Cross-cultural adaptation of the Concept of Pain Inventory for South African children by Talita Odendaal, Ina Diener, Rentia A. Maart, Dawn V. Ernstzen

“…Background: Childhood pain can affect a child’s functioning and participation. The 14-item Concept of Pain Inventory (COPI) in English, assesses a child’s understanding of pain. …”
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Diagnosing skin neglected tropical diseases with the aid of digital health tools: A scoping review. by Ewelina Julia Barnowska, Anil Fastenau, Srilekha Penna, Ann-Kristin Bonkass, Sophie Stuetzle, Ricky Janssen

“…This scoping review provides an overview of current digital health approaches that aim to aid in the diagnosis of skin NTDs and provides an insight into the diverse functionalities of current digital health tools, their feasibility, usability, and the current gaps in research around these digital health approaches. …”
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Gender-specific secular trends and related factors of high perceived stress level among Korean older adults: a nation-wide serial cross-sectional study by Eunjeong Choi, Hyun-Ju Seo, Kye Ha Kim, Sun-Young Jung

“…Abstract Background Aging is associated with various physical, functional, and social losses, leading to stress, which affects mental health and overall quality of life. …”
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German Language Teachers and Dyslexic Students by Danuta Grzesiak-Witek, Urszula Niekra, Paweł Witek

“…Symptoms of specific foreign language learning difficulties include, for example, poor development of linguistic functions, difficulties in differentiating sounds and finding sounds in words, problems with dividing words into syllables or distinguishing similar-sounding words, difficulties in assimilating grammatical and spelling rules. …”
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Digital Competence of Young Adults in Poland by Małgorzata Ćwiek, Katarzyna Maj-Serwatka

“…Digital transformation is a challenge for many areas of modern society functioning. The effects of digitalisation are particularly noticeable in the labour market and are expressed, among others, in new requirements of employers both for professionally active people and those entering the labour market. …”
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Practical insights for enhancing primary care rehabilitation services in low-resource contexts by Maria Y. Charumbira, Karina Berner, Quinette A. Louw

“…Background: Rehabilitation services are crucial for addressing the growing burden of functioning problems related to chronic conditions in low and middle-income countries. …”
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Comparative analysis of separation techniques in the treatment of medial ventral hernias by E. A. Stolyarov, B. D. Grachev, D. G. Alekseev, M. A. Bezrukova, I. V. Ishutov

“…We evaluated the immediate (complica­tions in the area of surgery, duration of surgical wound drainage and duration of hospitalization) and long-term (functional restoration of the abdominal wall) results of treatment with subsequent comparative analysis of data between the groups using descriptive statistics methods.Results. …”
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CHANGES, TRENDS AND RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN AVERAGE INCOME AND CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES PER HOUSEHOLD IN ROMANIA IN THE PERIOD 2007-2017 by Agatha POPESCU, Toma Adrian DINU, Elena STOIAN

“…The dynamic analysis, descriptive statistics, correlations, and regression functions were used to process data. …”
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Assessing the Impact of Covid19-Pandemic on the Household Income in Kamuganguzi Sub-County Kabale District. by Arinda, Redeemer Present

“…The study's recommendations included the following: The government should increase spending on immediate health-related expenditures, such as supplies of masks, gloves, other personal protective equipment, ICU beds (Uganda currently has only 55 functional ICU beds, resulting in approximately 1.3 ICU beds per million Ugandans), and ventilators. …”
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A Pore Scale Flow Simulation of Reconstructed Model Based on the Micro Seepage Experiment by Jianjun Liu, Yao Wang, Rui Song

“…Researches on microscopic seepage mechanism and fine description of reservoir pore structure play an important role in effective development of low and ultralow permeability reservoir. …”
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Discrete cosine transform based de-noising of glottal pulses by C. Pastiadis, G. Papanikolaou

“…Reliable estimates of the glottal function are of major importance in speech/voice processing for the characterization of voicing conditions, description of various phonation types, and identification of their parameters. …”
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Generalized Brans-Dicke theory from Verlinde's entropic gravity by Salih Kibaroğlu, Mustafa Senay

“…The resulting model modifies the Brans-Dicke framework through a deformation function, treated as a constant rescaling factor for the effective gravitational coupling. …”
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A field-theoretical treatment of two-nucleon systems: nucleon-nucleon scattering and deuteron properties by E. O. Dubovyk

“…The “clothing” procedure in quantum field theory is applied for the description of nucleon-nucleon (NN−) scattering and deuteron properties. …”
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Babinski's contributions to cerebellar symptomatology: building the basis of the neurological examination by Jose Luiz Pedroso, Orlando G. P. Barsottini, Christopher G. Goetz

“…Several assumptions about the function of the cerebellum and semiotic signs have been described over the centuries. …”
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“En avant” : le mot‑clé d’un champion olympique comme instrument psychologique pour l’action sportive by Arnaud Laurin-Landry, Maryvonne Merri

“…To this end, we analyze the cue word “En Avant” (forward) that William, an Olympic mogul-skiing champion, says to himself when he does a double twisting backflip on the first jump of a mogul run. The description of the different properties of the cue word "Forward" led us to propose three effects: 1) the cue word brings out a language function within a motor activity, 2) the cue word supports the deployment of the different possible actions and carry out the choice of the right action, 3) the cue word allows live feedback on the action. …”
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BRAIN DAMAGES AND THEIR IMPACTS ON SPEECH PRODUCTION by Jérôme SHAKO LOSEKE, KALONJI MUTEBA & Richard KAYEMBE MBOLELA

“…The findings highlight the diverse ways in which brain function, language processing, and motor control can be disrupted, leading to a variety of speech and communication challenges. …”
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A New Method of Calculating Kováts Retention Indices for Substances Chromatographed on Carbon Adsorbents by H. Grajek, Z. Witkiewicz, H. Jankowska, A. Światkowski

“…The second method, which is a new method, involved a description of the net retention volumes by the function log V 0 S(273) = f(T c ), where T c is the column temperature, followed by the calculation of the average values for the net retention volumes using the best-fit curve. …”
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Presentation and Management of Acute Mania in Fanconi–Bickel Syndrome, A Metabolic Genetic Disorder by Allen P. F. Chen, Geoffrey Russell, Amnie Ashour, Adeeb Yacoub

“…Fanconi–Bickel syndrome (FBS) is a rare metabolic disorder caused by decreased glucose transporter 2 (GLUT2) function due to several known mutations in the SLC2A2 gene. …”
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Confessional Religious Education at School in the Face of Contemporary Challenges Based on the Polish Experience by Radosław Mazur, Remigiusz Szauer

“…It is also important to be able to function in the reality of pluralism and complexity, as well as in the increasingly widespread computerization.…”
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Des voix pour un bilo. L’expulsion rituelle du maléfique à travers les chants polyphoniques by Delphine Burguet

“…Through this case study, we propose to identify the social function of polyphony as implemented during rites of exclusion or exorcism in Madagascar. …”
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