Emerging Technologies to Promote Fans Interaction in Football Events: A Systematic Review by Francisco Martins, Cíntia França, Pedro Paixão, Diogo V. Martinho, Pedro Campos, Bruna Gouveia, Helder Lopes, Andreas Ihle, Eduardo Marques, Élvio Rúbio Gouveia

“…Two studies showed promising results in the area of football fans’ health, and only one study showed some difficulties for fans using an ad hoc network in the stadium. Adding personal information, fan interaction systems, specific information about the players and the teams’ tactical strategies, and interactive fan voting seem to be important elements for designing a successful interactive tool that contributes to increasing fans’ enthusiasm during football matches.…”
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Continuing education programme on vaccines for primary healthcare professionals: mixed-method protocol by Marina García-Gámez, María González-Cano-Caballero, Eloísa Fernández-Fernández, Eloísa Fernández-Ordoñez, María Dolores Cano-Caballero, Cristina Guerra-Marmolejo

“…Transfer will be measured using the questionnaire ‘factors for the indirect evaluation of transfer’ and an efficacy questionnaire 1½ months later; for satisfaction, an ad hoc questionnaire will be used. A summative approach will be used for the analysis of the focus groups and descriptive and bivariate statistics for the questionnaires.Ethics and dissemination This study was approved by the Andalusian Research Ethics Committee, Spain (approval number: 0524-N-20). …”
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Intelligent Advisory Speed Limit Dedication in Highway Using VANET by Ali Jalooli, Erfan Shaghaghi, Mohammad Reza Jabbarpour, Rafidah Md Noor, Hwasoo Yeo, Jason J. Jung

“…The proposed approach takes advantage of vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) to accelerate its performance, in the way that simulation results demonstrate the reduction of incident detection time up to 31.2% in comparison with traditional VSL strategy. …”
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Benelux countries’ security strategies: between europeanism and atlanticism by Anastasia A. Posazhennikova

“…Besides, for Belgium, support for deeper integration has become a key identity feature, while the Netherlands relies on special relations with the United States and ad hoc coalitions in the EU; Luxembourg’s foreign policy can be described to follow a free rider strategy. …”
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La percepción de las trabajadoras sociales sobre las implicaciones de la Inteligencia Artificial en sus prácticas profesionales: Un estudio exploratorio by Paula García González, Ana Morales Hernández, Celsa Cáceres Rodríguez

“…Para ello, se aplicó un cuestionario ad hoc a 120 trabajadoras sociales.Los resultados revelan que el conocimiento general sobre la IA entre las trabajadoras sociales es limitado y su implementación en dicho campo es aún incipiente, no obstante, identifican beneficios potenciales. …”
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Legitimizing Factors of the American Hegemony: The Changing Role of Coalitions and Partnerships by A. N. Bogdanov

“…On this basis the author explores the specifics of the United States’ partnerships and ad hoc coalitions as the tools of legitimizing the ‘American hegemony’ after the end of the Cold War. …”
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DCE-MRI and DWI Integration for Breast Lesions Assessment and Heterogeneity Quantification by C. Andrés Méndez, Francesca Pizzorni Ferrarese, Paul Summers, Giuseppe Petralia, Gloria Menegaz

“…Dissimilarity-based clustering is then performed exploiting the information coming from both modalities. To this end an ad hoc distance metric is developed and tested for tuning the weighting for the two modalities. …”
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Effectiveness of active labour market policies for job creation and earnings of the self-employed by Sandra M. Sánchez-Cañizares, L. Javier Cabeza-Ramírez, Ana M. Castillo-Canalejo, Francisco J. Rey-Carmona

“…This study analyses how the application of eight different policies affects self-employed people’s earnings and job creation, comparing participants and non-participants. Using an ad hoc survey, a random sample of 1265 self-employed people from the south of Spain was collected. …”
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Calibration of Microscopic Traffic Flow Simulation Models considering Subsets of Links and Parameters by Alexander Paz, Kul Shrestha, Cristian Arteaga, Douglas Baker

“…Most calibration methods consider the entire network and use ad hoc approaches without enabling a specific selection of location and associated parameters. …”
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A Dynamic Probabilistic Based Broadcasting Scheme for MANETs by Kannan Shanmugam, Karthik Subburathinam, Arunachalam Velayuthampalayam Palanisamy

“…MANET is commonly known as Mobile Ad Hoc Network in which cluster of mobile nodes can communicate with each other without having any basic infrastructure. …”
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Avances en Iber para la clasificación de balsas: proyecto ACROPOLIS by Marcos Sanz-Ramos, Ernest Bladé, Nathalia Silva-Cancino, Fernando Salazar

“…Por un lado, el empleo de Iber permitió desarrollar un método simplificado para pre-clasificar balsas en base a técnicas de machine learning y, por otro lado, se desarrollaron metodologías ad hoc en Iber que agilizan y automatizan los procesos, como la extracción automática de información hidráulica y de peligrosidad en puntos vulnerables y la paralelización del código para el cálculo mediante técnicas de computación de alto rendimiento.…”
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The Public Health Surveillance Well-Being Scale: Reliability and validity study of the Turkish version by Selma Infal Kesim, Fatih Kara

“…Methods: A questionnaire ad hoc for collecting socio-demographic characteristics of participants, the Public Health Surveillance Well-Being Scale (PHS-WS) and the Perceived Wellness Scale (PWS) were used in our study. …”

Enfrentando a crise financeira: como constrangimentos jurídicos causaram a fragmentação institucional do poder monetário brasileiro no pós-2008 by Camila Villard Duran, Caio Borges

“…A estrutura legal, criada principalmente por regras ad hoc do Poder Executivo, parece ser ainda incapaz de responder efetivamente a crises financeiras mais profundas.…”
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Efecto de la formación del profesorado en el diseño universal para el aprendizaje (DUA) sobre la percepción de los facilitadores y las barreras para la educación inclusiva by Teresa González-Ramírez, Carmen Alba-Pastor, Héctor Galindo-Domínguez, Alién García-Hernández

“…Con un diseño de investigación mixto, en esta intervención, que consistió en 3 ciclos de formación sobre dicho modelo, participaron 24 docentes de Educación Infantil y Primaria, quienes respondieron a un cuestionario diseñado ad hoc, con un total de 36 ítems agrupados en tres dimensiones (currículum y programación de aula; organización y planificación del centro, y comunidad educativa) para las fases pretest y postest. …”
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Reinforcement Learning-Based Routing Protocol to Minimize Channel Switching and Interference for Cognitive Radio Networks by Tauqeer Safdar Malik, Mohd Hilmi Hasan

“…In the existing network-layered architectural stack of Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Network (CRAHN), channel selection is performed at the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer. …”
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Knowledge, attitude and predictors of diabetic retinopathy screening among patients with type 2 diabetes in Nairobi County, Kenya by Lagatt C Faith, Harun Kimani

“…Multistage sampling technique was adopted for selecting persons with diabetes attending ‘level three’ health facilities. A questionnaire ad hoc was developed and used. Ordinal logistic regression models with stepwise method were employed on variables with statistical significance at chi square tests (P < 0.05) to determine the significant predictors of diabetic retinopathy screening. …”
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EXPERIENCES OF CONDUCTING ONLINE EXAM PROCTORING IN LOW-RESOURCE SETTINGS: A SRI LANKAN CASE STUDY by Dilky N. Felsinger, Thilina Halloluwa, C. L. Ishani Fonseka

“…Online assessments are more prone to academic dishonesty than traditional exams. Ad hoc online proctoring techniques have been used by institutions to prevent academic misconduct during online tests. …”
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A Bayesian Compressive Sensing Vehicular Location Method Based on Three-Dimensional Radio Frequency by Yunpeng Wang, Xuting Duan, Daxin Tian, Jianshan Zhou, Yingrong Lu, Guangquan Lu

“…In vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) safety applications, vehicular position is fundamental information to achieve collision avoidance and fleet management. …”
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Safeguarding Nigeria: strategies for combating insurgency and terrorism by O. O. Awotayo, N. O. Yusuf, S. O. Adedayo

“…The findings indicate that Nigeria’s security strategy is largely reactive, failing to address the fundamental root causes of violence, which are socio-economic disparities, political marginalisation, and historical grievances. The limitations of ad hoc security policies are evident; they tend to favour short-term solutions over long-term stability. …”
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On the Stability and Equilibrium Points of Multistaged SI(n)R Epidemic Models by Raul Nistal, Manuel de la Sen, Santiago Alonso-Quesada, Asier Ibeas, Aitor J. Garrido

“…This paper relies on the concept of next generation matrix defined ad hoc for a new proposed extended SEIR model referred to as SI(n)R-model to study its stability. …”
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