Wildlife law and policy by S. Bertouille

“…They observed a strong reduction in the number of infringements; particularly, they found that hunting out of season and hunting without a license decreased from 23.4% to 7.31% and from 30.12% to 11.8%, respectively. …”
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A group psychological intervention for postnatal depression in British mothers of South Asian origin – the ROSHNI-2 RCT by Nusrat Husain, Karina Lovell, Carolyn A Chew-Graham, Farah Lunat, Penny Bee, Matthias Pierce, Najia Atif, Saadia Aseem, Kamaldeep Bhui, Peter Bower, Traolach Brugha, Nasim Chaudhry, Akbar Ullah, Linda Davies, Nadeem Gire, Deepali Sharma, Jahanara Miah, Waqas Ahmed, Joe Kai, Ilyas Mirza, Jillian Morrison, Naeem Mohmed, Atif Rahman, Shanaya Rathod, Najma Siddiqi, Waquas Waheed, Christopher Williams, Nosheen Zaidi, Richard Emsley, Richard Morriss

“…Despite a number of policy initiatives, the services lack the uptake of tailoring their approaches to the community they serve, and the level of cultural engagement is limited. …”
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Bisoprolol for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at high risk of exacerbation: the BICS RCT by Graham Devereux, Seonaidh Cotton, Mintu Nath, Nicola McMeekin, Karen Campbell, Rekha Chaudhuri, Gourab Choudhury, Anthony De Soyza, Shona Fielding, Simon Gompertz, John Haughney, Amanda Lee, Graeme MacLennan, Alyn Morice, John Norrie, David Price, Philip Short, Jorgen Vestbo, Paul Walker, Jadwiga Wedzicha, Andrew Wilson, Olivia Wu, Brian Lipworth

“…However, at the time this study was initiated, there had been no randomised controlled trials confirming or refuting this. …”
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Analysis of the Contextual Factors Influencing the Expansion of Construction Violations with an Emphasis on the Role and Position of Key Urban Stakeholders (Case Study: Isfahan Met... by Ahmad Shahivandi, Afsaneh Talebi Varnosfaderani

“…Additionally, the failure to implement systems to mitigate the impact of inflation on housing costs with a factor loading of 0.821 and the restrictions on bank credits for loans related to purchasing and building housing with a factor loading of 0.812 were identified as key factors contributing to the weaknesses in the government's public and civil construction initiatives.Social and Cultural Dimensions: In this aspect, social factors accounted for approximately 36% of the model, while cultural factors accounted for about 26%. …”
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Legal Challenges of Marine Insurance Laws in the Use of Unmanned Ships by Mahsa Bahadoran- Baghbaderani, Masoud Shirani, Reza Soltani

“…Previous studies have highlighted the economic and environmental benefits of unmanned ships, such as cost reduction, increased efficiency, and decreased emissions. …”
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Innovation Ecosystem of Iran's Tourism Industry with Emphasis on Supply Chain by Azizolah Jafari, mahdi alaei kerahrudi

“…These systems offer real-time information updates, cost reductions for online space purchases, multilingual website accessibility, and diverse marketing strategy implementations. …”
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Enhanced recovery pathway for older people with hip fracture and cognitive impairment in acute hospitals: the PERFECTED research programme including an RCT by Chris Fox, Simon P Hammond, Lee Shepstone, Fiona Poland, Catherine Henderson, Tamara Backhouse, Bridget Penhale, Simon Donell, Martin Knapp, Douglas Lewins, Alasdair MacLullich, Martyn Patel, Opinder Sahota, Toby O Smith, Justin Waring, Jane L Cross

“…The documents received through the survey were coded using a developed coding matrix to identify potential intervention components. This provided initial insights into what participants perceived as current and best practice. …”
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Clinical and cost-effectiveness of detailed anomaly ultrasound screening in the first trimester: a mixed-methods study by Jehan N Karim, Helen Campbell, Pranav Pandya, Edward C F Wilson, Zarko Alfirevic, Trish Chudleigh, Elizabeth Duff, Jane Fisher, Hilary Goodman, Lisa Hinton, Christos Ioannou, Edmund Juszczak, Louise Linsell, Heather L Longworth, Kypros H Nicolaides, Anne Rhodes, Gordon Smith, Basky Thilaganathan, Jim Thornton, Gillian Yaz, Oliver Rivero-Arias, Aris T Papageorghiou

“…Additional modelling predicted reductions in infant healthcare costs and quality-adjusted life-years. …”
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Connectivity guided intermittent theta burst stimulation versus repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in moderately severe treatment resistant depression by Richard Morriss, Lucy Webster, Luke Ingram, Mohamed Abdelghani, Adriana Anton, Shaun Barber, Peter Bates, Paul Briley, Clement Boutry, Cassandra Brookes, Edward Cox, Beth Hall, Marilyn James, Matthew Keane, Micheal Kurkar, Sudheer Lankappa, Peter Liddle, Hamish McAllister-Williams, Hyerin Oh, Alexander O’Neill-Kerr, Jehill Parikh, Stefan Pszczolkowski, Ana Suazo Di Paola, Louise Thomson, Yvette Walters, Dorothee Auer

“…Baseline FC between sgACC and the intended treatment target within IDLPFC predicted self-reported reduced depression symptoms at 8 weeks but worse depression symptoms at 16 and 26 weeks. Greater reduction in FC between left DMPFC and a posterior IDLPFC site from baseline to 16 weeks was associated with reductions in self-reported depression symptoms at 16 and 26 weeks. …”
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Concrete double-K fracture toughness and fracture energy influenced by porosity and pore size by Guohui Zhang, Dejin Gu, Yanshuang Gu, Mingyang Zhou, Bo Zhao, Mingming Wang

“…At constant porosity, the initiation load and initiation fracture toughness of concrete with a hole diameter of 0.3 to 0.6 mm decreased the most, with maximum reductions of 48.98% and 49.30%, respectively. …”
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Same-Day Access for Head and Neck Cancer: Effect on Patient Outcome and Quality-Related Benchmarks by Allen M. Chen MD, MBA, FASTRO

“…However, the same-day access initiative was associated with significant reductions in time from diagnosis to first day of radiation (49 days vs 71 days, P  < .001); time from diagnosis to completion of diagnostic work-up (32 days vs 43 days, P  = .01); and time from diagnosis to completion of all treatment (91 days vs 111 days, P  < .001).The same-day access initiative was associated with significant reductions in time from diagnosis to first day of radiation (49 days vs 71 days, P  < .001); time from diagnosis to completion of diagnostic work-up (32 days vs 43 days, P  = .01); and time from diagnosis to completion of all treatment (91 days vs 111 days, P  < .001). …”
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Secondary Prevention Using Cholesterol-Lowering Medications in Patients with Prior Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Events: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis by Xue Han, Steven Fox, Michelle Chu, Jeff McCombs

“…Eligible patients were categorized by treatment group: (1) patients who initiated treatment before an ASCVD-related hospitalization and (2) patients who either did not initiate treatment until after an ASCVD hospitalization or never initiated treatment. …”
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Vom Viereck zum Schwarzen Quadrat by Ursula Klammer

“…The Black Square as a painterly “Urform” of Suprematism and cipher of the non-objective is – according to the thesis – the result of Malevič’s artistic theory, which already initiates a certain meaning with the title. This implicitly imposes a representational function on the work, which the pictorial form itself negates in its aesthetic reductiveness.…”
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Is impact out of scope? A call for innovation in climate standards to inspire action across companies’ Spheres of Influence by Kaya Axelsson, Claire Wigg, Matilda Becker

“…Standards have been built primarily to guide companies in setting targets (e.g. through the Science Based Targets initiative) and to help companies’ track emissions reductions in their annual inventories (e.g. using the Greenhouse Gas Protocol). …”
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L’audiovisuel dans les cultures wayana et apalaï : un exemple des enjeux linguistiques et identitaires en Guyane by Cécile-Marie Martin

“…Young filmmakers trained in these techniques, and assumed an important role in intercultural relations. A number of initiatives to decolonize audiovisual media have thus emerged, enabling these minority groups to make their own films as a means of establishing a dynamic and critical dialogue with the multiple representations—most of them reductive and stigmatizing—that had already been produced about them. …”
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Green and blue water response to drought modulated by background climate and vegetation by Jing Xiao, Fubao Sun, Tingting Wang, Wang Hong

“…Compared to other vegetation types, forests exhibit smaller drought-induced reductions in evapotranspiration but greater reductions in runoff. …”
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Body composition metrics as a determinant of trastuzumab deruxtecan related toxicity and response by Shiran Yaacobi Peretz, Rivka Kessner, Yael Bar, Amir Sonnenblick, Shir Lerner, Ariella Deutsch-Lukatsky, Karteek Popuri, Mirza Faisal Beg, Shlomit Strulov Shachar

“…Using computed tomography, skeletal muscle, visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) were assessed within 60 days before initiating treatment. High SAT and VAT areas were significantly associated with a higher likelihood of dose reductions (Odds Ratio [OR] = 5.34, p = .032 and OR = 5.52, p = 0.032, respectively). …”
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Performance Analysis of Japanese Electric Vehicle Manufacturers in Environmental, Social, and Governance Using Text Mining and Predictive Methods by Meihui Zhao

“…Based on past trends in keywords and emissions data, predictive analysis was performed to analyze the potential for future emissions reductions and the strategic direction of each company’s sustainability initiatives.…”
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Remote work – the new normal needs more research by Annina Ropponen

“…In these mechanisms, the immediate impact of flexibility leads to a reduction in stress, thereby promoting better health (43, 44). …”
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Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotic Use in Patients with Schizophrenia and Criminal Justice System Encounters by Madhav P. Bhatta, Saroj Bista, Antoine C. El Khoury, Eric G. Hutzell, Neeta Tandon, Douglas Smith

“…**Conclusions:** Patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder who were initiated on a LAI antipsychotic medication, specifically PP1M, were less likely to have an encounter with the criminal justice system compared with a similar time period before the initiation of LAI treatment.…”
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