HEALS: A Faith-Based Hypertension Control and Prevention Program for African American Churches: Training of Church Leaders as Program Interventionists by Sunita Dodani, Debra Sullivan, Sydney Pankey, Catherine Champagne

“…With adequate training, the community lay health educator can be an essential partner in a community-based hypertension control programs. This may motivate program participants more and encourages the individual to make the behavior modifications on a permanent basis.…”
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Low Compliance to Handwashing Program and High Nosocomial Infection in a Brazilian Hospital by Lizandra Ferreira de Almeida e Borges, Lilian Alves Rocha, Maria José Nunes, Paulo Pinto Gontijo Filho

“…In a combination of high prevalence of NI and low compliance to hand hygiene, the programme of measure does not motivate the HCW hand hygiene. Future interventions should employ incremental evaluation to develop effective hand hygiene initiatives.…”
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Supported biopsychosocial self-management for back-related leg pain: a randomized feasibility study integrating a whole person perspective by Brent Leininger, Roni Evans, Carol M. Greco, Linda Hanson, Craig Schulz, Michael Schneider, John Connett, Francis Keefe, Ronald M. Glick, Gert Bronfort

“…Providers were trained to address participants’ individualized needs and use behavior change and motivational communication techniques to develop a therapeutic alliance to facilitate self-management. …”
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Utilizing the Finite Fourier Series to Generate Quadrotor Trajectories Through Multiple Waypoints by Yevhenii Kovryzhenko, Ehsan Taheri

“…While polynomial parameterization has been the prevailing approach, its limitations in handling complex trajectory requirements have motivated the exploration of alternative methods. This paper introduces a finite Fourier series (FFS)-based trajectory parameterization for UAV motion planning, highlighting its unique capability to produce piecewise infinitely differentiable trajectories. …”
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Pengaruh Penerapan Pembelajaran PBL Berbantuan Alat Peraga terhadap Hasil Belajar IPA Siswa Kelas IV SDN 21 Lubuk Lintah Kota Padang by Desy Eka Muliani

“… This research is motivated by deficiencies in the science learning process. …”
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Design formation of a transmedia project by A. М. Arakelyan, Yu. V. Vorontsova

“…The recommendations demonstrate the need for narrative knowledge within the framework of a transmedia narrative, allowing users to engage and be motivated by a transmedia narrative, rather than simply distributing content through media channels. …”
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Evolution of stakeholder behavior strategies under cap-and-trade of the benchmark method by Dazhi Linghu, Jin Cui, Haicang Yan, Xinli Wu

“…Abstract This study establishes a carbon emission reduction supply chain mechanism for government-enterprise-consumer cooperation based on the cap-and-trade benchmark method that considers consumers’ willingness to pay, government regulation, and enterprise’ profit-driven motives. Then, in this research, a tripartite evolutionary game model of carbon emissions reduction between the government, high-emission enterprises, and low-emission enterprises is developed to examine the incentives for heterogeneous enterprises to reduce emissions in response to government subsidies, emission benchmark, carbon price and consumers’ carbon preferences. …”
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Optimal Decision and Coordination of Fresh E-Commerce Supply Chain Considering Double Loss by Shizhen Bai, Yang Lv, Zejun Liu

“…Motivated by a large amount of quality loss and quantity loss of fresh products during transportation, this paper examines the effect of the double loss on decisions and profits by establishing models for a fresh e-commerce supply chain consisting of one online retailer and one third-party logistics provider. …”
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Evaluation of John B. Cobb, Jr.’s Ecological Model, With the Focus on Its Workability in the Context of Bangladesh by Md. Abu Sayem

“…As the project connects Cobb’s eco-theological understanding with the present environmental problems of Bangladesh, its prime result will be motivating Bangladeshi people from grassroots levels to maintain ecological equilibrium by diverting their attention from the mechanistical and materialistic view to an organic view of the environment. …”
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Simulated Annealing Technique for Routing in a Rectangular Mesh Network by Noraziah Adzhar, Shaharuddin Salleh

“…Because of this, we are motivated to apply simulated annealing, one of the metaheuristic methods to our routing model to produce better candidates of sequence.…”
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Experimental Assessment of a Skyhook Semiactive Strategy for Seismic Vibration Control of a Steel Structure by Nicola Caterino, Mariacristina Spizzuoco, Antonio Occhiuzzi, Antonio Bonati

“…The experimental results are deeply discussed in order to identify the optimal one and understand the motivations of its better performance.…”
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Analysis of waste handling strategies for riverbanks communities by Muhammad Riduansyah Syafari, M. Nur Iman Ridwan, Sugiannor Sugiannor, Syahrial Shaddiq

“…The SWOT analysis results found that (1) Strategy (SO) encourages and facilitates stakeholders to collaborate with the Diaspora and universities to build and develop river ecotourism. (2) Strategy (WO) to build and increase the synergy of stakeholders and youth communities (Karang Taruna) in building and developing river ecotourism and coordinating with the Diaspora. (3) Strategy (ST): River management maintains self-sufficiency in collecting and transporting household waste and continues to motivate residents to dispose of waste properly. (4) (WT) The Environmental Service builds collaboration with universities in providing education to build awareness among riverbank residents.…”
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Teaching history: pedagogical practices and complexities in upper secondary schools of Ethiopia by Sisay Awgichew Wondemtegegn, Enguday Ademe Mekonnen

“…Furthermore, interview respondents revealed that phrases incorporated in the Ethiopian history publications such as ‘Assimilation’, ‘Amharanisation’, ‘Colonization’, ‘Restoration’, and ‘Oromization’ are politically motivated discourse than academic concepts and they create complexities in the Ethiopian historical narratives. …”
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IDEOLOGICAL CONTESTATION ON YOUTUBE BETWEEN SALAFI AND NAHDHATUL ‘ULAMA IN INDONESIA by Ulvah Nur'aeni, Arfian Hikmat Ramdan

“…<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>This research spotlights YouTube’s utilization as a platform for intriguing Muslims and proselytizing Salafi and Nahdhatul 'Ulama's (NU) doctrines in the context of ideological contestation in Indonesia. This aim was motivated by the struggle for religious authority between NU and Salafis that has occurred in Indonesia since the beginning of the emergence of Salafis in the 1970s. …”
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Social protection institutions specialists’ socio-psychological work with vulnerable categories of the population by E. V. Domashova, E. V. Blagovskaya, T. A. Gonokhova

“…When studying a personality, psychological science allows a social protection specialist to identify the motives of behavior and life, goals, interests, ideals, character traits, inclinations and habits. …”
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Features and challenges of the modern labor market by G. N. Ryazanova

“…Cardinal changes in the values and motives of economic decisions, the compression of the time continuum of the life cycle of products and enterprises are reflected in the financial and resource market derived from the commodity market. …”
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APPLICATION OF OLI-PARADIGM OF GERMAN FDI INFLOWS IN TURKEY by Erkan Ilgün, Kasim Tatić

“…When considering market policy, there are numbers of investment motives that are critical for German companies, i. e. management potential and popularity. …”
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Understanding the microscopic origin of the magnetic interactions in CoNb2O6 by Amanda A. Konieczna, David A. S. Kaib, Stephen M. Winter, Roser Valentí

“…Abstract Motivated by the on-going discussion on the nature of magnetism in the quantum Ising chain CoNb2O6, we present a first-principles-based analysis of its exchange interactions with additional modeling, addressing drawbacks of a purely density functional theory ansatz. …”
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Musikalische Zeitgestaltung in Mendelssohns Liedern ohne Worte by Ullrich Scheideler

“…Three points in the course of the piece (the presentation of the theme in the first part, the transition to the recapitulation, and the recapitulation of the theme) will serve to illustrate how the extension of the eight-bar-units as well as the special design of harmonic and motivic processes open up and dynamize this formal framework. …”
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A Comprehensive Taxonomy and Analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 Attacks by Yasmin M. Amin, Amr T. Abdel-Hamid

“…While the majority of existing references investigate the motive and behavior of each attack separately, this survey classifies the attacks according to clear metrics within the paper and addresses the interrelationships and differences between the attacks following their classification. …”
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