Psychological Distress among Pharmacists during Second Wave of Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study by Keshav Dhakal, Shobhana Nepal, Pratigya Sapkota

“…A cross-sectional analytical design was adopted to study the psychological distress of pharmacists working in community pharmacies in Bharatpur. …”
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Predicting construction waste in Egyptian residential projects: a robust multiple regression model approach by Mohamed KhairEldin, Ahmed Osama Daoud, Ahmed Hussein Ibrahim, Hossam M. Toma

“…These findings help to adopt sustainable construction practices, such as improved recycling processes and decreased dependence on landfills, to support Egypt’s Vision 2030.…”
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Assessment of Physicochemical Properties of Water and Public Perceptions of Water Quality in Tasik Chini, Pahang, Malaysia by M. S. Islam, T. M. Ekhwan, F. N. Rasli and C. T. Goh

“…Multivariate statistical analysis was adopted to find spatial variations in water quality, determining the pollution level and sources of contamination. …”
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Communication by the South African Reserve Bank by Arnold Segawa

“… In 2000, South Africa’s central bank, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), adopted flexible inflation targeting as a monetary regime, and in doing so, set its inflation target at 3-6% for the headline consumer price index (Coco & Viegi, 2020). …”
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Equivalent Resilient Modulus Inversion and Calculation of Different Asphalt Pavement Structures by Mingming Cao, Wanqing Huang, Yiwen Zou, Zhiyong Wu

“…While determining the equivalent resilient modulus of the cushion layer, the influence of the thickness of the cement stabilized crushed stone layer needs to be considered, and the inverted asphalt pavement structure should adopt a thicker asphalt layer to reduce the modulus deviation; at the same time, the more the structural layers and the larger the difference in the interlayer modulus ratio, the larger the deviation of equivalent resilient modulus of the top surface of the base layer; for the inverted asphalt pavement and semirigid asphalt pavement, the correction coefficients of the calculation formula of the equivalent resilient modulus of the top surface of cement stabilized gravel layer are 0.35∼0.55 and 0.65∼0.75, respectively. …”
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A Virtual Reality Platform for Safety Training in Coal Mines with AI and Cloud Computing by Mei Li, Zhenming Sun, Zhan Jiang, Zheng Tan, Jinchuan Chen

“…The online cloud-rendered video streaming is adopted to provide enough computing and rendering power and hence a better browser-based user experience. …”
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The Legal Values of the Formal Composition in the Interior Spaces of Beauty Centers as a Model by Liqa Ahmad Abd al- Rhman, Rana Abdalkareem Saieed

“…On the legal values   in the formal formation of the interior spaces of beauty centers, the methodology adopted by the researcher has been clarified, which is the descriptive approach. …”
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The Microbiota Profile Analysis of Combined Periodontal-Endodontic Lesions Using 16S rRNA Next-Generation Sequencing by Ping Sun, Zhiyong Guo, Daiping Guo, Jian Wang, Tingting Wu, Tingjun Li, Jiannan Liu, Xinhua Liu

“…The quantitative polymerase chain reaction, targeting the 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA), was adopted for the quantification of bacteria. Then, the V3-V4 hypervariable regions of the 16S rRNA gene were amplified and subjected to next-generation sequencing. …”
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The Role of Parents in Increasing Children's English Vocabulary in Kelambir V Kebun by Doni Efrizah, Indah Sari, Vivi Oxana Putri

“…In addition, this research also underlined the importance of creating an environment that supports language learning, adopting a positive approach, and understanding the child's developmental level. …”
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Social-aware routing for cognitive radio–based vehicular ad hoc networks by Jing Wang, Huyin Zhang, Xing Tang, Sheng Hao

“…Furthermore, considering the tradeoff between the packet delivery ratio and the overhead ratio, we adopt different replication policies and forwarding ranks in different community communication processes. …”
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Balancing the load: A narrative review with methodological implications of compensatory training strategies for non-starting soccer players by Filipe Clemente, Guglielmo Pillitteri, Luiz H. Palucci Vieira, Alireza Rabbani, Piotr Zmijewski, Marco Beato

“…Presently, the practice of compensatory training has been adopted, yet a definitive understanding of its genuine influence, particularly in terms of enhancing physical fitness and mitigating injury risks, remains elusive.…”
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Description of body image perception and its relation to nutrient intake in bodybuilders by Sarli Mohd, Riyadi Hadi, Setiawan Budi, Dzulhijjah Rahmi

“…Conclusions: Bodybuilders want a leaner body (low body fat mass percentage) and muscularity (high muscle mass percentage) by adopting a low carbohydrate and fluid diet.…”
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La Paille, un matériau pour transmettre by Volker Ehrlich, Édouard Vermès

“…Considering that the building sector has become today’s most energy-consuming industry, producing about three quarters of all industrial waste, architects have thus adopted a key role in the social transition towards a sustainable way of life. …”
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Pathophysiological Models of Hypersomnolence Associated With Depression by Christophe Moderie, Diane B. Boivin

“…In some patients with depression, nighttime hyperarousal can fragment sleep and result in a complaint of excessive daytime sleepiness, thus mimicking hypersomnolence. Others might adopt maladaptive behaviors such as spending excessive time in bed, a term coined clinophilia. …”
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Reflections of Asabiyyah Effect on Social Differentiation in Social Media: The Case of the July 15th Military Coup Attempt by Mustafa Sami Mencet, Onur Ertürk

“…Findings summarizes factorsthat are threating the social peace and reinforcing discrimination; and furthermore, they show why it isimportant to adopt the Asabiyyah theory to understand such social events.…”
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Two-Echelon Location-Routing Problem with Time Windows and Transportation Resource Sharing by Yong Wang, Yaoyao Sun, Xiangyang Guan, Yanyong Guo

“…A self-adaptive mechanism of flight parameters is introduced and adopted during the iterative process to balance the evolution of particles and improve the efficiency of the two-stage hybrid algorithm. …”
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A Comparative Study of Impeller Modification Techniques on the Performance of the Pump as a Turbine by Abdulbasit Nasir, Edessa Dribssa, Misrak Girma, Tamerat Demeke

“…The output of the study confirms that the adopted modification techniques have a positive effect on performance improvement. …”
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The Old Woman’s Farcical Rejuvenation in The Rejuvenation of Miss Semaphore (1897) by Somi Ahn

“…Initially, the middle-class protagonist and her sister appear as old-fashioned Old Women at the beginning, but once the former unexpectedly turns into an infant, she indeed gets pushed out of a social safety net, as babyfarmers illegally adopt and abuse her. Eccles creates an ironic situation where the Old Women rejuvenate metaphorically into radical New Woman activists, who raise their own voice to fight against the given system of the world, in which unmarried women and their unwanted children are constantly marginalized. …”
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Formation of volatile compounds in salt-mediated naturally fermented cassava by Alberta N.A. Aryee, Christabel Tachie, Aleksei Kaleda

“…The addition of salt can be used to control acidification, adopted as an effective preservation technique, and mediate VOCs production during cassava fermentation.…”
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IBIEM Analysis of Dynamic Response of a Shallowly Buried Lined Tunnel Based on Viscous-Slip Interface Model by Xiaojie Zhou, Qinghua Liang, Zhongxian Liu, Ying He

“…The boundary integral equation method is adopted to solve the scattering of the plane SV wave by a tunnel lining in an elastic half-space. …”
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