A research agenda for helminth diseases of humans: towards control and elimination. by Boakye A Boatin, María-Gloria Basáñez, Roger K Prichard, Kwablah Awadzi, Rashida M Barakat, Héctor H García, Andrea Gazzinelli, Warwick N Grant, James S McCarthy, Eliézer K N'Goran, Mike Y Osei-Atweneboana, Banchob Sripa, Guo-Jing Yang, Sara Lustigman

“…The acknowledgement of the disease burden due to helminth infections, the availability of donated or affordable drugs that are mostly safe and moderately efficacious, and the implementation of viable mass drug administration (MDA) interventions have prompted the establishment of various large-scale control and elimination programmes. …”
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Bereavement support guidelines for caregivers in palliative care: a scoping review by Alexandra Coelho, Alexandra Coelho, Sara Albuquerque, David Dias Neto

“…Quality appraisal revealed gaps in evidence selection, resource implications, updates and monitoring criteria. …”
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A 10-meter global terrace mapping using sentinel-2 imagery and topographic features with deep learning methods and cloud computing platform support by Yifan Li, Fuyou Tian, Miao Zhang, Hongwei Zeng, Shukri Ahmed, Xinli Qin, Yanxu Liu, Lizhe Wang, Runyu Fan, Bingfang Wu

“…The countries with the most extensive terraced areas, as identified, are China (298,908 km2, 18 % of total cropland), Ethiopia (127,266 km2, 47 %), Kenya (36,385 km2, 37 %), India (34,485 km2, 2 %), and Democratic Republic of the Congo (31,422 km2, 21 %). …”
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Synergistic use of multi-sensor satellite data for mapping crop types and land cover dynamics from 2021 to 2023 in Northeast Thailand by Savittri Ratanopad Suwanlee, Surasak Keawsomsee, Emma Izquierdo-Verdiguier, Álvaro Moreno-Martínez, Sarawut Ninsawat, Jaturong Som-ard

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Bias Mitigation in Primary Health Care Artificial Intelligence Models: Scoping Review by Maxime Sasseville, Steven Ouellet, Caroline Rhéaume, Malek Sahlia, Vincent Couture, Philippe Després, Jean-Sébastien Paquette, David Darmon, Frédéric Bergeron, Marie-Pierre Gagnon

“…From the remaining 189 full-text articles, we included 17 studies. The most frequently investigated protected attributes were race (or ethnicity), examined in 12 of the 17 studies, and sex (often identified as gender), typically classified as “male versus female” in 10 of the studies. …”
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The antibiotic procurement saga: a long-neglected stewardship target to combat antimicrobial resistance in Pakistan by Shairyar Afzal, Mishal Bajwa, Nabeel Ahmed, Jawaria Jabeen, Mian Shahzeb Haroon, Rana Muhammad Zahid Mushtaq, Zikria Saleem

“…Results The study identified five central themes: (1) The state of antibiotic use in hospitals is characterized by a lack of antibiotic use policy, resulting in mostly empirical and irrational prescribing practices. (2) Medicine availability significantly influences prescribing decisions, often taking precedence over clinical needs. (3) The procurement process, although structured, is flawed owing to rigid adherence to the Standard Medicine List (SML). (4) Rationality in procurement is compromised by disregard for AMR, with decisions driven more by cost and demand than clinical evidence. (5) The clinical acumen of pharmacists is underutilized in procurement due to multifarious barriers. …”
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The impact of redeployment during COVID-19 on nurse well-being, performance and retention: a mixed-methods study (REDEPLOY) by Hannah Hartley, Alice Dunning, Jenni Murray, Ruth Simms-Ellis, Kerrie Unsworth, Angela Grange, Michael Dunn, Jayne Marran, Olivia Joseph, Pam Essler, Uduak Archibong, Judith Johnson, Rebecca Lawton

“…A few nurses enjoyed their redeployment experience. Most nurses experienced a lot of distress with just over half thinking about leaving their jobs. …”
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Révision de l’espèce Homo erectus (Dubois, 1893) by Valéry Zeitoun

“…The hypodigm for Homo erectus is a problem which remains unresolved. Most disagreements are based on chronological rather than morphological data. …”
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Electronic Monitoring of Medication Adherence to Direct Oral Anticoagulants: A Systematic Review by Maskova E, Slivarichova S, Maly J, Mala-Ladova K

“…Furthermore, due to the identified gaps in current literature, it highlights the pressing need for standardized methodologies and improved adherence reporting. …”
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A comparative analysis of nutritional content changes in six Chinese cuisines prepared using industrial versus traditional hand-cooked modes by Xuan Wang, Jun Li, Xiaomeng Wu, Sai Fan, Zhu Wang, Yunfeng Zhao, Jingguang Li, Dawei Chen

“…An independent t-test was employed to assess the significance of differences in the changes in nutrient content between industrial and traditional hand-cooked modes.ResultsMacronutrient levels remained relatively stable, with changes of less than 20% across most dishes for both cooking methods, with some exceptions noted. …”
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Residents’ Perceptions of Impending Forced Relocation in Urban China by Xin Li

“…They are among one of the most deprived social groups due to unemployment, low-income, serious illness etc., and cannot afford better dwellings. …”
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Tertiary prevention interventions for patients with stroke in African countries: a systematic review by Eva Johanna Kantelhardt, Thomas Frese, Eric Sven Kroeber, Lucas Adam, Susanne Unverzagt, Etienne Ngeh, Betselot Yirsaw Wubete

“…The interventions covered physiotherapeutic, electrophysiologic, psychotherapeutic and transitional care domains with mostly beneficial outcomes. All included studies were RCTs with some concerns about methodologic quality.Conclusion This systematic review comprises heterogeneous effective interventions for tertiary stroke prevention mostly conducted in small productive research clusters. …”
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Understanding Infection, Viral Exacerbation and Respiratory Symptoms at Admission-Longitudinal (UNIVERSAL) study: a prospective observational cohort study protocol by Nicola White, James D Chalmers, Salman Siddiqui, Paul H Lee, Cyrus Daneshvar, James Raftery, Charles Roberts, Philip Mitchelmore, Kerensa Thorne, Stefan J Marciniak, Tom Wilkinson, Angelica Cazaly, Gareth Griffiths, Neil J Greening, Anna Freeman, Alexander Allen, Andrew Cook, Karl J Staples, Tommaso Morelli, Jacqueline Nuttall, James Myerson, Olivia Cox, Emma Chamberlain, Tristan William Clark, Martha Purcell, Pedro Rodrigues, Matthew Pavitt, Michael G Crooks, Emma Tilt, Emma Knox, Monica Gil, Max Ellis, Ingrid Seath, Sandy Aitken, Barbara Costa, Sarah Dudley

“…However, the management of most viral infection-associated diseases remains primarily supportive. …”
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Intelligent Environmental Health Risk Assessment System for the Elderly in Cold Regions Based on Artificial Intelligence Integrated Development Environment by Tianheng ZHANG, Yao FU, Jian GAO, Huanran XUE

“…The Artificial Intelligence-Integrated Development Environment (AI-IDE) platform is utilized to transform the theoretical framework into a practical application. The development process employs an iterative evolution approach, converting the Bayesian probability framework into executable code through natural language processing capabilities of the AI-IDE platform. …”
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The Effect of Nitrogen as a Co-Dopant in p-Type NiO:Nb Films on the Photovoltaic Performance of NiO/TiO₂ Transparent Solar Cells by Chrysa Aivalioti, Maria Androulidaki, Katerina Tsagaraki, Emmanouil G. Manidakis, Charidimos Koliakoudakis, Nikolaos T. Pelekanos, Mircea Modreanu, Elias Aperathitis

“…The AN2 film was found to be the most transparent of all films, exhibiting the widest band gap, 3.72 eV, and the narrowest Urbach tail states’ width, 313 meV. …”
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MODULATION AS A MULTIMODAL TRANSLATION STRATEGY OF GRAPHIC NOVEL PERSEPOLIS BY M. SATRAPI by Anna V. Khodorenko

“…In this process, one mode may be prioritized over another, as seen in the covers of Persepolis. …”
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EmoFusion: An integrated machine learning model leveraging embeddings and lexicons to improve textual emotion classification by Anjali Bhardwaj, Muhammad Abulaish

“…Human emotions are complicated and intertwined with cognitive processes, influencing mental health, learning, and decision-making. …”
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Cost breakdown indicates that biochar production from microalgae in Central Europe requires innovative cultivation procedures by Josef Marousek, Beata Gavurova, Anna Marouskova

“…Nevertheless, a significant gap exists in the literature, as most assertions conducted outside tropical and subtropical regions lack substantiation through comprehensive analyses on a comparison of the economic benefits and the costs associated with the application of algae biochar is mostly missing. …”
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Enhancing circular economy project outcomes via molecular fuzzy-based decision support system by Gang Kou, Serhat Yüksel, Hasan Dinçer, Serkan Eti, Gabriela Oana Olaru, Ümit Hacıoğlu

“…This situation creates an essential research gap for this literature. To address this missing gap, this study aims to identify the most critical factors and develop the most effective investment strategies to enhance the performance of circular economy projects. …”
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Do people express and pay more attention to positive or negative information in stock forums? A big data analysis by Yajing Li, Peipei An, Jibo He

“…This study aims to fill this gap by using big data analysis, dictionary-based natural language processing, and engagement indicators to analyze nearly 1.3 million user posts from East Money Stock Bar, the largest stock forum in China. …”
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