Burnout and coping mechanisms among Sudanese healthcare workers during the ongoing Sudan war: a cross-sectional study by Muhannad Bushra Masaad Ahmed, Ahmed Balla M. Ahmed, Salma Alrawa, Ludn Emad Ebrahim Mustafa, Mahmoud Elsadig Mahmoud Ali, Mohammed Osman Omer Abdalla, Sohaib Mohammed Mokhtar Ahmed

“…Conclusion Sudanese healthcare workers demonstrate high levels of burnout, particularly in the depersonalization domain, with talking to friends and family being the most commonly used coping mechanism. Future research is needed to explore the unique stressors faced by healthcare workers in conflict-affected settings like ours.…”
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Defining factors promoting successful virtual elementary school nutrition education: lessons learned during the pandemic by Marie Balfour, Joseph Benbow, Bethany Korom, Leslie Ruffalo, Bryan Johnston

“…Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more virtual nutrition programs emerged to bridge the gap of social distancing and continue health education endeavors remotely, but there is conflicting data on preferred formats and elements that make these innovative programs most impactful. To identify community and pedagogical factors that define successful virtual elementary school nutrition education partnerships between academic medical centers and elementary schools, an existing in-person nutrition program in Milwaukee County was adapted to a virtual format during the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Vulvovaginal atrophy in postmenopausal women: diagnosis and modern-day treatments by K. R. Bahtiyarov, R. A. Chilova, Sh. Sh. Sardarova

“…The analysis of the etiology, clinical picture, methods of diagnosis and treatment of vulvovaginal atrophy, as the most common  benign disease of the vulva and vagina in postmenopausal women, has been carried out. …”
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Neoadjuvant chemotherapy with or without metformin in early-stage or locally advanced (non-metastatic) triple negative breast cancer—an open-label phase 2 randomized controlled tri... by Vinod K. Ramani, Ajaikumar Basavalinga Sadashivaiah, Radheshyam Naik

“…BackgroundTriple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is more prevalent among the younger age group and is the most aggressive form. Women with TNBC phenotype have 19% lower 5-year overall survival and 18% lower disease-free survival than their non-TNBC counterparts (1). …”
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Construire un outil d’association de données à l’heure de l’open data : La Fabrique Numérique du Passé (FNP) by Laurent Costa

“…More functionally, the aim is to bring together existing information and make the data produced as part of research projects and programmes (PCR, ANR, ERC, etc.) available for free download in the most “accessible” standard format so that it can be easily reused by all socioeconomic players and local stakeholders. …”
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A New Evaluation Method for Slope Stability Based on TOPSIS and MCS by Wenqiang Chen, Yufei Zhao, Lipeng Liu, Xiaogang Wang

“…Compared with other weighting methods, the coupled TOPSIS and MCS model can obtain the most reliable weight, and the reliability is 48.7%. …”
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TDA-L: Reducing Latency and Memory Consumption of Test-Time Adaptation for Real-Time Intelligent Sensing by Rahim Hossain, Md Tawheedul Islam Bhuian, Kyoung-Don Kang

“…However, adapting vision–language models to distribution shifts at test time, caused by several factors such as lighting or weather changes, remains challenging. In particular, most existing test-time adaptation methods rely on gradient-based fine-tuning and backpropagation, making them computationally expensive and unsuitable for real-time applications. …”
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Analysis of disease severity and mortality prediction using machine learning during COVID-19 by Hodjat (Hojatollah) Hamidi, Mostafa Moradi

“…In this paper, using public and clinical data from patients, the severity and risk of death are studied through different machine learning algorithms, and the most important features in this area are identified. …”
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Polycythemia Vera in Pregnancy: A Descriptive Review of the Literature by Nicole Xu, Bernard Gonik

“…A bone marrow biopsy is typically used to confirm the diagnosis. Most, but not all patients with PV, are identified to have a somatic mutation in the JAK2 gene. …”
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Microbiological and molecular aspects of periodontitis pathogenesis: an infection-induced inflammatory condition by Mina Yekani, Mina Yekani, Masoumeh Dastgir, Samaneh Fattahi, Samaneh Fattahi, Shahriar Shahi, Solmaz Maleki Dizaj, Mohammad Yousef Memar

“…Periodontitis (PD) is the most common oral infectious disease. The primary etiologic cause of the onset and development of PD is dental plaque, which consists of bacterial biofilm domiciled within a complex extracellular mass. …”
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The Seroprevalence of Hepatitis C Antibodies in Immigrants and Refugees from Intermediate and High Endemic Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. by Christina Greenaway, Ann Thu Ma, Lorie A Kloda, Marina Klein, Sonya Cnossen, Guido Schwarzer, Ian Shrier

“…The estimated HCV seroprevalence of migrants from these regions was >2% and is higher than that reported for most host populations.<h4>Conclusion</h4>Adult migrants originating from Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Eastern Europe are at increased risk for HCV and may benefit from targeted HCV screening.…”
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A Time Series Decomposition-Based Interpretable Electricity Price Forecasting Method by Yuanke Cu, Kaishu Wang, Lechen Zhang, Zixuan Liu, Yixuan Liu, Li Mo

“…This results in prices exhibiting long-term trends while also experiencing sharp fluctuations due to sudden events, often leading to extreme values. Furthermore, most current models are “black-box” models, lacking transparency and interpretability. …”
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Synthesis, Characterization, and Investigation the Inhibitory Impact of Thiosemicarbazide Derivative toward the Corrosion of Mild Steel in Acidic Media by Nafeesa J. Kadhim, Muna Sarhan Sando, Farah Saadoon Jaafar, Iman M .M. Hasan

“…It has been observed that the rate of erosion decreases with the increasing concentration of the prepared inhibitor and increases with the increasing temperature of the solution. The most promising inhibitor action is at 0.5 g/L with an inhibition efficiency of 90.2%. …”
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The value of educational messages embedded in a community-based approach to combat dengue Fever: a systematic review and meta regression analysis. by Nada Al-Muhandis, Paul R Hunter

“…There is evidence that interventions are most effective some 18 to 24 months after the intervention but then subsequently decline.…”
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Atmospheric antideuteron flux within a dynamical coalescence approach by Jie Pu, Xin Li, Kai-Jia Sun, Chun-Wang Ma, Lie-Wen Chen

“…Abstract Cosmic antideuterons are considered as one of the most promising tools for the indirect detection of dark matter due to their ultra-low astrophysical backgrounds. …”
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Dynamics of changes in Russian verbal paradigm under the influence of secondary imperfectivation by Timur I. Galeev, Vladimir V. Bochkarev, Valery D. Solovyev

“…The authors came to the conclusion that, contrary to popular belief, the former na -a-(-ya-) variant is not replaced with the -iva-(-yva-) form in most cases; according to frequency dynamics, a temporary increase in the popularity of forms of secondary imperfection in general was followed by a return to the primary forms of Imperfect in recent decades. …”
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Sweet Potato Value Chain Analysis Reveals Opportunities for Increased Income and Food Security in Northern Ghana by Issah Sugri, Bonaventure Kissinger Maalekuu, Eli Gaveh, Francis Kusi

“…The institutional actors need to network the primary actors to synergistically operate with a collective profit motive. The most prioritized production constraints such as access to seed, cost of chemical fertilizer, short shelf-life, field pests and diseases, and declining soil fertility should be addressed.…”
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The discontinuation of antitumor treatment and the advance directives in cancer patients by Pedro Grachinski Buiar, Jose Roberto Goldim, Vania Naomi Hirakata

“…In multivariable analysis, 82.5% of patients with advance directives were in the doctor's office at the occasion of the discontinuation of their anticancer therapy compared with 64.4% of the patients without directives (RR 1.88; 95%CI 1.019-3.496). The most cited “living will” was the desire “to die at home” (30%), and 10% of those manifesting this directive actually died at home. …”
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Protocol for a scoping review of the evidence concerning the unique needs and experiences of Orthodox Jewish women and their partners using maternity services. by Michal Rosie Meroz, Christine McCourt, Carol Rivas

“…<h4>Background</h4>Orthodox Jews follow the Jewish law, Halacha, that determines most daily activities and behaviours. Halacha restrictions and the insular lifestyle of groups within the Orthodox community have led to cultural barriers when interacting with NHS maternity services in the UK.…”
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Artificial Intelligence: The Strategy of Financial Risk Management by A. Kumar, A Kumar, S. Kumari, S. Kumar, N. Kumari, A. K. Behura

“…The paper presents the most promising AI technologies and techniques such as RPA, Data Management, Blockchain, MRL, MRC, CRU, Deep Learning, OML, Modelling and Stress Testing, Machine Learning and Algorithms, Neural Networks, Decision Trees, CPM, CRA, Black Box, etc. to improve “Financial Risk Management (FRM)”.…”
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