The impact of immigrant-specific policies and programmes on maternal, perinatal and paediatric outcomes: a scoping review by Seungmi Yang, Rina Lall

“…Supportive policies were associated with improvements in prenatal care among immigrant mothers, an increase in health insurance coverage among children, and positive impacts on child educational outcomes.Conclusions Research on the impacts of immigrant-specific policies and programmes on maternal and child outcomes remains limited, primarily focusing on the immigrant receiving context in the USA. …”
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Peer-Led Neonatal Resuscitation Training: Experience of Kairuki University by Raidah R Gangji, Leonard Malasa, Gambuna D Koya, Aliasgar Khaki, Felician Rutachunzibwa, Maulidi Fataki, Florence Salvatory Kalabamu, Esther M Johnston, Esther Mwaikambo

“…Methods Helping Babies Breathe-Kairuki University (HBB-KU) initiative; a student-led program including both theoretical and practical components attended by future and current healthcare professionals (HCPs). Pre- and post-training knowledge tests assessing knowledge and understanding, and self-evaluation tests reporting self-confidence were administered. …”
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Global knowledge gaps in acute febrile illness etiologic investigations: A scoping review. by Chulwoo Rhee, Grishma A Kharod, Nicolas Schaad, Nathan W Furukawa, Neil M Vora, David D Blaney, John A Crump, Kevin R Clarke

“…There is no standardized approach to conducting AFI etiologic investigations, limiting interpretation of data in a global context. We conducted a scoping review to characterize current AFI research methodologies, identify global research gaps, and provide methodological research standardization recommendations.…”
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Türkiye’s Penal Reform on Domestic Violence: From the Opuz Case to the 2020s by Derya Tekin

“…Moreover, prosecuting these crimes does not require a complaint in the current law. Alongside this, the criminalization of stalking and prohibition of mediation in relation to stalking are also significant developments. …”
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Social and legal problems of employment of the population of Ukraine during martial law by O. Tyshchenko, S. Chernous, D. Sirokha

“… The article reveals the current trends in the Ukrainian labor market in the context of analyzing the issues of labor supply and demand in various spheres of labor activity. …”
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Bibliometric and thematic insights into a decade of circular economy research in construction by Xiaoxue Yang, Minqian Song, Xiaohan Zhou, Chenya Liao

“…The results show a significant increase in publication activity since 2019, with strong contributions from countries such as China, Italy, and the United Kingdom. …”
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Exploring the impact of noise, language familiarity, and experimental settings on emotion recognition by Terry Amorese, Marialucia Cuciniello, Anna Alterio, Daniele Pepe, Odette Scharenborg, Gennaro Cordasco, Anna Esposito

“…IntroductionThis work aims to understand the contextual factors affecting speech emotion recognition (SER), more specifically the current research investigates whether the identification of vocal emotional expressions of anger, fear, sadness, joy, and neutrality is affected by three factors: (a) the experimental setting, exploring vocal emotion recognition in both a controlled, soundproof laboratory and a more natural listening environment; (b) the effect of stimuli’s background noise: sentences were presented with three different levels of noise to gradually increase the level of difficulty: one clear (no noise) condition and two noise conditions; (c) language familiarity, since the stimuli comprised Italian sentences, and participants were both native (Italians) and Dutch speakers, who did not know Italian.MethodDutch and Italian participants were involved in a vocal emotion recognition task carried out in two different experimental settings (realistic vs. laboratory). …”
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Polymer carrier selection for creation of diosmin solid dispersion system by hot melt extrusion by A. A. Danilova, E. V. Vishnyakov, E. S. Surbeeva, K. A. Gusev, D. N. Maimistov, E. V. Flisyuk

“…Particular importance in the context of current approach is attached to the selection of an effective polymer matrix.Aim. …”
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Management system and optimal control for three-dimensional visualization and maintenance of thermal power plant by Zhiqiang Feng, Qiuxiang Liang, Mingyi Wei, Lei Li, Youzhu Bu, Yanqing Xin

“…After optimization by CNN technology, the response time of the system is increased by 5%. The calculation cost is reduced by 15%, and the data throughput is increased by 13%. …”
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Study of Ionanofluids Behavior in PVT Solar Collectors: Determination of Thermal Fields and Characteristic Length by Means of HEATT^® Platform by Mariano Alarcón, Juan-Pedro Luna-Abad, Manuel Seco-Nicolás, Imane Moulefera, Gloria Víllora

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Antifungal and anti-biofilm effects of hydrazone derivatives on Candida spp by Pierre Popczyk, Alina Ghinet, Clovis Bortolus, Laure Kamus, Marc F. Lensink, Jérôme de Ruyck, Boualem Sendid, Faustine Dubar

“…Worldwide, invasive candidiasis are a burden for the health system due to difficulties to manage patients, to the increasing of the resistance of the current therapeutics and the emergence of naturally resistant species of Candida. …”
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A holistic approach to sustain and support lifelong practices of wellness among healthcare professionals: generating preliminary solid steps towards a culture of wellness by Beverley Argus-Calvo, Deborah J. Clegg, Maureen D. Francis, Alok Kumar Dwivedi, Paul A. Carrola, Marie Leiner

“…This approach facilitates the establishment of a sustainable culture of wellness that benefits both current and subsequent generations of healthcare professionals. …”
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The Circular Kitchen by Bas Jansen

“…While start-ups favor radical innovation, established manufacturers, like the CIK’s producer, opt for incremental improvements (outside of a research context). This suggests that when aiming for large-scale implementation that can only be reached with large-scale production, the feasibility of the design should be prioritized, while still improving environmental performance compared to current, non-circular kitchens. …”
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Multiscale effects of climate change and anthropogenic activity on vegetation dynamics in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao greater bay area by Yun Tang, Yuanyuan Wang, Quanming Yang

“…The results reveal that: NDVI exhibits an increasing trend in most regions, Land Surface Temperature (LST) has significantly increased, and the intensity of anthropogenic activities has significantly intensified in half of the regions. …”
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Interpretations of Ontologies for Breast Cancer by Srinandan Dasmahapatra, Kieron O’Hara

“…There are increasing efforts directed at providing formal frameworks to consolidate the widening net of terms and relations used in medical practice. …”
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Waste-to-Taste: Transforming Wet Byproducts of the Food Industry into New Nutritious Foods by Anna Koptelova, Aurélien Ducrey, Bénédicte Lunven, Léa Köller, Natalia Nagornova, Edouard W. Appenzeller, Tiffany Abitbol

“…Indeed, the end-of-life of our food crops is increasingly important to consider in the context of circularity, ensuring that land, water, and chemical inputs to agriculture are sustainable. …”
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Compost from the food waste for organic production of cabbage, cauliflower, and radish under sub-tropical conditions by Neha Kumari, Anit Sharma, Mamta Devi, Atif Zargar, Sunny Kumar, Umesh Thakur, Ajay Bhatia, Khushboo Badhan, Sunaina Chandel, Arpana Devi, Kriti Sharma, Shweta Kumari, Mussarat Choudhary, Arup Giri

“…The application of compost increased leaf relative water content and decreased the electrolyte leakage in all the plants. …”
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Scouting emerging AI applications in fashion heritage and archival practices by Greta Rizzi, Daria Casciani

“…These reflections are accompanied by a broader reconsideration of how memory is constructed and mediated in the contemporary context, increasingly shaped by human–AI collaboration.…”
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Trade Risk Society—Understanding Trade Policymaking in the 2020s by Christopher M. Dent

“…It is argued this pattern of initiatives are indicative of a paradigm shift in trade policy norms emerging in an increasingly volatile and contested world that can be best understood in a trade risk society context.…”
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HUMAN RESOURCES OF HEALTHCARE IN UKRAINE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND WAR by Oleksandr P. Volosovets, Dmytro D. Diachuk, Igor A. Lurin, Oleksandr M. Naumenko, Valentin D. Pariy, Anton O. Volosovets

“…To analyze the human resources for health in Ukraine in the context of the ongoing war and pandemic, and to identify the regions of the country and specialties of physicians and residents most affected by the current challenges. …”
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