Qualitative study of antibiotic prescription patterns and associated drivers in Sudan, Guinea-Bissau, Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo by Mohit Nair, Carolina Jimenez, Tonka Eibs, Alena Koscalova, Paul Grohma, Gisa Kohler, Rawa Gafar Bakhit, Mzia Thurashvili, Estrella Lasry, Sandra Wagner Bauer

“…Patients tended to stop antibiotic treatment once symptoms abated and had major gaps in understanding antibiotic intake instructions and functions.Conclusions While there were specific findings in each context, the larger trend from these four MSF projects in Africa indicates widespread use of antibiotics based on unclear assumptions, which are often influenced by patient demands. …”
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Stability Analysis of a Weathered-Basalt Soil Slope Using the Double Strength Reduction Method by Xiaoliang Liu, Xin Chen, Mei Su, Shilin Zhang, Dengfeng Lu

“…Based on the nonlinear relationship between the soil water content, cohesion, and friction angle measured in laboratory tests, the finite element reduction problem of the double-strength parameters is only transformed into a reduction problem of water content. …”
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Genotype X Environment Interaction and Yield Stability in Early-Maturing Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) Landraces in Ethiopia by Yirga Kindie, Bulti Tesso, Berhanu Amsalu

“…At six environments, twenty-four cowpea landraces and one check were evaluated in a 5 × 5 triple lattice during the 2019 cropping season. …”
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Florida 4-H Poultry Record Book by Chris Decubellis, L. W. Kalch

“…The purpose of the 4-H poultry project is to achieve the following: • To acquire an understanding of poultry production by preparing for, purchasing, breeding, caring for, and keeping records on one or more chickens or other poultry species as a part of a 4-H project…”
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PHYSIOTHERAPY IN THE MANAGEMENT OF KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS IN ELDERLY by Cătălina Mihaela Dascălu, Paul Lucaci, Marius Neculăeș, Beatrice Aurelia Abalașei

“…The recovery protocol was applied for 8 weeks with a frequencyof 5 session per week, for ~30-40 minutes, once a day in individual trainings.Conclusions highlight that physiotherapy reduces pain and improves function, muscle strength, range of motion, joint stability and aerobic condition. …”
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Pollution reduction and electricity production from dairy industry wastewater with microbial fuel cell by D. Sivakumar

“…Double chambered salt bridge microbial fuel cell was not only removed chemical oxygen demand and produced power, but it also removed other pollutants at the maximum level against the best optimum value of process parameters from the dairy industry wastewater. …”
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Global dynamics of a vector-host epidemic model with age of infection by Yan-Xia Dang, Zhi-Peng Qiu, Xue-Zhi Li, Maia Martcheva

“…The results suggest that an effective strategy to contain vector-borne diseases is decreasing the basic reproduction number $\mathcal{R}_0$ below one.…”
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Identification of Co-Expression Modules of Cotton Plant Height-Related Genes Based on Weighted Gene Co-Expression Network Analysis by Qian Huang, Li Liu, Hang Li, Xuwen Wang, Aijun Si, Liangrong He, Yu Yu

“…A co-expression network comprising 20,409 valid genes was constructed and visualized using Cytoscape 3.9.1. Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) enrichment analyses indicated that these modules are associated with biologically significant pathways, including oxidoreductase activity, transcriptional regulator activity, catalytic activity, and phosphate hydrolase activity. …”
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Determination of ²³⁸U Content by Gamma Radiation Emitting from ^234mPa Radionuclide by A. Khruschinski, S. Kutsen, A. Zhukouski, Naoyuki Sugai, Hiroshi Sugai, Michinori Mogi

“…Radionuclide 238U is one of the most important radioactive elements that must be controlled in nuclear power engineering, geological exploration, control of radioactive contamination of soils and raw materials used in construction. …”
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SOR-Like New Iterative Method for Solving the Epidemic Model and the Prey and Predator Problem by Atika Radid, Karim Rhofir

“…Appl. 316 (2006) 753–763] in order to solve two problems. The first one is the problem of the spread of a nonfatal disease in a population which is assumed to have constant size over the period of the epidemic, and the other one is the problem of prey and predator. …”
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Obstetricians’ Views for Reasons Decision-Making for Cesarean Section in Iran by Sedigheh Hantoosh Zadeh, Mamak Shariat, Azam-Sadat Mousavi, Leyla Sahebi, Raheleh Moradi, Nahid Farrokhzad

“…The factor of fear of litigation and court in case of birth problems and complications was one of the other essential factors in choosing cesarean delivery. …”
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L’inattendu du terrain by Claire Vidal

“…In this particularly dynamic microcosm, one finds inhabitants side-by-side with travellers, clerics, soldiers, political authorities, and tourism companies. …”
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Evaluation of Breakthrough Technological Innovation Capability of Petroleum Equipment Manufacturing Enterprises Based on the CFPR-TIFNs Model by Hongyun Luo, Xiangyi Lin

“…The CFPR-TIFNs model can not only effectively calculate the BTIC of petroleum equipment manufacturing enterprises but also deeply analyze the influencing factors for their relatively weak technological innovation capability. …”
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Evaluating of Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Cultivars for Boron Efficient and Tolerant by Sait Gezgin, Ayşegül Korkmaz, Fatma Gökmen Yılmaz

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Sustainable Portfolio Optimization Model Using PROMETHEE Ranking: A Case Study of Palm Oil Buyer Companies by Seyedeh Asra Ahmadi, Ali Peivandizadeh

“…Sustainability is one of the main concerns of decision makers, factories, and retailers. …”
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Expanding Viral Diversity in Rice Fields by Next-Generation Sequencing by Wang Haoran, Chen Guoqing, Feng Guozhong

“…These viruses pose serious threats to rice production and have traditionally been identified only from rice plants and insect vectors by isolation techniques. …”
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Coprescribing of opioids and high-risk medications in the USA: a cross-sectional study with data from national ambulatory and emergency department settings by Dio Kavalieratos, Mohammed K Ali, Kara Suvada, Anna Zimmer, Jesse Soodalter, Jimi S Malik

“…Compared with adults receiving opioid prescriptions alone, those coprescribed opioids and high-risk medications were older, more likely female, white and using private or Medicare insurance (p<0.0001).Conclusions Coprescribing is more common in ambulatory than ED settings and has been declining, yet one in four patient visits where opioids were prescribed resulted in coprescribed, high-risk medications in 2016. …”
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Transparency Enhances Positive Perceptions of Social Artificial Intelligence by Ying Xu, Nora Bradford, Radhika Garg

“…They were randomly assigned to observe conversations between a hypothetical chatbot and a user in one of the two-by-two experimental conditions: whether the participants received an explanation about how the chatbot was trained and whether the chatbot was framed as an intelligent entity or a machine. …”
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TURİZM İŞLETMELERİNDE YÖNETİM BİLİŞİM SİSTEMLERİ KULLANIMININ YÖNETSEL KARARLAR ÜZERİNDEKİ ETKİSİ by Rıfat İraz, Muammer Zerenler

“…İçinde bulunduğumuz çağ bilgi çağı olarak adlandırılmakta ve bilgi günümüzün en önemli kaynağı olarak yeni değer yaratan bütün yeniliklerin temel girdisi olarak kullanılmaktadır. …”
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Urban greeen areas in the reduction of cooling loads. Simulations in the Mediterranean climate by Carola Clemente, Massimo Palme, Anna Mangiatordi, Daniele La Rosa, Riccardo Privitera

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