Nursing students' perceptions regarding well-being and healthy use of digital technology: A qualitative thematic analysis by Maya Sahu, Sailaxmi Gandhi, Manoj Kumar Sharma, Seema Mehrotra

“…Around 12–15 students from each college who might provide potentially rich data were invited to participate in the study. …”
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The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on fertility behaviour in Indian states: Evidence from the National Family Health Survey (2019/21). by Md Mahfuzur Rahman, Manas Ranjan Pradhan, Manoj Kumer Ghosh, Md Moshfiqur Rahman

“…This study investigated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility behaviours and desires among women in a lower-middle-income country, India.…”
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Trends and spatial distribution of deaths of children aged 12-60 months in São Paulo, Brazil, 1980-98 by Antunes José Leopoldo Ferreira, Waldman Eliseu Alves

“…CONCLUSION: The overall mortality rate among children aged 12-60 months dropped by almost 30% during the study period. …”
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Phenotypic characterization of drought responses in red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) by Tim Vleugels, Aamir Saleem, Reena Dubey, Hilde Muylle, Irene Borra-Serrano, Peter Lootens, Tom De Swaef, Isabel Roldán-Ruiz

“…IntroductionRed clover (Trifolium pratense) is a protein-rich, short-lived perennial forage crop that can achieve high yields, but suffers increasingly from drought in different cultivation areas. …”
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Novel primers drive accurate SYBR Green PCR detection of Listeria monocytogenes and Listeria innocua in cultures and mushrooms by Bo-eun Kim, Ravi Jothi, Da woon Kim, Dong Suk Park

“…By performing a comparative analysis of the complete genome sequences of L. monocytogenes (ATCC 12392) and L. innocua (CFSAN044836), a unique gene region encoding a hypothetical protein with an LPXTG cell wall anchor domain (GCF_003031895.1) in L. monocytogenes and leucine-rich repeats (GCF_009648575.1) in L. innocua was identified. …”
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Effects of Acute Freshwater Stress on Tissue Structure of Gill, Heart, Spleen and Liver of Juvenile Eleutheronema tetradactylum by Shuyu XU, Youjun OU, Jiufu WEN, Xin LIN, Jia'er LI

“…The number of mitochondria-rich cells continued to increase. The size of the myocardial transverse muscle, the size of the myocardial cell gap and the size of the interstitial vessels all showed a trend of increasing and then decreasing. …”
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Quantifying and stratifying the spatial patterns of residential clusters : a socioeconomic and geographic comparisons of metropolitan areas by Kang, Myoung-Gu, 1970-

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Rapid assessment of feeding traces enables detection of drivers of saproxylic insects across spatial scales by Janine Oettel, Martin Braun, Gernot Hoch, James Connell, Thomas Gschwantner, Katharina Lapin, Stefan Schöttl, Katrin Windisch-Ettenauer, Franz Essl, Martin M Gossner

“…Our results revealed complex interactions among influencing factors at different spatial scales. …”
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Determinants of exclusive breastfeeding in Nigeria by Odiase Justice I, Dibley Michael J, Agho Kingsley E, Ogbonmwan Sunday M

“…</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The average EBF rate among infants younger than 6 months of age was 16.4% (95%CI: 12.6%-21.1%) but was only 7.1% in infants in their fifth month of age. …”
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Parasite-host relationships of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) and black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) in southeastern Spain by David López-Peña, Reinhard Gerecke, Eduardo Moisés García-Roger, Peter Martin, Ricardo Jiménez-Peydró

“…Water mite infection was not equally distributed among black fly species. Also, the prevalence of parasitism was low and differed among simuliid species, ranging from one to 13 water mites per black fly pupa. …”
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Food Loss and Food Waste for Green Cosmetics and Medical Devices for a Cleaner Planet by Pierfrancesco Morganti, Xinghua Gao, Natalia Vukovic, Alessandro Gagliardini, Alka Lohani, Gianluca Morganti

“…At this purpose, it seems useful to transform food waste into richness, extracting and using its content in natural ingredients and biopolymers to make new sustainable products and goods, including cosmetics and medical devices. …”
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Predictive analytics framework for accurate estimation of child mortality rates for Internet of Things enabled smart healthcare systems by Muhammad Islam, Muhammad Usman, Azhar Mahmood, Aaqif Afzaal Abbasi, Oh-Young Song

“…Globally, the death rate of under-five children is 41 per 1000 live births. However, the death rate of children in developing nations like Pakistan and Ethiopia per 1000 live births is 74 and 54, respectively. …”
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Essays on the behavioral political economy of housing by Wong, Weihuang

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Characteristics of functional constipation and analysis of intestinal microbiota in children aged 0–4 in Zunyi region by Shungang Gong, Zhengbo Yu, Yuan Ding, Yue Wang, Xi Li, Shengli Gu

“…Alpha diversity analysis revealed higher richness and diversity of intestinal flora in the FCG compared to the CG. …”
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A Global Assessment of Parasite Diversity in Galaxiid Fishes by Rachel A. Paterson, Gustavo P. Viozzi, Carlos A. Rauque, Verónica R. Flores, Robert Poulin

“…Specifically, we assessed how galaxiid–parasite knowledge differs among geographic regions in relation to research effort (i.e., number of studies or fish individuals examined, extent of tissue examination, taxonomic resolution), in addition to ecological traits known to influence parasite richness. …”
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Sexual risk behaviors of African American men who have sex with men: implication of situational factors and partner dynamics by Saleh, L

“…<p>HIV infection disproportionately burdens Black men who have sex with men (MSM) living in the United States. Qualitative research is able to richly contextualize the HIV risk factors of Black MSM, but to date limited qualitative evidence exists. …”

Secondary Succession Altered the Diversity and Co-Occurrence Networks of the Soil Bacterial Communities in Tropical Lowland Rainforests by Xuan Hu, Qi Shu, Wen Guo, Zean Shang, Lianghua Qi

“…Overall, as a result of tropical lowland rainforest secondary natural succession, the richness and diversity of plant communities increased, which altered the living conditions of nitrogen-fixing legumes and the soil properties, and the network complexity of soil bacterial communities increased with the rising of rainforest soil nutrient content.…”
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A Transcriptomic Approach to the Recruitment of Venom Proteins in a Marine Annelid by Ana P. Rodrigo, Ana R. Grosso, Pedro V. Baptista, Alexandra R. Fernandes, Pedro M. Costa

“…Toxins and accompanying enzymes promote permeabilization, coagulation impairment and the blocking of the neuromuscular activity of prey upon which the worm feeds by sucking pieces of live flesh. The main neurotoxins (“phyllotoxins”) were found to be cysteine-rich proteins, a class of substances ubiquitous among venomous animals. …”
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Reviewing the Palaeontological and Palaeoenvironmental Heritage of the Monti Pisani Massif (Italy): A Compelling History of Animals, Plants and Climates through Three Geological Er... by Alberto Collareta, Chiara Sorbini, Simone Farina, Valerio Granata, Lorenzo Marchetti, Chiara Frassi, Lucia Angeli, Giovanni Bianucci

“…The Monti Pisani massif (Tuscany, central Italy) is an isolated mountain relief known for its rich geodiversity, including a remarkable palaeontological heritage from the Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras. …”
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Deep Learning Based Early Detection Framework for Preliminary Diagnosis of COVID-19 via Onboard Smartphone Sensors by Hayat Khaloufi, Karim Abouelmehdi, Abderrahim Beni-Hssane, Furqan Rustam, Anca Delia Jurcut, Ernesto Lee, Imran Ashraf

“…Therefore, top priority must be given, among other things, to enlisting recent and adequate technologies to reduce the adverse impact of this pandemic. …”
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