Facilitators and barriers faced by community organizations supporting older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic by Kristen R. Haase, Ailsa C. Sirois, Dmitri Detwyler, Bahareh Kardeh, Shelley Peacock, Theodore D. Cosco, Marjan Kamali, Megan E. O’Connell

“…Results These community organizations described barriers related to older adults’ wellbeing, information technology proficiency, and personal/organizational losses related to changes in program structure. Facilitators for virtual activities and events included inter- and intra-organizational collaboration, intrinsic qualities of program design, physical resources to supporting virtual programming, and availability of technological resources. …”
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IMPLEMENTATION AND COMPARISON IN USING STATE PATTERN ON MAIN CHARACTER MOVEMENT (CASE STUDY : POCONG JUMP VIDEO GAME VERSION 1.0) by Sanriomi Sintaro, Deiby Tineke Salaky, Luther Alexander Latumakulita, Mahardika Inra Takaendengan, Bernard Bernard, Ade Surahman, Noorul Islam

“…Game development success is often hard to achieve due to various problems such as performance issues, malfunctioning features, and poorly organized program structure. The problems that arise can be prevented by using the design pattern as a game programming architecture from the beginning of development. …”
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Bioinspired hydrophobic pseudo-hydrogel for programmable shape-morphing by Zhigang Wang, Haotian Hu, Zefan Chai, Yuhang Hu, Siyuan Wang, Cheng Zhang, Chunjie Yan, Jun Wang, Wesley Coll, Tony Jun Huang, Xianchen Xu, Heng Deng

“…We adopt a theoretical framework elucidating the interplay of surface tension induced elastocapillarity, providing insights into the absorption-induced volume expansion behavior. By systematically programming the pore structure, we demonstrate tunable, anisotropic, and programmable absorption-induced expansion. …”
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Impact of maternal high‐fat diet on offspring gut microbiota during short‐term high‐fat diet exposure in mice by Henry A. Paz, Lasya Buddha, Ying Zhong, James D. Sikes, Umesh D. Wankhade

“…This study investigated the effects of maternal HF diet on offspring gut microbiota structure and predicted functional profile in response to short‐term postnatal HF diet exposure with a focus on sex‐specific responses. …”
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Identification and Valuation of Economic Activities Reserves as a Priorityin Strategic Analysis by Svetlana Evgen’evna Egorova, Natal’ya Nikolaevna Kistaeva

“…One more reason for this is targeted changes in a product program which result in changes not only in size and structure of the resource potential but also in legal form and structure of a business entity.…”
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Automatic Semifluid Mass Dispenser by Tomasz Samborski, Andrzej Zbrowski, Stanisław Kozioł, Mirosław Mrozek

“…The modern design, compact structure, and automated operation decide on the innovativeness of the dispenser. …”
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Determine the Key Factors of Tourism Development Based on Future Research Approach (Case Study: Mazandaran Province) by Parvin Dadazade- Silabi, Narges Ahmadifard

“…In this regard, planning for the development of tourism is dependent on the various factors and conditions that can be achieved if they are systematically and structurally applied. This topic indicates the importance of future research and tries to formulate the future need prospects in the development of tourism. …”
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Designing an interoperable solution to support pharmacogenomic-guided prescribing in primary care: an implementer report by William Newman, Videha Sharma, John McDermott, Jessica Keen, Ben McIntyre, Scott Watson

“…Study objectives Describe the implementation of an interoperable solution to support pharmacogenomic-guided prescribing in primary care in the National Health Service, England.Methods We used an iterative approach to software development going through clinical workflow mapping, architecture design and development, and pilot-testing.Results We configured a commercial health data management platform to store pharmacogenomic results in a structured format and created a knowledge base of pharmacogenomic guidance. …”
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Feasibility Evaluation of a Long-Life Asphalt Pavement for Steel Bridge Deck by Leilei Chen, Zhendong Qian, Daoxie Chen, Ya Wei

“…Third, an experimental study was conducted to assess the performance of the pavement material and the pavement structure. Meanwhile, for comparison, the performances of traditional steel bridge deck pavement structure “EAC + EAC” were also studied in the numerical and experimental program. …”
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Automatic Summarization for Academic Articles using Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning with Viewpoints by JingHong Li, Hatsuhiko Tanabe, Koichi Ota, Wen Gu, Shinobu Hasegawa

“…We collect academic articles using web scraping technology and construct training data by combining sections and sentences through analysis of the article's PDF structure. We use machine learning techniques to classify sentences in Japanese articles into viewpoints. …”
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The use of a three-dimensional mesh in plastic surgery by Rodrigo de Faria Valle Dornelles, Nivaldo Alonso, Luiz Alexandre Lorico Tissiani, Anderson Rodrigo Souza, Lúcia Nocchi Cardim

“…METHODS: Literature on the principles of image capture and formation of tridimensional models was reviewed, as well as the description of the application of the tests of accuracy with the use of a structured-light scanner. Clinical indications of 3-D meshes were evaluated both in the preoperative planning and postsurgical follow-up. …”
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Service providers’ perspectives on youth peer support: the importance of integration and oversight – an interpretive description study in British Columbia, Canada by Skye Pamela Barbic, Courtney Devane, Corey McAuliffe, Emily Jenkins, Kelli Wuerth

“…To advance the field and strengthen future implementation efforts, the aim of the present study was to generate new understandings about how non-peer service providers working alongside youth peer support workers experience the peer support role in youth mental health settings.Design Guided by interpretive description and tenets of a research community partnership model, semi-structured interviews were conducted with non-peer service providers (n=11) across three integrated youth services centres in British Columbia, Canada, from August to December 2020. …”
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Implementation of the Borda Method for Selecting Winners in the Tahfeez Tahmeed and Prayer Competition by DPD Recital Alhidayah by Miftah Rizki Marpaung, Edi Kurniawan, Elly Rahayu

“…Tahfeez, tahmeed, and prayer competitions that are routinely held by DPD Recital Alhidayah often experience obstacles in the assessment process due to the lack of a structured and computerized system, thereby reducing the efficiency and accuracy of assessment. …”
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Risk-averse operation of microgrids in distribution systems with price-responsive demands by Seyed Saeed Fazlhashemi, Mohammad E. Khodayar, Mostafa Sedighizadeh, Mahdi Khodayar

“…Microgrid operations are structured as scenario-based robust optimization problems, capturing the worst-case scenarios for demand and solar PV generation. …”
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"The child of your fellow is your child": Building on existing protective norms to engage men as caregivers; qualitative findings from an exploratory evaluation of an edutainment i... by Alicia Sharif, Marjorie Pichon, Veronicah Gimunta, Oscar Rutenge, Revocatus Sono, Ana Maria Buller, Lottie Howard-Merrill

“…We delivered the drama to households on flash drives and led structured household discussion sessions. We conducted in-depth interviews with 18 adult men caregivers before (September 2021) and after the intervention (December 2021) and used thematic analysis and the framework method to examine indications of change in attitudes, beliefs, norms and behaviours. …”
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Prospective Interventions for reducing the vulnerability of communities in post-disaster resettlement, a case of Bunambutye camp, Eastern Uganda by Harriet Cherotich, Frank Mugagga, Fredrick Tumwine, Henry Musoke Ssemakula

“…A Delphi tool containing structured interviews was utilized to gather the views of the participants on the objectives of the study which included: - skills possessed by the survivors, current skills valued and needed but missing in the resettlement, and prospective mitigation strategies to bridge the skill gaps. …”
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A CHATBOT FOR POSTGRADUATE INFORMATION DISSEMINATION by Umar Emmanuel, Odulaja Godwin Oluwaseyi, Babatunde Akinbowale Nathanie

“…User’s Intent Understanding (UIU), Query Response Accuracy (QRA), Error Handling (EH) and Mean Response Time (MRT) were some of the metrics used for user -system’s performance evaluation. Using a self-structured questionnaire, responses obtained from 130 student users purposively selected in TASUED with similar academic characteristics and needs were analysed using IBM SPSS v20. …”
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Dynamic Vaccine Allocation for Control of Human-Transmissible Disease by Mingdong Lyu, Chang Chang, Kuofu Liu, Randolph Hall

“…Our study develops a dynamic methodology for vaccine allocation, segmented by region, age, and timeframe, using a time-sensitive, age-structured compartmental model. Based on the objective of minimizing a weighted sum of deaths and cases, we used the Sequential Least Squares Quadratic Programming method to search for a locally optimal COVID-19 vaccine allocation for the United States, for the period from 16 December 2020 to 30 June 2021, where regions corresponded to the 50 states in the United States (U.S.). …”
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Data-driven modeling of the aggregator-based price-maker virtual power plant (VPP) in the day-ahead wholesale electricity markets; evidence from the Japan Electric power Exchange (... by Mohamed Saad Suliman, Hooman Farzaneh

“…Data-driven modeling is structured using mixed integer linear programming (MILP) and based on hybridizing several concepts, including conventional unit commitment, hydropower scheduling, pumping storage dispatch, market clearing mechanism, variable renewable energy forecasts, price elasticity of demand, and shadow prices of production technologies. …”
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The Effect of Cooperative Learning on Academic Performances and Computational Thinking Skills in the Computational Problem-Solving Approach by İrem Nur Çelik, Kaan Bati

“…Qualitative data were collected through semi-structured interviews at the end of the process to determine students' views on the computational problem-solving process. …”
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