Impact of Psychosocial and Palliative Care Training on Nurses’ Competences and Care of Patients With Cancer in Cameroon: Protocol for Quasi-Experimental Study by Nahyeni Bassah, Nicholas Tendongfor, Bachi-Ayukokang Ebob-Anya, Vivian A E Eta, Malika Esembeson, Ndzi Eric Ngah, Salisu Ango Abdul-Rahim

“…Finally, to assess the impact of the training program we will undertake a pre and posttest survey of nurses’ palliative and psychosocial oncology competences, a pre and post training audit of patients’ nursing records to examine nurses’ practice of palliative and psychosocial oncology care and undertake a critical-incident interview of nurses’ transfer of learning to practice. …”
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Monetary Fines in EU Mergers: In Need for More Regulation by Nora Memeti

“…In this case, although the undertakings mislead the EC, based on the offered cooperation, the Authority decided to reduce the fine. …”
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Overcoming barriers to engagement and adherence to a home-based physical activity intervention for patients with heart failure: a qualitative focus group study by Guy A MacGowan, Sarah Charman, Djordje G Jakovljevic, Nduka C Okwose, Nicola O'Brien, Sophie Cassidy, David Brodie, Kristian Bailey, Leah Avery

“…Facilitators included endorsement of the intervention by clinicians knowledgeable about physical activity in the context of heart failure; ongoing support and personalised feedback from team members, including tailoring to meet individual needs, overcome barriers and increase confidence.Conclusions Endorsement of interventions by clinicians to reduce patients’ fear of undertaking physical activity and individual tailoring to overcome barriers are necessary for long-term adherence. …”
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Protocol to study neuronal membrane proteasome function in mouse peripheral sensory neurons by Emily R. Krueger, Taylor R. Church, Anna Brennan, Fulya Türker, Eric Villalón Landeros

“…Finally, we include Ca2+ imaging techniques for investigating NMP function in DRG neurons.For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Villalón Landeros et al.1 : Publisher’s note: Undertaking any experimental protocol requires adherence to local institutional guidelines for laboratory safety and ethics.…”
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Analysis of telecom operators’ IoT strategy from the perspective of 2G/3G transition by Xiaozhong LIU, Junyu FANG, Yongbin JIANG

“…In the context of 2G/3G transition, it is a general trend for NB-IoT and LTE Cat.1 to undertake their business development.On the basis of reviewing and analyzing the current status and trends of the 2G/3G-IoT (Internet of things) business, sorting out the IoT business development strategies of the three major domestic telecom operators at the terminal, network and application levels, the three existing business models of telecom operators in the NB-IoT and LTE Cat.1 business area were summarized, including traffic-oriented, platform-supported, and application-enabled.Finally, from three aspects of business opportunity expansion, product marketing and team services, the future upgrade of the business model was prospeted.…”
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Protocol for automated tracking and quantification of adult zebrafish anxiety behavior using ZebraTrack by Atanu Pramanik, Shubham Nema, Yogesh Bhargava, Anamika Bhargava

“…We detail steps for mathematical calculations on 2D coordinates to extract various behavioral endpoints for anxiety-behavioral evaluation.For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Nema et al.1 : Publisher’s note: Undertaking any experimental protocol requires adherence to local institutional guidelines for laboratory safety and ethics.…”
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Protocol to identify small-molecule inhibitors against cancer drug resistance by Juan Wei, She-Yu Zhang, Xue-Yuan Zhou, Yong Wei, Hao-Ran Jia, Qin Wu, Weihong Tan

“…This protocol facilitates the rapid identification of therapeutic strategies for different types of drug-resistant cancers and aids in studying mechanisms.For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Zhang et al.1 : Publisher’s note: Undertaking any experimental protocol requires adherence to local institutional guidelines for laboratory safety and ethics.…”
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Protocol for the purification and analysis of nuclear UFMylated proteins by Pudchalaluck Panichnantakul, Marlene Oeffinger

“…We then describe procedures for identifying and analyzing purified UFMylated proteins using mass spectrometry and western blot.For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Panichnantakul et al.1 : Publisher’s note: Undertaking any experimental protocol requires adherence to local institutional guidelines for laboratory safety and ethics.…”
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Protocol for the site-specific isolation of mouse endothelial cells using the modified Häutchen technique by Alexander Brückner, Adrian Brandtner, Sarah Rieck, Bernd K. Fleischmann, Daniela Wenzel

“…This protocol can be adapted to investigate surface cells from other tissues as well.For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Brückner et al.1 : Publisher’s note: Undertaking any experimental protocol requires adherence to local institutional guidelines for laboratory safety and ethics.…”
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Protocol to study the impact of breast cancer on colonization resistance of mouse microbiota using network node manipulation by Ana Laura Cano-Argüelles, Alejandra Wu-Chuang, Lourdes Mateos-Hernandez, Lianet Abuin-Denis, Apolline Maitre, Janet Avellanet, Arlem García, Dasha Fuentes, Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz

“…We then detail steps for constructing co-occurrence networks based on correlations between microbial abundances.For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Wu-Chuang et al.1 : Publisher’s note: Undertaking any experimental protocol requires adherence to local institutional guidelines for laboratory safety and ethics.…”
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Croissance et répartition en présence d’investissements environnementaux non désirés by Laurent Cordonnier, Franck Van de Velde, Benoît Desmarchelier

“…Sustainable development policies can have, inter alia incidences, that to impose on firms investments which otherwise they did not wish to undertake. We show that what is to be fear in the first place, with this type of “forced” investment, is not the decrease of the profitability of capital this is supposed to cause. …”
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Protocol for cell image-based spatiotemporal proteomics in budding yeast by Athanasios Litsios, Myra Paz David Masinas, Helena Friesen, Charles Boone, Brenda J. Andrews

“…Variations of this protocol can be applied for the spatiotemporal analysis of the proteome in different contexts, such as genetic and environmental perturbations.For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Litsios et al.1 : Publisher’s note: Undertaking any experimental protocol requires adherence to local institutional guidelines for laboratory safety and ethics.…”
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Mitochondrial Dynamics: In Cell Reprogramming as It Is in Cancer by Javier Prieto, Josema Torres

“…The remodeling of mitochondrial morphology is one of these dramatic changes that somatic cells have to undertake during cell reprogramming. Somatic cells transform their tubular and interconnected mitochondrial network to the fragmented and isolated organelles found in pluripotent stem cells early during cell reprogramming. …”
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Protocol for in vivo chromatin immunoprecipitation on purified chromatin isolated from mouse liver nuclei by Lei Li, May G. Akl, Scott B. Widenmaier

“…This protocol yields high-quality samples using commercial antibodies.For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Akl et al.1 : Publisher’s note: Undertaking any experimental protocol requires adherence to local institutional guidelines for laboratory safety and ethics.…”
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L’histoire muette by Sabine Ehrmann

“…However, such an historical undertaking does not imply the same conditions as the representation of the landscape but rather the elaboration of a didactic tool able to describe what unavoidably eludes photography : the reasons behind changes or the absence of changes ; or at least some assumptions concerning such reasons.…”
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Talking about the problem: a content analysis of pre-search interviews by T.D. Wilson

“…The mode of analysis of the cases is qualitative and interpretative and the results reveal the complexity of the information problems, the variety of motivations for undertaking a mediated search, the difficulties of expressing the search concepts, and the relationship between the need for a search and previous information seeking behaviour.…”
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Parametric Design of V Belt Wheel based on Pro/E by Chen Jiashun, Zhou Yuebin

“…The 3D model of V belt wheel can export the CAD graphics,undertake assembly and import model to other software for motion simulation and dynamics analysis. …”
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Protocol to image, segment, and quantify cortical contractions in maturing mouse oocytes by Gaëlle Letort, Elvira Nikalayevich

“…We then explain how to set up the pipeline to segment the oocyte outline with an ImageJ plugin Oocytor and to measure cortical fluctuations with the help of an ImageJ plugin Radioak.For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Nikalayevich et al.1 : Publisher’s note: Undertaking any experimental protocol requires adherence to local institutional guidelines for laboratory safety and ethics.…”
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Protocol for the purification of the plastid-encoded RNA polymerase from transplastomic tobacco plants by Xiao-Xian Wu, Fan Li, Chuxia Zhu, Shu-Yi Sun, Wen-Hui Mu, Stephanie Ruf, Ralph Bock, Yu Zhang, Fei Zhou

“…We then detail the steps for purifying PEP from the transplastomic tobacco leaves.For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Wu et al.1 : Publisher’s note: Undertaking any experimental protocol requires adherence to local institutional guidelines for laboratory safety and ethics.…”
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Swarm Control for Managed Beehives by Sara DeBerry, John Crowley, James D. Ellis

“…During the swarm season, hive owners should undertake proactive beekeeping practices to alter colonies in response to potential swarming behavior. …”
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