FUNCTIONS OF THE STATE AND LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT BODIES IN THE REGULATION OF FUNERAL SERVICES: ECONOMIC ASPECTS AND ENSURING SOCIAL STANDARDS by Denys Komarnytskyi, Liudmyla Sylenko, Roman Tуtykalo

“…These include the ensuring of equal access to services, the control over compliance with social standards, the provision of social protection in the funeral sector, and the consideration of humanitarian and ethical aspects. It is evident that the economic and social functions of the state and local self-government are directed towards the establishment of an effective system for the regulation of funeral services. …”
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Assessing Prevention Protocols by a Brief Questionnaire in the Infectious Respiratory Diseases Pandemics: An Application in Pedestrian Population in COVID-19 Pandemic by Ali Jafari-Khounigh, Alireza Razzaghi, Hamid Sharifi, Shahram Habibzadeh, Seyed Taghi Heydari, Rasool Entezarmahdi, Mostafa Farahbakhsh, Alireza Ansari Moghaddam, Mahdi Rezaei, Mohammad Saadati, Ehsan Sarbazi, Morteza Haghighi, Mina Golestani, Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani

“…The CVR values resulted in the elimination of two questions. The Scale level CVI/Average (S-CVI/Ave) was equal to 0.992; and Scale level CVI/Universal Agreement (S-CVI/UA) was 0.889. …”
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Comparative transcriptomics reveal stage-dependent parasitic adaptations in the myxozoan Sphaerospora molnari by Monika M. Wiśniewska, Jiří Kyslík, Gema Alama-Bermejo, Alena Lövy, Martin Kolísko, Astrid S. Holzer, Anush Kosakyan

“…One such group is the Myxozoa, which are obligate, dixenous cnidarians. Evidence suggests that myxozoans evolved from free-living ancestors to endoparasites around 600 million years ago and are likely one of the first metazoan parasites on Earth. …”
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Examining differences in exposure to digital marketing of unhealthy foods reported by Canadian children and adolescents in two policy environments by Laura Vergeer, Carolina Soto, Mariangela Bagnato, Elise Pauzé, Ashley Amson, Tim Ramsay, Dana Lee Olstad, Vivian Welch, Monique Potvin Kent

“…Participants self-reported their frequency of exposure to food marketing via various digital platforms and marketing techniques. …”
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Call to Action: Lead Pharmacy into the Next Decade by Kerry K Fierke, Gardner Lepp, Bridget McGugan, Marta Brooks, Gregory Zumach

“…Call to Action Through our work as scholars, we can provide evidence-based, pertinent, timely solutions to address these issues, in ways that make it easily transferable to broad audiences. …”
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Athletic Shoulder Test Differences Exist Bilaterally in Healthy Pitchers by Aaron Trunt, Brandon T. Fisher, Lisa N. MacFadden

“…While these results may be intriguing for clinical use, peak force from the ASH test was not correlated to fastball velocity in pitchers, and therefore should be used with caution for predictions in this realm. # Level of Evidence 2 # Clinical Relevance A need exists for objective measures of shoulder strength for rehabilitation and injury risk monitoring in throwing athletes that are easy to administer, have high reliability and validity, and provide minimal re-injury risk to athletes recovering from injury…”
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Which patients received a ReSPECT form, what was documented and what were the patient outcomes? A protocol for a retrospective observational study investigating the impact of the C... by Lucy Selman, Charlotte Chamberlain, Adam McDermott, Claire A Woodall, Lucy Victoria Pocock

“…Patterns of clinical recommendations documented on ReSPECT forms during the first year of its implementation may also have changed, particularly with reference to the pandemic.To determine the equity and potential benefits of implementation of the ReSPECT form process in BNSSG and contribute to the ACP evidence base, this study will describe the characteristics of patients in the BNSSG area who had a completed ReSPECT form recorded in their primary care medical records before, during and after the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic; describe the content of ReSPECT forms; and analyse outcomes for those patients who died with a ReSPECT form.Methods and analysis We will perform an observational retrospective study on data, collected from October 2019 for 12 months. …”
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Erratum to “The usefulness of surgical drains on short term outcomes among patients undergoing craniotomy at the Bugando Medical Centre, Mwanza Tanzania” [World Neurosurgery: X(22C... by Dennis Onsombi, Gerald Mayaya, Vladimir Herrera, Anton Manyanga, Washington Leonald, Samuel Byabato, James Lubuulwa

“…Background: Postcraniotomy surgical drain placement is commonly used worldwide after various cranial surgical interventions despite the controversy surrounding their use leaving it to the surgeon's preference rather than evidence based practice. However, with the paucity of published data regarding utility in Tanzania, we sought out to determine the occurrence of SFC, incidence of SSI and the length of hospital stay among patients who underwent craniotomies. …”
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Utilization of Blood Flow Restriction Therapy with a Former Triathlete After Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Case Report by Christopher Keating, Stephanie Muth, Cameron Hui, Lisa T Hoglund

“…The KOOS-Sport & Recreation subscale may be more responsive to monitor functional recovery compared to the KOOS-JR, possibly due to the subject's athletic background. # Level of Evidence 4…”
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Consumer Anthropomorphism and Happiness: Analysis of the Brand Authenticity Effect by Mehdi Khademi Gerashi, Setare Mohammadian

“…Conclusion Research in the literature provides compelling evidence supporting the conclusion that anthropomorphism leads to an increase in positive emotions while simultaneously reducing negative emotions. …”
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Sistemas de creencias parentales y orientación cultural en niños y niñas en cuidado transitorio: estudio de caso en una aldea gubernamental en Costa Rica/ Parental Belief Systems a... by Esteban Durán-Delgado, Mariano Rosabal-Coto

“…The care-takers’ beliefs and practices show evidence of a peculiarity of the institutional context of care, as well as not allowing them to enlist in the trajectories of the predominant local culture. …”
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The Croton genera (Euphorbiaceae) and its richness in chemical constituents with potential range of applications by Carlos Andrés Coy-Barrera, Laura Galvis, Maria Juliana Rueda, Sergio Alejandro Torres-Cortés

“…This demonstrates that species of this genus possess potential for various medicinal applications and serve as a source of chemical compounds that could become active principles of phytotherapeutics with significant results.It is evident that this type of compound has variety concerning oxygen substituents, which may provide information of interest for future studies on structure-activity relationships and offer alternatives of natural origin that can be evaluated against related organisms to demonstrate the pharmacological potential found in the literature. …”
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Evaluación de la composición química del extracto alcohólico de Gynoxys cuicochensis cuatrec: identificación de metabolitos y exploración de sus propiedades farmacológicas by Angel Montaño Cabrera, Angel Cartuche, Gianluca Gilardoni, Sandra Espinosa Tapia, Omar Malagón Avilés, Nixon Cumbicus Torres

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An Easy and Quick Risk-Stratified Early Forewarning Model for Septic Shock in the Intensive Care Unit: Development, Validation, and Interpretation Study by Guanghao Liu, Shixiang Zheng, Jun He, Zi-Mei Zhang, Ruoqiong Wu, Yingying Yu, Hao Fu, Li Han, Haibo Zhu, Yichang Xu, Huaguo Shao, Haidan Yan, Ting Chen, Xiaopei Shen

“…We developed a simplified risk-stratified early forewarning model for SS based on the weight of evidence and logistic regression, which was compared with multi-feature complex models, and clinical characteristics among risk groups were evaluated. …”
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Alexitimia como predictor directo y mediado por la depresión en la violencia de pareja / Response to Special Educational Needs and Teaching Efforts in Elementary School by José Moral de la Rubia, Sandra Ramos-Basurto

“…To gather this information, interviews were carried out with fifteen first to sixth grade primary school teachers in a private elementary school in Moravia, Costa Rica. Results make evident that the main SEN attended were attentional disorders and emotional problems. …”
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Good-Quality mHealth Apps for Endometriosis Care: Systematic Search by Diksha Sirohi, Cecilia HM Ng, Niranjan Bidargaddi, Helen Slater, Melissa Parker, M Louise Hull, Rebecca O'Hara

“…However, poor-quality apps can spread misinformation or provide recommendations that are not evidence-based. Therefore, a critical evaluation is needed to assess and recommend good-quality endometriosis mHealth apps. …”
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The Exordium of Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí’s Poetry by Adedotun Ogundeji

“…Four of the eleven narrative poems, (‘Ẹ̀là Lọrọ̀ ’, ‘̀ Ṣàṣọrẹ’, ‘Alágbára Ilé àti Alágbára Oko’, and ‘Agbódóro ́ - gun’) are adapted from the Ifá corpus and there are strong evidences that ìjálá (Ogun poetry/hunter’s) is the original source of the story retold in ‘Adébímpé Ojẹ̀dòkun’. …”
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Predictive Validity of Hospital-Associated Complications of Older People Identified Using Diagnosis Procedure Combination Data From an Acute Care Hospital in Japan: Observational S... by Seigo Mitsutake, Tatsuro Ishizaki, Shohei Yano, Takumi Hirata, Kae Ito, Ko Furuta, Yoshitomo Shimazaki, Hideki Ito, Alison Mudge, Kenji Toba

“…ResultsAmong 15,278 patients, 3610 (23.6%) patients had coding evidence of one or more HAC-OP-DPC (1: 18.8% and ≥2: 4.8%). …”
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The Multifaceted Roles of Myrrha in the Treatment of Breast Cancer: Potential Therapeutic Targets and Promises by Anwar Shams MD, MSc, PhD, Abdullah Ahmed Alzahrani, Taghreed A Ayash MSc, PhD, Shadi Tamur MD, FRCPC, FAAP, Majed AL-Mourgi MD, FRCS, FCCP, FACS

“…Thus, our findings provide conclusive evidence and deepen the current understanding of the molecular role of myrrh in the treatment of breast cancer, further supporting its clinical application.…”
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Impact of hepatic steatosis on the efficacy of antiviral treatment for chronic hepatitis B and the establishment of predictive model: a cohort study by Guanghui Ren, Kaining Jia, Shi Yin, Yunpeng Guan, Qingwei Cong, Ying Zhu

“…This is particularly evident among individuals who are negative for HBeAg (48w: 24.2% vs 12.2%, p = 0.005). …”
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