The role of community health workers in cervical cancer screening in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic scoping review of the literature by James O’Donovan, Charles O’Donovan, Shobhana Nagraj

“…Introduction Community-based screening for cervical cancer and task sharing to community health workers (CHWs) have been suggested as a potential way to increase screening coverage in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). …”
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Etiopathogenic and Therapeutic Considerations in a Multiple Sclerosis Case with Acute Toxic Hepatitis by Maria-Melania Dumitru-Martoiu, Simona Petrescu, Cristina Aura Panea

“…<b>Case Presentation</b>: A 39-year-old female patient, diagnosed with MS, has been previously treated with Glatiramer Acetate and interferon-beta, and is currently undergoing immunomodulatory treatment with natalizumab (infusion no. 81). …”
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Experience in implementing a patient-centered approach in a private medical organization by L. I. Moskvicheva, Yu. S. Genyush, I. A. Petrova

“…Currently, taking into account the pronounced competition among modern medical organizations, attracting patients and forming a high degree of their loyalty requires significant efforts both in the field of ensuring the quality of medical services provided, and in the field of full implementation of legally enshrined patient rights, compliance with ethical and deontological norms, the formation of effective communication and integration processes between employees of a medical organization and patients and/ or their relatives, and in the context of the activities of a private medical organization, special work is also largely required to optimize the main business processes. …”
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Variation of all-cause and cause-specific mortality with body mass index in one million Swedish parent-son pairs: An instrumental variable analysis. by Kaitlin H Wade, David Carslake, Per Tynelius, George Davey Smith, Richard M Martin

“…Furthermore, we expect different patterns of bias in the current observational and IV analyses; therefore, the similarities between our findings from both methods increases confidence in the results. …”
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高敏感特質中高齡學習者面對數位學習壓力及疫情焦慮之學習滿意度與後疫情調適：復原力之中介效果 Learning Satisfaction and Post-Pandemic Adaptation in Highly Sensitive Middle-aged and Elderly Learners in the Face of Digital Learni... by 王雅鈴 Ya-Ling Wang, 張伶瑜 Lin-Yu Chang, 羅淇文 Chi-Wen Luo, 林郁文 Yu-Wen Lin

“…In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of people suffering from depression increased by 25.6% globally (Santomauro et al., 2021). …”
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The ‘Scottish approach’ to global health: A scoping review of the framing of global health partnerships by Kristina Kim, Kaveri Qureshi, Emily Adrion, Goran Zangana, Sudeepa Abeysinghe

“…This paper critically examines published work from health actors based in Scotland conducted within low – and middle-income countries (LMICs), under a Scottish government policy context currently promoted as engaging in a novel approach to international development. …”
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Enhancing Speaker Recognition with CRET Model: a fusion of CONV2D, RESNET and ECAPA-TDNN by Pinyan Li, Lap Man Hoi, Yapeng Wang, Xu Yang, Sio Kei Im

“…Abstract In today’s society, speaker recognition plays an increasingly important role. Currently, neural networks are widely employed for extracting speaker features. …”
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Traditional Islamic spiritual meditative practices: powerful psychotherapies for mental wellbeing by Farah R. Zahir, Farah R. Zahir, M. Walid Qoronfleh

“…The new millennium is witnessing a remarkable shift within the scientific community, to be increasingly understanding and accepting the impact of meditative, spiritual, and even religious practices, on health and wellbeing. …”
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About Our 24th Issue

“…We have determined the themes of our journal for 2024 as Discourse and Reality and Social Memory in order to analyze the sociocultural, political economic, and technological order and system that people are experiencing currently. In this context, we are proud to publish the first issue of the year under the theme of Discourse and Reality. …”
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The Significance of Team Dynamics in Students’ Entrepreneurial Decision-Making by Quynh Duong Phuong

“…Among various factors, reasons are rooted in the team membership decreasing uncertainty, students’ decision dependencies on team members and the increased importance placed on the team relative to the idea. …”
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Integrating Palliative Care and Heart Failure: the PalliatHeartSynthesis realist synthesis by Tracey McConnell, Carolyn Blair, Geoff Wong, Claire Duddy, Clare Howie, Loreena Hill, Joanne Reid

“…Our realist analysis developed and refined 6 overarching context–mechanism–outcome configurations and 30 sub context–mechanism–outcome configurations. …”
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Les routes forestières au Québec : Les impacts environnementaux, sociaux et économiques by Laurence Bourgeois, Daniel Kneeshaw, Gaétane Boisseau

“…In Quebec, the kilometers of forest roads built per year are consistently increasing despite the fact that they have important ecological and socio-economic impacts. …”
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Aircraft overrun warning systems capabilities and disadvantages by S. F. Borodkin, A. I. Volynchuk, M. A. Kiselev, Yu. V. Petrov

“…Currently, attention of the aviation community and authorities is being increasingly focused on flight safety in the landing phase. …”
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MODERN APPROACHES TO DIAGNOSTICS AND TREATMENT OF DENTAL TRAUMA by O.S. Ivanytska

“…To diagnose dental traumas and, accordingly, to determine the ways to eliminate their consequences, its classification is of great importance. In this context, the classification by Andreason gained the strongest support in the world dental community. …”
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The Association Between Traumatic Brain Injury and the Risk of Cognitive Decline: An Umbrella Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Ioannis Mavroudis, Dimitrios Kazis, Foivos Efstratios Petridis, Ioana-Miruna Balmus, Vasileios Papaliagkas, Alin Ciobica

“…Background: There is currently increasing interest in the implication of traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a potential risk factor for long-term neurodegenerative conditions, such as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). …”
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Understanding the effectiveness and underlying mechanisms of lifestyle modification interventions in adults with learning disabilities: a mixed-methods systematic review by Dikshyanta Rana, Sophie Westrop, Nishant Jaiswal, Evi Germeni, Arlene McGarty, Louisa Ells, Phillippa Lally, Michael McEwan, Craig Melville, Leanne Harris, Olivia Wu

“…Network meta-analysis (13 RCTs, 690 participants, 8 interventions) showed that the change in weight ranged from a decrease of 3.7 kg to an increase of 700 g when compared to TAU. …”
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Presentation of Financial Assets in the Statistics of Foreign Economic Relations by V. N. Salin, L. Yu. Arhangelskaya, O. G. Tretyakova

“…Together with the financial account, account figures for other changes in financial assets and liabilities explain the total amount of changes: increases or decreases in the value of financial assets / liabilities, their occurrence or disposal, resulting from transactions, revaluation and other changes in volume.The issues of theory and practice of presenting indexes of financial assets in the considered sections of macrostatistics and their analysis are a relevant and promising direction for improving national statistical accounting, incl. due to the spread of remote work, the collection of information via the Internet, the emergence of a large number of new financial instruments and operations.The authors of the article have repeatedly referred to the problems of macroeconomic financial statistics in their studies, which gave them the opportunity to comprehensively consider the topical issues of representing financial assets in the statistics of foreign economic relations.…”
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Enhancing Smart Cities with IoT and Cloud Computing: A Study on Integrating Wireless Ad Hoc Networks for Efficient Communication by Haider Mohammed Abdulhadi, Yousra Abdul Alsahib S. Aldeen, Maryam A. Yousif, Mays jalal jaseem, Syed Hamid Hussain Madni

“…IoT data is first collected in the context of smart cities. The data that is gathered is uniform. …”
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Hydrogen Loss on Venus Driven by Photochemistry by Hao Gu, Jun Cui, Xiaoshu Wu, Xu Huang, Shiqi Wu, Wenlong Li, Jinjin Zhao, Haoyu Lu, Lei Li

“…Venus has experienced substantial H loss through hydrodynamic outflow in its early history, transforming from a warm and wet state to the current arid and scorching state. While Venus continues to lose H today, no consensus has been reached regarding the present dominant escape mechanisms. …”
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Lipidomic markers of obesity and their dynamics after bariatric surgery by T. V. Saprina, A. S. Bashirova, V. V. Ivanov, S. I. Pekov, I. A. Popov, S. R. Bashirov, E. A. Vasilyeva, O. A. Pavlenko, D. V. Krinitskii, M. Chen

“…Currently available studies and their results suggest that we are only at the very start of studying this promising biomedical field.…”
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