Student Engagement and Feedback on Online Learning and Facilitation: A Case Study of the National Open University of Nigeria by Adewale Adesina, Dorothy Ofoha, Olufemi A. Peters, Isaac S. Butswat

“…Thus, this study was designed to survey students’ online learning experience and gather feedback on various aspects of synchronous online facilitation including participation, satisfaction, barriers, and challenges faced during the virtual learning journey. 2,350 students took part in this study. …”
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Editorial by Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche

“…The policy paper also calls for more government funding for prophylactic vaccine research and for the designation of vaccines as “global public goods”. The issue then moves on to a section dedicated to opinion papers by various different authors. …”
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Editorial by Vilma Villarouco, Angelina Costa

“…O tema escolhido “A ergonomia como meio de qualidade para o ambiente construído” uniu arquitetos, urbanistas, ergonomistas, engenheiros de produção, designers, gestores públicos e profissionais da área médica – profissionais, pesquisadores e alunos; que juntos se propuseram a debatê-lo durante o período de 13 a 15 de outubro de 2011. …”
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Dense Nursery Stock Detecting and Counting Based on UAV Aerial Images and Improved LSC-CNN by PENG Xiaodan, CHEN Fengjun, ZHU Xueyan, CAI Jiawei, GU Mengmeng

“…Ablation studies and comparative experiments were designed to demonstrate the performance of the improved LSC-CNN model. …”
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Providing a model of consumer behavior in creating brand attachment with an emphasis on the packaging component of food industry companies by maziar Ghasemzadeh Sangroudi, karim hamdi, SHADAN VAHABZADEH MUNSHI

“…Then the existing categories are leveled with the structural-interpretive method and the initial research model is designed. Finally, partial least squares method has been used to validate the model. …”
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Barcelona scale for buccophonatory apraxia: Quantitative assessment tool by N. Montagut, S. Borrego-Écija, J. Herrero, A. Lladó, M. Balasa, E. Muñoz, F. Valldeoriola, R. Sánchez-Valle

“…Methods: The scale was designed based on useful elements in the assessment of buccophonatory apraxia and the total was quantified in seconds. …”
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Escala Barcelona para la apraxia bucofonatoria: instrumento de evaluación cuantitativo by N. Montagut, S. Borrego-Écija, J. Herrero, A. Lladó, M. Balasa, E. Muñoz, F. Valldeoriola, R. Sánchez-Valle

“…Methods: The scale was designed based on useful elements in the assessment of buccophonatory apraxia and the total was quantified in seconds. …”
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Effects of stress hyperglycemia ratio upon long-lasting prognosis in coronary artery disease patients with or lacking chronic renal impairment: findings from a Chinese multi-center... by Jielan Wu, Jin Liu, Ziyao Yuan, Shangyi Tang, Weipeng Zhang, Yulong Xiang, Jinming Chen, Qiqiang Lin, Wei Guo, Yibo He, Haozhang Huang, Xiaozhao Lu, Jingru Deng, Huangtao Ruan, Rengui Jiang, Shiqun Chen, Yong Liu

“…The present study was designed to elucidate the relation of SHR with prolonged prognosis and the value of SHR in predicting the long-term all-cause and cardiovascular death of CAD patients with CKD or non-CKD. …”
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Analysis on the status quo and influencing factors of work engagement of neurology nurses (神经科护士工作投入的现状及影响因素分析) by FU Jing (富晶), Li Jing (苏娅丽), SU Yali (夏小童), ZHAO Rui (赵彬彬), ZHAO Binbin (许继飞), MA Shengwei (刘宇)

“…Methods Using the convenient sampling method, a cross-sectional survey was conducted among nurses in the department of neurology in a Class III and Class A general hospital in Beijing from April to May 2022. The self-designed general data questionnaire, the work engagement scale and the Chinese version of the perceived stress scale were used to survey the nurses in the department of neurology. …”
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A Historical Study of the Effects of the 1930 Earthquake on the Human Geography and History of Selmas City and its Surrounding Region by Zeinab Ahmadvand, Tohid Malekzadeh Dilmaghani

“…This new city was meticulously designed with proper urban planning and engineering, following a grid pattern. …”
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Acute Care Practice in the United States: The Roles of Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy in Early Rehabilitation by Suzanne E. Holm, Kelly Nelson, Angela Patterson

“…., currently, however, acute care hospitals are not often designed to support patients and meet their intensive rehabilitation needs. …”
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Le nivellement des aqueducs de Lyon et leurs aménagements de régulation et de ralentissement : analyse et mise en perspective by Laetitia Borau

“…The second type is well illustrated by the Brévenne aqueduct, on which inclined channels are interspersed with regularly spaced perpendicular structures (low walls, slabs, wooden beams) designed to slow down the water flow. At least six waterfalls would have been constructed on this pipe. …”
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Application of Concentration-Area fractal modeling and artificial neural network to identify Cu, Zn±Pb geochemical anomalies in Hashtjin area, NW of Iran by Ali Imamalipour, Hamed Ebrahimi, Amir reza Abdollahpur

“…The deep autoencoder network is an autoencoder network in which the neural network is designed profoundly, and the number of layers in it is greater. …”
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Efficacy and safety of perioperative sintilimab plus platinum-based chemotherapy for potentially resectable stage IIIB non-small cell lung cancer (periSCOPE): an open-label, single... by Xiangyang Yu, Chujian Huang, Longde Du, Chunguang Wang, Yikun Yang, Xin Yu, Shengcheng Lin, Chenglin Yang, Hongbo Zhao, Songhua Cai, Zhe Wang, Lixu Wang, Xiaotong Guo, Baihua Zhang, Zhentao Yu, Jie He, Kai Ma

“…Summary: Background: The absolute overall survival (OS) improvement with preoperative chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy in locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients is controversial and unsatisfactory. We designed this trial to explore the efficacy and safety of perioperative sintilimab plus platinum-based chemotherapy for potentially resectable stage IIIB NSCLC to facilitate further optimization of this therapeutic strategy. …”
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A survey on the implementation of health education among nurses in the stomatology clinic in Guangdong Province (广东省口腔门诊护士健康教育实施现状的调查研究) by SHEN Fang (沈芳), YE Ziwen (叶子文), FENG Xiaowen (冯晓文), SU Wanying (苏婉莹), XIAO Wei (肖炜)

“…Objective To investigate the status quo of health education implemented by nurses in stomatology clinics in Guangdong Province, analyze the factors affecting the implementation of oral health education, so as to provide reference for the implementation of health education for patients in stomatology clinics in the future. Methods A self-designed questionnaire on the implementation of health education was used to investigate 382 oral outpatient nurses in Guangdong Province from May to July 2022 by convenience sampling method. …”
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Retrieving the atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane from the European Copernicus CO2M satellite mission using artificial neural networks by M. Reuter, M. Hilker, S. Noël, A. Di Noia, M. Weimer, O. Schneising, M. Buchwitz, H. Bovensmann, J. P. Burrows, H. Bösch, R. Lang

“…The algorithm's postprocessing is designed to achieve a high data yield of about 80 % of all cloud-free soundings. …”
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Nécropoles multipolaires et élaboration d’un nouveau modèle socio-politique au premier âge du Fer : réflexions à partir des sites du Camp de l’Église Sud à Flaujac-Poujols (Lot) et... by Antoine Dumas

“…Spatial analysis was performed following a five steps protocol, which included the creation of heatmaps (1), identification of dense areas of graves (2), the construction of concave hulls (3), buffer-zones (4) and a Delaunay triangulation designed to identify potential burial alignments (5). …”
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Endocrine disruptors and cancers. [Perturbateurs endocriniens et cancers] by Souhila AOUICHAT BOUGUERRA, Saliha BOUMAZA, Khouloud HEMILA, Samia NEGGAZI, Nadjiba HAMLAT, Sihem BERDJA, Leïla SMAIL, Besma MOHAMMEDI, Kenza REGUOUAT, Amina BOUDJLIDA, Sofiane KACI, Fatima BOUACHRIA-BOUSMAHA

“…Endocrine disruptors (ED) are designed by the WHO as “Any chemical substance foreign to the body that can interfere with the functioning of an endocrine system and induce deleterious effects on the latter with a transgenerational effect”. …”
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« Just got to keep going » by Jean-Paul Rocchi

“…Narrés et narratifs, linguistiques et stylistiques, conscientiels et affectifs, les obstacles de The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman font peut-être plus sens une fois replacés dans la perspective de la perlaboration, terme psychanalytique par lequel on désigne le travail de l’inconscient propre à la cure et la possibilité que le sujet a de surmonter les résistances qu’elle ne manque pas de susciter. …”
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Benchmarking data-driven inversion methods for the estimation of local CO₂ emissions from synthetic satellite images of XCO₂ and NO₂ by D. Santaren, J. Hakkarainen, G. Kuhlmann, E. Koene, F. Chevallier, I. Ialongo, H. Lindqvist, J. Nurmela, J. Tamminen, L. Amorós, D. Brunner, G. Broquet

“…., computationally light inversion methods that directly process information from satellite images, local winds, and meteorological data, without resorting to computationally expensive dynamical atmospheric transport models. We designed an objective benchmarking exercise to analyze and compare the performance of five different data-driven inversion methods: two implementations with different complexities for the cross-sectional flux approach (CSF and LCSF), as well as one implementation each for the integrated mass enhancement (IME), divergence (Div), and Gaussian plume (GP) model inversion approaches. …”
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