Evaluations of State Medical Cannabis Programs in the US: A Narrative Review by Lirit Franks, Gerald Cochran, Carter Reeves, Michael A. Incze, Clinton J. Hardy, Adam J. Gordon, A. Taylor Kelley

“…Background: Medical cannabis (MC) use is increasing across the US, with functional MC programs now operating in 38 states. While program policies and practices vary widely, little is known about whether and how states evaluate their programs. …”
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Implementation of the Meningitis Vaccine Project in Africa: lessons for vaccine implementation programs by Obidimma Ezezika, Meron Mengistu, Thomas Lear

“… # Results There were multiple barriers and facilitators to implementing the vaccine under all five domains of the CFIR framework, including *intervention characteristics*, *outer setting*, *inner setting*, *characteristics of individuals*, and *process*. The most common domains mentioned by stakeholders that facilitated the success of the MVP were *inner setting* and *process*; specifically, three constructs were most representative—*Tension for Change, Formally Appointed Implementation Leaders, and External Change Agents*…”
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Analysis of the current state program INNOVATION SUBJECTS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION by M. Abramova, S. Manakhov

“…The paper shows and gives justification to the definition «program» which wasn't used earlier in case of state planned economy of the Soviet period, and legislatively snugged at the moment within an economical and managerial profile as a complex of the interconnected projects and actions united by a common goal and coordinated jointly for the purpose of increase in general effectiveness and controllability. …”
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Performance of the National Cancer Screening Program for Gastric Cancer in Korea by Young-Il Kim

“…In Korea, the National Cancer Screening Program for Gastric Cancer (NCSP-GC) was implemented in 1999 to reduce the mortality associated with gastric cancer, the most common cancer in Korea until 2018. …”
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Genome-wide association study for ashy stem blight resistance in USDA common bean germplasm by Ainong Shi, Diego M. Viteri, Angela M. Linares-Ramírez, Haizheng Xiong, Senyu Chen

“…These SNP markers linked to these QTLs may be valuable for marker-assisted selection in common bean breeding programs aimed at improving ASB resistance.…”
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Implementation determinants of safer smoking supplies in U.S. syringe services programs by William H. Eger, Angel K. Gomez, Kirstin Kielhold, Tyler S. Bartholomew, Angela R. Bazzi

“…Improved access to safer smoking supplies may reduce the health consequences of inhalation while helping to engage more people who use drugs in syringe services programs (SSPs); however, the landscape of safer smoking supply implementation is understudied. …”
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FITEXC – DIFFRACTION PROFILE FITTING PROGRAM RUN IN MS EXCEL by Petr Vertat, Jan Drahokoupil

“…The entire program is built in the common MS Excel environment, it does not require any installation and is free to use.…”
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Program-Targeted Management in the Public Administration System: Features and Prospects by N. S. Sergienko

“…The article providesa detailed discussion of common issues, including formalistic planning, insufficient coordination between levels of government, and challenges in monitoring results. …”
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Long-term sustainability of African school feeding programs, a review by Michael Mainje, Limbikani Matumba, Jagger J. W. Harvey, Horace Phiri, Aggrey P. Gama, Alexander Phiri, Innocent Phangaphanga, Robert Chizimba, Beatrice Wamey, Patrick Gallagher, Emily Rutto, John F. Leslie

“…Sustainable school feeding programs (SFPs) in sub-Saharan Africa play a vital role in addressing malnutrition and poor educational outcomes among children. …”
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Systematic Review of Screening and Surveillance Programs to Protect Workers from Nanomaterials. by Mary Gulumian, Jos Verbeek, Charlene Andraos, Natasha Sanabria, Pieter de Jager

“…Of these, six compared health indicators between exposed and unexposed workers and one study described a surveillance program. All studies were at a high risk of bias. …”
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Imputation for Missing Data in Statistical Matching Using Goal Programming by Abeer M. M. Elrefaey, Ramadan Hamed, Elham A. Ismail, Safia M. Ezzat

“…Nearly all common statistical approaches assume complete information for all variables involved in the analysis, which making missing data problematic. …”
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Reduction of juvenile obesity by programmed physical exercise and controlled diet by Sente Jelena, Jakonić Dragoslav, Smajić Miroslav, Mihajlović Ilona, Vasić Goran, Romanov Romana, Marić Lela

“…Background/Aim. Obesity is the most common disease of nutrition and is the consequence of reduced movement. …”
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ALGORITHMIC AND PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAGIARISM DEFINITION IN LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS by Y. B. Popova, A. V. Goloburda

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Mitochondria: a key regulator of programmed cell death in OP by Kexin Wang, Zhandong Wang, Chunhua Ma, Junfang Yang, Shangman Xing, Bing Song, Chao Guo, Wenjing Song, Tingting Cao, Min Bai, Yongfeng Wang

“…Osteoporosis (OP) is a common clinical systemic bone disease, with insidious onset and usually causes serious complications such as fractures. …”
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Striving for excellence in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria in Canada: the EPIC program by Hayeong Rho, Kelsey Yang, Signy Chow, Christopher J. Patriquin

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Targeting Programmed Cell Death in Flap Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury by Shengyue Liu, Xiaohe Xiong, Lei Chen, Jiaqi Hu, Ping Luo, Zhanpeng Ou, Fugui Zhang

“…A skin flap is a composite tissue unit comprising skin and subcutaneous fat with an intact vascular supply. Skin flaps are commonly employed for wound reconstruction, transplantation of damaged tissues, and cosmetic procedures. …”
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Crafting a Foundation for Evaluating a Worksite Wellness Program by Teresa A. Hubley, Kay Dutram

“…Research Design: Steps in wellness program evaluation are delineated (common definitions, evaluation design, i.e., logic model, data collection tools, data collection, comparison analyses, and ROI) and carried out. …”
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Does program linking with insurance makes agriculture insurance sustainable? by Krishna P. Timsina, Yuga N. Ghimire, Ghanshyam Kandel, Deepa Devkota

“…Agriculture insurance is most common forms of risk transfer in agriculture. It is often compulsory for borrowers of agricultural loans in low and middle income countries. …”
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Identifying the Components of Iranian Adolescent Compassionate Mind Training Program by Somayeh Mohebi, Iraj Shakerinia, Mahnaz Khosrojavid, Abbas Abolghasemi, Abbas Ali Hossein Khanzadeh:

“…The analysis of existing theories and empirical studies revealed that compassion-based programs often share common elements such as compassion-focused therapy (Gilbert, 2009), mindful self-compassion (Neff, 2008), and stress reduction based on mindfulness (Kabat-Zinn, 1990). …”
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Does gamification increase engagement with online programs? A systematic review. by Jemma Looyestyn, Jocelyn Kernot, Kobie Boshoff, Jillian Ryan, Sarah Edney, Carol Maher

“…The studies involved a total of 10,499 participants, and were commonly undertaken in tertiary education contexts. …”
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