Polydatin-Induced Shift of Redox Balance and Its Anti-Cancer Impact on Human Osteosarcoma Cells by Alessio Cimmino, Magda Gioia, Maria Elisabetta Clementi, Isabella Faraoni, Stefano Marini, Chiara Ciaccio

“…Notably, the ROS scavenger N-acetylcysteine (NAC) and the ferroptosis inhibitor ferrostatin-1 (Fer-1) partially reverse PD’s cytotoxic effects. Interestingly, PD’s ability to hinder cell adhesion and migration appears independent of its pro-oxidant effect. …”
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The Public Health Surveillance Well-Being Scale: Reliability and validity study of the Turkish version by Selma Infal Kesim, Fatih Kara

“…Methods: A questionnaire ad hoc for collecting socio-demographic characteristics of participants, the Public Health Surveillance Well-Being Scale (PHS-WS) and the Perceived Wellness Scale (PWS) were used in our study. …”

JOHAN GALTUNG'S CONCEPT OF PEACE CULTURE AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN INDONESIA by Aloysius Jondar, Agus Purbo Widodo, Johan de Fretes, Lukman Hakim, Susanto Susanto, Muhammad Sujud

“…Indonesia's active participation in world peace is also realized in the positive reality of peace, namely the realization of a sense of security and economic justice from the existing system to eliminate racial, ethnic and religious discrimination based on social. …”
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Implications for cost and access of site-of-service referrals for ancillary medical services in a US Medicaid population: analysis of claims data from Maryland, USA by Maqbool Dada, Simrita Singh, Kelsey J Rydland, Chester Chambers, Vishal Mundlye, Edward Kumian, Kayode Ayodele Williams

“…We used location-allocation optimisation models to find the optimal sites to minimise net costs.Setting Coverage area included Medicaid patients throughout the state of Maryland.Participants All rural and urban members of this Medicaid cohort.Primary and secondary outcome measures Change in payer costs and member travel times on shifting ancillary bundles from regulated to unregulated sites.Results Procedure cost and travel time differentials between regulated and unregulated sites strongly correlated with the percentage of procedures referred to regulated sites. …”
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Methodological Considerations for the Use of Longitudinal Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis in Healthcare Research by Marta Wanat, William Day, Michael Larkin

“…We focus on the balance between flexibility and continuity when collecting data across sequential waves of data collection, and on the extent to which researchers explicitly engage with participants in uncovering continuity and change throughout their studies, which we discuss in turn. …”
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‘No one cares about the animal like me.’ Indian veterinarians’ experiences of improving animal welfare through Continuing Professional Development by Emma L Rayner, Ranjita Bastola, Sumanth Bedre, Andrew D Gibson, Luke Gamble, Jill RD MacKay

“…We describe three themes: (1) ‘career vs calling’, where veterinarians’ extrinsic and intrinsic motivational factors were identified, such as their desire to protect animal welfare; (2) being ‘willing to learn but can’t’, with context-specific barriers, such as accessing reliable CPD information; and (3) ‘real interactions matter’, where participants described how pedagogical design influenced their choices, e.g. being able to observe animal welfare improvements through practical teaching. …”
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The Impact of Regional Integration in GVCs on Subsidy Allocation Among Manufacturing Firms in Russia by Юрий Вячеславович Симачёв, Анна Андреевна Федюнина, Игорь Михайлович Драпкин

“… While global demand for industrial policy-making continues to rise, increasing attention is being given to how these policies are shaped by participation in global value chains (GVCs), both in developed and developing countries. …”
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Layered Babinet complementary patterns acting as asymmetric negative index metamaterial by Emese Tóth, Olivér A. Fekete, Balázs Bánhelyi, Maxim Durach, Zsolt Szabó, Mária Csete

“…The dispersion maps in the single-sided asymmetrical co-polarized reflectance and absorptance indicate flat bands of analogous and complementary extrema, proving the partially dichroic nature of the observed asymmetric phenomena. …”
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The Impact of Astaxanthin Supplementation on the Lipid Profile by Filip Arczewski, Michalina Wójcikiewicz, Witold Czyż, Julia Kacperczyk, Karol Dziedzic, Marta Chuncia, Maciej Wojszczyk, Damian Zys, Piotr Pasek, Julia Ryniecka, Wiktor Czaja, Michał Krzciuk

“…Despite these promising findings, many existing studies are limited by small sample sizes, heterogeneous participant groups, and varied dosing regimens, which impede the ability to draw definitive conclusions. …”
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Social networks and biographical method by M. A. Panarina, O. A. Kulikova

“…Information obtained using this method gives us an opportunity to study several layers of a particular biography and build a network of social relationships of the individual, that is, to look at these or other facts of the biography from different points of view of the participants of the events. The story analyzed in this paper is interesting for its genre: a personal narrative created at the initiative of the online magazine Lady.mail.ru. …”
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Effect of mechanical debridement with and without adjunct antimicrobial photodynamic therapy for the treatment of peri-implant disease in obese patients: A systematic review and me... by Sultan Albeshri, Raed AlRowis

“…Results: Three randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were included. The number of participants ranged between 49 and 80 individuals. Patients in the test and control groups underwent MD with and without adjunct aPDT, respectively. …”
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Exploring the general practitioners’ perception of the inter-professional care of rheumatoid arthritis patients (GEPRA—II): a qualitative interview study by Anne-Laure Yailian, Audrey Janoly-Dumenil, Emmanuelle Vignot, Aurélie Fontana, Charline Estublier, Cyrille Confavreux, Roland Chapurlat, Claude Dussart, Humbert de Freminville

“…Methods A qualitative semi-structured study using face-to-face or telephone interviews was conducted. Eligible participants included French GPs referring patients with RA. …”
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Bioethics knowledge, attitudes, and practices among healthcare professionals in Cameroon: a cross sectional analytical observational study of doctors and nurses in Cameroon’s South... by Kevin T. J. Dzi, Oscaline N. Ndong, Elisabeth Z. Menkem, Nicholas Tendongfor

“…However, there was a significant difference in opinion between doctors and nurses when asked if they ordered tests that were not medically necessary but were ordered for patient satisfaction, with nurses having a lower likelihood of agreeing to such practices than doctors. While participants demonstrated a moderate knowledge of healthcare ethics, additional educational interventions are needed to cultivate more favourable attitudes toward specific aspects of healthcare ethics, such as informed consent, patient autonomy, paternalism, and confidentiality.…”
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Postrecruitment Function of Yeast Med6 Protein during the Transcriptional Activation by Mediator Complex by Gwang Sik Kim, Young Chul Lee

“…Consistent with this, the recombinant forms of Med6p having these mutations partially (Δ2) restore or fail (Δ5 and Δ6) to restore in vitro transcriptional defects caused by temperature-sensitive med6 mutation. …”
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Decomposition and comparative analysis of urban-rural disparity in attitude towards advance care planning among Chinese adults: A nationwide study by Xue Wang, Yibo Wu, Lina Ge, Meizhen Zhao, Yi Ma, Shuang Zang

“…Methods Data were derived from Psychology and Behavior Investigation of Chinese Residents (PBICR) including 19,738 participants, representative of Chinese adults. We constructed multivariate linear regression models to investigate the primary factors influencing the attitudes toward ACP among Chinese adults. …”
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The relationship between cognitive function and neuropsychiatric disorders with quantitative electroencephalogram (qEEG) on long COVID syndrome patients by Yetty Ramli, Pukovisa Prawiroharjo, Winnugroho Wiratman, Eric Tenda, Nurhadi Ibrahim, Damar Susilaradeya, Abdi Reza, Jennifer Agatha, Rejoel Siagian, Hazrina Fauhan, Florencia Evelyn, Yoshikazu Ugawa, Prasandhya Yusuf

“…We conducted qEEG analyses, and Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and Self-Rating Questionnaire (SRQ) tests on participants. Analyses included brain spectrum examination, hemispheric asymmetry, and inter-electrode connectivity. …”
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AN ANALYSIS OF DEVELOPMENTS IN THE BIHOR (RO) – HAJDÚ-BIHAR (H) EUROREGION by GABRIELA POPOVICIU

“…Dans cette acception, le but de cette étude est fourni par les caractéristiques communes du développementrégional et, aussi bien par les provocations communes dues au phénomène de cohésion territoriale, culturelle, sociale, que par les politiques d’environnement menées par les deux proches autorités administrativesterritoriales, pour lesquelles la seule séparation qui existe est la frontière. Les pays participants, la Roumanieet la Hongrie, à travers le temps, ont déployé leurs propres plans nationaux de développement. …”
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Prevalence and impact of pelvic floor dysfunctions on quality of life in women 5–10 years after their first vaginal or caesarian delivery by Alba González-Timoneda, Nerea Valles-Murcia, Paula Muñoz Esteban, María Sol Torres López, Elisa Turrión Martínez, Patxi Errandonea Garcia, Lola Serrano Raya, Francisco Nohales Alfonso

“…Methods: We conducted an ambispective cohort observational study. Participants were primiparous women who had given birth to only one child by vaginal delivery or cesarean section between 2012 and 2016. …”
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Novel Haplotype Indicator for End-Stage Renal Disease Progression among Saudi Patients by Cyril Cyrus, Shahanas Chathoth, Chittibabu Vatte, Nafie Alrubaish, Othman Almuhanna, J. Francis Borgio, Samir Al-Mueilo, Fahd Al Muhanna, Amein K. Al Ali

“…A total of 160 CKD patients and 189 control subjects of Saudi origin participated in the study. Eight polymorphisms (SHROOM3-rs9992101, rs17319721; SLC7A9-rs4805834; MYH9-rs4821480, rs4821481, rs2032487, rs3752462; CST3-rs13038305) were genotyped using TaqMan assay, and the haplotype analysis was done using the HaploView 4.2 software. …”
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Abnormal methylation of Mill1 gene regulates osteogenic differentiation involved in various phenotypes of skeletal fluorosis in rats and methionine intervention by Niannian Chen, Jing Zhang, Congyu Yin, Yudan Liao, Lei Song, Ting Hu, Xueli Pan

“…These findings imply that abnormal methylation of the Mill1 gene triggered by fluoride under diverse nutritional conditions, regulates its expression and participates in osteogenic differentiation, potentially resulting in various phenotypes of skeletal fluorosis. …”
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