Item Characteristics of National Examination Council’s Economics Multiple-Choice Items: An Item Response Theory Exploration by Yusuf Olayinka Shogbesan

“…The study explored the IRT parameter estimates of Economics multiple-choice items using the 1, 2 and 3 parameter logistic models. The study adopted the explorative research design with a sample size of 1500 senior secondary school III Economics students’ selected using multi-stage sampling procedure. …”
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Revealing the decision-making practices in automated external defibrillator deployment: insights from Shanghai, China by Chaowei Wu, Yeling Wu, Lu Qiao

“…Taking Shanghai, China as the research area, we adopted the kernel density estimation and spatial autocorrelation analysis to explore the spatial distribution characteristics of AEDs. …”
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Visual and Chemical Prey Cues as Complementary Predator Attractants in a Tropical Stream Fish Assemblage by Chris K. Elvidge, Grant E. Brown

“…Predator species-pair counts were greatest in response to cues from the more abundant prey species, indicating that individuals may adopt riskier foraging strategies when presented with more familiar prey cues. …”
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Transtheoretical-Based Model of Intervention for Diabetes and Prediabetes: A Scoping Review by Daniel Miezah, Mustapha Amoadu, Priscilla Nyamekye Opoku, Enoch Mensah Junior, Jethro Zutah, Paul Obeng, Jacob Owusu Sarfo

“…Further interventions on diabetes and prediabetes management could adopt the identified transtheoretical interventions to improve the health of their patients.…”
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Analysis of the Influence of Innovative Teaching Management Mode in Universities on Students’ One-to-One Training and Psychotherapy by Wenwen Zhang

“…Based on the theoretical analysis of the application of psychological resilience intervention, combined with the theory of one-to-one tutoring and operational techniques, the university’s innovative teaching management mode scheme is designed. The design adopts a quasi-experimental pre-experimental test to investigate and explore the intervention effect system of the university’s innovative teaching management mode on college students’ psychological resilience. …”
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From information to action: modelling social and cognitive factors in health decisions by Jiadong Yu, D. A. Bekerian

“…Abstract Background This study examines the social and cognitive factors influencing health decisions to adopt protective behaviors in a U.S. sample. A theoretical framework was developed, incorporating key variables such as perceived severity, perceived vulnerability, use of formal and informal health information, conspiracy beliefs, and political ideology. …”
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Aerodynamic Design and Performance Analysis of a Large-Scale Composite Blade for Wind Turbines by Semyoung Lim, Sungjin Ahn, Hyunbum Park

“…The composite laminate theory was adopted. Structural safety was evaluated for the designed blades. …”
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Comparative analysis of models of sports development management on example of football industry: international experience and russian peculiarities by Sh. M. Ramazanov

“…The peculiarities of some modifications adopted in some countries of Asia and Africa are discussed. …”
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Queue Length Estimation for Signalized Intersections under Partially Connected Vehicle Environment by Lu Wei, Jin-hong Li, Li-wen Xu, Lei Gao, Jian Yang

“…The empirical Bayes method is adopted to estimate the arrival rate by leveraging the observed queued CV information such as the number and positions. …”
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An Extendable Gaussian Mixture Model for Lane-Based Queue Length Estimation Based on License Plate Recognition Data by Chaofeng Tan, Hao Wu, Keshuang Tang, Chaopeng Tan

“…Then, the two-dimensional Gaussian distributions of queued vehicles and nonqueued vehicles were fitted, and the expectation-maximization algorithm was adopted to solve the distribution parameters. Finally, the queuing status of each vehicle was determined, and the lane-based queue length was estimated based on the last identified queued vehicle in the cycle. …”
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The threshold effects of inflation rate, interest rate, and exchange rate on economic growth in Nigeria by Olajide O. Oyadeyi, Tolulope T. Osinubi, Munacinga Simatele, Oluwadamilola A. Oyadeyi

“…The study examines the optimum threshold effects of interest rates, inflation rates, and exchange rates in stimulating economic growth in Nigeria. The study adopts the threshold regression technique to ascertain the optimal benchmark beyond which these macroeconomic variables hurt growth. …”
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FFUNet: A novel feature fusion makes strong decoder for medical image segmentation by Junsong Xie, Renju Zhu, Zezhi Wu, Jinling Ouyang

“…On the other hand, the feature gap between an encoder and decoder is also challenging for a U‐shaped network, which adopts a plain skip connection. Inherited from convolutional networks and transformers, FFUNet, a hybrid network structure with a novel module named the Feature Fusion Module (FFM) is proposed for medical image segmentation. …”
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Does tour quality impact tourist satisfaction? Experiences from Arunachal Pradesh, India by Mudang Tagiya, Odang Mara

“…A convenient sampling method was adopted for the study. Ordinary least square structural equation modeling (OLS-SEM) was used to measure the relationships. …”
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Influence of Retrogression and Reaging Treatment on Microstructure and Microhardness of the 3A21/7075 Aluminum Alloy Cladding Material by Ming Hu, Xiaoxue Ren, Jianbo Sun, Yunlong Zhang

“…A novel casting method, the impact jet solid-liquid compound casting, was adopted to fabricate the 3A21/7075 aluminum alloy cladding material. …”
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Study on the Instability Mechanism and Grouting Reinforcement Repair of Large-Scale Underground Stopes by Chengyu Xie, Nan Jia, Liwen He

“…The environmental conditions due to unreasonable mining in underground stopes, the slurry diffusion mechanism in the grouting reinforcement of a stope within its influence, the causes of large-scale instability collapse, and the catastrophic stope process are analyzed, and limit upper line analysis theory and numerical analysis methods are comprehensively adopted, revealing the continuous catastrophic collapse mode of large-scale underground stopes. …”
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Service Oriented Integration of Distributed Heterogeneous IT Systems in Production Engineering Using Information Standards and Linked Data by Navid Shariat Zadeh, Lars Lindberg, Jad El-Khoury, Gunilla Sivard

“…One the other hand, service-oriented tool integration solutions are progressively adopted for the integration of data and IT-tools, especially with the emergence of Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration whose focus is on the linking of data from heterogeneous software tools. …”
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Dynamic Learning from Adaptive Neural Control of Uncertain Robots with Guaranteed Full-State Tracking Precision by Min Wang, Yanwen Zhang, Huiping Ye

“…Subsequently, an appropriate state transformation is adopted to achieve the accurate convergence of neural weight estimates. …”
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An Analysis of the Optimal Allocation of Core Human Resources in Family Enterprises Based on the Markov Model by Jinyang Cao

“…Based on the Markov model, this article is based on the B/S architecture, designed the three-tier architecture of the presentation layer, business logic layer, and data layer adopted by the system, forming the basis of quality management, job management, performance management, and salary management-oriented human resources optimization configuration system. …”
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Analisis Peran Dosen dalam Meningkatkan Motivasi Belajar Mahasiswa Pendidikan Teknik Mesin: Studi Literatur by Andrian Riyadi, Imam Muhtarom, Kartika Anggun Sari

“…Providing professional development, integrating technology, and adopting project-based learning can improve facilitation, feedback, and engagement, ultimately strengthening student autonomy and academic success. …”
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Predictors, prevalence, and patterns of cyberbullying among school-going children and adolescents by Prabhu James Ranjith, Mysore Narasimaha Vranda, M. Thomas Kishore

“…This study aimed to understand the predictors, patterns, prevalence, mental health problems, and coping of cyberbullying among adolescents. Methods: The study adopted a cross-sectional explorative design with 484 adolescents studying in 8th to 12th standards recruited through convenient sampling. …”
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