Be connected, exchange, but also create: teachers’ professional growth within an online community of practice by Elena Gabbi

“…Following the theoretical framework of the value of the online community for teachers’ professional development and the description of the digital and organisational system resources, the methodology of the qualitative study and the results of the thematic analysis conducted are described. …”
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Population-Level Prevalence, Bother, and Treatment Behavior for Urinary Incontinence in an Eastern European Country: Findings from the LUTS POLAND Study by Mikolaj Przydacz, Marcin Chlosta, Piotr Chlosta

“…Therefore, we need to increase population awareness in Poland about UI and available treatment methods, and we need to ensure adequate allocation of government and healthcare system resources.…”
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Lightweight Payload Encryption-Based Authentication Scheme for Advanced Metering Infrastructure Sensor Networks by Nasr Abosata, Saba Al-Rubaye, Gokhan Inalhan

“…However, many sensors in distributed systems, resource constraint smart sensors, and adaptability of IoT communication protocols in sensors necessitate designing an efficient and lightweight security authentication scheme. …”
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Heterogeneous impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on lung, colorectal and breast cancer incidence in Hungary: results from time series and panel data models by Peter Elek, Antal Zemplényi, Marcell Csanádi, Petra Fadgyas-Freyler, Nóra Gervai, Rita Oross-Bécsi, Balázs Szécsényi-Nagy, Manna Tatár, Balázs Váradi

“…Objective During the COVID-19 pandemic, health system resources were reallocated to provide care for patients with COVID-19, limiting access for others. …”
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A Communication-Efficient Local Differentially Private Algorithm in Federated Optimization by Syed Eqbal Alam, Dhirendra Shukla, Shrisha Rao

“…The algorithm can find applications in several areas, including smart cities, smart energy systems, resource management in the sixth generation (6G) wireless networks with privacy guarantees, etc. …”
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Organisation of care for people receiving drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment in South Africa: a mixed methods study by Koleka Mlisana, John Black, Alison Grant, Marian Loveday, Karina Kielmann, Mosa Moshabela, Helen Cox, Jeremy Hill, Norbert Ndjeka, Mark Nicol, Waasila Jassat, Sacha Roxanne Le Roux, Lindy Dickson, Leila Mitrani

“…Responsiveness to the needs of people affected by MDR/RR-TB and health system constraints was achieved through implementation of flexible models, or the implementation of multiple models in a district.Conclusions Understanding how models for organising care have evolved may assist policy implementers to tailor implementation to promote particular patterns of care organisation or encourage flexibility, based on patient needs and local health system resources. Our approach can contribute towards the development of a health systems typology for understanding how policy-driven models of service delivery are implemented in the context of variable resources.…”
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Using Remote Sensing Vegetation Indices for the Discrimination and Monitoring of Agricultural Crops: A Critical Review by Roxana Vidican, Anamaria Mălinaș, Ovidiu Ranta, Cristina Moldovan, Ovidiu Marian, Alexandru Ghețe, Ciprian Radu Ghișe, Flavia Popovici, Giorgiana M. Cătunescu

“…The agricultural sector is currently confronting multifaceted challenges such as an increased food demand, slow adoption of sustainable farming, a need for climate-resilient food systems, resource inequity, and the protection of small-scale farmers’ practices. …”
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Using systems thinking to understand the scale-up and sustainability of health innovation: a case study of seasonal malaria chemoprevention processes in Burkina Faso by Marietou Niang, Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Sophie Dupéré

“…These determinants are effectiveness, monitoring and evaluation systems, resources (financial, material, and human), leadership and governance, adaptation to the local context, and other external elements. …”
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Algorithms of follow-up in patients with head and neck cancer in relation to primary location and advancement. Consensus of Polish ENT Society Board and Head Neck Experts by Małgorzata Wierzbicka, Małgorzata Wierzbicka, Małgorzata Wierzbicka, Jarosław Markowski, Wioletta Pietruszewska, Paweł Burduk, Bogusław Mikaszewski, Marek Rogowski, Krzysztof Składowski, Piotr Milecki, Jacek Fijuth, Dariusz Jurkiewicz, Kazimierz Niemczyk, Adam Maciejczyk

“…Group IV has not been included in regular follow-up, visits on own initiative of the patient if symptomatic, or supportive care needs, having in mind that third-line therapy and immune checkpoint inhibitors are available.ConclusionUniversal monitoring algorithm for HNC four groups with a high, moderate, and low risk of recurrence after the adequate treatment in combination with a high or low probability of using an effective salvage is an innovative approach to redeploying system resources and ensuring maximum benefit for patients with HNC.…”
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Barriers and facilitators to implementing cost-effective evidence-based childhood cancer treatment in a resource-limited setting in Egypt: a qualitative interview study by Soliman, R, Heneghan, C, Boylan, A-M, Oke, J, Eweida, W, Elhaddad, A

“…We identified four main themes of barriers and facilitators: awareness and orientation; knowledge, skills, and attitudes; system, resources, and context; and clinical practice. …”

Policy-based managers coordination for self-adaptive software approach by Mansor Hamed, Abdelhamid Abdelhadi

“…Policy-based management has been acknowledged mostly as a methodology that provides flexibility, ytilibalacs, adaptability, and support to assign system resources, control, quality of service, and security by considering administratively specified rules. …”
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Fences and hydropower: Important but overlooked Human Footprint by Jian Sun, Isabel C. Barrio

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Precipitation chemistry in the westerly domain of the Tibetan Plateau by Namita Paudel Adhikari, Subash Adhikari

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MapReduce scheduling algorithms in Hadoop: a systematic study by Soudabeh Hedayati, Neda Maleki, Tobias Olsson, Fredrik Ahlgren, Mahdi Seyednezhad, Kamal Berahmand

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“C-wetland”: A new paradigm to enhance conservation of carbon-rich wetlands by Huai Chen, Zicheng Yu, Ning Wu, Yanfen Wang, Xinwei Liu

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Providing asynchronous file I/O for the Plan 9 operating system by Hickey, Jason, 1981-

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Healthcare reforming: an outlook from the region by Olga Kudelina

“…Highly professional economists-managers, who have specific competences in sectoral economy, are in great demand for rational use of healthcare system resources. The main aim of the study is to analyse the opinion of Tomsk oblast municipal healthcare institutions personnel in order to identify factors that complicate processes of sector reformation. …”
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Classifying jobs towards power-aware HPC system operation through long-term log analysis by Yuichi Tsujita, Atsuya Uno, Ryuichi Sekizawa, Keiji Yamamoto, Fumichika Sueyasu

“…The efficient utilization of high-performance computing (HPC) system resources under rigorous electric power budget or I/O workload constraints is among the most important goals set by system operators to deal with the demanding requirements of application users. …”
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Disclosure, transparency, and accountability: a qualitative survey of public sector pharmaceutical committee conflict of interest policies in the World Health Organization South-Ea... by Quinn Grundy, Lisa Parker, Anna Wong, Terence Fusire, Deirdre Dimancesco, Klara Tisocki, Helena Walkowiak, Taryn Vian, Jillian Kohler

“…Abstract Background Weak governance over public sector pharmaceutical policy and practice limits access to essential medicines, inflates pharmaceutical prices, and wastes scarce health system resources. Pharmaceutical systems are technically complex and involve extensive interactions between the private and public sectors. …”
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Healthcare reforming: an outlook from the region by Olga Kudelina

“…Highly professional economists-managers, who have specific competences in sectoral economy, are in great demand for rational use of healthcare system resources. The main aim of the study is to analyse the opinion of Tomsk oblast municipal healthcare institutions personnel in order to identify factors that complicate processes of sector reformation. …”
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