Academic Librarians in Canada Concerned About Online and Patron Privacy but Lack Knowledge About Institutional Procedures and Policies by Stephanie Krueger

“…Methods – Survey, based on Zimmer’s 2014 study of librarians in the United States of America, announced via email to 1,317 potential participants, managed using LimeSurvey, and available from April 7 to May 5, 2017. …”
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Chinese Version of the Mobile Health App Usability Questionnaire: Translation, Adaptation, and Validation Study by Yi Shan, Meng Ji, Wenxiu Xie, Rongying Li, Xiaobo Qian, Xiaomin Zhang, Tianyong Hao

“…Most notably, we found a wider acceptance of this new technology among young Chinese female college students who were more engaged in the interaction with health care chatbots. …”
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Exploring perspectives of stigma and discrimination among people with lived experience of mental health conditions: a co-produced qualitative studyResearch in context by Petra C. Gronholm, Sarah Kline, Muskan Lamba, Heidi Lempp, Akerke Mahkmud, Guadalupe Morales Cano, Kriti Vashisht, Norha Vera San Juan, Charlene Sunkel

“…Findings: A total of 198 respondents from over 30 countries across Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australia/Oceania were included in the study. …”
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Influence of lecithin cholesterol acyltransferase alteration during different pathophysiologic conditions: A 45 years bibliometrics analysis by Hongliang Gao, Hongliang Gao, Hongliang Gao, Jing Wu, Zhenyu Sun, Furong Zhang, Tianshu Shi, Ke Lu, Dongfu Qian, Zicheng Yin, Yinjuan Zhao, Jian Qin, Bin Xue

“…The United States of America contributed the greatest proportion (n = 1036) of LCAT-related studies. …”
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El quehacer docente universitario, hoy: complejidad y postura crítica en la superación de algunas contradicciones de la educación / Teaching in higher education today: complexity a... by Célica Esther Cánovas Marmo

“…This essay presents the current role higher education teachers in Latin America play, within a context of contradictions related to the different perspectives and understandings on the main objectives of Education. …”
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Results of the implementation of the PETHEMA LPA 99 protocol for treating children with acute promyelocytic leukemia in Bogotá, Colombia by Carlos Alberto Pardo-Gonzalez, Jymmy Javier Lagos-Ibarra, Adriana Linares-Ballesteros, Isabel Cristina Sarmiento-Urbina, Agustín Darío Contreras-Acosta, Edgar Vladimir Cabrera-Bernal, Gloria Inés Uribe-Botero, Gisela Barros-García, Nelson Hernando Aponte-Barrios

“…The medical records of 30 pediatric patients (<18 years) with APL, who were treated using the PETHEMA LPA 99 protocol between January 2005 and December 2012, were reviewed. …”
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Efficacy of a paper-based interleukin-6 test strip combined with a spectrum-based optical reader for sequential monitoring and early recognition of respiratory failure in elderly p... by Cheng-Han Chen, Cheng-Han Chen, Cheng-Han Chen, Yi-Chen Fu, Yi-Tzu Lee, Yi-Tzu Lee, Kai-Sheng Hsieh, Ching-Fen Shen, Chao-Min Cheng

“…Introduction: Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is lethal in elderly individuals who are more vulnerable to respiratory failure and require more emergency ventilation support than younger individuals. …”
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Impact of cluster set resistance training on strength, functional capacity, metabolic and inflammatory state in older hemodialysis subjects: A randomized controlled clinical trial by Bruno Magalhães de Castro, Thiago dos Santos Rosa, Thaís Branquinho de Araújo, Hugo de Luca Corrêa, Lysleine Alves de Deus, Rodrigo Vanerson Passos Neves, Andrea Lucena Reis, Rafael Lavarini dos Santos, Jéssica Mycaelle da Silva Barbosa, Fernando de Sousa Honorato, Vitória Marra da Motta Vilalva Mestrinho, Carmen Tzanno-Martins, James W. Navalta, Jonato Prestes

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A Retrospective Cohort Study of Treatment Outcomes of Adult Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Follicular Lymphoma (ReCORD-FL) by Gilles Salles, Stephen J. Schuster, Luca Fischer, John Kuruvilla, Piers E. M. Patten, Bastian von Tresckow, Sonali Smith, Ana Jiménez Ubieto, Keith L. Davis, Saurabh Nagar, Jie Zhang, Vamsi Bollu, Etienne Jousseaume, Roberto Ramos, Yucai Wang, Brian K. Link

“…A retrospective study in 10 centers across North America and Europe was conducted. Adults with grade 1–3A FL were required to be r/r after ≥2 therapy lines including an anti-CD20 and an alkylator. …”
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Methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa community acquired pneumonia: Prevalence and locally derived risk factors in a single hospital system by Bradley W. Frazee, Amarinder Singh, Matt Labreche, Partow Imani, Kevin Ha, Jonathan Furszyfer Del Rio, Eugene Kreys, Robert Mccabe

“…Abstract Objectives Current American Thoracic Society/Infectious Disease Society of America (ATS/IDSA) community‐acquired pneumonia (CAP) guidelines expand the CAP definition to include infections occurring in patients with recent health care exposure. …”
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Evaluation of Mpox Knowledge, Stigma, and Willingness to Vaccinate for Mpox: Cross-Sectional Web-Based Survey Among Sexual and Gender Minorities by Thiago Silva Torres, Mayara Secco Torres Silva, Carolina Coutinho, Brenda Hoagland, Emilia Moreira Jalil, Sandra Wagner Cardoso, Julio Moreira, Monica Avelar Magalhaes, Paula Mendes Luz, Valdilea G Veloso, Beatriz Grinsztejn

“…The higher incidence of mpox among gay and other men who have sex with men in the current mpox outbreak deepens the stigma and discrimination against sexual and gender minorities (SGM). …”
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Field evaluation of a point-of-care triage test for active tuberculosis (TriageTB) by Tracy R. Richardson, Bronwyn Smith, Stephanus T. Malherbe, Jane Alexandra Shaw, Firdows Noor, Candice MacDonald, Gian D. van der Spuy, Kim Stanley, Alida Carstens, Tarryn-Lee Fisher, Ilana van Rensburg, Marika Flinn, Candice Snyders, Isaac Johnson, Bernadine Fransman, Hazel Dockrell, Guy Thwaites, Nguyen Thuy Thuong Thuong, Claudia Schacht, Harriet Mayanja-Kizza, Mary Nsereko, Elisa M. Tjon Kon Fat, Paul L.A.M. Corstjens, Annemieke Geluk, Morton Ruhwald, Adam Penn-Nicholson, Novel N. Chegou, Jayne Sutherland, Gerhard Walzl, TrENDx consortium

“…Abstract Background To improve tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for a non-sputum based triage test to focus TB testing on people with a high likelihood of having active pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). …”
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Designing for a new "ZIP code destiny" by Gillani, Nabeel

“…We live immersed in “cocoons”: tight-knit, segregated psychosocial units that shape who we encounter, the media we consume, what we believe, and ultimately, the opportunities we are able to access in order to positively shape ourselves, families, and communities. …”
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Understanding the puzzle of vocabulary development in multilingual Singapore and its missing pieces by Woon, Fei Ting, Cai, Shirong, Styles, Suzy J.

“…Over the last two decades, the literature on bilingual children has shown that children who grow up learning two languages do not typically differ in their total vocabulary size compared to their monolingual peers (Poulin-Dubois et al, 2012) though composition may be smaller compared to size with two word-forms representing one lexical concept. …”
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COVID-19 and mental health in 8 low- and middle-income countries: a prospective cohort study by Aksunger, N, Vernot, C, Littman, R, Voors, M, Meriggi, NF, Abajobir, A, Beber, B, Dai, K, Egger, D, Islam, A, Kelly, J, Kharel, A, Matabaro, A, Moya, A, Mwachofi, P, Nekesa, C, Ochieng, E, Rahman, T, Scacco, A, van Dalen, Y, Walker, M, Janssens, W, Mobarak, AM

“…<p><b>Methods and findings</b></p> We conducted a prospective cohort study to examine the correlation between the COVID-19 pandemic and mental health in 10 populations from 8 LMICs in Asia, Africa, and South America. The analysis included 21,162 individuals (mean age 38.01 years, 64% female) who were interviewed at least once pre- as well as post-pandemic. …”

Social protection and children: a synthesis of evidence from Young Lives longitudinal research in Ethiopia, India and Peru by Porter, C

“…For example, in Latin America, social protection has strongly moved in the direction of conditional cash transfers (CCTs) and the conditions attached to receipt of benefits are often directly aimed at child ‘welfare’, for example school attendance or visits to the health clinic. …”

Inherited determinants of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis phenotypes: a genetic association study by Cleynen, I, Boucher, G, Jostins, L, Schumm, LP, Zeissig, S, Ahmad, T, Andersen, V, Andrews, JM, Annese, V, Brand, S, Brant, SR, Cho, JH, Daly, MJ, Dubinsky, M, Duerr, RH, Ferguson, LR, Franke, A, Gearry, RB, Goyette, P, Hakonarson, H, Halfvarson, J, Hov, JR, Huang, H, Kennedy, NA, Kupcinskas, L, Lawrance, IC, Lee, JC, Satsangi, J, Schreiber, S, Théâtre, E, Van Der Meulen-De Jong, AE, Weersma, RK, Wilson, DC, International Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics Consortium, Parkes, M, Vermeire, S, Rioux, JD, Mansfield, J, Silverberg, MS, Radford-Smith, G, McGovern, DPB, Barrett, JC, Lees, CW

“…Our genetic risk score could also identify a small number of patients with discrepant genetic risk profiles who were significantly more likely to have a revised diagnosis after follow-up (p=6·8 × 10−4).…”

A Rereading of Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines’ Pastoral Statement on Death Penalty and its Communion with the State by Christopher Esparagoza

“…Asian Network of People who Use Drugs (ANPUD). 2017. “An open letter to Tim Cook: Immediately remove apps that are promoting war on drugs in the Philippines.” …”
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Reflexions on oral health in Brazil by Anya Pimentel Gomes Fernandes Vieira Meyer, Maria Vieira de Lima Saintrain

“…In international context, according to the Brazilian Ministry of Health(5), a study by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2004 indicated that, on data from 188 countries, the average DMF at age 12 was 1.6, reaching the average of 2.8 in the Americas, while in Europe it was 1.6. …”
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In This Issue: Inaugural Issue and Special Topic Focus: "Growing New Farmers" by Duncan Hilchey

“…Baker, and Ian Whitehead, who examine several studies to compare farm succession and retirement in North America and Europe. …”
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