Effect of osteopathic manipulative treatment on comorbid depressive symptoms in patients with chronic low back pain: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Meike Shedden-Mora, Robert Schleip, Francesco Cerritelli, Tobias Schmidt, Lucas Bohlen, Michael Eggart, Bruno Müller-Oerlinghausen, Jürgen Lorenz, Torsten Liem, Jorge E Esteves

“…Interestingly, CLBP and DS seem to be associated with changes in interoception, which may be reversed by OMT.Methods and analysis The study protocol proposes a single-blinded, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial to investigate the effect of OMT on clinical symptoms (depression, pain and disability) and interoceptive functions (interoceptive accuracy, sensibility and awareness) in patients with CLBP and comorbid DS. …”
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Management of Russian-Speaking Education in Sri Lanka: Problems and Solutions by Ekaterina A. Ilyina, Igor E. Poverinov, Svetlana V. Ilyina, Elena G. Khrisanova, Anna V. Shchiptsova

“…During their research the authors adhered to the following sequence of work: during the preparatory stage data collection was carried out, then a sociological study among teachers and students and a qualitative study using the method of focus groups were conducted, after obtaining the necessary information the data were analyzed and specific recommendations on the functionality of the Russian language department of the linguistic direction of the National Institute of Education of Sri Lanka were developed. …”
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A scoping review of the roles, challenges, and strategies for enhancing the performance of community health workers in the response against COVID-19 in low- and middle-income count... by Joseph Mumba Zulu, Adam Silumbwe, Margarate Munakampe, Malizgani Paul Chavula, Chama Mulubwa, Nathanael Sirili, Wanga Zulu, Charles Michelo, Moses Tetui

“…Although LMICs instituted several measures to mitigate spread of the virus in low resource settings, including task shifting certain demand and supply functions to community actors such as community health workers (CHWs), there remains a lack of synthesized evidence on these experiences and lessons. …”
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Simulation and Test of Key Decorticating Components of Spiral Ramie Decorticator by Wenlong Zheng, Lan Ma, Jiajie Liu, Bo Yan, Yiping Duan, Sixun Chen, Jiangnan Lyu, Wei Xiang

“…To address the production challenges posed by high labor intensity and the scarcity of small, direct-feeding ramie decorticators in hilly and mountainous regions, this study designed and optimized a spiral ramie decortication component that integrated functions of ramie stalk crushing, xylem removal, outer shell scraping, and phloem separating and throwing. …”
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Cognitive-Discursive Study of Migration Discourse (Based on English-Language Media Texts) by N. V. Stepanova

“…At the first stage of the study, articles were considered at the text level with the identification of lexical, syntactic and stylistic aspects of the functioning of the discourse. At the second stage (discourse as a discursive practice), examples of intertextuality were investigated, including the depth layer of intertext – cognitive one. …”
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Enhancing Care Coordination in Oncology and Nononcology Thoracic Surgery Care Pathways Through a Digital Health Solution: Mixed Methods Study by Véronique Nabelsi, Véronique Plouffe

“…Participatory design workshops were held with future users and key stakeholders at an early stage of the technology’s design to validate the prototype’s functionalities and workflows. A web survey was sent to all end users (N=13) to assess their experience with the platform. …”
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Reform of the Vatican media, a difficult search for a new path by Leszek Gęsiak

“…The reform of the Vatican media is not an easy task. It concerns several independent institutions. …”
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SMART accelerates rate of cognitive gains in service members with mTBI and PTSD by Erin Venza, Jeffrey S. Spence, Jennifer Zientz, Cole Devlin, Jason Bailie, Jason Bailie, Jason Bailie, Andrew Darr, Andrew Darr, Andrew Darr, Ida Babakhanyan, Ida Babakhanyan, Ida Babakhanyan, Sandra Bond Chapman

“…IntroductionThis randomized clinical trial (RCT) compared the efficacy of two cognitive rehabilitation (CR) protocols—Strategic Memory Advanced Reasoning Training (SMART) and Study of Cognitive Rehabilitation Effectiveness (SCORE)—in improving higher-order cognitive functions among active-duty service members (ADSMs) with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and varying levels of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. …”
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Early markers of renal damage in type 2 diabetes: role of vitamin D-binding protein by V.M. Yerokhovych, O.V. Karpenko, Ye.I. Ilkiv, N.M. Kobyliak, I.A. Paliienko, I.V. Dumka, Yu.I. Komisarenko

“…Recently, increasing attention has been focused on the extraskeletal functions of vitamin D, the role of vitamin D-binding protein (VDBP), and their pathogenetic link to kidney damage in people with type 2 diabetes. …”
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Systematizing peer recovery support services for substance use disorder: a taxonomy for measuring recovery milestones by Kimberly Horn, Ryan E. Flinn, Angela Marie Hagaman, Kristyn Zajac, Lauren A. Hoffman, Melissa N. Poulsen, Camille C. Cioffi, Ducel Jean-Berluche, Ethan Spana, Patrick F. Hibbard, Tess K. Drazdowski, Aaron Hogue

“…A multidisciplinary task group of PRSS scientists and practitioners, SUD treatment providers, and individuals in recovery contributed to its refinement. …”
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Predicting Index Trend Using Hybrid Neural Networks with a Focus on Multi-Scale Temporal Feature Extraction in the Tehran Stock Exchange by Mohammad Osoolian, Ali Nikmaram, Mahdi Karimi

“…ObjectivePredicting the future trends in financial markets stands as a critical task for both investors and researchers, given its pivotal role in enabling well-informed decision-making processes and effective risk management strategies. …”
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Research and Design of an Active Light Source System for UAVs Based on Light Intensity Matching Model by Rui Ming, Tao Wu, Zhiyan Zhou, Haibo Luo, Shahbaz Gul Hassan

“…This paper first designs the overall framework of the active light source system, detailing the functions of each module and their collaborative working principles. …”
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The Basque Libertador: Fin de Siècle Racial Thought and the Exile of 1939 in Latin America by Nagore Sedano

“…I conclude that, despite the historical and ideological particularities of its distinct racial lexicon, the trope of liberatory Basque blood functions in a similar fashion to Hispanism. This nationalistic Basque trope offers an elusive, vague racial discourse that camouflages the colonial ideology of refugees while it relegates its underlying racial thought to the task of soothing the anxieties provoked by exile.   …”
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Implementation of hospital antimicrobial stewardship programmes in low- and middle-income countries: a qualitative study from a multi-professional perspective in the Global-PPS net... by Ines Pauwels, Ann Versporten, Diane Ashiru-Oredope, Silvia Figueiredo Costa, Herberth Maldonado, Ana Paula Matos Porto, Shaheen Mehtar, Herman Goossens, Sibyl Anthierens, Erika Vlieghe

“…Four themes influenced AMS implementation, “institutional support and resource allocation”, “AMS team functioning, roles, and expertise”, “adoption and integration of AMS recommendations”, and “data-driven decision-making” as a cross-cutting theme. …”
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Optical and electron microscopy imaging of model circulating tumour cells by Марина Оленчук, Григорій Монастирський, Олена Гнатюк, А. Бойзен, Ч. Чжан, Галина Солянік, Денис Колесник, Сергій Карахім, Галина Довбешко

“…Objectives: This study aimed to visualize Lewis lung carcinoma (LLC) cells cultured under de-adhesive conditions using various microscopy techniques for their characterization and to examine the cancer cells' structure and functionality. The goal was to evaluate each method's individual capabilities and combined strengths in revealing cellular morphology, internal structure, and nanoparticle interactions. …”
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Evaluating the role of training data origin for country-scale cropland mapping in data-scarce regions: A case study of Nigeria by Joaquin Gajardo, Michele Volpi, Daniel Onwude, Thijs Defraeye

“…Handling class imbalance was also critical, with weighted loss functions improving accuracy by up to 0.071 for the single-headed LSTM. …”
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INTERNATIONAL LEGAL STANDARDS OF HUMAN RIGHTS: TOWARDS THE OBJECTIVITY OF THE ISSUE OF CODIFICATION WORKS by Mykhailo O. Baimuratov, Boris Ya. Kofman, Natalia V. Yefremova

“….), and secondly, establish mandatory obligations of their member states (international legal obligations of states, obligations of states under international treaties signed by them) in relation to a wide range of rights recognized by their legally recognized international catalog (personal, political, economic, social, cultural, environmental), thirdly, in the process of their implementation in various conditions (peacetime, state of martial law or war, environmental and man-made disasters, other extraordinary conditions of existence and functioning of statehood, etc.). It is noted that in the modern world, since the creation of the UN, the protection and observance of the basic rights and freedoms of a person and a citizen have ceased to be the competence of a specific country, but have become the business of the entire international community, since, first of all, it is the "alpha and omega" of international cooperation of states in its boundaries (the teleological factor of the modern international order – author); secondly, it is precisely within its limits that a powerful international legal array of treaty law documents was created regarding such specialized protection and protection of human and citizen rights / thanks to the increased concern and attention of the international community to these issues at various times, authoritative international organizations, including the UN, adopted about 300 declarations, conventions, charters/ (determining source factor of the modern international order – author); thirdly, for a long time, they have been the most important task of many states of the world community in terms of fulfilling their international legal obligations, taken within the framework of the international treaties signed by them and the implementation of their instructions within the limits of national jurisdiction (a mandatory factor of the modern international order – author); fourthly, there are clear international legal mechanisms of protection, protection and control over the fulfillment by member states of the international community of international legal obligations in the field of human and citizen rights and freedoms (the technologically protected factor of international protection, protection and control of modern international order – author); fifthly, the regulatory and technological phenomenon "international legal standards of the rights and freedoms of man and citizen" was used for the first time, which was transformed into an important, modern, effective phenomenology of modern international law, based on the relevant international and national implementation mechanisms of the international treaty law and provides for the mandatory borrowing of the above standards by the national constitutional legislation of the states – respectively, either signatories, or participants, or parties to relevant contractual international legal acts (transformational and implementation factor of international protection, protection and control of the modern international order – author). …”
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Use of Digital Health Technologies for Dementia Care: Bibliometric Analysis and Report by Hebatullah Abdulazeem, Israel Júnior Borges do Nascimento, Ishanka Weerasekara, Amin Sharifan, Victor Grandi Bianco, Ciara Cunningham, Indunil Kularathne, Genevieve Deeken, Jerome de Barros, Brijesh Sathian, Lasse Østengaard, Frederique Lamontagne-Godwin, Joost van Hoof, Ledia Lazeri, Cassie Redlich, Hannah R Marston, Ryan Alistair Dos Santos, Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, Yongjie Yon, David Novillo-Ortiz

“… BackgroundDementia is a syndrome that compromises neurocognitive functions of the individual and that is affecting 55 million individuals globally, as well as global health care systems, national economic systems, and family members. …”
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Rough-and-Refine Model for Scene Graph Generation by Li Junliang, Lv Shirong, Li Wei

“…Each feedforward neural network consists of two perceptrons with ReLU activation functions and a linear projection layer, facilitating both category classification and bounding box regression.Results and DiscussionsTo evaluate the performance of RRM in the scene graph generation task, we employed several commonly used metrics in this research domain: Recall@K (R@K) and Mean Recall@K (mR@K). …”
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Living and living with nature. A need of today's population for the common good by Manuel Gregorio Loza-Murguia

“…It seems that we do not understand this problem, and that burning seems to be the only solution for the use of the land for diverse functions, but that, of the biological diversity that a protected area has, such as Madidi and Pílon Lajas, after these fires we will lose plant and animal species, insects, and it will be very unlikely to regenerate, so we should be aware that this will be almost impossible. …”
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