Neural Correlates of Social Touch Processing: An fMRI Study on Brain Functional Connectivity by Vladimir Khorev, Semen Kurkin, Larisa Mayorova, Galina Portnova, Anastasia Kushnir, Alexander Hramov

“…Background: The significance of tactile stimulation in human social development and personal interaction is well documented; however, the underlying cerebral processes remain under-researched. …”
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Incidence of HTLV-1-associated myelopathy in the UK from 1991 to 2024: a longitudinal observational cohort study by Carolina Rosadas, Jerico Baylon, Claire Greiller, Adine Adonis, Divya Dhasmana, Nicholas W. S. Davies, Graham P. Taylor, Graham P. Taylor

“…At the first visit, the HTLV-1 proviral load was compared between incident cases and those who remained asymptomatic during follow-up.ResultsIn a cohort with up to 33 years of follow-up of individuals living with HTLV-1 in the UK, the cumulative incidence of HTLV-1-associated myelopathy (HAM) was found to be 1.35% (4/297), with an incidence rate of 1.98 per 1,000 person-years. All people who developed HAM had a high proviral load at the first clinic visit. …”
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Consensus evidence-based clinical practice guide for the diagnosis and management of osteoporosis in childhood and adolescence by Yasser El Miedany, Hala Lotfy, Maha El Gaafary, Naglaa Gadallah, Annie Nasr Mehanna, Safaa Mahran, Waleed Hassan, Mohammed Hassan Abu-Zaid, Samar Abdelhamed Tabra, Mohamed Mortada, Ahmed R. Radwan, Dalia El Mikkawy, S. Esam Maher, Ghada Eldrainy, Hala Abdulhady, Marwa Mahgoub, Youmna Amer, Walaa Elwakil

“…The level of evidence for each element was assessed using the Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine (CEBM) System, when available, and/or based on the expert panel’s personal experience. All recommendations with an agreement rate of 75% or higher were included. …”
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Directions of Civil Service Institutional Transformation by G. A. Borshevskiy

“…In the first step is need the convergence of the legal content of civil service with other activities in the public sector, and the renouncement the civil servants to serve to politicians, which is aimed at increasing their personal responsibility. It is necessary to implement the new basic legal principle of targeting efforts of the civil servants to achieve economic growth and improve the quality of citizens life. …”
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Incidence of Second Primary Malignancies in Patients with Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: An Observational Retrospective Cohort Study in the United States by Catherine W. Saltus, Zdravko P. Vassilev, Jihong Zong, Brian Calingaert, Elizabeth B. Andrews, Montse Soriano-Gabarró, James A. Kaye

“…SPM occurred in 172 patients (incidence rate 5.9 per 100 person-years; 95% confidence interval [CI], 5.0-6.8; standardized incidence ratio = 3.1, 95% CI, 2.8-3.6, based on SEER incidence rate of all malignancies except prostate cancer among men aged ≥ 65 years). …”
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Nivel de actividad física en profesionistas de la salud de primer nivel de atención by Lizeth Montfort-López, Enrique Villarreal-Ríos, Liliana Galicia-Rodríguez, Laura A. Cu-Flores, Mireya Franco-Saldaña, Mariana R. Guerrero-Mancera, María Y. Ruíz-Bárcenas

“…Material y métodos: Diseño transversal descriptivo en personal de salud, se estudió al total de la población (n = 280). …”
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Unraveling the genetic mysteries of spinal muscular atrophy in Chinese families by Shanshan Gao, Duo Chen, Qianqian Li, Xuechao Zhao, Chen Chen, Lina Liu, Miao Jiang, Zhenhua Zhao, Yanhua Wang, Xiangdong Kong

“…Understanding its genetic basis is crucial for genetic counseling and personalized treatment options. Methods This study retrospectively analyzed families of patients suspected of SMA at our institution from February 2006 to March 2024. …”
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Professionally focused vlog in pre-service foreign language teacher education by A. Melnyk

“…Its genesis is ascribed to contemporary pedagogical demands for the establishment of an enriching multimedia educational environment, envisioned to foster the augmentation of interaction; the integration of authentic online resources and tasks, inciting students to explore diverse professional and pedagogical issues; the cultivation of the skills pertinent to both independent and collaborative information gathering, transforming it into a profound learning experience that steers clear of a linear sequence in favor of a comprehensive array of sources for forging personalized learning pathways. Professionally focused foreign language vlogs are posited to ensure the attainment of intercultural foreign language communication competences among professionals in educational domains, contingent upon adherence to specific stipulations. …”
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Service Quality (Servqual) Toward Rawa Bebek’s Rusunawa Residents in Dki Jakarta by Retnowati WD Tuti

“…Convenience; 2). Reliability; 3) Personal Attention; 4). Citizen Influence; 5). Fairness; 6). …”
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Personalised Affective Classification Through Enhanced EEG Signal Analysis by Joseph Barrowclough, Nonso Nnamoko, Ioannis Korkontzelos

“…This overlooks individual differences and may not accurately capture the unique emotional patterns of each person.Methods This study explored the performance of six machine learning algorithms in classifying a benchmark EEG dataset (collected with a MUSE device) for affective research. …”
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Role of Epidural Electrode Stimulation in Three Patients with Incomplete AIS D Spinal Cord Injury by Yu-Chen Chen, Xiang-Ling Huang, Hung-Yu Cheng, Ciou-Chan Wu, Ming-Yung Wu, Lian-Cing Yan, Shin-Yuan Chen, Sheng-Tzung Tsai, Shinn-Zong Lin

“…The participants received personalized electrical stimulation for 36 weeks and were evaluated for their SCI characteristics, the result of an AIS assessment according to the lower extremity sensorimotor scale, their muscle activity, and preoperative walking ability parameters, initially as well as at weeks 8 and 36 of the EES intervention. …”
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Professionally Significant Qualities Upbringing at the Engineering Education System by D. P. Danilaev, N. N. Malivanov

“…Discipline, responsibility, independence and self-organization can be considered as professionally significant personality traits of a future engineer, including those that determine his uniqueness in the profession. …”
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Blood Borne Viral Infections in Transplantation: Hepatitis Viruses and Retroviruses by RP Bryce Larke

“…Hepatitis viruses B (HBV), C (HCV) and D (HDV) and the retroviruses human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) and human T celllymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-1) and type ll (HTLV-11) have been transmitted from infected organ and tissue donors to allograft recipients. Ascertainment of personal risk factors by health questionnaire may exclude volunteer blood donors recently exposed to transmissible diseases who could be in the 'window period' of the infection, when routine serological screening tests are negative. …”
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Uso de redes sociales en las revistas científicas de la Universidad de Los Andes by Christian Alexander Martinez Guerrero

“…Sin embargo, se percibió que apenas el 22,3 % de las publicaciones periódicas analizadas es miembro de al menos una de estas RRSS, algunas no cuentan con constante actividad y, por tanto, la cifra de suscriptores es corta y su alcance limitado. Se recomienda al personal que allí hace vida académica procurar esfuerzos para alcanzar mejores índices de visibilidad y difusión, así como el registro en más comunidades virtuales y el trabajo constante en el mantenimiento de ellas. …”
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Talents – to Business: Support for Entrepreneurial Strategies of Student Youth by N. V. Morozova, V. V. Ivanov

“…Technologies of the business incubator which are aimed at timely identifying persons capable of entrepreneurial activity, at making students’ entrepreneurial initiatives more active, at assisting in developing business skills and obtaining the necessary knowledge have been examined. …”
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Conformación de un panel de jueces en entrenamiento para el análisis sensorial de licores de cacao obtenidos de diferentes modelos de siembra by Lucas Fernando Quintana-Fuentes, Salomón Gómez-Castelblanco, Alberto García-Jerez, Nubia Consuelo Martínez-Guerrero

“…El objetivo principal es entrenar jueces en la evaluación sensorial de licores de cacao, contando con personal técnico de la Federación Nacio - nal de Cacaoteros, productores y pequeños empresarios del municipio de San Vicente de Chucurí (Santander). …”
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A PROBLEM OF OPENING OF THE SECOND FRONT IS IN EUROPE: LOOK AFTER SEVEN DECADES by A. A. Paderin

“…Thus, an author relies not only on the results of his personal study of a problem but also onto a large extent of researches both domestic and foreign historians. …”
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Recreational potential and educational opportunities of summer camps for children by Taras Bondar

“…Camps contribute to the formation of a conscious attitude towards personal health and increase the level of physical activity.…”
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Why do people walk their dog where the wild things are? A qualitative content analysis from an urban nature reserve by Jasmin Packer, Mark Kohler, Dolly Dawson, Nusrat Asad, Rosslyn von derBorch, Anna Chur‐Hansen

“…Our results indicate that personal motivations, the natural atmosphere and/or proximity to home, were the strongest drivers for dog walkers in visiting the reserve. …”
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INTERACTION IN AN EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT WITH VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY by Svitlana H. Lytvynova, Natalia V. Soroko

“….; the participants’ interaction in the educational process with the use of AR is best understood by teachers and students, they use both ready-made AR technologies and personally created ones. We concluded that the use of virtual and augmented reality technologies in the educational process provides a wealth of teaching and learning resources that can enhance the learning experience and free participants from limitations in time and space. …”
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