Modeling vegetable farmers’ intention to use pesticides in central Nepal: An extended version of the planned behavior theory by Utkal Sapkota, Govinda Bhandari, Mandira Sapkota, Sneha Khanal, Asmita Poudel, Dipak Khanal, Min Raj Pokhrel, Christos A. Damalas

“…A study was conducted in the ‘Vegetable Zone’ of Dhading District, Nepal, employing an extended model of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to identify the factors behind commercial vegetable farmers' intention to use chemical pesticides. We administered a structured questionnaire in-person to a sample of 510 farmers using multistage stratified random sampling. …”
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Home spirometry telemonitoring in pediatric patients with asthma: a mixed study by Dingrong Fan, Ao Shen, Qianqian Wang, Lu Peng, Ruixue Xia, Hengyu Zhou

“…Children diagnosed with mild-to-moderate asthma, based on specified tests, participated in a four-week home spirometry telemonitoring program. After the telemonitoring period, semi-structured interviews were conducted with children, their guardians, and healthcare professionals to evaluate their experiences and identify the motivators and barriers in integrating home spirometry telemonitoring into clinical care. …”
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Organisational Culture and Performance of Urban Local Governments in Uganda: A Case of Kabale Municipality Kabale District. by Tushemereirwe, Juliet

“…The study also recommends that there is a need to formalize and expand the mentorship initiatives by implementing structured mentoring programs and there is a need for organizing regular workshops or forums that bring together council members, staff, and community representatives to collaboratively discuss and make decisions on key projects and service delivery initiatives.…”
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Penghitungan Beban Kritis pada Struktur Balok-Kolom Akibat Pembebanan Secara Aksial dan Lateral Berbasiskan Metode Beda Hingga by Eka Satria, N Nusyirwan, Deri Yunifki

“…This paper is aimed to determine the critical buckling load of the beam-column structures for practical applications. Firstly, the critical buckling loads is calculated numerically based on finite difference method. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Diversion Tunnel Excavation Using GPU-Accelerated Anisotropic Random Fields by Guo-jin Zhu, Yu Ning, Zhi-hao Cui, Nanxiang Hu, Qing-xiang Meng, Chun Zhu

“…Based on the geological structure characteristics of red-layered soft rocks in central Yunnan, the anisotropic rock random field and tunnel excavation with different rotation angles are simulated. …”
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Engaging stakeholders in the north-west first 1000 days project: building a strong community support ecosystem by Sisitha Jayasinghe, Kylie Mulcahy, Roger Hughes, Lisa Dalton, Kiran DK Ahuja, Nuala M. Byrne, Andrew P. Hills

“…They emphasized addressing mental health challenges for new parents and identified traditional information sources such as family networks, but noted accessibility and equity gaps affecting Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities. Structural challenges, including financial stress and lack of support for high-risk pregnancies, were key concerns. …”
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Introduction to Volume 29, Issue 3 by Pau Pérez-Sales, Chris Dominey

“…The paper by Martin Hill and Mary Lynn Everson, “Indicators likely to contribute to clinical and functional improvement among survivors of politically-sanctioned torture” is unique in the length of post-treatment follow-up, and provides an innovative approach in the measurement of rehabilitation outcomes through a structured measure of functional aspects with an instrument designed at the Kovler Center in Chicago. …”
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New forms of physical education in older preschoolers in the context of development intellectual and creative spheres of personality by Aleksandr A. Rusakov, Vladimir R. Kuzekevich

“…Particular attention is paid to the structural components of development: motor imagination, memory, attention, and coordination skills, but the role of outdoor games in the socialization of older preschoolers remains insufficiently studied. …”
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A Review on Bioengineering the Bovine Mammary Gland: The Role of the Extracellular Matrix and Reconstruction Prospects by Fernando Chissico Júnior, Thamires Santos da Silva, Flávio Vieira Meirelles, Paulo Sérgio Monzani, Lucas Fornari Laurindo, Sandra Maria Barbalho, Maria Angélica Miglino

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Self-checking principle and design of ternary Berger code by Zhang Sulan, Shen Yunfu

“…Then a photoelectric structure of error detection based on ternary Berger code is designed, which can detect single error for huge-bit data with high efficiency and low cost and lower delay.…”
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Using the Ethereum Blockchain in the Internet of Things Network for IT Diagnostics by U. A. Vishniakou, YiWei Xia, Chuyue Yu

“…An integrated system architecture has been developed that combines the IoT network, the IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) file structure with the Ethereum blockchain to create a reliable data storage model. …”
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Hardware and software implementation of data acquisition system by А. П. Самiла

“…To synchronize data acquisition system with the start of the exciting pulse the FPGA configuration structure is developed. The experimental results are shown possibility of the broadband nuclear quadrupole resonance spectrums imaging with frequency resolution 1.6 kHz, which confirms the high accuracy of the developed data acquisition system. …”
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ROLLING BEARING FAULT DIAGNOSIS BASED ON ADAPTIVE FEATURE SELECTION <italic>k</italic>-SUB CONVEX HULL by HU AiRu, WU ZhanTao, YANG Yu, CHENG JunSheng

“…Firstly, the convex hull distance function was used to maintain the local neighborhood structure on the data manifold, and the feature weight matrix was obtained by alternately constructing <italic>k</italic>-sub convex hulls. …”
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Symplectic machine learning model for fast simulation of space-charge effects by Jinyu Wan, Ji Qiang, Yue Hao

“…By maintaining symplecticity, the model effectively preserves the phase-space structure and mitigates nonphysical errors in long-term simulations. …”
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UPDATING SOIL TYPES DIFFERENCES OF ERODED SLOPE LANDS WITH DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL (DEM) by Valerii KOLIADA, Pavlo NAZAROK

“…The purpose of this work is to demonstrate the algorithm of actions for modern erosion-combating optimization of the land use structure by the example of a specific 30.01 ha study area with the help of updating the eroded soil type differences. …”
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Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation by Edward A. Shipton

“…High-frequency DBS leads to a kind of functional deafferentation of the stimulated structure and to the modulation of cortical activity. …”
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AutoTarget: Disease-Associated druggable target identification via node representation learning in PPI networks by Hyunseung Kong, Inyoung Kim, Byoung-Tak Zhang

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A Comparative Study of Fractal Models Applied to Artificial and Natural Data by Gil Silva, Fernando Pellon de Miranda, Mateus Michelon, Ana Ovídio, Felipe Venturelli, João Parêdes, João Ferreira, Letícia Moraes, Flávio Barbosa, Alexandre Cury

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Numerical Flexibility Practices in Working Relations and Their Effects on Intergenerational Solidarity Processes by Serkan Coşkun

“…This study examines the interactions between the numerical flexibility practices emerging in today’s working relations and intergenerational solidarity relations and in this context aims to describe in depth the effect these practices have on these relations. This study is structured within the framework of the phenomenological design, a qualitative research method, with data being collected using semi-structured interview forms. …”
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Intertillage during Natural Farming Rice Paddy Production Negatively Impacted the Microbial Abundances in Soils but Not Diversities by Jin-Feng Lin, Eva-Maria Minarsch, Munehide Ishiguro, Yoshitaka Uchida

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