Redesigning Death Rounds: Alleviating distress for residents in end-of-life care [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Lauren Baumgardner, Shannon Fang, Vidya Krishnan, Benjamin Schwan

“…An academic urban county hospital adopted the Death Rounds (DR) conference for residents in the medical intensive care unit as a monthly free-form discussion to help residents cope with the emotional aspects of caring for dying patients. …”
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What enabled the successful implementation of a quality certification initiative in Bhavnagar, Gujarat? A policy analysis case study. by K Shruti Lekha, Sudha Ramani, Harsha Joshi, Preet Verma, Sumit Malhotra, Tapasvi Puwar, Chandramani Kumar, Ankita Shah, Anish Sinha, Deepak Saxena

“…In India, the National Quality Assurance Standards (NQAS) is a certification policy adopted by the government to improve the quality of care in public health facilities. …”
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Imagist Novel’s Poetics: “Bid Me to Live” by H.D. by Yevheniya Chernokova

“…The poetics of the Imagism prose, adopted from the Imagism poetry, is a search and finding of patterns in their juxtaposition, that interact as coordinating. …”
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Transformations in the police organization in the early 1920s by V. A. Grechenko

“…However, in 1923 a number of important legal acts regulating the organization and activities of the police were adopted. These are, first of all, the Rules of Service and the Police Disciplinary Statute. …”
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أخلاقیات الذکاء الاصطناعى والروبوت دراسة تحلیلیة by د.خدیجة محمد درار

“…In light of the results, the researcher made a number ofrecommendations: The Arab universities and research centers should adopt theethics of robotics and robotics systems and work on scientific research to developand support policies in this field. …”
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Evaluating Audience Engagement as a Measure of Digital Diplomacy Effectiveness by M. M. Bazlutckaia, A. N. Sytnik, N. A. Tsvetkova

“…The analysis of selected metrics reveals two key trends in US digital diplomacy in Russia: since 2022 there has been a notable shift in focus toward Telegram as the primary platform, and while the content partially reaches the existing Russian-speaking audience, it struggles to expand its overall reach.The authors provide six recommendations for diplomatic agencies and consulting firms to enhance the tools for analyzing digital diplomacy engagement: (1) adopt automated engagement metrics that account for the interface differences among social media platforms; (2) incorporate built-in topic modeling of posts; (3) integrate sentiment analysis of comments; (4) develop mechanisms to detect traffic manipulation; (5) track multi-level reposts, the timing and spread of hashtag diplomacy, and audience growth considering these processes; and (6) evaluate digital diplomacy activity concerning responses to comments. …”
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Examining Indonesian College Students’ Behavioral Intention of Using Moodle App for E-Learning Platform by Siti Nur Azizah, Tono Suwartono, Sri Nurhayati, Endang Sungkawati, Nur'aeni Nur'aeni

“…The current study aims to explore the Moodle LMS acceptance among undergraduate students throughout the Archipelago Indonesia during the pandemic and beyond by adopting a Unified Theory of Acceptance and Usage of Technologies (UTAUT) model to better explain the students' behavioral intentions. …”
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Knowledge, beliefs and practices towards HIV/AIDS among adolescents in India: A scoping review protocol. by Pranita Patsani, Jayashree Parida, Arpita Panda, Susangita Jena, Swati Sukalyani Behera, Abinash Pradhan, Prasanna Kumar Patra, Sanghamitra Pati, Harpreet Kaur, Subhendu Kumar Acharya

“…Indian adolescents lack adequate knowledge about HIV/AIDS and adopt wrong practices. The present scoping review aims to understand the status of knowledge, beliefs and practices among Indian adolescents about HIV or HIV/AIDS. …”
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Dropping the baton: Cognitive biases in emergency physicians. by Mingwei Ng, Evelyn Wong, Guek Gwee Sim, Pek Jen Heng, Gareth Terry, Foo Yang Yann

“…<h4>Methodology</h4>Our study team comprised four EPs of different seniorities from three different institutions and local and international academics who provided qualitative methodological guidance. We adopted a constructivist paradigm and employed a reflexive thematic analysis approach which acknowledged our researcher reflexivity. …”
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Population impact of malaria control interventions in the health district of Kati, Mali. by Abdoulaye Katile, Issaka Sagara, Mady Cissoko, Cédric Stéphane Bationo, Mathias Dolo, Pascal Dembélé, Bourama Kamate, Ismaila Simaga, Mahamadou Soumana Sissoko, Jordi Landier, Jean Gaudart

“…<h4>Background</h4>WHO and its partners have adopted alternative control interventions since the failure to eradicate malaria worldwide in the 1960s and 1970s. …”
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Functional Autonomy Affects Elderly Spatial Perception in Body-Centered Coordinates by Giorgia Committeri, Valentina Sebastiani, Francesco de Pasquale, Massimiliano Stocchi, Chiara Fini

“…Results indicated that the higher the level of FA, the wider the space categorized as “Near” when adopting as reference frame our own body or the body of another agent in the scene, but not a static object. …”
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Effects of Programmatic Assessment in Clinical Reasoning Courses in General Practice by ZHAI Jiayi, LU Yuan, SHI Jianjun, YU Dehua

“…The course consists of three modules, namely core, case and result, and adopts blended teaching method to carry out teaching. …”
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Prediction of miRNA-circRNA Associations Based on k-NN Multi-Label with Random Walk Restart on a Heterogeneous Network by Zengqiang Fang, Xiujuan Lei

“…Therefore efficient computation methods are needed to explore miRNA-circRNA interactions, but only very few computational methods for predicting the associations between miRNAs and circRNAs exist. In this study, we adopt an improved random walk computational method, named KRWRMC, to express complicated associations between miRNAs and circRNAs. …”
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Innovative circular economy approaches in e-waste management: a case study of telkomcel Timor Leste by Graciano Andre Damiao Maia, Ratna Lindawati Lubis, Irni Yunita

“…The findings reveal that while Telkomcel has taken significant steps toward adopting a circular economy model, challenges remain, including limited infrastructure, low public awareness, and insufficient recycling facilities. …”
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Quid du port romain estuarien de Barzan (Charente-Maritime) ? by Vivien Mathé, Laurence Tranoy, Marion Druez, François Lévêque, Vincent Miailhe, Frédéric Pouget

“…In an initial stage various geophysical survey methods were used to study an area encompassing several hectares. The methods adopted aimed to identify the extension of the marsh in order to locate the ancient shore on a wide mesh map, using two electrical resistivity tomographies (ERT) perpendicular to the supposed palaeo-shoreline. …”
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Relationships between perceived physical literacy and mental health in tertiary education students: a scoping review by Wilson Kin Chung Leung, Raymond Kim Wai Sum, Simon Ching Lam

“…A narrative approach was adopted to synthesize results relevant to the study aims categorized based on mental health outcomes. …”
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Shadow puppetry therapy enhances dementia-related cognitive function and interpersonal relationship by Shu-Yuan Chao, Hsiao-Mei Chen, Bei-Yi Su

“…Objective: This study evaluated the effectiveness of SPT on cognitive function, self-esteem, and interpersonal relationships among older adults with mild dementia. Methods: We adopted a quasi-experimental design and recruited 33 older adults with mild dementia from two dementia care centers. …”
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The interplay of trophic interactions and game dynamics gives rise to life-history trade-offs, consistent personalities, and predator–prey and aggression power laws by Mohammad Salahshour

“…To illustrate this, we combine trophic interactions with evolutionary games by allowing individuals to play a game within the population where they can adopt aggressive or non-aggressive strategies. We show that individuals develop consistent personalities and their life-history trade-offs become intertwined with the scale-invariant ecological dynamics. …”
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Hybrid Learning Model for intrusion detection system: A combination of parametric and non-parametric classifiers by C. Rajathi, P. Rukmani

“…As a base learning model K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), Decision Tree (DT), Random Forest (RF), Gradient Boosting Machine (GBM), and Support Vector Classification with Radial Basis Function (SVC-RBF), are adopted from a non-parametric classifier group. The parametric classifiers Logistic Regression (LR), Naïve Bayes Classifier (NBC), Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Quadratic Discriminant Analysis (QDA) and Support Vector Machine with linear kernel (Linear SVM) were used as meta-models. …”
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COLLABORATIVE ONLINE INTERNATIONAL LEARNING: SUGGESTIONS FOR UKRAINIAN MEDICAL EDUCATION AND INTERDISCIPLINARY COOPERATION by Yu.V. Lysanets, J. Ward, C. Zhang, T. Downing, O.M. Bieliaieva

“…In the context of Ukrainian higher education, the paper suggests that adopting COIL exchanges could enhance collaboration between institutions, empowering students and providing flexible tools for achieving educational objectives. …”
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