The AFFIRM Framework for gender-affirming care: qualitative findings from the Transgender and Gender Diverse Health Equity Study by Meg Quint, Schuyler Bailar, Alexis Miranda, Shalender Bhasin, Devin O’Brien-Coon, Sari L. Reisner

“…Themes about gender-affirming care coalesced into the acronym AFFIRM: (1) Affirms in individual interactions: Participants called for affirmation of TGD identity, lived expertise, and competent TGD providers and staff. (2) Flexible and accessible: Participants expressed the need for gender-affirming care to be available beyond urban population-specific clinics, in a timely fashion without long wait lists, and in a community-centered manner such as offering non-traditional times and settings. (3) Fights systemic oppression: Participants emphasized the need for providers and health systems to eliminate gatekeeping practices for gender-affirming care and create care models that resist intersecting oppressive systems such as racism and cisgenderism. (4) Interacts with community: Patients desired intentional interaction with TGD community to holistically address health and unmet gender affirmation needs. (5) Retains patients in care: Patients shared the need to collaboratively identify and problem-solve obstacles to gender-affirming care with providers and healthcare systems to optimize TGD-specific retention strategies. (6) Multidisciplinary: Patients called for interdisciplinary teams with co-located services such as primary care and mental healthcare with letter-writing for surgical care, and incorporation of peer navigators to meet the broader social, health, and well-being needs of TGD people. …”
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Trends and Gaps in Digital Precision Hypertension Management: Scoping Review by Namuun Clifford, Rachel Tunis, Adetimilehin Ariyo, Haoxiang Yu, Hyekyun Rhee, Kavita Radhakrishnan

“…For personalized intervention studies, nearly half (14/30, 47%) used 2 or less types of data for personalization, with only 7% (2/30) of the studies using social determinants of health data and no studies using physical environment or digital literacy data. …”
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A Localized Model for Branding in the Iranian Dairy Industry by Shaghayegh Sabaghi, Alireza Rousta, Farzad Asayesh

“…Regarding causal conditions, two main categories including marketing mix, mental paradigms of managers, social responsibility, optimal mining, and organizational culture were identified. …”
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Analisis Sentimen terhadap Kebijakan Kuliah Daring Selama Pandemi Menggunakan Pendekatan Lexicon Based Features dan Support Vector Machine by Natasya Eldha Oktaviana, Yuita Arum Sari, Indriati Indriati

“…This policy caused controversy among the public, and many ended up giving opinions on social media, one of which was Twitter. Sentiment analysis is useful for determining the timeliness of system computing in discussions on Twitter regarding online learning policies that tend to have negative or positive sentiments using the Support Vector Machine and Lexicon Based Features methods. …”
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Yngre förskolebarns litteratursamtal by Hanna Thuresson

“…ENGLISH ABSTRACT Literary Conversations among Young Preschool Children Early experiences with literature leave a lasting impact on continued literacy development, particularly through socialization into a literate culture. In the context of early childhood education, literary activities take place where children interact with other children through books, digital screens, and storytelling materials. …”
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The Effect of using the Smartphone in the Workplace on Job Engagement and Job Burnout: Investigation of Mediational Role of Stress by Somayeh Naghdi Zarrin, Neda Mohammad Esmaeili

“…Objective In today's rapidly evolving digital era, the prevalence of smartphone usage among individuals in various contexts, including both social and professional environments, is witnessing a remarkable increase. …”
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Examining the Effect of Prototypical Leadership Style on Leader Effectiveness: Mediating role of Perceived Integrity and Moderating Role of Leader-leader Exchange by Elham Ebrahimi, SHabnam Zarjou

“…Objective The main premise of social identity theory is that some leaders represent their group's identity and thus prescribe what followers should think, feel and do as members of the group. …”
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Ultrasound outcomes and surgical parameters of the double-layer purse-string uterine closure technique in cesarean delivery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized tri... by Mahsan Nabighadim, Maryam Vaezi, Mahsa Maghalian, Mojgan Mirghafourvand

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Las metatipologías espaciales y sus lógicas proyectuales poéticas particulares by Jorge Pokropek

“…Estos cuatro metatipos espaciales operan como el fundamento inicial, explícito o tácito, de los procesos proyectuales que determinan la configuración de la forma arquitectónica, y, por ende, del nivel de calidad del entorno existencial que permite el desempeño de los ritos y ceremonias de las prácticas sociales en las cuales la condición humana encuentra su identidad y sentido. …”
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Strengthening identification and characterization of causes of perinatal deaths in Kaski district of Nepal (Perinatal MITS Nepal) by Nuwadatta Subedi, Sunita Ranabhat, Sanjib Mani Regmi, Mukesh Mallik, Dela Singh, Shree Krishna Shrestha, Bandana Gurung, Arjun Bhattarai, Madan Prasad Baral, Sudhir Raman Parajuli, Ramchandra Bastola, Junu Shrestha, Sahisnuta Basnet, Eva Gauchan, Sabita Paudel

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Integrating Hybrid Team-Based and Case-Based Learning in Dental Education Transformation by Sidra Abid, Humna Rafiq

“…In this vein the combination of CBL and TBL at tertiary level contributes to the improvement of students` academic performance and engagement so the hybrid form of CBL and TBL is qualified to narrow the gap between secondary and higher educational systems creating active learning and positive social interdependence1 and this means that this tactic allows students not only to participate in the topic fully, but also to encourage ethical-based decision- making.2  Hybrid TBL is the method where students learn all concepts of their studies in a way that students are really being engaged. …”
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Assessing the Factors Influencing Attrition of Health Workers in Government Health Units in Lyantonde District, Uganda. by Kansiime, Benon

“…Discussion: The majority of the health workers have enough experience by they still face challenges of: inadequate pay, lack of equipment, health units accessibility, and availability of housing and social amenities which may contribute to their attrition. …”
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Misconceptions on COVID-19 Risk Among Ugandan Men: Results From a Rapid Exploratory Survey, April 2020 by Keneth Iceland, Kasozi, MacLeod, Ewan, Ssempijja, Fred, Mahero, Michael W., Matama, Kevin, Musoke, Grace Henry, Bardosh, Kevin, Ssebuufu, Robinson, Wakoko-Studstil, Florence, Echoru, Isaac, Tiyo Ayikobua, Emmanuel, Mujinya, Regan, Nambuya, Grace, Onohuean, Hope, Zirintunda, Gerald, Ekou, Justine, Welburn, Susan Christina

“…The aim of the study was to identify possible misconceptions among males and females toward COVID-19 in Uganda using a rapid online survey distributed via social media. Methods: A cross-sectional survey carried out in early April 2020 was conducted with 161 Ugandans, who purposively participated in the online questionnaire that assessed understandings of COVID-19 risk and infection. …”
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871 – 1918 by Arzu Melek Ozgumus

“…Through careful analysis, Hoyer captures the complexities of governance, cultural strategies, and social tensions during this formative period of the German Empire. …”
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Designing a Policy Making Model in Iran' Sport with the Approach of Sport for All Development by Behdad Sadeghi, Rahmatollah Gholipour, Mojtaba Amiri, Marjan Saffari

“…Messy situational maps, ordered situational maps, and social worlds/arenas maps were identified. The primary categories of the sport policy-making model in Iran for the development of 'sport for all' include contextual factors, mediating factors, role players and influential institutions, executive requirements, environmental complexities, risks, legal problems, external organizational factors, costs and expenses, and interorganizational challenges. …”
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Designing and Explaining the Competence Model of Knowledge Engineers in Municipalities (Study Case: Tehran Municipality) by Amin Seyyed Nosrati, Zahra Foroutani, Atyieh Bohrani

“…Interpersonal and communication competencies encompassed communication skills, impartiality, negotiation skills, trust-building, effective listening, teamwork, and social intelligence. Lastly, technical and specialized competencies included work expertise, documentation skills, and technical knowledge management. …”
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Klasifikasi Tingkat Stress dari Data Berbentuk Teks dengan Menggunakan Algoritma Support Vector Machine (SVM) dan Random Forest by Naufal Fathirachman Mahing, Alifi Lazuardi Gunawan, Ahmad Foresta Azhar Zen, Fitra Abdurrachman Bachtiar, Satrio Agung Wicaksono

“…The data used in this research is an English text taken from Twitter social media. The total data used is 8439 data. Model training for both Support Vector Machine and Random Forest uses 6751 data. …”
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Jaringan Komunitas Berbasis Similaritas Topik Bahasan dan Emosi untuk Mengidentifikasi Perilaku Pengguna Twitter by Apriantoni Apriantoni, Diana Purwitasari, Agus Budi Raharjo

“…Therefore, exploring the relationship between behavior and user community in the social networks is very important to find the implication of the COVID-19 pandemic on behavior changes of Twitter users. …”
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Evaluasi Kualitas Layanan E-Government Pada Aplikasi Pendaftaran Seleksi Calon Aparatur Sipil Negara Menggunakan Model E-GovQual Berdasarkan Perspektif Pengguna by Puja Putri Abdullah, Rina Rahmawati, Dana Indra Sensuse, Sofian Lusa, Assaf Arief, Prasetyo Adi

“…Based on reviews from social media and helpdesk data report on SSCASN 2021, there are still problems in using SSCASN so the application needs to be evaluated. …”
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Effect of nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (Paxlovid) on hospitalization among adults with COVID-19: An electronic health record-based target trial emulation from N3C. by Abhishek Bhatia, Alexander J Preiss, Xuya Xiao, M Daniel Brannock, G Caleb Alexander, Robert F Chew, Hannah Davis, Megan Fitzgerald, Elaine Hill, Elizabeth P Kelly, Hemalkumar B Mehta, Charisse Madlock-Brown, Kenneth J Wilkins, Christopher G Chute, Melissa Haendel, Richard Moffitt, Emily R Pfaff, N3C Consortium

“…We observed disparities in Paxlovid treatment, with lower rates among black and Hispanic or Latino patients, and within socially vulnerable communities. This study's main limitation is that it estimates causal effects using observational data and could be biased by unmeasured confounding.…”
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