Brain and Smartphone Addiction: A Systematic Review by C. Anbumalar, D. Binu Sahayam

“…The systematic review was done in four stages as follows: (1) identifying the techniques/instruments used in the literature (database search), (2) identifying relevant literature, (3) identifying criteria for inclusion and exclusion, and (4) acquiring full-text papers. …”
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The Turkish Adaptation of Athletic Coping Skills Inventory-28 (ACSI-28): The validity and reliability study by Volkan Ozcan, Mehmet Gunay

“…The scale is 28 items instrument which have seven subscales, namely coping with adversity, concentration, coachability, confidence and achievement motivation, goal setting/mental preparation, peaking under pressure, and freedom from worry. …”
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Le street art à Naples by Christine Salomone

“…While other Italian cities such as Rome or Milan are thinking about new instruments and tools to promote street art tourism, the city is struggling to make this offer officially emerge. …”
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ANALYSING HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS ON THE COMPULSORY ENGLISH TEXTBOOK FOR TENTH GRADERS OF INDONESIAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS by Andi Sukmawijaya, Wisma Yunita, Dedi Sofyan

“…By employing a content analysis research design, this study employed content cards as the instrument for analysing the textbook, in which two techniques were used to administer the data, namely content analysis and documentation. …”
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Political Mission of University: A Retrospective View by S. G. Lukovenkov

“…Little has changed in how society perceives academy and its functions in the era of accomplished digital revolution, including its role as an instrument of surveillance and social sorting – these two important elements of power. …”
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Evaluation on the Corrosion of the Three Ni-Cr Alloys with Different Composition by Srinivasa B. Rao, Ramesh Chowdhary

“…The parameters for corrosion rate and corrosion resistance were obtained from computer-controlled corrosion schematic instrument, namely, potentiostat through corrosion software (power CV). …”
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Materializations of oricha voice through divinations in Cuban Santería by Kristina Wirtz

“…In the semiotic order governing Cuban popular religious practice, human bodies and other objects can be “activated” as instruments of oricha speech. Divination objects such as cowry shells are understood to be the “tongue” of the oricha, through which the deities and spirits of the dead speak just as surely as when speaking through a possessed devotee or transmitting a message through a human medium. …”
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Comparative Study on Heart Disease Prediction Using Feature Selection Techniques on Classification Algorithms by Kaushalya Dissanayake, Md Gapar Md Johar

“…Heart disease is recognized as one of the leading factors of death rate worldwide. Biomedical instruments and various systems in hospitals have massive quantities of clinical data. …”
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The transformative role of the media in the formation of virtuous citizens: A contribution to reconciliation in a post-apartheid South Africa by E. Baron

“…Abundant evidence suggests that, during those years, the print media served as instruments for propaganda, for the apartheid regime, while the Argus group, for instance, exposed the atrocities and human rights violations of the same regime. …”
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Students’ Perception toward Schema Theory That Used In Reading Class (A Study on the Fifth Semester Students of English Education Study Program of FKIP UNIB in Academic Year 2010/2... by Risma Nurandini, Rudi Afriazi, Mulyadi Mulyadi

“…This study was a descriptive study. The instrument of this study was questionnaire. The questionnaire consists of 25 items that purpose to measure students’ perception toward schema theory. …”
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« Nantes-Histoire» by Alain Croix, Philippe Daumas

“…Depuis plus de vingt ans, l’association «Nantes-Histoire» propose à un large public des activités variées1: cours, ateliers, rencontres citoyennes, avec l’objectif de faire sortir l’Histoire du cercle restreint des universitaires et de permettre à de simples citoyens de s’approprier cet instrument incomparable de compréhension du monde et des problèmes de notre société. …”
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FEAR OF MISSING OUT CONSTRUCTS NARCISSISM IN PAULA HAWKINS’ THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN by Jepli Kenrinus, Prayudias Margawati

“…The research method was qualitative, in which data was written in the text, and researchers became the research instrument to gather primary data and second data. Primary data for this research was taken from Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train, consisting of words, utterances, and quotations. …”
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A Comprehensive Review of Serious Games in Health Professions by Francesco Ricciardi, Lucio Tommaso De Paolis

“…In some fields it represents an ideal instrument for continuous health professions education also in terms of costs because it is cheaper than traditional training methods that use cadavers or mannequins. …”
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The roles of teachers’ beliefs and instructional practices in students’ mathematical mindset by Araya Piyakun, Songsak Phusee-Orn

“…The participants consisted of 96 teachers and 936 secondary school students. The research instruments included a mathematical mindset scale for teachers and students, a task value scale for teachers, an instructional practice scale for teachers, and a perceived instructional practice scale for students. …”
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BUILDING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF THE COMPANY BASED ON CHANGING ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE by Hariz Muratović

“…Our study conducted for the first time in this region using these instruments, speaks in favor of the above mentioned observations. …”
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Ekonomske imigracije v Republiko Slovenijo by Radivoj Radak

“…RS, št. 66/00), ki je kot glavni instrument za regulacijo priliva tuje delovne sile uvedel kvotni sistem (prag je 5% aktivnega prebivalstva). …”
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Revues qui comptent, revues qu’on compte :produire des classements en économie et gestion by David Pontille, Didier Torny

“…Then, the French Evaluation Agency for Research and Higher Education establishes it as an evaluation and counting instrument, based on an almost identical content, but whose proper use is radically transformed. …”
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PERSONAL ACCOUNT AS AN ELEMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEM OF STATISTICS EDUCATION by N. B. Golovanova, A. V. Soroko

“…The main trends of modernization of statistical instruments due to the changes in the Russian education system are described. …”
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Między prześladowaniami a tolerancją. Edykty Walezjuszy wobec hugenotów w dobie rozwoju europejskiej reformacji by Paweł Wiązek

“…In view of these objectives, it became necessary to resort to a variety of methodological instruments; not only legal exegesis of the texts, but also their analysis and synthesis, as well as comparative studies. …”
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DEMOCRACY AND THE FIGHT AGAINST LEADERSHIP CORRUPTION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: IMPLICATION FOR CONTINENTAL DEVELOPMENT by TAIWO FRANCIS AYOMOBA

“…We find that the political elite's entrenched vested interests have promoted corruption and abuse of power as instruments of governance, and have rendered the necessary statutory institutional oversight systems ineffectual. …”
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