Implications of the availability and distribution of birth weight on addressing neonatal mortality: population-based assessment from Bihar state of India by Lalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona, G Anil Kumar, Debarshi Bhattacharya, Sibin George, Priya Nanda, Md Akbar

“…Variations of LBW by place of delivery and sociodemographic indicators, and the perceptions of carers about LBW can facilitate appropriate actions to address LBW and the associated neonatal mortality.…”
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Flight Safety Assessment Based on a Modified Human Reliability Quantification Method by Yundong Guo, Youchao Sun, Xiufang Yang, Zongpeng Wang

“…The probability of human error for each operation in the approach and landing phases is obtained with the modified CREAM method, and the results indicate that the most important cognitive function that influences human reliability is missed action. The proposed method may be a suitable tool for human reliability quantification in aviation considering long-duration flights. …”
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Principles in practice? A policy review of the IOC's environmental sustainability agenda by Alison Cain, Michael Callan

“…The IOC's ES agenda is interpreted as both strategy around ES, as a plan of action to achieve desired outcomes, and policies around ES, as matters of practice and principle to be enacted. …”
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Excès et sacré dans la littérature victorienne et édouardienne by Annie Escuret

“…Bataille constructs his heterology around the threshold of the sacred, the line marked by interdictions that solicit transgressive action. If heterology centers on the sacred as posited by those things which are hidden, objects of revulsion such as the body’s excreta (tears, sweat, blood…), the sacrificial banquet stands for the opposite, for ingestion and communion.…”
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Antecedents and consequences of professional competence of school administrators with emphasis on environmental sustainability and sustainable development by mohamadreza rasouli, ghafar tari, hossein Baghaei

“…Extended abstract Introduction Performance sustainability is a relatively new concept defined as a process that focuses on all five dimensions of sustainability performance (economic, governance, social, ethical, and environmental) (Atstsaury et al, 2024). Serious action has not been taken to address environmental pollution, especially in the field of human resource development and professional development (Hustler & McIntyre, 2024). …”
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Improving Accuracy of Malaria Diagnosis in Underserved Rural and Remote Endemic Areas of Sub-Saharan Africa: A Call to Develop Multiplexing Rapid Diagnostic Tests by Rasheed O. Makanjuola, Andrew W. Taylor-Robinson

“…As a means to combat this major global public health threat, rapid and effective diagnosis remains the frontline action to initiate a timely and appropriate medical intervention. …”
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Simulating Performance of a Dual Angle Particle Monitor for Atmospheric Particulate Matter by Charles D. Litton, Aranya Venkatesh, Jill Andersen, Dömötör Gulyás, Sara Longo, Chris Bartley, Illah Nourbakhsh

“…This raises the question of whether the measurement of PM2.5 “misses” the potential impact of very small particles (e.g., below 0.3 µm) due to lack of sensitivity and/or the low mass concentrations that these particles contribute to the total PM2.5. …”
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Measuring the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Diagnostic Delay in Rare Disease by Caitlin Hampson, William Evans, Lucy McKay, Lara Menzies

“…The authors recommend three actions to help address this: optimising remote clinical consultations; enhancing the use of health informatics in rare diseases; and proactively identifying patients with undiagnosed rare diseases missed due to the pandemic. …”
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Actively protective combinatorial analysis: A scalable novel method for detecting variants that contribute to reduced disease prevalence in high-risk individuals by J Sardell, S Das, K Taylor, C Stubberfield, A Malinowski, M Strivens, S Gardner

“…The results support the mechanism of action hypotheses identified in our original causative disease analyses. …”
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Gene regulatory patterning codes in early cell fate specification of the C. elegans embryo by Alison G Cole, Tamar Hashimshony, Zhuo Du, Itai Yanai

“…In Drosophila, classic work has shown that segmentation in the embryo is established by morphogens within a syncytium, and the subsequent action of the gap, pair-rule, and segment polarity genes. …”
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City of Wars: the Representation of Wartime London in Two Novels of the 1940s: James Hanley’s No Directions and Patrick Hamilton’s The Slaves of Solitude by Jean-Christophe Murat

“…The Slaves of Solitude choisit de décentrer l’action vers la banlieue lointaine—et fictive—de Thames Lockdon, qui accueille des Londoniens évacués par les bombardements. …”
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Learning losses during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Understanding and addressing increased learning disparities by Anna Alejo, Robert Jenkins, Haogen Yao

“…To ensure all children—especially the most vulnerable—can catch up on missed learning, five urgent actions are needed for a RAPID learning recovery and acceleration: (a) Reach every child and keep them in school, (b) Assess learning levels regularly, (c) Prioritize teaching the fundamentals, (d) Increase the efficiency of instruction, and (e) Develop psychosocial health and wellbeing. …”
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The A to E (ABCDE) Pit Crew Model: A Novel Approach to Team Based Care of Critical Patients in the Prehospital Setting by Ayanna Walker, Adam Oswald, Jessica Wanthal, Christine Van Dillen, Cherian Plamoottil, Parth Patel, Maria Tassone, Latha Ganti

“…The primary outcome was successful completion of critical actions and time to completion of these critical actions. …”
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Are we optimizing medical students’ preparation for clerkship? A content analysis of narrative comments on clinical skills during preclinical training by Linda Bergeron, Patricia Blanchette, Molk Chakroun, Élisabeth Boileau, Isabelle Boulais, Martine Chamberland, Christina St-Onge

“…Discussion: In this study, narrative comments on clinical skills before clerkship seemed minimally helpful, as they were overwhelmingly positive and seldom offered suggestions.  This could suggest missed opportunities for early interventions. Pre-clerkship narrative comments could potentially be optimized by increasing emphasis on clinical reasoning, addressing challenges early and providing actionable steps for improvement. …”
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Learning-based page replacement scheme for efficient I/O processing by Hwajung Kim

“…In particular, reinforcement learning exhibits an appealing characteristic as it performs learning by systematically exploring actions to maximize cumulative rewards. In this paper, we introduce a Learning-based Page Replacement (LPR) scheme designed for efficient I/O processing. …”
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Problems And Challenges Of Attendance In Medical Students by Muhammad Khurram

“…In such cases, the faculty and administrators take actions such as plan remedial assessments, arrange ward or emergency teaching, and or impose fines to allow students with deficient attendance to appear in Professional assessments. …”
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Comparative Ethics of Modern Payment Models by Jacob Riegler

“…As it currently stands, the most widely used model globally is fee-for-service, a volume-based model in which insurance companies pay physicians and organizations for performed actions based on evaluations such as relative value units. …”
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Maternal death audit in Rwanda 2009–2013: a nationwide facility-based retrospective cohort study by Jeroen van Dillen, Felix Sayinzoga, Leon Bijlmakers, Fidele Ngabo, Victor Mivumbi, Koos van der Velden

“…Rwanda can complement maternal death audits with other strategies, in particular confidential enquiries and near-miss audits, so as to inform corrective measures.…”
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Using group model building to frame the commercial determinants of dietary behaviour in adolescence – findings from online system mapping workshops with adolescents, policymakers a... by Yanaina Chavez-Ugalde, Frank De Vocht, Russell Jago, Martin White, Zoi Toumpakari

“…There is limited research and policy incorporating adolescents’ views on how they experience the commercial determinants of dietary behaviour and obesity, which misses an opportunity to improve services and policies that aim to influence the prevalence of childhood obesity. …”
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