Exploring student teachers' stressors in teaching practice in the COVID-19 era in Masvingo District, Zimbabwe by Marvelous Marenyenya

“…The thematic findings revealed that student teachers teaching practice in the COVID-19 era are subjected to teaching practice stressors induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, such as fear of contracting the COVID-19 virus, illness, isolation, stigmatization and death, anxiety, uncertainty, hopelessness, economic hardships, prolonged teaching practice period, school closures, transference of face-to-face teaching to online learning. …”
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Quantifying monochromatic and polychromatic optical blur anisotropy in the periphery of myopes and emmetropes using a radial asymmetry metric by Chloe Degre Kendrick, Dibyendu Pusti, Geunyoung Yoon

“…PurposeThe goal of this study is to characterize peripheral blur anisotropy resulting from monochromatic and chromatic aberrations along multiple meridians of myopic and emmetropic eyes using a newly developed quantitative metric.MethodsA scanning Shack-Hartmann-based wavefront sensor was used to measure lower- and higher-order monochromatic aberrations along the horizontal and vertical meridians of 20 healthy adult subjects (10 myopes, and 10 emmetropes). Monochromatic and polychromatic blur asymmetry magnitude and orientation were quantified using a novel metric based on the optical transfer function. …”
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The National Police of Ukraine activities in the sphere of ensuring national security by A. A. Nikitin

“…In the course of analysis of the provisions of legal acts on national security, a range of tasks and powers of its subjects has been determined, and the peculiarities of implementation of measures in certain areas of security activities have been considered. …”
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Ocular comorbidities and its relation to clinical and dermoscopic features in patients with alopecia areata: a case-control study by Eman R. M. Hofny, Ahmed F. Omar, Walaa M. Abdel Megeed, Ayman M. Mahran

“…Patients and methods 65 patients with the clinical diagnosis of AA and 33 age and sex-matched volunteers were included in this case control study. Each patient was subjected to history taking, clinical examination, dermoscopic evaluation, and ophthalmological examination. …”
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Pond fishing in the Congolese cuvette: a story of fishermen, animals, and water spirits by Marion Comptour, Sophie Caillon, Doyle McKey

“…Like the technical dimensions of pond fishing, its social and symbolic dimensions are also little described in literature on the subject. Because pond ownership is a source of income and prestige, pond fishing crystallizes social competition. …”
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Prevalence of dry eye disease in rheumatoid arthritis patients and its correlation with duration of rheumatoid arthritis by Priyanshi Ashishbhai Gandhi, Arun Kumar Samar, Nitish Kathuria, Avinash Mishra, Harbeer Singh Chhabra

“…Background: Dry eye is a condition of the tear film and ocular surface that causes discomfort, visual disturbance, and tear film instability. The subjective symptoms in dry eye disease (DED) are often nonspecific. …”
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A Study of Clinicoepidemiological Features and Association with Autoimmune Thyroiditis in Polymorphic Light Eruption by Mrudula Pulletikurti, KVT Gopal, PV Krishnam Raju, Rekha Rani Bulla

“…Both cases and controls were subjected to thyroid function tests (TFTs) and patients with abnormal TFTs were further screened for thyroid autoantibodies. …”
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Study of Durability of Concrete with Fly Ash as Fine Aggregate under Alternative Interactions of Freeze-Thaw and Carbonation by Mingjie Mao, Dongsheng Zhang, Qiuning Yang, Wenbo Zhang

“…To study the durability of concrete with fly ash as fine aggregate subjected to alternative attacks of freeze-thaw and carbonation, the appearance, mass loss, relative dynamic modulus of elasticity, relative compressive strength, and carbonation depth of the concrete are investigated using cyclic tests under single carbonation, single freeze-thaw, and alternation of freeze-thaw and carbonation. …”
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Le dessin de design en tant qu’œuvre en soi by Airton Cattani

“…But, far from having a unique or innate interpretation, design drawing is subject to different levels of clarity, from the designer, the transmitter of knowledge, to the receptor/reader’s understanding, which vary according to the historical period and society in which the decoding occurs. …”
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DETECTION OF KERATOCONUS DISEASE DEPENDING ON CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY USING DEEP LEARNING by Aseel Abdulhasan Hashim, Mahdi Mazinani

“…The pre-processing stage involves cropping images to retain the relevant maps, which were subjected to contrast enhancement to improve image quality. …”
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Eco-innovation: the profile of Poland in comparison to the European Union by Z. Ostraszewska, A. Tylec

“…Thus, in this study of the subject there can be found numerous definitions and types of innovation, including environmental innovation, being a response to the demands of a modern economy, related to the need of combining innovativeness with care for the environment. …”
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Students from all Layers of Society. Study Grants, Parents and the Education of their Children, 1815-2015 by Wouter Marchand

“…The grant system has been a subject of ongoing political debate during the last few decades, since the grants’ effect on upward social mobility has been called into question.…”
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Seismic vulnerability analysis of reinforced concrete frame with infill wall considering in-plane and out-of-plane interactions by Dan Wang

“…Then, the structure was subjected to incremental dynamic analyses (IDA), and different damage indicators were determined to examine the damage of the infill walls and the overall structure, producing a set of vulnerability curves. …”
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Russian Student Readiness for Professional Service: from Actual to Desired by R. A. Zayakina

“…Service can be included in everyday life through professional activities, therefore we can consider the subject, focusing on its type. The goal of the research is to determine the meaning of professional service, its place in the modern world, as well as the development of methodological guidelines guiding the training session. …”
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Attitude towards the Practice of Female Genital Cutting among School Boys and Girls in Somali and Harari Regions, Eastern Ethiopia by Asresash D. Abathun, Abdi A. Gele, Johanne Sundby

“…Two districts were purposely selected from the two regions, and a stratified random sampling technique was employed to select 480 subjects from the randomly selected schools. Results. …”
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A novel multifunctional chiral metasurface with asymmetric transmission by Muhammad Noman, Hattan Abutarboush, Farooq A. Tahir, Adnan Zahid, Muhammad Imran, Qammer H. Abbasi

“…The incorporation of multiband and multifunctional features within a single supercell equips the subject chiral metasurface to be utilized in various engineering applications.…”
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Search for new dimensions of the educational space: digital and non-digital vectors of development by T. Yu. Krotenko

“…Sociocultural, ecological, economic circumstances in which the constantly changing world finds itself persistently demand the emergence of new directions and subjects of research in the educational sphere.   The purpose of the article is to identify promising vectors for studying the space of lifelong education.   …”
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Effect of Bodybuilding and Fitness Exercise on Physical Fitness Based on Deep Learning by Manman Sun, Lijun Wang

“…The data results show that under the scientific and reasonable arrangement of exercise conditions, bodybuilding and fitness exercises have a corresponding positive effect on the body shape and posture of the subjects. It is more practical to choose a combination of aerobic and anaerobic exercise. …”
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Developing haptic attribute models as creative instruments for a hybrid food design community by Annika Göran Rodell

“…We are dedicated to prototype new haptic attribute models to support research in haptics that are rooted in professional subjective experiences and facilitate ways of connecting disciplines within and beyond the field of aesthetics. …”
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Disruptive technologies that deliver a circular economy for plastics by Katherine E.S. Locock, Andrew Terhorst, Sarah King, Kymberley R. Scroggie

“…Using a collaboration between subject matter experts and ChatGPT, we identified five distinct disruptive technology categories and associated keywords that support a circular economy: bioplastics, chemical recycling, synthetic biology, traceable plastics and waste separation. …”
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