Reliability test and revision of stress coping scale for early childhood teachers by Jie Wang

“…Among the three-factor model, the discriminant and convergent validity of the three factors were reasonable. The correlation coefficients of rational thinking, emotion regulation, and support seeking with the two dimensions of help-seeking and cognitive coping in the COPE questionnaire were significantly positive and greater than 0.4, indicated that the correlation between this scale and the standardized scales was high. …”
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Expansion of a stationary retail trading network in Vilnius and the Vilnius district in 1861-1904 by Aelita Ambrulevičiūtė

“…The weak development of the network during the period of the 1860s-1890s was conditioned by several reasons: in the first decades after the reforms, agriculture hadn’t been commercialized yet, people's purchasing power was weak, and peasant farms just tried to satisfy in-house needs with minimal expenditures. …”
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Germany-Iran Relations in Political-Military Sphere: The Impossible Unlocking of Potential? by V. S. Мirzekhanov, Ph. O. Trunov

“…In the first three cases Germany tries to limit the scale, the character (non-combatant capabilities), geographic area (not in deep regions) of the Bundeswehr usage. One of the key reasons of it is that Germany avoids being drawn into action against the Iranian troops or its junior allies («Hezbollah» in Lebanon, Shia combatants in Southern Iraq). …”
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How Fast Is Recovery of Impaired Glucose Tolerance after 21-Day Bed Rest (NUC Study) in Healthy Adults? by Martina Heer, Natalie Baecker, Stephan Wnendt, Annelie Fischer, Gianni Biolo, Petra Frings-Meuthen

“…An individually tailored and intensified training regime is mandatory in patients being in bed rest to get back to normal glucose metabolism in a reasonable time frame.…”
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Exploring the perspectives of new-in-practice specialists about the Health Advocate role: “I didn’t even know where to start” by Jacqueline Dorothy Cochrane, Nancy Dudek, Kelsey Crawford, Lindsay Cowley, Kori A LaDonna

“…In turn, participants grappled with lack of preparation, waning motivation, feelings of futility, lack of value for advocacy and need for self-preservation. For these reasons, they questioned whether system-level advocacy should be expected of all physicians. …”
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Legal support of corporate legal relations: priority in terms of imperative or discretionary nature by Yu. M. Zhornokui

“…It is clearly crystallised in relation to certain organisational and legal forms of corporate entities. For objective reasons, it is less evident in relation to a public joint-stock company. …”
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Legitimacy as a limiting factor of political utility of military power by Milenković Miloš R., Vračar Milinko S.

“…In the post-Cold War era, determined by the strong influences of globalization and the information revolution, it can be seen that military power fails to produce the expected political effects or at least those effects that could be produced in the past. One of the reasons why is that so, the authors find in the deficit of its legitimacy. …”
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Photovoltaic Farms: Economic Efficiency of Investments in South-East Poland by Joanna Żurakowska-Sawa, Arkadiusz Gromada, Anna Trocewicz, Adrianna Wojciechowska, Marcin Wysokiński, Anetta Zielińska

“…The sensitivity analysis shows that, regardless of the adopted scenario, investments in solar thermal power with the level of support that took place under the 2007–2013 financial perspective were reasonable long-term investments. In the least favorable scenario (conservative) included in the analysis, the discounted payback period ranged from 8.1 to 22 years. …”
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Patient Preference for Once-Weekly Dosing in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Japan by Rohini Sen, Alan L. Shields, Koichiro Atsuda

“…The most commonly cited reasons for QW preference were (1) “less burdensome because they didn’t have to take it every day” (47.8%), (2) “less psychological burden” (14.6%), and (3) “forget to take it less often”(12.5%). …”
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TRANSFORMING SOUTH AFRICA’S UNIVERSITIES OF TECHNOLOGY: A ROADMAP THROUGH 4IR LENSES by Muthoni Masinde, Peter A Roux

“…Among these universities, are the six universities of technology (UoTs), which, for historical reasons, the transformation project presents unique challenges and opportunities. …”
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Genetic Analysis of Cytokine Promoters in Nonhuman Primates: Implications for Th1/Th2 Profile Characteristics and SIV Disease Pathogenesis by Pavel Bostik, Melanie Watkins, Francois Villinger, Aftab A. Ansari

“…Paradoxically, antigen activated PBMC's from sooty mangabeys (SM), which are naturally infected with SIV and are disease resistant despite high viral loads, maintain a predominant Th2 cytokine profile. It has been reasoned that the resistance to perturbations of cytokine synthesis by slow and/or nonprogressor HIV infected patients and SIV infected disease susceptible RM is secondary to inherited polymorphisms within the promoter regions for cytokines. …”
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Migraine in men by Mira P. Fitzek, Deirdre M. Boucherie, Tessa de Vries, Cleo Handtmann, Haniyeh Fathi, Bianca Raffaelli, Antoinette MaassenVanDenBrink

“…They also tend to have fewer psychological comorbidities, respond more favorably to pharmacological treatments, yet are less likely to seek medical support. The reasons for these sex disparities are complex, involving biological, psychosocial, and cultural factors, such as brain structural differences, differences in functional responses to painful stimuli, hormonal effects, and behavioral influences like adherence to masculine norms and stigma. …”
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Optimization of Barrier Pillar Design in Longwall Mining with Top Coal Caving in Spontaneous Combustion Coal Seam by Qiang Fu, Ke Yang, Qinjie Liu, Shuai Liu, Xiang He, Xin Lyu

“…Determining a reasonable barrier pillar along gob-side entry of spontaneous combustion coal seam is of great significance to the prevention of spontaneous combustion. …”
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Assessing the Projection Correction of Coronal Mass Ejection Speeds on Time‐of‐Arrival Prediction Performance Using the Effective Acceleration Model by Evangelos Paouris, Angelos Vourlidas, Athanasios Papaioannou, Anastasios Anastasiadis

“…Our method is uniquely capable to produce physically reasonable deprojected speeds across the full range of source longitudes. …”
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Water management for rice production: a key component of food security in East Africa by Denis Bwire, Hirotaka Saito, Roy C. Sidle, Moses Mugisha

“…Nonetheless, climate-smart water management technologies such as AWD, SRI, and drip irrigation are less used by paddy and upland rice smallholder farmers for several reasons including limited awareness, funding, and technical knowledge. …”
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Forecasting the Applied Deep Learning Tools in Enhancing Food Quality for Heart Related Diseases Effectively: A Study Using Structural Equation Model Analysis by Sunil L. Bangare, Deepali Virmani, Girija Rani Karetla, Pankaj Chaudhary, Harveen Kaur, Syed Nisar Hussain Bukhari, Shahajan Miah

“…It has been stated that unhealthy habits and other related aspects adopted by individuals are considered as the primary reasons for an increase in the risk of heart diseases. …”
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EFFICIENCY UTILIZATION OF GREEN TIME AT COUNTDOWN SIGNALIZED INTERSECTION by Ijeoma IHUOMA-WALTER

“…A comparison between the estimated decision probabilities (determined from deductive reasoning) for traditional traffic supported a pattern of underutilization of green time for the countdown signal scenario. …”
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A feasibility study on using soft insoles for estimating 3D ground reaction forces with incorporated 3D-printed foam-like sensors by Nick Willemstein, Saivimal Sridar, Herman van der Kooij, Ali Sadeghi

“…In addition, the identified HW models showed the best estimation performance (on average root mean squared (RMS) error 9.3%, $ {R}^2 $ =0.85 and mean absolute error (MAE) 7%) of the vertical, mediolateral, and anteroposterior GRFs, thereby showing that these sensors can estimate the resulting 3D force reasonably well. These results were comparable to or outperformed other works that used commercial force-sensing resistors with machine learning. …”
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Study on the safety distance determination model for natural gas wells in Ordos Basin subsidence areas of coal mining by Wen Wang, Yang Zhang, Shuang Gong, Junqi Lei, Jiandong Ren, Yanxiong Ding, Xiaowei Lu

“…Through comparison, it was found that the discriminant model reduced the reserved safety distance between the coal mining working face and the natural gas well by 58% compared with the currently used avoidance method of the surface subsidence boundary, liberated coal resources, and achieved a "win–win" situation of the coordinated mining of natural gas resources and coal resources. It can reasonably adjust the coordinated mining problem without a natural gas-coal co-mining mechanism, provide a new method for the layout of natural gas wells in gas-coal overlapping areas, and provide new ideas for the coordinated mining of coal-related associated resources.…”
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A New Modified Peck Formula for Predicting the Surface Settlement Based on Stochastic Medium Theory by Zhanping Song, Xiaoxu Tian, Yuwei Zhang

“…The table of recommendation for the number of units can be obtained by a discussion of reasonable n values. Finally, the difference between the original Peck formula and the modified Peck formula was analysed, and the results showed that the change rule of the surface settlement is consistent under the tunnel depth, internal friction angle, and ground loss of the tunnel. …”
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