Knowledge, attitude and practice among mothers on the relationship between honey and botulism in Saudi Arabian infants: a cross-section study by Asma Bamumin, Sumayah Bamumin, Hind Ali Ahmadini, Yosra Alhindi, Safaa Alsanosi, Hamsah Alqashqari, Ghada E. Esheba, Nahla Ayoub, Alaa Falemban

“…Exploring the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) among mothers on the relationship between honey and IB will help public health professionals implement appropriate maternal health education materials targeting infant health and increase the awareness of the paediatric primary care providers, physicians, and nurse practitioners about the risk of IB among their patients.Objectives To determine the knowledge of mothers from Hail city in Saudi Arabia (SA) regarding IB and assess their attitude and practice towards feeding honey to their infants before 12 months of age.Methods Using a comparative cross-sectional study, in February 2022, we broadcasted an online questionnaire through social networking and evaluated the KAP of 385 mothers.Results Less than half (48%) of the mothers have heard about IB, 40% of them knew the relation between honey ingestion and IB and only 6.5% acknowledged that they knew the causative agent for IB. …”
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Distance learning in the wake of COVID-19 in Morocco by Ismaïl Outoukarte, Samiha Ben Fares, Houda Itouni, Khadija Kaid Rassou, Abdelmajid Tahiri

“…The experience of lessons broadcast in synchronous mode showed promising results at the technical level in terms of student participation and interactivity, resource sharing and transfer and a favorable classroom climate. …”
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Personalized Cancer Medicine in the Media: Sensationalism or Realistic Reporting? by Katherine Hicks-Courant, Jenny Shen, Angela Stroupe, Angel Cronin, Elizabeth F. Bair, Sam E. Wing, Ernesto Sosa, Rebekah H. Nagler, Stacy W. Gray

“…Determination of coverage of “standard” and “non-standard” therapies and tests was made by comparing the media print/broadcast date to the date of Federal Drug Administration approval or incorporation into clinical guidelines. …”
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Massive testing in the Galapagos Islands and low positivity rate to control SARS-CoV-2 spread during the first semester of the COVID-19 pandemic: a story of success for Ecuador and... by Alexander Paolo Vallejo-Janeta, Diana Morales-Jadan, Alberto Velez, Patricio Vega-Marino, Byron Freire-Paspuel, Maria Paredes-Espinosa, Angel Rodriguez Pazmiño, Bernardo Castro-Rodriguez, Paulina Castillo, Carlos Masaquiza, Ismar Rivera-Olivero, Esteban Ortiz-Prado, Aquiles Henriquez-Trujillo, Barbara Coronel, Heberson Galvis, Tatiana Jaramillo, Tannya Lozada, Marylin Cruz, UDLA COVID-19 team, Miguel Angel Garcia-Bereguiain

“…In main cities like Guayaquil in Ecuador, dramatic situations such as corpses in the streets were internationally broadcasted. Methods: While the COVID-19 pandemic was devastating South America, SARS-CoV-2 transmission was successfully managed in the Galapagos Islands due to the implementation of a massive screening strategy including hospitalized and community-dwelling populations, and travel restrictions facilitated by its geographical location (972 km from the Ecuadorian continental territory). …”
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Customs, Beliefs and Practices about Birth and Children in Afghanistan Turkmen / Afganistan Türkmenlerinde Doğum ve Çocukla İlgili Örf, Âdet, İnanç ve Uygulamalar by Ahmet Gökbel*, Bory Nasır**

“…While firstly Indian TV series and later Turkish TV series are broadcasted on television, the protection of the traditional and cultural values of Afghanistan society becomes difficult to preserve and begins to undergo significant changes. …”
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The design of a quality improvement dashboard for monitoring spinal cord and column injuries by Zahra Azadmanjir, Mohsen Sadeghi-Naini, Mohammad Dashtkoohi, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Jalil Arabkheradmand, James S. Harrop, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar

“…The National Spinal Column and Cord Injury Registry of Iran (NSCIR-IR) was designed to efficiently display and broadcast important patient care data. This has been achieved through an electronic dashboard display (graph and visual displays), rather than traditional static paper reports (text). …”
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Intensity of adoption and welfare impacts of drought-tolerant rice varieties cultivation in Bangladesh by Md. Sadique Rahman, Md. Hayder Khan Sujan, Debasish Chandra Acharjee, Rezoyana Kabir Rasha, Mofasser Rahman

“…Shows about climate change and other relevant topics should be broadcast on the television on a regular basis to raise awareness. …”
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Kinship and genetic variation in aquarium-spawned Acropora hyacinthus corals by Elora H. López-Nandam, Cheyenne Y. Payne, J. Charles Delbeek, Freeland Dunker, Lana Krol, Lisa Larkin, Kylie Lev, Richard Ross, Ryan Schaeffer, Steven Yong, Rebecca Albright

“…Recent scientific advances in ex situ system design and operation make it possible to complete gametogenic cycles of broadcast spawning corals. Breeding corals in aquaria is a critical advance for population management, particularly genetic rescue and assisted gene flow efforts. …”
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Population pharmacokinetic analysis and dosing optimization of polymyxin B in critically ill patients by Danhong Liang, Danhong Liang, Zhi Liang, Guoliang Deng, Guoliang Deng, Anfen Cen, Anfen Cen, Dandan Luo, Chen Zhang, Chen Zhang, Suiqin Ni, Suiqin Ni

“…Objectives: Since the global broadcast of multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria is accelerating, the use of Polymyxin B is sharply increasing, especially in critically ill patients. …”
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Optimisation of Weed Control in Organic Processing Spinach (<i>Spinacia oleracea</i> L.): Impacts of Cultivar, Seeding Rate, Plant Spacing and Integrated Weed Management Strategy by Benny De Cauwer, Lieven Delanote, Michaël Devos, Sander De Ryck, Dirk Reheul

“…Narrow row spacing systems with post-emergence broadcast harrowing had the lowest weed biomass and weed biomass fraction but also the lowest (marketable) spinach biomass as a result of the thinning action of harrowing. …”
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Intruder familiarity and not duet similarity influences the territory defense in a year-round territorial bird species by Tihana Hamzaj, Brendan Graham, Katherine Bonilla, Ignacio Gutiérrez, Luis Sandoval

“…We focused on duets because this species uses duets exclusively for territorial defense. We broadcasted a duet from a territorial neighbor, two duets from non-neighbors (with different frequency and duration characteristics), and a duet from a control species in 39 territorial pair from three populations. …”
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Multipath Error Fusion Modeling Methods for Multi-GNSS by Xuan Zou, Zhiyuan Li, Yawei Wang, Chenlong Deng, Yangyang Li, Weiming Tang, Ruinan Fu, Jianhui Cui, Jingnan Liu

“…To compare the performance of MHGM and SF from a multi-GNSS point of view, the determination method of orbit repeat periods via the broadcast ephemerides is summarized, and the SF method is extended to the global BeiDou navigation satellite system (BDS3) and Galileo navigation satellite system. …”
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One- and Five-Ringgit Malaysia banknotes reader with counterfeit detection for visually impaired person using backlight mechanism and image processing techniques [version 2; peer r... by Turki Khaled Salem, Wai Kit Wong, Thu Soe Min, Eng Kiong Wong

“…The processed result will be passed back to the handheld banknote reader and broadcast on an attached mini speaker to aid the visually impaired understand the holding banknote, whether it is a real one Ringgit, real five Ringgit or none of them. …”
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Mechanized Hybrid Rice Seed Production: Planting Density, the Flight Height of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Fertilizer Application, and the Row-Ratio of Parents by Longxin He, Haowen Luo, Meiyang Duan, Leilei Kong, Xiangru Tang

“…In experiment 2, two fertilizer application methods, mechanized deep placement of fertilizer and traditional manual broadcasted fertilizer, were adopted. The results showed that deep placement of fertilizer significantly increased seed yield by increasing the effective panicle number and the grain number per panicle. …”
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Fertilizer Performance of a Digestate from Swine Wastewater as Synthetic Nitrogen Substitute in Maize Cultivation: Physiological Growth and Yield Responses by Eduardo L. Buligon, Luiz A. M. Costa, Jorge de Lucas, Francielly T. Santos, Piebiep Goufo, Monica S. S. M. Costa

“…Generally, the highest means for Fe, Ca, Cu, Zn, and Mn contents in leaves were observed after in-row broadcast of synthetic fertilizers or basal application of the digestate as a total substitute for synthetic N, with a significant effect for Fe (<i>p</i> < 0.05). …”
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The development of lucerne root morphology traits under high initial stand density within a seven year period by J. Hakl, P. Fuksa, J. Šantrůček, K. Mášková

“…In spring 2003, a field experiment with six lucerne entries in randomized blocks was established. Broadcast sowing was used and the seeding rate was 5000 germinated seeds per m2. …”
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Tackling the COVID-19 infodemic among Syrian refugees in Lebanon: Development and evaluation of the “Wikaytek” tool by Juliette Semaan, Christopher Farah, Reem Abou Harb, Marco Bardus, Aline Germani, Imad H Elhajj

“…Results Wikaytek scrapes validated and reliable COVID-19-related information from reputable sources on Twitter, automatically translates it into Arabic, attaches relevant media (images/video), and generates an audio format using Google text-to-speech. Then, messages are broadcast to WhatsApp. Our evaluation shows that users appreciate receiving “push” information from reliable sources they can trust and prefer the audio format over text. …”
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Exploring the Bob Ross effect: A psychophysiological investigation by Elena Shostak, Farouq Yusuf, Noa Schabes, Brian Lora, Anna Churchill, Maleeha Farzansyed, Seraya Makle, Megan White, Lauren M. Greaves, Oliver E. Blum, Justin A. DeBlauw, Stephen J. Ives

“…Watching news broadcasts is known to elicit psychological stress. …”
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Distributed computation in dynamic networks by Kuhn, Fabian, Lynch, Nancy Ann, Oshman, Rotem

“…We consider a worst-case model in which the communication links for each round are chosen by an adversary, and nodes do not know who their neighbors for the current round are before they broadcast their messages. The model captures mobile networks and wireless networks, in which mobility and interference render communication unpredictable. …”
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Enhancement of precise underwater object localization by Kaveripakam, Sathish, Chinthaginjala, Ravikumar, Anbazhagan, Rajesh, Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, Khan, Salahuddin, Pau, Giovanni, See, Chan Hwang, Dayoub, Iyad, Livreri, Patrizia, Abd-Alhameed, Raed

“…Because of their significant impact on ocean exploration and monitoring, underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSN) are becoming increasingly popular, and acoustic communications have largely overtaken radio frequency (RF) broadcasts as the dominant means of communication. …”
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