Anticipatory emotions and academic performance: The role of boredom in a preservice teachers' lab experience by Jesús A. Gómez-Ochoa de Alda, José María Marcos-Merino, Cristina Valares-Masa, María Rocío Esteban-Gallego

“…Despite this, the literature reveals a gap in generalising these effects to specific classroom activities, partly arising from the absence of suitable instruments to measure emotions in situational educational scenarios. …”
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Towards a finite element model of a batch of experimental violins: validation on sub-structural components by Meza-Pérez Amaury, Stoppani George, Viala Romain, Gonzalez Sebastian, Igartua Unai, Jardón Rico Roberto, Fritz Claudia

“…During the Bilbao project, six violins were built with systematic geometry control in order to investigate the influence of the plate thickness on the dynamics, sound and playing characteristics of the complete instruments. To this end, three violins with medium backs, each paired with a thin, normal, or thick top and three with medium tops, each paired with a thin, medium, or thick back were made. …”
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Examining the Influence of Alexithymia, Gender, and Age on Drug Use among Iranian Students: the Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation Difficulties by Mohamad Hatami Nejad, Masoud Sadeghi, Esmaeil Sadri Damirchi, Mohammadreza Noroozi Homayoon

“…The statistical population included 400 high school students studying during the 2023–2024 academic year in the cities of Khorramabad and Ardabil. The instruments used in this study included the short form of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-SF), the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), and the Addiction Potential Scale (APS) in its Iranian version. …”
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Anxiety And Short Distance Running Performance In Female Athletes by Ikina Rizki Kahiji, Komarudin Komarudin, Mochamad Yamin Saputra, Geraldi Novian

“…This research uses a total sampling technique. The instrument in this research is the Competitive Sport Anxiety Inventory-2 (CSAI-2) which also takes the results of the 100m sprint data in the Portue 2023 competition to determine the performance of short-distance running athletes. …”
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Hybrid didactic design in mathematics learning on fraction: A hermeneutic phenomenology by Ahmad Muzaki, Ita Chairun Nissa, Sri Yuliyanti, Masjudin, Muhamad Galang Isnawan

“…The participants in this research were students from a junior high school in Lombok, Indonesia, consisting of 29 eighth-grade students (aged 14-18), most of whom were female and from the Sasak ethnic group. Instrument, such as fraction operation tests, in-depth interview guidelines, and a hybrid didactic design for mathematics learning. …”
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A New Model for Nowcasting the Aviation Radiation Environment With Comparisons to In Situ Measurements During GLEs by A. D. P. Hands, F. Lei, C. S. Davis, B. J. Clewer, C. S. Dyer, K. A. Ryden

“…Under the UK Space Weather Instrumentation, Measurement, Modeling and Risk programme, we have developed a new model to provide nowcasts of the aviation radiation environment, including both the galactic cosmic ray (GCR) background and during GLE events. …”
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Effectiveness of earthquake drains in mitigating liquefaction-induced settlement by Salimah A’isyah, Yelvi, Andienti Meidi, Adi Prakoso Widjojo, Rahayu Wiwik

“…Two lab-scale shake table single-axis test series were conducted to assess this: one without mitigation and another using earthquake drains. Both models were instrumented and subjected to consistent shaking sequences at 1 Hz and 1.2 Hz frequencies. …”
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Preferences among Pregnant Women in Choosing a Private Midwife Practice as Service Provider for Antenatal Care (ANC) by Rully Fatriani, Risneni Risneni

“…Eighty-eight samples obtained by accidental sampling met the inclusion criteria and expressed consent to participate. The instrument used was a questionnaire, and data was analyzed using univariate. …”
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Measurement and Analysis of PM10 and PM2.5 from Chimneys of Coal-fired Power Plants Using a Light Scattering Method by Dongho Shin, Younghun Kim, Kee-Jung Hong, Gunhee Lee, Inyong Park, Hak-Joon Kim, Yong-Jin Kim, Bangwoo Han, Jungho Hwang

“…Additionally, data were compared using the gravimetric measurement method; it was found that the relative accuracies for the measured PM10 amounts were within 20% and that the values obtained using the measuring instrument proposed in this study were reliable. Three power plants were continuously measured for one month, and by comparing PM10 concentration according to the amount of power generated, it was confirmed that PM10 discharged from the stack increased as an exponential function, depending on the amount of power generated.…”
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Canadian Thoracic Society: Presenting a New Process for Clinical Practice Guideline Production by Samir Gupta, Onil K Bhattacharyya, Melissa C Brouwers, Elizabeth A Estey, Margaret B Harrison, Paul Hernandez, Valerie A Palda, Louis-Philippe Boulet

“…Important features include standard methods for choosing and formulating optimal questions and for finding, appraising, and summarizing the evidence; use of the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation system for rating the quality of evidence and strength of recommendations; use of the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation instrument for quality control during and after guideline development and for appraisal of other guidelines; use of the ADAPTE process for adaptation of existing guidelines to the local context; and use of the GuideLine Implementability Appraisal tool to augment implementability of guidelines. …”
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Hubungan Kualitas Tidur dengan Siklus Menstruasi Pada Mahasiswi Tingkat Akhir Fakultas Keperawatan by Wedya Wahyu, Lili Fajria, Filliya Azzura

“…The sample in this study amounted to 75 people with the purposive sampling method. The instrument used was the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) which was calculated for 3 consecutive months and the menstrual cycle questionnaire was calculated for consecutive cycles. …”
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A Heatmap for Monitoring Systemic Financial Stability Risks in Ukraine by Adam Geršl, Pervin Dadashova, Yuliya Bazhenova, Vladyslav Filatov, Anatolii Hlazunov, Roman Soltysiak

“…The risk map methodology that the National Bank of Ukraine used until 2021 has been revised to ensure that risk assessment is based on reliable quantitative indicators rather than expert judgements, as well as to extend the list of risks considered. The instrument allows the stability of the financial system to be assessed across key risks, such as macroeconomic risk, the credit risks of households and non-financial corporations, capital adequacy risk, profitability risk, liquidity risk, and foreign exchange risk. …”
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Identification of Legionella by MALDI Biotyper through three preparation methods and an in-house library comparing phylogenetic and hierarchical cluster results by Luna Girolamini, Paolo Caiazza, Federica Marino, Maria Rosaria Pascale, Laura Caligaris, Simona Spiteri, Carlo Derelitto, Maria Luisa Simone, Antonella Grottola, Sandra Cristino

“…The results suggest the use of a fast and inexpensive DS method, combined with instrument and in-house library for routine Legionella surveillance. …”
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Caregrief scale confirmatory factor analysis in a sample of portuguese caregivers by J. Vasconcelos-Raposo, A. Ribeiro, A. Silva, B. Santos, C. M. Teixeira

“…The purpose of this study was to validate and adapt the Caregiver Grief Scale (CGS), developed by Franziska Meichsner, Denise Schinköthe, and Gabriele Wilz (2016) for the German population, to assess the degree of suffering of caregivers. To analyze the instrument’s psychometric properties, we used confirmatory factorial analysis with a sample of 150 caregivers (formal and informal). …”
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Pre-Occupancy Evaluation of Affective Experiences in Building Information Modeling Through SLR and an e-Delphi Survey by Balamaheshwaran Renganathan, Radhakrishnan Shanthi Priya, Ramalingam Senthil

“…The research suggests incorporating evidence-based design instruments like body sensor networks (BSN) and immersive virtual reality and methods like neurophenomenology to enhance the assessment of user interactions in the design process. …”
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Solution-focused brief counseling to improve student’s social-emotional skills and psychological well-being by Ida Ayu Made Diah Naraswari, Nyoman Dantes, Ni Ketut Suarni, I Ketut Gading, Kadek Suranata

“…Following the experimental pretest-posttest control group design procedure, 64 junior high school students were involved as research subjects. Instruments in this study used 71-item social-emotional skills questionnaire and 42-item psychological well-being scale. …”
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Signal to Noise Ratio as a Cross-Platform Metric for Intraoperative Fluorescence Imaging by Asmaysinh Gharia BA, Efthymios P. Papageorgiou PhD, Simeon Giverts BA, Catherine Park MD, Mekhail Anwar MD, PhD

“…Wide variation in both imager instrumentation and molecular labeling agents demands a common metric conveying the ability of a system to identify tumor cells. …”
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Developing English Material for Food and Beverage Service Used by Students at SMKN 1 Singaraja by I Gusti Ayu Ira Krishna Santhi, Nyoman Karina Wedhanti, Made Mahendrayana

“…This research used the Design and Developments model that Rickey and Klein (2009) suggested, which includes planning, development, and evaluation. The instruments used were interviews, questionnaires, and document analysis. …”
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Surface and New Building Deformation Analysis of Deep Well Strip Mining by Yuanzhong Luan, Yue Dong, Yanhe Ma, Liyuan Weng

“…Aiming at the problem of surface movement and long-term stability of a work plane of deep well strip mining in Shandong Province, an observation station is set up on the surface of strip mining, and the surface deformation value during strip mining is measured with advanced measuring instruments; on the stable surface of the old mining area, the surface deformation monitoring work is also carried out for new buildings. …”
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Quality of life for patients on oncology treatments in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: a systematic review by Abdullah U. Althemery, Rawan Alzahrani, Nura Alajlan, Abdullah M. Alrajhi

“…Further research on rare cancer types is required, particularly for generic instruments.…”
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