GRADE guidance 40: The GRADE evidence-to-decision framework for environmental and occupational health by Emily Senerth, Paul Whaley, Elie Akl, Brandy Beverly, Pablo Alonso-Coello, Andrew Rooney, Holger J. Schünemann, Kristina A. Thayer, Katya Tsaioun, Rebecca L. Morgan

“…Conclusion: Policymakers, regulators, and other stakeholders may use this GRADE EtD framework to approach decision-making about environmental and occupational exposures and interventions.…”
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Former Buruli Ulcer Patients' Experiences and Wishes May Serve as a Guide to Further Improve Buruli Ulcer Management. by Anita Velink, Rebecca J Woolley, Richard O Phillips, Kabiru M Abass, Tjip S van der Werf, Emmanuel Agumah, Janine de Zeeuw, Sandor Klis, Ymkje Stienstra

“…The ulcers are treated with rifampicin and streptomycin, wound care and, if necessary surgical intervention. Professionals have exclusively shaped the research agenda concerning management and control, while patients' perspective on priorities and preferences have not explicitly been explored or addressed.…”
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The New Left. 1968 and Post Scriptum by Michael Walzer

“…In the post scriptum, written explicitly for the Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales 50 years later with a great analytical and existential wisdom, the author inspects the way in which class profile, radicalization and separatism led to an isolation of the New Left from the natural support basis it should have reached. …”
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On Hesitation by Galina Kallio

“…This essay reflects upon my encounters with animal death and shares experiences from observing and participating in animal slaughter taking the form of a photo-poetic intervention. As a selective collection of field notes, personal reflections, and photographs generated between 2019 and 2023, in this essay I aim to capture the affective side of scholarship and bring forth an alternative way of inquiring into and representing research, one that explicitly invites the reader to sense, feel, and contemplate. …”
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Continuation of breastfeeding after surgical removal of AQUALIFTⓇ due to mastitis: A case report by Kayoko Uno, Yushi Suzuki, Yukie Nakamura, Kazuo Kishi

“…While previous reports have described breast complications necessitating surgical intervention after filler injections, none have explicitly documented the continuation of postoperative breastfeeding. …”
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Social norms and groups structure safe operating spaces in renewable resource use in a social–ecological multi-layer network model by M. Bechthold, M. Bechthold, M. Bechthold, W. Barfuss, W. Barfuss, A. Butz, J. Breier, J. Breier, S. M. Constantino, J. Heitzig, L. Schwarz, L. Schwarz, L. Schwarz, S. N. Vardag, J. F. Donges, J. F. Donges, J. F. Donges

“…They play a central role in governance and thus represent a possible intervention point for collective action problems in the Anthropocene, such as natural resource management. …”
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A mathematical framework for analyzing co-infection of COVID-19 with lung cancer by Md. Abdul Hye, Md. Haider Ali Biswas, Mohammed Forhad Uddin

“…While various co-infection models have been discussed, no prior work has focused explicitly on the mathematical modeling of COVID-19 and lung cancer co-infection, positioning this research as pioneering. …”
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State as an Heir: Balancing Public and Private Interests in Georgia and Europe. Part I: Comparative Overview by Irakli Leonidze

“…Given the legal nature of the problems, it is necessary to explicitly define the state’s status as a special legal heir in Article 1343 of the Civil Code of Georgia to prevent the confusion of rights and duties from leading to excessive state intervention in inheritance matters. …”
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More sustainable choices in the workplace: a systematic review of nudge theory applications by Giulia De Paolis, Lorenza Tiberio, Federica Caffaro

“…A clear heterogeneity emerged in how nudging is defined, with only half of the studies explicitly referencing Thaler and Sunstein’s classical framework. …”
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MGSurvE: A framework to optimize trap placement for genetic surveillance of mosquito populations. by Héctor M Sánchez C, David L Smith, John M Marshall

“…A key strength of MGSurvE is that it allows important biological features of mosquitoes and the landscapes they inhabit to be accounted for, namely: i) resources required by mosquitoes (e.g., food sources and aquatic breeding sites) can be explicitly distributed through a landscape, ii) movement of mosquitoes may depend on their sex, the current state of their gonotrophic cycle (if female) and resource attractiveness, and iii) traps may differ in their attractiveness profile. …”
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A mixed methods study to evaluate participatory mapping for rural water safety planning in western Kenya. by Joseph Okotto-Okotto, Weiyu Yu, Emmah Kwoba, Samuel M Thumbi, Lorna Grace Okotto, Peggy Wanza, Diogo Trajano Gomes da Silva, Jim Wright

“…In contrast to source type ranking for international monitoring, workshop participants ranked rainwater's safety above piped water and identified source types such as broken pipes not explicitly recorded in water source typologies often used for formal monitoring. …”
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Synbiotics in caries prevention: A scoping review. by Mohammed Nadeem Bijle, Manikandan Ekambaram, Edward C M Lo, Cynthia Kar Yung Yiu

“…The quasi-experimental clinical study without a control arm did not explicitly mention the intervention composition and thus, its synbiotic potential remains unclear. …”
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Glocalization Self-Referential Remembrances by Roland Robertson

“… This intervention is comprised of a sketch of the ways in which I have encountered the concept of glocalization, as well as glocality, during the past thirty-forty years. …”
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Evaluation of Simulations for Short-Term Voltage Stability Assessment with Respect to Model Uncertainties by Dorothee Nitsch, Hendrik Vennegeerts

“…This paper presents and discusses a new index that was developed explicitly for the problem at hand in dealing with model uncertainties, derived requirements from it, and compared it with existing indices from the literature. …”
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Case Report: Management of cerebral arterial gas embolism via transfer to an outpatient hyperbaric chamber by Emmanuel J. Thomas, Samuel J. Thomas, Jason A. Bailey, Jason A. Bailey, Jason M. Jaronik, Hassaan A. Khan, Manaal Buchh, Zenia Qasim, Saniya K. Zackariya, David E. Van Ryn, David E. Van Ryn, David E. Van Ryn, Mahmoud D. Al-Fadhl, Faisal Shariff, Hala K. Ansari, Kate M. Kelly, Ameera S. Khan, Jack H. Langford, Marcus Farrand, Eshaal Kizilbash, Reagan E. Ludwig, Jonathan Z. Zhao, Leigh K. Van Ryn, Leigh K. Van Ryn, Caroline C. Howell, Caroline C. Howell, Marie Nour Karam, Anthony V. Thomas, Yunsheng Yan, Mark M. Walsh, Mark M. Walsh, Mathew K. Marsee

“…Gas embolisms can be caused by iatrogenic interventions, resulting in various manifestations. We present a patient who experienced loss of consciousness and simultaneous paralysis during a percutaneous needle biopsy of the lung. …”
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Eligibility Criteria in Advanced Urothelial Cancer Clinical Trials: An Assessment of Modernization and Inclusion by Benjamin D. Mercier, Ameish Govindarajan, Daniela V. Castro, Xiaochen Li, Errol J. Philip, Matthew I. Feng, Sweta R. Prajapati, Elyse H. Chan, Kyle O. Lee, Ishaan Sehgal, Jalen Patel, Anna O'Dell, Alexander Chehrazi‐Raffle, Hedyeh Ebrahimi, Adam Rock, Zeynep Busra Zengin, Luis A. Meza, Nazli Dizman, JoAnn Hsu, Sandy Liu, Tanya B. Dorff, Sumanta K. Pal, Abhishek Tripathi

“…Brain metastases were totally excluded by 35.1% of trials and had 18.9% of trials provide no explicit criteria or guidelines. Most trials specified conditions for the inclusion of patients with concurrent malignancies (91.9%). …”
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Agentic LLM-based robotic systems for real-world applications: a review on their agenticness and ethics by Emmanuel K. Raptis, Emmanuel K. Raptis, Athanasios Ch. Kapoutsis, Athanasios Ch. Kapoutsis, Elias B. Kosmatopoulos, Elias B. Kosmatopoulos

“…Additionally, central to our contribution is an evaluation framework explicitly addressing ethical, safety, and transparency principles—including bias mitigation, fairness, robustness, safety guardrails, human oversight, explainability, auditability, and regulatory compliance. …”
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Consumer Perception of Irradiated Food Products in the Abai Region of Kazakhstan by Duman Orynbekov, Zhanar Kalibekkyzy, Almagul Nurgazezova, Gulnur Nurymkhan, Amirzhan Kassenov, Yernaz Yermekov

“…The study concludes that although consumer knowledge is low, moderate openness exists toward irradiated food, suggesting that public education and clear communication could play a pivotal role in building acceptance for this food safety intervention.…”
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Point-Cloud Instance Segmentation for Spinning Laser Sensors by Alvaro Casado-Coscolla, Carlos Sanchez-Belenguer, Erik Wolfart, Vitor Sequeira

“…To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that faces the 3D segmentation problem from a 2D perspective without explicitly re-projecting 3D point clouds. Moreover, our approach exploits multiple channels available in modern sensors, i.e., range, reflectivity, and ambient illumination. …”
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Hybrid Graph Representation Learning for Carotid Artery Stenosis Detection Based on Multimodal Retinal OCTA Images by Wenting Lan, Jinkui Hao, Shengjun Zhou, Jingfeng Zhang, Shaodong Ma, Yitian Zhao

“…Rapid and precise detection of CAS is crucial for early intervention and reducing ischemic stroke incidence. …”
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