How does digital literacy affect the health status of senior citizens? Micro-level evidence from the CFPS data by Xiaoyi Chen, Nian Wang

“…Based on the CFPS data, this study constructs a balanced panel and employs a two-way fixed-effects model for the estimation. …”
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Barriers and facilitators regarding the implementation of policies and programmes aimed at reducing adolescent pregnancy in Ghana: an exploratory qualitative study by Melissa Kang, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Lin Perry, Fiona Brooks

“…Objectives This study explored the perceived barriers and facilitators regarding the implementation of policies and programmes aimed at reducing adolescent pregnancy among health and education professionals (‘professionals’), grassroots workers and adolescent girls in Ghana.Design and setting We employed an exploratory qualitative study design involving interviews with professionals, grassroots workers and adolescent girls in the Central Region of Ghana.Participants This study involved 15 professionals employed in government or non-governmental organisations, 15 grassroots workers and 51 pregnant/parenting and non-pregnant adolescent girls.Data analysis Thematic analysis was conducted deductively using the ecological framework for understanding effective implementation.Results Eighteen themes mapped to the five domains of the ecological framework emerged. …”
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Fostering a productive educational environment: the roles of leadership, management practices, and teacher motivation by Sariakin Sariakin, Manovri Yeni, Musliadi Bin Usman, Aman Simare Mare, Munzir Munzir, Muhamad Saleh

“…The research employed Smart PLS to model and evaluate the complex relationships between these variables, highlighting the significant roles of leadership and management in shaping teacher effectiveness and overall school performance. …”
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How the Content of Interprofessional Safety Management Education Can Be Structured Through the Perception of Nursing Home Practitioners: A Mixed Methods Design by You Jung Hong, Dayeong Kim, Sung Ok Chang

“…Patient or Public Contribution Nurses, care workers, physical therapists, and social workers employed in nursing homes took part in this study by participating in interviews and surveys.…”
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A Beam Steering Dielectric Resonator Antenna Designed Using Rogers RO4003C Material for S-Band Applications by Manisha Kumari, Tavanam Venkata Rao, S. Arun Jayakar, D. Srinivas, Dola Gobinda Padhan, A. Kishore Reddy, P. Rahul Reddy, Amanuel Diriba Tura

“…Three P-i-N diodes are employed in the slots of the ground plane to help steer the beam direction. …”
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Dynamic Amplification Factor of Shear Force on Bridge Columns under Impact Load by Haiying Ma, Zhen Cao, Xuefei Shi, Junyong Zhou

“…In current design codes, an equivalent static load value is usually employed to specify the shear capacity of bridge columns subject to vehicle collisions. …”
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ChatGPT in Computer Science Education: A Case Study on a Database Administration Course by Daniel López-Fernández, Ricardo Vergaz

“…Training students in the use of GenAI tools like ChatGPT, for example, with a guided practice strategy where prompting and conducted step-by-step practice are employed is key to prevent the appearance of new digital trenches.…”
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Assessing the quality, reliability, and transparency of YouTube videos on spiritual palliative care: a content analysis by Fhaied Almobarak

“…For this, the Shapiro–Wilk test was employed. The data was not normally distributed, so group-wise comparisons and correlation analysis were conducted using non-parametric methods. …”
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A review on egg waste-based adsorbents for the removal of organic and inorganic contaminants from aqueous solution by Alusani Manyatshe, Linda Lunga Sibali

“…Nonetheless, egg waste adsorbents have demonstrated the potential to be employed as sustainable, low-cost materials to remove contaminants from aqueous solution.…”
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Argument coding in the experiential predicate tǝmʃʌ kǝrdǝn ‘to look’ in Garrusi Kurdish by Mohammad Dabir-Moghaddam, Masoumeh Zarei

“…Of the 88 tokens of tǝmʃʌ kǝrdǝn, only 16 instances employed subject-object argument structure. The most tokenized coding strategy was subject-oblique argument coding with a locative/goal stimulus. …”
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Examining the Ethical Considerations of Placing Elderly Parents in Nursing Homes: A Perspective on Maqasid Sharia and Social Welfare by Abdul Helim, Syarifuddin Syarifuddin, Aris Sunandar Suradilaga

“…The theoretical framework employed to investigate this issue is the theory maqasid sharia. …”
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Estimation of stress tolerance indices for identification of heat tolerant genotypes in barley by Yogender Kumar*, Suman Devi, Divya Phougat and Harsh Chaurasia

“…The objective of present study was to assess the heat tolerance of barley genotypes employing a set of 12 heat stress indices namely SSI, TOL, STI, SSPI, YI, YSI, RSI, MP,GMP, HM, MRP and RED, estimated using grain yield. …”
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UTILIZING GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS TO ENHANCE RETENTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN ESL WRITING SKILLS by Hariharan N Krishnasamy, Rozariah Zainudin, Subadrah Madhawa Nair, Muhammad Siddique

“…Thus, this study explores the impact of employing graphic organizers on the writing performance of Form Four students and their knowledge retention. …”
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MANAGEMENT CONTROL SYSTEM AND PERFORMANCE OF SMALL AND MEDIUM MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES IN LAGOS, NIGERIA by Abdulrasaq Mustapha, Mubaraq Sanni

“…The study concluded that managers of Small and Medium Manufacturing Enterprises employ some accounting and non-accounting control mechanisms to achieve goal congruence among their subordinates and to a greater extent, the practices impact positively on performance. …”
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سوق العمل لخریجى اقسام المکتبات والمعلومات بمحافظة القلیوبیة : دراسة میدانیة لمدى وفاء مقررات قسم المکتبات والمعلومات بجامعة بنها للمهارات المطلوبة... by د. منال جابر عکاشة

“…The study provides a picture of the reality of the labor market in Qaliubiyaand the needs of this market of graduates libraries sections, and evaluation ofcourses offered by the Department of Libraries in Benha university depending onthe opinions of alumni and employers, leading to update those decisions inproportion to the actual needs market-based study, thus linking necessary tohappen between the academic institution and potential professional institutionsthat employs graduates of the institution, as well as to identify the labor marketrequirements on survey methodology which is based on a survey of public andprivate institutions that have libraries or those that are likely to need to graduatesqualified to deal with libraries and information sources, as well as access topotential graduates in their work places, as based on the curriculum contentanalysis to analyze the requirements of the labor market in the field of library andinformation in Qaliubiya, and analysis of the list of library and informationdepartment and its programs of study.Amounted courses specialized in the list of libraries at the University ofBanha 41 planned by 84% of the total courses, while the extra-curriculum 8decisions by 16%, and we note that the views of graduates in subjects that havenot useful of which were on top of the Persian language and writing in Arabic andachieve manuscripts and publishing academic. …”
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UTILIZATION OF UNIVERSITY HEALTH CARE SERVICES AMONG UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN GOMBE STATE UNIVERSITY-NIGERIA by HASSANA Y. BELLO, NASIRU ANAS, ABDULAZEEZ USMAN, FUNGO, W. ELKA

“…Also, more medical personnel should be employed to help the experienced and old medical staff mostly with increase in the population of students in the university. …”
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Spatial-domain combination of GRACE monthly time-variable gravity models based on multiple weighting strategies and comparison of models’ performance in the Caspian Sea by Wei You, Ke Qian, Xiangyu Wan, Biao Yu, Jiahui Zhang, Lun Pu, Jianwei Shu, Chong Liu

“…For each approach, we employ four old weighting schemes and one new scheme named oceanic accuracy weighting. …”
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Hazard Analysis of Weather Conditions on Distribution Transformer Failures via Cox Proportional Hazard Model by Cheonkyu Park, Chongeun Cho, Do-In Kim

“…In this regard, we propose the method for investigating the impact of the weather conditions on the failures of distribution transformers to improve the asset management. By employing survival analysis approach, frameworks are employed to quantify the spatial influence of weather conditions on distribution transformer failures, and the weather risk factors are integrated into lifespan indicators to improve maintenance strategies and reliability assessments. …”
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EEG-to-EEG: Scalp-to-Intracranial EEG Translation Using a Combination of Variational Autoencoder and Generative Adversarial Networks by Bahman Abdi-Sargezeh, Sepehr Shirani, Antonio Valentin, Gonzalo Alarcon, Saeid Sanei

“…It has extensively been employed in image-to-image and text-to image translation. …”
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ADVERTISEMENT AND CONSUMERS’ PATRONAGE: EVIDENCE FROM TABLE WATER BRANDS IN OSUN STATE, NIGERIA by Kayode Muhammed IBRAHIM, Oluseyi AJAYI, Akintunde Aremu AKINTAYO, Dolapo Stephen Akinwumi

“…The research recommends that producers should ensure they employ multi-level advertising strategies, especially outdoor and radio advertising if customer patronage is to be improved. …”
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