A participatory data-driven approach for unpaved road condition monitoring by Keegan Mbiyana, Mirka Kans

“…Thus, road users can support long-term maintenance planning and decision-making, potentially improving unpaved road management and minimising the cost of collecting and evaluating unpaved road condition data. However, the participating road users require training in data acquisition, and the vehicles must be calibrated according to the sensor properties, vehicle vibration response and speed to ensure quality data collection. …”
Get full text

Prevention Of Breast and Endometrial cancer using Total Diet Replacement (PROBE-TDR) trial: protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Robert Clarke, Emma J Crosbie, Basil G Issa, John Belcher, Helen Clarke, Anthony Howell, Michelle Harvie, Hannah Harrison, Cheryl Lombardelli, Suzanne Krizak, Katharine Sellers, Yit Y Lim, Caroline Parkin, Shruthi Patel, Anthony J Maxwell, Julie Wisely, Sacha J Howell

“…Results will be published in peer-reviewed journals, presented at conferences and shared with trial participants.Trial registration number International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number Registry (ISRCTN15358157).…”
Get full text

Depressive symptoms in older adults are associated with changes in stress-related markers, functional connectivity and brain volume by Edelweiss Touron, Robin de Flores, Laurent Coulbault, Cassandre Palix, Anne Chocat, Elizabeth Kuhn, Brigitte Landeau, Florence Mézenge, Daniel Roquet, Léa Chauveau, Sacha Haudry, Denis Vivien, Vincent de La Sayette, Natalie L. Marchant, Gaël Chételat, Géraldine Poisnel, for the Medit-Ageing Research Group

“…Blood stress markers levels and neuroimaging measures were compared between groups; then regression analyses were conducted between these measures. Results DepS participants showed higher plasma epinephrine levels, which was associated with greater rs-FC between the CA1 and Subiculum hippocampal subfields and the hypothalamus. …”
Get full text

Lidocaine Infusion for the Management of Postoperative Pain and Delirium (LIMPP): protocol for a randomised control trial by Matthias Behrends, Marc Alan Buren, Alekos Theologis, Ariadne Zuraek, Aaron J Clark, Jacqueline M Leung

“…The results of this study will be published in a peer-review journal and presented at national conferences as poster or oral presentations. Participants wishing to know the results of this study will be contacted directly on data publication.Trial registration number NCT05010148.…”
Get full text

Use of a bioresorbable polylactide sheet (OrthoWrap® Bioresorbable sheet) on tendon healing after extensor tendon repair: a controlled clinical trial by Abbas Abdoli Tafti, Hamidreza Mohammadi, Morteza Rezaei, Seyyed Hossein Saeed Bonadaki

“…Methods This triple-blind randomized clinical trial was conducted on patients with trauma to the extensor zone VI tendons. Participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups. …”
Get full text

Quantitative Validation of Hematocrit Percentage Drop Cutoff Points in Postpartum Hemorrhage: An Automated Gravimetric Approach by Venance Basil Kway, José Enrique Calacuayo Rojas, Josué Sidonio Rodríguez Cuevas, Ursula Medina Moreno, José Sergio Camacho Juárez, Jorge Francisco Ayala González, Karla Krebs Larraga, Ilse Veronica Castro Martinez, Roberto Arturo Castillo Reyther, Antonio Gordillo Moscoso, Yang Pan

“…We excluded cases with difficulty quantifying blood loss, those with incomplete data, and those of patients who did not consent to participate. Blood loss was measured by an automated gravimetric system integrated into a suction blood collector and surgical gauze weighing systems to automatically sum up blood loss immediately after hysterectomy and fetal delivery. …”
Get full text

Matías Sánchez Sorondo y las escuelas obreras judías, dos mundos en conflicto by Nerina Visacovsky

“…Ese organismo, además de clausurar todo establecimiento sospechado de propagar “ideología disolvente”, capturó gran cantidad de materiales que luego Matías Sánchez Sorondo, como senador del Partido Conservador, utilizó en 1932 y 1936 para fundamentar su ley de Represión al Comunismo y Sindicación Gremial. …”
Get full text

Relationship Between Lumbar Locked Rotation, Trunk Rotation During Pitching, and Pitch Velocity in High School Baseball Players by Shun Okamura, Kai Iida

“… # Methods Fifteen healthy male high school students belonging to a baseball club were recruited for participation. The throwing side and non-throwing side LLR-t was performed using an inclinometer. …”
Get full text

Usual prevention in unusual settings: A scoping review of place-based health interventions in public-facing businesses. by Jack Tsai, Nicholas A McCann

“…Studies reported positive responses from participants for place-based interventions, increased awareness and screening of health conditions, more referrals to healthcare services, and improved health outcomes. …”
Get full text

Study on the Transfer Threshold from Meteorological to Hydrological Drought in Dongjiang River Basin by MO Xiaomei, TU Xinjun, WANG Tian, XIE Yuting, ZHAO Guoyang

“…The study on transfer threshold between different drought types can effectively analyze the occurrence law and mechanism of drought transfer,especially the study on transfer threshold from meteorological drought to hydrological drought.Taking the Dongjiang River Basin as the research object,this paper calculates the standardized precipitation index (SPI) and the standardized runoff index (SRI) at month scale,identifies and extracts the drought events and their characteristics,including drought duration and drought severity based on the run theory,matches the meteorological drought events and hydrological drought events that occur at the fully or partially same time,fits the edge distribution of the matched drought characteristic attributes to verify the correlation between the duration or severity of meteorological and hydrological droughts,establishes the joint distribution models of meteorological drought and hydrological drought based on two-variable Copula function,calculates the conditional probability of different grades of hydrological drought (moderate drought,severe drought and extreme drought) under different meteorological drought conditions,and takes the drought duration or severity value corresponding to the conditional probability of 0.95 as the drought duration or severity threshold for the transfer of meteorological drought to the hydrological drought of this grade.The results show that:The optimal fit functions of meteorological drought duration and severity in the Dongjiang River Basin were gamma distribution.The optimal fit function of hydrological drought duration is gamma distribution,and the marginal distribution function of hydrological drought severity was generalized normal distribution.The drought duration and severity were better when fitting by the Gumbel-copula function.The thresholds of drought duration of middle,severe and extreme drought grades in Dongjiang River basin were 6.9 months,8.3 months,9.4 months,respectively.While the thresholds of drought severity were 4.6,5.7 and 6.6,respectively.Drought transfer threshold can provide reference for hydrological drought prediction and government decision-making of drought prevention and mitigation.…”
Get full text

Bariatric surgery in Poland, 2023: growth, trends, and impact of the KOS‑BAR program by Michał R. Janik, Przemysław Sroczyński, Piotr Major

“…Results: A total of 54 centers, including 18 KOS-BAR centers, participated in the survey, reporting a total of 9102 procedures performed in 2023. …”
Get full text

Validation of a paediatric sepsis screening tool to identify children with sepsis in the emergency department: a statewide prospective cohort study in Queensland, Australia by Paula Lister, Kristen Gibbons, Luregn J Schlapbach, Adam Irwin, Michael Rice, Sainath Raman, Amanda Harley, Patricia Gilholm

“…We assessed the performance of the paediatric sepsis screening tool using stepwise multiple logistic regression analyses with 10-fold cross-validation and evaluated the final model at defined risk thresholds.Setting Twelve emergency departments (EDs) in Queensland, Australia.Participants 3473 children screened for sepsis, of which 523 (15.1%) were diagnosed with sepsis.Interventions A 32-item paediatric sepsis screening tool including rapidly available information from triage, risk factors and targeted physical examination.Primary outcome measure Senior medical officer-diagnosed sepsis combined with the administration of intravenous antibiotics in the ED.Results The 32-item paediatric sepsis screening tool had good predictive performance (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) 0.80, 95% CI 0.78 to 0.82). …”
Get full text

Cohort profile: Health and Attainment of Pupils in a Primary Education National Cohort (HAPPEN) – a hybrid total population cohort in Wales, UK by Amrita Bandyopadhyay, Michaela James, Gareth Stratton, Sinead Brophy, Emily Marchant, Hope Jones, Amy Locke, Jonathan L Kennedy, David W E Burdett

“…We present the descriptive data available in HAPPEN, and the future expansion plans.Participants The HAPPEN cohort includes 37 902 primary-aged school children from 2016 to July 2023. …”
Get full text

Prevalence of Diarrhea Disease and Associated Factors Among Children Under 5 Years in Geshiyaro Project Implementation Sites in Ethiopia: A Cross‐Sectional Study by Zinabu Assefa Alemu, Aderajew Mekonnen Girmay, Kirubel Tesfaye Teklu, Ermias Alemayehu Adugna, Melaku Gizaw Serte, Tsigereda Assefa Alemayehu, Badasa Wagari Likasa, Benjamin Collyer, Zelalem Mehari, Mihretab Salasibew, Getachew Tollera, Masresha Tessema

“…Methods A community‐based cross‐sectional study was conducted from June to July 2023. A total of 2937 participants were enrolled in this investigation. Descriptive and multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed using STATA version 16. …”
Get full text

The Effect of Anterior Uterocervical Angle on Primary Dysmenorrhea and Disease Severity by Mefkure Eraslan Sahin, Erdem Sahin, Yusuf Madendag, Ilknur Col Madendag, Ahter Tanay Tayyar, Fatma Özdemir, Gokhan Acmaz, Iptisam Ipek Muderris

“…Results. Of the 200 participants enrolled in the study, 50 were healthy controls and 150 had primary dysmenorrhea. …”
Get full text

Subhepatic appendicitis in a 27-year-old male: a case report from Odahulle General Hospital of Ethiopia by Abduletif Haji Ababor Abagojam, Abduletif Haji Ababor Abagojam, Remedan Jemal Dekema, Tamirat Godebo Woyimo, Jafer Yasin Mohammed, Kedir Negesso Tukeni

“…An abdominal ultrasound showed an enlarged subhepatic appendix with an internal fecalith 1 cm in depth, that was partially compressible, with no obvious peri appendiceal free fluid or other pathology. …”
Get full text

Perception des retombées d’une activité de formation des étudiants en médecine au sein d’organismes communautaires by Thomas Gottin, Veronique Foley, Geneviève Petit, Carol Valois, Christine Loignon

“…Elle incluait des entrevues semi-dirigées pré et post stage, menée auprès des personnes étudiantes ayant participé aux activités d’ASC (pré n=21, post n=7), de même que des groupes de discussion focalisée auprès d’intervenants ou responsables d’organismes communautaires (n=17). …”
Get full text

End of Pandemic Parental Hesitancy Towards Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccination: A Cross-sectional Survey at Two Lebanese Tertiary Hospitals by Sabine Shehab, Lina Anouti, Celina F. Boutros, Christelle Radi, Silma El Baasiri, Arabia Badih, Rawan Korman, Marwa El Masri, Joudie Alwan, Maha Monzer, Yara Bitar, Mona Kassem, Mayse Naser, Yara Salameh, Sarah Khafaja, Murielle Bou Ghosn, Dany Al Hamod, Sarah Ghadban, Soha Ghanem, Ghassan S. Dbaibo

“…Results: The study enrolled 950 participants, predominantly mothers (79.6%) aged 30–49 (79%), highly educated parents (69.8% of mothers and 62.2% of fathers were university graduates). …”
Get full text

Risk perceptions and changes in tobacco use in relation to Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic: A qualitative study on adolescent tobacco users in Hong Kong by Tianqi Chen, Lijun Wang, Yee Tak Derek Cheung, Man Ping Wang, Tai Hing Lam, Sai Yin Ho

“…Methods We conducted semi-structured telephone interviews from January to April 2021 and in February 2022 on 40 adolescents (63% boys, Secondary school grades 2–6) who participated in our previous smoking surveys and were using cigarettes, ECs or HTPs before the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in January 2020. …”
Get full text

Independent and joint associations of neighbourhood greenness and walkability with transportational and recreational physical activity among youth and adults in Canada by Natalie Doan, Sebastian A. Srugo, Stephanie A. Prince, Rachel C. Colley, Daniel G. Rainham, Taru Manyanga, Gregory P. Butler, Richard Larouche, Sarah E. Turner, Justin J. Lang

“…Methods: We analyzed repeated cross-sectional data from 132,927 urban-dwelling youth (12–17 years) and adults (≥18 years) who participated in the Canadian Community Health Survey (2015–2018). …”
Get full text