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Thomas Gültzow, Eline S. Smit, Raesita Hudales, Carmen D. Dirksen, Ciska Hoving

Informed Decision Making on the Uptake of Evidence-Based Smoking Cessation Assistance by Individuals Motivated to Quit Smoking

Health

Evidence-based cessation assistance increases cessation rates. Activating preferences during decision making could improve effectiveness fu...

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This study addresses a critical area in public health: enhancing informed decision-making for individuals seeking to quit smoking using evidence-based...

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Janneke Noordman, Mariska Oosterveld-Vlug, Jany Rademakers

Shared Decision Making in Clinical Practice

Medicine

Shared Decision Making (SDM), currently considered a preferred model for making decisions in healthcare, requires that patients have the kn...

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This paper addresses a critical and timely subject: Shared Decision Making (SDM) in the context of patients with limited health literacy (LHL). Given...

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Jasmijn Kruijt, Corine S. Meppelink, Lisa Vandeberg

Stop and Think! Exploring the Role of News Truth Discernment, Information Literacy, and Impulsivity in the Effect of Critical Thinking Recommendations on Trust in Fake Covid-19 News

Cognitive

Covid-19-related fake news widely circulates on social media. This is problematic as people commonly do not process information on social m...

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This study tackles a critical and timely issue: the pervasive spread of fake news, particularly concerning public health crises like Covid-19, and the...

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Vesna Cafuta

First record of Horvath's rock lizard (Iberolacerta horvathi) in the Karavanke Mts., Slovenia

Zoology

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This paper presents a significant faunistic record, detailing the first documented presence of Horvath's rock lizard (*Iberolacerta horvathi*) in the...

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Michaela Brojer

Additional notes on aquatic Coleoptera of the Upper Neretva River catchment and Zalomka River

Ecology

As a follow-up to the investigation of the water beetle fauna of the upper course of the Neretva River in 2022, during the second »Neretva...

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Vladimir Stupar, Jugoslav Brujić, Dragan Koljanin

Study of riparian forest and scrub vegetation of the Zalomka and Upper Neretva Rivers (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Ecology

This study investigates the riparian forest and scrub vegetation along the Zalomka and Upper Neretva rivers in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)...

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Pia Teufl, Wolfram Graf

Plecoptera and Trichoptera species in the Upper Neretva Catchment (Bosnia and Herzegovina) – new data from 2023 supplement the high diversity recorded a year before

Ecology

The Balkan Peninsula is considered to be a biodiversity hotspot, hosting a particularly high number of endemic species. Despite increased f...

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This paper presents a valuable update on the faunistic diversity of Plecoptera and Trichoptera within the Upper Neretva Catchment, a critical region r...

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Mariia Shrestkha, Serge Utevsky, Peter Trontelj

Diversity, distribution and host interactions of branchiobdellidans (Clitellata: Branchiobdellida) in the Western Balkans

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This manuscript presents a crucial update on the distribution of *Phengaris* butterflies within the Koroška Region of northern Slovenia, a group recog...