A Structural Comparison between the Origin-Destination Matrices Based on Local Windows with Socioeconomic, Land-Use, and Population Characteristics by Shahriar Afandizadeh Zargari, Amirmasoud Memarnejad, Hamid Mirzahossein

“…The proposed method was tested on Tehran’s OD matrix extracted from cell phone Geographic Position System (GPS) data. The advantage of this method over two previous ones was observed in determining the new pattern of trips on local windows and more precise detection of SSIM of the weekdays. …”
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Effects of community family doctors-led intervention for self-management and medication adherence in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients: study protocol of a cluster randomised contr... by Yue Chen, Biqi Ren, Ningsheng Wang, Shuang Lei, Shuzhi Lin, Lianye Liu, Yufang Xiang, Bianling Feng

“…It will include five parts: usual care, a medication reminder, a 4-week plan, a weekly phone interview and a monthly interview. The primary outcomes are changes in fasting blood glucose, glycosylated haemoglobin, self-management knowledge and behaviour, and medication adherence from baseline to the 3rd and 6th months. …”
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Charakterystyka produkcji zwierzęcej w świetle Powszechnego Spisu Rolnego z 2002 i 2010 r. by Bartosz Mickiewicz

“…W badaniach skoncentrowano się na dwóch kierunkach produkcji zwierzęcej, a mianowicie chowie bydła i chowie trzody chlewnej, które stanowią ponad 80% wartości tej produkcji. W latach 2002-2010 zanotowano niewielki wzrost pogłowia bydła (4,1%), przy ogólnym spadku liczby krów o 7,5%. …”
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Cyberbullying: Violence in the digital world by Mijatović Marina D.

“…Cyberbullying can be defined as intentional abuse or harassment of an individual through social networks, e-mail, phone calls or messages, electronic media, which is repeated over time. …”
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Refining Sparse Cell-ID Trajectory of Public Service Vehicles by Spatiotemporal Modelling by Kemin Zhu, Junli Liu, Xianfeng Song, Weifeng Wang, Hao Chen

“…Mobile phone data have become a critical data source for transportation research. …”
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Influenza vaccination hesitancy and related factors among pregnant and breastfeeding women: A cross-sectional study by Dania Comparcini, Giancarlo Cicolini, Melania Totaro, Letizia Governatori, Francesco Pastore, Daniela Miniscalco, Maria Elena Flacco, Eustachio Cuscianna, Silvio Tafuri, Valentina Simonetti

“…A multicentre, cross-sectional study was conducted between February and June 2022 using structured phone interviews to assess: (1) socio-demographics and clinical history; (2) anti-flu vaccination status, previous anti-flu vaccination, and Sars-CoV-2 infection history; (3) insights into influenza vaccination during pregnancy; (4) attitudes toward anti-flu vaccination, using the Vaccination Attitudes Examination (VAX) Scale; (5) anxiety levels, measured by the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS). …”
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Deep Ensemble Learning for Human Action Recognition in Still Images by Xiangchun Yu, Zhe Zhang, Lei Wu, Wei Pang, Hechang Chen, Zhezhou Yu, Bin Li

“…Numerous human actions such as “Phoning,” “PlayingGuitar,” and “RidingHorse” can be inferred by static cue-based approaches even if their motions in video are available considering one single still image may already sufficiently explain a particular action. …”
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Designing a Human Machine Interface for Quality Assurance in Car Manufacturing: An Attempt to Address the “Functionality versus User Experience Contradiction” in Professional Produ... by Nikolaj Borisov, Benjamin Weyers, Annette Kluge

“…The major result showed that the new user interface design run on a smart phone is the most suitable setup for future interactive systems in car manufacturing. …”
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Od pamięci XX wieku do świadectwa współczesności. Trzydzieści lat polskiej literatury faktu we Włoszech by Dario Prola

“…Drugim nurtem jest polski reportaż, począwszy od włoskiego odkrycia Ryszarda Kapuścińskiego ponad 30 lat temu. Właściwym celem badania nie jest wskazanie, jacy autorzy i jakie dzieła są obecne na włoskim rynku wydawniczym, ani też ustalenie hipotetycznego kanonu gatunku, lecz przede wszystkim refleksja nad „siłami” determinującymi odbiór literatury faktu we Włoszech. …”
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Zjawisko migracji Polaków. Następstwa i duszpasterska rola Kościoła by Jan Dziedzic

“…Obecnie duszpasterstwo polskojęzyczne regularnie prowadzi ponad 2 tys. duchownych. Podkreślają oni za Janem Pawłem II, który poprzez swoje spotkania z Polonią nakreślił program formacyjny dla emigrantów, że do istotnych elementów pracy nad sobą należą: zachowanie własnej tożsamości, integracja w nowym środowisku oraz budowanie zasad moralnych opartych na paradygmacie „bardziej być” niż „mieć”.…”
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Observation of Conventional Therapy Combined with PNF Technology to Treat Elbow Joint Dysfunction after Trauma Surgery by Shaoyun SHI, Huiping LU, Guobiao YE, San LI, Jie Liang

“…Pre-treatment and 8 weeks after the treatment, evaluations of hospital for special surgery scoring system (HHS) elbow score were carried out in both groups, including pain, function, sagittal joint range of motion, muscle strength, flex contracture, extend contracture, pronation, supination, total score, assessment, etc.Results:Before rehabilitation, there was no obvious difference of each assessment index score of average and total between the routine and experimental group (<italic>P</italic>&gt;0.05). …”
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Does the AO/OTA fracture classification dictate the anesthesia modality for the surgical management of unstable distal radius fractures? A retrospective cohort study in 127 patient... by Sascha Halvachizadeh, Merav Dreifuss, Thomas Rauer, Anne Kaiser, Dirk Ubmann, Hans-Christoph Pape, Florin Allemann

“…Short-term functional outcomes favored Group PA at three months (e.g., Pronation: 81.1° ± 13.6 vs. 74.3° ± 17.5, p = 0.046). …”
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The Nature of Gradualness for Changes in Place of Articulation Features of Vowels in Serial Optimality Theory: Evidence from Three Iranian Languages by Mehdi Fattahi

“…That is while when this prefix is attached to a verbal root initiating with the glide [w], the subjunctive/imperative prefix is phonetically realized as [bu-], as in the word [bu.wɑ.ɾe:d] (if it rains). …”
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Postawa społeczeństwa wobec organizmów modyfikowanych genetycznie (GMO) w Polsce – na przykładzie wybranych grup osób by Justyna Anna Nowakowska, Daria Berezovska, Aleksandra Szulińska

“…GMO, ale obawy przed produktami genetycznie modyfikowanymi nadal występują u ponad połowy społeczeństwa. Większość kobiet obawia się GMO, zwraca większą uwagę na oznakowanie produktów zawierających GMO i nie podałaby ich swoim dzieciom. …”
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Understanding patients’ emotional well-being, perceptions and concerns during an unprecedented deferment of arthroplasty: an Italian qualitative study by Marina Torre, Iuliia Urakcheeva, Paola Ciccarelli, Michael Tenti, Virgilia Toccaceli

“…The study aimed to explore the feelings, perceptions and concerns of orthopaedic patients in Italy during COVID-related arthroplasty rescheduling.Design The study designed by an interdisciplinary research group, used a qualitative methodology based on thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews.Setting Interviews were conducted by phone from August to November 2021.Participants A purposive sample of orthopaedic patients (from North, Centre and South of Italy), whose elective arthroplasty was delayed due to the COVID-related healthcare measures, was selected. …”
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Protocol for project recovery after cardiac surgery: a single-center cohort study leveraging digital platform to characterise longitudinal patient-reported postoperative recovery p... by Harlan M Krumholz, Erica Spatz, Sanket S Dhruva, Yawei Zhang, Makoto Mori, Cornell Brooks, Bobak J Mortazavi, George C Linderman, Lawrence A Grab, Arnar Geirsson, Sarwat I Chaudhry

“…We will conduct medical record reviews to collect patient demographics, comorbidity, operative details and hospital course using the Society of Thoracic Surgeons data definitions. We will use phone interview and medical record review data for adjudication of survival, readmission and complications. …”
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Frequency and factors associated with loss to follow-up in newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis patient: a single-centre study by Sumariyono Sumariyono, Rudy Hidayat, Faisal Parlindungan, Suryo Anggoro Kusumo Wibowo, Anna Ariane, Johanda Damanik, Abirianty Priandani Araminta, Ryzkianty Annis Nurdin

“…We used a Likert scale questionnaire to explore the perception and the possible reasons for LTFU by phone. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed to explore the factors associated with LTFU. …”
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Midwife-led birthing centre in the humanitarian setup: An experience from the Rohingya camp, Bangladesh. by Abdul Halim, Abu Sayeed Md Abdullah, Fazlur Rahman, Oliva Bazirete, Sabera Turkmani, Kirsty Hughes, Sofia Castro Lopes, Andrea Nove, Mandy Forrester, Vanessa Scarf, Emily Callander, Caroline S E Homer

“…Challenges included language barriers, difficulty obtaining transport from home and back particularly at night in remote areas, security fears and weak cell phone coverage that affected communication for referral and follow-up. …”
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Diet management of older subjects with Oropharyngeal Dysphagia: The efficacy of ready-made texture-modified and fortified meals by Nikolina Jukic Peladic, Paolo Orlandoni, Laura Bartoloni, Giulia Giulioni, Claudia Venturini, Alessia Fumagalli

“…Methods: Patients who were assessed for dysphagia and nutritional status at the Clinical Nutrition Unit of Ancona and the Pneumology Unit of Casatenovo (LC) of the National Institute of Health and Science on Aging (IRCCS) INRCA and diagnosed with level 4 severity of OD according to IDDSI framework, were invited to use at lunch, for seven consecutive days, the ready-made fortified meals. Face-to-face and phone interviews were used to collect the socio-demographic data and testimonies of 30 out-hospital patients with OD and their formal and informal caregivers in order to assess the safety and liking of products. …”
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Wojenne straty materialne polskiej prowincji redemptorystów w latach 1939-1945 na przykładzie klasztorów w Toruniu i Warszawie by O. Maciej Sadowski CSsR

“…Klasztor w Toruniu został poddany całkowitej rekwizycji przez Niemców już w pierwszych dniach wojny obronnej, a wywłaszczenie redemptorystów było precedensowym przykładem nowej sytuacji majątkowej, w jakiej znalazł się Kościół na Pomorzu, wcielonym do Rzeszy. Stan trwającej ponad cztery lata konfiskaty klasztoru toruńskiego został przez niemieckie władze usankcjonowany bezprawnymi aktami okupacyjnej administracji. …”
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