new boundary situations? …”
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