Montreal Cognitive Assessment and Modified Mini Mental State Examination in African Americans by Kaycee M. Sink, Suzanne Craft, S. Carrie Smith, Joseph A. Maldjian, Donald W. Bowden, Jianzhao Xu, Barry I. Freedman, Jasmin Divers

“…Results. Participant mean age was 58.2 years (range: 35-83); 61% were female; and 64.9% had >12 years of education. …”
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Lane and Traffic Sign Detection for Autonomous Vehicles: Addressing Challenges on Indian Road Conditions by H. S. Gowri Yaamini, Swathi K J, Manohar N, Ajay Kumar G

“…. • Dataset with 22,400 images of normal and complex Indian scenarios include crude weathering of roads, traffic conditions, diverse tropical weather conditions, partially occluded and partially erased lanes, and traffic signs. • The model performance with notable precision and frame wise inference.…”
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Delphi consensus survey: the opinions of patients living with refractory ulcerative proctitis and the health care professionals who care for them by Philip Smith, Stuart Bloom, Christian Selinger, Ailsa Hart, Christopher Lamb, Anjan Dhar, Helen Steed, Matthew Brookes, Jonathan Macdonald, Ian Arnott, Shellie Radford, Gordon W Moran, Susan Ritchie, Victoria Fletcher, Jonathan Segal, N Sharma, Shahida Din, Daniel Gaya, J Butterworth, S Andrews, P Adams, Deborah Morris, Pearl Avery, Philip Oppong, Mario Guslandi, Maro Kyriacou, Rachel Linger, Madhoor Ramdeen, John Appleton, John Anneh, B Kussel

“…A brainstorming stage involving a focus group where the participants came up with an initial list of statements was completed. …”
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Challenges Faced by Migrant Students in Education: A Comprehensive Analysis of Legal, Psychological, and Economic Barriers by Khasanboy Abdusamatov, Dinara Babajanova, Dilshodjon Egamberdiev, Yunus Xodjiyev, Uktamjon Tukhtaev, Nodirbek Yusupov, Sitora Shoislomova

“…Over 60% of students in the study cited issues with residency permits, affecting their eligibility for financial aid, participation in extracurricular activities, and in some cases, their ability to enroll in school at all. …”
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Translation, cultural adaptation and validation of the Achilles Tendon Total Rupture Score (ATRS) into Spanish: a study protocol by Armando Calleja-Rodríguez, Beatriz Ruiz-Ruiz, Ángel González-de-la-Flor, María García Arrabé

“…The incidence of Achilles tendon rupture (ATR) is increasing due to an ageing population, rising obesity rates and greater sports participation. The Achilles Tendon Total Rupture Score (ATRS) is a validated patient-reported outcome measure widely used to assess clinical and functional outcomes after ATR. …”
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Quantifying the Elasticity Properties of the Median Nerve during the Upper Limb Neurodynamic Test 1 by Ming Lin, Yaodong Chen, Weixin Deng, Hongying Liang, Suiqing Yu, Zhijie Zhang, Chunlong Liu

“…Twenty healthy subjects (mean age: 19.9±1.4 years old) participated in this study. The median nerve was imaged during elbow extension in the following postures: (1) with neutral posture, (2) with wrist extension (WE), (3) with contralateral cervical flexion (CCF), and (4) with both WE and CCF. …”
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Older people at risk in times of pandemic? A qualitative study of coping narratives that support resilience in older people by Lucía Pérez Sánchez, Beatriz Guadalupe Maza Pérez, Guiana Fernández De Lara López

“…Results: It was identified that the participating older adults have sufficient psycho-emotional coping resources, due to the efficacy of the regulation of the feelings experienced. …”
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COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Dose Fails to Enhance Antibody Response to Omicron Variant in Reinfected Healthcare Workers by Leire Fernández-Ciriza, Álvaro González, José Luis del Pozo, Alejandro Fernandez-Montero, Francisco Carmona-Torre, Paula Martínez de Aguirre, María del Mar Sarasa, Silvia Carlos, Gabriel Reina

“…Considering the initial vaccine schedules, mRNA-based vaccines displayed significant higher antibody production and longer persistence among both infected and naïve participants. After the booster dose, participants primoinfected with the Omicron variant exhibited higher antibody concentrations than those who experienced reinfection, even after 6 months of follow-up (22,545 and 9460 U/mL, respectively). …”
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Identifying the key components of social support for patients living with type 2 diabetes: A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of type 2 diabetes social support in... by Reda Madroumi, Lisa Newson, Frederick Kanayo Umeh, Helen Poole, Andrew Jones

“…Committing to the treatment to manage this condition makes participants feel a burden of emotions making them require emotional support from caregivers or close ones. …”
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Relationship between Physical Activity Level and Physical Literacy in Iranian Ethnic Children: A Cross-Cultural Study by Majid Mohammadi, Sheikh Mahmoud, Davood Hoomanian, Hasan Gharayagh Zandi, Mehrzad Hamidi

“…Using the cluster sampling method, they participated in this investigation. Data was collected using the Canadian Physical Literacy Test-2 and the International Child and Adolescent Physical Activity Questionnaire. …”
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Musical Pitch Perception and Categorization in Listeners with No Musical Training Experience: Insights from Mandarin-Speaking Non-Musicians by Jie Liang, Fen Zhang, Wenshu Liu, Zilong Li, Keke Yu, Yi Ding, Ruiming Wang

“…Two experiments were conducted in the study. In Experiment 1, participants were asked to discriminate musical tone pairs with different intervals. …”
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Korean translation and validation of the multidimensional driving style inventory by Ilsun Rhiu, Wonjoon Kim

“…Six hundred forty drivers aged 20–70 agreed to participate in this study. All participants had at least one year of driving experience. …”
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Nutrition in neonatal and pediatric patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: A survey of current practice in the US and Canada by Jamie M. Furlong-Dillard, Michael D. Facciolo, Caroline P. Ozment, and the Pediatric ECMO (PediECMO) Subgroup of the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network and Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO)

“…Subjects and Methods: An online survey was distributed to ECMO medical directors in the US and Canada who had previously participated in survey-based research and those who requested participation during a pediatric ECMO presentation of this study. …”
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Affordances-in-Practice: How Social Norm Dynamics in Climate Change Publics Are Shaped on Instagram and Twitter by Nathalie Van Raemdonck, Ike Picone, Jo Pierson

“…We investigated how each platform’s specific affordances shape the participants’ sense of community and how they participate in social norm enforcement and contestation, also called “callouts.” …”
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A pilot randomized controlled study of integrated kidney palliative care and chronic kidney disease care implemented in a safety-net hospital: Protocol for a pilot study of feasibi... by Jennifer S. Scherer, Wenbo Wu, Chen Lyu, Keith S. Goldfeld, Abraham A. Brody, Joshua Chodosh, David Charytan

“…Methods: This is a single-site pilot RCT designed to enroll 85 participants, with a goal of at least 60 completing the study. …”
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Assessment of foot type and comparison of anthropometric foot dimension between foot types of Indian population: A pilot study by Rajib Jana, Ayan Maity, Sugata Das Kumar, Madhusudan Pal

“…Results: The study found that 53.08% of participants had the Egyptian foot type, followed by 46.91% with the square foot type. …”
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An investigation of leg and shoulder muscle strength ratios of elite female volleyball players by Cengiz Akarcesme, Zait Burak Aktug, Hasan Aka, Serkan Ibıs

“…As a result, the volleyball players participating in the study seem to have lower leg muscle strength and lower H/Q ratio. …”
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Risky sexual behaviour and HIV testing uptake among male college students: a cross-sectional study in China by Yan Luo, Gang Zhao, Junfang Xu

“…Among participants, 32.82% (343/1045) had causal sex in the last 6 months; 4.21% (44/1045) had paid sex; 37.32% (390/1045) had sex with other men and had two or more sexual partners in last half year; and 33.33% (130/390) used psychoactive drugs during same-sex intercourse. …”
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Violence against psychiatric trainees from Asian countries: A pilot online survey by Arpit Parmar, Sundar Gnanavel, Ahmet Gürcan, Yugesh Rai, Utkarsh Karki, Mariana Pinto da Costa, Anna Szczegielniak, Victor Pereira-Sanchez

“…More than two thirds of participants (n = 325, 69.59%) reported a history of assault. …”
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Distress Tolerance Scale: A Study of Reliability and Validity by Ahmet Emre SARGIN, Kadir ÖZDEL, Cisem UTKU, Erkan Kuru, M.Hakan Turkcapar

“…Method: One hundred and sixty seven university students (male=66, female=101) participated in this study. Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), State-trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and Discomfort Intolerance Scale (DIS) were used to determine the criterion validity. …”
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