“…Focusing on cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and chronic respiratory disease and their five shared main risk factors (tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and air pollution) as defined by the United Nations, this book provides a synopsis of one of the world's biggest challenges of the 21st century. …”

“…The Roman glassmaking tradition of mineral soda glass was increasingly supplanted by the use of plant ash as the main fluxing agent at the turn of the ninth century CE. …”

“…Sixty participants were randomly selected from both grade 10 and grade 11 strata; in the last stratum, all the thirty grade 12 participants were considered. The main findings are that the majority of participants indicated that they do apply the skills learnt from the workshops while learning material and content from other subjects. …”

“…Annotation In the face of climate change and resource scarcity, energy supply systems are on the verge of a major transformation, which mainly includes the introduction of new components and their integration into the existing infrastructures, new network configurations and reliable topologies, optimal design and novel operation schemes, and new incentives and business models. …”

“…The idea of describing learning analytics as a metacognitive tool, suggesting a development of metacognitive decision-making skills in teacher education, and focusing on learning design in higher education by using data from learning analytics served as the main focus of this research. The aim of the research was to create the model of application of learning analytics method as a metacognitive tool to enhance student success. …”

“…Nowadays, images and videos have become the main modalities of information being exchanged in everyday life, and their pervasiveness has led the image forensics community to question their reliability, integrity, confidentiality, and security. …”

“…In this report, we have summarized the evidence on treatment and rehabilitation of distal radial fractures from the most recent available systematic reviews of high quality. Main findings are as follows:1. There is not enough evidence to decide which method of reduction is best. 2. …”

“…The Directorate for Health and Social Affairs is in the process of developing a national guideline for MAR, and commissioned the Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services to retrieve research based evidence for pharmacological treatment. The main clinical question for this systematic review was to evaluate effects of methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone, respectively. …”

“…The findings are based on results from five randomised controlled trials and nine controlled cohort studies, comprising 899 participants, mostly women (85%). Main findings1. The differences in pain and maximum mouth opening between the surgical and nonsurgical treatment options were minimal and probably not clinically relevant.2. …”

“…We focused on the effect of interventions aimed at health professionals and health organisations. Main findings1. Different kinds of educational interventions and electronic reminders to health care providers may under certain circumstances have a small effect on health professionals' practice and minority patients' health outcomes. …”

“…Only one study evaluated interventions directed at children with incarcerated parents. The main findings of the report are that it is uncertain whether parenting interventions and prison nurseries have an effect on parenting attitudes and behaviour. …”

“…The best documentation exists for complex interventions, i.e. interventions that consist of a combination of initiatives to reduce the spread of infections. The main findings are:1. Complex interventions that combine handwashing and hygiene education directed towards children and staff in kindergarten and primary school, significantly lower the insidence of respiratory infecions and diarrhoea with 10-50% compared to controls. …”

“…These disorders are reported as the main contributor to sick leave and work absence. …”

“…The findings are based on results from six Nordic registry-based retrospective controlled cohort studies. Main findings1. Wage subsidies possibly increase the probability of employment compared to no programme for unemployed immigrants.2. …”

“…In the absence of a methodological gold standard for the diagnosis of TMD, it is to be emphasized that the findings of this review does not provide a basis for deciding which tests best detect or rule out TMD, but rather whether and to what extent various diagnostic tests lead to the same conclusion. Main findings Results from six systematic reviews, comprising 67 primary studies and about 5400 participants demonstrate that:1. …”

“…The Norwegian Knowledge Center for the Health Services was commissioned by The Department of Health and the Directorate of Health, to survey and recommend elements to be included in a national quality system for the primary health services. These are the main recommendations from the present report: 1. …”

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“…Competitiveness and carbon leakage issues have been some of the main concerns in the implementation and discussions of climate policies. …”

“…This supplement to the Special Issue "Physical activity, nutritional status and physical fitness" consists of articles on two main thematic fields. The first field is a series of articles in which Polish soldiers, policemen, and border guards were the research subjects. …”