Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) of Radiographic Protection by Dental Undergraduate and Endodontic Postgraduate Students, General Practitioners, and Endodontists by Amal A. Almohaimede, Mohammad W. Bendahmash, Feras M. Dhafr, Abdullah F. Awwad, Ebtissam M. Al-Madi

“…More than half of the respondents agreed that dental X-ray is hazardous to health (60.79%), and 68.1% were familiar with ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) principle. However, only 34% are familiar with the recommendations of the National Council on Radiation Protection (NCRP) and International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP). …”
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Was Grand Duchy of Lithuania a Federation? by Zenonas Norkus

“…While federation and empire share the principle of subordination as the mode of organization, in the empire this is the subordination to a privileged metropole territory and cultural-ethnic group, while in federation all territories are subordinated to the federal center on parity grounds, all participating in federal government. …”
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Le « jonglage » des visiteurs entre œuvres et cartels : de l’étude d’un comportement à l’application d’un principe muséographique. by Anne-Sophie Grassin

“…Consequently, at a time of crisis of sensitivity to works of art, a real crisis of attention, characterised in particular by an observation time of less than nine seconds, juggling constitutes a strong museographic principle that can encourage observation and allow enriched access to the work. …”
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Occupational Therapy Practice in Mainstream Schools: Results from an Online Survey in Switzerland by Vera C. Kaelin, Sylvie Ray-Kaeser, Stefania Moioli, Cornelia Kocher Stalder, Lietta Santinelli, Angelika Echsel, Christina Schulze

“…Interdisciplinary collaboration, including health and educational professionals, is seen as an imperative key principle for inclusive education services. To learn about the occupational therapist’s contribution to inclusive education, the aim of this study was to describe the state of the art of occupational therapists’ collaboration and services delivery in Swiss schools. …”
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Study on Air Void Characteristics and Hydraulic Characteristics of Porous Asphalt Concrete Based on Image Processing Technology by Zhanqi Wang, Jianguang Xie, Lei Gao, Yanping Liu, Kuan Li

“…The voids on void images were identified and classified into three groups according to the three kind of pores (interconnected pore, semi-interconnected pore, and closed pore) and reshaped them into 3D pore structures according to the overlapping principle. Then, the volume and size distribution of the pores was analyzed. …”
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Design and Detection Performance of Metal Contaminant Sensor with Triple Coil Structure by Changzhi Gu, Zuo Zhang, Shaoxuan Zhang, Hongliang Zhao, Shukui Hu, Wenbo Zhang, Chenzhao Bai, Hongpeng Zhang, Chenyong Wang

“…This paper firstly explains the sensing principle of this triple coil sensor detection by formula derivation. …”
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Site-selective photo-crosslinking for the characterisation of transient ubiquitin-like protein-protein interactions. by Zac Sandy, Zijuan Wang, Deepak Behera, Benjamin M Foster, Finlay A Martin, Kira Brüninghoff, Kathleen M Cain, Wolfgang Dörner, Maria Jose Cabello-Lobato, Josep V Forment, Matthew J Cliff, Igor Larrosa, Perdita Barran, Duncan L Smith, Henning D Mootz, Christine K Schmidt

“…Here, we provide further proof-of-principle validation of the method and highlight its generality by applying an optimised workflow to a lesser studied UBL, interferon stimulated gene 15 (ISG15). …”
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Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of the Cliff-Attached Buildings Equipped with Energy Dissipation Devices Under Obliquely Incident Seismic Waves by Zhuoxin Yang, Dewen Liu, Jiayu Zhou, Li Zhang, Wenyuan Liao

“…In this paper, based on the theory of viscous-spring artificial boundary and the principle of equivalent nodes at the interface of oblique incidence of ground shaking P-waves, and combined with the dynamic properties related to Buckling-Restrained Brace, the numerical models of slopes and two kinds of cliff-attached structures considering the slope amplification effect and soil-structure interaction are established. …”
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Attenuation Correction Effects in Rainfall Estimation at X-Band Dual-Polarization Radar: Evaluation with a Dense Rain Gauge Network by Young-A Oh, DaeHyung Lee, Sung-Hwa Jung, Kyung-Yeub Nam, GyuWon Lee

“…The calibration bias in reflectivity (ZH) was corrected using a self-consistency principle. The attenuation correction of ZH and the differential reflectivity (ZDR) were performed by a path integration method. …”
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The Impact of Metastatic Bone Cancers on Serum Calcium Levels: A Focused Analysis of Patient Outcomes by Muhammad Khizar Memon, Syed Uzair Mahmood, Sidra Memon, Azhar Rashid, Muhammad Ali Memon, Shahzad Ali Jiskani

“…The patients were categorized based on the principle tumor type, clinical stage, and bone scan results. …”
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Condensed Aerosol Generators in Fire Safety of Buildings. Part 1 – Analysis of Normative and Legal Documents by Robart Śliwiński

“…Aim: The aim of this paper is to present the construction and principle of operation of condensed aerosol generators, as well as a review of their selected characteristics, confirmed in the process of assessment and verification of constancy of performance. …”
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Criminal law protection of critical infrastructure objects against subversive encroachments by О. V. Shamsutdinov, D. S. Melnyk

“…The criminal law norm provided for in Art. 113 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, is formulated with violation of the principle of proportionality of the social danger of the act and the severity of the punishment provided for its commission. …”
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The Effect of Task Cognitive Difficulty on Perceptual-Cognitive Indicators: Evidence on the Relationship Between Challenge Point Framework (CPF) and Cognitive Development in Table... by Taghi MM, Aghdaei M, Farsi A, Badicu G, de Sousa Fernandes MS, Yagin FH, Ardigò LP

“…Mahya Mohamad Taghi,1 Mahin Aghdaei,1 Alireza Farsi,1 Georgian Badicu,2 Matheus Santos de Sousa Fernandes,3 Fatma Hilal Yagin,4 Luca Paolo Ardigò5 1Faculty of Sports and Health Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran; 2Department of Physical Education and Special Motricity, Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, Romania; 3Instituto Keizo Asami, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil; 4Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey; 5Department of Teacher Education, NLA University College, Oslo, NorwayCorrespondence: Luca Paolo Ardigò; Mahya Mohamad Taghi, Email luca.ardigo@nla.no; mahya.mohamadtaghi@yahoo.comIntroduction: Motor learning, in addition to influencing the practice of physical activity, affects cognitive skills related to prediction and decision. One key principle in sports training is designing exercise programs that optimize cognitive-motor performance, based on the Challenge Point Framework (CPF). …”
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Determination of Public Goals in Times of Volatility and Complexity by Mirko Pečarič

“…Findings and Practical Implications: Although technology nowadays plays a central role in human life, legislative public goals are still determined statically, reflecting a traditional Newtonian mechanistic perspective grounded in the principle of causality. Looking ahead, the paper speculates on potential scenarios. …”
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An Assessment of Reuse of Light Ash from Bayer Process Fluidized Bed Boilers in Geopolymer Synthesis at Ambient Temperature by Woshington S. Brito, André L. Mileo Ferraioli Silva, Rozineide A. A. Boca Santa, Kristoff Svensson, José Antônio da Silva Souza, Herbert Pöllmann, Humberto Gracher Riella

“…Sustainable civil construction in the future, besides having low energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, must also adopt the principle of reusing wastes generated in the production chain that impact the environment. …”
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Multi-label classification with deep learning techniques applied to the B-Scan images of GPR by El Karakhi, Soukayna, Reineix, Alain, Guiffaut, Christophe

“…It has the advantage of allowing detection by a non-destructive technique. The principle for time domain GPR consists in emitting electromagnetic pulses in the ground, these one are then diffracted by the targets to be detected. …”
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Bayesian Regularized Neural Network Model Development for Predicting Daily Rainfall from Sea Level Pressure Data: Investigation on Solving Complex Hydrology Problem by Lu Ye, Saadya Fahad Jabbar, Musaddak M. Abdul Zahra, Mou Leong Tan

“…Five advanced AI algorithms such as extreme learning machine (ELM), Bayesian regularized neural networks (BRNNs), Bayesian additive regression trees (BART), extreme gradient boosting (xgBoost), and hybrid neural fuzzy inference system (HNFIS) were used considering the complex relationship of rainfall with sea level pressure. Principle components of SLP domain correlated with daily rainfall were used as predictors. …”
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A Review of Different Stimulation Methods for Functional Reconstruction and Comparison of Respiratory Function after Cervical Spinal Cord Injury by Jiaqi Chang, Dongkai Shen, Yixuan Wang, Na Wang, Ya Liang

“…This paper describes the stimulation principle and application experiment. Finally, this paper will compare the indexes and effects of typical stimulation methods, as well as the two auxiliary methods: training and operation. …”
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About the science of pedagogy (how to avoid the transformation of pedagogical science into ideology) by I. P. Smirnov

“…It has been proved that the reforms of the Russian science carried out in recent years consistently lead to the loss of scientific status by pedagogy, to the loss of academic principle “science should be managed by scientists” and to the transformation of scientific institutions into subordinate structures. …”
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Qualitative financial modelling in fractal dimensions by Rami Ahmad El-Nabulsi, Waranont Anukool

“…The Black–Scholes model for pricing stock options has been applied to various payoff structures, and options trading is based on Black and Scholes’ principle of dynamic hedging to estimate and assess option prices over time. …”
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