Rural perinatal nursing in Canada: A hermeneutic literature review by Lela V. Zimmer, Martha L.P. MacLeod, Amanda De Smit, Steinunn Jónatansdóttir

“…Nurses’ insights and experiences are essential to ensure that policies and practices in healthcare organizations foster the sustainability of rural perinatal care for rural/remote childbearing families and the retention of nurses in rural practice. …”
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Differentiated TB care matrix: Validating an assessment tool for healthcare workers providing differentiated TB care using Delphi technique by Riswana S. Ansari, Ankeeta Menona Jacob, Avinash K. Shetty, Shazia Anjum

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Randomised trials in maternal and perinatal health in low and middle-income countries from 2010 to 2019: a systematic scoping review by Joshua P Vogel, Jack Williams, Tari Turner, Steve McDonald, Alexander John Eggleston, Annabel Richards, Elise Farrington, Wai Chung Tse, Ayeshini Sella Hewage

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The association between consumption of ultra-processed foods and sperm quality parameters: a cross-sectional study by Mitra Soltani, Mohammad Reza Ahmadi, Zainab Shateri, Zahra Maghsoudi, Milad Rajabzadeh-Dehkordi, Moein Askarpour, Amir Hossein Asadi, Mehran Nouri

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Diagnostic Potential of Systemic Eosinophil-Associated Cytokines and Growth Factors in IBD by Katarzyna Neubauer, Malgorzata Matusiewicz, Iwona Bednarz-Misa, Sabina Gorska, Andrzej Gamian, Malgorzata Krzystek-Korpacka

“…If confirmed on a larger representation of IBS patients, IL8 might support differential diagnosis of organic and functional conditions of the bowel. GM-CSF, in turn, demonstrated to be an excellent indicator of bowel inflammation and may be taken into consideration as a noninvasive marker of mucosal healing. …”
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Laser-based 3D printing and optical characterization of optical micro-nanostructures inspired by nocturnal insects compound eyes by Bogdan Stefanita Calin, Roxana Cristina Popescu, Eugenia Tanasa, Irina Alexandra Paun

“…Abstract Nature offers unique examples that help humans produce artificial systems which mimic specific functions of living organisms and provide solutions to complex technical problems of the modern world. …”
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Digital libraries and World Wide Web sites and page persistence. by Wallace Koehler

“…Material on the Web can be organized and managed. Native documents can be collected <i>in situ, </i>disseminated, distributed, catalogueed, indexed, controlled, in traditional library fashion. …”
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Determination of dry residue of drinking water by quartz crystal microbalance method by A. G. Zavodovsky

“…The dry residue of water characterizes its quality with great completeness, since it contains all impurities, including nonvolatile organic substances. Therefore, the mass of dry residue can characterize the depth of drinking water treatment and is an important indicator of its quality. …”
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Evaluation of the Effect of Nanosilver and Bismuth oxide on the Radiopacity of a Novel Hydraulic Calcium Silicate-based Endodontic Sealer: An In vitro Study by Teena Sheethal Dsouza, Aditya Shetty, Kelvin Peter Pais, Meenakumari Chikkanna, Fahad Hamoud Almutairi, Yazeed Abdulaziz Alharbi, J. Suresh Babu, C. Swarnalatha, Abhishek Singh Nayyar

“…The aim of the present study was to assess whether the incorporation of AgNPs and 10% bismuth oxide imparted the required radiopacity to the novel cement material (Nano CS) as per the requirement and standards laid by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) guidelines and whether it complied with the ISO 6876:2001 specifications to achieve the necessary norms. …”
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Profiles of traditional farms: soil texture, total inorganic N and bacteria-producing estate by Yuni Puji Hastuti, Iman Rusmana, T. Widiyanto

“…This study aims to observe abundance of bacteria nitrification along with changes soil texture, and N-organic in the soil of traditional pond. Chemical and biological analyses were done using spectroscopy and Most Probable Number methods to determine the amount of nitrite and ammonium production of bacteria.  …”
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The impact of gestational age limits on abortion-related outcomes: a synthesis of legal and health evidence by Fiona de Londras, Amanda Cleeve, Maria I. Rodriguez, Alana Farrell, Magdalena Furgalska, Antonella F. Lavelanet

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Cornukaempferia puangpeniae sp. nov. and C. aurantiiflora var. vespera var. nov. (Zingiberaceae) from Northern Thailand by Piyaporn Saensouk, Surapon Saensouk, Thawatphong Boonma, Chainarong Techa, Sarayut Rakarcha, Areerat Ragsasilp, Danh Duc Nguyen

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Socioeconomic disparity in stage at cancer diagnosis among patients with type 2 diabetes in Dutch primary care: a cross-sectional study by Geertruida H De Bock, Gijs W D Landman, Nanne Kleefstra, Bert van der Vegt, Sabine Siesling, Klaas H Groenier, Jing de Haan-Du

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Efficient recovery of Ce(III) ions from acidic solutions using oxalic acid crosslinked chitosan by Tabtila Okta Rinila, Soon Kong Yong, Waheeba Ahmed Al-Amrani, Agustono Wibowo, Nurul Filzah Ghazali, Murat Yılmaz, Faiz Bukhari Mohd Suah, Megat Ahmad Kamal Megat Hanafiah

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Evaluation and comparison of portfolios formed by strategies through PE, PEG, PERG-SD, and PERG-Beta in the Tehran stock exchange by Hossein Eslami, Seyed Mohammad Moshashaei, Farzad Rahimzadeh

“…Also, based on Friedman's test, the low PE strategy has the best performance compared to other strategies.Originality/Value: This research fills a gap in the existing literature by organizing companies into five categories for each strategy, balancing portfolios seasonally, and analyzing the PERG strategy based on the nature of risk adjustment (systematic risk or total risk). …”
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Militancia, destrucción y resistencias de las mujeres en la Unión Patriótica by Carlos Andrés Torres Mateus

“…On this basis, it divides the destruction of the UP into genocidal cycles and analyses gendered practices by resorting to a broad interpretation of genocide, away from the location of the state as the sole actor, exposing a range of sectors that constituted the perpetrator bloc and that constantly (re)organized themselves to destroy women’s socio-political work. …”
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Response to the letter of Midorikawa et al by Hideto Takahashi, Seiji Yasumura, Kunihiko Takahashi, Tetsuya Ohira, Hiroki Shimura, Hitoshi Ohto, Satoru Suzuki, Shinichi Suzuki, Tetsuo Ishikawa, Satoshi Suzuki, Enbo Ma, Masanori Nagao, Susumu Yokoya, Kenji Kamiya

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Seasonal Variations in the Biological Value of Kyrgyz Donkey’s Milk Proteins by Nadira K. Turganbaeva, Mukarama M. Musulmanova, Nurudin A. Kydyraliev

“…The milk also proved to contain arginine, which is an essential amino acid for a juvenile organism. In the spring samples, its content was 2.5 times as big as in the autumn ones. …”
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Phytophthora: an ancient, historic, biologically and structurally cohesive and evolutionarily successful generic concept in need of preservation by Clive Brasier, Bruno Scanu, David Cooke, Thomas Jung

“…Such paraphyly is common in successful organisms. The proposal to divide Phytophthora appears more a device to address the issue of the convergent evolution of the DMs than the structure of Phytophthora per se. …”
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Co-effects of COVID-19 and Meteorology on PM2.5 Decrease in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: A Comparison of 2016–2019 and 2020–2021 by Cong-Thanh Tran, Le My Thuan Nguyen, Tzong-Gang Wu, Chang-Fu Wu, To Thi Hien, Kuo-Liong Chien

“…However, about half of the days during this period still had daily PM2.5 concentrations exceeding the World Health Organization’s standard of 15 μg m−3. Besides the impacts of COVID-19 restrictions on the PM2.5 decrease, noticeable co-effects of meteorological variables on the decline of PM2.5 in HCMC were also observed in the rainy season and with the west-south-west monsoon wind direction. …”
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