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Small-sided games is a commonly used training method to develop technical, tactical and physical qualities concurrently. However, a review of small-sided games in rugby football codes (e.g. rugby union, rugby league) is not available. This systematic review aims to investigate the acute responses and chronic adaptations of small-sided games within rugby football codes considering the constraints applied. Four electronical databases were systematically searched until August 2020. Acute and chronic studies investigating rugby football codes small-sided games, with healthy amateur and professional athletes were included. Twenty studies were eventually included 4 acute and 1 chronic in rugby union, 13 acute and 2 chronic in rugby league. Acute studies investigated task and individual constraints. Chronic studies showed that small-sided games would be an effective training method to improve physical performance. Current research in rugby football codes is heavily biased towards investigating how manipulating constraints can affect the physical characteristics of small-sided games, with limited literature investigating the effect on technical skills, and no studies investigating tactical behaviour. Future research is needed to evidence the effects of constraint manipulation on technical and tactical behaviour of rugby football players in small-sided games, in addition to physical characteristics.Despite a lack of diversity, studies on the experience of ethnically diverse (ED) students have not focused on veterinary education. This study used focus groups to explore the experience of ED veterinary students, their challenges, and their sources of support in this setting. Focus groups were held using two formats a traditional, in-person approach, and online, via a social media group. Recruitment was by invitation and focus group allocation according to participant preference. Conversations were transcribed or downloaded, anonymized, and analyzed using a two-part narrative analysis, the aim of which was to understand the experiences of ED veterinary students at an in-depth level. Students experienced identity conflicts at multiple levels (self, others, profession), which appeared to relate to their ethnicity. Rhapontigenin chemical structure Conflict between self and others resulted in a feeling of otherness arising from a White student majority, both within the university and on external placements, and professional identity conflicts arose between students' personal cultural values and their values as a veterinarian. Internal conflicts arose when students felt a wish to integrate, but also perceived a need to segregate with similar others to obtain support and a sense of belonging to a group. These challenges have potential implications for mental well-being and career opportunities. For veterinary medicine to adapt to changing client demographics in an increasingly globalized world, a deeper understanding of the ED student experience may offer advantages in areas such as recruitment and profession retention, which will eventually support greater diversity within the professional population.This article discusses some examples of problems derived from the mix of technical jargon and anatomical veterinary words and makes recommendations regarding their use according to specific situations.Objectives In selected patients with symptomatic spinal metastasis from solid tumors, surgery improves quality of life. Since selection is key, inaccurate survival prognostication may result in poor decisions and outcomes. However, most prognostic scores suffer from suboptimal external validation and subsequent mediocre performance. This warrants the ongoing search for factors that better capture the oncological status. This exploratory study aims to identify new preoperative variables that predict survival.Methods A retrospective analysis was conducted on 62 patients from a tertiary care referral center who underwent debulking and/or reconstruction surgery for spinal metastases between 2006 and 2018, and in whom detailed clinical, oncological, surgical and biochemical variables were collected. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed for overall survival.Results Median survival was 13.2 months. Multivariate analysis for overall survival identified that a higher number of organs with metastases, a shorter time to progression on the last line of systemic therapy before surgery (TTPbs), low serum albumin, high alkaline phosphatase, high C-reactive peptide (CRP), presence of brain metastasis and the index spinal level located in the cervical region were independently associated with shorter survival.Conclusion We confirmed previously known predictors and identified CRP and TTPbs as new variables that were strongly associated with survival. The latter variable may replace primary tumor type, as improved cancer treatments make the primary tumor type less relevant as a predictor. This study is exploratory and its findings need to be validated, preferably in large prospective multicenter studies that are aiming at improving existing models.Using data from a nationally representative sample of community-dwelling older adults (age ≥ 65) (NHANES n = 3,114), we examined the association between the variety in sources of emotional support and thoughts of death or self-harm in the past two weeks among US older adults and if such association is modified by gender and race/ethnicity. Overall, an additional category of source of emotional support was associated with the 0.36-fold lower odds of endorsing thoughts of death or self-harm in the past two weeks (WAOR 0.64, 95% CI 0.46-0.89), after controlling for demographic, socioeconomic, and health-related characteristics. The magnitudes of such association varied across different gender and racial/ethnic subgroups. While among older women and non-Hispanic Black older men, increase in the variety of sources of emotional support was associated with decrease in the odds of endorsing thoughts of death or self-harm in the past two weeks, for non-Hispanic White older men and Hispanic older men, increase in the variety of sources of emotional support was associated with increase in the odds of endorsing thoughts of death or self-harm in the past two weeks. Our findings highlight the importance of considering gender and race/ethnicity when designing and implementing successful interventions for reducing suicide ideation among diverse elderly persons.