Strategic analysis of financing communicable diseases in Afghanistan by Enayatullah Hayat, Narges Neyazi, Hossein Dargahi, Ebrahim Jaafaripooyan, Ali Mohammad Mosadeghrad

“…Increasing the government budget allocation, establishing health insurance system, implementing employees’ retention strategies, integrating all CDs funds, strategic purchasing, strengthening public–private partnership (PPP), implementing appropriate user fees, and raising public awareness about CDs were the most important solutions. Conclusion The financing system of CDs management should be strengthened in such a way that it collects scattered financial resources, aggregates and transparently manages them. …”
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Evaluating Nursing and Dietetics Students Regarding Nutrition, Non-Communicable Diseases, and Integrated Healthcare: A Multi-Center Survey Study by Patricia A. Dyett DrPH, MS, RDN, Lesley Ann Foster-Nicholas DrPH, MPH, RDN, Claudette Mitchell PhD, RD, Vanessa Jones-Oyefeso DrPH, CRNA, George Legall PhD

“…Responses from 298 students were coded, scored, and analyzed using descriptive statistics, Chi-square tests, Kruskal-Wallis tests, Dunn-Bonferroni Multiple Comparisons post hoc tests, and Binary Logistic Regression analysis. Most respondents were female undergraduate nursing majors aged 20 to 24. …”
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Phenotypic Variation Patterns in <i>Oecomys catherinae</i> (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae): Craniodental Morphometric Analysis and Its Relationship with Latitudinal Variation in the Atla... by Paola Santos da Mata, Thiago dos Santos Cardoso, Cibele Rodrigues Bonvicino, Roberto do Val Vilela

“…We identified bony palate length (BPL) as the most discriminating variable, with higher values in the Atlantic Forest, suggesting a possible dietary adaptation in response to ecological pressures. …”
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ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC INDICATORS FOR OIL FLAX PROCESSING by E. V. Novikov, N. V. Basova, A. V. Bezbabchenko

“…(Conclusions) The authors have determined that the most effective is the pro-cessing of oil flax from an area of at least 1000 hectares, with a throughput capaci-ty of raw materials of at least 1000 kg/h and a distance of the transportation of straw rolls to a processing site of 50 km. …”
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Trade challenges at the World Trade Organization to national noncommunicable disease prevention policies: A thematic document analysis of trade and health policy space. by Pepita Barlow, Ronald Labonte, Martin McKee, David Stuckler

“…<h4>Background</h4>It has long been contested that trade rules and agreements are used to dispute regulations aimed at preventing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Yet most analyses of trade rules and agreements focus on trade disputes, potentially overlooking how a challenge to a regulation's consistency with trade rules may lead to 'policy or regulatory chill' effects whereby countries delay, alter, or repeal regulations in order to avoid the costs of a dispute. …”
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Toward a fair, gender-debiased classifier for the diagnosis of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder- a Machine-Learning based classification study by Susanne Neufang, Feifei Li, Atae Akhrif, Oya D. Beyan

“…Abstract Background Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most common neurodevelopmental disorder. Gender disparities in the diagnosis of ADHD have been reported, suggesting that females tend to be diagnosed later in life than males are. …”
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Effects of varying weld speeds on the microstructure, mechanical properties, and corrosion behavior of clad rebars in a marine environment by Zecheng Zhuang, Weiping Lu, Zhe Gou, Lei Zeng, Xuehai Qian, Rifeng Wang, Erte Lin, Zhen Li, Yong Xiang, Jianping Tan

“…Combining the analysis of microstructure, mechanical characteristics, and corrosion resistance, it is found that the optimal welding speed among the four tested is 0.6 mm/s. Hence, selecting the most proper weld parameters is necessary, moreover, it offers a solid foundation for researching the subsequent weld process system of the clad steel bars.…”
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Prevalence and risk factors associated with tuberculosis and HIV coinfection in Iran: A multivariate firth logistic regression for rare events by Alireza Mirahmadizadeh, Mehdi Sharafi, Jafar Hassanzadeh, Mozhgan Seif

“… Introduction: Among the complications caused by HIV infection, tuberculosis (TB) is the most important challenge. The study aimed to determine the predictors of TB and HIV coinfection by using Firth logistic regression analysis. …”
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Nurse-led psychoeducational interventions in patients suffering from schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders and their families: A scoping review protocol. by Carla Gramaglia, Eleonora Gambaro, Lucia Bestagini, Erika Bassi, Alberto Dal Molin, Patrizia Zeppegno

“…<h4>Background</h4>Mental health conditions are one of the most significant public health issues. Psychoeducation is an organized, structured, and understanding transfer of knowledge about the disease and its treatment, incorporating inspirational and educational elements to allow patients to achieve better management of their disease and increased treatment adherence and effectiveness, especially for patients with schizophrenia. …”
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Geospatial modeling of pre-intervention nodule prevalence of Onchocerca volvulus in Ethiopia as an aid to onchocerciasis elimination. by Himal Shrestha, Karen McCulloch, Shannon M Hedtke, Warwick N Grant

“…The modeled pre-intervention prevalence can be used as a guide for determining priorities for elimination mapping in regions of Ethiopia that are currently unmapped, most of which have comparatively low infection prevalence.…”
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White light-excited organic room-temperature phosphorescence for improved in vivo bioimaging by Lutong Zhang, Jisen Li, Yifan Zhang, Wenbo Dai, Yufan Zhang, Xue Gao, Miaochang Liu, Huayue Wu, Xiaobo Huang, Yunxiang Lei, Dan Ding

“…Abstract Organic phosphorescence materials offer significant advantages for bioimaging applications. However, most of these materials are excited exclusively by ultraviolet (UV) light, which poses risks to living organisms. …”
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Comprehensive assessment of the parameters of adaptive capacity and ecological stability of genotypes for winter garlic breeding by V. V. Skorina, Vit. V. Skoryna

“…The aim of the research is a comprehensive assessment of the genotypes of winter garlic according to the parameters of adaptability and the selection of the most stable samples among them.Materials and methods. …”
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Multi-scale extreme climate disaster prediction model integrated with ConvLSTM: taking rainstorm and flood disaster as an example by Lei He, Yunhao He, Yongqiang Xia, Yuxia Li, Bin Liu, Siqi Zhang, Cunjie Zhang

“…As one of the most influential and harmful disasters in extreme climate events, rainstorm and flood threaten people’s lives, property and social stability seriously. …”
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A differential role for neuropeptides in acute and chronic adaptive responses to alcohol: behavioural and genetic analysis in Caenorhabditis elegans. by Philippa Mitchell, Richard Mould, James Dillon, Steven Glautier, Ioannis Andrianakis, Christopher James, Amanda Pugh, Lindy Holden-Dye, Vincent O'Connor

“…One feature, decrease reversal frequency is not relieved by a low dose of ethanol and most likely results from an indirect adaptation to ethanol caused by inhibition of feeding and a food-deprived behavioural state. …”
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Etiological diagnosis of miscarriage by combining use of chromosomal microarray analysis and whole-exome sequencing by Jianlong Zhuang, Wanyu Fu, Ling Gu, Xiaofang Ye, Junyu Wang, Chunnuan Chen

“…Among them, 82 cases had chromosomal numerical abnormalities. The most common abnormality was chromosome aneuploidy, followed by triploidy and mosaicism. …”
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Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry-based metabolic panels characteristic for patients with prostate cancer and prostate-specific antigen levels of 4–10 ng/mL by Chen Wang, Ting Chen, Teng-Fei Gu, Sheng-Ping Hu, Yong-Tao Pan, Jie Li

“…Background: Prostate cancer is the second most common malignant tumor among men worldwide. …”
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Associations of healthy lifestyle and accelerated aging with incident breast cancer in pre- and postmenopausal women: a population-based cohort study by Wenyi Liu, Mengqing Yan, Zhixing Fan, Zhongli Ma, Yuanhang Zhu, Hui Chang, Ruoxin Jiang, Chenchen Ren

“…Abstract Breast cancer is one of the most common malignancies in women. This study aimed to explore the association between healthy lifestyle, biological aging and breast cancer risk in pre- and postmenopausal women. …”
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Attitudes of Turskish Consumers toward Advertising through Sport among the Question how often Consumers purchase Sporting Goods by Gorica Zoric, Bojan Masanovic, Jovan Gardasevic

“…However, it is important to analyse their general attitudes among various questions, mostly due to the reason it varies from demographic group to demographic group. …”
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Endovascular Management of Pancreatitis-Related Hemorrhage: Single-Center Experience by Sunil Kumar, Jagadeesh R. Singh, Mahesh T. Kumar, K.N. Nagbhushan, Nageshwar D. Reddy, G.V. Rao

“…Splenic artery (41.7%) was the most commonly involved vessel. Middle colic, left colic, superior mesenteric, jejunal, left inferior phrenic, and left renal subcapsular arteries were the less commonly involved vessels. …”
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Combining BioGeoChemical-Argo (BGC-Argo) floats and satellite observations for water column estimations of the particulate backscattering coefficient by J. García-Jiménez, A. B. Ruescas, J. Amorós-López, R. Sauzède

“…Monitoring carbon cycle processes is key to understanding the climate system. Although most organic carbon in the ocean exists in dissolved form, POC, despite its smaller share, plays a vital role by connecting surface biomass production with the deep ocean and sedimentation processes. …”
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