Torture, trauma and posttraumatic symptoms in Syrian women asylum seekers in the Greek border camp of Idomeni by Marta Guarch-Rubio, Antonio L. Manzanero, Francisco Roy Delgado, Anca Minescu, Dumaha Mohamed

“…The vulnerability of experiencing posttraumatic symptomatology is mediated not only by the traumatic experiences but also by the contextual and migratory factors at the time of assessment. The present study aimed to determine the quantity and intensity of posttraumatic symptoms in a sample of refugee women blocked at the Idomeni refugee camp (Greece) under eviction. …”
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What is the optimal assessment of speech? A multicentre, international evaluation of speech assessment in 2500 patients with a cleft by Anne Klassen, Irene Mathijssen, Maarten Koudstaal, Saranda Ombashi, Melissa Srijanti Kurniawan, Alexander Allori, Banafsheh Sharif-Askary, Carolyn Rogers-Vizena, Marie-Christine Franken, Aebele B Mink van der Molen, Sarah Lisa Versnel

“…This study evaluates the type and timing of speech outcome measures currently included in this ICHOM Standard Set. …”
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Socio-demographic factors, housing characteristics, and clinical symptoms associated with falciparum malaria in two rapidly urbanizing areas in the Ashanti region of Ghana by Stephen Opoku Afriyie, Kwasi Baako Antwi, Abdul-Hakim Mutala, Dawood Ackom Abbas, Kofi Agyapong Addo, Austine Tweneboah, Thomas Kwame Addison, Eric Osei, Cristian Koepfli, Kingsley Badu

“…Compared to > 30-year-olds, children between 0 and 5 years (aOR = 3.36) and those aged between 6 and 14 (aOR = 6.71) were three and six times more likely to test positive for malaria, respectively. …”
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The Impact of Supervised Physical Activity in Urban Green Spaces on Mental Well-Being Among Middle-Aged Adults: A Quasi-Experimental Study by Zhengyang Xu, Federica Moro, Niccolò Baldoni, Mario Mauro, Sofia Marini, Laura Bragonzoni, Laura Dallolio, Erika Pinelli, Raffaele Zinno, Gerardo Astorino, Giacomo Prosperi, Pasqualino Maietta Latessa, Stefania Toselli

“…The only significant group-by-time interaction was found in perceived usefulness. …”
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Le paysage alpin: observé, habité, craint by Barbora Pisanova

“…Openings are embraced, at times excessively, but all the same they often have a frame. …”
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Can clinical audits be enhanced by pathway simulation and machine learning? An example from the acute stroke pathway by Andrew Salmon, Thomas Monks, Michael Allen, Kerry Pearn, Benjamin D Bray, Richard Everson, Martin James, Ken Stein

“…Objective To evaluate the application of clinical pathway simulation in machine learning, using clinical audit data, in order to identify key drivers for improving use and speed of thrombolysis at individual hospitals.Design Computer simulation modelling and machine learning.Setting Seven acute stroke units.Participants Anonymised clinical audit data for 7864 patients.Results Three factors were pivotal in governing thrombolysis use: (1) the proportion of patients with a known stroke onset time (range 44%–73%), (2) pathway speed (for patients arriving within 4 hours of onset: per-hospital median arrival-to-scan ranged from 11 to 56 min; median scan-to-thrombolysis ranged from 21 to 44 min) and (3) predisposition to use thrombolysis (thrombolysis use ranged from 31% to 52% for patients with stroke scanned with 30 min left to administer thrombolysis). …”
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Psychometric evaluation of the Assamese adaptation of the obstetrics quality of recovery score in patients undergoing caesarean delivery under neuraxial anaesthesia: a single cente... by Ritu Raj Bhardwaj, Priyam Saikia, Asif Ahmed

“…The internal consistency, split half reliability and test retest reliability 0.851 (p<.001), 0.78(p<.001) and 0.839(p<.001), has a Cohen`s effect size, standardized response mean of 3.55 and 2.62 respectively and no floor or ceiling effects. All parturient completed the questionnaire [median (IQR)] time of completion of 3.6(3.5-4) minutes. …”
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Effects of disbudding on behavior and heart rate during jugular venipuncture in dairy calves by Alycia M. Drwencke, Haley Garcia, Sarah J.J. Adcock, Cassandra B. Tucker

“…Similarly, heart rate may have reached a ceiling effect associated with the stress of handling. …”
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Epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease: Insights from the past two years by Jian Wan, Jiaming Zhou, Zhuo Wang, Dan Liu, Hao Zhang, Shengmao Xie, Kaichun Wu, Yuanyuan Ji

“…Despite these advancements, approximately one-third of patients remain primary non-responders to the initial treatment, and half eventually lose response over time. Precision medicine integrating multi-omics data, advanced combination therapy, and complementary approaches, including stem cell transplantation, psychological therapies, neuromodulation, and gut microbiome modulation therapy, may offer solutions to break through the therapeutic ceiling.…”
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A woman’s place is in theatre: women’s perceptions and experiences of working in surgery from the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland women in surgery working grou... by Maria Irene Bellini, Yitka Graham, Catherine Hayes, Roxanna Zakeri, Rowan Parks, Vassilios Papalois

“…Over half had experienced discrimination (59%, n=47), while 22% (n=18) perceived a ‘glass ceiling’ in surgical training. Orthopaedics was reported as the most sexist surgical specialty by 53% (n=43). …”
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Oxford Shoulder Instability Score: cross-cultural adaptation into Spanish and analysis of its methodological quality by Rocio Aldon-Villegas, Gema Chamorro-Moriana, Fernando Espuny-Ruiz, Maria-Luisa Benitez-Lugo

“…Standard error of measurement was 0.70, and the percentage of error and smallest detectable change were 1.46% and 1.94, respectively. No floor or ceiling effects were found. Assessing feasibility of OSIS, the participants answered all questions, had no questions and completion time was: mean 2 min 30 s; SD ± 1 min. …”
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What’s in a cue?: Using natural language processing to quantify content characteristics of episodic future thinking in the context of overweight and obesity by Haylee Downey, Shuangshuang Xu, Sareh Ahmadi, Aditya Shah, Jeremiah M. Brown, Warren K. Bickel, Leonard H. Epstein, Allison N. Tegge, Edward A. Fox, Jeffrey S. Stein

“…Cues most commonly involved recreation, food, and spending time with family, and least commonly involved references to health and self-improvement. …”
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EQ-5D-5L population norms and health inequality for Trinidad and Tobago in 2022–2023 and comparison with 2012 by Henry Bailey, Marcel F. Jonker, Eleanor Pullenayegum, Fanni Rencz, Bram Roudijk

“…Mean index values, EQ VAS scores, and ceilings were lower across all demographic groups in 2022–2023 compared to 2012. …”
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The potential price and access implications of the cost-utility and budget impact methodologies applied by NICE in England and ICER in the US for a novel gene therapy in Parkinson’... by Jesper Jørgensen, Spiros Servos, Panos Kefalas

“…Methods: A Markov model was built to perform country-specific CUAs and BIAs Findings: The US ceiling price identified through CUA is ~ 1.8 times higher than in England (aligning to our previous US/UK price comparison analysis of high-cost drugs). …”
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Synchronous and anti-phase drumming elicit similar prosocial behavior ratings by Sean McWeeny, Sean McWeeny, Adam C. Luoma, Yaseen Al-Saleem, Laurel J. Trainor, Laurel J. Trainor

“…Future analyses will examine how other characteristics of the drumming coordination, such as the lag-1 autocorrelation and variability of the inter-tap interval time-series, relate to prosocial behavior and ratings of trust and cooperation.…”
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Air Connectivity and Airport Infrastructure in Northern Canada by Alexandre G. de Barros, Marcela Coelho Lopes, Iyad Sahnoon

“…The work on that framework has identified better airport facilities as one of the key infrastructure needs in the region. To the time of writing of this report, no specific policies had been set to address these needs.     …”
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Green tea consumption rapidly enhances cognitive performance and flow state during mental tasks in healthy young adults. by Chie Kurosaka, Shinji Miyake, Makoto Kobayashi, Chika Tagata, Yuka Tatsumi

“…In the WATER and TEA conditions, participants consumed 70 mL of beverage three times during the session (total: 210 mL). Subjective Fatigue Feelings was assessed before and after each condition, and subjective evaluations including NASA Task Load Index, Flow Experience Checklist, and Duration Judgment Ratio, were conducted after each task. …”
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Ecological and economic assessments of biological resources in the North Pacific and strategies for their use by I. V. Volvenko

“…For the whole water area under consideration, this level can be exceeded by 3.5–4.7 times, or even by 5.6 times if the potentially commercial species will be exploited. …”
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Ensemble Computational Intelligent for Insomnia Sleep Stage Detection via the Sleep ECG Signal by Pragati Tripathi, M. A. Ansari, Tapan Kumar Gandhi, Rajat Mehrotra, Md Belal Bin Heyat, Faijan Akhtar, Chiagoziem C. Ukwuoma, Abdullah Y. Muaad, Yasser M. Kadah, Mugahed A. Al-Antari, Jian Ping Li

“…The traditional insomnia detection methods are time-consuming, cumbersome, and more expensive because they demand a long time from a trained neurophysiologist, and they are prone to human error, hence, the accuracy of diagnosis gets compromised. …”
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Randomised controlled trial comparing low doses of aspirin in the prevention of pre-eclampsia (ASAPP): a study protocol by Phyllis August, Paul Christos, Amrin Khander, Kathy Matthews, Charlene Thomas, Tanvir Alam, Claire Alcus, Leah Bush, Emmaneul Edusei, Line Malha

“…Secondary outcomes include adherence to therapy, maternal and fetal complications of PEC, and time-to-event development of PEC across the two treatment groups. …”
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