Feasibility and potential effect of a pilot blended digital behavior change intervention promoting sustainable diets over a year by Ujué Fresán, Miguel López-Moreno, Sergi Fàbregues, Paquito Bernard, Anna Boronat, Vera Araújo-Soares, Laura M. König, Joren Buekers, Guillaume Chevance

“…Participants also reported reducing food waste, choosing minimally packaged and in-season foods, and prioritizing fair-sourced food. …”
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Relationship Between Sedentary Lifestyle, Physical Activity and Stress in University Students and Their Life Habits: A Scoping Review with PRISMA Checklist (PRISMA-ScR) by Mariasole Antonietta Guerriero, Anna Dipace, Antonietta Monda, Antonella De Maria, Rita Polito, Giovanni Messina, Marcellino Monda, Marilena di Padova, Angelo Basta, Maria Ruberto, Emanuele Capasso, Fiorenzo Moscatelli, Pierpaolo Limone

“…Universities should propose physical activity programs in several forms to enable students to choose the most appropriate one and keep them active.…”
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Comparing simple and functional jejunal interposition with preserved duodenal passage after total gastrectomy by Xue-Lu Zhou, Yan-Qing Deng, Pei-Jie Zhang, Hai Huang, Huan-Bin Zhang, Hong-Shuai Li, You-Hua Wang, Jian-Hua Luo

“…Although FJI is more complex, SJI is preferred due to its shorter duration. Surgeons should choose the most appropriate method based on the patient's characteristics and their own skills.…”
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Telecommand Rejection Probability in CCSDS-Compliant LDPC-Coded Space Transmissions With Tail Sequence by Rebecca Giuliani, Massimo Battaglioni, Marco Baldi, Franco Chiaraluce, Nicola Maturo

“…A low-complexity approach classically used to detect CLTU termination is to choose a non-correctable string as the tail sequence, and then exploit the decoder failure on that sequence as termination detection. …”
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Computed tomography reconstruction and morphometric analysis of the humerus and femur in new zealand rabbits by Muhammet Lutfi Selcuk

“…First, 0.5 mm thick images of the animals were taken by computed tomography (CT) and saved in DICOM format. Then, 3D models of the humerus and femur were obtained by reconstructing the images with the MIMICS 20.1 program. …”
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Quality of computed tomography image versus dose in hybrid studies: preliminary results in phantom by Adlin López Díaz, Armando del Pozo Almaguer, Adalberto Machado Tejeda, Karla Batista Ramó, Carlos F Calderón Marín, Leonel Torres Aroche

“…The data for the dose descriptors for each study were obtained from the DICOM head. The classic image quality parameters such as noise and the MTF 50% for the Catphan phantom, and others such as the contrast-noise ratio, the average of Hounsfield numbers and their standard deviation in the regions of interest of the corresponding organs were compared, in Livermore's phantom. …”
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Red Blood Cell Transfusions and Iron Therapy for Patients Presenting with Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding: A Survey of Canadian Gastroenterologists and Hepatologists by Kyle J. Fortinsky, Myriam Martel, Roshan Razik, Gillian Spiegle, Zane R. Gallinger, Samir C. Grover, Katerina Pavenski, Adam V. Weizman, Lukasz Kwapisz, Sangeeta Mehta, Sarah Gray, Alan N. Barkun

“…The survey included clinical vignettes where physicians were asked to choose transfusion thresholds. Results. The response rate was 41% (N=203). …”
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Comparison of 3 Grading Systems (House-Brackmann, Sunnybrook, Sydney) for the Assessment of Facial Nerve Paralysis and Prediction of Neural Recovery by Norhafiza MAT LAZIM, Hamizah ISMAIL, Sanihah ABDUL HALIM, Nik Adillah NIK OTHMAN, Ali HARON

“…This study was designed to choose the most practical system for use in a clinical setting depending on the clinician need. …”
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Carbon injection potential of the mesopelagic-migrant pump in the Southern Ocean during summer by Katherine Baker, Katherine Baker, Svenja Halfter, Svenja Halfter, Ben Scoulding, Kerrie M. Swadling, Kerrie M. Swadling, Shane A. Richards, Matthieu Bressac, Matthieu Bressac, Caroline A. Sutton, Philip W. Boyd, Philip W. Boyd

“…., excretion, respiration, fecal pellets, and carcass production. Blooms of two migratory tunicate species, the pyrosome Pyrosoma atlanticum (subantarctic) and the salp Salpa thompsoni (polar) dominated the micronekton biomass and MMP export ranged from 5.0 to 9.4 mg C m-2 d-1 across the three Southern Ocean sites. …”
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Moderate stability of risk and ambiguity attitudes across quantitative and qualitative decisions by Ohad Dan, Chelsea Y. Xu, Ruonan Jia, Emily K. Wertheimer, Megha Chawla, Galit Fuhrmann Alpert, Terri Fried, Ifat Levy

“…To explore how decision-makers choose between non-quantifiable uncertain outcomes, we focus here on medical decisions with qualitative outcomes. …”
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Transnational Coalition Building: The Role of The Yes I Do Alliance in Preventing Child Marriage Practices in Kediri Village, West Lombok by St. Amaliah Ramli

“…Traditional Sasak marriages, known as Merariq, are carried out by the abduction of the prospective bride by the prospective groom. This issue increases the number of child marriages in West Lombok. …”
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Comprehensive Analysis of Word Embedding Models and Design of Effective Feature Vector for Classification of Amazon Product Reviews by B. Priya Kamath, M. Geetha, U. Dinesh Acharya, Dipesh Singh, Ayush Rao, Shwetha Rai, Roopashri Shetty

“…Feature engineering is considered to be one of the major steps in the Machine Learning (ML) pipeline with effective feature extraction playing a vital role in improving the performance of the SA tasks. Choosing an appropriate feature from the text is considered to be the most challenging task in text classification. …”
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What a women desire: Application of conjoint analysis for analysing the choice of menstrual hygiene products and factors influencing their consummatory behaviour by Tiwari Abhay Kumar, Patel Vaishali, Saroj Chitra

“…Conclusion: Women preferred to choose any synthetic sanitary product that is more efficient, safe, pleasant and economical and does not require replacement in less than four hours.…”
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Sustainable methodical approaches to recycling sludge waste: value-added products, and their agricultural applications by Abas Siraj Hamda, Tesfaye Kassaw Bedru, Mani Jayakumar, Workisa Bacha Garuma

“…Results: The study provides important standards for choosing the best technique for sustainable sludge management from a waste-to-resources standpoint. …”
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Evaluation of the implementation of governmental policies and actions to create healthy food environments in Burkina Faso by Viviane Aurélie Tapsoba, Ella WR Compaore, Augustin Nawidimbasba Zeba, Jerome Winbetourefa Some, Julien Soliba Manga, Adama Diouf, Jean-Claude Moubarac, Stefanie Vandevijvere, Mamoudou H Dicko

“… Abstract Objective: The creation of a healthy food environment is highly dependent on the policies that governments choose to implement. The objective of this study is to compare the level of implementation of current public policies aimed at creating healthy food environments in Burkina Faso with international good practice indicators. …”
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Investigation of Theoretical Models, Pumping-Recharge Well Arrangements and System Performance of Abandoned Mine Water Source Heat Pump by Zhiqiang Zhang, Wenchao Zu, Wenke Zhang, Kexun Wang, Xueqing Ma, Ping Cui

“…The influences of different recharge temperatures, pumping and recharging flow rates, well spacings, hydraulic gradients, aquifer thicknesses, porosities and other factors on the pumping temperature are studied according to the selected pumping and recharging well arrangement scheme. Finally, by choosing a residential building as the analysis object, a simulation model of the abandoned mine water source heat pump heating system is constructed, which is compared with a gas boiler heating system, revealing the energy savings and environmental protection benefits of the abandoned mine water source heat pump system. …”
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A Comparison of The Nutrient Contents and In Vitro Digestibility of Silage Corn Varieties Grown as Main and Secondary Crops by Zübeyir Ağırağaç, Sezen Tayam, Mehmet Salih Kaçmaz, Sibel Erdoğan

“…The KxB8392 silage variety was found to have the highest CP content and digestibility compared to other varieties in the second product (p <.05). It is important to choose the most appropriate early varieties that are suitable for the ecological conditions of the region. …”
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Determinants of inappropriate antibiotic prescription in primary care in developed countries with general practitioners as gatekeepers: a systematic review and construction of a fr... by Mattijs E Numans, Frederike L Büchner, Martijn Sijbom, Nicholas H Saadah, Mark G J de Boer

“…The framework can be used to identify several reasons for inappropriate antibiotic prescription in a specific primary care setting and from there, choose the most suitable intervention(s) and assist in implementing them for combatting AMR.Conclusions The type of infection, comorbidity and the GPs perception of a patient’s desire for antibiotics are consistently identified as factors driving inappropriate antibiotic prescription in primary care. …”
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Theoretical Insight into the Spectral Characteristics of Fe(II)-Based Complexes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells—Part I: Polypyridyl Ancillary Ligands by Xiaoqing Lu, Shuxian Wei, Chi-Man Lawrence Wu, Ning Ding, Shaoren Li, Lianming Zhao, Wenyue Guo

“…Structural optimizations by choosing different polypyridyl ancillary ligands lead to alterations of the molecular orbital energies, oscillator strength, and spectral response range. …”
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Paracrine Mechanisms of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in Angiogenesis by Selma Maacha, Heba Sidahmed, Shana Jacob, Giusy Gentilcore, Rita Calzone, Jean-Charles Grivel, Chiara Cugno

“…., preconditioning or priming) suggesting that clinical applications should be tailored by choosing the tissue of origin and a priming regimen to specifically correct a given pathology. …”
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