Measuring the age-friendliness of cities in the Russian Federation: The translation, validation and application of the age-friendly cities and communities Questionnaire in the city of Kazan.

Numerous cities in the Russian Federation have joined the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Network for Age-Friendly Cities and Communities since 2011. In order to do quantitative evaluations of the age-friendliness of cities, the Age-Friendly Cities and Communities Questionnaire (AFCCQ) was developed in the Netherlands. The purpose of this study was to translate and test the validity and reliability of the AFCCQ for use in the Russian Federation, and to study the views on the age-friendliness of the city of Kazan in the Republic of Tatarstan from an intergenerational perspective.

The Age-Friendly Cities and Communities Questionnaire: A validation study of the Hebrew version in Israel.

The present study examined the reliability and validity of the Hebrew version of the Age-Friendly Cities and Communities Questionnaire (AFCCQ-IL). The present study was conducted in all four Israeli cities, acknowledged as age-friendly during the time of the study in June-July 2023, namely: Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Herzliya, Kfar Saba, and Jerusalem. A total of 223 Hebrew speakers over the age of 65 participated in the study.

Automatic classification of fungal-fungal interactions using deep leaning models.

Fungi provide valuable solutions for diverse biotechnological applications, such as enzymes in the food industry, bioactive metabolites for healthcare, and biocontrol organisms in agriculture. Current workflows for identifying new biocontrol fungi often rely on subjective visual observations of strains' performance in microbe-microbe interaction studies, making the process time-consuming and difficult to reproduce. To overcome these challenges, we developed an AI-automated image classification approach using machine learning algorithm based on deep neural network.

Cross-sectional exploratory survey among health researchers in Europe on the awareness of and barriers affecting the use of an evidence-based research approach.

Objectives: This exploratory study was conducted to find out how well the concept of evidence-based research (EBR) is known among European health researchers with substantial clinical research experience, and which barriers affect the use of an EBR approach. The concept of EBR implies that researchers use evidence synthesis to justify new studies and to inform their design.

Design: A cross-sectional exploratory survey study.