ENFERMEDAD LINFOPROLIFERATIVA EN LA COLUMNA: FACTORES PREDICTIVOS DE COMPLICACIÓN POSTOPERATORIA by RAFAEL MORAES TRINCADO, JORGE RAFAEL DURIGAN, FELIPE NEVES SIMÕES MONTEIRO, JOÃO TOMÁS FERNANDES CASTILHO GARCIA, MURILO ALEXANDRE, RODRIGO GÓES MEDEA DE MENDONÇA, ALBERTO OFENHEJM GOTFRYD, MARIA FERNANDA SILBER CAFFARO, ROBERT MEVES

“…Conclusion: Multifactorial evaluation, including Karnofsky and ASIA, is essential for planning the treatment of patients with lymphoproliferative disease in the spine, aiming to reduce postoperative complications and improve survival. Level of Evidence IV; Observational Retrospective Study.…”
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The power of the cities and the power in the cities: a multiscale perspective from Portugal by José Alberto Rio Fernandes, Filipe Teles, Pedro Chamusca, João Seixas

“…In fact, there is no strong evidence that the 2008–2014 crisis has brought any dramatic change in these aspects. …”
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Examining employability skills acquisition of students in some Ethiopian universities through legitimation code theory by Sara Jehi Oumer, Meskerem Lechissa Debele, Amera Seifu Belayneh

“…The findings of the study revealed that all the four dimensions of specialization codes (knowledge, knower, élite, and relativist codes) are evident in the universities with regard to different sets of employability skills. …”
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Eggcellent Adventures in Classroom Embryology: An Intracurricular Guide to Chicken Embryology by Shaina Spann, Judy Levings

“… In most cases, when a teacher signs up to teach chicken embryology in the classroom, the teacher sets up the incubator and the teacher and class wait for the eggs to hatch. That is the experience. …”
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Dietary changes are associated with an increase in air pollution-related health and environmental inequity in China by Biao Luo, Jianwei Huang, Xueying Liu, Mei-Po Kwan, Amos P. K. Tai

“…Our results also provide empirical evidence for the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis, and offer decision support for equitable clean air, food and health policies in China.…”
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New perspectives in the management of acute pancreatitis – focus on antibiotic prophylaxis, management of necrosis and COVID-19 implications by Aleksandra Woźniak, Michał Jakub Cioch, Julia Nowak, Kamil Hermanowicz, Urszula Kaczmarska, Katarzyna Doman, Agnieszka Najdek, Daria Oleksy, Dawid Komada, Marcin Mycyk

“… This review highlights the recent development in the management of acute pancreatitis in the area of antibiotic prophylaxis, management of necrosis and correlation with SARS-CoV-2 infection. The evidence from recent studies has not shown a significant benefit of administration of antibiotic prophylaxis in acute pancreatitis. …”
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Antivirals for the treatment of mild and moderate COVID-19 in South Africa by R Perumal, V Naidoo, S Govender, T N Gengiah

“…Given the low vaccine uptake in SA and other low‐ and middle‐income countries in sub‐Saharan Africa, the high prevalence of comorbidities and limited healthcare system capacity, evidence‐based interventions that reduce the risk of severe disease and death should be considered for implementation. …”
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An Intelligent Solar-Powered Traffic Lights that Monitor Traffic Flow Using Sensors and Adjust Signal Timings Based on Vehicle Density: A Case Study of Kampala-Uganda. by Asinguza, Blessed, Ariho, Chriscent

“…The abstract of the proposal can be summarized as follows: The project aims to address the inefficiencies of traditional traffic control systems by implementing intelligent solar-powered traffic lights that monitor traffic flow using sensors and adjust signal timings based on vehicle density and waiting times. The proposed system will reduce delays, increase productivity, enhance safety, and free up personnel currently involved in manual traffic control. …”
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Potentially inappropriate prescribing in hospitalised children: a retrospective, cross-sectional study at a tertiary children’s hospital in China by Linan Zeng, Lingli Zhang, Dan Yu, Huiqing Wang, Liang Huang, Siyu Li, Guo Cheng, Zhi-Jun Jia

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Using the HBSC Symptom Checklist to measure junior secondary school students’ psychosomatic complaints in the Chinese Mainland: Rasch-based validation, population-based norm, and n... by Yuhang Zhu, Xianzhu Cong, Zhenliang Qiu, Ricky Jeffrey, Ranran Li, Li Jing, Gaopei Zhu, Xi Yang, Shuang Li, Jinling Wang, Xu Xu, Hongliu Zhu, Xinjian Wang, Ling Huang, Xueqin Sun, Di Wu, Kai Zhang, Xunhong Miao, Rui Wen, Qinglang Huang, Zhuang He, Juan Li, Alina Cosma, Fuyan Shi, Suzhen Wang, the PROSQoL-JSSS research group

“…Based on the above scientific evidence, the population-based norm and norm-referenced scoring algorithm were developed and created. …”
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Exploratory analysis of molecular traits of the mitochondrial DNA of leafcutting ants to infer taxonomic characters towards an integrative taxonomy by Perpetua Ndubuisi Onyinyechi, Natália Martins Travenzoli, Maykon Passos Cristiano, Danon Clemes Cardoso

“…Bioinformatic analysis revealed shared structural evidence between species that can serve as diagnostic characters, distinguishing them from other species and supporting the classification of the three genera of leafcutting ants. …”
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Application of oral nutritional supplements to control body weight loss in postoperative patients suffering from solid tumors: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Ying Liu, Zhen Wu, Tingting Shao, Wanzhen Zheng, Jing Huang

“…The group receiving oral nutritional supplements demonstrated a statistically significant reduction in weight loss compared to the control group, with a mean difference of 1.11 (95% CI: 0.52–1.70), an I2 statistic of 97.0%, and a p-value less than 0.01.ConclusionThe meta-analysis provide evidence that ONSs effectively reduce BWL in postoperative patients with solid tumors. …”
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Production, analysis of use and financing biogas projects by Marković Sanja

“…The growth of the global economy and population at global level has resulted in enormous consumption of fossil fuels, environmental pollution, increased greenhouse gas emissions and evident climate changes. In the context of the global initiative for more intensive uses of renewable energy sources (RES), in the middle of the last century, the increasing use of biogas began, especially in rural areas of China and India (direct use for cooking and lighting). …”
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The epidemic of Justinian (AD 542): a prelude to the Middle Ages by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…The most common form in which it manifested was bubonic plague, which is spread by infected fleas and is not directly contagious from patient to patient. There is also evidence of septicaemic plague and possibly even pneumonic plague. …”
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O profesjonalizacji nauczyciela świetlicy – refleksja nad instytucjonalną codziennością by Danuta Urbaniak-Zając

“…As the subject literature notes a tendency to perceive institutional conditions as familiar and self-evident, this excludes them from the field of reflection and blocks efforts to consciously change them. …”
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Humans rationally balance detailed and temporally abstract world models by Ari E. Kahn, Nathaniel D. Daw

“…Further, by dynamically manipulating the task contingencies within-subject to favor or disfavor temporal abstraction, we observe evidence of resource-rational reliance on the SR, which decreases when future states are less predictable. …”
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The BRIDGING project – citizenship, partnership and holistic development by Joanna Ludwika Pękala, Kamila Wichrowska

“…Although only the first results are presented here, it is already quite evident what the specific areas of teachers’ sense of vocational self-efficacy are. …”
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NORTHERN IRISH ADOLESCENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THEM? by Udi Samanhudi

“…Conversely, this study found that there was no statistically significant evidence of differences among the other three variables (the family affluence, school types attended and religions) in relation to the young people’s attitudes to the foreign language. …”
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Integrating artificial intelligence into healthcare systems: opportunities and challenges by Bongs Lainjo

“…The article synthesizes evidence from empirical studies and scholarly literature, with a focus on credible and reputable sources. …”
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COMBATTING CULTISM IN NIGERIA’S DIGITAL SOCIETY BY LEVERAGING YOUTHPRENUERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT by CHIDI FRANKLIN UZOIGWE, OZINNA OKOYE

“… It is obvious that literature abound on cultism, community development, youth and youthpreneurship but combating cultism in Nigeria’s digital society by leveraging youthpreneurship for community development is evidently not in existence, creating a gap which this paper seeks to fill by  exploring the multifaceted approach required to address cultism in Nigeria's digitalized society, highlighting the pivotal role of youth entrepreneurship in offering viable alternatives for positive youth engagement. …”
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