A Gamified Active-Learning Proposal for Higher-Education Heterogeneous STEM Courses by Mario J. Duran, Juan J. Aciego, Ignacio Gonzalez-Prieto, Juan Carrillo-Rios, Angel Gonzalez-Prieto, Alicia Claros-Colome

“…Results confirm the adequacy of the proposal to develop technical skills, excite non-technical competences and motivate scholars with an inclusive approach.…”
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Matching Sensing to Actuation and Dynamics in Distributed Sensorimotor Architectures by Zoe Turin, Graham K. Taylor, Holger G. Krapp, Emily Jensen, J. Sean Humbert

“…In this article we explore the benefits of matching sensing characteristics to actuation and dynamics in the context of spatially distributed sensorimotor architectures, motivated by recently discovered connections in blowfly flight physics and visual physiology. …”
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Barriers to Testing and Treatment for Chagas Disease among Latino Immigrants in Georgia by Rebecca M. Minneman, Monique M. Hennink, Andrea Nicholls, Sahar S. Salek, Francisco S. Palomeque, Amina Khawja, Lauren C. Albor, Chester C. Pennock, Juan S. Leon

“…Three healthcare seeking behaviors were identified: delaying treatment, using traditional remedies, and using either mainstream or alternative health providers. Behaviors and motivations differed by gender, and the use of licensed medical providers was considered a last resort due to the cost of healthcare, loss of earnings while seeking care, and fear of diagnosis with fatal illness. …”
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Revisiting a Cutting-Plane Method for Perfect Matchings by Chen, Amber Q., Cheung, Kevin K. H., Kielstra, P. Michael, Winn, Avery D.

“…We demonstrate, by a sequence of counterexamples, that perturbations are required for the algorithm to work, motivating our formulation of a general method that arrives at the same solution to the problem as Chandrasekaran et al. but overcomes the limitations described above by solving multiple linear programs without using perturbations. …”
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Delineating the environmental justice implications of an experimental cheetah introduction project in India by Yashendu C. Joshi, Stephanie E. Klarmann, Stephanie E. Klarmann, Louise C. de Waal

“…Conservationists, particularly from India and South Africa, have raised concerns regarding the ecological criteria guiding its decision-making and concerns regarding a lack of scientific evidence in addition to potential political motivations. The concerns raised by the international community suggest that the project may not solely focus on conserving the African cheetah, which is classified as “Vulnerable” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), but could be guided by other agendas outside of conservation. …”
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Threat to the predator suppresses defence of its prey by Monika Sysiak, Piotr Maszczyk, Andrzej Mikulski

“…However, little is known about whether prey can assess the actual threat by considering both predator density and the motivational state of cannibalistic predators, which can be influenced by threats from higher order predators. …”
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Impacts of Industry 4.0 in developed countries & BRICs by Guilherme Rodrigues de Sousa, Jorge Muniz Jr, Marta Lígia Pomim Valentim, Liane Mahlmann Kipper, Elaine Mosconi, Márcio Giannini Pereira

“…This study also indicates the motivations of each country for implementing Industry 4.0. …”
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Conceptual Structure and Trend Topics of the Education and Information Technologies Journal: A bibliometrics analysis by Yousef Mahdavinasab, Davoud Haseli

“…The analysis revealed the presence of nine subject areas of EAIT: role of ICT and technology in education, blended learning and teacher training, e-learning and mobile learning, engaging and motivating learning environments, educational data mining and machine learning, distance education in different academic settings, education during the COVID-19 pandemic, educational technology in higher education and developing countries, and the use of social media in education. …”
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The analysis of efficiency of risk-based approach in supervision activities of Federal Tax Service in the system of state financial monitoring by E. I. Brichka, I. A. Kolesnik, Yu. S. Zharkova

“…The strategy of increasing the number of office and field audits has little effect in motivating tax payments. Taxes are an integral institutional element of a market economy, which is both an economic and a legal category. …”
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The Minangkabau Woman Against Discrimination: Rahmah El Yunusiyyah's Islamic Education Thoughts (1900-1969) by Agus Mahfudin Setiawan, Nurul Hidayati, Uswatun Hasanah, Briliant Windy Khairunnisa

“…According to the analysis of the data obtained, it was found that Rahmah El Yunusiyyah's resistance and struggle against discrimination faced by Minangkabau women was motivated by the socio-cultural reality of Minangkabau society at that time. …”
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Developing mathematics virtual reality based on understanding mathematical concepts by Putri Mutiara Anisa, Saenih Saenih, Anisa Oktaviani, Surya Amami Pramuditya, Mohammad Dadan Sundawan

“…This research was motivated by students' difficulties understanding the basic concepts of abstract flat-side spatial shapes. …”
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Serotonin circuits act cooperatively with pathophysiology of opioid use disorder by Arakawa Hiroyuki, Ozawa Akihiko

“…The opioid use disorder (OUD), represented as those recurring phases of symptoms, is initiated with mediation of opioid receptor signaling pathway and subsequent neurocircuitry transformation with homeostatic and motivational change. It has been imperative to establish modulatory mechanisms and alternative treatments to mitigate OUD. …”
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A Testing Framework for Joint Communication and Sensing in Synthetic Aperture Radars by Alex Piccioni, Roberto Alesii, Fortunato Santucci, Fabio Graziosi

“…Nowadays the modern progress in wireless communication technologies is motivating the mutual integration of heterogeneous services, in particular enabling resource and hardware-saving in platform deployment. …”
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Integrating Legal Protection Strategies for Wife and Children Due to Rejection of Marriage Isbat Application by Abdul Jalil, Abdul Haq Syawqi, M. Haris Hidayatulloh, Umi Supraptiningsih, Cut Linda Marheni

“…This strategy is essential because it is motivated by the facts in the field, namely that many Isbat Nikah are not registered and have legal consequences. …”
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IRMAOC: an interpretable role mining algorithm based on overlapping clustering by Yaqi Yang, Jun’e Li, Tao Zhang, Lu Chen, Guirong Huang, Zhuo Lv

“…Abstract The Industrial Internet motivates the research and development of Zero-Trust Architecture (ZTA). …”
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A comprehensive numerical study exploring the significance of thermally reactive bioconvection in Falkner-Skan flow of Williamson nanomaterials influenced by activation energy and... by M. Israr Ur Rehman, Haibo Chen, Aamir Hamid, Wu Qian, Refka Ghodhbani, Mohamed Hussien

“…The analysis is further improved by adding thermophoretic diffusion and Brownian motion to the energy and concentration equations Bio-fuels, enzymes, industry, bio-sensors, petroleum, and a number of other novel biotechnological features are also influenced by the bioconvective mechanisms in nanomaterials. Motivated by these properties, this study investigates the rheological behavior of non-Darcian Williamson nanomaterials interacting with motile microorganisms, driven by Falkner-Skan wedge surfaces. …”
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Accurate 3D Mapping Algorithm for Flexible Antennas by Saed Asaly, Boaz Ben-Moshe, Nir Shvalb

“…This paper presents a general method for performing an accurate 3D mapping of marked surfaces such as satellite dish antennas. Motivated by the novel technology for nanosatellites with flexible high-gain antennas, we propose a new accurate mapping framework which requires a small-sized monocamera and known patterns on the antenna surface. …”
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Study of Nonleptonic Bq∗→DqV and PqD∗ Weak Decays by Qin Chang, Xiaohui Hu, Junfeng Sun, Xiaolin Wang, Yueling Yang

“…Motivated by the powerful capability of measurement for the b hadron decays at LHC and SuperKEKB/Belle-II, the nonleptonic B-∗→DD-∗, Dρ-, DK∗-, πD∗, and KD∗ decays are studied. …”
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Female Genital Mutilation in Infants and Young Girls: Report of Sixty Cases Observed at the General Hospital of Abobo (Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire, West Africa) by Kouie Plo, Kouadio Asse, Dohagneron Seï, John Yenan

“…Women were mainly involved in the FGM and their motivations were virginity, chastity, body cleanliness, and fear of clitoris similar to penis. …”
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Media Usage, Health Literacy, Health Anxiety, and Health Behaviors of University Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Dilek Demirtepe-saygılı, Elif Eşiyok, Eda Turancı

“…The findings help to better understand the motivations to change health behaviors for selfprotectionagainst the COVID-19 among university students.…”
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