Determinants of food insecurity among Syrian refugee women and their coping strategies by Kübra Esin, Feride Ayyıldız

“…Women who are older, have more children, lower income, lower education, and higher BMI are more likely to experience food insecurity. …”
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Persistent effects of legal status on healthcare access and outcomes: findings from a state-wide representative cross-sectional survey in California by Lei Chen, Michelle Kao Nakphong, May Sudhinaraset, Nadereh Pourat, Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young

“…Background To examine how legal status and past undocumented status are associated with healthcare access and health outcomes.Methods Data were collected between 2018 and 2020 as a follow-on, cross-sectional survey to the California Health Interview Survey (N=2010). …”
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Quality of life and issues related to body image and intimacy in breast cancer survivors by Kim Sadler, Sarah Alsaif, Ghadeer Alsaffar, Shahd Melibari, Norah Albedah, Rania Abed Salah, Meaad Abdullah Alharbi, Ruth Evangelista

“…Setting and Design: A cross-sectional design was used in a tertiary care center in Saudi Arabia. Materials and Methods: Data were collected through the self-reported Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy–Breast (FACT-B) with women two or more years posttreatment and between 18 and 75 years. …”
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The "hypnotic state" and eye movements: Less there than meets the eye? by Etzel Cardeña, Barbara Nordhjem, David Marcusson-Clavertz, Kenneth Holmqvist

“…Kallio and collaborators claimed recently that they had found a reliable index for "the hypnotic state" through eye-tracking methods. Whether or not hypnotic responding involves a special state of consciousness has been part of a contentious debate in the field, so the potential validity of their claim would constitute a landmark. …”
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Mislabeled out-of-hospital patient care records during transitions of care: a quality improvement intervention using root cause analysis (RCA) in an EMS system. by Luis Mauricio Pinet-Peralta, Nicole Y. Duppins

“…The purpose of this quality study is to identify the cause of mislabeled EMS patient care reports in an EMS agency and develop an intervention to reduce the rate of mislabeled patient care reports. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This quality improvement study follows the model for improvement process, using PDCA cycles and root cause analysis, and used the two-sample unmatched Wilcoxon rank-sum to test for differences in the number of mislabeled records after intervention implementation. …”
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Consequences of Delayed Endoscopies on the IBD Population during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Karen C. Young, Vitaliy Poylin

“…Design: Retrospective study. Patient and Methods: review of all IBD patients scheduled for routine endoscopy at Northwestern Memorial Hospital March 13, 2020 through May 31, 2020, during which all endoscopies were canceled due to COVID-19. …”
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Intraocular pressure variations in rhegmatogenous retinal detachment: Does it point towards an alternate biomechanical response? by R Aswathy, Padma B. Prabhu, Ranjini Kotancheri

“…Objective: To evaluate the variations in intraocular pressure and its relation with the severity and chronicity of Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD), as well as the type of break and presence of myopia. Methods: Design: A descriptive cross-sectional study; sample size 75 (4 pq/d2); duration 1 year; exclusion-combined Retinal Detachment (RD), exudative Rd, associated choroidal detachment, and anterior Proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR). …”
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Physical activity and excess weight in pregnancy have independent and unique effects on delivery and perinatal outcomes. by Kelly L Morgan, Muhammad A Rahman, Rebecca A Hill, Shang-Ming Zhou, Gunnar Bijlsma, Ashrafunnesa Khanom, Ronan A Lyons, Sinead T Brophy

“…<h4>Background</h4>This study examines the effect of low daily physical activity levels and overweight/obesity in pregnancy on delivery and perinatal outcomes.<h4>Methods</h4>A prospective cohort study combining manually collected postnatal notes with anonymised data linkage. …”
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Is it safe? The effect of narrative vs. non-narrative messages on story-related knowledge of medicated abortion by Judy Watts, Austin Hubner, Jun Pei, Michaella Barros Coelho

“…This study aims to investigate the potential for media-based learning from exposure to narratives.MethodsWe conducted a between subjects (format: narrative vs. non-narrative) by within subjects 2 (time: immediate post-test vs. delayed post-test) on a college population sample (time 1: n = 220; time 2: n = 125). …”
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THE EFFECT OF PBL INTEGRATED WITH PHET VIRTUAL LABORATORY AND SELF-EFFICACY ON STUDENTS’ SCIENCE PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS by Indah Lastari Siregar, Aan Hendrayana, Lukman Nulhakim

“…The sample consisted of 61 randomly selected grade VIII students. …”
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The Association of ITGBL1 and LPPR4/PRG1 Expression Profile in Patients with Prostate Cancer History by Asmaalsadat Nikkhouy-Tanha, Nazanin Nazari, Maryam Moradi, Mahsa Talebi, Fatima Masoomi Sarvestani, Fatemeh Rahmanzad, Maryam Mahmoudi, Zahra Jafarinia, Banafsheh Rastegari

“…Our study aimed to test whether two different ITGBL1 and LPPR4/PRG1 gene expression levels are linked with prostate cancer incidence. Materials and Methods: 40 prostate tissue biopsies representing confirmed cancer and 41 normal tissues were selected. …”
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Identifying HEXACO personality types: what do type characteristics tell us about student misconduct? by Ana Cristina Veríssimo, Pedro Oliveira, Paula Mena Matos, Laura Ribeiro

“…The distribution of the personality types was also compared across sociodemographic groups and fields of study. Methods A sample of 1,398 health and non-health university students replied to a multiple-choice questionnaire covering HEXACO personality traits, eight forms of academic misconduct, and background information. …”
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Isolation and Identification of Toxoplasma gondii from Aborted Fetuses of Goats by PCR in Lorestan Province by Morad Beiranvand, Hossein Hamidinejat, Somayeh Bahrami, Mohammad Reza Tabandeh, Meysam Makki

“…The study was performed in three aborted fetus groups, less than 2 months, 2 to 4 months and more than 4 months. Results: From a total of 100 examined samples, conventional PCR detected the T. gondii infection in 6 (6%) and 2 of the brain and liver fetuses respectively. …”
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Development of the destination branding model based on tourism industry nostalgia by parinaz masoumi, vahidreza mirabi, jalal HaghighatMonfared, Ahmad Vedadi

“…The statistical population of the quantitative research includes all tourists of Tehran province (unlimited society), which is selected using the formula of Kochran's unlimited society; a sample consisting of 384 people. Data analysis was done in both descriptive and inferential ways, and the bootstrap method was used by Smart PLS software to test the research hypotheses. …”
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Microfluidic device for both active and passive cell separation techniques: A review by Muhammad Asraf Mansor, Muhammad Asyraf Jamrus, Chong Kar Lok, Mohd Ridzuan Ahmad, Michal Petrů, Seyed Saeid Rahimian Koloor

“…Due to the heterogeneity of cells, label-free methods that utilize the inherent physical properties of cells to separate, offer more advantages including high throughput, simple design, reduced sample volumes, and low device cost. …”
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Combining Short- and Long-Read Sequencing Technologies to Identify SARS-CoV-2 Variants in Wastewater by Gabrielle Jayme, Ju-Ling Liu, Jose Hector Galvez, Sarah Julia Reiling, Sukriye Celikkol, Arnaud N’Guessan, Sally Lee, Shu-Huang Chen, Alexandra Tsitouras, Fernando Sanchez-Quete, Thomas Maere, Eyerusalem Goitom, Mounia Hachad, Elisabeth Mercier, Stephanie Katharine Loeb, Peter A. Vanrolleghem, Sarah Dorner, Robert Delatolla, B. Jesse Shapiro, Dominic Frigon, Jiannis Ragoussis, Terrance P. Snutch

“…During the COVID-19 pandemic, the monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater was used to track the evolution and emergence of variant lineages and gauge infection levels in the community, informing appropriate public health responses without relying solely on clinical testing. As more sublineages were discovered, it increased the difficulty in identifying distinct variants in a mixed population sample, particularly those without a known lineage. …”
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An integrated experimental and analytical approach for the analysis of the mechanical interaction between metal porous scaffolds and bone: implications for stress shielding in orth... by Roberto Ramaglia Amadasi, Giulia Rogati, Erica Liverani, Alberto Leardini, Paolo Caravaggi

“…While the mechanical interaction between porous implants and bone has been extensively investigated via complex numerical and finite element models, scarce is the in vitro and in vivo data on the effect of porosity and materials on stress and strain distribution in the implant-bone compound.Materials and methodsAn integrated numerical and experimental approach was used to investigate the effect of material and porosity on the mechanical interaction in compression between porous metal scaffolds and bovine cortical bone. 18 × 18 × 6 mm cuboid samples were cut from fresh-frozen bovine cortical bones. …”
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Content shared on social media for national cancer survivors day 2018. by Roy Cherian, Gem Le, James Whall, Scarlett Gomez, Urmimala Sarkar

“…<h4>Methods</h4>We identified social media posts relating to cancer survivorship on Twitter and Instagram in early June 2018, in order to coincide with National Cancer Survivorship Day on June 3, 2018. …”
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Computer Vision in Monitoring Fruit Browning: Neural Networks vs. Stochastic Modelling by Maria Kondoyanni, Dimitrios Loukatos, Charalampos Templalexis, Diamanto Lentzou, Georgios Xanthopoulos, Konstantinos G. Arvanitis

“…Thus, this study investigated the application of computer vision techniques and various RGB cameras in the detection and classification of enzymatic browning in cut pears, comparing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with stochastic modelling. More specifically, light is shed on the potential of CNN-based approaches for high-throughput and easily adapted applications and the potential of stochastic methods for precise, quantitative analyses. …”
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High-sensitive ethanol gas sensor using Ag modified ZnO nanosheets by Yi-Hsing Liu, Sheng-Joue Young, Liang-Wen Ji, Yen-Lin Chu, Shoou-Jinn Chang

“…In this study, an ethanol gas sensor was developed using ZnO nanosheets synthesized through an aqueous solution method, with Ag nanoparticles modified on the surface via chemical reduction to enhance ethanol gas sensing capabilities. …”
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