Continuous professional development in higher education: A systematic review of its conceptualizations, trends and challenges (2011- 2020) by Medhanit Adane Solomon, Amare Asgedom Gebremedhin, Kassahun Weldemariam Tigistu

“…To this end, the authors employ Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses-PRISMA. …”
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Research on Influencing Factor Selection of Pilot’s Intention by Haibo Wang, Ting Pan, Haiqing Si, Yao Li, Naiqi Jiang

“…In another word, this means the pilot’s psychological experience of flight status under the influence of various factors and the preference for decision-making or behavioral value that is displayed. …”
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Emulating a randomized clinical trial with real-world data to evaluate the effect of antidepressant use in PTSD patients with high suicide risk by Oshin Miranda, Xiguang Qi, M. Daniel Brannock, Ryan Whitworth, Thomas Kosten, Neal David Ryan, Gretchen L. Haas, Gretchen L. Haas, Gretchen L. Haas, Levent Kirisci, LiRong Wang

“…IntroductionPost-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) entails behavioral changes with increased risk of suicide, and there is no consensus on the preferred antidepressants for treatment of those PTSD patients who are at elevated risk for suicide.MethodsWe conducted a clinical trial emulation study comparing suicide-related events (SREs) among those patients’ initiating antidepressants within 60 days after a qualifying SRE. …”
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Modelling seasonal influenza in Israel by Oren Barnea, Rami Yaari, Guy Katriel, Lewi Stone

“…In such situations invariant parameters such as the percentage of susceptibles infected, and the effective reproductive rate might be preferred, as they do not depend on reporting rate. …”
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Why Aceh-Indonesia Conflict Resolution can’t be Copy-Paste in Bangsamoro-Philippines Issue? by Sidik Jatmika, Nanang Sumanang, Ajeng Puspa Marlinda, Chalilla Raihan Nabilazka, Muhammad Indrawan Jatmika

“…The findings confirm that both GAM (Aceh) and MILF (Bangsamoro) have similar political preference sequence, but such of MNLF factions still continues their military movements. …”
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A Critical Review of the Hydrometallurgy and Pyrometallurgical Recovery Processes of Platinum Group Metals from End-of-Life Fuel Cells by Sinikiwe A. Mvokwe, Opeoluwa O. Oyedeji, Mojeed A. Agoro, Edson L. Meyer, Nicholas Rono

“…Thus, the hydrometallurgical process is preferred as a suitable alternative. In this review, an overview of the application of pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical methods in the recovery of PGMs is presented. …”
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Observations of the Biology and Ecology of the Black-Winged Termite, Odontotermes formosanus Shiraki (Termitidae: Isoptera), in Camphor, Cinnamomum camphora (L.) (Lauraceae) by Arthur G. Appel, Xing Ping Hu, Jinxiang Zhou, Zhongqi Qin, Hongyan Zhu, Xiangqian Chang, Zhijing Wang, Xianqin Liu, Mingyan Liu

“…Camphor stakes were preferred. Kriging revealed a clumped distribution of termite activity.…”
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CMTG: A Content-Based Mobile Tendency Geocast Routing Protocol in Urban Vehicular Networks by Haiquan Wang, Tao Zhu, Shuo Lei, Wenjing Yang, Yu Wang

“…The target roads of dissemination depend on the preferred tendency and path of message, based on the determination to the message's expected propagating roads. …”
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Changes in sexual activities and risky sexual behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review by Alinaghi Seyed Seyed Ahmad, Karimi Amirali, Mirzapour Pegah, Qaderi Kowsar, Mohammadi Parsa, Salehi Mohammad Amin, Tantuoyir Marcarious M., Arjmand Ghazal, Shahmohamadi Elnaz, Mahalleh Mehrdad, Kianzad Shaghayegh, Pashaei Ava, Khodaei Sepideh, Afsahi Amir Masoud, Mehraeen Esmaeil

“…This review adhered to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) checklist to improve transparency of our study. …”
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Optimization of Low-Calorific Coal Application at Different Loads in 600 MW Supercritical Thermal Power Plant with the PROMETHEE-GAIA Method by Ali Riza Motorcu, Hülya Demirören, Aykut Emir

“…Using criteria weights determined by the entropy method, the optimal load and domestic-imported coal blend ratio were determined using the Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluation-Geometrical Analysis for Interactive Aid (PROMETHEE-GAIA) multicriteria decision-making method. …”
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A delve into the exploration of potential bacterial extremophiles used for metal recovery by A.S. Deshpande, R. Kumari, A. Prem Rajan

“…A multitude of microbes are involved in the solubilisation of minerals and metals as this approach offers numerous advantages over traditional methods. This strategy is preferred as it is eco-friendly and economical, thus overcoming the drawbacks of the traditional approach of pyrometallurgy. …”
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Effect of Magnetite Nano Particles on p-n-Alkyl Benzoic Acid Mesogens by S. Sreehari Sastry, S. Salma Begum, T. Vindhya Kumari, V. R. K. Murthy, Sie Tiong Ha

“…Increment of relaxation times for nano doped heptyl and nonyl benzoic acids are observed which implies that the dielectric nature is strengthened for the nano doped mesogens. The preference of nano doped p-n-alkyl benzoic acids is discussed.…”
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Bayesian and Frequentist Estimation of Stress-Strength Reliability from a New Extended Burr XII Distribution by Varun Agiwal, Shikhar Tyagi, Christophe Chesneau

“…In the final part, the potential of the new model is exemplified by the analysis of two engineering data sets, showing that it is preferable to other reputable and comparable models. …”
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Trans Arterial Embolization of Spontaneous Abdominal Muscle Bleeding by Pierpaolo Biondetti, gaetano valerio davide amato, Carolina Lanza, Serena Carriero, Velio Ascenti, Chiara Grilli, Edon Xhepa, Salvatore Alessio Angileri, Anna Maria Ierardi, Gianpaolo Carrafiello

“…A computed tomography multiphase scan is the preferred modality of examination, as it allows the characterization of hematomas and the assessment of active bleeding. …”
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A Statistical Investigation of Factors Influencing the Magnetotail Twist at Mars by Gina A. DiBraccio, Norberto Romanelli, Charles F. Bowers, Jacob R. Gruesbeck, Jasper S. Halekas, Suranga Ruhunusiri, Tristan Weber, Jared R. Espley, Shaosui Xu, Janet G. Luhmann, Yuki Harada, Eduard Dubinin, Gang Kai Poh, David A. Brain, Shannon M. Curry

“…The results demonstrate that θTwist is larger for a duskward (+BY) IMF orientation a majority of the time. This preference is likely due to the local orientation of crustal magnetic fields across the surface of Mars, where a +BY IMF orientation presents ideal conditions for magnetic reconnection to occur. …”
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Canine perspective taking: Anticipating the behavior of an unseen human by Ludwig Huber, Pauline van der Wolf, Machteld Menkveld, Stefanie Riemer, Christoph J. Völter

“…In the test, the majority of dogs preferred to steal from a plate that was not visible from the location where the human had chopped carrots before when they heard a playback of the chopping sound but not when they heard a control sound (street noise). …”
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Service Outsourcing Character Oriented Privacy Conflict Detection Method in Cloud Computing by Changbo Ke, Zhiqiu Huang, Weiwei Li, Yi Sun, Fangxiong Xiao

“…In this paper, firstly, we model service privacy policy and user privacy preference with description logic. Secondly, we use the pellet reasonor to verify the consistency and satisfiability, so as to detect the privacy conflict between services and user. …”
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Suitability analysis of Lampung Bay waters for grouper Epinephelus sp. farming activities by Herman Yulianto, Agus Hartoko, Sutrisno Anggoro, Qadar Hasani, Dwi Mulyasih, Putu Cinthia Delis

“…The study was conducted in 20 stations with ecological preference considerations. The parameters observed were physicochemical (water depth, temperature, water transparency, the load of suspended solids, pH, dissolved oxygen, salinity, nitrate, and phosphate) and biological parameters (phytoplankton abundance and chlorophyll-a concentration). …”
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Chiral Pesticides in Soil and Water and Exchange with the Atmosphere by Terry F. Bidleman, Andi D. Leone, Renee L. Falconer, Tom Harner, Liisa M.M. Jantunen, Karin Wiberg, Paul A. Helm, Miriam L. Diamond, Binh Loo

“…In soils where enantioselective degradation and/or metabolite formation has taken place, some OCPs usually show the same degradation preference — e.g., depletion of (+)trans-chlordane (TC) and (–)cis-chlordane (CC), and enrichment of the metabolite (+)heptachlor exo-epoxide (HEPX). …”
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Electroacupuncture Regulates Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction by Decreasing Corticotropin-Releasing Factor in a Rat Model of IBS by Ying Chen, Yan Zhao, Dan-ni Luo, Hui Zheng, Ying Li, Si-yuan Zhou

“…Visceral pain threshold, the percentage of time spent in open arms (OT%) in the elevated plus maze test (EPMT), and the sucrose preference (SP%) in the sucrose preference test (SPT) were measured at baseline, day 15, and day 30. …”
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