Government Support and Local Residents’ Behavior in E-waste Management: Evidence from Thailand by Peeranart Kiddee, Somsiri Decharat, Suttiporn Bunmak

“…This study investigates government support; local residents' perceptions, knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to e-waste management; and collaborative governance in southern Thailand. Employing both quantitative and qualitative methods, this research involves expert government officers who are well versed in e-waste management and local residents. …”
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The Effect of Elevated Basal Follicle Stimulating Hormone Levels on Assisted Reproductive Technology Cycle Outcomes by Inci Kahyaoglu, Hatice Yilmaz Dogru, Sezin Erturk Aksakal, Iskender Kaplanoglu, Serdar Dilbaz, Leyla Mollamahmutoglu

“…Clinical pregnancy rates per embryo transfer were comparable among the groups. …”
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Serum Matrix Metalloproteinases and Risk of Urologic Cancers: A Bidirectional Mendelian Randomization Study by BoWen Yang, XiaoYu Zeng, HanYu Wang, JiuHuan Feng, ShuFang Hou

“…Our study provides evidence of a potential causal relationship between serum MMPs and both prostate cancer and bladder cancer. However, large-scale studies are necessary to confirm and reveal the underlying mechanisms of this association.…”
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Self-other distinction modulates the sense of self-agency during joint actions by Laura Zapparoli, Marika Mariano, Lucia Maria Sacheli, Tommaso Berni, Caterina Negrone, Carlo Toneatto, Eraldo Paulesu

“…Explicit sense of agency: we observed decreased judgments of self-agency in Joint trials compared with the Solo ones in both the Coordination and Sequential tasks. Implicit sense of agency: in the Coordination task, we found a significant intentional binding effect only in Solo trials but not in Joint ones. …”
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Infiltration of CD8+ cytotoxic T-cells and expression of PD-1 and PD-L1 in ovarian clear cell carcinoma by Mengdi Fu, Huimei Zhou, Jiaxin Yang, Dongyan Cao, Zhen Yuan

“…We collected data from 36 samples from 18 OCCC patients, including 18 pairs of tumors and adjacent nonneoplastic samples. …”
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Filtration efficiency of medical and community face masks against particles carrying SARS-CoV-2 by Sara Dalvand, Rasul Nasiri, Rasoul Yarahmadi, Farah Bokharaei-Salim, Ali-Asghar Farshad, Somayeh Soleimani-Alyar

“…Air samples were also collected from the breathing zone of COVID-19 patients in hospital settings, both with and without masks. Data analysis used Python tools, including Seaborn and Matplotlib, to generate visual insights. …”
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Patterns of orthopaedic injury among hospitalised personal mobility device users and bicycle riders: a comparative study by Don Thong Siang Koh, Yew Lok Woo, Ting Hway Wong, Mann Hong Tan

“…Conclusion: PMD-related orthopaedic traumas are high-energy injuries, with higher rates of open fractures, when compared to bicycle injuries. …”
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Practice patterns among early-career primary care (ECPC) physicians and workforce planning implications: protocol for a mixed methods study by Richard J Gibson, Tara Sampalli, Tara Kiran, Richard H Glazier, Agnes Grudniewicz, Kimberlyn McGrail, David Snadden, Ian Scott, M Ruth Lavergne, Laurie J Goldsmith, David Rudoler, Emily Gard Marshall, Megan Ahuja, Doug Blackie, Fred Burge, Steve Hawrylyshyn, Lindsay Hedden, Jacalynne Hernandez-Lee, Kathleen Horrey, Mike Joyce, Adrian MacKenzie, Maria Mathews, Rita McCracken, Madeleine McKay, Charmaine McPherson, Goldis Mitra, Gail Tomblin Murphy, Sabrina T Wong

“…We will also analyse linked administrative health data within each province. Mixed methods integration both within the study and as an end-of-study step will inform how practice intentions, choices and patterns are interrelated and inform policy recommendations.Ethics and dissemination This study was approved by the Simon Fraser University Research Ethics Board with harmonised approval from partner institutions. …”
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E-PORTFOLIO IN STUDENTS' LEARNING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT by Oksana Polyakova

“…The monitoring of 18 experimental group members while compiling individual electronic portfolios in English helped us explore their progress in terms of both linguistic and professional proficiencies. For this, qualitative and quantitative tools gathered learners` perceptions that were later analysed by statistic and sentiment analysis software. …”
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Digital twin as a tool of the real-time enterprise management mechanism by Oleksandr Bazyk, Tetiana Grynko

“…The results of the study have both theoretical and practical significance, opening new perspectives for scientific innovation, technological progress and economic growth in the context of digital business transformation. …”
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Chromatin remodeling (SWI/SNF) complexes, cancer, and response to immunotherapy by Razelle Kurzrock, Shumei Kato, Nithya Krishnamurthy, Scott Lippman

“…Chromatin regulation involves four subfamilies composed of ATP-dependent multifunctional protein complexes that remodel the way DNA is packaged. …”
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The Effect of Injectable Medication Procedure on the Level of Pain among Early Childhood patients by Farida A. K. Tahir, Pary M. Azize, Aram N. Abdul Razzaq

Subjects: “…pain, CRIES, pain rating tools, consequence of pain. Physiological sign, behavioral sign…”
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Russification and Russianization in Modern Historiography: Recent Developments and Future Directions by Nicholas W. Sessums

“…In this essay, I geographically circumnavigate the borderlands of the Russian Empire through secondary studies published since the 1980s to understand how scholars have reinterpreted these policies since gaining access to the imperial administrative perspective. …”
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KNOWLEDGE AND FACTORS INFLUENCING THE USAGE OF EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION AMONG STUDENTS OF TERTIARY INSTITUTION IN SOUTHERN SENATORIAL ZONE OF KADUNA STATE by AKPOKOS JAMES AMOS, JOY YAHAYA YODEL

“… Unplanned pregnancies among young female adults are increasingly becoming a social and economic problem for both society and the respective individual. Each year between 2.2 to 4 million female adolescents resort to unsafe abortion globally, and about 2million are exposed to the risk of reproductive health complications. …”
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Resistance training beyond momentary failure: the effects of past-failure partials on muscle hypertrophy in the gastrocnemius by Stian Larsen, Paul Alan Swinton, Nordis Østerås Sandberg, Benjamin Sandvik Kristiansen, Andrea Bao Fredriksen, Hallvard Nygaard Falch, Roland van den Tillaar, Milo Wolf

“…The results identified an ATE favouring the inclusion of additional partial repetitions (0.62 [95%CrI: 0.21–1.0 mm; p(>0) = 0.998]) with ‘strong’ evidence (BF = 13.3) supporting a priori hypothesis. …”
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Indoor and Outdoor Exposure to PM2.5 during COVID-19 Lockdown in Suburban Malaysia by Eliani Ezani, Peter Brimblecombe, Zulfa Hanan Asha’ari, Amirul Aiman Fazil, Sharifah Norkhadijah Syed Ismail, Zamzam Tuah Ahmad Ramly, Md Firoz Khan

“…We also calculate the potential health risk from exposure to both indoor and outdoor PM2.5 to give context to personal exposure assessment in different microenvironments during the COVID-19 lockdown, known locally as Movement Control Orders (MCO). …”
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Design of an Inhalation Chamber and Metrology Assessment to Study Tungsten Aerosol Neurotoxic Effects by Léo Macé, Chrystelle Ibanez, Thomas Gelain, Cécile Bodiot, Laure Juhel, François Gensdarmes

“…The mass concentrations obtained with the DLPI and the filter holder were extremely consistent with each other, and the mass median aerodynamic diameters based on the DLPI and the APS data (with the Stokes correction applied to the latter) were also fairly close (1.77 and 1.89 µm, respectively). …”
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Associations between phenol and paraben exposure and the risk of developing breast cancer in adult women: a cross-sectional study by Yao Xiong, Zhiyu Li, Xiong Xiong, Zixuan Luo, Kaixin Zhong, Jiawei Hu, Shengrong Sun, Chuang Chen

“…However, TRS exposure was the most influential, with higher TRS concentrations (both continuous and categorical) significantly associated with an increased BC risk, particularly in overweight individuals (BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2), those aged < 60 years, and white individuals.…”
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The Incidence, Gender Predilection and Etiology of Sacrococcygeal Pilonidal Sinus by Ahmed Naji Abdalrezaq, Hawar Hassan Naqshbandi, Fadhil Ahmed Mohialdeen, Mohammed IM Gubari

“…Pilonidal Sinus (PNS) is widely distributed in both the emergency department and General Surgery outpatient clinic. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of Antimicrobial Activities of Different Types of Luting Cements by Sazan Sherdl Saleem

“…Conclusion: All evaluated luting cements exhibited antibacterial activity against S. Mutans in both tests. However, only RMGI at one hour showed antimicrobial activity against Candida Albicans. …”
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