Academic Articles & Research Papers

The effectiveness of public administration of sports in rural communities under decentralization (experience for Ukraine)

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Three Dimensions for SCO to Improve Legislation

The 21st century is the “era of international organizations”. the SCO is facing a realistic dilemma of “insufficient rule orientation”, “imperfect international law system” and “uneven level of rule of law among its members”. International ...

Politik Kekerabatan dan Kualitas Kandidat di Sulawesi Selatan

This paper aims to elaborate the increase of political kinship phenomenon in South Sulawesi, especially from the perspective of political legacy of a candidate from particular political family. Utilizing a qualitative research method, the p...

Professional self-realization of disabled persons in an urban environment

The article is a review of the part of the research conducted in the framework of the grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research “Urban well-being of people with disabilities”. The immediate subject of the article is professional se...

A Learning Development Of Beauty Skill Program At A Vocational School In Preserving Local Wisdom

A Learning Development Of Beauty Skill Program At A Vocational School In Preserving Local Wisdom. Objectives: The research is to analyze the learning development of beauty skill program at a vocational school in preserving local wisdom. Met...

A Systematic Review of Self-directed Learning in Medical Education in Undergraduate Medical Students

Self-directed learning (SDL), which emphasizes the need for students to take ownership of their learning, has become a crucial part of medical education. With the increasing complexity of health care, SDL is seen as a crucial skill for fost...

Health-related quality of life and associated factors among patients with stroke at tertiary level hospitals in Ethiopia.

IntroductionEvidence on a patient-centered assessment of outcome among patients with stroke is limited in Ethiopia. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the level of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and associated factors in Ethiopia...

Sociodemographic Factors and Depression in Patients With Breast Cancer: A Multicenter, Cross-sectional Study in Georgia

Background: Depression commonly occurs in patients with breast cancer (BC), affecting their quality of life. Objectives: The relationships between depression and different sociodemographic characteristics in patients with BC are under-resea...

The teaching evaluation systems and its impact on academics. A systematic review

In recent decades, Higher Education has undergone a gradual but progressive transformation worldwide. Globalisation has promoted convergence mechanisms between states to achieve common standards in Higher Education; among them, those who se...

Pedagogical Projecting of the Model of a Future Specialist

Training future specialist to professional activity is one of the main tasks of higher and professional education. Pedagogical modeling of professional activity is used to determine the content of quantitative and qualitative information, w...

Editorial: Towards 2030: sustainable development goal 4: quality education. A communication perspective

A security picture: A systematic literature review of social representations of security and associated emotional dynamics in the context of multi-layered citizenship

The political world is inherently a social world, composed of multiple groups and identities that often coexist in conflictual and unstable ways. Consequently, the collective meanings attributed to individuals, social groups, and events are...

Integrating clinical and public health knowledge in support of joint medical practice

Abstract Background Strong relations between medicine and public health have long been advocated. Today, professional medical practice assumes joint clinical/public health objectives: GPs are expected to practice community medicine; Hospita...

Protocol for a mixed methods process evaluation for a randomised controlled trial to improve shared decision-making about, and uptake of, osteoporosis medicines: the iFraP study [version 3; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Background High quality shared decision-making (SDM) conversations involve people with or at risk of osteoporosis and clinicians working together to decide, where appropriate, which evidence-based medicines best fit the person’s life, belie...

Highly Purified versus Filtered Crude Collagenase: Comparable Human Islet Isolation Outcomes

This study was designed to retrospectively compare the impact of crude Sigma V collagenase (Sigma V, n = 52) with high-purified Serva NB1 collagenase (Serva NB1, n = 42) on human islet isolation outcomes. A three-step filtration was applied...

Predicting hospital admissions from individual patient data (IPD): an applied example to explore key elements driving external validity

Objective To explore factors that potentially impact external validation performance while developing and validating a prognostic model for hospital admissions (HAs) in complex older general practice patients.Study design and setting Using ...

Epigenetic Mechanisms and Nephrotic Syndrome: A Systematic Review

A small subset of people with nephrotic syndrome (NS) have genetically driven disease. However, the disease mechanisms for the remaining majority are unknown. Epigenetic marks are reversible but stable regulators of gene expression with uti...

Assessing PM2.5 pollution in the Northeastern United States from the 2023 Canadian wildfire smoke: an episodic study integrating air quality and health impact modeling with emissions and meteorological uncertainty analysis

Between June 6 and 8, 2023, wildfires in Quebec, Canada generated massive smoke plumes that traveled long distances and deteriorated air quality across the Northeastern United States (US). Surface daily PM _2.5 observations exceeded 100 µ g...

‘The public health turn on violence against women’: analysing Swedish healthcare law, public health and gender-equality policies

Abstract This article focuses on policy and law concerning violence against women as a public health issue. In Sweden, violence against women is recently recognized as a public health problem; we label this shift “The public health turn on ...

Clinical presentations and dispositions of transient ischemic attack and minor stroke patients at the emergency department of a tertiary hospital in southern Thailand: A retrospective study

Abstract Objective To assess the dispositions, management, and clinical outcomes of TIAMS patients in ED to improve the quality of management in ED. Material and Method A descriptive retrospective study was conducted in ED patients aged >18...