Non-Immersive Virtual Reality Exercise Can Increase Exercise in Older Adults Living in the Community and in Long-Term Care: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Sheehy L, Bharadwaj L, Nissen KA, Estey JL

“…Participants enjoyed the non-immersive virtual reality, found it challenging and motivating and felt that it improved balance and walking. …”
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Spreading Social Influence with both Positive and Negative Opinions in Online Networks by Jing (Selena) He, Meng Han, Shouling Ji, Tianyu Du, Zhao Li

“…However, most studies ignore negative influences among individuals and groups. Motivated by the goal of alleviating social problems, such as drinking, smoking, and gambling, and influence-spreading problems, such as promoting new products, we consider positive and negative influences, and propose a new optimization problem called the Minimum-sized Positive Influential Node Set (MPINS) selection problem to identify the minimum set of influential nodes such that every node in the network can be positively influenced by these selected nodes with no less than a threshold of θ. …”
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The effects of coach encouragement on the physical and technical test performances of young tennis players by Barış Karakoç, Yusuf Soylu, Erşan Arslan, Bülent Kilit

“…Moreover, the effects of CE were more pronounced in long-duration exercises (HTTT and ITN), highlighting the crucial role of motivational support from coaches in the development of young athletes.…”
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Recent Fuzzy Generalisations of Rough Sets Theory: A Systematic Review and Methodological Critique of the Literature by Abbas Mardani, Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Jurgita Antucheviciene, Madjid Tavana, Romualdas Bausys, Othman Ibrahim

“…Based on the results of this review, we found that there are many challenging issues related to the different application area of fuzzy-rough set theory which can motivate future research studies.…”
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A multimodal dataset for robotic peg extraction based on Bioin-Tacto sensor modulesMendeley Data by Viral Galayia, Ruslan Masinjila, Soheil Khatibi, Thiago Eustaquio Alves de Oliveira, Xianta Jiang, Vinicius Prado da Fonseca

“…Extensive datasets of the physical interactions between tactile-enabled robots are required to investigate and develop methods for performing manipulation and object exploration tasks. Therefore, this motivates us to compose a dataset of signals from Bioin-Tacto modules mounted on a robotic gripper performing extraction tasks. …”
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Evaluating drivers of water-energy use: Insights from a selected Higher Education University in Abu Dhabi, UAE by Ameena S. Al-Sumaiti, Reem S. Al-Ali, Vikash Kumar Saini, N. Al-Saif, Rajesh Kumar

“…With economic development, a thorough assessment and understanding of actual drivers and motivators of existing social behaviors, relevant to these resources are needed. …”
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The Diagnostic Role of Serum Inflammatory and Soluble Proteins on Dementia Subtypes: Correlation with Cognitive and Functional Decline by Candan Öztürk, Aynur Özge, Osman Özgür Yalın, İ. Arda Yılmaz, Nuran Delialioglu, Çilem Yıldız, Bahar Tesdelen, Cigdem Kudiaki

“…In conclusion, this study yielded evidence of some shared mechanisms underlying AD and VD and thus motivates further studies of inflammatory markers in various types of dementia and MCI.…”
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Sounds and Natures Do Often Agree: Prediction of Esports Players’ Performance in Fighting Games Based on the Operating Sounds of Game Controllers by Yamato Hiratsuka, Kazuki Kuga, Takahiro Miura, Tetsuo Tanaka, Mari Ueda

“…In research focusing on esports, studies have been conducted on designs that attract competitors, performance estimation, training methods, and motivational factors. However, quantitative and convenient methods for performance evaluation are still in the development stage among the numerous performance evaluation methods. …”
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A Workload-Adaptive and Reconfigurable Bus Architecture for Multicore Processors by Shoaib Akram, Alexandros Papakonstantinou, Rakesh Kumar, Deming Chen

“…In this paper, we first motivate the need for workload-adaptive interconnection networks. …”
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Mind Over Waste: Decoding the Mental Models of Hard-to-Reach in Household Waste Practices by Bremane Inguna, Liberova Veronika, Bezrucko Alise Egija, Blumberga Dagnija, Blumberga Andra

“…The study highlights significant differences between the mental models of consumer groups, emphasizing the need for a tailored, interdisciplinary approach to understand consumer motivations and effectively promote sustainable behaviour change. …”
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Hubungan Status Pekerjaan Orang Tua Dengan Hasil Belajar Siswa by yetty hastiana, wulandari saputri, bellah septia

“…Meanwhile, internal, namely factors that come from within the individual student both physically and spiritually, such as self-motivation…”
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Using Action Research and Peer Perspectives to Develop Technology That Facilitates Behavioral Change and Self-Management in COPD by Catherine McCabe, John Dinsmore, Anne Marie Brady, Gabrielle Mckee, Sharon O'Donnell, David Prendergast

“…Guided by action research principles and using mixed methods, the aim of this project was to develop peer based educational, motivational, and health-promoting peer based videos, using behavioural change principles, to support self-management in patients with COPD. …”
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An optimisation for a two‐round good‐case latency protocol by Kexin Hu, Zhenfeng Zhang, Kaiwen Guo, Weiyu Jiang, Xiaoman Li, Jiang Han

“…A highly efficient Byzantine broadcast protocol, motivated by the real‐world performance of practical state machine replication protocols, is increasingly needed. …”
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Response Surface Methodology Investigation of the Viscosity of Propylene Glycol (100)/Graphene Nanofluid to Determine the Optimal Conditions by Raviteja Surakasi, Salah J. Mohammed, Hasan Sh. Majdi, Ali Majdi, Parveen Berwal, Mohammad Amir Khan, Wahaj Ahmad Khan

“…The current study was inspired by the lack of consistency among laboratory behavior and real‐world applications and the statistical‐mathematical analysis of modelers' performance, contrast, and motivations. Two‐factor interaction (2FI), quadratic, cubic, and quartic models are only a few tested. …”
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Performance Analysis of 3D Massive MIMO Cellular Systems with Collaborative Base Station by Xingwang Li, Lihua Li, Ling Xie, Xin Su, Ping Zhang

“…Under this circumstance, cooperation and three-dimensional (3D) MIMO are emerging technologies to eliminate the pilot contamination and to enhance the performance relative to the traditional interference-limited implementations. Motivated by this, we investigate the achievable sum rate performance of MIMO systems in the uplink employing cooperative base station (BS) and 3D MIMO systems. …”
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Cystic Lymphangioma of the Chest Wall in a 5-Year-Old Male Patient: A Rare and Atypical Localization—A Case Report and Comprehensive Review of the Literature by Dimitrios Patoulias, Ioannis Patoulias, Christos Kaselas, Maria Kalogirou, Chatzopoulos Kyriakos, Farmakis Konstantinos, Thomas Feidantsis, Papacrivou Eleni

“…The extremely rare and atypical localization of a lymphangioma in the chest wall was the real motive for the present case study. A 5-year-old boy was admitted to the Emergency Department of the 1st Department of Pediatric Surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, due to the presence of a mildly painful swelling in the left lateral chest wall, which was first noticed three months ago, after a blunt injury during sport. …”
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Improving Transmission in Integrated Unmanned Aerial Vehicle–Intelligent Connected Vehicle Networks with Selfish Nodes Using Opportunistic Approaches by Meixin Ye, Zhenfeng Zhou, Lijun Zhu, Fanghui Huang, Tao Li, Dawei Wang, Yi Jin, Yixin He

“…However, the rapid movement of UAVs and ICVs poses significant challenges to the stability and reliability of communication links. Motivated by these challenges, integrated UAV–ICV networks can be viewed as vehicular delay-tolerant networks (VDTNs), where data delivery is accomplished through the “store-carry-forward” transmission mechanism. …”
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Improving the Implementation of Patient-Reported Outcome Measure in Clinical Practice: Tackling Current Challenges With Innovative Digital Communication Technologies by Kelly M de Ligt, Saar Hommes, Ruben D Vromans, Eva Boomstra, Lonneke V van de Poll, Emiel J Krahmer

“…Importantly, patients differ in their skills, knowledge, preferences, and motivations for completing PROMs, as well as in their ability and willingness to interpret and apply PROs in managing their health. …”
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Optimal Learning Behavior Prediction System Based on Cognitive Style Using Adaptive Optimization-Based Neural Network by Ghada Aldabbagh, Daniyal M. Alghazzawi, Syed Hamid Hasan, Mohammed Alhaddad, Areej Malibari, Li Cheng

“…The cognitive style deals with mental activities such as learning, remembering, thinking, and the usage of language. Therefore, being motivated by the problems mentioned above, this paper proposes the concept of adaptive optimization-based neural network (AONN). …”
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Case studies on domestic refrigerator energy rationing by implementing a hybrid PV-driven condenser cooling system by Moataz M. Abdel-Raouf, M.A. Eid, M. Elsayed, M. Salah Mansour

“…Therefore, the current investigation is motivated by promoting heat emissions from refrigerator condensers throughout the day. …”
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