Transition of farmland use system towards urban-rural integration: From localization to de-localization by FENG Dedong, LONG Hualou

“…[Conclusion] Farmland use system transition can be defined as the trend turning of the elements, structure, and form of the three-dimensional (natural, economic, and management) subsystem of farmland use due to external environmental changes such as natural geography, socio-economy, and so on. …”
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Enhancing student nurses’ ethical skills via simulation-based learning: barriers and opportunities by Richard M. Rasesemola, Manoko P. T. Molabe

“…Methods This was a qualitative, descriptive, exploratory, and contextual research that was done in one higher education institution among 9 nurse educators and clinical nurse preceptors. Online semi-structured interviews were conducted, data were transcribed and analysed following Giorgi’s thematic analysis method. …”
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Direct imaging of exoplanets: Legacy and prospects by Chauvin, Gael

“…Understanding how giant and terrestrial planets form and evolve, what is their internal structure and that of their atmosphere, represents one of the major challenges of modern astronomy, which is directly connected to the ultimate search for life at the horizon 2030–2050. …”
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The role of islamic business ethics in shaping the influence of punishment on discipline, performance, and motivation of lecturers and staff in higher education by Muhammad Saleh, Artiyanto Artiyanto, Agus Mukmin, A. Hidayatullah, Amir Syarifudin

“…Data were collected using a questionnaire, and the analysis was conducted using Partial Least Squares (PLS), focusing on two main stages: evaluating the Outer Model (measurement model) and the Inner Model (structural model). An associative approach was used to identify the relationships between variables. …”
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Globalization and Local Determinants of HORECA Customers Market Behavior in the Wholesale Food Market by Yuriy Hubeni, Oksana Krupa, Volodymyr Krupa, Nataliia Raiter

“…It consists of several specialized food halls, including HoReCa centre. The structure of HoReCa establishments, that are “Shuvar” wholesale market clients, is analyzed. …”
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THE INFLUENCE OF ETHNO-NATIONAL LOBBIES ON THE US FOREIGN POLICY: HISTORY OF THE UKRAINIAN DIASPORA by I. D. Loshkariov, D. A. Parenkov, A. A. Sushentsov

“…The main organization of the Ukrainian diaspora is the Ukrainian Committee of the Congress of America, which is an umbrella structure for organizations of economic, cultural and political profile, as well as for associations of veterans, women and youth. …”
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Features of biology and cultivation of pikeperch (Sander lucioperca Linnaeus, 1758). Thematic bibliography by M. Simon, O. Polishchuk

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Synthetic data as external control arms in scarce single-arm clinical trials. by Severin Elvatun, Daan Knoors, Simon Brant, Christian Jonasson, Jan F Nygård

“…It reduces the input data cardinality pre-synthesis and reverses it post-synthesis to regain the original data structure. Finally, we test a selection of state-of-the-art generators against a suite of utility and privacy metrics. …”
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Ethnobotanical study of wild edible plants in Metema and Quara districts, Northwestern Ethiopia by Daniel Tadesse, Getinet Masresha, Ermias Lulekal, Asmamaw Alemu

“…Methods Data on WEPs were collected through semi-structured interviews with 396 informants, guided field walks, focus group discussions, and market surveys. …”
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COMMUNITY POLICING AS A PANACEA FOR MITIGATING ARMED BANDITARY IN CENTRAL NIGERIA by Fidelis Achoba, Peace Oluwatoyin Irefin

“…Findings from this study reveal that the locals should be empowered for enhanced effective and efficient community policing structure as the success of food security can only be guaranteed by security of lives and property. …”
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The influence of the use of information technology and professionalism on employee performance mediated by work productivity by Dori Mittra Candana, Hapzi Ali, Zefriyeni Zefriyeni

“…The quantitative research was conducted using the structural equation modeling (SEM) model analysis with a few exogenous and endogenous variables.The data needed for this study are derived from two primary sources: 1) data primer (data primer) and 2) data sekunder (data sekunder). …”
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Digital state in the context of legal reform in Ukraine: theoretical and legal aspect by E. Najafli

“…It is shown that the formation of a digital state is an integral element of digitalization of all spheres of social life and a requirement of modernity. Structural and procedural approaches to the study of legal reform in the field of digital state formation are analyzed. …”
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EFFECT OF BASIC AMENITIES ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL AREAS IN BENUE STATE NIGERIA by ONYOWO REBECCA ATUNGWU

“…The study adopted a survey research design and data were collected using structured questionnaire. The population of the study consists of 1,023, 000 people in three selected local government areas in Benue State namely, Vandeikya, Buruku and Ogbadibo. …”
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Quality education for all in an ideas-informed society: exploring idea-engagement amongst friendship networks and how education can prevent idea “echo-chambers” by Chris Brown, Jana Gross Ophoff, Graham Handscomb

“…Focusing on friendship networks, the authors used a structural equation model approach to explore the existence and potency of homophilic friendship networks; whether such networks drive respondents’ ideas-engagement with friends; and whether ideas discussions with friends impacts on the importance respondents place on staying up to date. …”
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Exploring Life Satisfaction as a Bridge Between Taqwa and Psychological Well-Being in Muslim Adolescents by Dina Haya Sufya, Nurul Ain Hidayah Abas

“…Qualitative data were obtained through open-ended questions to capture personal experiences. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was utilized to assess the direct and indirect relationships between variables, while qualitative analysis provided a contextual understanding of the quantitative findings. …”
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<italic>C&#x2099;</italic>&#x00B2; Modeling for Free-Space Optical Communications: A Review by Florian Quatresooz, Claude Oestges

“…., models giving vertical profiles of the refractive index structure parameter <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$C_{n}^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, highlighting differences between astronomical and optical communication sites. …”
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Hybrid Simulated Annealing-Evaporation Rate-Based Water Cycle Algorithm Application for Medical Image Enhancement by Eyob Mersha Woldamanuel

“…The findings of the present study showed that the proposed strategy outperforms all of the compared methods in terms of objective function fitness and perceptual visual IQA metrics such as the Harr wavelet-based perceptual similarity index (HaarPSI), visual signal-to-noise ratio (VSNR), and information content weighted structural similarity index measure (IW-SSIM). The suggested technique also exhibited better stability and faster convergence time to the optimum solution. …”
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Public Acceptance of Driverless Buses in China: An Empirical Analysis Based on an Extended UTAUT Model by Jian Chen, Rui Li, Mi Gan, Zhiyan Fu, Fatao Yuan

“…The quality of this extended model was verified through survey data collected in Chongqing, China. The structural equation modeling (SEM) method was adopted to quantitatively describe the impact of each factor on acceptance intention (AI) as well as the mutual influence relationships between the factors. …”
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Butein Inhibits Oxidative Stress Injury in Rats with Chronic Heart Failure via ERK/Nrf2 Signaling by Peng Liu, Quanli Pan

“…Rats in CHF+butein and sham+butein group were given 100 mg/kg butein via gavage every day to detect the effect of butein on oxidative stress injury and myocardial dysfunction. The cardiac structural and functional parameters, including the left ventricular end-systolic dimension (LVESD), the left ventricular end-diastolic dimension (LVEDD), the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), and the left ventricular fractional shortening (LVFS), were measured. …”
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IC-GraF: An Improved Clustering with Graph-Embedding-Based Features for Software Defect Prediction by Xuanye Wang, Lu Lu, Qingyan Tian, Haishan Lin

“…However, the former exhibited limitations in capturing semantic and structural features, while the latter encountered constraints due to differences in data distribution across projects. …”
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