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Rural-origin health professional students’ perceptions of a support programme offered by Umthombo Youth Development Foundation

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2017
Background: Staffing of rural healthcare facilities is a challenge, with literature supporting the selection and training of rural-origin students. The Umthombo Youth Development Foundation (UYDF) scholarship scheme supports rural students to train as ...
Dumisani M. Gumede, Andrew J. Ross, Laura M. Campbell, Richard G. MacGregor   +3 more
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Design and analysis strategies for robust microbiome ageing research

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The gut microbiome changes with age and associates with age‐related morbidity and mortality, establishing it as a potential biomarker and intervention target for ageing. Realising this potential requires methodological rigour, yet distinguishing biological signals from methodological artefacts remains challenging across cohorts. This review provides an
Mark Olenik, İsmail Güderer, Yi Wang, Tayyaba Alvi, Prasoon Pandey, Handan Melike Dönertaş   +5 more
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Small RNA pathways in mammalian oocytes

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Three distinct small RNA pathways operate in mammalian oocytes: RNAi interference (RNAi), the microRNA (miRNA) pathway, and the PIWI‐associated RNA (piRNA) pathway. These pathways use small RNAs to guide sequence‐specific repression and contribute to oocyte biology by targeting genes and mobile elements or appear insignificant since different ...
Petr Svoboda, Josef Pasulka
wiley   +1 more source

Does Prior Night’s Sleep Impact Next Day’s Executive Functioning? It Depends on an Individual’s Average Sleep Quality

Journal for Person-Oriented Research, 2022
Executive functioning (EF) is a series of fundamental goal-directed cognitive abilities that enable effective learning. Differences in daily sleep quality may covary with fluctuations in EF among youth.
Dian Yu, Carolina Goncalves, Pei-Jung Yang, G. John Geldhof, Laura Michaelson, Yue Ni, Richard M. Lerner   +6 more
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The New Slovenian Tobacco Bill - Great Success Made Possible by Multi-stakeholders' Cooperation

Tobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2017
In 2006, the newly established Youth Network No Excuse Slovenia published the Slovenian Youth Manifesto on Tobacco. Right after, in 2007, the new Slovenian Tobacco Bill was accepted.
Jan Peloza
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Attitudes Toward COVID-19 Vaccination Among Young Adults in Zurich, Switzerland, September 2020

International Journal of Public Health, 2021
Objectives: Young adults are essential to the effective mitigation of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19) given their tendency toward greater frequency of social interactions. Little is known about vaccine willingness during pandemics in European
Cesar Leos-Toro, Denis Ribeaud, Laura Bechtiger, Annekatrin Steinhoff, Amy Nivette, Aja L. Murray, Urs Hepp, Boris B. Quednow, Boris B. Quednow, Manuel P. Eisner, Manuel P. Eisner, Lilly Shanahan, Lilly Shanahan   +12 more
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Characterizing Cutaneous α‐Synuclein Deposition and Seeding Activity in Parkinson's Disease Subtypes

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Cutaneous phosphorylated α‐synuclein (p‐syn) and α‐synuclein seeding activity are promising biomarkers for Parkinson's disease (PD), but their clinical value remains uncertain due to disease heterogeneity. This study evaluates these two biomarkers in PD patients to inform phenotype‐specific diagnosis and disease severity assessment ...
Yuting Jin, Tianyuan Yang, Minglei Liu, Haiyang Luo, Jing Yuan, Ke Zhang, Xinsheng Han, Jing Yang, Yuming Xu   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reconceptualizing Youth Sparks: A Sociocultural Approach to CoDesigning Programs for Somali Youth

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension, 2022
The 4-H Youth Development Program has a long history of fostering positive youth outcomes. Recently, attention and resources have been invested in the development of a program model (i.e., the 4-H Thriving Model) that theorizes the program elements that ...
Joanna A. Tzenis
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From Adult to Adolescent: Alignment in Clinical Trials and Outcomes in Axial Spondyloarthritis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Spondyloarthritis (SpA) is a group of chronic inflammatory diseases encompassing axial and peripheral forms, with up to 20% of patients developing symptoms before age 16. Despite this substantial pediatric burden, treatment options for juvenile‐onset SpA (JSpA), particularly those with axial disease (axJSpA), remain limited.
Pamela F. Weiss, Judith A. Smith, Robert A. Colbert, Erin Treemarcki, Michael H. Weisman, Walter P. Maksymowych, Hermine I. Brunner, for the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance, Spondyloarthritis Research and Treatment Network, and Pediatric Rheumatology Collaborative Study Group Advisory Council   +9 more
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Teachers’ demographics, mindfulness skills, and anxiety predict COVID-19 vaccination status

BMC Public Health
Background Given that maintaining the health of teachers and students is of the utmost importance, this study explored potential predictors of U.S. teachers’ decision to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, an evidence-based public health measure.
Summer S. Braun, Avery K. Westbrooks, Zachary T. Schornick, Matthew S. Snyder, Theodore S. Tomeny   +4 more
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