US parent perspectives on teen caffeine intake: An opportunity for health care provider guidance by Sarah J. Clark, Acham Gebremariam, Sara Schultz, Lindsey Ewing, Susan J. Woolford

“…Parents believe most teen caffeine consumption occurs at home and, among parents who report their teen consumes caffeine at least four days per week, to be primarily motivated by taste. Conclusions: Parental perspectives related to their teen's caffeine consumption indicate an opportunity for health care providers to educate and promote family discussions regarding caffeine intake.…”
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SyTroN: A Virtual Classroom for Collaborative and Distant E-Learning System by Teleoperating Real Devices by R. Chellali, C. Dumas, Nicolas Mollet, G. Subileau

“…Distant E-learning is a main issue nowadays, and it is strongly motivated by social and economical considerations. …”
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Ambonsche Studiefonds and Sarekat Ambon as Forums for Moluccan Nationalists to Initiate Indonesian Independence Movement by Sem Touwe, Kresna Manik, Mohammad Amin Lasaiba, Johan Pattiasina

“…The Ethical Policy, motivated by the Dutch' debt of honor' towards its colonies, opened up access to education for natives and indirectly encouraged national consciousness. …”
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The Impact of Living with Parkinson’s Disease: Balancing within a Web of Needs and Demands by Catharina Sjödahl Hammarlund, Albert Westergren, Ingrid Åström, Anna-Karin Edberg, Peter Hagell

“…According to self-determination theory, a shift towards extrinsically motivated behaviours may occur when these basic needs are thwarted, leading to compensatory strategies or needs substitutes with negative consequences on health and well-being. …”
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Unified Dynamic Dictionary and Projection Optimization With Full-Rank Representation for Hyperspectral Anomaly Detection by Hongran Li, Chao Wei, Yizhou Yang, Zhaoman Zhong, Ming Xu, Dongqing Yuan

“…Moreover, existing methods typically focus on the low-rank and smooth characteristics of the background during reconstruction, overlooking deeper features of the background representation. This motivates us to reconsider how the background should be represented. …”
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The Importance of Money in Shaping Employee Intention to Stay In Small Businesses: The Moderating Roles of Growth Mindset and Caring Climate by Martinus Parnawa Putranta, Russel P.J. Kingshott, Debora Wintriarsi Handoko, Theresia Agung Maryudi Harsiwi

“…In contrast, growth mindset negatively moderated the relationship, suggesting that employees with a strong growth orientation prioritize non-financial motivators such as professional development opportunities. …”
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Design and Experimental Validation of a Model-Free Controller for Beam Stabilization in Adaptive Optics Systems by Sicheng Guo, Tao Cheng, Kangjian Yang, Lingxi Kong, Chunxuan Su, Shuai Wang, Ping Yang

“…The Adaptive optics (AO) beam stabilization system requires further development to cope with increasingly complex application scenarios and challenges. Motivated by this, a new filter-based off-policy policy iteration (FB-OPPI) control scheme is proposed and experimentally verified in this paper to provide AO systems with a flexible beam stabilization method. …”
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Socially Responsible Investment Sukuk: A Systematic Review of the Scientific Literature by Reza Yarmohammadi, Ali Salehabadi, Mohammad Tahidi, Adel Azar

“…The present study shows that the literature of SRI Sukuk is mainly in 10 areas: (1)definition of SRI Sukuk, (2)competitiveness, (3)types, (4)nature of risk and return, (5)terms and characteristics of plans and projects Eligible, (6)Defines strategies for selecting eligible projects, (7)Measures and indicators of effectiveness, (8)Potential actors, (9)Motivational policies and (10)Monitoring and reporting methods. …”
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Design and Fabrication of a Plastic Biogas Digester for the Production of Biogas from Cow Dung by KeChrist Obileke, Sampson Mamphweli, Edson L. Meyer, Golden Makaka, Nwabunwanne Nwokolo

“…The digestion chamber of the biogas digester under study was fabricated using high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plastic, while the inlet and outlet chambers were constructed with bricks/cement. The study was motivated due to some limitations such as leakage associated with previous designs. …”
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Hyperandrogenism-Insulin Resistance-Acanthosis Nigricans Syndrome by A. H. Dédjan, A. Chadli, S. El Aziz, A. Farouqi

“…Female hyperandrogenism is a frequent motive of consultation. It is revealed by hirsutism, acne or seborrhea, and disorders in menstruation cycle combined or not with virilisation signs. …”
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Simultaneous Recovery of Hydrogen and Chlorine from Industrial Waste Dilute Hydrochloric Acid by N. Paidimarri, U. Virendra, S. Vedantam

“…Although recovery through catalytic oxidation processes is studied since the 19th century, their high operating conditions combined with sluggish reaction kinetics and low single pass conversions make electrolysis a better alternative. The present motive of this work is to develop a novel electrolysis process which in contrast to traditional processes effectively recovers both hydrogen and chlorine from dilute HCl. …”
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Legal protection of community members in the Complete Systematic Land Registration Program by I. Z. Rusmanira, . Sudarsono, M. H. Masykur

“…This research discusses the issue of legal protection for the community in the Complete Systematic Land Registration Program, which is motivated by the issuance of the Joint Decree of the Minister of Agrarian and Spatial Planning/Head of the National Land Agency, Minister of Home Affairs, and Minister of Villages, Development of Disadvantaged Regions, and Transmigration Number 25/SKB/V/2017, Number 590-3167A Year 2017, Number 34 Year 2017. …”
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Why women refuse Postpartum IUCD? by Jayshree J. Upadhye, Smita K. Parate, Aditi J. Upadhye, Rasika D. Zade

“…Background: Women are highly motivated and receptive to accepting family planning methods during the antenatal period. …”
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Teaching-Learning-Based Optimization with Learning Enthusiasm Mechanism and Its Application in Chemical Engineering by Xu Chen, Bin Xu, Kunjie Yu, Wenli Du

“…However, in the real world, learners are different, and each learner’s learning enthusiasm is not the same, resulting in different probabilities of acquiring knowledge. Motivated by this phenomenon, this study introduces a learning enthusiasm mechanism into the basic TLBO and proposes a learning enthusiasm based TLBO (LebTLBO). …”
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Faculty Training for Online Teaching: Roles, Competences, Contents by Mansur F. Galikhanov, Gulnara F. Khasanova

“…We analyzed publications considering new roles and competencies of online teachers, barriers and motivations that encourage faculty to participate in online learning. …”
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La vie des Gommes : pour une approche biographique des pneus de Carol Rama by Carolina Spovieri

“…Biographical events often seemed to motivate the works of Carol Rama (1918–2015). The rubber strips used in the Rubbers series (1970) are, for example, presented as the inner tubes of old bicycle tyres from her father’s factory. …”
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Determination of Biological Nitrogen Fixation Induced N2O Emission from Arable Soil by Using a Closed Chamber Technique by Ambreen Shah

“…A growing worldwide concern for these problems has motivated researchers, environmentalists, and policy makers to find alternatives to overcome such losses. …”
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Moral and Psychological Stability of Police Officers in the System of Their Professionally Important Qualities by I. V. Klymenko

“…The author has singled out psychological structure of this characteristic, namely: motivational component, the indicators of which are a positive attitude to service, awareness of the importance of conscientious performance of official tasks and conscious desire to perform professional duties, belief in the value of moral norms and the need to subordinate own behavior; cognitive component, which includes knowledge of the legal basis of professional activity, ethical requirements of police officers’ behavior, the rules of use of physical force, special means and firearms; professional-personal component, which contains such professional moral and psychological qualities as professional honor, justice, decency, honesty, compassion and empathy, attitude to the rule of law, discipline, humanity, responsibility and a reflective component that characterizes the ability of a police officer to analyze phenomena of own consciousness and activity and assess the level of formation of moral and psychological stability, ability to effectively solve job problems. …”
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Specificity and tunability of efflux pumps: A new role for the proton gradient? by Matthew Gerry, Duncan Kirby, Boian S Alexandrov, Dvira Segal, Anton Zilman

“…Furthermore, we found that while both the proton concentration gradient across the membrane and the transmembrane potential contribute to the thermodynamic force driving the pump, their effects on the efflux enter not strictly in a combined proton motive force. Rather, they have two distinguishable effects on the overall throughput. …”
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CSR Investment Strategy for Live-Streaming Supply Chain Considering Consumer Preference by Guohu Qi, Suqin Sun, Xuemei Zhang, Zhi Liu, Juan Tang

“…Live streaming has been widely used by enterprises to motivate consumers in real-time interactions. However, live streamers’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been overlooked in existing studies. …”
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