Does academic excellence predict non-cognitive competencies? Insights from a situational judgement test among medical students in Nigeria by Ifunanya Clara Agu, Uche Shalom Obi, Chinyere Ojiugo Mbachu, Adanna Chukwuma

“…However, the negative association between clinical performance and SJTs is not always statistically significant. This has implications for training and implies that excellent clinical education may not facilitate the production of better doctors, but this is not always the case. …”
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Implementation of a specialized neuroprognostication consultation program and associated provider attitudes: A survey-based study by David Fischer, Sahily Reyes-Esteves, Connor Law, Alice Ford, Peter Schwab, Benjamin S. Abella, Andrea L.C. Schneider, Monisha A. Kumar

“…Program-exposed respondents, relative to historical and contemporary controls respectively, reported greater usefulness of neuroprognostication (94% reporting often or always useful, versus 69% [p < 0.01]) and 68% [p < 0.01]), comprehensiveness of neuroprognostication (94% reporting often or always comprehensive, versus 76% [p = 0.02] and 66% [p < 0.01]), and greater satisfaction with neuroprognostication, particularly in comparison to the conventional model (63% reporting the program was “much better”). …”
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Inhibition of corrosion of mild steel hull plates immersed in natural sea water by sandalwood oil extract of some natural products by Thankappan Sasilatha, Rajendran Susai Santhammal, Hashem Abdulhameed Al, Časlav Lačnjevac, Gurmeet Singh

“…The hull plates of the ship made of mild steel (MS) are always in contact with seawater are always in contact with aggressive ions such as chloride ions present in seawater.The corrosion resistance of the hull plates of the ship made of mild steel has been investigated by polarization study. …”
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Failure or success of self-organizing teams in long-term care organizations: an integrative systematic literature review on the role of the organization structure by Laura Harkema, Dirk Vriens, Lander Vermeerbergen, Debby Gerritsen, Patrick Vermeulen

“…However, self-organizing teams are not always delivering these favorable outcomes. To evaluate the success of self-organizing teams, it is important to understand the reasons for their varying levels of success in long-term care organizations. …”
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The association of pregnancy control, emotions, and beliefs with pregnancy desires: A new perspective on pregnancy intentions. by Meredith G Manze, Diana R Romero, Prabal De, Josette Hartnett, Lynn Roberts

“…<h4>Context</h4>Standard pregnancy intentions measures do not always align with how people approach pregnancy. Studies that have investigated beyond a binary framework found that those with "ambivalent" feelings towards pregnancy are less likely to use contraception consistently, but the reasons for this are unclear. …”
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Exploring the Patterns of In-Between Spaces in Guilan Historical Houses by seyedehmahdieh Mirmiran, Aliasghar Malekafzali, Leyla Karimifard

“…It can be said that in all these patterns of spatial arrangement, Verandas have always had a key role in creating accessibility and visibility between spaces. …”
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Cosmological Models in Lovelock Gravity: An Overview of Recent Progress by Sergey Pavluchenko

“…In particular, for vacuum and <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi mathvariant="normal">Λ</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula>-term EGB models, compactification is not suppressed (but is not the only possible outcome either) if the number of extra dimensions is <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>D</mi><mo>⩾</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>; for vacuum cubic Lovelock gravities it is always present (however, cubic Lovelock gravity is defined only for <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>D</mi><mo>⩾</mo><mn>3</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> number of extra dimensions); for the EGB model with perfect fluid it is present for <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>D</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> (we have not considered this model in higher dimensions yet), and in the presence of spatial curvature, the realistic stabilization of extra dimensions is always present (however, such a model is well-defined only in <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>D</mi><mo>⩾</mo><mn>4</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> number of extra dimensions).…”
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Subjetividade, trabalho e ação Subjectivity, work and action by Christophe Dejours

“…Another question concerns the agreements built by workers within the collective of a team or of a job, which always present a double vectorization: from the one hand, a work efficacy and quality goal; on the other hand, a social goal. …”
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The role of weaning in brace treatment for developmental dysplasia of the hip: time to define best practice? by Joanna Craven, Ioan Davies, Daniel C Perry

“…Overall, 47.4% of respondents (n = 65) reported never weaning, 39.4% (n = 54) always wean, and 13.1% (n = 18) varied their approach. …”
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Evolutionary aspects of thymology in pediatric practice by Yu. I. Rovda, N. N. Minyailova, A. V. Vedernikova, A. V. Shabaldin, I. K. Khalivopulo, S. F. Zinchuk, O. V. Shmakova, A. A. Lobykina

“…Even today, however, the assessment of thymus pathomorphology in the deceased children is not always critical, being often descriptive. This situation is, probably, associated with extreme complexity of thymic morphology assessment. …”
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A review of UK publicly funded non-inferiority trials: is the design more inferior than it should be? by Nikki Totton, Steven Julious, Stephen Walters, Elizabeth Coates

“…The superiority of the treatment was well described but not always included as an outcome and only powered for in about a third of cases. …”
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Reliability of anthropological measurements in determining vertical dimension of occlusion in Saudi population: A cross sectional study by Narendra Basutkar, Aliaa Mahmoud Borham, Saad Ali AlGhamdi, Elaf Waleed Alderea, Mohammed Mansour AlShammari, Khamrunissa Hussain Sheikh

“…Presence of so many methods to determine VDO further leads to confusion in the minds of clinicians. There is always a need for a research to both substantiate the findings in the literature and check reliability of such correlations in local population. …”
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Spatial concepts and architecture of nomadic camps among the steppe peoples of Inner Asia by Ferenc Zámolyi

“…The orientation of the dwelling is essential, as the door always faces east (Turkic peoples) or south/southeast (Mongols). …”
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An effective approach for correlating Na+ concentrations with sweating rates in wearable sweat sensing platform by Anwei He, Xiaohe Wang, Liang Zhang, Haolong Zhang, Xingli Xu, Chenyang Yu, Yongquan Ma, Wei Wei, Pengfei Niu

“…These two measurements are always done simultaneously in wearable sweat sensing platforms. …”
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Polish Toxic Currency Options by Waldemar Gontarski

“…The manager of the exporter should not, as a rule, issue any options. Issuing options always means assuming an obligation. In the case of currency put options it is an absolute obligation to purchase a given amount in euro at exchange rate set in advance. …”
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From Lack to Excess in Words: Lacanian Reading of Palace of Sad Birds and The Previous Stroke by Shirzad Tayefi

“…Of course, the lack is never filled in speech because the speech always exceeds his intention.…”
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Following the issue-attention cycle of North Atlantic right whale science, conservation, and policy in six US newspapers: 2023 and 2024 by Marcus Reamer, Elise Rivera

“…This study highlights how media organizations use dramatization and problematization to draw public attention to topics, which does not always align with the timelines and needs of conservation and sustainability efforts. …”
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The Use of Cognate Cosolvent to Mediate Localized High-Concentration Electrolytes for High-Voltage and Long-Cycling Lithium-Metal Batteries by Ying Hu, Dandan Wang, Qijie Yu, Ziyi He, Fengrui Deng, Hao Yan, Tinglu Song, Jin-Cheng Zheng, Yang Dai

“…Unfortunately, they are always challenged by liquid–liquid phase separation during solution preparation. …”
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Valuation of informal care for the old-aged with disabilities in China—a discrete choice experiment approach by Zhan Zhao, Shuaizhen Chen, Fengyi Sun, Wenjing Cheng, Chen Chen, Elizabeth Maitland, Stephen Nicholas, Jian Wang, Lei Si, Jialong Tan

“…Results Among the respondents, 19.5% always chose to receive the free care package and 15.2% always chose to obtain cash compensation for informal caregiving. …”
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Role of comprehensive geriatric assessment in healthcare of older people in UK care homes: realist review by Claire Goodman, Tom Dening, Neil H Chadborn, Maria Zubair, Lídia Sousa, John R F Gladman, Adam, L Gordon

“…Goal-setting processes were not always sufficiently patient-centred and did not always accommodate the views of care home staff. …”
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