Nobiletin alleviates myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury via ferroptosis in rats with type-2 diabetes mellitus by Qin Huang, Liqun Tian, Yi Zhang, Zhen Qiu, Shaoqing Lei, Zhong-Yuan Xia

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Monsoon floods: A challenge to Pakistan’s already fragile healthcare infrastructure by Muhammad Moiz Nasir, Adam Bilal Khan, Syed Husain Farhan

“…Considering the deficit of healthcare centres, and medical professionals and the availability of medications in low-lying, agricultural, and rural setups of the major provinces, the transmission of infectious diseases is inevitable. …”
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Recreational Cannabis Legislation: substance use and impaired driving among Canadian rural and urban postsecondary students by N’deye Rokhaya Gueye, Kevin Prada, Danielle de Moissac

“…However, the relation between cannabis use in the last month and operating a motor vehicle after using cannabis (lifetime and past month) and living context differed between subjects in Quebec and those in the two other provinces. Quebec’s students having lived mostly in urban contexts had greater odds of using cannabis in the past month and operating a motor vehicle after using cannabis (lifetime and past month) than those in rural contexts; the opposite was observed in Manitoba and Ontario. …”
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Pedological factors as drivers of archaeal and fungal communities in maize rhizosphere: a shotgun metagenomic sequencing approach by Saheed Adekunle Akinola, Ayansina Segun Ayangbenro, Olubukola Oluranti Babalola

“…To achieve this objective, a shotgun metagenomics approach was used to analyze maize rhizosphere and bulk soils collected from North West and Gauteng provinces of South Africa. Our findings revealed that both the maize rhizosphere and bulk soils have several archaeal and fungal phyla in common. …”
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The Recession’s Impact on Canada’s Labour Market by Philip Cross

“…In the meantime, Alberta and Saskatchewan have had to become more innovative in managing the reality of tighter labour markets. Those provinces now boast higher participation rates among older workers, and employees willing to work longer weeks than workers elsewhere. …”
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Antimalarial Drug Resistance: A Brief History of Its Spread in Indonesia by Fitri LE, Pawestri AR, Winaris N, Endharti AT, Khotimah ARH, Abidah HY, Huwae JTR

“…Twenty years later, most provinces had declared treatment failures of both drugs. …”
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Evaluation of kidney function among people living with HIV initiating antiretroviral therapy in Zambia. by Jake M Pry, Michael J Vinikoor, Carolyn Bolton Moore, Monika Roy, Aaloke Mody, Izukanji Sikazwe, Anjali Sharma, Belinda Chihota, Miquel Duran-Frigola, Harriet Daultrey, Jacob Mutale, Andrew D Kerkhoff, Elvin H Geng, Brad H Pollock, Jaime H Vera

“…We estimated glomerular filtration rates (eGFR) using routinely collected serum creatinine measures among a cohort of PLHIV with an HIV care visit at one of 113 Centre for Infectious Disease Research Zambia (CIDRZ) supported sites between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2017, across seven of the ten provinces in Zambia. We used mixed-effect Poisson regression to assess predictors of eGFR <60ml/min/1.73m2 allowing random effects at the individual and facility level. …”
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Accessibility and usability of user interfaces of library information retrieval systems from the perspective of visually impaired users by Azam Najafgholinejad

“…The research population was 33 visually impaired users who were selected from different provinces of the country using a targeted sampling method. …”
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The Canadian Chronic Disease Surveillance System: The Benefits and Challenges of a Distributed Model for National Disease Surveillance by Lisa Lix, Kim Reimer

“…The CCDSS uses population-based linked health administrative databases from all provinces/territories (P/Ts) and a distributed analytic protocol to produce standardized disease estimates. …”
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اقتصاديات استخدام الأفران الشمسية في البادية السورية by مسعود صبيح

“…This region is located to the east of Homs and Hamah provinces 40[Kms] to the end of the Syrian border line as rural and desert regions. …”
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Impacts of Alternative Billing Claims on Hypertension Prevalence and Mortality Estimates in Alberta, Canada by Ceara Tess Cunningham, Hude Quan, Nathalie Jette, Guanmin Chen

“…Since Alberta uses shadow billing incentive programs, future research is needed to determine whether incentive programs should be considered in other provinces or nationally in order to preserve the overall quality of physician claims data.…”
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Role of risk perception and government regulation in reducing over-utilization of veterinary antibiotics: Evidence from hog farmers of China by Ruishi Si, Yumeng Yao, Xin Liu, Qian Lu, Mingyue Liu

“…So, to fill this gap, the current study explores the role of risk perception and government regulation in reducing the over-utilization of veterinary antibiotics by gathering data from 675 hog farmers in the Hebei, Henan, Hubei, and Shandong provinces of China. The Heckman two-stage model is employed to explore the phenomenon. …”
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GEÇİCİ KORUMA KAPSAMINDAKİ SURİYELİLERİN MEKÂN TERCİHLERİNDE RASYONELLİĞİN ANALİZİ by Aykut ÇALIŞKAN

“…Studies Turkey Statistical Institute (TSI), shared by the provinces on immigration data and other institutions have been prepared on the basis of data measured satisfaction. the network of social relations took place after residential rational decision-making process in the target countries, Turkey in particular migration of Syrians have been tested within the scope of temporary protection they have selected and tested in the perspective of the aforementioned hypothesis. …”
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Detecting Photovoltaic Installations in Diverse Landscapes Using Open Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data by Jinyue Wang, Jing Liu, Longhui Li

“…We developed a random forest-based PV classifier on Google Earth Engine in two provinces of China. Various features including Sentinel-2 reflectance, Sentinel-1 polarization, spectral indices and their corresponding textures were constructed. …”
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NDSP 09: Risk Assessment of Pakistani Individual for Diabetes (RAPID) &ndash; Findings from Second National Diabetes Survey of Pakistan (NDSP) 2016&ndash;2017 by Abdul Basit K, Fawwad A, Riaz M, Tahir B, Khalid M, Basit A

“….: 1-2, II-B, Nazimabad No 2, Karachi, PakistanTel +92 21 36707179Email abdulbasit@bide.edu.pkObjective: To elucidate the effectiveness of Risk Assessment of Pakistani individuals with diabetes (RAPID) tool in epidemiological and population-based second National Diabetes Survey of Pakistan (NDSP) 2016&ndash; 2017 for identifying risk of developing type 2 diabetes.Methodology: This observational study was a sub-analysis of the second National Diabetes Survey of Pakistan (NDSP) 2016&ndash; 2017 conducted from February 2016 to August 2017 in all four provinces of Pakistan. Ethical approval was obtained from National Bioethics Committee Pakistan. …”
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Hypertension, socioeconomic status and depressive and anxiety disorders: a cross-sectional study of middle-aged and older Chinese women by Bo Song, Xueyin Wang, Xu Wang, Di Gao, Xiaosong Zhang

“…Objectives To investigate the association of hypertension with depressive and anxiety disorders in middle-aged and older Chinese women, and to further assess whether the association was influenced by socioeconomic status (SES).Design Nationwide cross-sectional study.Setting Six provinces of the eastern, central and western regions of China.Participants Women aged 40–70 years were included by a multistage stratified random cluster sampling in 2018 (N=9900).Primary outcome measures Depressive and anxiety disorders were measured by the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7, respectively. …”
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Assessment of Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Implementation and Strategies Used for IPC Preparedness at Facility Level in Underdeveloped Areas of Pakistan by Tahir MA, Khan MA, Ikram A, Chaudhry TH, Jabeen A, Quddous A, Haq IU

“…The aim of the study was to conduct assessment with the IPC Assessment Framework (IPCAF) tool in healthcare facilities of the least developed areas.Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 12 tertiary level healthcare facilities (HCF) located in the least developed provinces of Pakistan. The facilities were selected through multistage cluster random methods. …”
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HCV knowledge and attitudes among HIV-negative MSM and MSM living with HIV in China: results from a cross-sectional online survey by Wenqian Xu, Peizhen Zhao, Haiyi Li, Cheng Wang

“…Methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted across seven provinces in China from December 2021 to January 2022. …”
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Genetic diversity in a natural population of the halophytic legume Prosopis strombulifera revealed by AFLP fingerprinting by Analia Llanes, Victoria Bonercarrere, Fabian Capdevielle, Sabina Vidal, Virginia Luna

“…This species is frequently found in the salinized areas in south-western of Córdoba and San Luis provinces, Argentina. Little is known about the genetic diversity within this species in a native population. …”
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Sports-related sudden cardiac death due to myocardial diseases on a population from 1–35 years: a multicentre forensic study in Spain by Benito Morentin, M. Paz Suárez-Mier, Ana Monzó, Pilar Molina, Joaquín S. Lucena

“…This is a retrospective study based on forensic autopsies performed in the provinces of Biscay, Seville, Valencia and in the jurisdiction covered by the National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences in Madrid (Spain). …”
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