Cannabis and Suicidal Behaviour Among Adolescents: A Pilot Study from Trinidad by Hari D. Maharajh, Monique Konings

“…School based prevention programmes are necessary at the levels of parent-teacher partnership and classroom intervention. …”
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Access to the European cultural heritage of settlements and towns in the Danube macro-region through interoperable strategies digital transformation by Babin ANATOLIE, Elena PRUS, Elena MARGINEANU

“…The overall horizontal objective of the integration into the platform should be to add value to the common characteristics of the cultural and creative sector and to create a permanent discovery mechanism that will carry out activities to identify strategic investments and the use of innovation transfer tools. …”
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Cognitive prehabilitation for geriatric patients undergoing elective surgery: a PRISMA-P-compliant protocol for a systematic review by Yu He, Nianyi Sun, Wenchen Zou, Anren Zhang, Xiaochai Han, Caitao Chen

“…Neurocognitive disorders are the most common complications experienced in the postoperative period by older individuals. …”
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Optimal frequency bands for pupillography for maximal correlation with HRV by Júlio Medeiros, André Bernardes, Ricardo Couceiro, Paulo Oliveira, Henrique Madeira, César Teixeira, Paulo Carvalho

“…From a controlled experiment involving 21 programmers performing software bug inspection, our study pinpoints the optimal low-frequency (0.06-0.29 Hz) and high-frequency (0.29-0.49 Hz) bands. …”
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Doppler Effect Estimation and Compensation for Satellite Systems in Geolocation Problems by Marcello Asciolla, Angela Cratere, Francesco Dell'Olio

“…Assuming the problem of geolocation is solved, and starting from the kinematics of the satellite and its relative motion with respect to the emitter, the correction on the frequency is derived with respect to the orbital parameters, which is a common representation of data for satellite systems. …”
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Preoperative dental assessment for the reduction of periprosthetic joint infections in patients undergoing total joint replacement: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Zbigniew Putowski, Magdalena Miłobędzka, Michał Kisiołek, Wojciech Szczeklik, Roman Jaeschke, Piotr Puc, Katarzyna Szczeklik

“…The requirement for preoperative dental assessment (PDA) to prevent periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) after total joint arthroplasty (TJA) seems to be a common practice at least in some orthopaedic centres. …”
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Sociodemographic and visual characteristics of individuals with oculocutaneous albinism in Botswana by Thanuja Panicker, Gopinath Madheswaran

“…African-Tswana ethnicity was the most common among the participants (31, 47.7%). Nearly 80% had a best-corrected visual acuity (in better eye) worse than 6/12. …”
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Public knowledge of early stroke symptoms in the Vilnius region by A. Atkočiūnas, M. Mačionytė, R. Mameniškienė

“…Stroke remains one of the most common causes of death and disability in the world. …”
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Prevalence of Squamous and Basal Cell Carcinomas in African Albino Skin Cancer Lesions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Proportion by Nnaemeka T. Onyishi, Samuel R. Ohayi

“…Keratinocyte carcinomas are the most common malignant condition in Caucasian populations. …”
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Workplace interventions to prevent suicide: A scoping review. by Nutmeg Hallett, Helen Rees, Felicity Hannah, Lorna Hollowood, Caroline Bradbury-Jones

“…Most mechanisms were aimed at the individual's immediate environment, with the most common being education or training on recognising signs of stress, suicidality or mental illness in oneself. …”
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Neuroscience Literacy and Academic Outcomes: Insights from a University Student Population by Abeer F. Almarzouki, Arzan I. Alqahtani, Jumana K. Baessa, Dhuha K. Badaood, Rwdyn R. Nujoom, Raneem W. Malibari, Elaf M. Aljared, Reema S. Alghamdi

“…The most common sources of general neuroscience knowledge were internet articles. …”
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Screening, diagnosis, treatment and outcomes of developmental dysplasia of the hip in Brazilian population: a scoping review by Emily Schaeffer, Patricia Moreno Grangeiro, Patrícia Eduarda Conrado Martins Rocha Jaleca, Sheila Lam, Sana Arora, Daniel Frank Liggio

“…No study examined the effectiveness of specific screening programmes or compared their outcomes. The most common diagnostic methods were the Ortolani manoeuvre and ultrasonography using the Graf method. …”
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SYMBOLIC ANALYSIS OF CLASSICAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR DEEP LEARNING by Vladimir Milićević, Igor Franc, Maja Lutovac Banduka, Nemanja Zdravković, Nikola Dimitrijević

“…A deep learning algorithm can be implemented in hardware or software as a non-linear system. It is common for researchers to visualize a computing module and monitor its hidden parameters. …”
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The Implementation of Diverse Actuation System in ACPR1000 Nuclear Power Plants by Zhen-Ying Wang, Zhi-Yun Liu, Ting-Wei Ma, Chen Sun, Liu Liu, Yu Huang, Gang-Miao Guo

“…In order to improve the capability of dealing with software common cause failure (CCF) of digital reactor protection and monitoring system (RPMS), the diverse actuation system (DAS) is introduced for ACPR1000 nuclear power plants. …”
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Biliary atresia: The profile, management and outcome of patients treated at a tertiary hospital in central South Africa by E Brits, S M le Grange

“…Without intervention, the disease rapidly progresses to liver cirrhosis and fibrosis, with end-stage liver failure and death occurring within the first 3 years of life. It is the most common indication for liver transplantation (LT) in the paediatric population. …”
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A social ecological approach to identify the barriers and facilitators to COVID-19 vaccination acceptance: A scoping review. by Penny Lun, Jonathan Gao, Bernard Tang, Chou Chuen Yu, Khalid Abdul Jabbar, James Alvin Low, Pradeep Paul George

“…One of the biggest obstacles to implementing successful vaccination programmes is vaccine hesitancy stemming from concerns about effectiveness and safety. …”
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Problem-based learning in developing students’ communicative skills and creativity in teaching English for specific purposes by Jolita Šliogerienė, Irena Darginavičienė, Jelena Suchanova, Dalia Gulbinskienė, Viktorija Jakučionytė

“… Tertiary education uses a variety of teaching methods to cater for different learning styles, encourage critical thinking, and prepare students for real-world challenges. Common methods include lectures, seminars, independent study, and collaborative learning. …”
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Avoiding ‘second victims’ in healthcare: what support do staff want for coping with patient safety incidents, what do they get and is it effective? A systematic review by Reema Harrison, Rebecca Lawton, Ruth Simms-Ellis, Raabia Sattar, Elizabeth Sweeting, Hannah Hartley, Matthew Morys-Edge

“…Reports of poor PSI support were common. Eleven studies examined intervention effectiveness. …”
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SymbolNet: neural symbolic regression with adaptive dynamic pruning for compression by Ho Fung Tsoi, Vladimir Loncar, Sridhara Dasu, Philip Harris

“…Compact symbolic expressions have been shown to be more efficient than neural network (NN) models in terms of resource consumption and inference speed when implemented on custom hardware such as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), while maintaining comparable accuracy (Tsoi et al 2024 EPJ Web Conf. 295 09036). …”
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Changes in household food security, access to health services and income in northern Lao PDR during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional survey by Jennifer R Head, Phetsavanh Chanthavilay, Helen Catton, Ammaline Vongsitthi, Kelley Khamphouxay, Niphone Simphaly

“…Local food production and safety net programmes that offset income losses may help.…”
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