Practicality of Student-Centered Assessment/Learning using Mathematics Modeling Process Worksheets to Improve the Quality of Education by Bambang Riyanto

“…Students commented that this mathematical modeling process worksheet was interesting, confusing but challenging and had never been found in their classrooms. Students can solve problems on process worksheets even though the mathematization process has not yet appeared, because students only solve them using informal methods. …”
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Cost Consciousness Among Dermatologists by AlFada MA

“…Approximately 82% of them had heard of cost-effectiveness, but only 10% really understood how to indicate, interpret, and calculate it, while most had never heard of cost-consciousness or cost-containment. …”
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Study of Barium Adsorption from Aqueous Solutions Using Copper Ferrite and Copper Ferrite/rGO Magnetic Adsorbents by B. Carmel Jeeva Mary, J. Judith Vijaya, M. Bououdina, L. Khezami, A. Modwi, M. Ismail, Stefano Bellucci

“…The development of advanced materials for the removal of heavy metal ions is a never-ending quest of environmental remediation. …”
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Acceptance of Mass Drug Administration for Prophylaxis against Lymphatic Filariasis in a Tribal Endemic Area: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study by Asmit Agarwal, Vikas Maharshi

“…Results: Of 101 participants, majority were aware of the disease (92.1%), its vector (74.3%), at least one disability caused (87.2%), and governmental scheme of MDA (69.3%). Two-thirds never received and 85.1% did not receive MDA within 1 year. 68.3% refused of distribution of MDA to their doorstep. …”
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The Relationship Between Type D Personality, Bedtime Procrastination and Sleep Quality by Ayse Duman, Ömer Faruk Uygur, Hilal Uygur, Dudu Demiröz

“…Background/Aims: Bedtime procrastination (BP) is an unhealthy sleep behavior, but its relationship with Type D (distress) personality has never been examined. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between Type D Personality, BP, and Sleep Quality in university students. …”
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Are Women More Risk Averse? A Sequel by Christos I. Giannikos, Efstathia D. Korkou

“…Unlike the original study, which also included married couples, the new study focuses exclusively on single-headed (never-married) households. This eliminates ambiguity about the actual financial decision maker in households, enabling a clearer assessment of individual gendered behavior. …”
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To destroy or not? A Cognitive Linguistics exploration of Yahweh’s (un)willingness to destroy Israel in Deuteronomy by Izaak J.L. Connoway

“…The study found that when שׁמד and אבד are used for future judgement for idolatry once Israel crosses the Jordan (e.g. Dt 4:26), they never refer to the annihilation of Israel. Although the judgement described there does involve severe casualties, the focus is on being removed from Canaan rather than the nation being annihilated. …”
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Deep Interest-Shifting Network with Meta-Embeddings for Fresh Item Recommendation by Zhao Li, Haobo Wang, Donghui Ding, Shichang Hu, Zhen Zhang, Weiwei Liu, Jianliang Gao, Zhiqiang Zhang, Ji Zhang

“…Second, since the items are fresh, many of them have never been exposed to users, leading to a severe cold-start problem. …”
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Orientia, Rickettsia, and the microbiome in rodent attached chiggers in North Carolina, USA. by Elise A Richardson, Reuben Garshong, Kaiying Chen, Dac Crossley, Bryan S Mclean, Gideon Wasserberg, Charles S Apperson, R Michael Roe, Loganathan Ponnusamy

“…However, fundamental studies into the bacterial microbiome in North America have never been considered. In this investigation, chiggers were collected in the wild from two locally common rodent host species (i.e., Sigmodon hispidus and Peromyscus leucopus) in three different ecoregions of North Carolina (NC), United States to investigate the composition of their bacterial communities, including potential pathogens. …”
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The Semantics of the Absurd: On German ‘Hermetic’ Poetry and Political Commitment after 1945 by Marko Pajević

“…Paul Celan, Ingeborg Bachmann, Ilse Aichinger, Günter Eich and Nelly Sachs are the household names associated with this poetics. While it was never necessarily mainstream, it was arguably the most innovative poetic strand of its time and in the long run a key factor in shaping a modern German culture that could come to terms with its past and overcome authoritarian structures. …”
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E-cigarettes are not associated with post-acute COVID-19 syndrome among US adults by Shahryar Rajai Firouzabadi, Ida Mohammadi, Mohammadreza Alinejadfard, Arman Shafiee

“…It analyzed e-cigarette use (never, former, current) and controlled for key covariates such as age, gender, BMI, smoking, and chronic diseases. …”
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«CULTURAL REVOLUTION» IN THE USSR IN 1929–1932 AND THE EARLY ATTACKS AGAINST N.I. VAVILOV’S SCHOOL. A STUDY BASED ON DOCUMENTS FROM ST. PETERSBURG ARCHIVES by E. I. Kolchinsky

“…In an ordinary situation, the debates would have never had the same tragic consequences as they had for many of their participants. …”
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Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision's (VMMC) strategy for HIV prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa, prevalence, risks, costs, benefits and best practice: A scoping review study protoco... by Charles Maibvise, Takaedza Munangatire, Nestor Tomas, Daniel O Ashipala, Priscilla S Dlamini

“…Despite significant strides made in the initiative and its proven benefits, controversies surrounding the strategy have never ceased, and its future remains uncertain especially as some countries near their initial targets. …”
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Insights into prostate cancer awareness and perceptions among men in Tshwane by L Nzombe, J Shirinde, S Patrick

“…While 93.7% of the respondents reported that they had never tested for PCa, 98.3% said that if they were offered the opportunity to test voluntarily, they would agree to test for PCa. …”
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Federated learning and information sharing between competitors with different training effectiveness by Jiajun Meng, Jing Chen, Dongfang Zhao

“…Our results show that when the initial product quality is high, FL can never be formed. Moreover, when the initial product quality is low, and when data volume is low and firms’ training effectiveness differences are small, FL is more likely to form. …”
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Knowledge of Thai women in cervical cancer etiology and screening. by Uraiwan Khomphaiboonkij, Nattapong Sreamsukcharoenchai, Supakorn Pitakkarnkul, Kristsanamon Rittiluechai, Siriwan Tangjitgamol

“…After excluding 110 women who had never known about HPV, 25.2% had good knowledge about HPV. …”
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Perceptions and attitudes towards AI among trainee and qualified radiologists at selected South African training hospitals by Ayanda I. Nciki, Linda T. Hlabangana

“…Most knew about AI from media reports (77%) and majority (95%) were never involved in AI training; only 3% of participants had no knowledge of AI at all. …”
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An auto-tuning process-based 3D model to forecast irrigation demand in kiwifruit by Marco Bittelli, Matteo Francia, Joseph Giovanelli, Matteo Golfarelli, Fausto Tomei

“…For these reasons, the need for robust methods of agricultural modeling and forecasting has never been clearer. In particular, forecasting the water budget is a key tool for reducing water wastage and maximizing agricultural production. …”
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Possible ways to increase the efficiency of the institution of power lustration in Ukraine by V. B. Pchelin

“…It has been stated that the majority of the ruling elite was never lustrated, and those who were under lustration processes were renewed in their positions as a result of court decisions. …”
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Clinical signs of caprine arthritis-encephalitis and disease-related pathomorphological changes by V. Yu. Koptev, N. А. Shkil, N. Yu. Balybina, I. N. Penkova

“…Given the fact, the issue of antemortem and postmortem diagnosis of caprine arthritis-encephalitis is still urgent, because most veterinary specialists have never encountered this disease and the data available in the literature often do not fully cover all clinical details and pathomorphological features. …”
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