Modern trends and conceptual approaches to understanding the essence of the concept of “national security” by Yu. O. Zahumenna

“…More specific varieties of the legal definition of “security”, which correlate with it as “general” and “special” categories, are the concepts of “national security”, “state security”, “public security”, “personal security”, and derivatives from them, such as “military security”, “economic security”, “information security” and other types of security, are allocated in a separate type in numerous scientific works of Ukrainian and foreign specialists depending on the object of protection, the sphere of social relations, and the types of practical activities of various state bodies. …”
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Risk factors associated with human Mpox infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Jianhong Wu, Jude Dzevela Kong, James Orbinski, Chigozie Louisa Jane Ugwu, Ali Asgary, Woldegebriel Assefa Woldegerima

“…Interaction with infected animals (OR=5.61, 95% CI 2.83, 11.13), HIV infection (OR=4.46, 95% CI 3.27, 6.08), other sexually transmitted infections (OR=1.76, 95% CI 1.42, 2.19), unprotected sexual activities (OR=1.53, 95% CI 1.13, 2.07), contact with an infected person (OR=2.39, 95% CI 1.87, 3.05), identification as men who have sex with men (OR=2.18, 95% CI 1.88, 2.51) and having multiple sexual partners (OR=1.61, 95% CI 1.24, 2.09) were associated with increased Mpox infection risk. …”
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Specifics of Foreign Assistance Allocation under the Trump Administration: From Inauguration to ‘Ukrainegate’ by V. I. Bartenev

“…The research covers a 3-year period from the inauguration of the 45th President of the United States to the Ukrainegate — the first scandal in the U.S. history provoqued by the submission of an anonymous whistleblower’s report pointing at the President’s illegal manipulation of the foreign aid resources to achieve personal political goals, which paved the way to his impeachment. …”
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Investigating the electronic health literacy promotion strategies in adolescent girls: A cross-sectional study in Iran by Elahe Tavassoli, Sara Eslami Farsani, Forouzan Ganji, Ziba Raisi Dehkordi

“…Health concerns are a phenomenon that preoccupies many people at some point in their lives, and in some cases, even though the evidence does not show a specific disease, the person’s concerns are not resolved and health anxiety continues. …”
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Side Effects and Patient Tolerance with the Use of Blood Flow Restriction Training after ACL Reconstruction in Adolescents: A Pilot Study by Jennifer Prue, Dylan P Roman, Nicholas G Giampetruzzi, Arthur Fredericks, Adel Lolic, Allison Crepeau, J. Lee Pace, Adam P Weaver

“…Patients utilized an automatic personalized tourniquet system and followed a standardized BFRT exercise protocol over 12 weeks starting 8.72 ± 3.32 days post-op. …”
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Analysis of the terms of development of infectious complications in patients after osteosynthesis of long bones by P.V. Tanasienko, H.B. Kolov, V.M. Tsokalo

“…The terms of the infection after osteosynthesis and its type reliably affect the development of complications in the injured person and have an indirect effect on their development. …”
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Perceptions of Fairness of Support Between Older Parents and Adult Children by Anna Willems, Dimitri Mortelmans, Anina Vercruyssen

“…European research shows that when older persons do not have a partner (anymore), they rely on their adult children for care and support. …”
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The Impact of Critical Listening and Critical Reading on Critical Thinking by Yasemin Baki

“…The Critical Listening Scale, Critical Thinking Attitude Scale, Critical Reading Self-Efficacy Perception Scale, and a personal information form were used to collect research data. …”
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Identifying the Factors That Drive Health Service Utilization Among Healthy and Non‐Healthy Agers in a Sample of Older Ethiopians: A Cross‐Sectional Study by Amare Belachew, Nicolas Cherbuin, Nasser Bagheri, Richard Burns

“…This study aims to identify factors influencing health service use among healthy and non‐healthy agers, utilizing the Andersen‐Newman model that describes predisposing (including demographic characteristics, social structure, and health beliefs), enabling (related to the logistical aspects of obtaining care, such as personal and community resources), and need factors (referring to the individual's perceived and evaluated health status). …”
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Firearms control as an element of criminological security in the concept of transitional justice for Ukraine by Yu. V. Orlov, A. M. Yashchenko

“…The article proposes a criminological model for establishing control over firearms circulation which provides for: 1) preservation of the existing legal regime of firearms circulation for civilians until the end of the armed conflict and the legal regime of martial law; after the lifting of martial law, a balanced legalisation of civilian (short-barreled) weapons with strict control, verification and constant monitoring is required; 2) for military personnel (including those discharged from service): a) a special type of exemption from criminal liability under Articles 263 and 410 (regarding misappropriation of firearms, ammunition, explosives or other munitions) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, subject to presentation for inspection, registration and issuance of a permit (de lege ferenda); b) obtaining a permit (de lege ferenda) for storage of firearms (in the amount of no more than one unit per person) and ammunition (in the amount of no more than 60 pieces); 3) criminal liability for violation of the conditions of the permit to keep and carry firearms. …”
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Standards and Practices: A Reflection on Programming for Skill Learning and Evaluation in the First Aid Classroom

“…This paper explores two priorities that may initially seem conflicting: the need to standardize the delivery of skills for purposes of mass education, production of learning materials, and program evaluation; facing the need to personalize the skills to fit the learner and the context in which the skills are intended to be applied. …”
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Simulator training in focus assessed transthoracic echocardiography (FATE) for undergraduate medical students: results from the FateSim randomized controlled trial by Johannes Matthias Weimer, Franziska Marietta Sprengart, Thomas Vieth, Sebastian Göbel, Anna Dionysopoulou, Rebecca Krüger, Jan Beer, Andreas Michael Weimer, Holger Buggenhagen, Roman Kloeckner, Lukas Pillong, Johanna Helfrich, Elias Waezsada, Philipp Wand, Julia Weinmann-Menke

“…While motivation remained consistently high among both groups, the study group rated their “personal overall learning experience” and the “realistic nature of the training” significantly worse than the control group (p < 0.0001). …”
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Global-Local Self-Attention-Based Long Short-Term Memory with Optimization Algorithm for Speaker Identification by Pravin Marotrao Ghate, Bhagvat D. Jadhav, Shriram Sadashiv Kulkarni, Pravin Balaso Chopade, Prabhakar N. Kota

“… Speaker identification (SI) involves recognizing a speaker from a group of unknown speakers, while speaker verification (SV) determines if a given voice sample belongs to a particular person. The main drawbacks of SI are session variability, noise in the background, and insufficient information. …”
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SARS-CoV-2 infection rates and associated risk factors in healthcare workers: systematic review and meta-analysis by Amit Bansal, Mai-Chi Trieu, Emily M. Eriksson, Fan Zhou, Jodie McVernon, Karl Albert Brokstad, Rebecca Jane Cox

“…Household exposure (odds ratio (OR) 7.07; 95% CI 3.93–12.73), working as a cleaner (OR 2.72; 95% CI 1.39–5.32), occupational exposure (OR 1.79; 95% CI 1.49–2.14), inadequate training on infection prevention and control (OR 1.46; 95% CI 1.14–1.87), insufficient use of personal protective equipment (OR 1.45; 95% CI 1.14–1.84), performing aerosol generating procedures (OR 1.36; 95% CI 1.21–1.52) and inadequate hand hygiene (OR 1.17; 95% CI 0.79–1.73) were associated with an increased SARS-CoV-2 infection. …”
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Transparencia algorítmica ¿un problema normativo o tecnológico? by Carlos Fernando Araya Paz

“… Con la evolución de las tecnologías, cada vez va a ser más frecuente que ciertas decisiones tales como selección de personal, otorgamiento de crédito o selección de parejas, sean adoptadas por sistemas de inteligencia artificial estructurados sobre la base de algoritmos de aprendizaje automático. …”
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Dual harm among patients in the Ontario forensic mental health system. by Mark Mohan Kaggwa, Bailea Erb, Sébastien Prat, Arianna Davids, John Bradford, Gary Andrew Chaimowitz, Andrew Toyin Olagunju

“…These factors were similar for different types of dual harm, except for dual harm related to sexual aggression, which was the only subtype associated with having a personality disorder diagnosis. Again, the experience of violence increased the chance of self-harm.…”
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Incidence of type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome by Occupation – 10-Year follow-up of the Gutenberg Health Study by Juliane Bauer, Janice Hegewald, Karin Rossnagel, Sylvia Jankowiak, Michaela Prigge, Julian Chalabi, Matthias Nübling, Alice Freiberg, Merle Riechmann-Wolf, Pavel Dietz, Philipp S. Wild, Thomas Koeck, Manfred E. Beutel, Norbert Pfeiffer, Karl J. Lackner, Thomas Münzel, Konstantin Strauch, Philipp Lurz, Oliver Tüscher, Julia Weinmann-Menke, Stavros Konstantinides, Andreas Seidler

“…We calculated age- and sex-standardised incidence rates and standardised incidence ratios (SIR) with a 95% confidence interval (CI) for occupations, job complexity levels, and supervisory and managerial positions. 5954 persons at risk for type 2 diabetes and 5103 at risk for metabolic syndrome were observed. …”
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The breast cancer genetic testing experience: probing the potential utility of an online decision aid in risk perception and decision making by Anna Vaynrub, Brian Salazar, Yilin Eileen Feng, Harry West, Alissa Michel, Subiksha Umakanth, Katherine D. Crew, Rita Kukafka

“…Conclusions Patients preferred a structured explanation of their GT results to facilitate a more personal testing experience. While most did not change lifestyle behaviors in response to their GT results, there was a consistent call for further guidance following the initial discussion of GT results. …”
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Risk of Selected Fetal Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes at Advanced Maternal Age: A Retrospective Cohort Study in Debre Markos Referral Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia by Bikila Tefera Debelo, Melaku Hunie Asratie, Abayneh Aklilu Solomon

“…Today, women postpone pregnancy due to different socioeconomic and personal reasons. However, there was limited evidence on fetal adverse outcomes’ association with pregnancy at an advanced maternal age in Ethiopia and particularly in the study area. …”
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Health and economic cost estimates of short-term total and wildfire PM2.5 exposure on work loss: using the consecutive California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) data 2015–2018 by Michael Jerrett, Yu Yu, Ying-Ying Meng, Diane Garcia-Gonzales, Mohammad Z Al-Hamdan, Miriam E Marlier, Joseph L Wilkins, Ninez Ponce

“…We calculated and applied the coefficient for the association between daily PM2.5 exposure and work loss from regression analyses to the Environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program—Community Edition (BenMAP-CE) platform to assess the health and economic impacts of PM2.5 exposure on work loss due to sickness.Results We observed that each 1 µg/m3 increase in daily total PM2.5 exposure will lead to about 1 million days of work loss per year ranging from 1.1 to 1.6 million person-days, and the related economic loss was $310–390 million. …”
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