The adoption of telemedicine by healthcare practitioners in South Africa by Margaret Cullen, Andre Calitz, Sasha Boucher, Prashna Buddan

“…Orientation: Telemedicine plays an important role in patient-centred healthcare, diagnosing and treating diseases and developing treatment plans. …”
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Secondary School Learners’ Transition to the University: A Qualitative Research Approach by Mbulaheni Paul Tshisikhawe, Buyisani Dube

“…The study findings showed that challenges related to the orientation of learners, class attendance, language of teaching and learner support compromise the transition of first-year learners, a majority of who end up failing or dropping out of the university. …”
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Sensory substitution and augmentation techniques in cerebral visual impairment: a discussion of lived experiences by Stephanie L. Duesing, Katie Lane-Karnas, Sebastian James Adam Duesing, Mae Lane-Karnas, Nai Y, Arvind Chandna, Arvind Chandna

“…In this paper, three individuals with early-onset CVI and two parents discuss sensory substitution and augmentation developed in childhood in the absence of early identification of CVI, and they detail the important impact of the empowering, professionally taught non-visual skills–such as braille, orientation and mobility training, and assistive technology–which were acquired later. …”
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DIDACTIC TERMS OF USE OF BIOGRAPH INFINITI SPECIALIZED SOFTWARE IN UKRAINE’S HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS by Olha M. Lunhol, Olha A. Haborets, Hanna M. Kolieva, Artur O. Voloboiev

“…Each laboratory work is created according to the principles of scientificity, integrity and professional orientation of education and includes 3 levels: general (basic), psychological and medical-biological. …”
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Simulation of Software Development Team Productivity Incorporating Social and Human Factors: A System Dynamics Model by Luz Marcela Restrepo-Tamayo, Gloria Piedad Gasca-Hurtado, Johnny Valencia-Calvo

“…The generated burndown charts are used to demonstrate that the model constitutes a basal structure oriented to understand the productivity behavior of work teams. …”
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Systematic literature review on the theory of Social Embeddedness of Thriving at Work by Listya Istiningtyas, Debora E. Purba, Elizabeth K. Poerwandari, Bagus Takwin, Mirra N. Milla

“…Orientation: Industrial and organisational psychology has increasingly focussed on Thriving at Work (TAW), particularly shaped by the Social Embeddedness of Thriving at Work (SEMTW) model, which examines how employees’ social interactions within the workplace enhance their growth and performance. …”
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Extrinsic mortality and senescence: a guide for the perplexed by de Vries, Charlotte, Galipaud, Matthias, Kokko, Hanna

“…Reading the literature creates an impression that mathematically oriented biologists cannot agree on the validity of George Williams' prediction (who claimed 'yes'). …”
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Adaptive Bi-Directional RRT Algorithm for Three-Dimensional Path Planning of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Complex Environments by Nan Li, Sang Ik Han

“…This adaptive approach reduces the randomness in sampling, improves the target-oriented nature of the search, and consequently enhances overall search efficiency. …”
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Nonparametric analysis of inter‐individual relations using an attention‐based neural network by Takashi Morita, Aru Toyoda, Seitaro Aisu, Akihisa Kaneko, Naoko Suda‐Hashimoto, Ikuma Adachi, Ikki Matsuda, Hiroki Koda

“…The proposed method successfully recovered the latent relations behind the simulated data and discovered female‐oriented relations in the real data, which are in accordance with the previous generalizations about the macaque social structure. …”
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Incorporating Contextual Factors into a Comprehensive Analysis of Operational Efficiency and Service Quality in Healthcare Sector by Utsav Pandey, Sanjeet Singh

“…In the first stage, an output-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis is employed to model the interdependency between operational efficiency and service quality by assessing the allocation of the input resources for achieving these two objectives. …”
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PRESBYACOUSSIS: JUSTIFICATION OF DIAGNOSIS IN SCREENING CONDITIONS by K.E. Gubskaya, M.M. Baibulov, Dinara Urazalina, Gulnara Tuleshova

“…An information search for relevant studies was conducted by keywords with the construction of strip lines and a stepwise analysis of the target orientation of the results of published studies. After selection and analysis, the results of 6 studies were taken into work, including 3 randomized clinical trials and 3 observational studies. …”
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Geografía del éxito futbolístico en España: la influencia de la densidad demográfica by José Manuel Llorente Pinto, Juan Ignacio Plaza Gutiérrez, José Luis Sánchez Hernández

“…Los resultados permiten afirmar que la densidad demográfica predice correctamente el éxito futbolístico local y provincial, que se concentra en la Comunidad de Madrid, el arco mediterráneo entre Barcelona y Valencia, la cornisa cantábrica oriental y el occidente andaluz. No obstante, se han detectado desviaciones positivas (éxito superior al esperable) y negativas (éxito inferior al esperable) que sólo pueden interpretarse mediante análisis cualitativos pormenorizados que incorporen factores institucionales y sociológicos subyacentes al éxito o fracaso de determinadas provincias y clubes. …”
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Transformer-Based Optimization for Text-to-Gloss in Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation by Younes Ouargani, Noussaim El Khattabi

“…With a 55.18 Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation (ROUGE) score, and a 63.6 BiLingual Evaluation Understudy 1 (BLEU1) score, our proposed model not only outperforms state-of-the-art models on the Phoenix14T dataset but also outperforms some of the best alternative architectures, specifically Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Long Short Term Memory (LSTM), and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU). …”
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El manejo del área marina y costera protegida Actam Chuleb y los beneficios económicos que genera a los usuarios del municipio de San Felipe, Yucatán, México by Wilian de Jesús Aguilar Cordero, Nesmi Neredva Castro Castillo, Juana Griselda Couoh Cab

“…El área marina y costera protegida (AMyCP) Actam Chuleb se ubica en la costa oriente del estado de Yucatán, en el municipio de San Felipe, donde se realizó el estudio con el fin de caracterizar el manejo de los recursos naturales y estimar los beneficios de uso directo. …”
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The lssue of Suprašl Monastery Confessional Subordination and Character at the beginning of the 16th Century by Genutė Kirkienė

“…The fact of the foundation of Suprasi Monastery, which took place during the movement of the implementation of the programme of the Church Union, clearly showed the confessional orientation and direct relationship of Aleksandras Chodkevičius with Kiev Metropolitan Bulgarinovičius' programme of the renewal of the Church Union of Florence. …”
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Perceived Stress and Coping Strategies among B.Sc. Nursing Students in Mizoram during COVID-19 Pandemic by C. Lalramdini, H. T. Lalremsanga, Lukima Saikia, H. T. Malsawmtluanga

“…To assess the level of stress and coping strategies, respectively, Pandemic-Related Perceived Stress Scale of Covid-19 (PSS-10-C) and Modified Brief-Coping orientation to problems experienced Scale were used. …”
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Exploring benefits of a collaborative Scottish university-organization alternative credentials approach to re-skilling by Christopher J. M. Smith, Constantinos Choromides, Alicia Clyde, Fiona Stewart-Knight

“…Nine semi-structured interviews (with both learning providers and university employees) were inductively analyzed using a two-cycle thematic analysis approach to determine themes.ResultsThe SCQF guidance and the business-orientated nature of Scottish universities in credit-rating of learning were highlighted as an important enabler for this alternative form of credentialed learning to being possible. …”
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An assessment strategy for the employability of HRM graduates in South Africa by Tendency Beretu, Warren P. Charles

“…Orientation: The unemployment problem in South Africa has been explored from both supply and demand perspectives, but there is a gap in understanding industry expectations on graduate competence and market readiness. …”
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Emotional labour, burnout and work engagement amongst service centre employees in South Africa by Amanda Erasmus, Elrie Oosthuysen

“…Orientation: Transforming public service delivery is crucial for the South African government. …”
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Strategic human resources management practices are key to small, medium and micro enterprises effectiveness in South Africa by Jealous Sungwa

“…Orientation: Small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) are prone to failure primarily because of inadequate human resource (HR) procedures despite their reputation for flexibility, closeness to dependable clients, adaptability and adoption of new technologies. …”
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