EXPLORING KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS FOR JOINT VENTURE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA by I.O Famakin, D.R. Ogunsemi

“… One acceptable way to extend company presence into a new market is through strategic alliances and joint ventures. …”
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Skeletal Manifestations of Scurvy: A Case Report from Dubai by Shahryar Noordin, Naveed Baloch, Muhammad Sohail Salat, Abdul Rashid Memon, Tashfeen Ahmad

“…Nutritional deficiencies are rarely reported in developed countries. We report a child of Pakistani origin brought up in Dubai who developed skeletal manifestations of scurvy due to peculiar dietary habits. …”
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Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors for Spousal Resemblance in Obesity Status and Habitual Physical Activity in the United States by Hsin-Jen Chen, Yinghui Liu, Youfa Wang

“…Absolute-scale difference and relative-scale resemblance indices (correlation and kappa coefficients) in body mass index (BMI) and HPA were estimated by couples’ socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. We found that spousal difference in BMI was smaller for couples with a lower household income, for who were both unemployed, and for older spouses. …”
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The change in the level of responsibility in the rehabilitation process of persons suffering from drug addiction by Tatiana A. Serezhko, Natalia M. Volobueva

“…The study was conducted in three stages, which were based on the allocation of the system of organizational and methodological tools and research principles.At the first stage, it was found that drug addicts who are beginning rehabilitation have low rates of responsibility. …”
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Pneumothorax in Mechanically Ventilated Patients with COVID-19 Infection by Raziye Ecem Akdogan, Turab Mohammed, Asma Syeda, Nasheena Jiwa, Omar Ibrahim, Rahul Mutneja

“…Reports of spontaneous pneumothorax in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) suggest that the COVID-19 infection could itself cause pneumothorax in addition to the ventilator-induced trauma among mechanically ventilated patients. Here, we report a case series of five mechanically ventilated patients with COVID-19 infection who developed pneumothorax. …”
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on TB notifications in Ukraine in 2020 by A.N. Shapiro, M. Dolynska, S.S. Chiang, N. Rybak, V. Petrenko, C.R. Horsburgh Jr, J. Kobe, I. Terleieva, O. Sakalska, H.E. Jenkins

“…BACKGROUND: We assessed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on TB notifications in Ukraine, stratified by multiple subgroups. …”
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D. G. Rossetti’s Trip to Paris and Belgium: A Journey Between Past and Present by Raphaël Rigal

“…In 1849, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt undertook a trip to France and Belgium, with the specific goal of visiting art collections in Paris, Brussels, Bruges, Antwerp and Ghent. Despite not being as exotic as the expeditions of Richard Burton or David Livingstone, this trip was particularly meaningful, not only because of the context (the early years of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, soon after the 1848 Revolutions) but also because it was related by Rossetti himself, who wrote a series of poems during the journey and sent them in letters to his brother William Michael and some other members of the Brotherhood. …”
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Acute Pulmonary Embolism Associated with Low-Dose Olanzapine in a Patient without Risk Factors for Venous Thromboembolism by Vu Hoang Vu, Nguyen Duong Khang, Mai Thanh Thao, Le Minh Khoi

“…Most of the cases previously reported were associated with high-dose olanzapine therapy or in patients with high-risk factors for the development of thromboembolism. Case Presentation. We report a patient who developed pulmonary embolism after a long course of low-dose olanzapine. …”
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Mortality Clustering in the Family. Fast Life History Trajectories and the Intergenerational Transfer of Infant Death in Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Antwerp, Belgium by Robyn Donrovich, Paul Puschmann, Koen Matthijs

“…In this article, we investigate to what degree infant mortality risk was transferred from grandmothers to mothers in the Antwerp district, Belgium, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. …”
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Spontaneous Loculated Pneumomediastinum in a COVID-19-Infected Patient by Sirous Jafari, Zahra Jahani, Reihane Alikhani, SeyedAhmad SeyedAlinaghi, Malihe Hasannezhad, Faeze Salahshour, Ali Asadollahi-Amin

“…In this report, we presented a patient with spontaneous pneumomediastinum after COVID-19. …”
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Strategy, investment, behaviour and results by Richard Pettinger

“…This comfort and assurance is in turn driven by the fact that it is corporate rather than personal resources that are at risk and so on the face of it ‘there is little that can go wrong’. …”
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HUBUNGAN USIA DENGAN JENIS HERNIA INGUINALIS DI RS PERTAMINA BINTANG AMIN LAMPUNG by Mizar Erianto, Futri Nabilla Futri, Tussy Triwahyuni, Toni Prasetia

“…Hernia is a condition where part of the intestines comes out of the abdominal cavity to form a bulge that can be seen and felt from the outside. In general, people who have reached old age, hernia is a disease that often occurs at that age, because the smooth muscle wall of the abdomen weakens in old age, so it is very risky for hernias to occur. …”
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PISA 2022: The impact of school-environment predictors on the performance of Spanish students by Pablo Javier Ortega-Rodríguez

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Effects of proprioceptive training in the recovery of patients submitted to meniscus surgery: systematic review and meta-analysis by Song Jin, Xiaoxiao Liu, Di Zhang, Ju Wang, Tianyu Zhao, Jiang Ma, Huaimin Lu

“…Objective To evaluate the effects of proprioceptive training on rehabilitation of knee after arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (APM).Design PubMed, EMBASE, The Cochrane Library, Web of Science, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Technology Periodical Database, WanFang Data and China Biology Medicine were searched until December 2021 for randomised controlled trials.Participants Patients who have undergone APM for meniscus injury caused by traumatic tear.Results A total of 9 studies with 453 patients were included in this study for meta-analysis, and 2/9 with high quality, 6/9 with moderate quality. …”
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The Prevalence and Distribution of Vitreoretinal Interface Abnormalities among Urban Community Population in China by Lei Liu, Song Yue, Jingyang Wu, Jiahua Zhang, Jie Lian, Desheng Huang, Weiping Teng, Lei Chen

“…The presence of VIAs was determined by standardized grading of macular optical coherence tomography (Optovue OCT; Optovue, Inc., Fremont, CA) scans and two-field fundus photographs in at least one eye. …”
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Protective factors contributing to the health status of construction industry migrant workers in Chinese mainland by Yuxiu Bai, Yingying Lin, Daokai Sun, Chuanjing Liao, Min Zhang, Rufang Ye

“…Data were collected from 446 migrant workers who completed the Self-rated Health Measurement Scale (SRHMS), Marital Adjustment Test (MAT), and Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS). …”
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Effect of Scapular Intensive Training on Functional Recovery of Upper Extremities in Early Stroke by Min JIANG, Lun LUO, Fan BAI, Wenyuan SU, Chaomou HE, Tao XIANG

“…Objective:To investigate the effect of scapular intensive training on the functional recovery of upper extremities in early stroke patients.Methods:A total of 60 patients with stroke who met the inclusion criteria were selected as study subjects. …”
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The effects of detraining period on female basketball team players aged 10-12 by Emrah Atay, Gülsev Kayalarlı

“…Gülcü Primary School young women's basketball team, who trained 3times per week for about 6 months and came in first in the competition among Isparta primary schools, havetaken part in the study. …”
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Catastrophic Brain Aspergillosis after Liver Transplantation by Mohammadmahdi Abbasi, Shirin Shams Ardakani, Nasir Fakhar, Hamid Eshaghi, Hosein Alimadadi, Toktam Faghihi, Behdad Gharib, Meisam Sharifzadeh, Masoomeh Safaei

“…The patient was an 8-year-old boy, with a case of Wilson disease, who underwent liver transplantation due to acute fulminant hepatic failure. …”
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FLIGHT HOURS AND BMI AGAINST TUC IN HYPOBARIC CHAMBER ALTITUDE 25.000 FEET by Zakiah Nada Nuralfilail, Pritha Maya Savitri, Niniek Hardini, Aulia Chairani, Andriyanto, Agus Budi Maryoto, Samsul A., Yaya Kardiana, Agus Cakrahaya

“…The sample for this research included active flight crew members from Lakespra dr. Saryanto 202 who met the inclusion criteria. Result: There were 53 research subjects, with the results showing that 48 subjects (90.6%) had a TUC <4 minutes, and 5 subjects had a TUC >4 minutes. …”
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