Household food insecurity in rural and urban West Java: The need for coping strategies by Vipta Resti Mauludyani Anna, Khomsan Ali

“…Furthermore, a substantially greater proportion of rural households (19.3% vs. 10.0%) borrowed food or turned to friends or family for support. Overall, the occupation of the father, the level of education of the mother, and the percentage of food spending were the factors that determined household food insecurity. …”
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Identifying factors on bullying in school: qualitative analysis by Mohammad Narimani, Nima Sadeghzadeh Belil

“…It shows that the factors affecting bullying in school with 66 codes and in 6 categories are individual factors, school factors, family factors, classroom issues, friends and peers, and environmental factors. By applying the identified factors, students can be taught skills to treat and reduce bullying in school so that they can use them to overcome their bullying.…”
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Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Fake News: A Comparative Study of Instagram Users in Greece and Portugal by Evangelia Pothitou, Maria Perifanou, Anastasios A. Economides

“…The results reveal distinct user behaviors: Greeks exhibit a unique inclination towards social connections, displaying an increased trust in friends’ content and investing more time on Instagram, reflecting the importance of personal connections in their media consumption. …”
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A User Authentication Scheme Using Physiological and Behavioral Biometrics for Multitouch Devices by Chorng-Shiuh Koong, Tzu-I Yang, Chien-Chao Tseng

“…Besides, it also helps us get connected with friends and business partners through social network applications, which were widely used as personal identifications in both real and virtual societies. …”
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The Freedom Fight: A Novel of Resistance and Freedom. A Translation by Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith of Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí’s Ọmọ Olókùn Ẹṣin by Michael Oladejo Afolayan

“…To this end he and his many friends – among them Àyọwí from Igboho, and Ibiwumi, the Otu Baale’s ̀ daughter – who help him narrate this story, suffered untold hardships. …”
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Investigating the influencers of materialism in adolescence by Marcelo de Rezende Pinto, Alisson Oliveira Mota, Ramon Silva Leite, Ricardo César Alves

“…The model was composed of three influencer variables of materialism (age, economic class, gender) and by seven influencer constructs (communication with friends, communication with parents, effect of peers, media exposure, attitudes to adverts, attraction of celebrities and self-esteem). …”
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Russian Siberia against background of changes in statehood by S. V. Novikov

“…Statehood remains the object of close attention, both of our friends and opponents. The disintegration and disappearance of Russia was predicted by J. …”
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Friendship, admiration, or hatred? The image of the united provinces in the travel diaries of the Czech nobility (1650-1750) by Jiří Kubeš

“…If they did make any friends on their short visits, they were mostly recruited from the international diplomatic cream of society that frequented The Hague during the Baroque period. …”
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‘It’s bawdier in Greek’: A.C. Swinburne’s Subversions of the Hellenic Code by Charlotte Ribeyrol

“…When Algernon Charles Swinburne was asked in 1872 to make a contribution to Théophile Gautier’s Tombeau, he impressed his French friends, including Hugo or Mallarmé, by sending no fewer than six poems, two in English, two in French, one in Latin and one in Greek. …”
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Reconnecting Alaska: Mexican Movements and the Last Frontier by Sara V. Komarnisky

“…Today, many Acuitzences who live in Anchorage maintain a close relationship with friends and family members in Acuitzio, and travel back and forth regularly. …”
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Prevalence and Correlates of Truancy among School-Going Adolescents in Mozambique: Evidence from the 2015 Global School-Based Health Survey by Abdul-Aziz Seidu

“…It was found that adolescents aged 15 years and older [OR=1.460,95% CI=1.153,1.848], experiencing hunger [OR=1.613 95% CI= 1.051,2.475], current tobacco use [OR=1.613 95%CI=1.051,2.475], being bullied [OR=1.314, 95% CI=1.027,1.681], facing an attack, smoking [OR= 1.893, 95% CI=1.293,2.771], having 1-2 close friends [OR=1.656, 95% CI=1.276,2.14], and feeling lonely [OR=1.295, 95% CI=1.019,1.646] were the factors that predisposed adolescents to truant behaviour. …”
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Developing pre-service teachers’ intercultural communication competence: Learning through extracurricular informal digital learning of English by Nur Arifah Drajati, Lynde Tan, Surya Agung Wijaya, Agustina Tyarakanita

“…Combining the analysis from observations, artifacts, diaries, and interviews, this study reports that engaging in extracurricular IDLE potentially unlocked PSTs to 1) become aware of the value of their own cultural background and biases in developing their perception of other cultures and 2) evaluate their English language choices that potentially affected on how they addressed some topics and interpretation with overseas friends (OFs). Furthermore, this study provides insight into the benefits of implementing ICC for PSTs, especially in language development, and how they perceived this as a motivation for designing their future classroom practices.…”
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"I Feel Like I Have Lost Part Of My Identity" - A Qualitative Study Exploring The Impact Of Chronic Ankle Instability by Anders Mohrsen, Thomas Sørensen, Henrik Lund, Steven Zartov Rasmussen, Asger Jensen, Katrine Bruun Skov, Michael Skovdal Rathleff

“…The themes were *Injury history and symptoms* (Lateral ankle sprain during sport, pain and instability), *Information from health professional* (conflicting information about management and prognosis), *Management* (mental and physical challenges), *Expectation and hope* (explanation of symptoms, prognosis and imaging to provide clarification of condition), *Activity and participation* (restriction in sport and daily life and feelings of uncertainty), *Support* (support from family/friends) and *Identity* (low ability to participate in sport and social life result in loss of identity)…”
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Emotional - Behavioral Difficulties and Prosocial Behaviour among Vietnamese Adolescents: the Role of Social Support by Nguyen Thi Thuy

“…Friend support only decreased behavioural problems and encouraged prosocial behaviours. …”
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شبکات الکتب الاجتماعیة على الویب ودورها فى دعم القراء والمؤلفین :دراسة میدانیة لاستخدام شبکة Goodreads نموذجا... by د. ایمان فوزى عمر

“…And 292 individuals have accounts onGoodreads Network, Which represents a percentage of 49.5%.The most important reason for creating a reader’s account on GoodreadsNetwork was the benefit of book recommendations by friends, which represents apercentage of 82.8%.About the writers study community, the study has revealed that thenumber of writers who have author’s accounts is 17 which represents 45.9%. …”
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Estelle L’Hardy’s Ecstatic State and Jenny Wren’s Blessed Children: Dickens’s Invention within the Evolving Mental Sciences by Carole Koepke Brown

“…In Our Mutual Friend, Dickens brilliantly exploits the medical climax in the recovery of the ‘incurable’ Estelle L’Hardy (1836–37), a paralyzed Swiss girl who self-hypnotized a celestial choir to assuage menacing pain. …”
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Play space – head space – third space: playful pedagogy and research – ways of building collaborative and creative communities of learners by Sandra Abegglen, Tom Burns, Sandra Sinfield

“…We, the authors, have reflected on our own past contributions on the topic – and contributions from some friends and allies – in blogs and articles, in books and activities – and playfully selected those that at this moment we like the best, that we find the most provocative, intriguing, or useful. …”
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Changes in Chinese Discharged Chronic Mental Patients Attending a Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program with Holistic Care Elements: A Quasi-Experimental Study by Andrew L. Luk, Daniel T.L. Shek

“…Results showed that those who joined the SHG with holistic care elements had more friends and more social satisfaction than the control subjects. …”
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Dominant Discourses About What It Means to Be “Good” at Mathematics: How High-Achieving Young Women Negotiate Tensions Within Their Evolving STEM Identities by Terrie Galanti, Nancy Holincheck

“…These dominant discourses are communicated to students in a myriad of ways through family, friends, media, and overall societal norms. They reify deficit perspectives (often gendered, classed, and racialized) about who is or can be mathematically competent. …”
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OUTSTANDING RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS: DIMITRY AND ELENA WENTZEL by V. I. LEVIN

“…The paper extensively uses published materials, as well as oral memoirs of the participants of these events – friends and acquaintances of our heroes. Special attention is paid to the history and activities of the country’s largest military university – the Air Force Engineering Academy named after Zhukovsky (VVIA). …”
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