Identifying the Components of Iranian Adolescent Compassionate Mind Training Program by Somayeh Mohebi, Iraj Shakerinia, Mahnaz Khosrojavid, Abbas Abolghasemi, Abbas Ali Hossein Khanzadeh:

“…Participants included university professors and school counsellors with extensive experience in relevant fields. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews, focusing on the essential components of compassion training for adolescents, distinguishing features of Iranian adolescents, and additional elements needed for cultural adaptation. …”
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Direct oral penicillin challenge in secondary care with low-risk patients: the SPACE mixed-methods study with cost-effectiveness analysis by Mamidipudi Thirumala Krishna, Yogini H Jani, Iestyn Williams, Ruben Mujica-Mota, Rebecca Bestwick, Michele Siciliano, Robert Michael West, Rashmeet Bhogal, Bee Yean Ng, Kornelija Kildonaviciute, Rachel Pollard, Nicola Jones, Louise Dunsmure, Mairead McErlean, Neil Powell, Chidanand C Hullur, Ariyur Balaji, Jonathan Sandoe, Amena Warner, Ron Daniels, Caroline Thomas, Siraj A Misbah, Louise Savic

“…Patients can be stratified into ‘low risk’ and ‘high risk’ based on a structured clinical history and scrutiny of clinical and prescription records. …”
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Association of cancer and outcomes of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 between 2020 and 2023 [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations, 1 not approved] by Robert F Terry, Rugiatu Z Kamara, Robert J Samuels, Donald S Grant, Sulaiman Lakoh, Mustapha Kabba, Innocent Nuwagira, Yusuf Sheku Tejan, Sia Morenike Tengbe, Ibrahim Franklyn Kamara, Shermarke Hassan, Abdulai Tejan Jalloh, Divya Nair, Laura Merson

“…Methods We conducted an analysis on data collected in a large prospective cohort study set-up by the International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC). …”
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Exploring perceptions and preferences for PrEP choice and of an mHealth intervention: insights from the ImPrEP CAB‐Brasil study by Cristina Pimenta, Claudio G. Mann, Brenda Hoagland, Eduardo Carvalheira, Cristina Jalil, Marcos Benedetti, Nilo Fernandes, Carolina Coutinho, Emilia M. Jalil, Mayara Secco Torres Silva, Roberta Trefiglio, Alessandro Farias, Maria Paula G. Mourão, José Valdez Madruga, Josué N. deLima, Ronaldo Zonta, Gabrielle O'Malley, Valdilea G. Veloso, Beatriz Grinsztejn, Thiago S. Torres, for the ImPrEP CAB‐Brasil Study

“…A subset of participants from each site were invited to participate in the qualitative study (October 2023−July 2024). Semi‐structured interviews were conducted, recorded and transcribed. …”
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Using Natural Language Processing to Explore Patient Perspectives on AI Avatars in Support Materials for Patients With Breast Cancer: Survey Study by Eleanor Cheese, Raouef Ahmed Bichoo, Kartikae Grover, Dorin Dumitru, Alexandros Zenonos, Joanne Groark, Douglas Gibson, Rebecca Pope

“…We applied and evaluated different NLP machine learning techniques to draw insights from these unstructured data, namely sentiment analysis, topic modeling, summarization, and term frequency–inverse document frequency word clouds. …”
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UE-NER-2025: A GPT-Based Approach to Multi-Lingual Named Entity Recognition on Urdu and English by Muhammad Ahmad, Humaira Farid, Iqra Ameer, Fida Ullah, Muhammad Muzamil, Muhammad Jalal, Ameer Hamza, Ildar Batyrshin, Grigori Sidorov

“…Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task that identifies and classifies entities into predefined categories from unstructured text. As textual data continues to grow and span diverse linguistic communities, NER is rarely studied as a multilingual task, particularly for low-resource languages. …”
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Timescales of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon and Dust Continuum Emission from Gas Clouds Compared to Molecular Gas Cloud Lifetimes in PHANGS-JWST Galaxies by Jaeyeon Kim, Mélanie Chevance, Lise Ramambason, Kathryn Kreckel, Ralf S. Klessen, Daniel A. Dale, Adam K. Leroy, Karin Sandstrom, Ryan Chown, Thomas G. Williams, Sumit K. Sarbadhicary, Francesco Belfiore, Frank Bigiel, Enrico Congiu, Oleg V. Egorov, Eric Emsellem, Simon C. O. Glover, Kathryn Grasha, Annie Hughes, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Janice C. Lee, Debosmita Pathak, Ismael Pessa, Erik Rosolowsky, Jiayi Sun, Jessica Sutter, David A. Thilker

“…Finally, we find that the mid-IR emitting timescale is longer in galaxies with well-defined H ii regions and less structured backgrounds, allowing photons to more efficiently heat the ambient ISM surrounding the H ii regions, rather than contributing to diffuse emission. …”
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Safety of a co-designed cognitive behavioural therapy intervention for people with type 1 diabetes and eating disorders (STEADY): a feasibility randomised controlled trialResearch... by Marietta Stadler, Natalie Zaremba, Amy Harrison, Jennie Brown, Divina Pillay, Jacqueline Allan, Rachael Tan, Salma Ayis, Emmanouela Konstantara, Janet Treasure, David Hopkins, Khalida Ismail

“…Baseline mental health data (Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5, SCID-5RV), and secondary biomedical outcomes (HbA1c; glucose time in range; TIR) and person-reported outcome measures (PROM: Diabetes Eating Problems Survey-Revised, DEPS-R; Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire Short, EDE-QS; Type 1 Diabetes Distress Scale, T1DDS; Generalised Anxiety Disorder Assessment, GAD-7; Patient Health Questionnaire, PHQ-9; Impact of Diabetes Profile, DIDP) were collected. …”
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Comparative Ethics of Modern Payment Models by Jacob Riegler

“…Fee-For-Service Fee-for-service is the main payment model worldwide.[12] It has played a large role in shaping the structural nature of healthcare, particularly in the United States.[13] Fee-for-service, although declining, is still pervasive in the US health system and has created market forces that indirectly affect the geographic distribution of care, with an obvious volume-based market force.[14] Even with the advent of alternative payment models, fee-for-service remains the primary mode of physician compensation by percentage in primary care in the US.[15] Fee-for-service’s financial and organizational incentives are based on the number of patients seen and services rendered. …”
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Comparative Ethics of Modern Payment Models by Jacob Riegler

“…Fee-For-Service Fee-for-service is the main payment model worldwide.[12] It has played a large role in shaping the structural nature of healthcare, particularly in the United States.[13] Fee-for-service, although declining, is still pervasive in the US health system and has created market forces that indirectly affect the geographic distribution of care, with an obvious volume-based market force.[14] Even with the advent of alternative payment models, fee-for-service remains the primary mode of physician compensation by percentage in primary care in the US.[15] Fee-for-service’s financial and organizational incentives are based on the number of patients seen and services rendered. …”
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Percepções de atletas paralímpicos sobre a inclusão social por meio do esporte (Paralympic athletes perceptions about social inclusion through sport) by Bruna Solera, Patrick Paludett Flores, Ana Luiza Barbosa Anversa, Yedda Maria da Silva Caraçato, Vânia de Fátima Matias de Souza, Carlos Herold Junior

“…As a research instrument, opted for the unstructured interview, with the data collected and analyzed based on the assumptions of the content analysis and organized with the aid of the N Vivo software. …”
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The difficult process of autonomous choice: using I-poems to understand experiences of abortion-seekers in The Netherlands by Lianne Holten, Rosalie van der Wolf, Marit S. G. van der Pijl

“…This qualitative feminist study used transcripts of semi-structured, in-depth interviews with abortion-seekers from previous research to create I-poems. …”
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Non-adherence to medication and its associations among type 2 diabetes patients following up with health coaches in primary healthcare centers, Makkah city, KSA by Ahmad Salah Alkathiri, Renad Turki Alghamdi, Abeer Ahmad Alamri, Haneen Hassan Alhazmi, Sarah Badr Alsharif, Sahab Muqbil Alharbi, Muath Aldomini, Baraa Sami Quronfulah, Mohamed O. Nour, Mohamed Osman Elamin, Abdullah Khalid Alafif, Saud Hasan Surbaya, Osama M. Hayat Noor

“…Methodology A cross-sectional study was conducted among 327 T2DM adult patients. Data on socio-demographic characteristics, clinical, medication-related, and psychological factors, barriers to adherence, and communication difficulties were collected by health coaches at all 24 PHCCs in Makkah City using a structured interview questionnaire. …”
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Investigating and Determining the Priorities for Capital Organizing in Iran by Mohammad Mirehei, Amir Fathi, Sohrab Amirian, Hatem Parnian

“…The network of all highways, railways and airways in Iran is so structured, that Tehran is practically the center all of them. …”
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Artificial intelligence and predictive marketing: an ethical framework from managers’ perspective by Hina Naz, Muhammad Kashif

“…Originality/value – The authors identify seven unique themes and benchmark them with Ashok’s model to provide a structured lens for interpreting the results. The framework presented by this research is unique and can be used to support ethical research spanning social, technological and economic aspects within the predictive marketing domain. …”
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Increase in colonic propionate as a method of preventing weight gain in adults aged 20–40 years: iPREVENT, a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, parallel-group trial by Gary Frost, Joana C Vasconcelos, Jennifer E Pugh, Aisha Anjum, Katerina Petropoulou, George Thom, Louise McCombie, Martina Tashkova, Sumayya Alshehhi, Daphne Babalis, Leah Holroyd, Christina Prechtl, Tom Preston, Mike J Lean, Waljit Dhillo, A Toby Prevost, and Douglas Morrison

“…Due to the COVID-19 lockdowns and pivot to collection of self-reported weight data, the ‘Principal weight’ measurement for the primary outcome consists of 38% self-reported weight data. …”
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Evaluation of the adherence of municipalities and states to the Ministry of Health’s microplanning for high-quality vaccination activities and the increase in vaccination coverage... by Ana Catarina de Melo Araújo, Thales Philipe Rodrigues da Silva, Gustavo Velasquez-Melendez, Luciana Maiara Diogo Nascimento, Carla Conceição Ferraz, Fernanda Penido Matozinhos, Eder Gatti Fernandes

“…To address this, Brazil’s Ministry of Health introduced the concept of operational microplanning (OM) for high-quality vaccination activities (HQVA) in 2023 to ensure excellence in routine service and campaigns. OM is defined by structured interventions using assertive techniques to enhance the likelihood of covering a broader population previously unprotected from vaccine-preventable diseases. …”
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Specialty preferences among Nigerian medical students: a cross sectional study by Tobi Olajide, Chioma Ezebialu, Christabel Uche-Orji, Ridwanullah Abdullateef, Chisom Okoye, Esther Olaoye, Jolly Thomas, Joy Adeniyi, Angel Ogiemudia, Simon Aina, Oluwatimilehin Oladapo, Emmanuel Ibitunde, Olumide Bankole, Chukwuebuka Asogwa, Mafusat Ojewumi, Precious Wagwula, Ayomide Fatola, Oluwadabira Adewara, Kenneth Christian, Oghenemaro Jerry-Ogeme, Lawrence Rejoice, Chisom Obah, Nouh Sanusi, Joshua Alabi, Elizabeth Ayegboyin, Atoyebi Olaadura, Isaac Adejumo, Promise Enyesiobi, Peace Alemede, David Uzoechi, Abdulaziz Ahmad, Chimdalu Ezeani, Brian Uche-Orji, Oluwatobi Joshua, Ihunanyachi Agha-Okoro, Godson Omumuawuike, Jessica Gambo, Peace Gbenle, Evan Adetoye, Olamide Odusola, Muhammed Ya’u, Muhammad Karaye, Rufus Akinyemi

“…The study revealed the need for structured career counseling and increased exposure to underrepresented specialties to address the uneven distribution of specialists in Nigeria. …”
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Application of molecular approach in combination with providing treatment and control measures for combating Babesia bovis and Babesia bigemina infections in small scale livestock... by Nutsuda Klinkaew, Pairpailin Jhaiaun, Giang Thi Nguyen, Ruttayaporn Ngasaman, Domechai Keawnoi, Niorn Rattanapob, Pipat Arunvipas, Meyanee Kanjanaphan, Nuttapon Manojai, Suwitcha Panchakhan, Julaluk Jaiboon, Piyavadee Numnual, Prattana Tong-in, Thongphanchang Khanthong, Paween Srirarai, Chutima Chantarakot, Pattarakitti Noenchat, Jaroonwit Napornram, Somtat Yangsuk, Tanakrit Cham-iam, Phuncharat Nilsuwan, Supicha Jindarut, Kanokrat Boonyok, Nipa Thammasonthijarern, Wissanuwat Chimnoi, Tawin Inpankaew, Burin Nimsuphan, Jumnongjit Phasuk, Ketsarin Kamyingkird

“…Dairy and beef cattle blood samples were collected, genomic DNA were extracted and nested PCRs were performed. Data associated with Babesia infections were collected using a semi-structured questionnaire and interview. …”
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Co-designing and testing the learn together guidance to support patient and family involvement in patient safety investigations: a mixed-methods study by Jane O’Hara, Lauren Ramsey, Siobhan McHugh, Joseph Langley, Justin Waring, Ruth Simms-Ellis, Gemma Louch, Jenni Murray, Carl Macrae, John Baker, Rebecca Lawton, Daisy Halligan, Olivia Rogerson, Penny Phillips, Debra Hazeldine, Sarah Seddon, Joanne Hughes, Rebecca Partridge, Katherine Ludwin, Laura Sheard

“…Stage 2B synthesised previous data to develop common principles and programme theory. …”
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