Advance care planning (ACP) to promote receipt of value-concordant care: Results vary according to patient priorities. by Holly G Prigerson, Martin Viola, Paul K Maciejewski, Francesca Falzarano

“…Patients who 1) prioritized life-extending care, and then received life-extending care (or avoided hospice care), or 2) prioritized comfort-focused care, and then avoided life-extending care (or received hospice care) in the last week of life, were coded as receiving value-concordant care.…”
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Exploring the experiences of stroke survivors, informal caregivers and healthcare providers in Sierra Leone: a qualitative study protocol by Christopher McKevitt, Anthony Rudd, Andrew J M Leather, Peter Langhorne, Catherine Sackley, Andrew Leather, Jessica O'Hara, Daniel Youkee, Charles Wolfe, Martin Prince, Divya Parmar, Melvina Thompson, Gibrilla Deen, Jurate Wall, Radcliff Lisk, Gibrilla Fadlu Deen, Chris McKevitt, Dame Caroline Watkins, Dan Youkee, Yangzhong Wang

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Dɛnkyɛm: Identity Development and Negotiation Among 1.5-Generation Ghanaian American Millennials by Jakia Marie

“…Participants also discussed a common theme of bullying at school and a distinct difference between their home life and public life. Racialization was the most challenging aspect of life participants faced as it related to their adjustment to mainstream U.S. society and revealed complex layers that are involved in identity development and negotiation. …”
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DOŽIVOTNI ZATVOR I USLOVNI OTPUST U KRIVIČNOM PRAVU SRBIJE: NEKA PITANJA I DILEME by Emir Ćorović

“… Life imprisonment was introduced to Serbian Criminal legislation with the amendments of Criminal Code from 2019. …”
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A Novel C-Terminal Truncated Bacteriocin Found by Comparison between <i>Leuconostoc mesenteroides</i> 406 and 213M0 Isolated from Mongolian Traditional Fermented Milk, Airag by Hasiqimuge, Chihiro Hano, Kensuke Arakawa, Saki Yoshida, Junliang Zhao, Hidehiro Toh, Hidetoshi Morita, Taku Miyamoto

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How could 20-minute neighbourhoods impact health and health inequalities? A policy scoping review by Roxana Pollack, Jonathan R Olsen, Alison Heppenstall, Andreas Hoehn, Jennifer Boyd, Vicki Ponce Hardy, Jennifer Littlejohn, Amy Stevenson, Richard Mitchell, Petra Meier, Jonathan Stokes

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Developing an Educational-career guidance Curriculum Framework in the Iran's Education system by Behrooz Rahimi, Rezvan Hakimzadeh, Mohammad Javadipour, Keyvan Salehi, Mohammad KHademi Koleh lou

“…The educational -career guidance program plays the main role in schools by providing students with the tools they need to succeed in school, work, and everyday life (Ontario, 2006). The problem in this research is that the students have knowledge, attitude and skills such as; they do not know the interests, abilities, needs of the labor market, the career future of the fields of study, and choose a specific field of study that will lead to a job in the future only based on social and environmental factors such as family pressure and the results of aptitude and Interest tests, or by keep up with the Joneses. …”
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Presenting the model of factors affecting the resilience of entrepreneurial behavior in Technical and Vocational University of Alborz province by Ali Abdi Jamayran, Manouchehr Niknam, Hasan Rangriz

“…Entrepreneurial resilience refers to the ability of entrepreneurs to continue their future plans despite unstable events, market problems, and life conditions. This feature enables entrepreneurs to reduce the harmful effects of unexpected events, overcome it, and search for better situations (Fatoki, 2018). …”
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Ubiquitination Enzymes in Cancer, Cancer Immune Evasion, and Potential Therapeutic Opportunities by Aiman B. Awan, Maryiam Jama Ali Osman, Omar M. Khan

“…The ubiquitin–proteasome system (UPS) is critical in maintaining essential life processes such as cell cycle control, DNA damage repair, and apoptosis. …”
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Artificial fingerprints engraved through block-copolymers as nanoscale physical unclonable functions for authentication and identification by Irdi Murataj, Chiara Magosso, Stefano Carignano, Matteo Fretto, Federico Ferrarese Lupi, Gianluca Milano

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Biosynthesis of a Novel Ginsenoside with High Anticancer Activity by Recombinant UDP-Glycosyltransferase and Characterization of Its Biological Properties by Dandan Wang, Yan Jin, Hongtao Wang, Chenwei Zhang, Yao Li, Sathiyamoorthy Subramaniyam, Jae-Kyung Sohng, Nam-In Baek, Yeon-Ju Kim

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Alterations in Surface Electromyography Are Associated with Subjective Masticatory Muscle Pain by Davide Pietropaoli, Eleonora Ortu, Mario Giannoni, Ruggero Cattaneo, Alessandra Mummolo, Annalisa Monaco

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Seismic Performance Assessment of a Multistorey Building Designed with an Alternative Capacity Design Approach by Marco Bovo, Marco Savoia, Lucia Praticò

“…The actual seismic building codes have a prescriptive nature, and they are principally aimed to guarantee a prescribed life-safety level against a design-level earthquake even if some methods have been proposed to evaluate the seismic performance of a building along its entire service life. …”
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A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE MALE SETTING IN THE FIGHT CLUB AND A MAN ASLEEP / DÖVÜŞ KULÜBÜ VE BİR ADAM UYKUDA ESERLERİNDE ERKEK ALANININ KARŞILAŞTIRMALI OLARAK İNCELENMESİ... by Esin KUMLU

“…<p>The twentieth century postmodern world not only created an era of a decentered way of life but also tremendously triggered a decentered literary style that somehow achieves to encompass the entire story of human life. …”
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Pork production on YouTube: frame and sentiment analysis by Anu Karki, Shuyang Qu, Fally Masambuka-Kanchewa, Michael Retallick, Alexa J. Lamm, Kevan Lamm, Catherine E. Sanders, Allison Byrd, Nicholas Gabler

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Identification and characterization of alternative homologs of histidinol-phosphate phosphatase in Pseudomonas aeruginosa by Wei’an Guo, Xintong Duan, Chaoni Xiao, Songzhe Fu, Lixin Shen

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MicroEcoTools: An R package for comprehensive theoretical microbial ecology analysis by Soheil A. Neshat, Ezequiel Santillan, Stefan Wuertz

“…Furthermore, the package allows application of Grime's trait‐based life‐history categories—competitor, stress‐tolerant and ruderal (CSR)—to taxa, functional traits and ecosystem functions within microbial communities. …”
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The use of specific coordination behaviours to manage information processing and task distribution in real and simulated trauma teamwork: an observational study by Liselott Fornander, Maria Garrido Granhagen, Ida Molin, Kati Laukkanen, Karin Björnström Karlsson, Peter Berggren, Lena Nilsson

“…The analysis showed that although the teamwork was task-oriented, information management dominated task management at 64% of all the utterances in-real-life and 68% during simulation. In-real-life, information management was dominated by the codes “request information” (24%) and “confirmation” (21%), whereas “task distribution” (43%) was most frequently used for task management. …”
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Estimating the impact of drug use on US mortality, 1999-2016. by Dana A Glei, Samuel H Preston

“…In the hardest-hit state (West Virginia), drug use cost men 3.6 and women 1.9 life years. Recent declines in US life expectancy have been blamed largely on the drug epidemic. …”
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<i>ZmC2GnT</i> Positively Regulates Maize Seed Rot Resistance Against <i>Fusarium verticillioides</i> by Doudou Sun, Huan Li, Wenchao Ye, Zhihao Song, Zijian Zhou, Pei Jing, Jiafa Chen, Jianyu Wu

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