Contextual awareness, response and evaluation (CARE) of diabetes in poor urban communities in Ghana: the CARE diabetes project qualitative study protocol by Leonard Baatiema, Daniel Llywelyn Strachan, Lydia Osetohamhen Okoibhole, Irene Akwo Kretchy, Mawuli Kushitor, Raphael Baffour Awuah, Olutobi Adekunle Sanuade, Ernestina Korleki Danyki, Samuel Amon, Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Haim Yacobi, Megan Vaughan, Ann Blandford, Publa Antwi, Hannah Maria Jennings, Daniel Kojo Arhinful, Ama de-Graft Aikins, Edward Fottrell, the CARE Diabetes Team

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Design of Efficient Off-Grid Solar Photovoltaic Water Pumping System Based on Improved Fractional Open Circuit Voltage MPPT Technique by Ali Hmidet, Umashankar Subramaniam, Rajvikram Madurai Elavarasan, Kannadasan Raju, Matias Diaz, Narottam Das, Kashif Mehmood, Alagar Karthick, M. Muhibbullah, Olfa Boubaker

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The association between recent stressful life events and brain structure: a UK Biobank longitudinal MRI study by Cheryl R.Z. See, Annabel X. Tan, Lucia R. Valmaggia, Matthew J. Kempton

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Long-term exposure to fine particulate matter components with obesity in children and adolescents in China: The age-sex disparities and key effect modifiers by Jinling Wang, Xinyi Li, Guannan Bai, Rachel Huxley, Kejia Hu, Jinna Yuan, Xuelian Zhou, Xiaochi Zhang, Ke Huang, Guanping Dong, Wei Wu, Bingyan Cao, Rongxiu Zheng, Chunlin Wang, Haiyan Wei, Yan Liang, Hui Yao, Feihong Luo, Pin Li, Zhe Su, Ruimin Chen, Shaoke Chen, Jingsi Luo, Hongwei Du, Mireguli. Maimaiti, Jianwei Zhang, Yu Yang, Min Zhu, Qi Zhao, Junfen Fu

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Advancing Anaesthetist Rostering Quality: A Practical Approach Toward Fairness and Efficiency by Norizal Abdullah, Masri Ayob, Meng Chun Lam, Nasser R. Sabar, Graham Kendall, Liu Chian Yong

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A Damage Constitutive Model for the Effects of CO2-Brine-Rock Interactions on the Brittleness of a Low-Clay Shale by Qiao Lyu, Xinping Long, P. G. Ranjith, Jingqiang Tan, Yong Kang, Wenbin Luo

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Caregivers’ experiences of being asked about adverse childhood experiences and receiving support from an integrated health and social care hub: a qualitative study by Ashraful Kabir, Harriet Hiscock, Hueiming Liu, Lingling Chen, Rebecca Bosward, Natalie White, Sarah Loveday, Wilhelmina Ebbett

“…NVivo (V.12) was used to organise, index and retrieve data.Settings This study was conducted in two Child and Family Hubs (CFHs) in Australia—IPC Health, Wyndham Vale, Melbourne, and Marrickville Health Centre, Sydney, between May and October 2023.Participants Participants (n=29) were the caregivers of children living with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).Results Four themes were identified which reflected the caregivers’ experiences of being asked about adversities and how they linked to the support and services both in the CFHs and outside the CFH. …”
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Implementing injury prevention training in youth handball (I-PROTECT) in Sweden: study protocol for a cluster randomised trial by Per Nilsen, Alex Donaldson, Eva Ageberg, Sofia Bunke, Jennie Linnéll, Karin Moesch, Karolina Lucander, Axel Ström, Robert Wedberg, Per Ekberg

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Optimization Techniques for Physician Scheduling Problem: A Systematic Review of Recent Advancements and Future Directions by Norizal Abdullah, Masri Ayob, Meng Chun Lam, Nasser R. Sabar, Graham Kendall, Mohamad Khairulamirin Md Razali

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Description and Classification of Training Drills, Based on Biomechanical and Physiological Load, in Elite Basketball by Carlos Sosa, Enrique Alonso-Pérez-Chao, Carlos Ribas, Xavier Schelling, Alberto Lorenzo

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EEG electrode setup optimization using feature extraction techniques for neonatal sleep state classification by Hafza Ayesha Siddiqa, Muhammad Farrukh Qureshi, Arsalan Khurshid, Yan Xu, Laishuan Wang, Saadullah Farooq Abbasi, Chen Chen, Wei Chen

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A Modified Cycle Slip Detection Method with GNSS Doppler Assistance and Optimizing by Adaptive Threshold and Sliding Polynomial Fitting by Kezhao Li, Yunyan Shen, Xiaokui Yue, Yingxiang Jiao, Kai Wang, Zhe Yue, Keke Xu

“…The TurboEdit method consists of the Melbourne-Wubbena (MW) and the geometry-free phase (GF) combination. …”
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Nanoparticle accumulation and penetration in 3D tumor models: the effect of size, shape, and surface charge by Pierre Cybulski, Maria Bravo, Maria Bravo, Jim Jui-Kai Chen, Indra Van Zundert, Sandra Krzyzowska, Farsai Taemaitree, Hiroshi Uji-i, Hiroshi Uji-i, Hiroshi Uji-i, Johan Hofkens, Johan Hofkens, Susana Rocha, Beatrice Fortuni

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Smoking as a risk factor for lung cancer in women and men: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Sanne A E Peters, Mark Woodward, Paul Mitchell, Rachel R Huxley, Gemma Taylor, Linda M O’Keeffe

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Interventions to improve media coverage of medical research: a codesigned feasibility and acceptability study with Australian journalists by Brooke Nickel, Ray Moynihan, Alexandra Barratt, Kirsten J McCaffery, Loai Albarqouni, Tessa Copp, Thomas Dakin, Liam Mannix

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Competitive Pasture Species to Suppress the Growth of Annual Riceflower (<i>Pimelea trichostachya</i> Lindl.) at Different Planting Densities and Spatial Arrangements by Rashid Saleem, Ali Bajwa, Shane Campbell, Mary T. Fletcher, Sundaravelpandian Kalaipandian, Steve W. Adkins

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Changes in Proteinuria on the Risk of All-Cause Mortality in People with Diabetes or Prediabetes: A Prospective Cohort Study by Yang Sun, Anxin Wang, Xiaoxue Liu, Zhaoping Su, Junjuan Li, Yanxia Luo, Shuohua Chen, Jianli Wang, Xia Li, Zhan Zhao, Huiping Zhu, Shouling Wu, Xiuhua Guo

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Acupuncture as prophylaxis for chronic migraine: a protocol for a single-blinded, double-dummy randomised controlled trial by Claire Shuiqing Zhang, Bin Li, Lin Zeng, Lu Liu, Luo-peng Zhao, Kelun Wang, Jingxia Zhao, Linpeng Wang, Xianghong Jing

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Tumour DNA methylation markers associated with breast cancer survival: a replication study by Elaheh Zarean, Shuai Li, Ee Ming Wong, Enes Makalic, Roger L. Milne, Graham G. Giles, Catriona McLean, Melissa C. Southey, Pierre-Antoine Dugué

“…Methods This study sought to replicate previously reported associations for individual CpG sites and multi-CpG signatures using an Australian sample of 425 women with breast cancer from the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study (MCCS). Candidate methylation sites (N = 22) and signatures (N = 3) potentially associated with breast cancer survival were identified from five prior studies that used The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) methylation dataset, which shares key characteristics with the MCCS: comparable sample size, tissue type (formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded; FFPE), technology (Illumina HumanMethylation450 array), and participant characteristics (age, ancestry, and disease subtype and severity). …”
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Bibliometric Analysis and ChatGPT-Assisted Identification of Key Strategies for Improving Primary Maternity Care Based on a Decade of Collective Research by Maulana S, Iqhrammullah M, Pratama R, Tjandra S, Mulya IC, Haroen H

“…Sidik Maulana,1,&ast; Muhammad Iqhrammullah,2,&ast; Rovy Pratama,3 Sydney Tjandra,4 Intan Chaharunia Mulya,5 Hartiah Haroen6 1Postgraduate Program of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Padjadjaran, Sumedang, Indonesia; 2Postgraduate Program of Public Health, Universitas Muhammadiyah Aceh, Banda Aceh, Indonesia; 3Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Indonesia; 4Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia; 5Education Program in Reproduction & Development, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, 3168, Australia; 6Department of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Padjadjaran, Sumedang, Indonesia&ast;These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Sidik Maulana, Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Padjadjaran, Jl. …”
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