Contested and nervous spaces: exploring the environment of healthcare provision for international migrants in the Gauteng province of South Africa by Janine A. White, Laetitia C. Rispel

“…Background Notwithstanding the global goal of inclusive universal health coverage, and the notion of migrant-sensitive health systems, limited healthcare access or the exclusion of migrants from national health systems persists. …”
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Supervisors’ Challenges with Online Supervision Using Microsoft Teams in Supervising Open Distance and E-Learning (ODeL) Pre-Service Teachers by Matshidiso Taole, Katharine Naidu, Nduduzo Gcabashe, Thabisile Maphumulo

“…Thematic analysis was employed to analyse the data. The findings of this study showed that poor communication between supervisors and pre-service teachers, the lack of digital literacy among pre-service teachers, the difficulty of network coverage, and providing feedback were some of the challenges that supervisors experienced during online supervision. …”
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Assessing Topic Alignment in Pre-tertiary TVET Core Mathematics: A Ghanaian Case Study (2011-2023) by Derick Folson, Francis Kwadwo Awuah

“…Using content analysis and Porter’s alignment model, the study analysed topic distributions in both Paper 1 and Paper 2, computing alignment indices for each year. …”
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SWOT analysis of Janani Suraksha Yojana among women of Western Uttar Pradesh, India by Shalki Mattas, Bhawna Pant, Saurabh Sharma, Priyanka Dobhal

“…Less focus and ASHA coverage in urban areas as compared to rural areas.…”
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Cervical screening using HPV-DNA cytology in a low-income setting: an audit within a socio-economically deprived rural community in the Philippines by Elena Harty, Samantha Carr, Zelda Doyle, Charlotte Hespe

“…Data was de-identified and descriptively analysed. # Results Thirteen different HPV subtypes, all oncogenic, exist in the community. …”
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A comparative study of attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination in the rural and urban population of Uttarakhand, India by Rakesh Sharma, Prasuna Jelly, Vishwas AS, Lisa Chadha, Vartika Saxena, Latika Mohan

“…The attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination were collected via questionnaire and analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics…”
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Measuring influencing factors affecting mortality rates during the COVID-19 pandemic by Jih-Shong Wu, Kuo-Kuang Huang

“…Objectives With 4 years elapsed since the onset of the pandemic, ample data now exist to analyse the associations between the implementation of diverse public health policies, sociodemographic factors and COVID-19 mortality rates. …”
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The global landscape of country-level health technology assessment processes: A survey among 104 countries by Andrew J. Mirelman, Kratu Goel, Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer

“…To make progress towards universal health coverage (UHC), countries need to be able to develop and implement evidence-informed and inclusive processes for decision-making to inform what services are provided and purchased. …”
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Factors affecting Nepalese rural dwellers’ choice of first-contact health facility: a cross-sectional survey by Hocheol Lee, Hyeyeon Jo, Biraj Man Karmacharya, Bimala Sharma, Pramita Shrestha, Prajwal Satyal, Eun Woo Nam

“…Then, binary logistic regression was performed to analyse first-contact health facility decision-making…”
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On weighted sum‐rate maximization of full‐duplex systems in presence of STAR‐RIS by Mohammad Reza Kavianinia, Mohammad Javad Emadi, Mohammad Ali Sedaghat

“…Abstract Reflecting intelligent surface (RIS) is one of the key enabling technologies for beyond fifth generation wireless networks to further improve coverage, spectral‐ and energy‐efficiency of wireless networks. …”
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Infinitival and Gerund-Participial Catenative Complement Constructions in English World-Wide by Peter Craig Collins

“…The present study seeks to expand the regional coverage of such research by analysing a set of catenative constructions in two large web-derived corpora, GloWbE and NOW, both of which comprise 20 subcorpora representing different national varieties of English. …”
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Data‐independent acquisition‐based SWATH‐MS for quantitative proteomics: a tutorial by Christina Ludwig, Ludovic Gillet, George Rosenberger, Sabine Amon, Ben C Collins, Ruedi Aebersold

“…SWATH‐MS is a specific variant of data‐independent acquisition (DIA) methods and is emerging as a technology that combines deep proteome coverage capabilities with quantitative consistency and accuracy. …”
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Changes in Physicochemical Properties of Soil Encourage the Invasion Establishment and Carbon Dynamics of Lantana camara from Doon Valley, Western Himalaya, India by Gautam Mandal, Shambhu P. Joshi

“…In this study physicochemical properties of soil were analysed from different high and low Lantana infested areas. …”
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Facteurs Associés à la vaccination incomplète chez les enfants de 12-23 mois dans le district sanitaire de l’Ogou, Togo, 2019-2020 by Monfaye Sabi, Hamadi Assane, Wemboo Halatoko, Agballa Mébiny-Essoh Tchalla Abalo, Akawulu N’djao, Péléké Mawaba Hilim, Yendoukoi Labite, Ablaga Dzidzova Nyameko Amenyido, Pauline Yanogo

“…Le modèle de régression logistique était utilisé pour effectuer les analyses bivariée, et multivariée. Résultats: Etaient inclus dans l’étude, 117 cas et 234 témoins. …”
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Mayotte’s seismo-volcanic “crisis” in news accounts (2018–2021) by Devès, Maud H., Moirand, Sophie, Le Vagueresse, Louise, Robert, Geoffrey

“…Mayotte’s seismo-volcanic crisis gave rise to extensive media coverage in the local, regional and national daily press. …”
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Policy analysis of self-care program: a qualitative study protocol by Mohammadjavad Mohammadzade, Mostafa Amini-Rarani, Fereshteh Zamani-Alavijeh, Saeed Karimi

“…Methods A qualitative policy analysis will be conducted in four phases to analyse the self-care program, focussing in Iran. …”
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A comparative study of influenza surveillance systems and administrative data in England during the 2022-2023 season. by Jonathon Mellor, Rachel Christie, James Guilder, Robert S Paton, Suzanne Elgohari, Conall Watson, Sarah R Deeny, Thomas Ward

“…Concurrently, new surveillance systems, developed in response to the pandemic, became available within health services. In this study, we analysed per capita admission rates from National Health Service hospital Trusts across four surveillance systems in England during the winter of 2022-2023. …”
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Spatial arrangement overrules environmental factors to structure native and non-native assemblages of synanthropic harvestmen. by Christoph Muster, Marc Meyer, Thomas Sattler

“…Community structure was analysed using Moran's eigenvector maps as spatial variables, and landcover variables at different radii (500 m, 1000 m, 2000 m) in combination with climatic parameters as environmental variables. …”
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Programme administrators’ views on barriers in the Cuban-South African medical collaboration at UKZN by Valerie Chinniah, Ashika Maharaj

“…Background: The Cuban-South African medical collaboration, initiated in the early 1990s, aims to address the shortage of medical doctors, particularly in remote and rural South Africa, thereby contributing to achieving health-related outcomes for universal health coverage. Aim: This study focusses on the perceptions of programme administrators of the systemic barriers in coordinating the Cuban-South African medical collaboration programme. …”
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On-farm assessments of soil health and soil functions comparing conservation and conventional farming practices in southeast Norway by Frederik Bøe, Loes van Schaik, Jannes Stolte, Coen Ritsema

“…Soil sampling followed a systematic approach, analysing aggregate stability, bulk density, cohesion, soil roughness, saturated hydraulic conductivity, total organic carbon, total nitrogen, carbon-to-nitrogen ratio, permanganate-oxidisable carbon (POXC), pH, earthworm count and plant coverage. …”
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