Coronary Calcium Scoring and Cardiovascular Risk in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Belkis Mercedes Vicente Sánchez, Gisela Zerquera Trujillo, Felix R. Jorrín Román, Lázaro E. de la Cruz Avilez, Elodia M. Rivas Alpízar

“…The sample included 33 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus admitted in the Center for Diabetes Care and Education of Cienfuegos from April to July 2009. …”
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Analyzing COVID-19 progression with Markov multistage models: insights from a Korean cohort by Frank Aimee Rodrigue Ndagijimana, Taesung Park

“…Methods Data from 4549 COVID-19 patients admitted to Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center between February 5th, 2020, and October 30th, 2021, were analyzed using a 5-state continuous-time Markov multistate model. …”
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Mentorship and supervision in Ugandan higher education institutions universities: challenges and prospects by John Michael, Edoru, Adebayo, Sanni T.

“…The higher education institution or university formally requires all its faculties to make arrangements for the mentoring of its newly appointed staff and newly admitted students. Mentoring at a higher education institution or university entails long time passing on of support, guidance and advice. …”
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Mentorship and supervision in Ugandan higher education institutions universities: challenges and prospects by John Michael, Edoru, Sanni Tajudeen, Adebayo

“…The higher education institution or university formally requires all its faculties to make arrangements for the mentoring of its newly appointed staff and newly admitted students. Mentoring at a higher education institution or university entails long time passing on of support, guidance and advice. …”
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Safety and efficacy of switching from adalimumab to sarilumab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in the ongoing MONARCH open-label extension by Gerd R Burmester, Mark C Genovese, Vibeke Strand, Gregory St John, Andrea Rubbert-Roth, Howard Amital, Tatiana Raskina, Antonio Gómez-Centeno, Claudia Pena-Rossi, Leon Gervitz, Karthinathan Thangavelu, Susan Boklage

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Foreign Direct Investment and Violent Crimes: Evidence from the Iranian Provinces by gholamreza zamanian, Frnaz Dehghan, foruzan falahati, ali davari

“…Furthermore, countries with limited domestic resources are not able to expand exports and acquire shares from new markets, and they need stable resources to provide capital and their needs, among which attracting foreign capital is one of the economic solutions. …”
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Trustworthy collaborative evaluation of multi-service subjects in the cloud manufacturing model by Tao Yang, Yihuan Ding, Wei Chen

“…Subsequently, to effectively address the issues of ambiguity, uncertainty and randomness of evaluation information in the integrated evaluation process, this paper proposed a comprehensive evaluation model. This model capitalizes on the strengths of intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs) and cloud models in converting qualitative assessments into quantitative evaluations, and leverages the method of approximation of the order of ideal solutions (TOPSIS) to carry out a comprehensive assessment of the degree of trustworthy collaboration of the service subject. …”
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Digital Competences of Teachers in the Higher Education Academic Development System: Experience of the Empirical Research by A. V. Noskova, D. V. Goloukhova, E. I. Kuzmina, D. V. Galitskaya

“…In the system of academic development, a higher education teacher becomes an active subject and an object of influence of the university structures.The notion of “academic capital” – a system of professional competencies of a teacher, in whose structure digital competencies acquire special importance, is introduced to assess the effectiveness of academic development.It is assumed that depending on the attitudes towards the development and integration of digital competencies into professional practices, teachers are divided into different categories according to their role in the academic development.In order to test the hypothesis, focus group research was carried out with teachers of the humanities, social and natural sciences from universities in different regions of Russia with at least three years of professional experience. …”
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Behavioral Finance Factors and Investment Decisions in Retail: a Moderation Analysis Across Demographic Segments by Rita Satria, Nugraha Nugraha, Disman Disman, Imas Purnamasari

“… Young retail investors in the Indonesian capital market often face challenges due to various behavioral finance biases that can negatively impact their investment decisions. …”
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Indicadores de conexão informacional na Comunidade Fluvial Rolim de Moura do Guaporé – Rondônia by Aldenilson Costa, Fernanda Santos Estrada, Maria Aguiar Pacheco, Nubia Caramello

“…The article investigates the use of information and communication technologies in Rolim de Moura do Guaporé community, a fluvial island of difficult access located more than 800 km from the capital of Rondônia, Porto Velho. The challenge of this research is to understand how the inhabitants of this island can use the digital technologies produced in a globalized way, which intend to reduce the barriers of physical access, opening doors for the inclusion in the world of technology. …”
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Acute Diverticulitis in the Young: The Same Disease in a Different Patient by Adolfo Pisanu, Valentina Vacca, Isabella Reccia, Mauro Podda, Alessandro Uccheddu

“…From January 2006 to December 2011, 80 patients were admitted to our department for acute diverticulitis. …”
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Spectacular Bodies: Los Angeles Beach Cultures and the Making of the “California Look” (1900s-1960s) by Elsa Devienne

“…In parallel, consumer capitalism, aided by the rise of the beauty, exercise, and diet industries, transformed these local pursuits of health and fitness into a marketable lifestyle and coherent set of body aesthetics. …”
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Technological progress bias and its impact on resource efficiency in China’s mariculture industry by Jiaojiao Kong, Yanan Sun

“…The results show that: Firstly, there is complementarity between the resource elements of China’s mariculture industry and the non-resource elements aggregated by labor and capital. Secondly, there is a long-term equilibrium relationship between resource biased technological progress, resource price and resource efficiency. resource biased technological progress has a short-term negative and long-term positive impact on resource efficiency, and resource price has a short-term negative and long-term positive impact on resource efficiency. …”
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Preserving Rice Fields and Domestic Rice Adequacy: A Case Study in Banyumas Regency, Central Java, Indonesia by Bondansari, Widiatmaka, Machfud, Khursatul Munibah, Wiwin Ambarwulan

“…Several driving factors are distance from the district capital, distance from roads, distance from settlements, distance from the irrigation channel, and population density. …”
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The association between cognitive frailty and the risk of fall occurrence in older adults: a meta-analysis of cohort studies by Jian Liu, Jian Liu, Jian Liu, Yu Wu, Yu Wu, Yu Wu, Zongke Long, Simeng Zhang, Shicai Wu, Shicai Wu, Shicai Wu

“…Subgroup analyses showed that cognitive frailty in older adults increased the risk of fall occurrence using different cognitive frailty assessment tools, study participants from the community, different regions, and different sample sizes.ConclusionThe results of this study suggest that cognitive frailty in older adults is an independent risk factor for the occurrence of falls, and it is recommended that caregivers strengthen the assessment of cognitive aspects of older adults admitted to the hospital.…”
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Expertise and community juridification: Defense of subsoil and communal lands in Oaxaca, Mexico by Salvador Aquino-Centeno

“…While there has been a process of juridification of politics globally, in Capulálpam a process of community juridification took place that allowed it to reconstruct its own law, creating principles, norms and rights in relation to the colonialism and capitalism that impacted it. Methodologically, participant observation and the mapping of the injunction trial through information compiled in the community's archive stand out. …”
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Les chanteuses à la barre by Mélanie Traversier

“…In the 18th century, Naples is considered as the uncontested capital of opera. Singing for opere buffe or opere serie, the female opera singers hired by the Neapolitan public theatres play an important role in promoting the musical prestige of the city. …”
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“I felt I’d come home”: Sylvia Plath and France by Julie IRIGARAY

“…Over the course of a year, Plath took no fewer than four trips to the French capital. Previous publications almost exclusively focused on Plath’s time in Paris (Dave Haslam 2020), but she explored other parts of France and deeply engaged with French culture, so much so that she had planned to move to this country at some stage. …”
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Total Anonychia Congenita with Carpal Synostosis by Milad Bahari, Negar Douzandeh

“…There were no co-existing symptoms except obvious signs of synostosis between trapezoid and trapezium bones detected bilaterally in both hands and unilateral capitate-hamate synostosis found in the right hand in radiographic assessment. …”
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Does regulatory convergence shape banking resilience in Africa? by Minyahil Alemu Haile, Jayamohan M.K., Wondaferahu Mulugeta

“…By integrating risk-weighted Tier 1 capital convergence within stability models, this research makes a substantial contribution to banking literature, refining stability frameworks and paving the way for deeper exploration of Basel III elements to provide robust, evidence-based insights into regulatory impacts on banking resilience.…”
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