Newly adopted dromedary husbandry systems and breeding practices in the Algerian northern Sahara by Hafsia Bedda, Imane Hamdi, Baaissa Babelhadj, Yamina Benbessisse, Abdelkader Adamou

“…The changes in practices identified in this study are enabling breeders, who are managing their livestock in guarded and semi guarded camel production systems, to increase their income. …”
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The logic of the nation: Nationalism, formal logic, and interwar Poland by David E. Dunning

“…Logic in Warsaw grew out of overlapping imperial legacies, launched mainly by Polish-speaking scholars who had trained in Habsburg universities and had come during the First World War to the University of Warsaw, an institution controlled until recently by Russia and reconstructed as Polish under the auspices of German occupation. …”
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Insights of Outcome after Resection of Small Nonfunctioning Neuroendocrine Pancreatic Tumors by Estela Regina Ramos Figueira, Julia Fray Ribeiro, Thiago Costa Ribeiro, Ricardo Jureidini, Guilherme Naccache Namur, Thiago Nogueira Costa, Telesforo Bacchella, Ivan Cecconello

“…Our aim was to analyze the outcome of surgical resection of small (≤3cm) NF-PNETs. Methods. We retrospectively evaluated 14 patients with sporadic NF-PNETs who underwent pancreatic resection. …”
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Ursodeoxycholic acid relieves clinical severity of COVID-19 in patients with chronic liver diseases by Tiantian Hu, Tiantian Hu, Jie Tong, Yunhui Yang, Changrong Yuan, Jiming Zhang, Jiming Zhang, Jiming Zhang, Jinyu Wang, Jinyu Wang

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Atypical early neural responses to native and non-native language in infants at high likelihood for developing autism by Lauren Wagner, Megan Banchik, Tawny Tsang, Nana J. Okada, Rebecca Altshuler, Nicole McDonald, Susan Y. Bookheimer, Shafali S. Jeste, Shulamite Green, Mirella Dapretto

“…Amongst infant siblings of children with an ASD diagnosis – who are at higher likelihood for developing ASD – a high proportion also show difficulties and delays in language acquisition. …”
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Evaluation of the implementation of personalised outcomes forecasts to optimise supervised exercise therapy in patients with intermittent claudication: a multimethods process evalu... by Philip J van der Wees, Anneroos Sinnige, Thomas J Hoogeboom, Laura H M Marcellis, Andrew Kittelson, Steffie Spruijt, Joep A W Teijink, Anne G E van Bergen

“…Yet, therapists’ initial adoption and sustainable implementation of POFs can be influenced by various factors.Objectives The purpose of this study was to examine therapists’ adoption of the POFs, their fidelity to the measurement protocol for supervised exercise therapy, and their perceived barriers and facilitators for using POFs in practice.Methods A multimethod process evaluation was conducted, including quantitative descriptive and pre–post approaches, as well as a qualitative framework approach. To examine adoption, we evaluated the proportion of therapists who expressed interest in POFs by completing one of three provided e-learnings and the proportion of therapists who started using POFs in practice. …”
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COVID-19 and Obesity: An Epidemiologic Analysis of the Brazilian Data by Diego Assis Gonçalves, Victória Ribeiro, Ana Gualberto, Fernanda Peres, Michaela Luconi, Jacy Gameiro

“…We used a public database made available by the Ministry of Health of Brazil (182700 patients diagnosed with COVID-19). …”
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Risk Factor Analysis of Ski and Snowboard Injuries During the 2023/2024 Winter Season: A Single, High-Volume Trauma Center Database Analysis by Michele Paolo Festini Capello, Pieralberto Valpiana, Giuseppe Aloisi, Giovanni Cristofolini, Svea Caren Misselwitz, Giuseppe Petralia, Mario Muselli, Salvatore Gioitta Iachino, Christian Schaller, Pier Francesco Indelli

“…<i>Results:</i> The final database included 579 questionnaires from 579 patients who ultimately entered the study: 285 were females and 294 were males. …”
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Validating the self-competence in death work scale for end-of-life care volunteers by Zhuyun Lin, Vivian Weiqun Lou, Wallace Chi Ho Chan

“…This is essential to optimize their services, and ensure their psychological well-being. This study aimed to validate the existing Self-Competence in Death Work Scale (SC-DWS) for EoLC volunteers. …”
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The Square Curve Paradigm for Research in Alternative, Complementary, and Holistic Medicine: A Cost-Effective, Easy, and Scientifically Valid Design for Evidence-Based Medicine and... by Soren Ventegodt, Niels JØrgen Andersen, Joav Merrick

“…If we can demonstrate a positive result with a group of chronic patients (20 or more patients who have had their disease or state of suffering for 1 year or more), who can be significantly helped within 1 month, and the situation is still improved 1 year after, we find it scientifically evidenced that this cure or intervention has helped the patients. …”
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Perspectives for Reforming Criminal Procedural Legislation Regarding the Regulation of Investigative (Search) Actions Restricting the Inviolability of Housing or Other Personal Pos... by O. V. Salmanov

“…It is emphasized that perspective areas for the development of criminal procedural legislation to regulate investigative (search) actions that restrict the inviolability of housing or other personal possession is to solve the problem of attracting free legal aid for a person who has no procedural status, but investigators continue investigative (search) actions against that person; determination of the procedural status of witnesses who are involved into investigative (search) actions; determination of the mechanism of addressing of the property’s owner with the petition to return the seized property during carrying out investigative (search) actions restricting inviolability of housing or other personal possession. …”
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Cost of Intravenous Analgesia for the Management of Acute Pain in the Emergency Department is Substantial in the United States by Pamela P. Palmer, Judith A. Walker, Asad E. Patanwala, Carin A. Hagberg, John A. House

“…**Conclusions:** IV opioid use in the ED is indicated for moderate-to-severe pain but is associated with significant costs. In subjects who are discharged from the ED and may not have required an IV for reasons other than opioid administration, rapid-onset analgesics for moderate-to-severe pain that do not require IV administration could lead to direct cost reductions and improved care.…”
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Measures of Adiposity and Risk of Testing Positive for SARS-CoV-2 in the UK Biobank Study by Rebecca A. G. Christensen, Shelby L. Sturrock, Jasleen Arneja, Jennifer D. Brooks

“…For participants ≥65 years, only obesity class II (RR = 1.38, 95% CI 1.10–1.74) had a significantly greater risk of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 than those who were underweight/normal weight. …”
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Can muscle synergies shed light on the mechanisms underlying motor gains in response to robot-assisted gait training in children with cerebral palsy? by Gloria P. Vergara-Diaz, Stefano Sapienza, Jean-François Daneault, Eric Fabara, Catherine Adans-Dester, Giacomo Severini, Vincent C. K. Cheung, Carmen Echevarría Ruiz de Vargas, Donna Nimec, Paolo Bonato

“…Results Three and, less often, two muscle synergies were detected in study participants pre-RGT. …”
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Prediction Score for Cervical Spine Fracture in Patients with Traumatic Neck Injury by Natsinee Athinartrattanapong, Chaiyaporn Yuksen, Sittichok Leela-amornsin, Chetsadakon Jenpanitpong, Sirote Wongwaisayawan, Pittavat Leelapattana

“…This study aims to develop a clinical tool to identify patients who must undergo a computed tomography scan to evaluate cervical spine fracture in a noncomputed tomography scan available hospital. …”
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Excess deaths from all-causes mortality in children following the discontinuation of the COVID-19 policy in Thailand by Phanthila Sitthikarnkha, Sirapoom Niamsanit, Leelawadee Techasatian, Suchaorn Saengnipanthkul, Rattapon Uppala

“…However, limited information is available about the number of children who died during and after the discontinuation of COVID-19 policies in Thailand. …”
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Does mistreatment during institutional childbirth increase the likelihood of experiencing postpartum depressive symptoms? A prospective cohort study in Nepal by Rejina Gurung, Miia Bask

“…We used binomial generalized linear mixed model to examine the risk ratio of postpartum depressive symptoms in women exposed to mistreatment during childbirth. …”
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Early Identification of the Non-Transplanted Functional High-Risk Multiple Myeloma: Insights from a Predictive Nomogram by Yanjuan Li, Lifen Kuang, Beihui Huang, Junru Liu, Meilan Chen, Xiaozhe Li, Jingli Gu, Tongyong Yu, Juan Li

“…<b>Background</b>: Patients with multiple myeloma (MM) who have a suboptimal response to induction therapy or early relapse are classified as functional high-risk (FHR) patients and have been shown to have a dismal prognosis. …”
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Predictive value of epicardial fat thickness for left ventricular reverse remodeling after radiofrequency ablation in atrial fibrillation patients with left ventricular hypertrophy by Ke Hu, Wenhui Wang, Junping Zhen, Chunsong Kang

“…[Results] A total of 28 patients who did not achieve reverse remodeling were included in the control group, and 22 patients who achieved reverse remodeling were included in the reverse remodeling group.There were significant differences in age, atrial fibrillation classification, duration of atrial fibrillation, left atrial diameter (LAD), left ventricular end-diastolic diameter, left ventricular end-diastolic diameter index (LVEDI), neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP), platelet distribution width(PDW), red cell distribution width, fibrinogen to albumin ratio (FAR) and EFT between the two groups (P<0.05).Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that EFT, LAD, LVEDI, NLR, hsCRP, PDW and FAR were independent factors for left ventricular reverse remodeling(P<0.05).The cut-off value of EFT for predicting postoperative left ventricular reverse remodeling was 0.848, sensitivity was 95.5%, specificity was 89.3%, and AUC was 0.937 (95% CI: 0.868-0.983). …”
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Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 virus antibodies and sociodemographic features of pregnant women in Mogadishu, Somalia: a cross-sectional survey study by Maryan Abdullahi Sh. Nur, Hassan Abdullahi Dahie, Nima Abdi Hassan, Bashiru Garba, Jamal Hassan Mohamoud, Najib Isse Dirie, Mohamed Hussein Adam

“…The participants were subjected to questionnaire interviews where their detailed history and practice of prevention against COVID-19 were evaluated.Results The results showed that 175 (36.7%) were positive while 302 (63.3%) samples were negative for SARS-CoV-2 virus antibodies. Also, out of the 141 pregnant women who had two children or less, 19.4% were positive for IgG/IgM antibodies. …”
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