Examination of Physicians’ Perception of the Indications of Colorectal Stents in the Management of Malignant Large Bowel Obstruction: A Provincial Survey by Jean-Frédéric LeBlanc, Myriam Martel, Alan N. Barkun

“…Out of 112 respondents, 74% preferred surgical intervention in young, healthy individuals with MLO. …”
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Evaluation of Fire Resistance of Glass Fibre Concrete in Terms of Various Parameters by Ali Murthada Ali, Musa Hakan Arslan, Mustafa Altın

“…By adding glass fiber into the concrete, the bending and tensile strength of it increase considerable, and concretes produced in this way are preferred in practice to be thinner. Since there is no comprehensive investigation of the fire performance of the GRC used in practice, this study examined the changes in the mechanical properties of GRC elements subjected to four different (30, 60, 90 and 120 min) fire periods. …”
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A Modified TODIM Based on Compromise Distance for MAGDM with q-Rung Orthopair Trapezoidal Fuzzy Numbers by Benting Wan, Juelin Huang, Xiaolu Zhang

“…It is worth to mention that the modified TODIM method not only expands the freedom of decision makers but also allows decision makers to choose the appropriate risk preference parameter. Finally, a case study on health management of hypertensive patients is conducted to demonstrate the feasibility of the modified TODIM group decision-making method, and the developed method is further verified by comparison analysis with the existing methods and sensitive analysis of different parameters.…”
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A comprehensive synthesis of differentiated instruction approaches in mathematics by Mohd afifi Bahurudin Setambah, Muhammad Ikhwan Mat Saad, Nor Hasnida binti Che Md Ghazali, Mazlini Adnan

“…Employing a systematic literature review methodology, the research utilized the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols (PRISMA-P) technique from 2013 to 2023. …”
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USG-guided bilateral sphenopalatine ganglion block: A useful anesthetic adjuvant for trans nasal trans sphenoidal pituitary surgery in a patient with severely low ejection fraction by Ravi Chaudhary, Yashwant S. Payal, Bishnupriya Mohapatra, Sony Sony, Shivam Shekhar

“…Trans-Nasal Trans-Sphenoidal (TNTS) route has become the preferred conduit for operating on a surgically amenable pathology of pituitary gland. …”
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Food manipulation and processing in wild western gorillas of Central African Republic: implications for studying behavioural variability by Shelly Masi, Ellen JM Meulman, Françoise Aubaile, Sabrina Krief, Angelique Todd, Emanuelle Pouydebat

“…Results indicate that food features (e.g. size, shape, extraction requirements) affect individual food-manipulation strategies (e.g. number of fingers involved, hand preference, use of mouth), as well as the requirement of various functional strategies (e.g. grip types, postural sequences, repositioning behavior) during unimanual and bimanual processing. …”
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From Fitness Tracking to Augmented Shopping Experience: Perceptions and Use of Mobile Payment among Runners Using Wearable Devices by Özlem Özdinç

“…Mobile payment was among the top three preferred methods of payments; however, only 4% were using their wearable device for that purpose. …”
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Ageing in the right place—usability of a web-based housing counselling service by Frida Nordeström, Marianne Granbom, Susanne Iwarsson, Magnus Zingmark

“…The participants disagreed regarding the preferred mode of delivery, which indicates a need for selectable options. …”
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A disproportionality analysis of FDA adverse event reporting system events for misoprostol by Li Yang, Wenting Xu

“…After analyzing 17,427,762 adverse event reports, a total of 2032 adverse events reports related to misoprostol were identified, involving 23 system organ classes and 30 preferred terms. The most common AEs were foetal exposure during delivery(n = 201), uterine tachysystole(n = 95), uterine rupture (n = 95), and heart rate decreased (n = 93). …”
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Economic Potentials and Use Dynamics of Sorghum Food System in Ethiopia: Its Implications to Resolve Food Deficit by Teshome Sirany, Esubalew Tadele, Haimanot Aregahegn, Dagnachew Wale

“…It is a gluten-free crop, has high nutritive value, and is preferred by healthy consumers. It is among the top five cereal crops worldwide in both production and acreage. …”
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Environmental stewardship: A systematic scoping review. by Lynette J McLeod, Jane C Kitson, Zack Dorner, Natasha A Tassell-Matamua, Philip Stahlmann-Brown, Taciano L Milfont, Donald W Hine

“…In this paper, we review the environmental science literature to map the types of practical actions that are identified as 'environmental stewardship' using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines for scoping reviews. …”
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Missional insights on socio-political realities, religious vulnerability, and the choice of Barabbas by Ignatius W. Ferreira

“…Furthermore, we explore how this vulnerability manifested in the decision to prefer Barabbas, a figure representing worldly resistance, over Jesus Christ, the embodiment of divine grace. …”
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Power Improved Generalized Heronian Mean Operators Utilizing Hamacher Operations with Picture Fuzzy Information by Baolin Li, Lihua Yang

“…In multiple attribute decision-making (MADM), to better denote complicated preference information of decision-makers (DMs), picture fuzzy set (PFS) as an expansion of intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS) has become a powerful tool in the recent years. …”
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A comparative study of perceptions and experiences of online Chinese language learners in China and the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic by Wang Yanlin, Zhan Hong, Liu Shijuan

“…Pearson chi-squared tests found that, significantly, students in the US preferred to take Chinese courses in-person. Pearson’s chi-squared tests on categories formed from the three open-ended questions highlighted the importance of four factors influencing the success of students’ online classes: technology, emotion and motivation, learning productivity, and teaching presence. …”
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Robust optimization of stabilizing piles for landslides composed of soil–rock mixtures by Yang Yu, Songlin Liu, Qing Lü

“…The design method and procedure are illustrated using a real colluvial landslide case study, out of which the most preferred design considering the safety, cost, and design robustness is obtained. …”
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Assessment of the Effectiveness of Biophysical Soil and Water Conservation Structures: A Case Study of Offa Woreda, Wolaita Zone, Ethiopia by Elias Bojago, Marisennayya Senapathy, Innocent Ngare, Tsegeye Bojago Dado

“…Those who knew how to conserve soil and water, causes of degradation, and sensitive areas of their own plots of land in the study area received preference. The lack of capital, a short stretch of land, and various socioeconomic and physical conditions impeded the use of soil and water conservation systems. …”
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The Moderating Influence of Project Scope on Leadership Skills, Stakeholder Management, and Execution of Fibre Optic Infrastructure by James Konya Akhwaba

“…With demand for huge amounts of data and increased voice traffic, optical fibre is globally preferred technology to transmit high-speed broadband. …”
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How salient are sarcastic questions? by Efrat Levant, Nicole Katzir

“…A large-scale corpus research was conducted throughout three distinct corpora of American-English to determine how these interrogative constructions use salience to encode sarcasm, and how salience contributes to the preference of their sarcastic meaning over the literal one. …”
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First-Principles Study on Stability and Magnetism of NimAln (m=1–3, n=1–9) Clusters by Xiao Zhang, Bao-Xing Li, Zhi-wei Ma, Jiao-jiao Gu

“…We found some new ground-state structures which had not been found before. These mixed species prefer to adopt three-dimensional (3D) structures starting from four atoms. …”
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Adaptation of health systems to climate change-related infectious disease outbreaks in the ASEAN: Protocol for a scoping review of national and regional policies. by Adriana Viola Miranda, Bony Wiem Lestari, Annisa Indrarini, Fadilah F Arsy, Saut Sagala, Mizan Bustanul Fuadi Bisri, Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno

“…The reporting of this scoping review follows the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR).…”
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