Trends in spinal implant utilization and pricing by Gabrielle Lucia Dykhouse, Rachel A. Bratescu, Osama N. Kashlan, McGrath Lynn Jr., Roger Härtl, Galal A. Elsayed

“…Materials and Methods: Spine implant utilization and pricing averages between 2013 and 2022 were extracted from Orthopedic Network News. The total sample composed of 664,310 spine procedure purchase orders. …”
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A survey of perceptions and behavioural responses towards the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa by Takana M. Silubonde, Catherine E. Draper, Shane A. Norris

“…Socioeconomic status was also indirectly and positively associated with adherence to government measures through pathways mediated by access to the Internet, access to local news, government trust and positive government experiences. …”
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Decolonising global health evaluation: Synthesis from a scoping review. by Ichhya Pant, Sonal Khosla, Jasmine Tenpa Lama, Vidhya Shanker, Mohammed AlKhaldi, Aisha El-Basuoni, Beth Michel, Khalil Bitar, Ifeanyi McWilliams Nsofor

“…These records were derived following a systematic article search by the lead autthor on Google, Google Scholar, NewsBank, and PubMed using the following keywords: "decolonising" and "global health," "evaluation," or "global health evaluation" replicating a digital search strategy utilized by scoping reviews across a variety of topics. …”
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A Novel Emerging Topic Identification and Evolution Discovery Method on Time-Evolving and Heterogeneous Online Social Networks by Xiaoyan Xu, Wei Lv, Beibei Zhang, Shuaipeng Zhou, Wei Wei, Yusen Li

“…Firstly, a time-evolving and scalable complex network denoted as KeyGraph is built up by deeply analyzing the text features of all kinds of data crawled from heterogeneous online social network platforms; secondly, a novel dynamic community detection method is proposed by which the new emerging topic is detected on the modeled time-evolving and scalable KeyGraph network; thirdly, a unified directional topic propagation network modeled by a great number of short texts including microblogs and news titles is set up, and the topic evolution law of the previously detected early emerging topic is identified by fully utilizing local network variations and modularity optimization of the “time-evolving” and directional topic propagation network. …”
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Social contexts and black families' engagement in early childhood programs. by Jane Leer, Imari Z Smith, Zoelene Hill, Lisa A Gennetian

“…Further, our pre-registered survey experiment showed a causal link between surveillance fears and home visit engagement. Reading a news article about a family's experience with the child welfare system decreased interest in home visiting among Black parents, while labeling a program as "new baby wellness" rather than "home visit" increased interest. …”
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Examining endothelial function and carotid artery disease in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a systematic review protocol by Hao Wu, Zhenguo Liu, Tingzi Hu, Meihua Xu, Hong Hao, Michael A Hill, Canxia Xu

“…The results will be disseminated through peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations and scientific news releases.PROSPERO registration number CRD42021274093.…”
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Contextualisation of Reciprocal Alues in Fulfillment Aliqah as an Effort to Strengthen the Family by Linda Firdawaty, Zuhraini Zuhraini, Mokhammad Samson Fajar

“…Data was gathered from online news about the trend of divorce lawsuits triggered by either the wife's or husband's failure to apply reciprocal values.   Interviews were conducted with maslahah family counselors, heads of religious affairs office, female scholars, academics, and judges of religious courts about the reasons wives file for divorce and efforts to strengthen families. …”
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1+(no)1=3, and more by Carmen García

“…While  an approach to transformational change through paradoxical thinking and the creativity of the absurd is not new, it doesn’t seem to have produced news of difference, since binary thinking seems to persist, with ethical implications for the praxis of systemic therapy and its education and training. …”
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Signals of propaganda-Detecting and estimating political influences in information spread in social networks. by Alon Sela, Omer Neter, Václav Lohr, Petr Cihelka, Fan Wang, Moti Zwilling, John Phillip Sabou, Miloš Ulman

“…Propaganda in social networks is disguised as legitimate news sent from authentic users. It smartly blended real users with fake accounts. …”
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THEORY-GROUNDED MODEL OF USERS’ PERCEPTION TOWARDS NATIVE ADVERTISEMENT by Mykolas Baranauskas, Žaneta Kavaliauskienė

“…Nowadays, internet users experience native advertisements in social media, online news portals and viewing websites. Based on previous research, the overall perception of native advertising can be attributed to two aspects – ad transparency and congruence. …”
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Statistical Risk Characteristics and Risk Scoring of Hospital-Acquired Malnutrition for Pediatric Patients by Khreshna Syuhada, Dessie Wanda, Risti Nur’aini, Chairun Ardiantari, Ayu Susilo

“…The findings showed several risk factors or characteristics for HaM prevalence: sex, age, medical diagnosis, diet, nutrition route, and NEWS score. The early warning system to pediatric patients is conducted by calculating malnutrition-at-risk in which a value beyond 100.5 is considered as having high potential risk for HaM. …”
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Islamic Legal Perspective on the Implementation of Online Marriage Contracts during the Covid-19 Pandemic by Imam Sujono, Yovita Arie Mangesti, Slamet Suhartono, Zaleha Kamaruddin

“…One of the pillars currently being discussed is the online Ijab and Qabul (marriage contract), considering the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been much news about online marriage ceremonies due to various constraints. …”
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Start of Higher School in Crimea: Taurida University (1918–1920) by Sergey B. Filimonov

“…After all, the pre-war university archive was lost, and the main source for a long time remained only two volumes of the “News of the Tauride University” published in 1919 and 1920. …”
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CHALLENGES TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND SAFETY OF JOURNALISM IN UKRAINE by Galyna Piskorska

“…The author, alongside representatives of the journalistic community and Western partners, asserts that the state's monopolization of the only news channel in Ukraine is unjustified. This research aims to foster broader discussions about the inherent threats that media can pose to national security and the rationale behind restricting freedom of speech during wartime. …”
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تطبیقات الهواتف الذکیة والخصوصیة المعلوماتیة : دراسة تحلیلیة مقارنة by د. حسام الدین محمد رفعت

“…In recent years there has been alegislative response at different levels for the sake of this protection, and thejudiciary has followed it with a remarkable response in favour of the jurisprudenceof the private life of individuals that is of paramount importance to both theindividual and the community.This coincided with the increasing vulnerability of the right to privacy tothe digital environment through e-mail and chat sites Networks or communicationsites, which have become a hoot of the modern era and a wide electronic space,in which we put all the references about us and our lives, as well as our privacy.The purpose of this study is to diagnose the reality of the work of Google Playapplications that work on the smart phone environment, especially with regard togathering information or allowing access to personal data and users’ information,by identifying the nature of data and information collected or allowed access to,monitoring the nature of the risks of using these applications.To do so, the researcher studied and analyzed licensing agreements forthe use of 80 applications of smart phones in areas commonly used in the digitalenvironment, such as social networking applications, Online banks Applications,antivirus applications, web search applications, news and press applications,educational applications, web applications, travel and tourism applications. …”
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Attraktive Employer Brand aus der Perspektive deutscher Studierender und Anregungen zum Employer Branding chinesischer Unternehmen in Deutschland by Zhao Qian, Song Yuhao

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Twitter Sentiment Analysis Towards Candidates of the 2024 Indonesian Presidential Election by Rhoma Cahyanti, Desiana Nurul Maftuhah, Aris Budi Santoso, Indra Budi

“…Long before the elections were held, the topic related to elections was widely discussed on news portals and social media, including Twitter. …”
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Where are Our Educators? by Елізабет Тюнс, Зоя Рібейро Престес

“…Like many, at the beginning, he assumed that the dangers of social media came mainly from inappropriate use by malicious people – propagandists, spies, spreaders of fake news – and that, at worst, the platforms were a passive pipeline where the existing problems in society ran. …”
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Current status of intestinal parasitosis and microsporidiosis in industrialized countries: Results from a prospective study in France and Luxembourg. by Maxime Moniot, Céline Nourrisson, Eloïse Bailly, Céline Lambert, Patricia Combes, Philippe Poirier

“…Diagnosis by molecular tools are increasing and several commercial gastrointestinal panel assays including protozoans and/or helminths are now available. These news tools improve the knowledge into real human parasite epidemiology. …”
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Zika, a Mosquito-Transmitted Virus by L. Phil Lounibos, Barry W. Alto, Nathan D. Burkett-Cadena, Cynthia C. Lord, Chelsea T. Smartt, C. Roxanne Rutledge Connelly, Jorge R. Rey

“…ENY-888/IN1120: Zika, a Mosquito-Transmitted Virus (ufl.edu) See also 2/9/2016 press release: UF/IFAS scientists write document explaining Zika virus; urge vigilance - News.  …”
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