Addressing the needs for cultural adaptation of DARE-keepin’ it REAL among Brazilian students: strategies to improve implementation by Juliana Y. Valente, Bianca Franciosi, Rodrigo Garcia-Cerde, Tania Pietrobon, Zila M. Sanchez

“…The lack of cultural adaptation and instructors’ deviations from the curriculum were identified as potential reasons for its ineffectiveness. This study aims to identify points of inadequacy of the PROERD program for the Brazilian culture, suggesting strategies for revising the curriculum to improve implementation. …”
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Decision-Making Mechanism of Cooperative Innovation between Clients and Service Providers Based on Evolutionary Game Theory by Zhiyuan Xu, Jiming Cao, Yunhua Xu, Yeke Sun, Xingjing Zhang

“…The following measures can be taken to promote client-service provider cooperation: improving the initial probabilities of the two parties choosing the cooperative strategy; increasing the innovation benefit when one party innovates independently; reducing the innovation cost and spillover coefficient when one party innovates independently; increasing the penalty when one party cooperates and the other party does not; decreasing the innovation cost when the two parties both choose the cooperation strategy; increasing the excess benefit when the two parties both cooperate; setting reasonable benefit distribution and cost sharing proportions.…”
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Barriers to Uptake of Cataract Surgery in Central Chhattisgarh by Samrat Chatterjee, Nehal Mohata, Anil Babanrao Gangwe, Anupam Sahu, Deepshikha Agrawal

“…The different barriers were lack of escort (34.0%), cost of surgery (17.7%), lack of awareness of cataract (9.6%), fear of losing eyesight (6.8%), unfelt need (6.3%), waiting for outreach camp to happen in a close-by location (5.9%), waiting for the cataract to mature (4.6%), do not know where to go (3.9%), busy with work (3.7%), living far from the hospital (1.9%), need not felt - old age (1.7%), blindness is God’s will (1.4%), other health reasons (1.1%), being female (0.8%), and village not connected to the main road/lack of transport (0.6%). …”
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Resistance of compressed elements with small eccentricity taking into account actual height of the compressed concrete zone by I. T. Mirsayapov, G. T. Apkhadze

“…The analytical expression for the height of the compressed zone is obtained based on the simplified three-linear diagram of the deformation of concrete under compression. Reasonable refinement of the height of the compressed zone makes it possible to achieve maximum convergence with the results of calculations using a nonlinear deformation model without the use of iterative approaches to solving the problem.Conclusions. …”
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ANALYSIS METHOD OF STRENGTH RELIABILITY SAFETY COEFFICIENT FOR HIGH SPEED TRAIN ALUMINUM CARBODY by ZHAO ZhiTang, LU YaoHui, ZHANG DeWen, FENG Zhen, ZENG Jing

“…In this paper, based on the reliability theory, the method of reliability safety coefficient evaluation is adopted, which makes the selection of safety coefficient more reasonable. A certain type of high speed train carbody was taken as research object, the finite element model was established. …”
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Measurement of population agglomeration, dynamic change characteristics, and motivations in metropolitan agglomerations-A case study of the Xi'an metropolitan area. by Ke Liu, Xu Bo, Wang Zhaoping, Ran Du, Chen Heng

“…The geographic detector results showed that factors in the consumer dimension were the main reasons for population agglomeration in metropolitan areas.…”
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Forming the content of education with the account of the principle of science at the end of the ХІХ - the beginning of the XX century by Tatyana B. Kuzyomа

“…The government’s policy towards universities was characterized, the main features of which were centralism and regulation. The main reasons for the regress of the content of higher education are defined: formalism, excessive centralization, lack of academic freedom. …”
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The effect of space flight on genes expression in brain by A. S. Tsybko, T. V. Ilchibaeva, N. K. Popova

“…Because they play a crucial role in the protection and maintenance of dopaminergic neurons, reducing their expression may be one of the reasons for the negative impact of spaceflight on the brain dopamine system. …”
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Redesigning the Employer Value Proposition in Times of Crisis by Katarzyna Łazorko

“…Findings: The presentation of changing expectations of candidates, as well as analysis of the content of the entrepreneurs’ web pages lead to the conclusion that not many Polish enterprises have changed their Employer Value Proposition (EVP) in the last four years to adjust to expectations of potential employees (about 30% in the sample), although, due to their scale of operation their marketing budgets are probably higher than in the case of the rest of the market. There may be many reasons behind that situation, including the specificity of different industries, as well as unpredictability, and suddenness of changes in their environment. …”
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Detecting travel modes from smartphone-based travel surveys with continuous hidden Markov models by Guangnian Xiao, Qin Cheng, Chunqin Zhang

“…Second, we use well-known sequential forward selection procedures to select the most reasonable combination of features. This set of features is expected to help achieve high classification accuracy with few features. …”
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Epidemiology of Plague: Problems with the Use of Mathematical Epidemiological Models in Plague Research and the Question of Transmission by Human Fleas and Lice by Ole J. Benedictow

“…They purportedly consistently disprove (4) the conventional view that plague is/was a rat-and-rat-flea-borne disease. For these reasons, the focus is on methodological problems and on empirical testing by modern medical, entomological, and historical epidemiological data. …”
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РERSONAL PHILOSOPHIZING MOTIVES: DESCARTES AND KIERKEGAARD by A. M. Malivskyi

“…It could be implemented through understanding such viewpoints of both thinkers as a) appropriate reasons for human existence; b) possible factors for human freedom as a condition of self-actualization; c) original approach to prove the existence of God. …”
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EDUCATION IN THE RUSSIAN ARCTIC: OPTIMIZATION RESULTS AND DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES by Ekaterina E. Toropushina

“…The research employs methods such as content analysis, logical reasoning, and comparative analysis. Findings indicate that, in recent years, the education sector in the Russian Arctic has undergone optimization through mergers and closures of institutions and reductions in personnel, leading to increased polarization in the sector. …”

Sweets and other sugary foods – a scoping review for Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2023 by Henna Vepsäläinen, Emily Sonestedt

“…Conclusion: Because sweets, chocolate, and other sugary foods are high in energy and added sugar, and low in essential nutrients and fibre, it is reasonable to limit their consumption, which is reported high in the Nordic countries.…”
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RESEARCH ON DYNAMIC AND STATIC STIFFNESS CHARACTERISTICS OF MESH ELASTIC PAD by ZHAO Feng, HE ZhenXing, SHI GuangTian, CHEN QingChao, ZHOU HuaLong, WANG BinCang

“…The results show that: under the condition of constant mesh aperture,with the increase of mesh wall thickness,the static stiffness of elastic cushion plate increases and the ratio of dynamic stiffness to static stiffness decreases; under the condition of constant mesh wall thickness,with the increase of mesh aperture,the static stiffness of elastic cushion plate decreases and the ratio of dynamic stiffness to static stiffness increases;compare with the traditional grooved elastic cushion plate with similar static stiffness,the meshed elastic cushion plate has the characteristics of lower dynamic and static stiffness,smaller maximum stress value and more uniform stress distribution.Therefore,reasonable adjustment of mesh wall thickness and aperture size can make mesh elastic cushion plate suitable for track structures with different stiffness requirements,and the application of mesh structure to under rail elastic cushion plate can enhance the force transmission characteristics of cushion plate and prolong the service life of cushion plate.…”
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Analysis and Simulation of the Early Warning Model for Human Resource Management Risk Based on the BP Neural Network by Xue Yan, Xiangwu Deng, Shouheng Sun

“…Human resource management risks are due to the failure of employer organization to use relevant human resources reasonably and can result in tangible or intangible waste of human resources and even risks; therefore, constructing a practical early warning model of human resource management risk is extremely important for early risk prediction. …”
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Crime and misdeeds amongst certain members of Ragusan communities in medieval Serbia (1400-1459) by Marković Nikola A.

“…The motives of these crimes were usually financial gain or personal reasons such as rivalry. These cases were archived in the Ragusan archive because an independent judiciary was a privilege granted by charters of Serbian rulers. …”
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The Role of Policies Governing Urban Land Development in Sari by masoumeh amiribesheli, Hossein Mojtaba zadeh Khanghahi

“…The findings of the study indicate that the lack of a clear vision and consequently uncoordinated policies and institutions, centralized and non-cooperative decision making, and excessive tenure without the necessary institutional capacity are the most important reasons for the inefficiency of urban land management policy. …”
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Hydroxymethylfurfural in honey: a public health problem by Bruno Soares Toledo, Lévison da Costa Cipriano, Thais Regina de Castro Pereira, Sérgio Borges Mano, Adriano Gomes da Cruz, Erick Almeida Esmerino, Eliane Teixeira Mársico

“… Honey is a sweet and natural product of high nutritional value, produced by honey bees (Apis mellifera) composed mainly of water and carbohydrates, nitrogen compounds, enzymes, organic acids, amino acids, phenolic compounds, flavonoids, vitamins, minerals and other phytochemical substances. For cultural reasons, it is widely used for therapeutic purposes for various. …”
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Victorian Arts and the Challenge of Modernity: Analogy, the Grid, and Chemical Transformations by Francesca Orestano

“…Subsequently the article moves à rebours, in order to suggest the possible reasons for such hermeneutic proximity. The strategy that allows the artists and critics to move forward and backwards in time is due to their insistence on analogy, which allows them to examine side by side the very modern and the very old. …”
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