TO DIE AND LET DIE: A JUST THEOLOGY OF CEDING SPACE by T. Van Wyk

“… Over the past few years, there has been a significant intellectual and artistic emphasis on the manner in which one considers or approaches the end of life. …”
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Status and risk factors for depression, anxiety, and insomnia symptoms among adolescents in the post-pandemic era by Xing-Jie Yang, Li-Bin Zhang, Lei-Lei Wang, Hu Deng, Yu-Long Li, Rong-Jia Zhao, Jia-Yan Xu, Yu-Chun Yang, Shuang-Jiang Zhou

“…Chi-square tests revealed significant variations in the prevalence of these conditions according to age, sex, coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) infection status, family infection status, and increased screen time (P < 0.001). Logistic regression analysis indicated heightened rates of depression, anxiety, and insomnia symptoms among rural adolescents, females, those aged 16–18 years, individuals with a history of COVID-19, those with a long COVID-19 illness, and those with increased screen time (all P < 0.001). …”
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Clinical Significance of Perioperative Minimal Residual Disease Detected by Circulating Tumor DNA in Patients With Lung Cancer With a Long Follow-up Data: An Exploratory Study by Shuta Ohara, MD, PhD, Kenichi Suda, MD, PhD, Sumedha Sudhaman, PhD, Akira Hamada, MD, PhD, Masato Chiba, MD, PhD, Masaki Shimoji, MD, PhD, Toshiki Takemoto, MD, PhD, Ekaterina Kalashnikova, PhD, Samantha K. Cheung, PhD, Michael Krainock, MD, PhD, Jordan Feeney, BS, Himanshu Sethi, MPH, Minetta C. Liu, MD, Junichi Soh, MD, PhD, Yasuhiro Tsutani, MD, PhD, Tetsuya Mitsudomi, MD, PhD

“…Method: Plasma samples were collected from 46 patients with clinical stage II-III NSCLC before surgery (n = 46), after surgery (n = 45), and every six months until two years thereafter (n = 78). A clinically validated, personalized, tumor-informed 16-plex polymerase chain reaction–next-generation sequencing assay was used for the detection and quantification of ctDNA in retrospectively analyzed plasma samples. …”
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Determinants of mortality and prolonged hospital stay among dengue patients attending tertiary care hospital: a cross-sectional retrospective analysis by Yusra Habib Khan, Tauqeer Hussain Mallhi, Amer Hayat Khan, Azmi Sarriff, Azreen Syazril Adnan

“…Objectives Dengue imposes substantial economic, societal and personal burden in terms of hospital stay, morbidity and mortality. …”
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Cross-sectional survey of changes in knowledge, attitudes and practice of mask use in Sydney and Melbourne during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic by Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, C Raina MacIntyre, Holly Seale, Ashley Lindsay Quigley, Mallory Trent

“…Objectives Since mask uptake and the timing of mask use has the potential to influence the control of the COVID-19 pandemic, this study aimed to assess the changes in knowledge toward mask use in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.Design An observational study, using a cross-sectional survey, was distributed to adults in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, during July–August 2020 (survey 1) and September 2020 (survey 2), during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia.Setting and participants Participants aged 18 years or older and living in either Sydney or Melbourne.Primary and secondary outcome measures Demographics, risk measures, COVID-19 severity and perception, mask attitude and uptake were determined in this study.Results A total of 700 participants completed the survey. …”
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Public commemoration in service of nation, state and dynastic identity-building by Marković Anita

“…Celebrations of jubilees and anniversaries can be seen as a special type of public festivity; often-solemn commemorations of certain events or personalities organized in certain years. Their commemorative nature also has the potential for them to be powerful propaganda tools in the construction of national, state and dynastic identities. …”
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Digital Texts in Practice by Christian Wittern

“…As a student of intellectual, religious, and cultural developments in areas of the Chinese cultural sphere, my initial motivation for engaging with digital texts thirty years ago was to open up the new possibilities that the digital medium offered to researchers, without losing any of the affordances of a traditional printed edition. …”
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Medical students’ attitudes toward AI in education: perception, effectiveness, and its credibility by Abdul Sami, Fateema Tanveer, Khadeejah Sajwani, Nafeesa Kiran, Muhammad Ahsan Javed, Dilber Uzun Ozsahin, Khalid Muhammad, Yasir Waheed

“…Result A total of 702 medical students aged 18 to 26 years (mean age 20.50 ± 1.6 years) participated in the study. …”
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County Differences in Mortality among Foreign-Born Compared to Native Swedes 1970–1999 by Björn Albin, Katarina Hjelm, Jan Ekberg, Sölve Elmståhl

“…Counties with a more rural structure showed the highest differences between foreign-born persons and native controls. Foreign-born persons had a lower mean age (1.0–4.3 years) at time of death. …”
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Un parcours collectif autour du militantisme politique en Argentine : de la mémoire des « combattants révolutionnaires » aux discours sur la victimisation by Paula Sombra

“…The first is the continuity of political experiences troughout time while the second engages the policies of forgiveness and the process of personal (and national) memorial reconstruction in countries that have suffered major collective traumas.This paper pays particular attention to a variety of ideological formulations, practices and collective values that structure the FAP and, over the years, have progressively defined the boundaries of a given experience and meaning to actions, so as to ensure the sustainability of political commitment. …”
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Using Short-Term Concentration Measures and Intelligence in Rehabilitation Settings by Bruce D. Kirkcaldy

“…Intellectual and concentrative ability were assessed among a group of 85, predominantly schizophrenic, patients (mean age 32 years) from a Sheltered Workshop (GWN) and neurological-psychiatric institutionalized care units within the Neuss region of North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany. …”
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“I Live Quite a Good Balanced Life”: A Pilot Study on the Life Experiences of Ageing Individuals Living with HIV by Nuno Ribeiro Nobre, Jari Kylmä, Tapio Kirsi

“…The purpose of this study is to present new knowledge by interviewing nine Finnish HIV-positive individuals of 50 years of age and older. The data were analysed by inductive content analysis. …”
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Lessons of the Great Patriotic War and World War II for Contemporary Russia by I. I. Belousov

“…After the Second World War 70 years have passed. Essentially already gone a generation of people for whom it was not a story, and the nationwide disaster and personal experience. …”
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An Indexical Approach to Architecture by Anne Bordeleau

“…Making space for the interpenetration of personal and shared times, the translation of the index in architecture does not dictate meaning or reduce it to an endless play between signifier and signified: it throws the question back to the level of the embodied encounter. …”
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The COVID-19 pandemic art of Anna Szpakowska-Kujawska: from pastels to spatial compositions by Karolina Tomczak

“…Tomczak shows that the reworking of difficult realities in the artistic medium finally takes place in spatial objects that are transgressively modern in that they reinterpret the model of avant-garde sculpture, selected postmodern artistic solutions and Szpakowska-Kujawska’s original art. At the same time, Tomczak sees Szpakowska-Kujawska’s works as expressive objects and personal psychograms encoding reality in the subjective iconography of a special period, which stylistically determines the coexistence of individualized biomorphism and simplified figuration, abstract universalization and symbolic representation. …”
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Features of social and psychological adaptation of foreign students from far and near abroad by A. A. Gorozhankin, M. V. Iontseva

“…The age of the respondents ranged from 17 to 28 years old, 58 % of students came to Russia from near abroad countries, and 42 % came from countries that were not part of the Soviet Union at the time of its collapse. …”
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The role of strategic learning skills in the dropout from sport in adolescence by Carla Consoni

“…Interestingly, the search of personal skills related to dropout rates that are operative in performance and other settings different from sport (such as school) is still understudied. …”
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Pandemic mitigation: Bringing it home by Tom Reichert

“…In the US, national, regional and even institutional plans for ameliorating the effects of pandemic influenza focus on stockpiling antiviral medications, early production and distribution of vaccine, mass and personal social distancing, and a number of personal hygiene activities. …”
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The ‘process of doing’ in everyday occupations – a challenge for young adults with cerebral palsy by L. Bergqvist, A. M. Öhrvall, M. Peny-Dahlstrand

“…As described in the Model of the Process of Doing (MPoD), performing an occupation is a complex process consisting of six phases (generate idea, plan, initiate, enact, adjust, end) and time management.Aim: To collect the experiences of young adults with CP, classified at Manual Ability Classification System (MACS) level I or II, regarding how they perceive challenges in their occupational performance in relation to the different phases of the ‘process of doing’.Method: Semi-structured interviews were performed with ten participants with CP aged 19–30 years, MACS level I or II. …”
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