The Role of Open and Distance Learning (ODL) in Promoting Access to Women's Education in Northwestern Nigeria: A Case Study of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) by Shehu Usman Adamu, Bala Kwata Waziri, Adewale Adesina, Babangida Iro

“…En ce qui concerne les programmes d’études dans diverses facultés, la faculté des sciences de la santé a eu les chiffres les plus élevés d’inscription de dix mille quatre cent vingt-quatre (10424) représentant 41,1 %, suivie par la faculté des sciences avec trois mille huit cent trente-huit (3838) représentant 15,1 %. …”
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How can cervical screening meet the needs of vulnerable women? A qualitative comparative study with stakeholder perspectives from seven European countries by Partha Basu, Martin McKee, Adriana Băban, Marc Bardou, Ana Fernandes, Margarida Teixeira, Rebecca Moore, Nuno Lunet, David Ritchie, Romeu Mendes, Eric Lucas, Paolo Giorgi Rossi, Rosa Legood, Berit Andersen, Diana Taut, Keitly Mensah, João Firmino-Machado, Mariana Amorim, Mette Tranberg, Laura Bonvicini, Anneli Uusküla, Pia Kirkegaard, Paola Mantellini, Ines Baia, Liu Sun, Lise Rochaix, Camilla Fiorina, Luca Ghirotto, Anna Tisler, Firmino Machado, Rikke Buus Bøje, Raquel Rico Berrocal, Noemi Auzzi, Kerli Reintamm, Yulia Panayotova, Tatyana Kotzeva, Anna Foss, Rachel Greenley, Letizia Bartolini, Giusy Iorio, Cláudia Gouvinhas, Florian Nicula, Alexandra Tolnai, Vanessa Moore, Isabel Mosquera Metcalfe, Violette Delisle, Irina Todorova, Helena Ros Comesana, Meritxel Mallafré-Larrosa, Ginevra Papi, Nicoleta-Monica Pașca, Christiane Dascher-Nadel, Olivra Djuric

“…Objective This study explored and compared stakeholder perspectives on enhancements to cervical cancer screening for vulnerable women across seven European countries.Design In a series of Collaborative User Boards, stakeholders were invited to collaborate on identifying facilitators to improve cervical cancer screening.Setting This study was part of the CBIG-SCREEN project which is funded by the European Union and targets disparities in cervical cancer screening for vulnerable women (www.cbig-screen.eu). Data collection took place in Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, France, Italy, Portugal and Romania.Participants Represented stakeholders at various levels, including user representatives (vulnerable women), healthcare professionals, social workers, programme managers and decision makers.Methods 14 meetings lasting 2 hours each were held in these seven countries between October 2021 and June 2022. …”
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Citizen science platforms can effectively support early detection of invasive alien species according to species traits by Pablo González‐Moreno, Ana A. Anđelković, Tim Adriaens, Christophe Botella, Jakovos Demetriou, Rita Bastos, Sandro Bertolino, Celia López‐Cañizares, Franz Essl, Živa Fišer, Milka Glavendekić, Marc Herremans, Philip E. Hulme, Viola Jani, Dimitra Katsada, Periklis Kleitou, Nicola La Porta, Katharina Lapin, Marta López‐Darias, Vanessa Lozano, Angeliki F. Martinou, Damiano Oldoni, Esra Per, Stephanie Rorke, Helen E. Roy, Karl‐Manfred Schweinzer, Kristijn Swinnen, Elena Tricarico, Joana R. Vicente, Maarten de Groot, Michael J. O. Pocock

“…In contrast, inclusion in the EU priority list resulted in earlier official recording, reflecting the efficacy of targeted surveillance programmes. …”
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Safety, Tolerability, and Immunogenicity of the Invaplex_AR-Detox <i>Shigella</i> Vaccine Co-Administered with the dmLT Adjuvant in Dutch and Zambian Adults: Study Protoc... by Geert V. T. Roozen, Nsofwa Sukwa, Masuzyo Chirwa, Jessica A. White, Marcus Estrada, Nicole Maier, Kevin R. Turbyfill, Renee M. Laird, Akamol E. Suvarnapunya, Aicha Sayeh, Flavia D’Alessio, Candice Marion, Laura Pattacini, Marie-Astrid Hoogerwerf, Rajagopal Murugan, Manuela Terrinoni, Jan R. Holmgren, Sodiomon B. Sirima, Sophie Houard, Michelo Simuyandi, Meta Roestenberg

“…Besides strengthening the vaccine pipeline against a major diarrheal disease, another goal of the ShigaPlexIM project is to stimulate capacity building and strengthen global North-South relations in clinical research. Trial registration: EU CT number: 2023-506394-35-02, ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT05961059.…”
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Effective gene therapy for metachromatic leukodystrophy achieved with minimal lentiviral genomic integrations by Lucas Tricoli, Sunetra Sase, Julia L. Hacker, Vi Pham, Maxwell Chappell, Laura Breda, Stephanie N. Hurwitz, Naoto Tanaka, Carlo Castruccio Castracani, Amaliris Guerra, Zhongqi Hou, Lars Schlotawa, Karthikeyan Radhakrishnan, Matthew Hogenauer, Aoife Roche, John Everett, Frederic Bushman, Peter Kurre, Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas, Laura A. Adang, Adeline L. Vanderver, Stefano Rivella

“…Our top-performing vector (EA1) showed at least 4× more ARSA activity than the currently US and European Union (EU)-approved vector and a superior ability to secrete vesicle-associated ARSA, a critical modality to transfer functional enzymes from microglia to oligodendrocytes. …”
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Requirements and special considerations for drug trials with children across six jurisdictions: 2. Ethics review in the regulatory approval process by Breanne Stewart, Pirkko Lepola, Gunter F. Egger, Fahimeda Ali, Albert J. Allen, Albert J. Allen, Alysha K. Croker, Andrew J. Davidson, Pamela Dicks, Saul N. Faust, Saul N. Faust, Dionna Green, Collin Hovinga, Collin Hovinga, Agnes V. Klein, Robyn Langham, Hidefumi Nakamura, Laura Pioppo, Shiva Ramroop, Michiyo Sakiyama, Isabel Sanchez Vigil de la Villa, Junko Sato, Donna L. Snyder, Mark A. Turner, Mark A. Turner, Sarah Zaidi, Kanecia Zimmerman, Kanecia Zimmerman, Thierry Lacaze-Masmonteil

“…This work, undertaken by the Working Group (WG) on International Collaborations at the European Network of Pediatric Research at the European Medicines Agency (Enpr-EMA) aims to describe the research ethics review requirements including any pediatric specific requirements, as well as current or upcoming changes across six jurisdictions – the European Union (EU), United Kingdom (UK), United States of America (USA), Canada, Japan, and Australia.MethodsAn open questionnaire developed by the WG and directed at both the Competent Authorities (CA) and the national pediatric clinical trial networks arranged by jurisdictions.ResultsA synopsis of the current regulatory requirements covers centralized versus independent review, comparisons between investigator initiated and industry sponsored clinical trials, timelines, review board members requirements and the consenting/assent process for clinical trial (CT) applications, application submission processes and application requirements for each of the six jurisdictions. …”
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An Overview of Solar Orbiter Observations of Interplanetary Shocks in Solar Cycle 25 by Domenico Trotta, Andrew Dimmock, Heli Hietala, Xochitl Blanco-Cano, Timothy S. Horbury, Rami Vainio, Nina Dresing, Immanuel Christopher Jebaraj, Francisco Espinosa Lara, Raúl Gómez-Herrero, Javier Rodriguez-Pacheco, Yulia Kartavykh, David Lario, Jan Gieseler, Miho Janvier, Milan Maksimovic, Nasrin Talebpour Sheshvan, Christopher J. Owen, Emilia K. J. Kilpua, Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber

“…Finally, we give details and guidance on the access use of the present survey, available on the EU-project “Solar Energetic Particle Analysis Platform for the Inner Heliosphere” website. …”
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基于现行标准实施后市售一级大豆油品质分析 "Quality analysis of commercially available grade 1 soybean oils after the national standard revision" by 陈焱1，王翔宇1，尤梦圆1，刘芯羽1，李晓龙1，孙承国2，王风艳2 " CHEN Yan1, WANG Xiangyu1, YOU Mengyuan1, LIU Xinyu1, LI Xiaolong1, SUN Chengguo2,WANG Fengyan1"

“…Among the 12 commercially available soybean oils, only 1 sample met the requirement of zero trans fatty acid (less than 0.3%). the content of 3-chloropropanol esters ranged from 0.23 mg/kg to 0.57 mg/kg, with an average value of 0.38 mg/kg,and the content of glycidyl esters ranged from non-detected to 3.42 mg/kg, with an average value of 1.0 mg/kg, of which the glycidyl esters content of 3 samples was higher than the EU limit. The content of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons ranged from non-detected to 8.8 μg/kg, with an average value of 4.77 μg/kg, and the content of benzo(a)pyrene ranged from non-detected to 1.4 μg/kg, with an average value of 0.61 μg/kg. …”
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Editorial by Jörg Tremmel, Maria Lenk, Antony Mason, Markus Rutsche

“…Their results indicate that, in most of the 16 EU countries analysed, the human capital investments in children are far too low to finance the necessary transfers to the elderly population in the future. …”
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Editorial by Pieter Vanhuysse, Antony Mason, Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche, Maria Lenk

“…Taking the five largest EU countries, they show that seemingly worrying levels of unsustainability in the pension system can go hand in hand with modest sustainability worries at the level of the economy. …”
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Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) science: Probing the transient and time-variable sky [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Pamela Klaassen, Mark Booth, Thomas Stanke, Evanthia Hatziminaoglou, Claudia Cicone, Martin Cordiner, Tony Mroczkowski, Doug Johnstone, Luca Di Mascolo, Minju Lee, Eelco van Kampen, Thomas Maccarone, Daizhong Liu, Matthew Smith, Amélie Saintonge, Sven Wedemeyer, Alexander Thelen, John Orlowski-Scherer, Tomasz Kamiński, Joe Bright, Atul Mohan, Michael Koss, Sigurd Næss, Francisco Miguel Montenegro-Montes, Paola Severgnini, Claudio Ricci, Jochen Greiner, Cristian Vignali

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O delírio segundo Freud e Jung: aportes recíprocos e distinções by Carlos Augusto Pereira Viana

“…Um dos grandes temas de maior colaboração entre ambos foi o das psicoses, na época chamadas por Freud de neuroses narcísicas, dado ver nelas a ocorrência do retraimento da libido ao eu e o consequente abandono do mundo exterior. Ao contrário de Freud que tinha grande experiência para com o tratamento das neuroses, tanto Jung como Sandor Ferenczi tinham uma clínica com pacientes afetados por esquizofrenia e por paranoia e realizavam uma discussão constante desses caso com Freud, pelos quais mostrava um grande interesse. …”
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Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) science: Our Galaxy [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Pamela Klaassen, Maria Beltrán, Alessio Traficante, Mark Booth, Kate Pattle, Jonathan Marshall, Joshua Lovell, Brandt Gaches, Alvaro Hacar, Nicolas Peretto, Caroline Bot, Doris Arzoumanian, Thomas Stanke, Gaspard Duchêne, Ana Duarte Cabral, Antonio Hales, David Eden, Patricia Luppe, Jens Kauffmann, Elena Redaelli, Sebastian Marino, Álvaro Sánchez-Monge, Andrew Rigby, Dmitry Semenov, Eugenio Schisano, Mark Thompson, Silvia Spezzano, Claudia Cicone, Friedrich Wyrowski, Martin Cordiner, Tony Mroczkowski, Doug Johnstone, Luca Di Mascolo, Minju Lee, Eelco van Kampen, Thomas Maccarone, Daizhong Liu, Matthew Smith, Amélie Saintonge, Sven Wedemeyer, Alexander Thelen

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“CPR Posture” for Hemorrhage Control

“…Les participants n’ont pas eu de retour pendant le test. Les résultats du programme ont rapporté le pourcentage de temps pendant la période de trois minutes durant lequel pour la pression était supérieure à environ 21 kPa. …”
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Editorial by Mario Cesar Vidal

“…O tema que já há muito acendia paixões e gerava imensas polêmicas em todo o mundo, não chega a surpreender os ergonomistas brasileiros, já que uma boa parte deles sempre teve dificuldade de fazer como nossos colegas de outros países, cuja separação antre os aspectos fisicos, cognitivos e organizacionais relacionados ao trabalho não parecia ser problemática. È certo, como eu mesmo já escrevi em outra oportunidade (Vidal, 1997), que ao se falar de trabalho e organização deve-se distinguir o plano da organização geral da organização do trabalho. …”
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