The Impact of Earning Smoothing through Real Activities and its Components on Labor Force Investment Efficiency by Batool Ismael Hasan, Mehdi Heydari, Hamzeh Didar

“…Real earnings smoothing can affect labor investment efficiency through its effect on market frictions caused by information asymmetry between managers and suppliers of external capital sources. The purpose of the current research is to investigate the effect of real earnings smoothing and its components on labor investment efficiency. …”
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Otoritas Kufah Asy-Sya‘bī dan Konstruksi Sanad: Kritik terhadap Pendekatan Joseph Schacht dalam Studi Hadis Tabi‘in by Fahmi Riady, Abdul Karim

“…This research employs a qualitative-descriptive approach, utilizing documentary analysis and historical-critical methods on both primary and secondary sources. …”
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Mentoring as a Social Institution and Its Types in Modern Realities by I. A. Zorina

“…The results provide a description of the specific characteristics of each type of mentoring in the context of modern times, a description of the functions of mentoring.…”
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Eliciting Preferences for the Uptake of Smoking Cessation Apps: Discrete Choice Experiment by Dorothy Szinay, Rory A Cameron, Andy Jones, Jennifer A Whitty, Tim Chadborn, Jamie Brown, Felix Naughton

“…Participants made 12 choices between two hypothetical smoking cessation app alternatives, with five predefined attributes reflecting domains from the theoretical domains framework: (1) monthly price of the app (environmental resources), (2) credible source as app developer (social influence), (3) social proof as star rating (social influence), (4) app description type (beliefs about consequences), and (5) images shown (beliefs about consequences); or opting out (choosing neither app). …”
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Consistent Algorithms Marching Along Characteristics for the Numerical Solution of the Boltzmann Equation by Nilson C. Roberty, Rogerio C. Nunes

“…This a priori adaptivity has the advantages that it formulates a consistent scheme which makes appropriate the application of the Lax equivalence theorem framework to the problem. In this work, we present the main functional spaces involved in the formalism and a description of the algorithms for the mesh generation and the transport equation solution. …”
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Armenian Diaspora of Mordovia: Socio-Cultural Portrait (Experience of Sociological Analysis) by O. N. Barinova, O. N. Kuzina, I. V. Manaeva

“…The purpose of the article is to describe the  sociocultural portrait of the Armenian Diaspora in the conditions of a multi-ethnic and multi-confessional region (Republic of Mordovia).Methodology and sources. The genre of the sociological portrait in the framework of the study of society involves a comprehensive description of society, a systematic analysis of its basic characteristics. …”
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Cognitive model of the national financial market: creating process and prospects for assessing the security of its functioning by E. A. Loktionova

“…The relevance of the study is due to the need to assess the reaction of the national financial market to various exogenous and endogenous stressors in the face of growing geopolitical tensions and the emergence of new artificial restrictions on the access of domestic investors to foreign sources of capital. The belonging of modern financial markets to complex adaptive systems consisting of elements and relationships, the formal description of the dynamics of which is very problematic, determines the advisability of using cognitive analysis and modeling methods in the process of assessing the safety of their functioning. …”
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Instructional-based learning of cyclic quadrilateral theorems: Making geometric thinking visible and enhancing learners’ spatial and geometry cognitions by Rajendran Govender, Godfred Amevor

“…Quantitative data were collected through a pre-test-post-test design and analysed using independent sample t-test whereas qualitative data were collected using content analysis and analysed using descriptive analysis. The analysis was guided by the theoretical frameworks of Van Hiele theory of levels of geometric understanding and Zazkis et al.’s visualisation-analysis model. …”
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Jesus’ Teaching on Servant-Leadership (Matthew 20:25-28): A Model for Christian Youth Participation in Politics by Funke Elizabeth Oyekan

“…Data collected from the Bible and bibliographic sources were exegetically and descriptively analysed respectively. …”
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Properties of Amplitude Distributions of Acoustic Emission Signals Generated in Pressure Vessel During Testing by Franciszek WITOS

“…For complex signals, the description using ADC, ADP and ADNC descriptors based on the analysis of amplitude distributions of recorded signals gives the order of signals with more accurate connection with deformational processes being sources of acoustic emission signals.…”
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How do higher education staff understand the terms hybrid, hyflex and blended learning? Choice, modality and uncertainty by Emily Nordmann, Barbora Hronska, Jill R.D. MacKay

“…Our results underscore the need for clearer terminology and for all stakeholders to provide maximally descriptive definitions. The use of any broad category term should be accompanied by a specific definition that at minimum describes choice and modality, but where best practice would be to encompass additional information based on existing frameworks.…”
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The Impact of Social Capital on Sustainable Development of Agriculture in Rural Areas (Case Study: Kermanshah Province Villages) by Vakil Haidari Sareban, Sohyla Bakhtar, Mina Ziarati

“…The agriculture part is one of the main sources of employment providing income whose sustainability causes the rural economics and environmental sustainable within the agricultural systems and rural communities. …”
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Interpretation of complexity for spherically symmetric fluid composition within the context of modified gravity theory by A. Rehman, Tayyab Naseer, Baiju Dayanandan

“…Regardless of the adequate descriptions of complexity in distinct alternative gravity theories, its elaboration in the framework of f(R,Lm,T) theory remains uncertain. …”
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Scoping review protocol: is there a role for physical activity interventions in the treatment pathway of bladder cancer? by Louis Fox, Mieke Van Hemelrijck, Sneha Mehrotra, Megan Rowland, Hanyu Zhang, Beth Russell, Katharina Beyer, Elke Rammant, Nicola Peat, Cecilia Bosco

“…This scoping review aims to identify what interventions are available, their reported efficacy and feasibility, and a description of potential underlying biological mechanisms for their effects.Methods and analysis Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Scoping Review (ScR) guidelines and the Levac methodology framework will be followed/used. …”
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An in-depth examination of geriatric nursing master's programs: A comparative analysis between Iran and Canada by Maedeh Sadeghigolafshani

“…This study was undertaken with the explicit objective of comparing the educational curriculum of the Master's program in Geriatrics in Iran with that of the Alberta Nursing School in Canada. This comparative descriptive study employed George F. Bradley's 4-step method, involving the stages of description and proximity analysis. …”
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Exploring the Internet of Things adoption in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: a comprehensive scientometric analysis by Diana Teresa Parra-Sánchez

“…Design/methodology/approach – Utilising data sourced from Scopus and analysed through CiteSpace, this research encompasses documents from 2018 to early 2024. …”
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Government Collaboration Model in Plastic Waste Management as an Effort to Protect Indonesia’s Marine Environment by Ria Tri Vinata, Masitha Tismananda Kumala

“…Indonesia, as an archipelagic country with a dominant sea area, faces major challenges in managing marine plastic waste, which is mostly sourced from land and shipping activities. This study aims to analyze the government’s collaboration model in the management of marine plastic waste as part of Indonesia’s marine environmental protection efforts, with an emphasis on the construction of national laws and forms of international cooperation. …”

Analysis of Subtitle Translation In Home Sweet Loan Movie: Unit Shift and Readability of Intimate Dialogues by Khairunnisa' Mardhiyah, Fanny Puji Rakhmi, Septina Indrayani

“…This research examines the impact of unit shifts in translating intimate dialogues from Indonesian to English subtitles in Home Sweet Loan (2024), on readability and emotional nuances. Using a descriptive qualitative approach with content analysis, this research applies Catford’s (1965) theory of translation shifts focusing on unit shift, Joos’s (1967) language styles framework containing intimate language style, and Nababan et al.’s (2012) on readability assessment to evaluate the data sourced from official Netflix subtitles. …”
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Conceptual Field of “SIN” in Context of Studying Linguistic Mentality by L. I. Zhukovskaya, V. V. Saygin

“…The research centers on language and text features of syntagmatic, paradigmatic and associative relations between the words sin , repentance and virtue - the representatives of the conceptual field of “SIN” identified through the analysis of the data extracted from dictionaries and also from the National corpus of the Russian language. Theoretical framework of the study is based on the principles of analysis of ways of conceptualizing the world as a source of formation of the phenomenon of “linguistic mentality.” …”
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An interpretation attempt of Hungarian small towns’ shrinking in a post-socialist transformation context by András Trócsányi, Gábor Pirisi, Éva Máté

“…The aim of the present paper is to analyse the shrinking of small towns among the framework of post-socialists urban trans-formation models and concepts. …”
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