Barriers and enablers to recruiting participants within paediatric perioperative and anaesthetic settings: lessons learned from a trial of melatonin versus midazolam in the premedi... by Marie C. Hyslop, Diana E. Papaioannou, Robert Bolt, Matthew J. Wilson, Michael Bradburn, Janet Clarkson, Esther Herbert, Nicholas Ireland, Jennifer Kettle, Amanda Loban, Amy C. Norrington, Christopher Vernazza, Christopher Deery

“…The Melatonin for Anxiety prior to General Anaesthesia In Children (MAGIC) trial was a multicentre randomised controlled trial of melatonin vs midazolam in the premedication of anxious children, before surgery. …”
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“Magic Bullet”: Eccentric Macular Hole as a Complication from Dexamethasone Implant Insertion by Logan Christensen, Riley Sanders, Jeffrey Olson

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MagicItem: Dynamic Behavior Design of Virtual Objects With Large Language Models in a Commercial Metaverse Platform by Ryutaro Kurai, Takefumi Hiraki, Yuichi Hiroi, Yutaro Hirao, Monica Perusquia-Hernandez, Hideaki Uchiyama, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa

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Pedia Tricks - Out-of-the-Box Thinking in Paediatric Dentistry by Varsha Sharma, Brahmananda Dutta, Anandamoy Bagchi, Yashshwini Shroff

“…Forehead and Long in their study found that most uncooperative behaviour of the child is due to their strong will and these children are generally confident, persistent and independent. A fruitful method to deal with strong willed children is to violate the causal relationship by some magic tricks from preventive via curative to his/her follow ups visits. …”
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Applications of Generalized Cascade Scattering Matrix on the Microwave Circuits and Antenna Arrays by Shun-Feng Cao, Yong-Chang Jiao, Zheng Zhang

“…Based on the algorithm of the generalized cascade scattering matrix, a useful derivation on the excitation coefficients of antenna arrays is firstly proposed with consideration of the coupling effects. …”
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Muzyczne harmonie i harmonia świata. „Pieśni Ziemi i Mocy” Grega Beara by Joanna Kokot

“…One of the main themes of Greg Bear’s dylogy, Songs of Earth and Power is music (as well as art in general) and its power to change the material reality. …”
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Clinicians’ experience with infographic summaries from the BMJ Rapid Recommendations: a qualitative user-testing study among residents and interns at a large teaching hospital in S... by Thomas Agoritsas, Per Vandvik, Tiffany Hirschel

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Lessons Learnt from the Monetary System of Guernsey by Gábor Sárdi, József Varga

“…This atypical status of Guernsey runs back several hundred years: from 1204 the island takes advantage of its special legal status and in general, it has not been managed badly. Despite all this, it cannot be considered as a totally independent, sovereign state. …”
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Od porodní báby k porodní asistence by Milena Lenderová

“…It included also a childbirth that was relieved of magic and irrationality. One of the products of this ideology was populationism with its idea of the state organisation of health service. …”
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Rapid molecular assays versus blood culture for bloodstream infections: a systematic review and meta-analysisResearch in context by Gabriella Anna Rapszky, Uyen Nguyen Do To, Veronika Eszter Kiss, Tamás Kói, Anna Walter, Dorottya Gergő, Fanni Adél Meznerics, Márton Rakovics, Szilárd Váncsa, Lajos Vince Kemény, Dezső Csupor, Péter Hegyi, Michael R. Filbin, Csaba Varga, Bánk G. Fenyves

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Color code decoder with improved scaling for correcting circuit-level noise by Seok-Hyung Lee, Andrew Li, Stephen D. Bartlett

“…We introduce an efficient color-code decoder that tackles these issues by combining two matching decoders for each color, generalized to handle circuit-level noise by employing detector error models. …”
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Past Times and Our Times: Reading Our Mutual Friend by David Paroissien

“…Similarly to past and present readers of Our Mutual Friend stories work their magic, entertaining, disturbing, educating and prompting questions of abiding philosophical resonance.…”
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MRI-Based Quantification of Magnetic Susceptibility in Gel Phantoms: Assessment of Measurement and Calculation Accuracy by Emma Olsson, Ronnie Wirestam, Emelie Lind

“…Less accurate QSM-based susceptibility values were observed for cylindrical objects at angles, relative to the main magnetic field, that were close to or larger than the magic angle. Results generally improved for large objects/high spatial resolution and large volume coverage. …”
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Venüs Heykelciklerinden İdollere Kadın Temsilleri by Tülin CENGİZ

“…These artifacts, which have been discovered in a wide area from Europe to Siberian context, are generally depictions of women with exaggerated female organs. …”
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Folk Medicine, Folk Healing by Mustafa SEVER

“…In such an environment of belief, the visible diseases caused by material reasons were generally cured with products obtained from plants, mines and animals in the region or drugs that were made out of their combinations. …”
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Udmurt <i>Mad’</i> Song: Paradox of a Genre by Irina Nurieva

“…The accumulation and publication of new folklore and ethnographic material requires reconsideration of the general concept and definition. The folklore of northern Udmurtia gives interesting material for the study of the origins of some genres and of their interconnections. …”
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With Collies Graven on His Heart: The Canine Projections of Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856–1934) by Peter Merchant

“…By writing in the novel about a boys’ school (though with a touch of magical mystery) and by centring the story on a dog (though with a distinct sting in the tail), he demonstrated how well attuned he was to the taste of the times. …”
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