Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990–2013:... by Forouzanfar, M, Alexander, L, Anderson, H, Ali, R, Beardsley, J, Bennett, D, Briggs, A, Chen, Z, Gething, P, Jha, V, Moschandreas, J, Newton, C, Rahimi, K, Scarborough, P

“…<p><strong>Methods</strong></p> Attributable deaths, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) have been estimated for 79 risks or clusters of risks using the GBD 2010 methods. …”

Corporate Crisis Recovery : Managing Organizational Deviance, Reputation, and Risk / by Gottschalk, Petter, 1950-, author 346858, Hamerton, Christopher, author 655481, SpringerLink (Online service) 666

“…The principal aim of Corporate Crisis Recovery: Managing Organizational Deviance, Reputation, and Risk is to complement and expand criminological discourse on the concept of the social license to operate as a means of influencing the behaviour of corporations. In recent years, the wide-spanning consequences of some very public globalized corporate crises – including fiscal and environmental impact, staff retention, and organizational survival – have led to a growing body of research on crisis perception and responsive strategic management. …”
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Songs of The Runaway Heart / by Marisa Fendi, author 655832

“…Kamelia had disappeared, gone overnight. Nine years pass. Haikal’s life revolves around his daughter rather than his motorcycle. …”

Driving Miss Norma : AN INSPIRATIONAL STORY ABOUT WHAT REALLY MATTERS AT THE END OF LIFE / by Bauerschmidt, Tim, author 655967, Liddle,Ramie, author 655968

“…But instead of confining herself to a hospital bed for what could be her last stay, Miss Norma - newly widowed after nearly seven decades of marriage - rose to her full height of five feet and told the doctor, "I'm ninety years old. I'm hitting the road." And so Miss Norma took off on an unforgettable around-the-country journey in a thirty-six-foot motor home with her retired son Tim, his wife Ramie, and their dog Ringo."…”

Cheaper Than A Funeral: Considering Ibogaine’s Psychedelic Journey and Therapeutic Potential by Daly, Noah

“…In the past ten years, American special operations forces veterans have begun to take ibogaine to treat traumatic brain injuries (TBI). …”
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Nuptiality in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia by Dommaraju, Premchand, Agadjanian, Victor

“…Marriage age began to increase in the years following independence and there are no signs of any reversal. …”
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Effects of music attrition on English-Mandarin Chinese bilinguals’ lexical tone perception and production in a foreign language by Toh, Xin Ru

“…Results showed that ex-musicians outperformed non-musicians in musical abilities and lexical tone perception, and that lexical tone perception accuracy was associated with both musical abilities and number of years of musical training. Although non-‘dialect’ speaking non-musicians performed the worst in musical abilities and lexical tone perception, ‘dialect’ speaking ex-musicians did not perform the best. …”
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Arbitration : a new era of dispute resolution by Ang, Eng Kiat, Chong, Siew Ann, Tay, Eddie Liang Wee

“…This is evidenced not only by the jump in the number of newspaper reports that have been published in the past few years, but there was even a television programme in 1995 on the topic of whether arbitration is a good means of dispute resolution. …”
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Weather radar to study rain and cloud events by Tan, Xin Yi

“…In more recent years, Radar has been used to identify and separate clouds from rain. …”
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Using GO supporting catalyst to convert biomass into DFF by Li, Haopeng

“…Graphene, a two dimensional nanomaterial developed in recent years, has excellent physical and chemical properties. …”
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Measurement invariance of the higher-order model of Preschool Anxiety Scale (PAS) across child age, gender, parental anxiety, and pandemic period in England by Creswell, C, Reardon, T, Spence, S, Zhou, S

“…Using data from a sample of 2,221 children and their parents/carers in England, this study investigated the measurement invariance of the higher-order model of the PAS across child age (4-6 years vs. 6-7 years), gender (girls vs. boys), parental anxiety (low vs. high level), and children’s living circumstances (before vs. after the removal of COVID-19 restrictions). …”

International web-based survey of patients with non-hydrocephalic symptomatic pineal cysts by Harding, J, Masina, R, Hill, A, Ansanipour, A, Steele, A, Kolias, A, Santarius, T

“…Results: 543 participants (mean age 38.6 years, range 1–83) were included in the analysis, of which 82 (mean age 38.9 years, range 16–72) had undergone cyst resection. …”

Reconstructing prehistoric lifeways using multi-Isotope analyses of human enamel, dentine, and bone from Legaire Sur, Spain by Griffith, JI, James, HF, Ordoño, J, Fernández-Crespo, T, Gerritzen, CT, Cheung, C, Spros, R, Claeys, P, Goderis, S, Veselka, B, Snoeck, C

“…They highlight notably earlier ages of cessation of nursing (≤2 years at Legaire Sur vs. ≥4 years in other megalithic tombs), and a greater dependence on pastoralism than previously observed in lowland megalithic graves. …”

Surgical Site Infection after Craniotomy in Neuro-Oncology (SINO): A protocol for an international prospective multicentre service evaluation across the United Kingdom and Ireland by Lee, KS, Borbas, B, Chaudhry, D, Kuri, A, Best, L, Gillespie, CS, Dehbi, H, Aquilina, K, Brennan, P, Plaha, P, Ashkan, K, Jenkinson, MD, Price, SJ, British Neurosurgical Trainee Research Collaborative (BNTRC), Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS), Neurology and Neurosurgery Interest Group (NANSIG)

“…Consecutive paediatric (&lt;18 years) and adult (≥18 years) patients diagnosed with a brain tumour, undergoing cranial surgery between 1st October 2024 and 1st December 2024 will be included. …”

Simple Executive Function as an endophenotype of autism-ADHD, and differing associations between simple versus complex Executive Functions and autism/ADHD traits by Hendry, A, Bedford, R, Agyapong, M, Begum Ali, J, Bazelmans, T, Ersoy, M, Goodwin, A, Mason, L, Narvekar, N, Pasco, G, Johnson, MH, Jones, EJH, Charman, T

“…In this longitudinal study, 107 children with a family history of autism and/or ADHD (FH-autism/ADHD), and 24 children with No-FH-autism/ADHD completed multiple EF tasks (5 at age 2 years, 7 at age 3 years). Parents reported on their child’s autism- (Q-CHAT at age 2, SRS-2 at age 3), and ADHD-related traits (CBCL DSM-ADHD scale, both ages). …”

Recent advances of optical imaging in the drying process of grains – a review by Jimoh, Kabiru Ayobami, Hashim, Norhashila, Shamsudin, Rosnah, Che Man, Hasfalina, Jahari, Mahirah

“…The use of non-destructive, timely, accurate, reliable, economical, and environment-friendly techniques for grain quality detection remains in the top interest of researchers and agricultural industries in recent years. Physical and sensory inspection as well as physicochemical index analysis is part of the manual approaches for measuring grain quality. …”

Influence of depression and loneliness on suicidal behaviour among public university students in Malaysia by Norazizi, Nur Dini Kamilia, Che Amat, Muhammad Asyraf, Mohammad Hanafi, Nor Hafizah, Firman, Salam, Syahrul Nizam

“…The quantitative study involved 406 public university students in Malaysia, including early teens aged 20 years and below and adults aged 40 years and above. …”
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Detection and seroprevalence of Q fever infection in dairy goats in Besut district, Malaysia by Ahmad, Khairunnisa, Nik Mustaffa, Nik Danial Asyraf, Azmi, Nur Syafiqa, Zainal Ariffin, Siti Mariam, Ghazali, Mohd Faizal, Ibrahim, Noor Syaheera

“…Material and Methods: One hundred dairy goats (n = 100) aged 6 months to 6 years were randomly selected, and blood samples were collected for serological analysis using the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay technique. …”
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Social support, depression, anxiety and stress among breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia by Rokhman, Nik Nor Izwana

“…The mean age of the respondents was 53 years old (SD=10.62), with ages ranging between 28 to 76 years old. …”
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Systematic Literature Review of the Trend on Green Supply Chain Management by Che Hassan, Muhammad Hamdi, Osman, Lokhman Hakim

“…This study was conducted on the article data collected from the Web of Science (WOS) and Scopus databases between the years 2013 and 2023 using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematics Review and Meta Analyses (PRISMA) approach. …”
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