Early weight gain after stopping smoking: a predictor of overall large weight gain? A single-site retrospective cohort study by Alexandra Pankova, Eva Kralikova, Kamila Zvolska, Lenka Stepankova, Milan Blaha, Petra Ovesna, Paul Aveyard

“…Interventions aimed at all quitters to prevent weight gain on cessation have proven unpopular but targeting people who have gained excess weight immediately after quitting may improve uptake and cost-effectiveness. …”
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Association of liver biopsy pathology on outcome of patients undergoing heart transplantation by Lauren S. Eichenwald, MD, Raffi Karagozian, MD, Adam J. Eichenwald, PhD, John Morrissey, MD MBA, Saurav Kini, MD, Ariella Stein, MSCIS-HI, Amanda R. Vest, MBBS MPH

“…Methods: A retrospective cohort study of adults listed for HT who underwent a liver biopsy for evaluation of early or advanced liver fibrosis from August 12, 2004 to February 16, 2022. …”
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Bibliotherapy Services in Public Libraries: the Case of Lithuania by Jurgita Girčienė, Miglė Damijonaitytė

“…The concept, typology, methodology of bibliotherapy and specialists, who can provide services in this field, especially the scope of librarians’ possibilities, are still being discussed in multidirectional works of bibliotherapy. …”
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Association between Dysfunctional Beliefs and Coping Strategy among Persons Suffering from Substance Use Disorder by Prosenjit Ghosh, Saptarshi Paul Choudhury, Subho Panja

“…Materials and Methods: The population of this descriptive and cross-sectional study were 44 patients who were admitted under psychiatry ward and consented to the study. …”
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Socio-Demographic and Lifestyle Factors Influencing Adherence to AntiHypertensive Treatment in a Rural Area of Ludhiana, India by Sangeeta Girdhar, ,Mahesh Satija, Daljit Kaur, .Anurag Chaudhary

“…Life style related habits like consumption of junk food, extra salt and alcohol, smoking and daily physical exercise were also assessed. The patients who took medication for less than 80% of week (?…”
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Measuring serious violence perpetration: comparison of police-recorded and self-reported data in a UK cohort by Rosie Cornish, Alison Teyhan, Kate Tilling, John Macleod, Iain Brennan

“…Study participation was lower among people who had or went on to have a police record for serious violence; as a result, the prevalence of self-reported violence in the imputed data was higher (compared to observed data) at all ages. …”
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Bacteraemia in a Nigerian hospital: Implementing antimicrobial resistance surveillance by Adewale A. Amupitan, Adeyemi T. Adeyemo, Adefunke O. Amupitan, Temitope O. Obadare, Aaron O. Aboderin

“…Methods: Case finding was by WHO Global AMR and Use Surveillance System (GLASS). …”
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Early therapeutic drug monitoring of methotrexate and its association with acute kidney injury: A retrospective cohort study by Nicolás Tentoni, Miriam Hwang, Gabriela Villanueva, Ryan Combs, Jennifer Lowe, Laura B. Ramsey, Zachary L. Taylor, Thais Murciano Carrillo, María Dolores Aumente, Teresa López‐Viñau López, Carmelo Rizzari, Scott C. Howard

“…Results Data from 169 patients who received a total of 556 courses of HDMTX were analyzed. …”
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The Use of Electronic Consent (eConsent) Within the Ketamine for Long-Lasting Pain Relief After Surgery (KALPAS) Multicenter Trial by Doan LV, Burr J, Perez R, Martinez H, Cuevas R, Watt K, Wang J

“…When signing the eConsent, however, all potential participants are provided with a concise summary of the informed consent document, an approach not widely used by multicenter studies. eConsent has been noted to be beneficial to research staff when trying to gather informed consent from participants who live far away from the hospital, want to include their family and friends, and for researchers who can approach patients outside of their clinical appointments.Conclusion: The ability to consent patients remotely has allowed for a flexible workflow within sites and a more patient-centric process that focuses on including loved ones in the discussion and scheduling time to speak to a principal investigator. …”
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Overweight and obesity among adolescents: health-conscious behaviours, acceptance, and the health behaviours of their parents by Anna Lewandowska, Grzegorz Rudzki, Tomasz Lewandowski, Anna Bartosiewicz, Michał Próchnicki, Aleksandra Stryjkowska-Góra, Barbara Laskowska, Małgorzata Sierpińska, Sławomir Rudzki, Sergii Pavlov

“…The highest sense of happiness was reported by people who were not overweight.…”
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Loan Monitoring Costs and Loan Payment in SACCOs: A Case Study of Mitooma People's SACCO in Mitooma Town Council Mitooma District. by Mugarura, Adison

“…From the study findings on challenges faced by loan officers in monitoring loans in SACCOs, respondents revealed that poor transport infrastructure to the rural places, clients who provide wrong information to the bank, multiple borrowing by the clients in different borrowing institutions, social factors showing a weak influence on loan default, lack of liquidity monitoring system, inadequate managerial competencies and political interference and huge microfinance losses are caused by outright loan default were some of the challenges faced by loan officers in monitoring loans in SACCOs.…”
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Effects of Job Stress on Teachers Productivity in Primary Schools of Katuna Town Council in Kabale District. by Faida, Elias

“…The struggle for employees and the organization's productivity can be associated with stress of different kinds, (CDC, 2016; WHO, 2020). This can have an effect on the productivity of the employees and the organizations. …”
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Assessment of different genotyping markers and algorithms for distinguishing Plasmodium falciparum recrudescence from reinfection in Uganda. by Mwesigwa, Alex, Golumbeanu, Monica, Jones, Sam, Cantoreggi, L. Sara, Musinguzi, Benson, Nankabirwa, I. Joaniter, Bikaitwoha, Everd Maniple, Kalyango, N. Joan, Karamagi, Charles, Plucinski, Mateusz, Nsobya, L. Samuel, Nsanzabana, Christian, Byakika-Kibwika, Pauline

“…Recently, WHO proposed replacing glurp with microsatellites (Poly-α, PfPK2, TA1). …”
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Strong Nonagricultural Demand Keeps Agricultural Land Values Increasing by John E. Reynolds

“…Survey respondents included rural appraisers, farm lenders, real estate brokers, farm managers, land investors, county extension agents, personnel from the Farm Services Agency and the Natural Resource Conservation Service, county property appraisers, and other persons who develop and maintain information about rural land values in their areas. …”
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Hurricane Preparation: A Q&A Guide to Water and Food Safety and Quality by Amy H. Simonne, Ronald Schmidt

“…We welcome additional questions from those who use this document. They will be included, along with answers, in the next version of this publication. …”
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Organization of Free and Open Source Software Projects: In-between the Community and Traditional Governance by Isabela Neves Ferraz, Carlos Denner dos Santos

“…A literature review was conducted to outline the main perceptions on this topic, as well as qualitative exploratory research, involving documentary analysis and interviews with four Brazilian participants who work in the management of projects.. The exploratory research was a preliminary contact with the investigated field to make the arguments presented more reliable. …”
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Portale społecznościowe w doświadczeniach ośmiolatków by Małgorzata Dankowska-Kosman, Iwona Staszkiewicz-Grabarczyk

“…Students recognize the risk of making inappropriate acquaintances, the consequences of self-presentation on the Internet, while being curious about the world of young citizens who will join active recipients of social networking sites in the near future. …”
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Orphans in Mediterranean antiquity and early Christianity by J. T. Fitzgerald

“…Part 1 gives the ancient definition of “orphan” as a “fatherless child” and statistical estimates for the percentage of children who had lost their father. Part 2 identifies five factors (inadequate public health care, low life expectancy, war deaths, death during childbirth, and differences in age at first marriage for men and women) that contributed to the high incidence of orphans in antiquity. …”
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Knowledge in the teaching-learning process – from meeting standards to reflecting on standards by Anne Ryan, Agnieszka Nowak-Łojewska

“…We review several concepts (Dewey, Gordon, Bruner and others), with an emphasis on those for whom understanding knowledge is crucial and who focus their attention not so much on the external manifestations of student activity but on their mental significance and the processes involved. …”
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