CULTURALLY COMPETENT INFORMED-CONSENT PROCESS TO EVALUATE A SOCIAL POLICY FOR OLDER PERSONS WITH LOW LITERACY

Culturally Competent Informed-Consent Process to Evaluate a Social Policy for Older Persons With Low Literacy

The informed-consent process seeks to provide complete information to participants about a research project and to protect personal information they may disclose.In this article, we present an informed-consent process that we piloted and improved to obtain consent from older adults in Yucatan, Mexico.Respondents had limited fluency in Spanish, spok

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The impacts of assimilating Aeolus horizontal line-of-sight winds on numerical predictions of Hurricane Ida (2021) and a mesoscale convective system over the Atlantic Ocean

The Aeolus satellite, the first spaceborne wind lidar launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) on 22 August 2018, provides global measurements of horizontal line-of-sight (HLOS) winds.The assimilation of Aeolus HLOS winds has been proven to improve numerical weather predictions (NWPs).Still, its influences on forecasts of VISION SUPORT II tropic

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Exploring the Knowledge and Perception of Generic Medicines among Final Year Undergraduate Medical, Pharmacy, and Nursing Students in Sierra Leone: A Comparative Cross-Sectional Approach

Most low-income nations have national medicine policy that emphasized the use of generic medicines in the public health sector.However, the use of generics is often Photography debatable as there are concerns over its efficacy, quality, and safety compared to their branded counterparts.This study was conducted to compare the knowledge and perceptio

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Responses to Drought Stress Modulate the Susceptibility to Plasmopara viticola in Vitis vinifera Self-Rooted Cuttings

Climate change will increase the occurrence of plants being simultaneously subjected to drought and pathogen stress.Drought can alter the way in which plants respond to pathogens.This research addresses how grapevine responds to the concurrent challenge of drought stress and Plasmopara viticola, the causal agent of downy mildew, and how one stress

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