Effective dietary interventions during pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of behavior change techniques to promote healthy eating by Hannah O’Connor, Nina Meloncelli, Shelley A. Wilkinson, Anna Mae Scott, Lisa Vincze, Alita Rushton, Samantha Dawson, Jenna Hollis, Bree Whiteoak, Sarah Gauci, Susan de Jersey

Get full text

Percepción y manejo de la muerte descendente de mango (Mangifera indica L.) en Actopan, Veracruz, México by Juan Carlos Noa-Carrazana, Norma Flores-Estévez, Felipe Roberto Flores-de la Rosa, Luis Guillermo Hernández-Montiel, Liliana Eunice Saucedo-Picazo

“…La mayoría de los productores eran hombres (94 %) con un amplio rango de edad, donde predominaban los adultos mayores y adultos jóvenes. …”
Get full text

Klasifikasi Ekspresi Wajah Menggunakan Covolutional Neural Network by Ahmad Taufiq Akbar, Shoffan Saifullah, Hari Prapcoyo

“…Kami mengevaluasi model dengan 5-fold dan 10-fold cross-validation untuk estimasi kinerja yang robust, serta teknik hold-out (70:30, 80:20, 85:15, dan 90:10) untuk perbandingan hasil yang jelas. …”
Get full text

The Effects of COVID-19-related Driving Restrictions on Air Quality in an Industrial City by Daulet Assanov, Aiymgul Kerimray, Birzhan Batkeyev, Zhanna Kapsalyamova

“…This natural experiment allowed us to test how the reduction in transport movement affects air quality in Ust-Kamenogorsk, as there is a tendency to hold transport as being a major cause of air pollution in Ust-Kamenogorsk. …”
Get full text

GENDER EQUALITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY by KAZEEM ADEREMI ASIYANBI, AHMED YUSUF BABATUNDE, ADENIYI MICHAEL ADEWUSI

“…Civil society groups (CSOs) have emerged as critical players in tackling these issues, pushing for gender parity, empowering women, and holding legislators responsible for enacting inclusive policies. …”
Get full text

Resolução de conflitos ambientais no Brasil: do patriarcal ao fraternal by Paulo Renato Ernandorena

“…This study, holding as background the conflicts that involve the environment, analyzes the fraternity principle, from the perspective of the theory proposed by Baggio, 2 concluding that the official pattern of environmental litigations composition that exist in Brazil -solidified by the obsolete monopoly of Judiciary- consolidated on a Law's positivism and on a competitive point of view of the society, does not contemplates the fraternity as a legal value. …”
Get full text

Accountability audits of natural resources and industrial green total factor productivity: evidence from China by Rongbing Huang, Xiaomin Zou

“…These findings continued to hold after expansion tests, and a series of robustness tests were performed. …”
Get full text

(Re)constructing Homelands Between Precarity and Intentionality: Syrian Armenians in Armenia by Sossie Kasbarian

“…Some have moved to other destinations perceived to hold better prospects, whether temporarily or with a view to stay permanently; others have returned to rebuild their lives in Syria. …”
Get full text

Willingness to stay or quit: evidence from migrants working in the galway bar and restaurant industry in Ireland by Olaiwola Jamiu Ogunpaimo, Kesiena Ebenade

“…Research findings reveal that 53% of migrants working in Galway City’s bars and restaurants hold at least a bachelor’s degree, indicating high educational attainment in the industry. …”
Get full text

Experimental Investigations of the Resistance Performance of Commercial Cylinder Filters and Effect Factors under Humid Airflows by Shuang Zhang, Wanyi Zhang, Tailong He, Huan Zhao, Zhongping Lin

“…Several factors including the hydrophobic properties, low filtration efficiency, and the unique composite structure of nanofiber filters media can constrain the “Pjump” of cylinder filters, impacting the water-holding capacity (WHC) or avoiding the high resistance. …”
Get full text

SHORT-TERM EQUITY TRADING PRACTICES OF INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS: EVIDENCE FROM PROPERTY-CASUALTY INSURERS IN THE UNITED STATES by Jin Park, Tim Query

“…However, in terms of the mean size of transactions, the average investment in preferred stock ranges from four to five times larger than that of common stocks during the period of interest in this study. The mean holding period for short-term common equity transaction is about 100 and 95 days in 2007 and 2008, respectively. …”
Get full text

Biomedical research and vulnerability: a study on responsibility of health professionals in research involving human beings by Angelita Maria Maders

“…The conclusion extracted from the present research is that health professionals must have their actions guided and limited by the Ethics Codes related to their professional areas but also that there must be a legal regulation that takes into account the diversity and vulnerability of Latin Americans in order to make possible holding referred professionals liable and thus protecting the individuals involved.…”
Get full text

Manganese-pyrochloric acid photosensitizer nanocomplexes against osteosarcoma: achieving both high activatability and high effectiveness by Xuran Zhang, Xuran Zhang, Jian Wang, Qun Feng, Li Lei, Zhiyong Zhu

“…Intravenous nano-drug delivery systems (NDDSs) hold promise for enhancing the delivery efficiency of photosensitive drugs, but often result in aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ) effects, preventing site-specific activation.MethodsWe exploited manganese (Mn2+)–pyrochloric acid (PPa) nanocomplexes coordinated using the photosensitizer PPa and metal Mn ion for the treatment of osteosarcoma. …”
Get full text

Unfolder: fast localization and image rectification of a document with a crease from folding in half by A.M. Ershov, D.V. Tropin, E.E. Limonova, D.P. Nikolaev, V.V. Arlazarov

“…To unfold the document, one could hold the edges potentially obscuring it in a captured image. …”
Get full text

“In some ways it feels like a specialism”: Exploring the lived experience of multilingual maternity professionals – A qualitative interview study by Emma Brooks

“…Conclusion: Strategic utilisation of linguistically skilled NHS practitioners may hold the potential for advancing equity of care for migrant populations, who are regularly and disproportionately represented in data recording adverse outcomes. …”
Get full text

Reliability of high-quantity human brain organoids for modeling microcephaly, glioma invasion and drug screening by Anand Ramani, Giovanni Pasquini, Niklas J. Gerkau, Vaibhav Jadhav, Omkar Suhas Vinchure, Nazlican Altinisik, Hannes Windoffer, Sarah Muller, Ina Rothenaigner, Sean Lin, Aruljothi Mariappan, Dhanasekaran Rathinam, Ali Mirsaidi, Olivier Goureau, Lucia Ricci-Vitiani, Quintino Giorgio D’Alessandris, Bernd Wollnik, Alysson Muotri, Limor Freifeld, Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi, Roberto Pallini, Christine R. Rose, Volker Busskamp, Elke Gabriel, Kamyar Hadian, Jay Gopalakrishnan

“…Abstract Brain organoids offer unprecedented insights into brain development and disease modeling and hold promise for drug screening. Significant hindrances, however, are morphological and cellular heterogeneity, inter-organoid size differences, cellular stress, and poor reproducibility. …”
Get full text

SHORT-TERM EQUITY TRADING PRACTICES OF INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS: EVIDENCE FROM PROPERTY-CASUALTY INSURERS IN THE UNITED STATES by Jin Park, Tim Query

“…However, in terms of the mean size of transactions, the average investment in preferred stock ranges from four to five times larger than that of common stocks during the period of interest in this study. The mean holding period for short-term common equity transaction is about 100 and 95 days in 2007 and 2008, respectively. …”
Get full text

The curcumin-loaded zein-shellac nanoparticles using pH-driven method: Fabrication, characterization, and anti-inflammatory effect by Xinyi Lv, Zijian Wu, Limin Wang, Peibo Guo, Ao Qu, Wenjing Liang, Pengbo Zheng, Yuan Li, Wen Zhang

“…To summarize, the results suggest that the zein-shellac composites hold potential as advanced nano-delivery structures for insoluble bioactive substances.…”
Get full text

¿Quién necesita estudios culturales en Colombia? by Eduardo Restrepo

“…El artículo cierra, en un tono pesimista, con la argumentación de quienes necesitan estudios culturales hoy en Colombia.…”
Get full text

Preoperative anxiety and its impact on surgical outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Mohamed A. Shebl, Eman Toraih, Menna Shebl, Ahmed Mosaad Tolba, Parisa Ahmed, Harshdeep Singh Banga, Mohab Orz, Mahmoud Tammam, Keroles Saadalla, Mohamed Elsayed, Mennatallah Kamal, Mohamed Abdulla, Ahmed Ibrahim Eldessouky, Yousef Tarek Moustafa, Omar Ahmed Mohamed, Hani Aiash

Get full text