Identification of children in the first four years of life for early treatment for otitis media with effusion. by Simpson, SA, Thomas, C, van der Linden, M, Macmillan, H, van der Wouden, J, Butler, C

“…In addition, children of this age are least likely to be able to report or seek help for impaired hearing, particularly if these problems have a slow onset and are subtle. SEARCH STRATEGY: We searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL, The Cochrane Library, Issue 1 2006), MEDLINE (1950 to 2006) and EMBASE (1974 to 2006) in February 2002, and again in January 2006, and the reference lists of all studies. …”

Rolul autorităților publice în dezvoltarea regional și implementarea politicii de coeziune by Daniel Buda

“…<p> This article aims to analyze a number of problems identified in the implementation of the cohesion policy, the main investment policy of the European Union meant to ensure regional development through a sustainable and dynamic growth of all regions of the EU and efficient capitalization of regional and local potential, in order to improve living conditions. …”
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Treatment of eating disorders in adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case series by Serur Yaffa, Enoch-Levy Adi, Pessach Itai, Joffe-Milstein Marit, Gothelf Doron, Stein Daniel

“…The use of multi-disciplinary long-distance telemedicine treatment resulted in an improvement in the condition in three of the four adolescents, living in well-organized families, with the motivation and ability to adjust to the new conditions, but not in one adolescent whose family experienced more problems. …”
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Prevalence and Risk Factors for Iron Deficiency Anemia among Children under Five and Women of Reproductive Age in Pakistan: Findings from the National Nutrition Survey 2018 by Atif Habib, Sumra Kureishy, Sajid Soofi, Imtiaz Hussain, Arjumand Rizvi, Imran Ahmed, Khawaja Masuood Ahmed, Abdul Baseer Khan Achakzai, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta

“…IDA is estimated to cause half of all anemia cases and one million deaths per year worldwide. …”
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Estimating the burden of disease attributable to household air pollution from cooking with solid fuels in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012 by R A Roomaney, C Y Wright, E Cairncross, N Abdelatif, A Cois, E B Turawa, O F Owotiwon, I Neethling, B Nojilana, R Pacella, D Bradshaw, V Pillay-van Wyk

“…Household air pollution (HAP) due to the use of solid fuels for cooking is a global problem with significant impacts on human health, especially in low- and middle-income countries. …”
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Analysis of teens’ chronic stress on micro-blog by Xue, Y, Li, Q, Zhao, L, Jia, J, Feng, L, Yu, F, Clifton, DA

“…Statistics show that more and more teenagers today are under the stress in all areas of their lives from school to friend, work, and family, and they are not always able to use healthy methods to cope with. …”

A Knowledge Management Approach to Complex Crises by Contantin BRĂTIANU

“…The purpose of this paper is to present a knowledge management approach to complex crises, having as a reference the multiple crises generated by COVID-19, crises we are living with, and for which we cannot anticipate a specific end due to the knowledge absence concerning this complexity. …”
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Serious leisure activities and well-being of senior citizens: Case of contract bridge by Tihana Brkljačić, Ines Sučić, Barbara Brdovčak

“…</p><p>All participants confirmed that bridge significantly improved quality of their lives. …”
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Financial incentives to improve adherence to anti-psychotic maintenance medication in non-adherent patients - a cluster randomised controlled trial (FIAT). by Priebe, S, Burton, A, Ashby, D, Ashcroft, R, Burns, T, David, A, Eldridge, S, Firn, M, Knapp, M, McCabe, R

“…We will recruit 136 patients with psychotic disorders who use these services and who have problems adhering to antipsychotic depot medication, although all conventional methods to achieve adherence have been tried. …”

Reflection of Political and Social Influences on the Ghazal Genre in Azerbaijani Literature in the 20th Century: Aliagha Vahid's Literary Works by Ziyafat Huseynova

“…We used Aliagha Vahid’s literary creativity for our project since he lived through this period in Azerbaijan, experienced all of its hardships, and demonstrated the genre’s potential by creating poetic imagery of the time in his ghazals. …”
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Development of smart platform for event management system by Tang, Jinli

“…With the help of database system, it is easy to detect what information we need. Besides, event management System has already been used in our daily lives, especially in the campus and companies. …”
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Urban Political Ecology. Great Promises, Deadlock… and New Beginnings? by Erik Swyngedouw, Maria Kaika

“…And, finally, we shall explore how and why, despite our growing understanding of the relationship between environmental change and urbanization and a consensual focus on the need for ‘sustainable’ urban development, the environmental conundrum and the pervasive problems it engenders do not show any sign of abating. …”
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Molecular Mechanism of Staphylococcus xylosus Resistance Against Tylosin and Florfenicol by Chen M, Li Y, Li S, Cui W, Zhou Y, Qu Q, Che R, Li L, Yuan S, Liu X

“…Strains that are resistant to multiple drugs pose severe clinical problems and cost lives. However, systematic studies on cross-resistance of Staphylococcus xylosus have been missing.Methods: Here, we investigated various mutations in the sequence of ribosomal proteins involved in cross-resistance. …”
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Street play, wellbeing and mental health from childhood into adulthood by R. Nesbit, L. FitzGibbon, H. Dodd

“…The area close to children’s home, such as the street outside their home, can provide an important play space but, with increasing traffic, there has been a decrease in the use of local streets for play over the past generation or two. At the same time we have seen significant increases in children’s mental health problems. …”
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Rise of the machines? The evolving role of AI technologies in high-stakes assessment by Mary Richardson, Rose Clesham

“…Our world has been transformed by technologies incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) within mass communication, employment, entertainment and many other aspects of our daily lives. However, within the domain of education, it seems that our ways of working and, particularly, assessing have hardly changed at all. …”
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Psychosocial and Physical Rehabilitation of Burn Survivors: A large multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial from Pakistan by N. Chaudhry, M. panagioti, A. B. Khoso, T. Kiran, A. Blakemore, K. Lovell, M. M. Bashir, Z. U. Haq, M. Hashmi, Z. H. Suhag, H. Brooks, E. McIntosh, N. Soomro, S. Falder, L. Kynge, J. Miah, O. Eylem, S. Edwards, R. Memon, S. J. Pocock, Z. Zadeh, I. B. Chaudhry, N. Husain

“…The nation-wide implementation and involvement of burn centres across all provinces offer an excellent opportunity to overcome the problem of burn care access experienced in LMICs. …”
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Assessment of the accuracy of 11 different diagnostic tests for the detection of Schistosomiasis mansoni in individuals from a Brazilian area of low endemicity using latent class a... by Silvia Gonçalves Mesquita, Roberta Lima Caldeira, Tereza Cristina Favre, Cristiano Lara Massara, Lílian Christina Nóbrega Holsbach Beck, Taynãna César Simões, Gardênia Braz Figueiredo de Carvalho, Flória Gabriela dos Santos Neves, Gabriela de Oliveira, Larisse de Souza Barbosa Lacerda, Matheus Alves de Almeida, Omar dos Santos Carvalho, Marina Moraes Mourão, Edward Oliveira, Rosiane A. Silva-Pereira, Cristina Toscano Fonseca

“…The approaches proposed consist of combinations of commercial ELISA kit and NAATs tests performed on stool. All the approaches had higher sensitivity and specificity than the mean values observed for the 11 tests (70.4 and 89.5%, respectively).ConclusionWe showed that it is possible to achieve high specificity and sensitivity rates with lower costs by combining serological and NAATs tests, which would assist in the decision-making process for appropriate allocation of public funding aiming to achieve the WHO target of eliminating schistosomiasis as a public health problem by 2030.…”
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Editorial by Svend Brinkmann, Lene Tanggaard

“…Qualitative Studies is peer-reviewed and publishes papers in English and the Scandinavian languages in any of these areas. We are interested in papers that discuss qualitative methods, their promises, problems and philosophies, and also papers that apply such methods in concrete qualitative studies. …”
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Synergetic Urban Landscape Planning in Rotterdam by Nico Tillie

“…At that time, the issue was to solve the problem of drinking water while now we are concerned about solving the combination of very diverse and different flows. …”
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The Portuguese Literacy Campaigns After the Carnation Revolution (1974-1977) by Isabel Pereira Gomes, José Pedro Amorim, José Alberto Correia, Isabel Menezes

“…We will start by an analysis of the rationale of these movements based on documents produced at the period and a literature review. …”
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