Enhancing resilience: the impact of a near-peer mentoring program on medical students by Lea Pölczman, Lea Pölczman, Dorottya Árva, Dorottya Árva, Zsuzsa Győrffy, Márk Jámbor, András Végh, András Végh, Gergő Kristóf, György Purebl, Edmond Girasek

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Aetiological research on the health of migrants living in Germany: a systematic literature review by Oliver Razum, Florian Fischer, Ina Danquah, Claudia Hövener, Patricia Nayna Schwerdtle, Tracy Bonsu Osei, Isabel Mank, Raissa Sorgho

“…The population groups most frequently studied were from the Middle East (n=28), Turkey (n=24), sub-Saharan Africa (n=24), Eastern Europe (n=15) and the former Soviet Union (n=11). …”
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Polydomus karssenii gen. nov. sp. nov. is a dark septate endophyte with a bifunctional lifestyle parasitising eggs of plant parasitic cyst nematodes (Heterodera spp.) by Samad Ashrafi, Jan-Peer Wennrich, Yvonne Becker, Jose G. Maciá-Vicente, Anke Brißke-Rode, Matthias Daub, Torsten Thünen, Abdelfattah A. Dababat, Maria R. Finckh, Marc Stadler, Wolfgang Maier

“…The morphology, the interaction with nematodes and plants and the phylogenetic relationships of these strains originating from a broad geographic range covering Western Europe to Asia Minor were studied. Phylogenetic analyses using five genomic loci including ITSrDNA, LSUrDNA, SSUrDNA, rpb2 and tef1-α were carried out. …”
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Predictors of Neurological and Functional Recovery in Patients with Moderate to Severe Ischemic Stroke: The EPICA Study by Manuel Murie-Fernández, Mercedes Molleda Marzo

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A sedimentary ancient DNA perspective on human and carnivore persistence through the Late Pleistocene in El Mirón Cave, Spain by Pere Gelabert, Victoria Oberreiter, Lawrence Guy Straus, Manuel Ramón González Morales, Susanna Sawyer, Ana B. Marín-Arroyo, Jeanne Marie Geiling, Florian Exler, Florian Brueck, Stefan Franz, Fernanda Tenorio Cano, Sophie Szedlacsek, Evelyn Zelger, Michelle Hämmerle, Brina Zagorc, Alejandro Llanos-Lizcano, Olivia Cheronet, José-Miguel Tejero, Thomas Rattei, Stephan M. Kraemer, Ron Pinhasi

“…Iberia served as a critical human and animal refugium in Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), 26.5 to 19 thousand years before the present (cal kya). …”
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Less Regional Rhetoric, More Diversity. Urbanised Alps in the Interest of Cohesive Societies by Manfred Perlik

“…The hypothesis is that this strategy has to be questioned in view of increasing spatial inequality in Europe. In the peripheral areas, this inequality is mainly due to differences in development opportunities. …”
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The burden of Gastric Cancer and possible risk factors from 1990 to 2021, and projections until 2035: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Niping Qin, Yangyan Fan, Tao Yang, Zhiping Yang, Daiming Fan

“…In 2021, East Asia and high-income North America bore the largest burden of smoking-related GC, while Central Europe experienced the highest burden from high-sodium diets. …”
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Development of Stylistics and Rhetoric in Lithuania by Irena Smetonienė, Marius Smetona

“…These innovations are noted to initially emerge in the USA, then spread to Europe, eventually reaching Lithuania. …”
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Real-world effectiveness of hemodialysis modalities: a retrospective cohort study by Yan Zhang, Anke Winter, Belén Alejos Ferreras, Paola Carioni, Otto Arkossy, Michael Anger, Robert Kossmann, Len A. Usvyat, Stefano Stuard, Franklin W. Maddux

“…Methods In this retrospective cohort study, we analyzed pseudonymized data from 85,117 adults receiving in-center care across NephroCare clinics in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa during 2019–2022. …”
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Ionospheric Response to the 24–27 February 2023 Solar Flare and Geomagnetic Storms Over the European Region Using a Machine Learning–Based Tomographic Technique by Ting Li, Dunyong Zheng, Changyong He, Fei Ye, Pengfei Yuan, Yibin Yao, Mengguang Liao, Jian Xie

“…We reconstructed the ionospheric electron density (IED) in Europe to analyze the spatial distribution of ionosphere and its temporal evolution during this period. …”
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Single nucleotide polymorphism-based visual identification of Rhodiola crenulata using the loop-mediated isothermal amplification technique by Li Hao, Xin Shi, Shiyu Wen, Caiye Yang, Yaqi Chen, Samo Yue, Jiaqiang Chen, Kexin Luo, Bingliang Liu, Yanxia Sun, Yi Zhang

“…It has been widely used in both Asia and Europe to enhance stress resistance and reduce fatigue. …”
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Three Unrelated Patients of Roma Ethnicity from a Single Center Carrying the Same Deletion in <i>MYD88</i> Gene: A Founder Effect? by Roberta Romano, Francesca Cillo, Laura Grilli, Alessio Ciaccio, Lorenzo Bufalo, Elisabetta Toriello, Antonio De Rosa, Carmen Rosano, Emilia Cirillo, Giancarlo Blasio, Marika Comegna, Carmela Di Domenico, Giuseppe Castaldo, Claudio Pignata, Giuliana Giardino

“…Half of the reported patients belong to Roma descent, an itinerant ethnic group living mostly in Europe, with an increased risk of childhood mortality due to limited access to healthcare services. …”
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Barriers and facilitators to global access to life-saving skills training: an international cross-sectional survey by Marcus Eng Hock Ong, Freddy Lippert, Lin Zhang, Willem Stassen, So Yeon Joyce Kong, Audrey L Blewer, Yeh Lai Chern, Andrew Fu Wah Ho

“…All respondents from Europe reported reliable access to LST. Of respondents who reported no LST is delivered, the highest proportion of these represented the Eastern Mediterranean (18.2%), Africa (17.1%) and South America (16.9%). …”
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STRATEGY OF SOCIALLY-ANTHROPOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT IN IDEAS AND SYSTEM OF MODERN SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION: INTEGRATION OF MODEL OF THE INSTRUMENTALISM AND THE NEOPRAGMATISM WIT... by Viktor Zinchenko

“…In conditions when against crisis of an education system of the government of the USA and the leading countries of Europe are compelled to begin its long-term reform, its theorists substantially pay attention to democratic workings out of concepts of an instrumentalism of a pragmatism/neopragmatism in modern social philosophy of education, in particular on their aspiration to introduce in process of social development, education and education idea and practical model both educational, and a social equality. …”
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Nature's defense against emerging neurodegenerative threats: Dynamic simulation, PCA, DCCM identified potential plant-based antiviral lead targeting borna disease virus nucleoprote... by Noimul Hasan Siddiquee, Md Ifteker Hossain, Farhana Mansoor Priya, Sakia Binte Azam, Md Enamul Kabir Talukder, Durjoy Barua, Salina Malek, Niloy Saha, Sidratul Muntaha, Ridoy Paul, Israt Jahan Ritu, Farjana Islam Tuly, Abir Hossain

“…The rare zoonotic Borna disease virus (BDV) causes fatal neurological disease in various animals, with a high mortality rate exceeding 90% in central Europe. However, unlike most viruses, it establishes persistent infections within the host cell nucleus, hindering treatment. …”
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Comprehensive assessment of a nationwide simulation-based course for artificial life support. by Mateusz Puslecki, Marek Dabrowski, Marcin Ligowski, Bishoy Zakhary, Ahmed S Said, Kollengode Ramanathan, Elaine Cooley, Lukasz Puslecki, Sebastian Stefaniak, Piotr Ziemak, Ilona Kiel-Puslecka, Agata Dabrowska, Tomasz Klosiewicz, Maciej Sip, Radoslaw Zalewski, Malgorzata Ladzinska, Wojciech Mrowczynski, Piotr Ladzinski, Lidia Szlanga, Konrad Baumgart, Piotr Kupidlowski, Lukasz Szarpak, Marek Jemielity, Bartlomiej Perek

“…To reach high standards of patients' care, we created the first of its kind, National Education Centre for Artificial Life Support (NEC-ALS) in 40 million inhabitants' country in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The role of the Center is to test and promote the novel or commonly used procedures as well as to develop staff skills on management of patients needing ECMO.…”
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Zenith Tropospheric Delay Forecasting in the European Region Using the Informer–Long Short-Term Memory Networks Hybrid Prediction Model by Zhengdao Yuan, Xu Lin, Yashi Xu, Jie Zhao, Nage Du, Xiaolong Cai, Mengkui Li

“…In our research, we utilized ERA5-derived ZTD data from 11 International GNSS Service (IGS) stations in Europe to interpolate the missing portions of GNSS-derived ZTD. …”
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Revealing intra- and inter-container fruit quality heterogeneity within overseas refrigerated container shipments using a physics-based digital twin by Celine Verreydt, Tarl Berry, Leo Lukasse, Deniz Turan, Paul Cronje, Thijs Defraeye

“…Supply air temperature sensor data of shipments from South Africa to Europe and Asia, as well as the fruit packaging type, were fed to the digital twin. …”
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The epidemiology and unmet need of migraine in five european countries: results from the national health and wellness survey by Gianluca Coppola, Joshua D. Brown, Amanda R. Mercadante, Sheila Drakeley, Nikoletta Sternbach, Aaron Jenkins, Karin Hygge Blakeman, Astrid Gendolla

“…Understanding the prevalence of migraine and unmet needs is crucial for improving diagnosis and treatment across Europe (EU) countries; however, real-world studies are limited. …”
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Comparison of ELISA and IFAT for Leishmania infantum by European and Middle Eastern diagnostic laboratories by Kurayi G. Mahachi, Marie Ozanne, Patrick Bourdeau, Juliana Sarquis, Eric Kontowicz, Laia Solano-Gallego, Luis Cardoso, Gaetano Oliva, Gad Baneth, Maria Grazia Pennisi, Angela M. Toepp, Guadalupe Miró, Margaret Carrel, Christine A. Petersen

“…Our goal was to compare the accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) and immunofluorescence antibody tests (IFAT), performed at seven academic veterinary diagnostic centres across southern Europe and Israel. Methods We performed a known sample “ring” trial to compare L. infantum quantitative serological tests. …”
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