Structured follow-up pathway to support people after transient ischaemic attack and minor stroke (SUPPORT TIA): protocol for a feasibility study and process evaluation by Grace M Turner, Melanie Calvert, Sue Jowett, Robbie Foy, Jonathan Mant, Sarah Tearne, Lou Atkins, Rachael Jones, Smitaa Patel, Phillip Collis

“…The study aims to assess the feasibility and acceptability of (1) the intervention and (2) the trial procedures for a future randomised controlled trial of this intervention.Methods and analysis This is a multicentre, randomised (1:1) feasibility study with a mixed-methods process evaluation. Sixty participants will be recruited from TIA clinics or stroke wards at three hospital sites (England). …”
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Architekci pogranicza kulturowego: Julian i Alfred Zachariewiczowie, Iwan Lewiński, Tadeusz Obmiński by Ihor Żuk

“…During the fin de siècle and throughout subsequent historical cataclysms, each of these four was destined to a greater or lesser extent to experience a deep crisis, and even more so – a dramatic collapse of their mixed identity. …”
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Mitigating bias in AI mortality predictions for minority populations: a transfer learning approach by Tianshu Gu, Wensen Pan, Jing Yu, Guang Ji, Xia Meng, Yongjun Wang, Minghui Li

“…Gradient Boosting Machines (GBM) produced mixed results, showing accuracy and precision improvements for Non-Hispanic Black and Asian groups, but declines for the Hispanic/Latino and American Indian groups, with the most significant decline in precision, which dropped from 0.4612 to 0.2406 in the American Indian group. …”
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Information technologies in the implementation of Language education in a non-linguistic University by Anna L. Morozova, Tat’yana A. Kostyukova, Dzhamilya Kh. Godina

“…The use of information provided on Internet resources can be effective in the implementation of language education, and the material posted on the sites can be selected taking into account the direction of training and adapted to a variety of innovative teaching methods and current needs of students. it is important now to focus on the search for a new didactics the didactics of mixed learning, the development of a new model of shifting emphasis: from focusing on your own content to public types of content; from reproductive methods of learning to active ones; from final assessment to formative; new formats of educational interaction horizontal /joint/mutual learning (peer-to-peer), etc. …”
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Association of CSF soluble TREM1 levels with hippocampal atrophy in cognitively impaired older adults by Hao Shu, Gangyu Ding, Xiaona Xu, Xuerong Huang, Ruqian He

“…For the longitudinal analyses, a linear mixed-effects model was employed to assess the significance of the three-way interaction between CSF sTREM1 levels, cognitive status, and follow-up time on adjusted hippocampal volume (aHV). …”
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Dietary vitamin E on the reproductive performance of the fantail goldfish Carassius auratus auratus by Harton Arfah, . Melati, Mia Setiawati

“…The vitamin E was dissolved in vegetable oil and mixed with albumen as a binder in feed. The vitamin E was sprayed at feed and was air dried. …”
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Agricultural land use conflict identification and land degradation risk analysis from the perspective of spatial matching in the Ili River Valley by DONG Guanglong, WANG Jue, WANG Han, CHENG Weiya, LIU Zheng, ZHANG Wenxin

“…The moderately sensitive, highly sensitive, and extremely sensitive areas were 3811.25, 3692.74, and 2683.44 km², respectively, which are mainly distributed in the northern part of Khorgos City, the southern part of Zhaosu County, and the northern part of Nilek County. (4) The high land degradation risk area covered 4200.92 km², accounting for 20.95% of the agricultural land use conflict area and 7.63% of the Ili River Valley, mainly distributed in the north, middle, and south Tianshan Mountains with rugged terrain and harsh natural environment making it suitable for woodland or mixed forest and grass. However, it’s current used as artificial pasture coupled with overgrazing has increased the risk of land degradation. …”
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Characterizing avocado production systems for Ugandan exports: the need for consolidation and support for sustainable development by Peter Sseruwagi, Peter Sseruwagi, Edouard Lehmann, Paul Sigombe, Gabriel Ddamulira, Jan Willem Van Casteren, Pieterjan De Bauw

“…., fertilisers, pesticides, irrigation), using manual labor (family or hired) under mixed cropping systems, but lacking critical infrastructure, agronomic knowledge, extension services, and access to markets. …”
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A scoping review on peer-led interventions to improve youth mental health in low- and middle-income countries by Dana Chow, Dunstan J. Matungwa, Elizabeth R. Blackwood, Paul Pronyk, Dorothy Dow

“…There were 14 quantitative, four qualitative and one mixed methods study reporting mental health outcomes. …”
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Are breast cancer patients with low distress at diagnosis at risk of psychological symptoms later in their disease trajectory? Considerations for when to screen for distress by Rikke Langballe, Birgitte Mertz, Niels Kroman, Thomas Maltesen, Susanne Rosthøj, Pernille Envold Bidstrup

“…Patients were followed through electronic questionnaires at baseline before surgery and after 6, 12, and 18 months. We used latent class mixed models to identify sub-groups of patients with similar development in distress, anxiety, depression, breast cancer-specific health-related quality of life, self-efficacy, and fear of recurrence over time. …”
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Mitigating the mistreatment of childbearing women: evaluation of respectful maternity care intervention in Ethiopian hospitals by Samson Gebremedhin, Anteneh Asefa, Alison Morgan, Michelle Kermode, Hema Magge, Ephrem Tekle, Sintayehu Abebe

“…The outcome variable was the number of mistreatment components experienced by women, expressed as a score out of 25. Multilevel mixed-effects Poisson modelling was used to assess the change in mistreatment score from pre-intervention to post-intervention periods.Results The number of mistreatment components experienced by women was reduced by 18% when the post-intervention group was compared with the pre-intervention group (adjusted regression coefficient (Aβ)=0.82, 95% CI 0.74 to 0.91). …”
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Remote-sensing detectability of airborne Arctic dust by N. T. O'Neill, K. Ranjbar, L. Ivănescu, Y. Blanchard, S. A. Sayedain, Y. AboEl-Fetouh

“…The enhanced ice-nucleating particle (INP) role of local Arctic dust can, for example, induce significant changes in the properties of low-level mixed-phase clouds (cloud optical depth changes <span class="inline-formula"><i>&lt;</i>∼</span> 1) that can readily be detected by active and passive RS instruments. …”
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Understanding the local-level variations in seasonality of human respiratory syncytial virus infection: a systematic analysis by Sheng Ye, Shuyu Deng, Yumeng Miao, David Torres-Fernandez, Quique Bassat, Xin Wang, You Li

“…We estimated between-site variations within a region using the earliest onset, the earliest offset, and the shortest duration of RSV season of that region as the references and synthesised the variations across regions by a multi-level mixed-effects meta-analysis. Using the three datasets from Japan, Spain and Scotland, we applied linear regression models with clustered standard errors to explore the association of geographical, meteorological, and socio-demographic factors with the season onset and offset, respectively. …”
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Management of childbearing with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and hypermobility spectrum disorders: A scoping review and expert co-creation of evidence-based clinical guidelin... by Sally Pezaro, Isabelle Brock, Maggie Buckley, Sarahann Callaway, Serwet Demirdas, Alan Hakim, Cheryl Harris, Carole High Gross, Megan Karanfil, Isabelle Le Ray, Laura McGillis, Bonnie Nasar, Melissa Russo, Lorna Ryan, Natalie Blagowidow

“…No language limitations were placed on our search, and our team had the ability to translate and screen articles retrieved in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Danish, German, and Portuguese. The Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool was used to assess bias and quality appraise articles selected. …”
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Contractile Protein Expression and Phosphorylation and Contractility of Gastric Smooth Muscles from Obese Patients and Patients with Obesity and Diabetes by Wen Li, Kent C. Sasse, Yulia Bayguinov, Sean M. Ward, Brian A. Perrino

“…Ingested food is received, mixed, and ground into chyme by distinct gastric motility patterns. …”
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Expression and Clinical Significance of DAP3 in Breast Cancer and Effect of Bruceine D on Expression of DAP3:Analysis Based on Data-mining from Bioinformatics by Wenlong WANG, Qingzhi KONG, Hongda LU, Qingdong XIANG, Dianlei LIU

“…A total of nine studies were involved the expression of DAP3 in breast cancer tissues and normal tissues, including a total of 1 118 samples, including the comparison of invasive ductal breast carcinoma, invasive lobular breast carcinoma, invasive ductal and invasive lobular mixed breast carcinoma, tubular breast cancer and ductal breast carcinoma and the normal tissue. …”
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Genesis of the Daping Gold Deposit in the Middle Xuefeng Mountain Area, Southern China: Constraints from Geochemistry, Fluid Inclusion, and H-O-S Isotope by Xu Kong, Wen-Tian Mi, Xue-Yuan Qi, Shu-Jun Lǚ, Yu-Jun Dong, Jie Xin

“…The δDH2O and δ18OH2O values of auriferous quartz are from -51‰ to 62‰ and from -1.44‰ to 5.42‰, respectively, indicating that the ore-forming fluids may belong to mixing fluids of the magmatic fluid and meteoric hydrothermal fluid. …”
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Characterization and genome analysis of lytic Vibrio phage VPK8 with potential in lysing Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolates from clinical and seafood sources by Valalak Jintasakul, Jiranan Pattano, Sutima Preeprem, Pimonsri Mittraparp-arthorn

“…Methods Vibrio phage VPK8 was isolated from blood cockles in Thailand using a mixed-host approach and purified via the double-layer agar method. …”
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Rutas literarias: (inter)espacio didáctico para leer, caminar y hablar el libro / Reading itinerary: (inter)didactic space to read, walk and talk the book by Miguel Sánchez García, Juana Rosa Suárez-Robaina

“…Additionally, it aims to explore the influence of literary routes on teaching support, publishers, and comprehensive assessment of the proposed reading. With a mixed methodology (data triangulation), the acceptance of the literary route in different educational communities is diagnosed along with the process developed by its active agents (managers and monitor) based on an in-depth interview. …”
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The Assessment of Different Dietary Selenium Resources on Reproductive Performance, Spawning Indicators, and Larval Production of Red Tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus × O. niloticu... by Mohammed A. E. Naiel, El-Sayed H. Eissa, Yasmin M. Abd El-Aziz, Saadea Saadony, Heba E. Abd Elnabi, Salah El-Sayed Sakr

“…The fish group fed NPSe alone or mixed with Na2SeO3 had a well-developed stroma structure, many mature vitellogenic and postvitellogenic oocytes, and a remarkable intensity of mature spermatozoa in the testis. …”
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