Getting to full disclosure: HCV testing and status disclosure behaviors among PWID and their injecting partners by Maia Scarpetta, Rachel Kanner, Neia Prata Menezes, Claire C. McDonell, Julie Bruneau, Kimberly Page, Meghan D. Morris

“…HCV status disclosure was prevalent overall (79%) and was most common (41%) with partnerships where both partners’ status was positive (+ / +) but less common (17%) when one partner was positive ( ±) and when neither partner was positive (-/-) (32%); no disclosure was more common when both partners were negative (-/-) (50%). …”
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Knowledge and Readiness Towards Genomic Nursing among Nursing Students at a Select Nursing College in Mangalore by Ann Mariya T, An Mariya S, Anjali R, Anitta ES, Anjana J, Anit TT, Roslin S, Bibi Augustin

“…Both descriptive and inferential statistics were applied to analyze the data.Results The results revealed that more than half of the respondents 99 67 had poor 45 30 had satisfactory and 4 3 had a good level of knowledge regarding genomic nursing. …”
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Long-Term Care Measures in Turkey During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Cemre Canbazer Şanlı, Başak Akkan

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has put a strain on long-term care regimes by rendering the aged, disabled, and everyone else in need of care even more vulnerable inside welfare systems, leading to an unprecedentedhealth crisis in recent history. …”
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Revisiting changing climatic conditions in the North Ossetia mountainous zone and their impact on erosion processes by S. E. Kuchiev, Kh. M. Khetagurov

“…The basis was the research presented in S.E Kuchiev’s PhD thesis of 1996-1998, as well as the verification of hypotheses put forward in the research on the development of erosion processes. …”
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CHRONIC HEPATITIS B AND C IN WOMEN: COURSE OF PREGNANCY, DELIVERY AND MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PLACENTA by M. A. Belopolskaya, V. Yu. Avrutin, E. A. Rukoiatkina, A. V. Dmitriev

“…According to our data, anemia during pregnancy occurred  significantly more frequently in women with CHB than with CHC. …”
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The impact of deferred cytoreductive nephrectomy on survival in advanced renal cell carcinoma: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Mohammad Taufiq Alamsyah, Fauriski Febrian Prapiska, Syah Mirsya Warli

“…The fixed-effect and random-effects models were used to obtain pooled estimates using the hazard ratio and standard error, presented using the forest plot with 95% confidence interval. …”
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Guest editorial: Industry Internet of Things (IIoT) with security compliances, concerns, and application areas by Ahmed Elngar, A B. K. Mishra, Hemant Kasturiwale

“…Instead of simply singular organizations, if presented over a whole supply chain, the effect could be significantly more noteworthy with quick conveyance of materials and the administration of creation from start to finish. …”
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Spatiotemporal Patterns of Hongshan Culture Settlements in Relation to Middle Holocene Climatic Fluctuation in the Horqin Dune Field, Northeast China by Wenping Xue, Heling Jin, Wen Shang, Jing Zhang

“…This paper delves into the role of climatic change in Hongshan cultural shifts, presenting an integrated dataset that combines climatic proxy records with archaeological data from the Hongshan culture period. …”
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Dynamic Models of Multilingualism on the Territory of Western Ukraine by Наталія Михальчук, Павло Левчук, Ернест Івашкевич, Олександр Набочук

“…Unbalanced or Asymmetric Bilingualism is presented by two sub-models: (1) Transitional Bilingualism; (2) Stable Dominant Multilingualism. …”
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Risk factors for osteoporosis in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis. by Wenhao Su, Hairong Jia, Luo Yang, Jiaqi Zhang, Zhaoyang Wei, Pepertual Tsikwa, Yanru Wang

“…We strive to assist physicians with more extensive references for decision-making and facilitate the implementation of effective prevention strategies for DOP.…”
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The Use of New Dosage Forms of Antibiotics as a Way to Improve the Effectiveness and Safety of Antibiotic Therapy by S. K. Zyryanov, E. A. Baibulatova

“…A more pronounced dynamics of resolving the clinical symptoms of acute bacterial sinusitis was noted when using amoxicillin/clavulanate in the form of dispersible tablets, as well as a lower incidence of adverse effects, including in the gastrointestinal tract, compared with film-coated tablets. …”
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Comparative gene expression in cotton fibres of interspecific lines developed through tri-species (G. hirsutum, G. arboreum & G. anomalum) by Farzana Ashraf, Asif Ali Khan, Zulqurnain Khan, Nadia Iqbal, Zahid Mahmood, Abdul Ghaffar

“…APX1 and ATP synthase genes were involved in fibre elongation with more expression at 10 DPA & 15 DPA. Moreover, the identification of various important promoters in APX1, ATP synthase & GhMYB25-like genes was done which makes it an important tool for engineering extra-long fibre traits leading to the development of high-quality cotton varieties.…”
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StudentSense: Primary outcomes of a smartphone digital phenotyping study of university students in Australia by Tianyi Zhang, Melissa Russell, Vassilis Kostakos, Simon D'Alfonso

“…Students reporting higher wellbeing and extroversion reported more positive university experiences.…”
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RESULTS OF THE MODIFIED LEFT VENTRICLE RECONSTRUCTION WITH EVALUATION OF GEOMETRIC PARAMETERS IN POSTINFARCTION ANEURYSM OF THE HEART by V. E. Babokin, V. P. Pronina, Yu. V. Mishchenko, V. A. Ananko, M. A. Martakov

“…However, oftenly the left ventricle (LV) presents with a spheric shape in postoperation period, by echocardiography. …”
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Conceptual Perspectives on State Fragility by D. P. Elagin

“…The literature review presented in the article finds that fragile states often have an insufficient tax base to guarantee the efficient provision of public goods. …”
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Rapid Deformation Identification and Adaptive Filtering with GNSS TDCP Under Different Scenarios and Its Application in Landslide Monitoring by Mingkui Wu, Rui Wen, Yue Zhang, Wanke Liu

“…The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach can accurately and promptly identify the rapid between-epoch deformation of more than approximately 1.5 cm and 3.0 cm for the horizontal and vertical components for the monitoring object under a complex observational environment. …”
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MicroRNA in Ophthalmology by A. F. Brovkina, G. A. Yarovaya, N. D. Tsybikova

“…Preliminary judgments were made about the role of miRNAs in the formation of various clinical forms of Graves’ ophthalmopathy (endocrine ophthalmopathy), which also gives hope for the emergence of targeted therapy for this disease. More publications have been devoted to the importance of miRNAs in the development of primary malignant intraocular tumors (retinoblastoma and uveal melanoma). …”
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Developing the optimal waste management scenario (case study: Tehran province) by alireza habibi, Omid Bamshad, Mohsen Keshavarz Turk, Mostafa Keshavarz Turk, sheyda Salehi

“…With the increasing population and decreasing of earth's resources and the pollution of water, soil and air in the last few decades, environmental problems have become more visible than before. One of these problems is the excessive use of resources and excessive production of waste. …”
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Screening for psychosocial distress and depression among cancer patients in a regional cancer centre in Nigeria: a cross-sectional study by Nwosu et al.

“…The cancer patients who screened positive for distress selected more items from the “Problem List” compared to those without distress. …”

Uncoupled Digital Radars Creating a Coherent Sensor Network by Julian Aguilar, David Werbunat, Vinzenz Janoudi, Christina Bonfert, Christian Waldschmidt

“…Furthermore, by applying the signal processing synchronization methods, they allow for a more lenient radar network design. Measurements using a 77 GHz digital radar demonstrator verify the derived criteria and error estimation and correction methods.…”
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