Validation of MyDiagnostick tool to identify atrial fibrillation in a multi-ethnic Asian population by Colin Yeo, Aye Aye Mon, Vern Hsen Tan, Kelvin Wong

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The effect of nature-based landscape design on human health and well-being: a thematic synthesis by Qiuxia Zhu, Pinyi Yao, Jiexu Li

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Becoming Socialized into a New Professional Role: LPN to BN Student Nurses' Experiences with Legitimation by Sherri Melrose, Jean Miller, Kathryn Gordon, Katherine J. Janzen

“…This paper presents findings from a qualitative descriptive study that explored the professional socialization experiences of Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) who attended an online university to earn a Baccalaureate degree in nursing (BN), a prerequisite to writing the Canadian Registered Nurse (RN) qualifying exam. …”
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“It Was a Brutal Land”: Exploring the Personal and the Political in Damon Galgut’s Small Circle of Beings (1988) by Marek Pawlicki

“…This article is a critical discussion of Damon Galgut’s Small Circle of Beings (1988) from the perspective of Elleke Boehmer’s postcolonial poetics. …”
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The CGRP-Antagonist BIBN4096BS Discriminates between the Action of α- and β-CGRP In Vitro by Dongmei Wu, Kirsten Arnst, Henry Doods

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Evaluating Adult Cystic Fibrosis Care in BC: Disparities in Access to a Multidisciplinary Treatment Centre by James M. Roberts, Pearce G. Wilcox, Bradley S. Quon

“…Those in the farthest group (>360 mins) were at risk for more rapid decline in lung function compared to the reference group (FEV1% predicted annual change: −3.1%/year [95% CI −5.1 to −1.1] versus −0.9%/year [95% CI −1.6 to 0.1], resp., p=0.04). …”
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Bi-Level Game Strategy for Virtual Power Plants Based on an Improved Reinforcement Learning Algorithm by Zhu Liu, Guowei Guo, Dehuang Gong, Lingfeng Xuan, Feiwu He, Xinglin Wan, Dongguo Zhou

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Positioning a Handshake Bay for Twin Stacking Cranes in an Automated Container Terminal Yard Block by Zhi-Hua Hu, Xi-Dan Tian, Yu-Qi Yin, Chen Wei

“…Numerical experiments prove that the safe temporal interval affects the makespan and the handshake bay’s position. An optimal handshake bay reduces 35% of the makespan compared with a nonoptimal bay, and the proposed algorithm is competitive compared with the on-the-shelf MILP solver and can solve medium- and large-scale instances in short computing time with gaps lower than 5% compared with ideal solutions.…”
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First Record of Cirrhimuraena chinensis (Actinopterygii: Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from Ise Bay, Central Japan by Yusuke Hibino, Eugene Agyeman

“…Cirrhimuraena chinensis Kaup, 1856 is recorded from the western coast of Ise Bay, Mie Prefecture, central Japan, based on a single specimen of 240 mm+ (with a damaged tail tip) in length. …”

Biventricular Impella (Bi-Pella) in Refractory Cardiogenic Shock: The First Case from the Middle East by Abdulaziz Almejren, Abdullah Alenezi

“…We describe here the successful use of percutaneous biventricular Impella (Bi-Pella) for cardiogenic shock secondary to acute biventricular myocardial infarctions (AMI-CS), as guided by parameters such as mixed venous oxygen saturation (SvO2), pulmonary artery pulsatility index (PAPi), central venous pressure (CVP), and cardiac power output (CPO). …”
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“I LIGHT MY CANDLE FROM YOURS…”: ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF MODERN LIBRARY SERVICES FOR SCIENTISTS by T. О. Kolesnykova

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Understanding the impacts of extreme heat on the mental well-being of older adults: a systematic review by Jifei Chen, Laurence L Delina

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Awareness of Being at Risk of Stroke and Its Determinant Factors among Hypertensive Patients in Banyumas, Indonesia by Ismail Setyopranoto, Arif Setyo Upoyo, Atyanti Isworo, Yunita Sari, Amelia Nur Vidyanti

“…Out of 457 patients investigated, 77.46% had a low level of awareness. Low knowledge of hypertension, low income, and no history of previous stroke were associated with a low-level of awareness (odds ratio (OR) 1.942, 95% CI 1.195-3.158, p 0.007; OR 2.321, 95% CI 1.326-4.064, p 0.003; and OR 6.033, 95% CI 2.450-14.858, p<0.001, respectively). …”
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Validation of the Italian Sense of Agency Scale and Its Relevance to Well-Being: An Iterative Bootstrap Approach by Simone Di Plinio, Claudia Greco, Simone Arnò, Marco Innamorati, Sjoerd J. H. Ebisch

“…The revised scale demonstrated strong internal consistency, with McDonald’s omega values of 0.79 (SoNA) and 0.87 (SoPA). …”
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Eye spy with my little AI: An introductory look at ChatGPT and Google Gemini for ophthalmologists by Aishwarya Naik, Anujeet Paul, Tamanna Ghosh

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It's not always easy to buy the idea: strategies, perceptions, and implications of learner-centered teaching in coach education by William das Neves Salles, Lincoln Cruz Martins, Juarez Vieira do Nascimento, Michel Milistetd

“…IntroductionThe study aims to investigate the development of a learner-centered teaching (LCT), a constructivist-based proposal focused on the learner and the learning process, in a university-based coach education program (CEP) through an action research (AR) approach.MethodsParticipants were six students, the researcher and the professor of a Sport Pedagogy course of a public Brazilian university. …”
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Bacteriophages RCF and 1-6bf can control the growth of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli by Farah Khan, Hafsa Naseem, Muhammad Asif, Iqbal Alvi, Shafiq ur Rehman, Abdul Rehman

“…RCF and 1-6bf have genome sizes of 38 kb and 77 kb, with GC content of 50.98 % and 42.1 % respectively. …”
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Construction of nitrogen and phosphorus flux of land-based pond mariculture: Taking the Xiangshan Bay as an example by Yiwei Du, Xiaoguang Li, Siru Liu, Tian Lin

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A BERT-BiGRU-CRF Model for Entity Recognition of Chinese Electronic Medical Records by Qiuli Qin, Shuang Zhao, Chunmei Liu

“…The experimental results show that the F1 score of the model reaches 90.38%.…”
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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy of an Adolescent Stem Cell Transplantation Recipient with Hemorrhagic Cystitis and BK Virus by David López, Abdullah Alismail, Laren D. Tan

“…Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) continues to show effectiveness in the treatment of several diseases and benefits such as fibroblast proliferation, capillary angiogenesis, and decreasing edema, especially in hemorrhagic cystitis (HC). We report a case of a 15-year-old male with chronic myelogenous leukemia status posthaploidentical stem cell transport with BK virus in the United States to be treated by HBOT. …”
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