Prediction of implant failure risk due to periprosthetic femoral fracture after primary elective total hip arthroplasty: a simplified and validated model based on 154,519 total hip... by M. A. Alagha, Justin Cobb, Alexander D. Liddle, Henrik Malchau, Ola Rolfson, Maziar Mohaddes

“…Aims: While cementless fixation offers potential advantages over cemented fixation, such as a shorter operating time, concerns linger over its higher cost and increased risk of periprosthetic fractures. …”
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Key components in the professional ethics of sign language interpreters in healthcare contexts: a qualitative study in Colombia by Nora Ellen Groce, Samia Hurst, Laura Catalina Izquierdo Martínez, Angela Martínez-R, Jessica Cuculick, Minerva C Rivas Velarde

“…The proposed framework addresses the challenges within the professional ethics of sign language interpreters in healthcare.Conclusions These findings offer unique insights into the ethical experiences of CSL interpreters. …”
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Brecha de género en la competencia digital profesional: construcción y validación inicial de un instrumento para su medición by Sònia Sánchez-Canut, Mireia Usart-Rodríguez, Beatriz Lores-Gómez, Sonia Martínez-Requejo

“…El objetivo de este estudio es diseñar y validar, a partir del marco DigComp, una herramienta de autoevaluación de la Competencia Digital Profesional que permita medir este constructo y proponer itinerarios personalizados de formación para capacitar a las mujeres en programas de formación continua y desarrollo profesional, ofertados en universidades y centros de formación corporativa. …”
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Determination of sedimentation conditions of sandy rocks when calculating boron content from logging data by Ivan S. Khodorov, Igor A. Melnik

“…There are many different methods for determining boron concentration from cores, but often the quality of the rock material extracted from the well does not allow such studies to be carried out, or the core from the required interval has not been sampled at all. …”
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What behavior is important behavior? A systematic review of how wild and zoo-housed animals differ in their time-activity budgets by Robert Kelly, Marianne Freeman, Paul Rose, Paul Rose

“…Despite variation across all groups, abnormal behavior was consistently highest in zoo animals, with reproductive and foraging behaviors most often compromised. Overall, complete positive behavioral flexibility was suggested in Testudines (potentially a result from temperature variation to maintain homeostasis), completely migratory species who are exposed to heterogenous landscapes when traveling long distances, and for a specific primate, the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) potentially to improve resource access due to their terrestrial nature. …”
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Gender Conditioning and Socio-economical Condition: its Association with Some Risk Factors for Atherosclerosis by Ana Mary Fernández Milán, Daysi Antonia Navarro Despaigne, Jorge Bacallao Gallestey

“…<strong><br />Method:</strong> a cross observational study was carried out in two doctors’ offices with socio-economical characteristics supposedly different belonging to the Polyclinic 19 de Abril at the municipality of Plaza de la Revolution, from January 2012 to June 2013. …”
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Exploration of General Practice Education in Undergraduate Medical Education from the Perspective of Healthy China by YANG Shan, WANG Cong, WANG Liuyi

“…This article compares the situation of general practice education in undergraduate medical education at home and abroad, and finds that although Chinese universities currently offer general practice courses, the curriculum and content system are still not sound. …”
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Integrating Artificial Intelligence in Language Curricula: Empowering Students for Future Competencies by Silvia Adamcová, Michaela Rusch

“…Overall, this evaluation offers insights into a highly topical issue of AI application that will significantly influence linguistic and pedagogical practice in the future.…”
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ANALYSIS OF METHODOLOGY AND MODELS OF STRATEGIC PLANNING OF LOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA by Amra Abadžić, Bahrija Umihanić, Mirela Ćebić

“…Models of strategic planning represent the need of local community for internationalization and attracting foreign investors, but also the appropriate public sector support offered to the businesses in a particular community in order to conduct their activities in a more efficient way. …”
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African Honey Bee: What You Need to Know by Malcolm T. Sanford, H. Glenn Hall

“…This is the African or Africanized honey bee so often sensationalized in the media. The European honey bee is the race common to North America, and is an amalgam of many European subspecies imported over the past several centuries. …”
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Long-term antibody responses to COVAXIN and COVISHIELD vaccines in rheumatoid arthritis patients and healthy control population – A cross-sectional study by Vijaya Prasanna Parimi, Anand Pyati, Madhavi Eerike

“…Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that causes inflammation and damage in the joints. It often requires treatment with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) to manage symptoms and prevent progression. …”
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Vulnerability and adaptation in flood-prone ecosystems of Bangladesh: a case study of rice farming households by Mohammad Chhiddikur Rahman, Md Abdur Rouf Sarkar, Md. Jahangir Kabir, Md. Shajedur Rahaman, Jatish C. Biswas, Md. Abdullah Aziz, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Md. Abdullah Al Mamun, Niaz Md. Farhat Rahman, Andrew M. McKenzie

“…Importantly, whereas floods prior to 2007 often resulted in substantial rice shortages, the post-2007 era, despite frequent and severe flooding, has witnessed a surplus in rice production. …”
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The Effect of Flipped Learning Model on Pre-Service Science Teachers' Laboratory Practices by Serpil Kara, Kadriye Kayacan

“…The pre-service teachers expressed the positive aspects of the flipped learning model as follows: it offers the opportunity to prepare before the lesson, being able to repeat the lessons, experience different classroom environment, facilitating the applications in the lesson, being student-centered, contributing to the individual learning speed, providing learning by understanding. …”
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Plant-Derived Anti-Inflammatory Compounds: Hopes and Disappointments regarding the Translation of Preclinical Knowledge into Clinical Progress by Robert Fürst, Ilse Zündorf

“…The currently available anti-inflammatory drug therapy is often not successful or causes intolerable side effects. …”
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Exploring the Needs and Preferences of Users and Parents to Design a Mobile App to Deliver Mental Health Peer Support to Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes: Qualitative Study by Titilola I Yakubu, Poonamdeep Jhajj, Samantha Pawer, Nicholas C West, Shazhan Amed, Tricia S Tang, Matthias Görges

“…ConclusionsApp-based peer support offers a promising avenue for addressing the mental health needs of adolescents with T1D. …”
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Screening and validation of tsRNAs associated with lung adenocarcinoma by LU Chunli, SHAN Yifan, XIE Weijia

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Insights into self-reported food allergies in Romanian schoolchildren by Claudia Felicia Pop, Daniela Rajka, Ioana Corina Bocsan, Petronela Alina Coblisan, Gabriela Edita Ichim, Anna Lazar, Paraschiva Chereches-Panta

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Sacralización, ritualización y espectáculo en torno al pasado: El Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos en Chile by Sara Sánchez del Olmo

“…El objetivo es mostrar cómo todo proceso de materialización institucional del recuerdo conlleva no solo la elección de un relato sino, sobre todo, el intento de oficialización de un discurso (imaginado) sobre el pasado. …”
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The Canadian Association of Gastroenterology Education Committee Report by Ronald J Bridges

“…The 2002 CAG Strategic Planning Survey showed that members rate Canadian Digestive Diseases Week (CDDW) as the most important CAG service, on par with Digestive Diseases Week regarding its usefulness (1). CDDW 2004 offered delegates a variety of basic science and clinical symposia, the popular and well received 'Breakfast with the Expert' sessions and a comprehensive Postgraduate Course reviewing key developments in gastroenterology, nutrition and hepatology.…”
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Energy Efficient Homes: Incentive Programs for Energy Efficiency by Nicholas W. Taylor, M. Jennison Kipp, Kathleen C. Ruppert

“…It defines key terms, tells who offers energy incentives, what types of incentives there are, and what considerations homeowners should have. …”
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