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Background Digital health is reshaping primary care delivery, with potential consequences for the patient–physician relationship and equitable access to care. However, few studies have examined these impacts from patient and physician perspectives in high-income primary care systems using an explicit health equity lens.Objective The study explores how digital health affects the patient–physician relationship in public primary care from patient and physician perspectives and identifies factors influencing equitable adoption.Method We conducted a qualitative descriptive study through individual in-depth interviews (IDIs) with twelve doctors and nine patients from six public primary care clinics in Singapore. Data were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis and mapped to the Health Equity Implementation Framework (HEIF).Results Both groups expressed favorable views on video consultations and home monitoring tools, noting improved access and convenience. However, patients reported feeling more distant from doctors and preferred in-person consultations for complex issues. Equity-related concerns included privacy, uneven digital readiness, language barriers, and socioeconomic constraints.Conclusions Digital health can transform access and support continuity but may weaken relational trust and widen inequities. Human-centered digital innovations – supported by robust privacy safeguards, targeted digital literacy support, patient co-production, and policies subsidizing devices and connectivity – are critical for maintaining patient–physician relationships while reducing the digital divide.

Advanced management accounting techniques play a critical role in enabling organizations to navigate increasingly complex, competitive, and uncertain business environments. At a broad level, modern management accounting has evolved beyond traditional cost tracking toward integrated frameworks that combine financial data, operational metrics, and strategic insights to support value creation. Techniques such as activity-based costing, target costing, life-cycle costing, and strategic variance analysis provide more accurate visibility into cost drivers, resource utilization, and process inefficiencies across the value chain. When integrated with performance management tools, including balanced scorecards and rolling forecasts, these approaches enhance organizational agility and accountability. Narrowing to strategic application, advanced management accounting techniques support rigorous cost control while simultaneously strengthening profitability analysis and long-term decision-making. Through contribution margin analysis, customer and product profitability modeling, and scenario-based planning, managers can evaluate trade-offs between cost reduction, pricing strategies, and investment priorities. Additionally, the incorporation of predictive analytics and strategic cost management enables firms to align short-term operational decisions with long-term competitive positioning. Overall, advanced management accounting functions as a decision-oriented system that links cost intelligence with strategy execution, empowering organizations to optimize profitability, manage risk, and sustain performance over time across industries, geographies, and evolving regulatory and technological contexts globally.

Monitoring behavioral quality in patients represents an essential task for making diagnoses, providing effective and prompt interventions, and designing appropriate countermeasures. This implies the need to perform recurring analyses of patient movements in order to capture possible declines and/or symptoms of diseases during the evaluation period. Therefore, collecting a sufficient number of video samples is pivotal. Deep Learning models offer great flexibility and capability to handle large amounts of data. In this work, we investigate the possibility of assessing behavioral quality in patients through an advanced system that extracts information via a camera and skeleton tracking software, and categorizes behaviors using a Deep Neural Network model. Patient behaviors were labeled by a human experimenter, who manually assigned a score to each video. Preliminary results indicate that the model performs well in terms of the evaluation of behavioral quality. Moreover, the outcomes highlight that sensitivity to manual labeling plays a non-negligible role in this context.

BackgroundThe New York City (NYC) Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) went into effect in January 2014 to provide greater flexibility for pregnant workers’ accommodations, yet no studies to date have evaluated its effectiveness and utilization. We examined factors associated with pregnant workers’ PWFA awareness, understanding of PWFA, and receipt of accommodations in a lower socioeconomic status population in NYC.MethodsParticipants included 481 pregnant workers who attended prenatal visits at Mount Sinai Hospital Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic in NYC in 2017. Detailed demographic and occupational data were collected via in-person interviews using a pregnancy and work survey. Information on participants’ PWFA awareness, knowledge of PWFA-eligible accommodations, and accommodations received was also obtained. Multivariable-adjusted logistic regressions were used to identify the factors influencing PWFA awareness, knowledge of PWFA-eligible accommodations, and accommodations received among six common examples.ResultsOnly 14% of participants had ever heard of NYC PWFA legislation. Lower educational level (≤ 12th grade) (Adjusted Odds Ratio [aOR] = 0.54, 95% Confidence Interval [CI] = 0.30–0.98) and being unsure of workplace maternity leave policy (aOR=0.39, 95% CI=0.18-0.87) were associated with lack of PWFA awareness. Regardless of PWFA awareness, no maternity leave policy (aOR = 0.15, 95% CI = 0.04–0.48 vs. paid policy) and being unsure of maternity leave policy (aOR = 0.19, 95% CI = 0.06–0.59 vs. paid policy) were associated with no knowledge of any PWFA-eligible accommodations. Regardless of their PWFA awareness, women working for ≤ 5 years (aOR=0.42, 95% CI=0.22-0.83), non-U.S. born (aOR=0.57, 95% CI=0.36-0.90), and high-risk pregnancy clinic patients (aOR=0.59, 95% CI=0.38-0.93) all had lower odds of receiving PWFA-eligible accommodations, such as adjustment to lighter duty, compared to their counterparts.ConclusionsLower educational level, lack of paid workplace maternity leave policy, shorter job tenure, and non-U.S. born were associated with decreased PWFA awareness and/or accommodations received. As more women continue to work during pregnancy, interventions promoting PWFA awareness and utilization are paramount for protecting the maternal and child health of these identified vulnerable groups, especially given that final regulations for a national PWFA recently went into effect across the United States in June 2024.Supplementary InformationThe online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-025-23404-w.

This article gives general information as an introductory about the “Sound and Sound Perception System for Human Ear”. The study has been realized within the scope of a Ph.D. lesson which is lectured by Asst. Prof. Dr. Emin Taner ELMAS. The name of this Ph.D. lesson is “Medical Engineering and Advanced Biomechanics” and taught at the Major Science Department of Bioengineering and Bio-Sciences at Iğdır University, Turkey. İsmail KUNDURACIOĞLU is a Ph.D. student and he is one of the students taking this course. This article has been prepared within the scope of this Ph.D. lecture, as a part of one of his (İsmail KUNDURACIOĞLU) homework assignment tasks which was prepared using the summary translation of Reference [1]: Book Chapter 12. [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26], [27], [28], [29], [30], [31], [32], [33], [34], [35], [36], [37], [38], [39], [40], [41], [42], [43], [44], [45], [46], [47], [48], [49], [50]

This article examines Turkey's geothermal energy potential, current status, and future role, highlighting its vast reserves, particularly in the Aegean Region. Using data from 2018 to 2023, it analyzes the growth of installed capacity and forecasts an annual increase of approximately 100 MW, reaching around 2,500 MW by 2030. Recent advancements in geothermal technologies, especially in energy storage and efficiency, are expected to further enhance Turkey's capacity. The significance of geothermal energy in Turkey's energy planning goes beyond electricity generation, supporting regional heating and greenhouse farming while strengthening energy security and advancing renewable energy targets. The article highlights geothermal energy's role in sustainability, reducing carbon emissions, and supporting local development. In conclusion, the article stresses the need for Turkey to boost geothermal investment, adopt innovative technologies, and implement sustainable strategies. It highlights geothermal energy as a key resource in strengthening Turkey's energy security and achieving sustainable development goals.

O presente documento trata da análise do processo de construção do manual de transferência de tecnologia direcionado ao público interno da agência de inovação tecnológica (AINTEC) – Escritório de Transferência de Tecnologia (ETT) da Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL). Assim, a metodologia adotada envolveu uma pesquisa qualitativa com entrevistas em profundidade e observação pessoal visando maior entendimento do grau de maturidade dos processos administrativos. E, com os resultados obtidos desenvolvidas as ferramentas de gestão: matriz SWOT, matriz de responsabilidade dos colaboradores e quadro de modelo de negócios CANVAS. Esta metodologia propiciará a estruturação do manual modelo-mapa de processos sintetizado. Por fim, buscou-se enaltecer a possibilidade de estudos posteriores, revisão, estruturação e aperfeiçoamento para maior eficiência e agilidade na entrega dos serviços junto aos diferentes públicos. De modo a criar instrumentos para resolver a lacuna existente entre a iniciativa pública e privada, fomentar a inovação e estimular o empreendedorismo inovador local.

Abstract Sheath rot disease of rice is often found to be associated with other pests, making it difficult for the farmers to manage with only fungicides. The present study was conducted to know the exact cause of the disease in Western Odisha and provide a suitable management option with possible economic gain for the farmers. A location specific management strategy was formulated against the disease complex with high economic return. It suggests seed treatment with carboxin + thiram @ 0.75+0.75 g ai kg-1 seed along with spraying of propiconazole 25 EC @ 125 g ai ha-1 followed by fenpyroximate 5 EC @ 25 g ai ha-1, twice at 15 days interval starting from panicle initiation stage which reduced the disease incidence by 67.6% and increased the yield by 35.3% over control treatment with highest BC ratio of 2.24. The same also resulted in the highest increase of healthy grains (44.5%), lowest discoloured grains (22.2%) and highest decrease of normal (45.8%) and discoloured sterile spikelet (52.5%) compared to untreated control.

ABSTRACTEducators and school staff are critical to recognizing and supporting students' mental health, but frequently do not have the training to confidently bring mental health literacy into the classroom or assist students who experience distress. Moreover, few free, easily accessible trainings are available for this audience. Classroom Well‐being Information and Strategies for Educators (Classroom WISE) is a free, K‐12 mental health literacy training package that includes a self‐paced online course, video library, and resource collection. Using pre‐ and postcourse anonymous surveys from over 2000 educators, school mental health professionals, and school staff who completed Classroom WISE, this study found high levels of satisfaction, significant increases in mental health literacy knowledge, high perceived importance of mastering skills to promote student well‐being, and increased preparedness to implement mental health‐related strategies. Participants reported intentions to bring mental health literacy into the classroom, and identified barriers and facilitators to using Classroom WISE that leaders can respond to or employ when moving to implement Classroom WISE across a school or district. School district or school‐wide use of Classroom WISE can assist in building a safe and supportive school environment and help students in need to access mental health services.