Virtual Patient Simulations Using Social Robotics Combined With Large Language Models for Clinical Reasoning Training in Medical Education: Mixed Methods Study by Alexander Borg, Carina Georg, Benjamin Jobs, Viking Huss, Kristin Waldenlind, Mini Ruiz, Samuel Edelbring, Gabriel Skantze, Ioannis Parodis

“…MethodsA Swedish explorative proof-of-concept study was conducted between May and July 2023, combining quantitative and qualitative methodology. …”
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How to improve your sleep quality? Review of non-pharmacological methods by Urszula Szymczak, Wojciech Wiesław Lachór, Monika Barbara Solarz, Julia Piekarska, Justyna Maria Solarz, Jakub Tomasz Wawrzyńców, Weronika Cyrkler, Jakub Robak, Stanisław Telega, Paweł Bollin

“…The research found that non-pharmacological methods of improving sleep quality present varying effectiveness depending on the parameter studied. …”
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The Use of Arts‐Based Methods to Enhance Patient Engagement in Health Research by Emily K. Phillips, Anna M. Chudyk, Caroline Monnin, Annette S. H. Schultz, Rakesh C. Arora, Todd A. Duhamel, Sheila O'Keefe‐McCarthy

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Advancing sustainable chemistry education: Insights from real-world case studies by Evelyn Araripe, Vânia G. Zuin Zeidler

“…This study aims at analysing the integration of innovative teaching methodologies through the implementation of two case studies, “Plasticized Childhood” and “Unpacking Burgers,” in the context of Green Chemistry (GC) and Sustainable Chemistry (SC) education. …”
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Study on the improvement of semi-Hertzian wheel/rail contact algorithms by Yaru Liang, Qunsheng Wang, Jing Zeng, Bin Zhu, Rancheng Mao

“…When the wheel polygonalization appears on the worn-type wheel tread of the high-speed trains, the lateral and longitudinal relative wheel/rail curvature around the contact patch will vary with the change of wheel circumferential position. In such a case, the commonly used Hertzian contact method cannot meet the calculation precision, while even the non-Hertzian method has relatively high precision, but its calculation efficiency cannot meet the demand of engineering application. …”
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Heart transplantation: comparing the impact of modified heart preservation with conventional methods by Xiaoke Shang, Changdong Zhang, Yixuan Wang, Mei Liu, Yucheng Zhong, Nianguo Dong

“…Among these, 656 cases underwent modified heart preservation and were assigned to the study group, while 107 cases underwent conventional heart preservation and were designated as the control group. …”
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Possibilities of psychological methods in predicting the risk of illegal and suicidal behavior in adolescents by V.A. Mudrov, A.V. Sakharov

“… <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The aim </strong>of the study was to study psychological and mathematical methods in predicting the risk of unlawful and suicidal behavior in adolescents and to create computer programs based on the results obtained. …”
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Heterogeneity and spatiotemporal evolution characteristics of regional emergency logistics response capacity: a case of China by Heng Chen, Xianglong Lin, Yuan Guo, Xianchao Qi

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Electrophysiological methods in the diagnosis of subclinical cognitive impairment in HIV-infected patients by O. E. Gurskaya, E. V. Galicheva, A. V. Gaisina, V. V. Rassohin, T. D. Sizova, N. A. Beliakov, S. V. Medvedev

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Impact of transfer learning methods and dataset characteristics on generalization in birdsong classification by Burooj Ghani, Vincent J. Kalkman, Bob Planqué, Willem-Pier Vellinga, Lisa Gill, Dan Stowell

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Comparison of Different Methods for Drug Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to Rifampicin by T. V. Umpeleva, E. A. Mazurina, D. V. Vakhrusheva, N. I. Eremeeva

“…The objective: to compare results of drug susceptibility testing to rifampicin by molecular genetic methods and phenotypic tests of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates obtained from clinical specimens of tuberculosis patients.Subjects and Methods. 915 samples of M. tuberculosis DNA and 426 cultures were used in this study. …”
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Uncertainty Quantification to Assess the Generalisability of Automated Masonry Joint Segmentation Methods by Jack M. W. Smith, Chrysothemis Paraskevopoulou

“…This study analysed how uncertainty quantification methods can be used to assess the test time performance of neural networks trained for masonry joint segmentation without the laborious labelling of additional ground truths. …”
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Comparison of numerical methods for the solution of Richards' equation in layered porous media by Roza Asadi, Zahra Zamani Aliabadi

“…The different forms have been compared in terms of accuracy, the number of iterations, and mass balance ratio. For the test cases considered in this study, the water content form has been determined as the superior method due to the low mass balance error, higher accuracy, and less number of iterations. …”
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Comparative assessment of different methods of surgical treatment of nonbiliary necrotizing pancreatitis by O. V. Rozenko, D. N. Synepupov, A. M. Sorokin

“…The aim of the research was to improve results of treatment of patients with nonbiliary necrotizing pancreatitis by optimizing of the surgical tactics, which depend on the extent of necrosis in the pancreas and peripancreatic fat. Materials and methods. The study analyzed results of treatment of 220 patients with acute nonbiliary necrotizing pancreatitis, who were hospitalized in the clinic from 2014 to 2016. …”
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OPTIMAL METHODS FOR ELIMINATION OF OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE WITH ADVANCED CANCER OF THE PANCREAS HEAD by T. G. Gevorkyan, I. A. Faynshteyn

“…Development and evaluation of the effectiveness of sound and safer methods of palliative surgery with obstructive jaundice advanced pancreatic head cancer.Patients and methods. …”
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Territorially Embedded Food Systems as a Response to the Challenges of Globalization—Students Understanding, Current Status, Needs, and Expectations of University Education in This... by Klaudia Kopczyńska, Rita Góralska-Walczak, Renata Kazimierczak, Carola Strassner, Alexander Wezel, Paola Migliorini, Dominika Średnicka-Tober

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Genotypic and Phenotypic Methods in the Detection of MDR-TB and Evolution to XDR-TB by Natalia Zaporojan, Ramona Hodișan, Carmen Pantiș, Andrei Nicolae Csep, Claudiu Zaporojan, Dana Carmen Zaha

“…<b>Conclusions</b>: Genotypic testing using GenoType MTBDR<i>plus</i> provides rapid and accurate results, but some cases of phenotypic resistance are not detected by this method. …”
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Methods Used in Urban Search and Rescue in Disasters and Evaluation of Current Approaches by Gürkan Yılmaz, Sevda Demiröz Yıldırım

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Practical pathological methods for reliable diagnosis of secretory carcinomas of the salivary gland by Ryo Kawaura, Tomohiko Ishikawa, Hirofumi Shibata, Masashi Kuroki, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Yuki Hanamatsu, Tatsuhiko Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Tomita, Takuma Ishihara, Hajime Usubuchi, Yayoi Aoyama, Yukinori Asada, Takayuki Imai, Akira Ohkoshi, Akira Hara, Yukio Katori, Toru Furukawa, Takenori Ogawa

“…However, detecting fusion genes in a clinical setting is time-consuming and costly. In this study, we examined 31 cases previously diagnosed as AciCC and SC using pathological analyses with detection of fusion genes using ETV6 break-apart fluorescence in-situ hybridization and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. …”
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Fever of unknown origin − diagnostic methods in a European developing country by Bosilkovski Mile, Dimzova Marija, Stevanović Milena, Semenakova-Cvetkovska Vesna, Vasileva-Duganovska Maja

“…Fewer of unknown origin (FUO) remains amongst the most difficult diagnostic dilemmas in contemporary medicine. The aim of this study was to determine the causes of FUO and to identify the methods of diagnosis in patients with FUO in a tertiary care setting in the Republic of Macedonia. …”
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