Renewing Our Focus on Vulnerable Populations Among People Living with HIV by Ayieko, James, Thorp, Marguerite, Ghebremichael, Musie

“…What are the threats to care engagement for vulnerable people? And what health care system changes are needed to accommodate vulnerable people? …”
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Designing initiatives for vulnerable families : from theory to design in Sydney, Australia by Eastwood, John Graeme, De Souza, Denise E., Shaw, Miranda, Garg, Pankaj, Woolfenden, Susan, Tyler, Ingrid, Kemp, Lynn A.

“…Introduction: Intergenerational cycles of poverty, violence and crime, poor education and employment opportunities, psychopathology, and poor lifestyle and health behaviours require innovative models of health care delivery to break them. We describe a programme of research informed service development targeting vulnerable families in inner metropolitan Sydney, Australia that is designed to build and confirm a “Theory of Neighbourhood Context, Stress, Depression, and the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)”. …”
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Barriers and facilitators to the initiation of injectable therapies for type 2 diabetes mellitus: a mixed methods study by de Lusignan, S, McGovern, A, Hinton, W, Whyte, M, Munro, N, Williams, ED, Marcu, A, Williams, J, Ferreira, F, Mount, J, Tripathy, M, Konstantara, E, Field, BCT, Feher, M

“…These skills should be concentrated in the hands of a small number of primary care providers to ensure they can maintain their skills.…”

Best THD of multilevel DC/AC inverters by Li, Ying.

“…Unfortunately, most existing inverters have poor total harmonic distortion (THD) since each level switching angle is not carefully arranged. In order to have good power quality (PQ), we have to carefully investigate the switching angle arrangement to obtain the best THD. …”
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Development of rehabilitative multimodal interactive pet robot for elderly residents by Sheba, Jaichandar Kulandaidaasan, Phuc, Le Tan, Salman, Adnan Ahmed, Kumar, Sampath, Elara, Mohan Rajesh, Martínez-García, Edgar

“…The ongoing development in robotics has enabled socially interactive robots (SIR) to contribute towards elderly care. Various studies on using therapeutic robots in health care for elderly people conducted for the last decade have indicated the effectiveness of these methods. …”
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Why federated learning will do little to overcome the deeply embedded biases in clinical medicine by Sauer, Christopher Martin, Pucher, Gernot, Celi, Leo Anthony

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Clinical, Ethical, and Legal Considerations Raised by Self-Reported Genital Mutilation Following Voluntary Cosmetic Labiaplasty by Metaxas, T, Earp, BD, Bader, D, Ghasemi, S, Solari, M, Abdulcadir, J

“…This feeling led these women to seek care at an outpatient clinic that receives migrants, refugees, second-generation, or naturalized patients originating mainly from African countries having experienced FGM/C. …”

Inadequate social housing and health: the case of Oliver Bond House, in inner-city Dublin by Manzo, LKC, Grove, H

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> The results highlight the urgent need to place greater priority on the maintenance of the existing social housing stock and demonstrate the need for public housing policies that recognize the quality and quantity of adequate housing provision, where care is at the heart of housing policies. The paper also presents a novel ‘City of Care’ framework, following the need to develop an ethics of care within cities where public health, community wellbeing, solidarity, residents’ empowerment, and social justice principles are at the forefront. …”

Abui stories : seven children by Chew, Grace Min Hui

“…Thriving on an oral tradition, these stories, like the traditional Abui language, bear no written form and are at risk of extinction. …”
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Detection of simultaneous structural problems using multiple structural health monitoring techniques by Yang, Lu

“…After the construction, cracks, wear and tear, fatigue, creep, etc., will appear anytime during their life span, which significantly affects the capacity of the structure to bear loads. Hence structure health monitoring (SHM) technique came into existence to detect the structural problems and increase its life span. …”
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Trends in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research : Ecosystems, Digital Technologies and Responses to Shocks / by Brem, Alexander, editor 552956, Jin, Chen, 1968-, editor 498471, World Scientific (Online service) 655444

“…The focus is on innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems, digital technologies and innovation, as well as responses to pandemics resulting from external shocks.Carefully selected on the basis of relevance and rigor, the chapters in the book take the readers through various trending research topics.…”
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Cancer caregivers unmet needs and emotional states across cancer treatment phases by Yang, Winson Fu Zun, Lee, Rachael Zhi Yi, Kuparasundram, Sangita, Tan, Terina, Chan, Yiong Huak, Griva, Konstadina, Mahendran, Rathi

“…To investigate the association between family cancer caregivers' unmet daily needs and emotional states of depression, anxiety and stress across their care recipient's treatment phases.…”
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"Target trial emulation" for observational studies - potential and pitfalls by Hubbard, RA, Gatsonis, CA, Hogan, JW, Hunter, DJ, Normand, S-LT, Troxel, AB

“…To improve the quality of observational studies, target trial emulation requires careful specification of design elements, analytic methods for addressing confounding, and reporting of sensitivity analyses.…”

The concept of the human being in the Xunzi by Li, Jifen

“…Finally, Xunzi’s argument on the guardian role of human beings shows humans’ loving care of other creatures in nature. It is from this loving care, I argue, that an idea of being friendly with nature can be developed from Xunzi.…”
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Optimising psychotherapy outcomes - AI-enhanced system for session note-taking and progress analysis by Tan, Jodi Yun Yi

“…This limits the counsellors’ time for patient care and hinders efficient treatment planning. …”
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Policy Framework: Providing Social Protection to the Frontline Healthcare Workers During the Pandemic (S/O 14696) by Abdul Wahab, Harlida, Abdullah, Nor Anita, Abdul Rahim, Asmar

“…Its major impacts on the public health sector, health care services and the like, inclusive of their workers are obvious. …”
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A flat carborane with multiple aromaticity beyond Wade–Mingos’ rules by Lu, Wei, Do, Dinh Cao Huan, Kinjo, Rei

“…Herein, we report the synthesis of a C2B4R4 carborane 2 featuring a flat ribbon-like structure. The C2B4 core of 2 bearing 16 skeletal electrons in the singlet-ground state defies both the [4n + 2] Hückel’s rule and Baird’s rule. …”
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Synthesis of a π-extended azacorannulenophane enabled by strain-induced 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition by Zhang, Xinjiang, Mackinnon, Marc R., Bodwell, Graham J., Ito, Shingo

“…The first example of a cyclophane bearing a nitrogen-containing buckybowl was synthesized via sequential 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition and palladium-catalyzed intramolecular cyclization. …”
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Tribochemical Characterization and Tribocorrosive Behavior of CoCrMo Alloys: A Review by Toh, Wei Quan, Tan, Xipeng, Bhowmik, Ayan, Liu, Erjia, Tor, Shu Beng

“…However, poor design and machinability as well as unsatisfactory surface finish subjected the all-metal joint replacement to being superseded by a polyethylene bearing. Continued improvement in manufacturing techniques together with the reality that polyethylene wear debris can cause hazardous reactions in the human body has brought about the revival of metal-on-metal (MOM) hip joints in recent years. …”
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Analysis of the revolving vane (RV-0) expander, part 1 : experimental investigations by Subiantoro, Alison, Ooi, Kim Tiow

“…The isentropic efficiency was found to be up to 17.5% with the frictional losses caused mainly by the journal bearings.…”
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