Reducing personal protective equipment waste in the emergency department of a large regional hospital: codesign informed by system science by Mike Forrester, Rebecca Patrick, Steven Allender, Jaithri Ananthapavan, Urvi Thanekar, Hasini Gunasiri, Minoo Naebe, Maryam Naebe

“…Background This study aimed to bring together health workers from an emergency department (ED) and broader health system changemakers to cocreate a system-oriented understanding of the drivers of single-use personal protective equipment (PPE) waste, and recommend priority actions for government policy, and organisational change, to reduce PPE waste and transition towards a circular economy approach.Methods Participatory group model building was used with ED and PPE health service stakeholders to create a causal loop diagram of drivers of PPE waste and use this diagram to codesign actions to address this waste. …”
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Public-Private Partnership: High-Impact Alliance for Sustainability Targets by Y. I. Vaslavskiy

“…It could help the country to ensure a leap in its economy from statics to dynamics.This leap and respective transformations in corporate and social structures based on the human-centric principles could bring a multiplicative effect to the economy, quality of life, public policy, governance, and other spheres.…”
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System Design and Optimisation Study on a Novel CCHP System Integrated with a Hybrid Energy Storage System and an ORC by Jie Ji, Zujun Ding, Xin Xia, Yeqin Wang, Hui Huang, Chu Zhang, Tian Peng, Xiaolu Wang, Muhammad Shahzad Nazir, Yue Zhang, Baolian Liu, Xiaoying Jia, Ruisheng Li, Yaodong Wang

“…Compared to the original following electrical load (FEL) control strategy, the optimisation process brings overall efficiency improvements. The system’s overall efficiency was increased by from 3%, 3.18%, 2.85%, 17.11%, 8.89%, and 21.7% in the second case studies. …”
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Posthumous coins of the Legnica-Brzeg Piasts by Robert Pieńkovski

“…The posthumous coins of the Princes of Legnica and Brzeg, due to the minting technique, have the character of coins, but the purpose of their issue brings them closer to medals. The monetary nature was clearly emphasized on the numismatic items minted after the death of Zofia Katarzyna, as they have the denomination clearly indicated. …”
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Urban environment during pregnancy, cognitive abilities, motor function, and externalizing and internalizing symptoms at 2–5 years old in 3 Canadian birth cohorts by Anne-Claire Binter, Dany Doiron, Martine Shareck, Tona Pitt, Sheila W. McDonald, Padmaja Subbarao, Wiliam D. Fraser, Suzanne C. Tough, Jeffrey Brook, Mònica Guxens

“…Background: More than 80% of the Canadian population lives in urban settings. Urban areas usually bring exposure to poorer air quality, less access to green spaces, and higher building density. …”
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MYSTICAL ASPECT OF EDITH STEIN'S ANTHROPOLOGY: FROM PHENOMENOLOGY TO THOMISM by J. A. Shabanova

“…An empathy, as a model of extrapolation of the principle (of to be get used to the experience of the Other) onto mystical act of overcoming of subject-object opposition of transpersonal content and an intuition, as a movement inside the self, an ability to complete an integral image refusing the subjectivity and bringing back generic, spiritual subject, are considered to be key-constructs of the Edith Stein's evolutionary views development on her way to philosophical mystic. …”
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A clinical audit on the utilization of group O-negative red cells and the lesson learnt by Arzina Aziz Ali, Hira Qadir, Areeba Khalid, Bushra Moiz

“…Appropriate policies, planning, education of physicians, and regular clinical audits are needed to bring the desired change in transfusion practices.…”
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Potential for circular economy in the construction sector. An explorative study about single-use masks and sustainable building material based on a customer and construction compan... by Daniela Ludin, Erika Mueller, Asli Ercengiz, Jannick Lumpp, Wanja Wellbrock

“…Practical implications recommend the development of partnerships between companies and research institutions, in order to bring the testing and application side together as well as the necessity of research in material science and (post- use) processing.…”
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Effect of modeling liquid application on color stability and surface roughness of single-shade composites by Melek Güven Bekdaş, Ihsan Hubbezoglu

“…The application of modeling liquid was observed to reduce the variation in initial roughness among the composites, bringing their roughness values closer to an average range (0.26–0.34). …”
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The Impact of ‘Migration Potential’ on the Economic and Demographic Development of Donor and Recipient Countries by V. Yu. Ledeneva, A. Kh. Rakhmonov

“…The phenomenon of global migration exerts a substantial impact on nations, organizations, and individuals, yet the focus of scholarly discourse on the potential of migrants has historically not paralleled the magnitude of this phenomenon. This study brings into focus the often-neglected dual nature of immigrant potential, impacting both countries that receive migrants (recipient countries) and those from which migrants originate (donor countries). …”
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“The Founder and Father of his Empire”: Voltaire on the Peace of Nystad and the Imperial Status of Russia by S. A. Mezin

“…According to Voltaire, the specific feature of the Russian Empire, created by Peter I, lies in the fact that it was a self-civilizing empire, bringing enlightenment on the neighboring «barbaric» peoples.The author of the paper, reviewing specific cases, arrives at a conclusion, that Voltaire’s works of high confidence for their time took a worthy standing in the world historiography of the Petrine era, due to a wide range of sources, the historian’s ability for their critical assessment, his seeking to maintain a certain evaluation independence in the description of events from different perspectives, his commitment to historical truth, his talent of a writer.The work is carried out within the project, aimed at publishing a first complete scientific edition of «The History of the Russian Empire under Peter the Great» in Russian.…”
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Acceptance for Social Health Insurance among Health Professionals in Government Hospitals, Mekelle City, North Ethiopia by Alemtsehay Tewele, Mezgebu Yitayal, Adane Kebede

“…Therefore, strengthening awareness creation, creating awareness about SHI, promoting the scheme using the different channels of communication to bring about favorable attitude, and providing health care services with required standard quality could help to increase the acceptance of SHI by health professionals.…”
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Benthic Marine Diatom Flora (Bacillariophyta) of Yap, Micronesia: Preliminary Annotated List, with Some New Mangrove Species by Christopher S. Lobban, Bernadette G. Tharngan

“…In addition, 44 <i>Mastogloia</i> records were published separately, bringing the taxon total to 245. In the present paper, 32 records are new for Micronesia, while many others are species described from neighboring Guam in the past 15 years. …”
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Long-Haul COVID: Investigating the Effects Within the Mauritian Context by Aïsha B. Soreefan, Manish Putteeraj, Jhoti Somanah

“…Long COVID manifests as a complex and long-lasting affliction that affects even young adults with disabling outcomes, owing to multiple lingering symptoms but, most importantly, fatigue. The latter brings about distressing declines in physical and overall quality of life that thump both individual and societal health and productivity.…”
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Evaluation of the effectiveness of blood-drop agglutination test for chicken tuberculosis diagnosis by M. O. Baratov

“…Due to the increased role of opportunistic infections, mycobacterioses, parasitocenoses, etc. the detectability of nonspecific reactions to PPD-tuberculin has sharply increased, which makes it difficult to make a diagnosis and brings laboratory test methods to the fore. The aim of the study was to determine practical significance of blood-drop agglutination test in comparison with allergy test, and frequency of avian tuberculosis lesions on internal organs. …”
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Entrepreneurial agility and organizational performance of IT firms: A mediated moderation model by Leul Girma Haylemariam, Stephen Oduro, Zewdu Lake Tegegne

“…IT firms should also prioritize building a diverse and inclusive workforce that can bring diverse perspectives and experiences to the innovation process to enhance their innovation capabilities and create products and services that better meet the needs of customers. …”
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Reproductive and persistence strategy of the liverwort Arnellia fennica after the last glaciation in the area of disjunction in Central Europe (Polish Tatra Mountains, carpathians) by Piotr Górski, Monika Szczecińska, Jakub Sawicki

“…As a result, nine additional new occurrences were found, bringing the total to 13 throughout the massif. Some of the sites were found in the high mountain area. …”
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Transition to home after very preterm birth: improving outcomes of children and their families—a systematic review protocol by Beatrice Latal, Ulrike Held, Ursula Kiechl-Kohlendorfer, Sandra Siegfried, Vivienne Engel, Valentina Mauron-Papadimitriou, Lea Bührer, Laura Ebner, Lena Keller, Martina Gosteli

“…While the homecoming of a preterm-born infant is long-awaited and brings relief to families, it also marks the end of intensive monitoring and highly specialised professional care. …”
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Integration of field data and application of machine learning methods to assess the condition of the near-wellbore zone of carbonate reservoirs by Andrey V. Soromotin, Dmitriy A. Martyushev

“…The disadvantages of this research method are a long shutdown (as a result, “shortfalls” of oil) and increased risks of failure to bring wells into operation. In this regard, the integration of field data and the use of machine learning to describe the state of the near-wellbore zone can have a positive effect on the timeliness of geological and technical activities and ensure maximization of their effectiveness in the future. …”
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Utilizing the Ethereum blockchain for retrieving and archiving augmented reality surgical navigation data by Sai Batchu, Michael J. Diaz, Lauren Ladehoff, Kevin Root, Brandon Lucke-Wold

“…Though powerful, limited attempts have been made to showcase the clinical utility of such technologies, especially in the pre- and post-operative imaging arenas. Herein, we therefore aim to propose a proof-of-concept smart contract that stores intraoperative three-dimensional (3D) augmented reality surgical navigation (ARSN) data and was tested on a private, proof-of-authority network. …”
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