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Calabar is a city in which 65 per cent of people live in poverty in informal settlements that have low and decreasing access to improved water. In the low-income informal areas of the city, residents are being made responsible for securing their own water supply through the use of several coping strategies. This paper explores the decreasing access to water and coping strategies for shortage in Calabar, Nigeria. It analyses two complementary pieces of data: (i) the households’ coping strat...

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Background: Critically ill patients are more susceptible to pressure injuries. Despite established prevention methods, pressure injuries remain common in Saudi Arabia, particularly in critical care units. A systematic review was conducted to synthesise evidence on the most effective nursing interventions for preventing pressure injuries in critical care settings. The four key intervention categories identified showed considerable effectiveness in pressure injury prevention during gap analysis. T...

The association between impulsivity and aggression as risk factors for Internet Gaming Disorder.

Background In Bangladesh, the 2013 Amendment of the Tobacco Control Act made graphic health warnings (GHWs) on the upper 50% of all tobacco packs obligatory. However, at the time of writing (May 2022), GHWs are still being printed on the lower 50% of packs. This paper seeks to explore how the tobacco industry undermined the development and implementation of GHWs in Bangladesh, a country known for a high level of tobacco industry interference (TII) that has rarely been examined in the peer-review...

The gender-specific factors associated with depression among married adults in Rajshahi City, Bangladesh.

Background: The business arena is undergoing tremendous challenges due to technological revolutions coupled with the changing business environment caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The hypercompetitive nature of today’s business environment can lead to an upsurge in narcissistic leadership in organisations because such leaders can undertake the transformative initiatives businesses need to succeed in times of uncertainty. Research shows three types of leader narcissism: agentic, antagonistic, a...

MU vice chancellor N Lokendra stated that proper usage of applied and experimental research methodologies would greatly complement any type of research work.

Recent PLoS ONE research reveals that female orthopedic physical therapists without Low Back Pain (LBP) climb significantly more stairs weekly than those with LBP. Discrepancies in stair-climbing habits were more pronounced among females, with sleep quality differences also observed.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the relation of maternal pain catastrophizing score with children who underwent circumcision postoperative pain. This prospective cohort study was performed between March 2022 and March 2023 at Samsun University, Turkey. Demographic characteristics of mothers and children, mothers’ education level, presence of chronic pain, and Beck Depression Inventory scores were recorded preoperatively. Pain catastrophizing was assessed by applying the pain catastro...