A Collaborative Rapid Response to Abuse in U.K. Gymnastics Using Group Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-Based Program See

Although abuse is commonplace within sport, the abuse scandal in gymnastics has left many current and ex-gymnasts traumatized by their experiences. When the scandal emerged, we recognized an immediate need for support for survivors of this abuse within British Gymnastics; this paper doc...

Low-Pressure Die Casting of Aluminium Alloy Components for Electric Vehicle Battery Enclosures See

The production of battery boxes for electric vehicles typically relies on extrusions joined by welding, riveting, or adhesives, with minimal use of casting components due to their lower performance and higher defect rates. This study aims to enhance the structure and properties of ...

Valuation of EQ-5D Health States for Adults in Low-, Lower-Middle, and Upper-Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review See

Objectives: Preference-based measurement of health-related quality of life is crucial for informing resource allocation decisions, with the EQ-5D instrument widely used as a measure of health-related quality of life. Although country-specific value sets are well established in many high-income&...

Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 See

Background: Global development goals increasingly rely on country-specific estimates for benchmarking a nation's progress. To meet this need, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2016 estimated global, regional, national, and, for selected locations, subnati...

Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 359 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease S... See

Background: How long one lives, how many years of life are spent in good and poor health, and how the population's state of health and leading causes of disability change over time all have implications for policy, planning, and provision of services. We comparative...

Systematic review and meta-analysis of public hospital efficiency studies in Gulf region and selected countries in similar settings See

Background: The assessment of hospital efficiency is attracting interest worldwide, particularly in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. The objective of this study was to review the literature on public hospital efficiency and synthesise the findings in GCC countries and comparable settings...

Meeting the global target in reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health care services in low- And middle-income countries See

Introduction: Improving reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) care services is imperative for reducing maternal and child mortality. Many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are striving to achieve RMNCH-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We monitored progress, made proj...

Identification of new therapeutic targets for osteoarthritis through genome-wide analyses of UK Biobank data See

Osteoarthritis is the most common musculoskeletal disease and the leading cause of disability globally. Here, we performed a genome-wide association study for osteoarthritis (77,052 cases and 378,169 controls), analyzing four phenotypes: knee osteoarthritis, hip osteoarthritis, knee and/or hip osteoar...

The KGB's Perception of DIA at the End of the Cold War See

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