Reading comprehension beliefs of Mexican pre-service language teachers: a Likert scale study by Moisés Damián Perales-Escudero, Mizael Garduño Buenfil, Vilma Esperanza Portillo Campos

“…The ETICOLEC Likert scale was originally designed to measure the reading comprehension beliefs of middle school teachers of several subjects. …”
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Examining the Impact of Health Belief Model-Based Education on Reproductive Health and Family Planning Attitudes Among Married Women by Tülay Ortabağ, Neşe Ataman Bor

“…Introduction: Reproductive health services include maternal, child, and newborn health, family planning, fertility issues, and reproductive education, primarily benefiting women.Aim: It was aimed to examine the effects of Health Belief Model based instruction on married women protective attitudes toward reproductive health.Method: The study was designed as a quasi-experimental method with unequal groups for pre-test and posttest comparison. …”
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Effect of notch shape on the fracture toughness behavior by Jiseung Lee, Wonjun Jo, Junseok Seo, Gyubaek An

“…This study evaluates the effect of notch shape on the fracture toughness of a 500 MPa base material designed for liquefied carbon dioxide storage tanks. …”
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Clinical study on the treatment of acute epidural hematoma by embolization of middle meningeal artery through radial artery access combined with minimally invasive burr hole draina... by Cui Zhang, Qingbo Wang, Chenglong Li, Zixuan Jing, Xinyu Zhao, Yang Chen, Zefu Li

“…The 37 patients treated with embolization were designated as the experimental group, while the remaining 97 patients formed the control group. …”
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Leaf-Methanolic Extract of Pseudopanax arboreus (Araliaceae) (L. F. Phillipson) Reverses Amitriptyline-Induced Sexual Dysfunction in Male Rats by Egbe B. Besong, G. Ateufack, Smith B. Babiaka, Albert Kamanyi

“…The present study was designed to assess the effects of the leaf-methanolic extract of P. arboreus on amitriptyline-induced sexual dysfunction in male rats. …”
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Human-Centric Spatial Cognition Detecting System Based on Drivers’ Electroencephalogram Signals for Autonomous Driving by Yu Cao, Bo Zhang, Xiaohui Hou, Minggang Gan, Wei Wu

“…To enhance the detection accuracy of drivers’ spatial cognition, we designed a novel EEG signal decoding method called a Dual-Time-Feature Network (DTFNet). …”
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Biotin interference with laboratory test results by Strilić David Z., Stanimirov Bojan G., Đanić Maja P.

“…Raising awareness among healthcare professionals and patients, along with implementing biotin depletion protocols and improving immunoassay designs, are key strategies to mitigate interference. …”
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Adaptive Kalman Filtering: Measurement and Process Noise Covariance Estimation Using Kalman Smoothing by Theresa Kruse, Thomas Griebel, Knut Graichen

“…Existing methods are often limited in their application because they are designed to adapt only the measurement noise or the process noise covariance and tend to diverge when both are unknown. …”
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CO2 Adhesion Characteristics on Solid Surfaces under CO2 Geologic Sequestration Environment by Jingyue Sun, Haopo Xu, Cong Chen, Tonglai Li, Weizhong Li, Yan Qin

“…A concentric probe was designed by which vertical position of the probe can be changed by rotating the screw of the probe holder while horizontal degrees of freedom are restricted. …”
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Digital Diagnostics: The Potential of Large Language Models in Recognizing Symptoms of Common Illnesses by Gaurav Kumar Gupta, Aditi Singh, Sijo Valayakkad Manikandan, Abul Ehtesham

“…Specific scenarios were designed to explore their performance in both general and high-stakes diagnostic tasks. …”
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Waterlogging Simulation and Drainage Effect Assessment of Deep Tunnel Engineering in a Coastal City Based on MIKE by TAN Yin, TU Xinjun, YU Honggang, LIN Kairong, LIU Meixian, MA Ke

“…Under extreme hydrometeorological conditions, the waterlogging inundation in coastal cities exhibits rapid increase and slow decrease. For designed 2-hour extreme precipitation with 50-year and 100-year return periods, the waterlogging risk range accounts for 4.24 km² and 5.04 km², respectively. …”
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Riding Through the Pandemic: Unveiling Motorcycle Crash Trends Amidst Three Years of the COVID-19 Crisis by Shahrin Islam, Armana Sabiha Huq, Sadab Ishraq Khan, Sabah Hossain Iqra

“…The study provides a data-driven foundation for designing context-specific policies, adjusting law enforcement strategies, and efficiently allocating resources to enhance road safety under varying conditions.…”
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Grid Forming Inverter With Increased Short-Circuit Contribution to Address Inverter-Based Microgrid Protection Challenges by Maximiliano Ferrari, Leon M. Tolbert, Emilio C. Piesciorovsky

“…The second innovation introduces a novel control strategy designed to preserve control stability margins even when the grid-filter saturates, ensuring sinusoidal output currents under normal and fault conditions. …”
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Relation between Renal Function and Insulin Resistance of Type 2 Diabetic Iraqi Patients by Rami Fadhel Lefta, Ekhlas Abdallah Hassan

“…The methods employed in this investigation were designed to achieve these specific aims, seventy patients and twenty controls were involved for this study. …”
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The Algorithm for Predicting the Numerical Value of Salivary Cortisol Based on Heart Rate Variations in the Healthy Men by Mohammad Reza Noruzi, Marzieh Barzegar, Mahdi Alizadeh, Boshra Hatef

“…The used algorithms were designed to predict the numerical value of salivary cortisol taken from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM with HRV indicators. …”
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In Vitro Evaluation of the Effect of Different Luting Cements and Tooth Preparation Angle on the Microleakage of Zirconia Crowns by Behnaz Ebadian, Amirhossein Fathi, Melika Savoj

“…Zirconia copings were designed and fabricated by the CAD/CAM system. The samples were divided into four subgroups for cementation, and each subgroup was cemented with a different luting cement (n = 7). …”
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PEDAGOGICAL RESEARCH: IN SEARCH FOR MEANS OF QUALITY IMPROVEMENT by Vladislav V. Serikov

“…The author provide the paper with accurate instructions for designing theoretical and empirical aspects of pedagogical research and ways of results summary that are the most comprehensible to their practical use while working on dissertation.…”
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The Profile of COVID-19 Patients in Semen Padang Hospital Indonesia by Fauzar Fauzar, Roza Kurniati, Farhan Abdullah, Alexander Kam

“…The rapid increase in the number of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases, including in Padang, has led the government to designate several hospitals as referrals for COVID-19 patients. …”
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Supergraph Topology Feature Index for Personalized Interesting Subgraph Query in Large Labeled Graphs by Xiaohuan Shan, Haihai Li, Chunjie Jia, Dong Li, Baoyan Song

“…Then, an auxiliary data structure Supergraph Topology Feature Index (STFIndex) is designed to replace the storage of the original data graph and improve the efficiency of an online query. …”
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Big Data Analytics for the ATLAS EventIndex Project with Apache Spark by Álvaro Fernández Casaní, Carlos García Montoro, Santiago González de la Hoz, José Salt, Javier Sánchez, Miguel Villaplana Pérez

“…The ATLAS EventIndex was designed to provide a global event catalogue and limited event-level metadata for ATLAS experiment of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and their analysis groups and users during Run 2 (2015-2018) and has been running in production since. …”
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