Barriers and facilitators to cervical cancer screening in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a systematic review by Ramin Rezapour, Mohammad Saadati, Hassan Sarsour, Lamia Mahmoud, Moradali Zareipour, Soma Khezri

“…These were categorised into predisposing, enabling and need-based determinants require multi-level strategies to be addressed. …”
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Marketing of Direct Selling of Agricultural Products by Zdenka Kádeková, Anton Kretter

“…Extending the activities of the company in this direction is strongly connected with utilization of marketing tools within marketing conception. …”
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Hydrothermal carbonization of digested sludge from wastewater treatment plants: Processes, potential and key challenges by Nina Kossińska, Renata Krzyżyńska, Heba Ghazal, Hussam Jouhara, Marzena Kwapińska, Witold Kwapiński

“…The presentation discusses two pathways for hydrochar utilization: as soil additives or as fuels in thermal processes, assessing their environmental and legal potential. …”
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Agentic rulebooks using active inference: an artificial intelligence application for environmental sustainability by Axel Constant, Mahault Albarracin, Marco Perin, Hari Thiruvengada, Karl J. Friston, Karl J. Friston

“…This duality underscores the need to critically evaluate AI's role in sustainable practices. …”
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Sex-disaggregated data along the gendered health pathways: A review and analysis of global data on hypertension, diabetes, HIV, and AIDS. by Alessandro Feraldi, Virginia Zarulli, Kent Buse, Sarah Hawkes, Angela Y Chang

“…Despite limitations in data availability and completeness, this study elucidates the need for more comprehensive and harmonized datasets for these and other conditions to monitor sex differences and implement sex-/gender-responsive interventions along the health pathway.…”
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Experiences in healthcare for weight management – a qualitative interview study of retired individuals with obesity and low or high education by Hilla Nordquist, Anu Joki, Jatta Salmela, Tea Lallukka

“…The transition to retirement, altering daily routines, highlights the need for adequate weight management support. Since obesity is a challenging topic in healthcare and socioeconomic inequalities exist in access and utilization, we examined how retired individuals with obesity and low or high education describe their experiences of unmet needs, mismatches, and successes within the healthcare service system for weight management. …”
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Appropriateness of Admission to General Medical-Surgical ICUs in a University Teaching Hospital by Rowan M. Abuyadek, Hoda Z. Helmy, Akram M. Fayed, Moataza M. Abdel Wahab, Dina H. Fouad

“…Mechanical ventilation is the most important ICU specific intervention; appropriateness can be assessed depending on the need for mechanical ventilation.…”
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Modelling and forecasting mobile money customer transaction volumes in rural and semi-urban Malawi: An autoregressive integrated moving average spatial decomposition by Danny Namakhwa, Betchani Henry Mbuyampungatete Tchereni, Winford Masanjala, Collins Duke Namakhwa, Steven Limbanazo Kuchande, Wisdom Richard Mgomezulu

“…These findings highlight the need for tailored policy interventions to enhance mobile money adoption and utilization in different geographical contexts.…”
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Optimizing the health workforce for Universal Health Coverage: a framework for analysis and action by Gafar B. Alawode, Abdul-Rahman A. Ajibola, Morohunranti S. Sanusi, Ayomide B. Adewoyin, Kafayat A. Alawode

“…Despite income levels influencing HRH density, variations in the number of health workers per capita and their performance highlight the need to optimize HRH within any economic context. …”
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Postabortion Contraceptive Acceptance Rate and Its Determinants among Women Receiving Abortion Service before Discharge from the Health Facilities in Harar, Eastern Ethiopia by Endalkachew Atnafu, Biftu Geda, Lemessa Oljira, Genanaw Atnafe, Dawit Tamiru, Abdi Birhanu, Getahun Tiruye, Haregeweyn Kibret, Adera Debella

“…Postabortion contraceptive utilization in Harar health facilities still needs improvement as per the WHO and national recommendations. …”
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Economic Dispatch of a Virtual Power Plant Considering Demand Response in Electricity Market Environment by Xin LIU, Hongbin WU, Jingjie WANG, Junhua LU

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About ATC/DDD drug clasiffication system by Diana Iacob (Obistioiu), Maria Andresescu, Cristina, T. Romeo

“…At a symposium in Oslo in 1969 entitled The Consumption of Drugs, it was agreed that an internationally accepted classification system for drug consumption studies was needed. At the same symposium the Drug UtilizationResearch Group (DURG) was established and tasked with the development of internationally applicable methods for drug utilization research.By modifying and extending the European Pharmaceutical Market Research Association (EPhMRA) classification system, Norwegian researchers developed a system known as the Anatomical TherapeuticChemical (ATC) classification. …”
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Early Palliative Care in the Emergency Department: A Concept Clarification by Kelly Counts, Sue Lasiter

“…Palliative care (PC) is no longer only for dying oncology patients as many healthcare practitioners have adopted the PC concept in diverse care settings and the timing of PC implementation remains ambiguous. There is a need to develop an operational definition of early palliative care (EPC) by clarifying the phenomenon and bridging concepts with empirical data to develop and test possible interventions before integrating EPC into emergency care (EC). …”
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An intelligent identification for pest and disease detection in wheat leaf based on environmental data using multimodal data fusion by SHENG-HE XU, Sai Wang

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Fermentation-enabled wellness foods: A fresh perspective by Huan Xiang, Dongxiao Sun-Waterhouse, Geoffrey I.N. Waterhouse, Chun Cui, Zheng Ruan

“…The importance of the correct selection of microorganisms and raw materials and the need for precise control of fermentation processes are explored. …”
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Big Data Analytics For Organizations: Challenges and Opportunities and Its Effect on International Business Education by Twana Saeed Ali, Tugberk Kaya

“…Modern learning environment (MLE) has to be understood in order to know how it supports learning in areas of big data such as university education systems. The utilization of online resources and web pages with laptops and mobile phones need to be understood as an attempt to integrate the modern learning environment and improve teaching in international bossiness. …”
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MIMO-OFDM Imaging Using Shared Time and Bandwidth by Mehmet Yazgan, Huseyin Arslan, Stavros Vakalis

“…The proposed method preserves the standard OFDM communication waveform, eliminating the need for additional interference mitigation strategies. …”
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BIM Based Virtual Environment for Fire Emergency Evacuation by Bin Wang, Haijiang Li, Yacine Rezgui, Alex Bradley, Hoang N. Ong

“…Recent building emergency management research has highlighted the need for the effective utilization of dynamically changing building information. …”
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Social media, Memes and Digital Emotional Contagion: Critical Thinking and Emotional Intelligence for Digital Citizenship Education by Sara Tabatabaei, Bulgarova Bella Akhmedovna, Trofimova Galina Nikolayevna, Barabash Victor Vladimirovich

“…The methodological value of this study can be determined through the need to form critical thinking skills and develop emotional intelligence as key factors for effective consumption of media content and successful communication in the digital environment.…”
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Empowering through information literacy in secondary school libraries: a qualitative exploration of teachers’ perceptions through school librarians by Oluwole Durodolu, Joseph M. Ngoaketsi, Bolaji David Oladokun

“… This qualitative study investigates the perspectives of secondary school teachers regarding the roles and services of libraries and librarians in fulfilling their information needs. By conducting interviews and analyzing direct responses, several key themes emerge, including the suitability of libraries for teachers, perceptions of librarians as partners in the classroom, independent utilization of library resources, satisfaction with library services, understanding of the library's role in meeting information needs, perceptions of teachers' information literacy, and views on library responsibilities. …”
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