Lending an Ear: iPeer2Peer plus Teens Taking Charge online self-management to empower adolescents with arthritis in Ireland: protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial by Stephanie Haugh, Line Caes, Brian E McGuire, Caroline Heary, Siobhan O'Higgins, Jennifer Stinson, Sara Ahola Kohut, Laura O'Connor, Brian Slattery, Michelle Hanlon, Hannah Durand

“…The secondary outcomes will be self-management and self-efficacy and a range of health-related quality-of-life factors, pain indicators and costs.Participants from the intervention groups will be invited to share their perspectives on the process in semistructured interviews. …”
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Rural Resilience Evaluation and Risk Governance in the Middle Reaches of the Heihe River, Northwest China: An Empirical Analysis from Ganzhou District, a Typical Irrigated Agricult... by Jing Huang, Dongqian Xue, Mei Huang

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Acupuncture for substance use disorders: a protocol of systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials by Yingying Wang, Meng Qiao, Chao-ren Tan, JIN CHANG, Shu-Min Chen

“…When sufficient data is available, subgroup analyses will be performed to further compare the differences in the primary and secondary outcomes based on the type of substance use, acupuncture, co-intervention status, comparison group, measurement tools, length of follow-up, risk of bias of included studies and countries of studies conducted.Ethics and dissemination No private information is used in the entire process of the systematic review. …”
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Sympathectomy and Neuromodulation in the Treatment of Critical Lower Limb Ischemia by A. V. Yarikov, V. A. Leonov, M. V. Shpagin, O. A. Perlmutter, A. P. Fraerman, А. S. Mukhin, A. E. Kletskin, V. G. Lyutikov, D. G. Kuzminykh

“…Clinically critical ischemia is manifested by pain at rest, resistant to narcotic analgesics, and/or ulcerative necrotic process on the legs. In the absence of treatment, patients undergo amputation of the lower limb. …”
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Pharmacoeconomic study of fluorescent lymphography and radionuclide diagnostics methods for sentinel lymph node detection in breast cancer by E. P. Kulikov, M. V. Shomova, D. S. Titov, A. N. Demko, M. A. Maistrenko

“…Deterministic multivariate sensitivity analysis demonstrated robustness of the obtained data to the transformation of RD cost parameters. …”
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Effectiveness of the application of a digitalized repository on the quality of graduate and post-graduate education in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation by Ivet B. Koleva, Ivet B. Koleva, Ivet B. Koleva, Borislav R. Yoshinov, Radoslav R. Yoshinov

“…At the end of every educational course, we collected data from the practical and theoretical exams (investigation period—from April 2020 to October 2024). …”
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Suggesting a structural model of test anxiety based on early maladaptive schemas with mediating fear of negative evaluation students in Tehran by Kourosh Jabari, Bahman Kord, Arezoo Shomali Oskoei

“…Gaining a deeper understanding of the psychological processes involved in exam anxiety can assist in developing effective strategies to enhance academic performance and improve students' overall quality of life. …”
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The Relation between Fatigue Level and Nurses’ Caring Behavior in The Orthopedic Department by Yasmin F. M. AbdElazeem, Rasha F. Ahmed, Eman F. A. M. Aly

“…Nurse's caring can impact a person's life processes, wellbeing, and functioning. On the other hand, fatigue is a subjective unpleasant feeling ranging from tiredness to exhaustion that could be physical, mental, or both. …”
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YOUTH VANDALISM IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF MEGALOPOLIS: BORDERS OF STANDARD AND DEVIATION by D. V. Rudenkin, I. V. Vorobyeva, O. V. Kruzhkova, M. S. Krivoshchekova

“…The specifics of perception of vandalism of young people were investigated on the basis of a social survey. The data was processed by the methods of correlation and factorial analysis. …”
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University Literacy and Contact with Sources of Information, Keys for Learning at The University by Fabiana Böhm-Carrer, Adrian Edgardo Lucero

“…To apply the strategy the students should be enrolled in the second year of their careers, so that this condition could account for the aspects under research. The data obtained were processed from a descriptive, univariate and bivariate statistics, which would provide a descriptive image of the subjects studied, as well as the main variables and indicators mentioned in the research objectives. …”
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The impact of eco-innovation on circular economy in EU countries: How patents affect circular material use rate? by Armand Kasztelan, Tomasz Kijek, Arkadiusz Kijek

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Women’s Choice to Deliver at Home: Understanding the Psychosocial and Cultural Factors Influencing Birthing Choices for Unskilled Home Delivery among Women in Southwestern Uganda by Esther C. Atukunda, Godfrey R. Mugyenyi, Celestino Obua, Angella Musiimenta, Edgar Agaba, Josephine N. Najjuma, Norma C. Ware, Lynn T. Matthews

“…Women’s referent birth location was largely intentional. Overall, the data suggest women choose home delivery (1) because of their financial dependency and expectation for a “natural” and normal childbirth, affecting their ability and need to seek skilled facility delivery; (2) as a means of controlling their own birth processes; (3) out of dissatisfaction with facility-based care; (4) out of strong belief in fate regarding birth outcomes; (5) because they have access to alternative sources of birthing help within their communities, perceived as “affordable,” “supportive,” and “convenient”; and (6) as a result of existing gender and traditional norms that limit their ability and freedom to make family or health decisions as women. …”
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Identification and expression analysis of the BnE2F/DP gene family in Brassica napus by Min Shen, Lijuan Wei, Chun Fu

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Study of CT-Guided Localization in Pulmonary Nodule Resection by Cheng Zhang, Ke Min, Hailong Zhao, Fengchang Zheng

“…The data underlying the results presented in the study are available within the manuscript. …”
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Using AlphaFold-Multimer to study novel protein-protein interactions of predation essential hypothetical proteins in Bdellovibrio by Ibukun John Abulude, Isabel Cristina Rodríguez Luna, Alejandro Sánchez Varela, Andrew Camilli, Daniel E. Kadouri, Xianwu Guo

“…Here, we overlapped attack phase genes from B. bacteriovorus transcriptomic data sets and from transposon sequencing data sets to generate a set of proteins that are both expressed at the attack phase and are necessary for predation, which we termed Attack Phase Predation-Essential Proteins (AP-PEP). …”
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Distribution of runs of homozygosity in Lactuca species and its implications for plant breeding and evolutionary conservation by Qianqian Zhang, Wenjun Lv, Defu Liu, Xueying Xie, Ke Yang, You Tang, Johann Solkner

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Pediatric Medical Tourism: International Patients Seeking Treatment in the United States for Malignancy and Serious Hematologic Disorders. A Review of the St Jude Experience by Saman K. Hashmi, Sierra Klein, Rushil Acharya, Suraj Sarvode Mothi, Jacklyn Boggs, Tracy Dodd, Liza-Marie Johnson

“…International travel for medical care can have financial, logistical, and ethical implications for patients, families, and accepting institutions. Data on medical tourism in pediatrics are sparse, especially for care of rare or life-threatening diseases such as cancer. …”
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Odyssey of environmental and microbial interventions in maize crop improvement by Alok Kumar Singh, Alok Kumar Singh, Alok Kumar Srivastava, Parul Johri, Manish Dwivedi, Radhey Shyam Kaushal, Mala Trivedi, Tarun Kumar Upadhyay, Nadiyah M. Alabdallah, Nadiyah M. Alabdallah, Irfan Ahmad, Mohd Saeed, Sorabh Lakhanpal

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Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial assessing the clinical and cost-effectiveness of the Journeying through Dementia (JtD) intervention compared to usual care by Tom Dening, Jessica Wright, Gail Mountain, Kirsty Sprange, Cindy Cooper, Ellen Lee, Stephen Walters, Alexis Foster, Katherine Berry, Esme Moniz-Cook, Amanda Loban, Tracey Anne Young, Claire Craig, Julie Beresford-Dent, Benjamin John Thompson, Emma Young, Benjamin David Thomas

“…The primary outcome measure for participants is Dementia-Related Quality of Life (DEMQOL), collected at baseline and at 8 months’ postrandomisation. …”
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Social Relations and Interpersonal Dialogue among Couples: A Study in the City of Yazd Based on the Grounded Theory by Lida Hatefi rad, Mehraban Parsamehr, Ali Ruhani

“…All recorded interviews were transcribed into text and the analysis process occurred concurrently with data collection. …”
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