The biggest challenge in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic: Vaccine hesitancy by Serhat Sirekbasan

“… I would like to mention an issue discussed constantly these days in the light of scientific data. …”
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Efficacy and safety of GLucocorticoid injections into InfrapaTellar faT pad in patients with knee ostEoarthRitiS: protocol for the GLITTERS randomized controlled trial by Yan Zhang, Guangfeng Ruan, Peng Zheng, Sili Huang, Xiaoni Zhou, Xuelian Liu, Wenjie Hu, Huiting Feng, Yangyang Lin, Juanjuan He, Zhenhai Wei, Jiangshan Zhang, Qing Chang, Xiaomei Wei, Tao Fan, Li Jiang, Changhai Ding

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COVID-19 epidemiology and changes in health service utilization in Azraq and Zaatari refugee camps in Jordan: A retrospective cohort study. by Chiara Altare, Natalya Kostandova, Jennifer OKeeffe, Heba Hayek, Muhammad Fawad, Adam Musa Khalifa, Paul B Spiegel

“…We evaluate the changes in health services using monthly routine data from UNHCR's health information system (HIS; January 2018 to March 2021) and apply interrupted time series analysis with a generalized additive model and negative binomial (NB) distribution, accounting for long-term trends and seasonality, reporting results as incidence rate ratios (IRRs). …”
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Líderes na pandemia: contribuições para a literatura sobre liderança nas organizações em contextos extremos / Leaders in the pandemic: Contributions to the literature on leadership... by Beatriz M. B. Braga, Vanessa M. Santos

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Accelerated evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in free-ranging white-tailed deer by Dillon S. McBride, Sofya K. Garushyants, John Franks, Andrew F. Magee, Steven H. Overend, Devra Huey, Amanda M. Williams, Seth A. Faith, Ahmed Kandeil, Sanja Trifkovic, Lance Miller, Trushar Jeevan, Anami Patel, Jacqueline M. Nolting, Michael J. Tonkovich, J. Tyler Genders, Andrew J. Montoney, Kevin Kasnyik, Timothy J. Linder, Sarah N. Bevins, Julianna B. Lenoch, Jeffrey C. Chandler, Thomas J. DeLiberto, Eugene V. Koonin, Marc A. Suchard, Philippe Lemey, Richard J. Webby, Martha I. Nelson, Andrew S. Bowman

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The relationship between perceived organizational support and insomnia in Chinese nurses: The Serial multiple mediation analysis by Mei-Fang Wang, Qing He, Zhuo Liu, Yan-Ling Du, Chao Wu, Hong-Juan Lang, Juan Du

“…BackgroundNurses are in high-pressure, high-load, and high-risk environment for a long time, and their insomnia cannot be ignored. …”
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The vertical distribution and abundance of gastropods and bivalves from rocky beaches of Cuastecomate Bay, Jalisco. México by M. C Esqueda, E Ríos-Jara, J. E Michel-Morfín, V Landa-Jaime

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Redistribution process of precipitation in ecological restoration activity of Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica in Mu Us Sandy Land, China by Yiben Cheng, Hongbin Zhan, Wenbin Yang, Wei Feng, Qi Lu, Yunqi Wang, Qunou Jiang, Bin Wang, Mingchang Shi, Tao Wang, Zhiming Xin, Ruifang Hao

“…SWS decreased 16 mm and 7.6 mm per unit horizontal area over a one-year period (from March to October, non-freezing time) in 2017 and 2019, respectively. …”
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Restricted family presence for hospitalized surgical patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: How hospital care providers and families navigated ethical tensions and experiences of i... by Lesley Gotlib Conn, Natalie G. Coburn, Lisa Di Prospero, Julie Hallet, Laurie Legere, Tracy MacCharles, Jessica Slutsker, Ru Tagger, Frances C. Wright, Barbara Haas

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Prospective single-center study of health-related quality of life after COVID-19 in ICU and non-ICU patients by Johannes Herrmann, Kerstin Müller, Quirin Notz, Martha Hübsch, Kirsten Haas, Anna Horn, Julia Schmidt, Peter Heuschmann, Jens Maschmann, Matthias Frosch, Jürgen Deckert, Hermann Einsele, Georg Ertl, Stefan Frantz, Patrick Meybohm, Christopher Lotz

“…Abstract Long-term sequelae in hospitalized Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients may result in limited quality of life. …”
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Prognosis and surgical outcomes of the total thymectomy versus thymomectomy in non-myasthenic patients with early-stage thymoma: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Congcong Xu, Qipeng Zhang, Jiawei Li, Hongbin Qiu, Kanghao Zhu, Dong Chen, Zixian Jin, Jian Zhang, Bo Zhang, Pasan Witharana, Baofu Chen, Enwu Xu, Jianfei Shen

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A virtual consultation system for very rare tumors in children and adolescents – an initiative of the European Cooperative Study Group in Rare Tumors in Children (EXPeRT) by Dominik T. Schneider, Andrea Ferrari, Daniel Orbach, Calogero Virgone, Yves Reguerre, Jan Godzinski, Ewa Bien, Jelena Roganovic, Nuno Reis Farinha, Tal Ben-Ami, Teresa Stachowicz-Stencel, Tabea Blessing, Antje Redlich, Apostolos Pourtsidis, Kris Ann P. Schultz, Ines B. Brecht, Gianni Bisogno

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AI in the news: reshaping the information ecosystem? by Simon, FM, Isaza-Ibarra, LF

“…AI also poses the risk of making news organisations even more reliant on the technology and platforms companies that dominate in AI development &ndash; potentially aggravating the economic problems that news organisations face.</p> <p>Starting in March 2021, the project &lsquo;AI in the News: Reshaping our Information Ecosystem&rsquo;1 at the Oxford Internet Institute investigated these and related questions, generously funded by Oxford University&rsquo;s Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and the Minderoo- Oxford Challenge Fund in AI Governance and with administrative support from the Oxford Internet Institute and Balliol College.…”

Blefarospasmo y espasmo hemifacial: tratamiento a largo plazo con toxina botulínica by C. Gil Polo, M.F. Rodríguez Sanz, N. Berrocal Izquierdo, A. Castrillo Sanz, R. Gutiérrez Ríos, M.I. Zamora García, A. Mendoza Rodríguez, J. Duarte García-Luis

“…Patients and methods: Retrospective analysis of patients diagnosed with BS or HFS and treated with BtA in the Neurology Department at Complejo Asistencial de Segovia between March 1991 and December 2009. Results: Different variables were collected from 34 patients with BS and 55 with HFS, of whom 44.1% and 32.7% respectively had been undergoing treatment with BtA for more than 10 years. …”
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on antidepressant and antipsychotic use among children and adolescents: a population-based study by Tony Antoniou, Tony Antoniou, Tony Antoniou, Tony Antoniou, Kathleen Pajer, Kathleen Pajer, William Gardner, Melanie Penner, Melanie Penner, Yona Lunsky, Yona Lunsky, Yona Lunsky, Mina Tadrous, Mina Tadrous, Muhammad Mamdani, Muhammad Mamdani, Muhammad Mamdani, Muhammad Mamdani, Muhammad Mamdani, Muhammad Mamdani, Peter Gozdyra, David N. Juurlink, David N. Juurlink, David N. Juurlink, Tara Gomes, Tara Gomes, Tara Gomes, Tara Gomes

“…We examined trends in dispensing of these medications two years following the pandemic among children 18 years of age and under in Ontario, Canada.MethodsWe conducted a population-based time-series study of antidepressant and antipsychotic medication dispensing to children and adolescents ≤18 years old between September 1, 2014, and March 31, 2022. We measured monthly population-adjusted rates of antidepressant and antipsychotics obtained from the IQVIA Geographic Prescription Monitor (GPM) database. …”
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Filaments, Fronts and Eddies in the Cabo Frio Coastal Upwelling System, Brazil by Paulo H. R. Calil, Nobuhiro Suzuki, Burkard Baschek, Ilson C. A. da Silveira

“…The Cabo Frio upwelling center undergoes an upwelling phase, from late September to March, and a relaxation phase, from April to early September. …”
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Editor's notes: FAIR BOT. As metadata is data is metadata is data ... by Karsten Boye Rasmussen

“…These days universities are busy investigating and discussing the latest chatbots. I find many of the approaches restrictive and prefer to support the inclusive ones. …”
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Designing a Model of Ambidextrous Leadership Competencies in Social Systems by Maasoumeh Mohtaram, Zahra Pakbaz

“…According to March (March, 1991), duality includes exploitation (managing the current position and resources of the organization) and exploration (adapting to environmental changes and continuous innovation); Ambivalence is the ability of an organization in two dimensions of exploration and exploitation in order to increase its competitive power in complex and changing environments, which requires durability and survival, flexibility, development and maintenance of competitive advantage and exploration of potential opportunities in the environment. …”
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Mid-term coral-algal dynamics and conservation status of a Gorgona Island (Tropical Eastern Pacific) coral reef by Fernando A Zapata, Alberto Rodríguez-Ramírez, Carlos Caro-Zambrano, Jaime Garzón-Ferreira

“…Overall, coral cover was high (55.1%-65.7%) and algal cover low (28.8%-37.5%) and both exhibited significant changes among years, most notably on shallow areas. …”
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Risk assessment and antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 in healthcare workers by Amit Bansal, Mai-Chi Trieu, Kristin G. I. Mohn, Kristin G. I. Mohn, Anders Madsen, Jan Stefan Olofsson, Helene Heitmann Sandnes, Marianne Sævik, Hanne Søyland, Lena Hansen, Therese Bredholt Onyango, Camilla Tøndel, Camilla Tøndel, Karl Albert Brokstad, Karl Albert Brokstad, Bergen COVID-19 research group, Heidi Syre, Åse Garløv Riis, Nina Langeland, Nina Langeland, Rebecca Jane Cox, Rebecca Jane Cox, Håkon Amdam, Geir Bredholt, Nina Urke Ertesvåg, Elisabeth Berg Fjellveit, Sarah Lartey, Fredrik Grøvan, Hauke Bartsch, Kanika Kuwelker, Juha Vahokoski, Bård Kittang, Linchausen Dagrun Waag, Bjørn Blomberg, Fan Zhou

“…Here, we investigated the seroepidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in HCWs in Norway with low-transmission settings.MethodsFrom March 2020, we recruited HCWs at four medical centres. …”
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