Mental Health Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Australian Children and Adolescents with a Medical Condition: Longitudinal Findings by Louise M. Crowe, Cathriona Clarke, Dan Geraghty, Ben Collins, Stephen Hearps, Remy Pugh, Nicola Kilpatrick, Emma Branson, Jonathan M. Payne, Kristina Haebich, Natalie McCloughan, Christopher Kintakas, Genevieve Charles, Misel Trajanovska, Ivy Hsieh, Penelope L. Hartmann, Sebastian King, Nicholas Anderson, Vicki Anderson

“…In Melbourne, Australia, strict ‘lockdowns’ were implemented in 2020 to suppress COVID-19, significantly disrupting daily life. Young people (<18 years) with medical conditions have an elevated risk of mental health problems and may have been disproportionately affected by the distress associated with the COVID-19 restrictions. …”
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Perception, Trust, and Motivation in Consumer Behavior for Organic Food Acquisition: An Exploratory Study by Elena Moroșan, Violeta Popovici, Ioana Andreea Popescu, Adriana Daraban, Oana Karampelas, Liviu Marian Matac, Monica Licu, Andreea Rusu, Larisa-Marina-Elisabeth Chirigiu, Sinziana Opriţescu, Elena Iuliana Ionita, Alina Saulean, Maria Nitescu

“…Similar price perception correlates with the highest confidence level and daily acquisition (<i>p</i> < 0.05). Obese respondents exhibited minimal satisfaction and opted for “abstention” from eco-food recommendations (<i>p</i> < 0.05). (4) Conclusions: The present study extensively analyzed Romanian people’s knowledge, perception, and trust regarding organic foods. …”
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The Role of Different Emotional States of Customers on Food Preferences by Mahmood Ghanbari, Kambiz Heidarzadeh Hanzaee, Behnaz Khodayari, Maryam Khalili Araghi

“…The background factors influencing the choice of food based on the findings of this research in different emotions include culture, previous experience of food consumption, and knowledge of food consumption health.According to the present research, the following suggestions are presented:It is necessary for restaurants and food courts to include a variety of foods that can respond to different emotions (negative and positive) of people in their daily menus for breakfast, lunch and dinner, because sometimes people go to the same foods in negative and positive emotional conditions.…”
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Restoring coronal pre-arthritic alignment in mobile-bearing unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: mid- to long-term outcomes by Yankun Jiang, Changquan Liu, Qidong Zhang, Guoyuan Sun, Ran Ding, Nianfei Zhang, Cheng Huang, Weiguo Wang, Wanshou Guo

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Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Awareness and Endorsement among Adolescents and Young Adults in Tanzania: Insights from the 2022 Demographic and Health Survey by Alpha Johnson Kapola, Rahma Musoke, Glenda Marie Manayon, Hassan Fredrick Fussi, Hafidha Mhando Bakari, Haji Mbwana Ally, Swalehe Mustafa Salim, Zuhura Mbwana Ally, Lynn Moshi, Mariam Salim Mbwana, Habib Omari Ramadhani

“…Participants were asked whether they had ever heard of daily medication to prevent HIV (PrEP) and whether they approved of daily PrEP use. …”
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Logical reasoning for human activity recognition based on multisource data from wearable device by Mahmood Alsaadi, Ismail Keshta, Janjhyam Venkata Naga Ramesh, Divya Nimma, Mohammad Shabaz, Nirupma pathak, Pavitar Parkash Singh, Sherzod Kiyosov, Mukesh Soni

“…Abstract Smart wearable devices detection and recording of people’s everyday activities is critical for health monitoring, helping persons with disabilities, and providing care for the elderly. …”
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Verbal Violence in the Press: A Case Study of Persian Newspapers by Mohammad RasekhMahand, Mojtaba AlizadeSahraii, Raheleh Izadifar, Roghayyeh salimiyan

“…One of the important functions of language is conveying each person’s emotions to another people. Emotions are abstract concepts that should be converted into concrete concepts in order to become comprehensible; Metaphors and adjectives are common tools for changing abstract concepts to concrete ones. …”
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Pavement Management Utilizing Mobile Crowd Sensing by Boquan Tian, Yongbo Yuan, Hengyu Zhou, Zhen Yang

“…Benefiting from the development of mobile communication, mobile computing, and mobile sensing techniques, the intelligence of mobile crowd sensing (MCS), which mainly relies on ubiquitous mobile smart devices in people’s daily lives, has overcome the above drawbacks to a large extent as one new effective and simple measure for pavement management. …”
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Meteorological Analysis of Floods in Ghana by S. O. Ansah, M. A. Ahiataku, C. K. Yorke, F. Otu-Larbi, Bashiru Yahaya, P. N. L. Lamptey, M. Tanu

“…A time series of annual daily maximum rainfall (ADMR) showed an increasing trend with a slope of 0.45 over Accra and a decreasing trend and a slope of –0.07 over Kumasi. …”
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Health literacy in context: struggling to self-manage diabetes – a longitudinal qualitative study by Xavier Debussche, Maryvette Balcou-Debussche, Delphine Ballet, Jessica Caroupin-Soupoutevin

“…The purpose of this qualitative study was to provide a detailed analysis of the health literacy of people with type 2 diabetes in relation to their daily self-care practices.Design Nested qualitative study in the ERMIES randomised controlled trial testing a 2-year structured care in type 2 diabetes. …”
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The Effect of FourWeeks of Beta-Alanine Supplementationon Anaerobic Power and Plasma Lactate Level in Unprofessional Male Bodybuilders by Mahdi Rezagholizadeh

“…Within experimental period of four weeks, the subjects of supplement group received six mg daily beta-alanine supplement for five days a weeks and the subjects of placebo group received placebo to the same dosage (Aspartate Flavor Powder). …”
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The effect of risk of contracting and fear of COVID-19 on burnout and job satisfaction in Polish teachers by Joanna Dymecka, Rafał Gerymski, Radoslaw B. Walczak, Aleksandra Jania

“…In the studied sample, 252 people worked remotely, 41 in-person and 59 were hybrid workers. …”
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Amino acid composition, antioxidant activity and mineral content of Achatina fulica snail slimes and edible bird’s nest by Dang Tin Tin, Ong Mei Kying, Wong Seng Mei, Ong Ching Ang

“…In conclusion, the snail slimes can potentially be served as an alternative of EBN to those people suffered from mineral deficiencies.…”
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Comparison of the Efficacy and Safety of Temporary Spinal Cord Stimulation versus Pulsed Radiofrequency for Postherpetic Neuralgia: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial by Xiaohong Li, Pan Chen, Jian He, Xiang Huang, Dacheng Tang, Lumiao Chen, Xiaoping Wang

“…From September 1, 2019, to May 30, 2020, 44 PHN patients admitted to the Pain Department of the Foshan First People’s Hospital, China were enrolled in this study. …”
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Expansion of a stationary retail trading network in Vilnius and the Vilnius district in 1861-1904 by Aelita Ambrulevičiūtė

“…In the first decades after the reforms, no trade structure changes were noticed, and the biggest part of stores was selling "traditional" goods. The network of daily local enterprises in Lithuania in the middle of the 19th century was thin. …”
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Evaluation of machine learning-based regression techniques for prediction of diabetes levels fluctuations by Badriah Alkalifah, Muhammad Tariq Shaheen, Johrah Alotibi, Tahani Alsubait, Hosam Alhakami

“…Middle-Aged and Elderly people today face a variety of health problems as a result of their modern lifestyle, which includes increased work stress, less physical activity, and altered food habits. …”
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What Moves Them? Active Transport among Inhabitants of Dutch Deprived Districts by Carla Saris, Stef Kremers, Patricia Van Assema, Cees Hoefnagels, Mariël Droomers, Nanne De Vries

“…Active modes of transport like walking and cycling have been shown to be valuable contributions to daily physical activity. The current study investigates associations between personal and neighbourhood environmental characteristics and active transport among inhabitants of Dutch deprived districts. …”
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Continuous Sign Language Recognition With Multi-Scale Spatial-Temporal Feature Enhancement by Zhen Wang, Dongyuan Li, Renhe Jiang, Manabu Okumura

“…Continuous Sign Language Recognition (CSLR) seeks to interpret the gestures used by people who are hard of hearing-mute individuals and translate them into natural language, thereby enhancing communication and interaction. …”
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Information War in Syria by N. A. Smirnov

“…Media, Internet, social networks and other tools are used daily to cover the events and create the necessary views of the population in different countries. …”
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Factors Affecting Persistent Postoperative Pain in Patients with Hip Fractures by Kyo Goto, Hideki Kataoka, Ayana Honda, Junichiro Yamashita, Kaoru Morita, Tatsuya Hirase, Junya Sakamoto, Minoru Okita

“…Osteoporotic fractures are common among older people, and hip fractures (HF) can be devastating. …”
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