Editorial by Ann-Kristin Kölln, Antony Mason, Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche, Maria Lenk

“…Overall, Simon Pistor concludes that Sloam and Henn’s book is “an empirically rich and informed study”, which might suggest that the key to future democratic successes does indeed lie with the young. …”
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Bio-Waste in Reverse Logistics - Various Size Cities on the Example of South-Eastern Poland by KOC-JURCZYK Justyna, JURCZYK Łukasz, PODOLAK Agnieszka

“…Therefore, reporting on the management of municipal bio-waste at all administrative levels should be improved. …”
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Patient Satisfaction and Associated Factors among Clients Admitted to Obstetrics and Gynecology Wards of Public Hospitals in Mekelle Town, Ethiopia: An Institution-Based Cross-Sect... by Taklu Marama, Hinsermu Bayu, Mulualem Merga, Wakgari Binu

“…Respondents live in rural area, stayed < 4 days, admitted for the first time, admitted in Mekelle General Hospital, and who reported their feeling on ways privacy was assured were more likely satisfied than their counterparts. …”
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SPIRIT-DEFINE explanation and elaboration: recommendations for enhancing quality and impact of early phase dose-finding clinical trials protocolsResearch in context by Moreno Ursino, Guillermo Villacampa, Jan Rekowski, Munyaradzi Dimairo, Olga Solovyeva, Deborah Ashby, Jordan Berlin, Oliver Boix, Melanie Calvert, An-Wen Chan, Courtney H. Coschi, Thomas R. Jeffry Evans, Elizabeth Garrett-Mayer, Robert M. Golub, Christina Guo, Kathryn S. Hayward, Sally Hopewell, John D. Isaacs, S. Percy Ivy, Thomas Jaki, Olga Kholmanskikh, Andrew Kightley, Shing Lee, Rong Liu, Adrian Mander, Lynley V. Marshall, James Matcham, Dhrusti Patel, Richard Peck, Khadija Rerhou Rantell, Dawn P. Richards, Mahtab Rouhifard, Lesley Seymour, Yoshiya Tanaka, Christopher J. Weir, Johann de Bono, Christina Yap

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HIV prevention and missed opportunities among people with recently acquired HIV infection: Α protocol for a systematic review. by Argyro Karakosta, Elisa Ruiz-Burga, Shema Tariq, Giota Touloumi, Emily Jay Nicholls, Nikos Pantazis, Inma Jarrin, Marc Van der Valk, Caroline Sabin, Cristina Mussini, Laurence Meyer, Alain Volny Anne, Christina Carlander, Sophie Grabar, Linda Wittkop, Bruno Spire, Jonh Gill, Kholoud Porter, Fiona Burns, for CASCADE Collaboration

“…Quality assessment of the studies selected will be undertaken, and reporting of the systematic review will be informed by Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines.…”
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Large language model usage guidelines in Korean medical journals: a survey using human-artificial intelligence collaboration by Sangzin Ahn

“…Results Only 18% of the surveyed journals had LLM guidelines, which is much lower than previously reported in international journals. However, the adoption rates increased over time, reaching 57.1% in the first quarter of 2024. …”
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Efficacy, safety, and tolerability of lifitegrast 5% eye drops: A randomized, double-blind, active-controlled trial in Indian patients with dry eye disease by Namrata Sharma, Sayan Basu, Rohit Shetty, Pramod Kumar, Anindita Mondal, P Seshu Babu, Richa Srivastava, Ranjana A Pande, Shubashree Karat, Hemaxi P Desai, S Manjula, M Krishna Kumar

“…No serious safety concerns were reported in any treatment group. Conclusion: To our knowledge, this is the first active-controlled trial informing on the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of lifitegrast 5%. …”
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Role of private providers in the implementation of the national health insurance scheme in Zambia: a qualitative study of perceptions and experiences by Jesper Sundewall, Warren Mukelabai Simangolwa

“…Senior citizens and the informal sector constituted the majority of users. …”
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Survey on the Status and Training Demands of Capabilities for Diagnosing and Treating Common Diseases of Primary Care General Practitioners in Hunan Province by LI Lingqi, GAO Yinyan, ZHANG Yuqin, SUN Dingkui, WU Xinyin, ZHANG Weiru

“…Background First contact in the primary care setting and the development of a gatekeeping system are crucial for the implementation of a hierarchical medical system. …”
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Zoonotic Babesia: A scoping review of the global evidence. by Kaitlin M Young, Tricia Corrin, Barbara Wilhelm, Carl Uhland, Judy Greig, Mariola Mascarenhas, Lisa A Waddell

“…<h4>Background</h4>Babesiosis is a parasitic vector-borne disease of increasing public health importance. Since the first human case was reported in 1957, zoonotic species have been reported on nearly every continent. …”
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Cost-effective time-efficient subnational-level surveillance using Twitter: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia case study by Marwa K. Elteir

“…The second offers better coverage but is less accurate, particularly for informal Arabic text, and is neither cost-effective nor time-efficient due to Twitter’s new policies. …”
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From gaming to reality: effectiveness of skills transfer from competitive sandbox gaming environment to near and far contexts by Yuchun Zhong, Luke Kutszik Fryer, Shiyue Zheng, Alex Shum, Samuel Kai Wah Chu

“…Abstract Esports or competitive video gaming has been increasingly utilized to enhance essential twenty-first century skills. However, there is limited evidence on the extent to which the skills acquired from a gaming environment can be transferred to other settings. …”
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Social-ecological perspective on the suicidal behaviour factors of early adolescents in China: a network analysis by Xueying Zhang, Yuan Li, Juan Chen, Peiying Li, Mengyuan Yuan, Yonghan Li, Gengfu Wang, Puyu Su

“…Identifying modifiable risk factors during this critical phase is a priority to inform effective suicide prevention strategies.Aims To explore the risk and protective factors of suicidal behaviours (ie, suicidal ideation, plans and attempts) in early adolescence in China using a social-ecological perspective.Methods Using data from the cross-sectional project ‘Healthy and Risky Behaviours Among Middle School Students in Anhui Province, China’, stratified random cluster sampling was used to select 5724 middle school students who had completed self-report questionnaires in November 2020. …”
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Do You Speak Dialect? Yes! by Vytautas Kardelis, Gabriela Forgeron

“…In essence, the methodology involved a dual-faceted approach: first, to ascertain whether informants employed dialectal language in informal settings with family members and friends from their country of origin; and second, to examine the practical implementation of this linguistic phenomenon. …”
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How do multiple deprivations in nuanced urban and rural settings affect health differently in South Africa? Evidence from NIDS data, 2017 by Josue Mbonigaba, Msawenkosi Dlamini

“…This study enhances our understanding by moving beyond traditional comparisons to examine the specific impacts of multiple deprivations on self-rated health across traditional authority areas, rural formal areas, urban informal areas and urban formal areas. By doing so, it captures the unique challenges and health implications associated with varying deprivation levels within these diverse contexts.Methods We first constructed the Provincial Index of Multiple Deprivation for each selected region using Wave 5 data from the National Income Dynamics Study, enabling an assessment of the health impacts of multiple deprivations across South Africa. …”
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Functional MRI-guided microsurgery of intracranial arteriovenous malformations: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Shuo Wang, Yuanli Zhao, Jun Wu, Bing Zhao, Yong Cao

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Exploring the relationship between mental health status and life events in children and adolescents: the role of mediating factors by Jiemei Xie, Jiemei Xie, Guoqiang Cheng, Mingliang Zhou, Qisheng Liang, Qianjin Wang, Qianjin Wang, Qianjin Wang

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The Bioethics-CSR Divide by Caio Caesar Dib

“…On the side of CSR, this period represents, at first, a stronger pact between businesses and society due to more stringent environmental and consumer regulations. …”
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Circumventing cigarette regulation: Product characteristics of cigarette-like cigarillos on the Dutch market by Jeroen L. A. Pennings, Charlotte G. G. M. Pauwels, Erna Schenk, Reinskje Talhout

“…Introduction Cigarillos have been reported to provide an alternative to cigarettes with a characterizing flavor, which are banned in the European Union. …”
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A universal panel of STR loci for the study of polymorphism of the species <i>Canis lupus</i> and forensic identification of dog and wolf by A. E. Hrebianchuk, I. S. Tsybovsky

“…Analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) between samples revealed significant differentiation values (FST = 0.0828, p &lt; 0.05), which allows the panel to be used for differentiating between wolf and dog samples. For the first time in the forensic examination of objects of animal origin in the Republic of Belarus, population subdivision coefficients (θ­-values) were calculated for each of the 15 STR loci of the test system being reported. …”
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