Enteric bacterial agents associated with diarrhea and their antimicrobial sensitivity profiles in children under 5 years from mukuru informal settlement, Nairobi, Kenya by Susan Kiiru, John Maina, John Njeru Mwaniki, Edinah Songoro, Samuel Kariuki

“…Methods Diarrheagenic children (≤ 5 years) were purposively recruited from outpatient clinics of Municipal City Council, Mukuru kwa Reuben, Medical Missionaries of Mary, and Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital, Nairobi. …”
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Implementation of act 171 of 1976 on property assessment for rating systems in Peninsular Malaysia by Muhammad, Habibu Sani

“…Eight local authorities of city council status were chosen while respondents/participants were selected from among valuation officers of each local authorities at the inception based on which pilot study was conducted answer the questions thus restructured to only chief valuation officers who well experienced, vast with requisite authority to release documents needed to for triangulation. …”
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Development of a framework for heritage conservation management of Arab District, Erbil, Iraq by Akram, Omar Khasro

“…As key findings, the study identifies the Venice Charter, the Charter on Built Vernacular Heritage, the Washington Charter and the Burra Charter as some of the best ICOMOS charters belonging to conservation management for historic cities, including Arab District, providing reliable information for the framework development. …”
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О влиянии перинатального инфицирования на кальций-фосфорный гомеостаз и структурное состояние костной ткани у беременных = About influence of the perinatal infection on calcium-pho... by Gulsym S. Manasova, Alexandr A. Zelinsky, Sergei V. Derishov, Natalia V. Kuzmina

“…About influence of the perinatal infection on calcium-phosphorus homeostasis and structural condition of  bone tissue in pregnant women   1Gulsym Manasova, 2Alexandr Zelinsky, 2Sergei Derishov, 3Natalia Kuzmina   1Health Department of the City Council Odessa 2Odessa National Medical University, the Medical Faculty 3Communal Health Protection Institution “Maternity Hospital  №5”, Odessa, Ukraine   Аbstract The article presents the results of calcium-phosphorus homeostasis study in pregnant women with verified perinatal infection (VPI) and osteopenic syndrome. …”
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Second malignant neoplasms within 5 years from first primary diagnosis in pediatric oncology patients in Canada: a population-based retrospective cohort study by Christina Ricci, Divya Subburaj, Kate Lim, Neetu Shukla, Jaskiran Kaur, Lin Xie, Meghan Laverty, Dianne Zakaria, Jason Pole, Jason Pole, Marie-Claude Pelland-Marcotte, Marie-Claude Pelland-Marcotte, Randy Barber, Sara J. Israels, Thai-Hoa Tran, Thai-Hoa Tran, Sapna Oberoi, Sapna Oberoi, Samuele Renzi, Samuele Renzi, Tamara MacDonald, Tamara MacDonald, Lillian Sung, Lillian Sung, Ketan Kulkarni

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Syrian refugee women’s access to family planning services and modern contraception during overlapping crises in Bekaa, Lebanon by Rima Mourtada, Andrea J. Melnikas

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Feasibility of linking universal child and family healthcare and financial counselling: findings from the Australian Healthier Wealthier Families (HWF) mixed-methods study by Sharon Goldfeld, Susan Woolfenden, Shanti Raman, Raghu Lingam, Anna Zhu, Nora Samir, Valsamma Eapen, Si Wang, Amy Watts, Lynn Kemp, Anna M H Price, Rebecca Bishop, Diana Contreras-Suárez, Jade Burley, Rebekah Grace, Jane Caldwell, Sumayya Chota, Natalie White, Melissa Stone, Kellie Trotter, Mona Mrad, Lien Bui, Debbie Sanger, Rob Roles

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Global, regional, and national burden of mortality associated with short-term temperature variability from 2000–19: a three-stage modelling study by Yao Wu, MSc, Shanshan Li, PhD, Qi Zhao, PhD, Bo Wen, MSc, Antonio Gasparrini, ProfPhD, Shilu Tong, ProfPhD, Ala Overcenco, PhD, Aleš Urban, PhD, Alexandra Schneider, PhD, Alireza Entezari, PhD, Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera, PhD, Antonella Zanobetti, PhD, Antonis Analitis, PhD, Ariana Zeka, PhD, Aurelio Tobias, PhD, Baltazar Nunes, PhD, Barrak Alahmad, MPH, Ben Armstrong, ProfPhD, Bertil Forsberg, ProfPhD, Shih-Chun Pan, MSc, Carmen Íñiguez, PhD, Caroline Ameling, BS, César De la Cruz Valencia, MSc, Christofer Åström, PhD, Danny Houthuijs, PhD, Do Van Dung, PhD, Dominic Royé, PhD, Ene Indermitte, PhD, Eric Lavigne, ProfPhD, Fatemeh Mayvaneh, MSc, Fiorella Acquaotta, PhD, Francesca de'Donato, PhD, Shilpa Rao, PhD, Francesco Sera, MSc, Gabriel Carrasco-Escobar, MSc, Haidong Kan, ProfPhD, Hans Orru, PhD, Ho Kim, ProfPhD, Iulian-Horia Holobaca, PhD, Jan Kyselý, PhD, Joana Madureira, PhD, Joel Schwartz, ProfPhD, Jouni J K Jaakkola, ProfPhD, Klea Katsouyanni, ProfPhD, Magali Hurtado Diaz, ProfPhD, Martina S Ragettli, PhD, Masahiro Hashizume, ProfPhD, Mathilde Pascal, PhD, Micheline de Sousa Zanotti Stagliorio Coélho, PhD, Nicolás Valdés Ortega, MSc, Niilo Ryti, PhD, Noah Scovronick, PhD, Paola Michelozzi, MSc, Patricia Matus Correa, MSc, Patrick Goodman, ProfPhD, Paulo Hilario Nascimento Saldiva, ProfPhD, Rosana Abrutzky, MSc, Samuel Osorio, MSc, Tran Ngoc Dang, PhD, Valentina Colistro, MSc, Veronika Huber, PhD, Whanhee Lee, PhD, Xerxes Seposo, PhD, Yasushi Honda, ProfPhD, Yue Leon Guo, ProfPhD, Michelle L Bell, ProfPhD, Yuming Guo, ProfPhD

“…Funding: Australian Research Council, Australian National Health & Medical Research Council.…”
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Assessing the Prevalence and Determinants of Exposure-Influenced HIV Testing among a Sample of Pre- and Post-Exposure Prophylaxis-Naïve Young Men Who Have Sex with Men in the Unite... by Yu Liu, Mary Hawkins, Amna Osman, Chen Zhang

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Associations of polygenic risk scores with risks of stroke and its subtypes in Chinese by Yu Guo, Derrick Bennett, Huaidong Du, Liming Li, Robert Clarke, Zhengming Chen, Junshi Chen, Ruying Hu, Kaixu Xie, Min Yu, Qiang Sun, Jun Zhang, Ling Yang, Shuo Zhang, Dianjianyi Sun, Hao Wang, Hua Zhang, Lingli Chen, Hao Zhang, Liang Cheng, Chao Liu, Hui Zhang, Fang Liu, Xin Xu, Wei Jiang, Tao Wang, Rory Collins, Jun Lv, Richard Peto, Robin Walters, Daniel Avery, Ruth Boxall, Yumei Chang, Yiping Chen, Simon Gilbert, Alex Hacker, Michael Holmes, Christiana Kartsonaki, Rene Kerosi, Kuang Lin, Iona Millwood, Qunhua Nie, Paul Ryder, Sam Sansome, Dan Schmidt, Rajani Sohoni, Becky Stevens, Iain Turnbull, Lin Wang, Neil Wright, Xiaoming Yang, Xiao Han, Can Hou, Pei Pei, Canqing Yu, Zengchang Pang, Ruqin Gao, Shanpeng Li, Shaojie Wang, Yongmei Liu, Ranran Du, Yajing Zang, Xiaocao Tian, Yaoming Zhai, Feng Ning, Xiaohui Sun, Silu Lv, Junzheng Wang, Yanjie Li, Quan Kang, Zhendong Guo, Ming Wu, Yonglin Zhou, Jinyi Zhou, Ran Tao, Jie Yang, Yihe Hu, Yan Lu, Liangcai Ma, Aiyu Tang, Jianrong Jin, Liuping Wei, Liyuan Zhou, Yulu Qin, Xianping Wu, Ningmei Zhang, Xiaofang Chen, Jiaqiu Liu, Xiaolan Ren, Enke Mao, Xiaoping Wang, Shixian Feng, Huarong Sun, Pan He, Xukui Zhang, Zhongxi Fu, Libo Zhang, Jingchao Liu, Andri Iona, Paul Sherliker, Wei Hou, Xiangyang Zheng, Yilei Li, Huimei Li, Yun Liu, Ningyu Chen, Caixia Dong, Xi Zhang, Lei Fan, Donghui Jin, Wei Sun, Jian Su, Mike Hill, Feifei Li, Shukuan Wu, Jian Lan, Sisi Wang, Kai Kang, Xiao Li, Pang Yao, Songchun Yang, Shichun Yan, Huilin Liu Li Yin, Chi Wang, Ka Hung Chan, Lifang Zhou, Xiaoyu Chang, Mohsen Mazidi, Mei Lin, Yuanjie Pang, Iona Y Millwood, Xiaoming Cui, Yuan Cao, Xia Wu, Pek Kei Im, Xiaoyi Zhang, Dong Sun, Robin G Walters, Zhijia Sun, Sushila Burgess, Sue Burgess, Johnathan Clarke, Ahmed Edris Mohamed, Zammy Fairhurst-Hunter, Hannah Fry, Maria Kakkoura, Sam Morris, Alfred Pozarickij, Saredo Said, Qingmei Xia, Haiping Duan, Zhenyuan Wu, Huiming Luo, Tingting Ou, Zhenzhen Lu, Changping Xie, Tingping Zhu, Mingqiang Yuan, Faqing Chen, Huizi Tian, Dun Shen, Xiaojun Li, Jianwei Chen, Yuan Peng, Chan Qu

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Initial insights into the impact and implementation of Creating Active Schools in Bradford, UK by Jade L. Morris, Anna E. Chalkley, Zoe E. Helme, Oliver Timms, Emma Young, Gabriella M. McLoughlin, John B. Bartholomew, Andy Daly-Smith

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Introduction by Xin Li

“…Section 1.4 describes the research area – Shenyang, a city in Northeast China. Section 1.5 discusses the data and methods used in the thesis. …”
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The justice and policy implications of clean energy transition in Africa by Benyoh Emmanuel Kigha Nsafon, Benyoh Emmanuel Kigha Nsafon, Noel Ngando Same, Noel Ngando Same, Abdulfatai Olatunji Yakub, Abdulfatai Olatunji Yakub, Deepak Chaulagain, Deepak Chaulagain, Nallapaneni Manoj Kumar, Nallapaneni Manoj Kumar, Jeung-Soo Huh, Jeung-Soo Huh, Jeung-Soo Huh

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Development of Mucoadhesive Electrospun Scaffolds for Intravaginal Delivery of <i>Lactobacilli</i> spp., a Tenside, and Metronidazole for the Management of Bacterial Vaginosis by Margaret O. Ilomuanya, Peace O. Bassey, Deborah A. Ogundemuren, Uloma N. Ubani-Ukoma, Alkiviadis Tsamis, Yuwei Fan, Konstantinos Michalakis, Pavimol Angsantikul, Abdulrahman Usman, Andrew N. Amenaghawon

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SARS-CoV-2 infection dynamics and genomic surveillance to detect variants in wastewater – a longitudinal study in Bengaluru, IndiaResearch in context by Sanjay Lamba, Sutharsan Ganesan, Namrta Daroch, Kiran Paul, Soumya Gopal Joshi, Darshan Sreenivas, Annamalai Nataraj, Vishwanath Srikantaiah, Rakesh Mishra, Uma Ramakrishnan, Farah Ishtiaq

“…Methods: In this longitudinal study conducted between January 2022 and June 2022 in 28 sewershed sites in Bengaluru city (∼11 million inhabitants), we quantified weekly SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations to track infection dynamics and provide evidence of change in the relative abundance of emerging variants. …”
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Reflections by a member of the Editorial Board by Kevin T. Smith

“…Primož Oven on special considerations for the health and safety of city trees. Later, Katarina Čufar and I both served on the Executive Council of the Tree Ring Society, an international association for dendrochronological research. …”
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MESOT Fellowship Program by Bassam Saeed

“…The fel¬lowship program gives a great opportunity to the young physicians and surgeons from this region willing to acquire some particular skills related to various aspects of organ transplantation and provides them with specific and hands-on training opportunities in host institutions. …”
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Development, acceptability and feasibility of a personalised, behavioural intervention to prevent bacterial skin and soft tissue infections among people who inject drugs: a mixed-m... by Joanna Kesten, Deborah Hussey, Catherine Lord, Leonie Roberts, James Bayliss, Helen Erswell, Andrew Preston, Maggie Telfer, Jenny Scott, Magdalena Harris, Dominic Mellon, Matthew Hickman, Georgie MacArthur, Harriet Fisher

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Evaluating newly approved drugs in combination regimens for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis with fluoroquinolone resistance (endTB-Q): study protocol for a multi-country randomize... by S. B. Patil, M. Tamirat, K. Khazhidinov, E. Ardizzoni, M. Atger, A. Austin, E. Baudin, M. Bekhit, S. Bektasov, E. Berikova, M. Bonnet, R. Caboclo, M. Chaudhry, V. Chavan, S. Cloez, J. Coit, S. Coutisson, Z. Dakenova, B. C. De Jong, C. Delifer, S. Demaisons, J. M. Do, D. Dos Santos Tozzi, V. Ducher, G. Ferlazzo, M. Gouillou, U. Khan, M. Kunda, N. Lachenal, A. N. LaHood, L. Lecca, M. Mazmanian, H. McIlleron, M. Moreau, M. Moschioni, P. Nahid, E. Osso, L. Oyewusi, S. Panda, A. Pâquet, P. Thuong Huu, L. Pichon, M. L. Rich, P. Rupasinghe, N. Salahuddin, E. Sanchez Garavito, K. J. Seung, G. E. Velásquez, M. Vallet, F. Varaine, F. J. Yuya-Septoh, C. D. Mitnick, L. Guglielmetti

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Scaling-up high-impact micronutrient supplementation interventions to improve adolescents’ nutrition and health in Burkina Faso and Tanzania: protocol for a cluster-randomised cont... by Wafaie Fawzi, Ali Sie, Guillaume Compaoré, Dongqing Wang, Mary Mwanyika-Sando, Amani Tinkasimile, Dominic Mosha, Ilana Rachel Cliffer, Mashavu H Yussuf, Ourohire Millogo, Yllassa Barry, Innocent S Yusufu, Elena Cori Hemler, Ali Salim Ali, Idrissa Kouanda

“…Schools will be matched on three characteristics: number of students, school ranking profile, distance to main road (Tanzania) or distance to city council (Burkina Faso). Each school will be randomised to receive either weekly IFA, daily MMSs or serve as a control. …”
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