A Pre-Adoption Assessment of a Collaborative Care Approach to Dental-Fear Treatment by Kelly A. Daly, Richard E. Heyman, Alison L. Drew, Amy M. Smith Slep, Rochelle Bubis, Jahyung (Jai) Lee, Victoria V. V. Pearce, Racquel Jones, Marissa Ruggiero, Mark S. Wolff

“…Methods: Thirteen semi-structured focus groups comprising students in (a) current dental hygiene programs and (b) other dental programs, who had prior experience working as licensed dental hygienists or allied professionals (i.e., dental assistants, dental therapists, dental treatment coordinators; <i>N</i> = 49) were conducted. …”
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Preferences for receiving diabetes prevention support and factors influencing healthy eating and physical activity among patients with prediabetes in Chicago, Illinois by Angela Kong, Mary Smart, Yuka Asada, Lourdes Deci Limpoco, Chuxian Tang, Janet Lin, Brian T. Layden

“…Methods: Data from this qualitative study were collected from January 2023 through May 2023. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 35 patients with prediabetes (hemoglobin A1c: 5.7 to 6.4 %) detected from screening in an urban emergency department in Chicago, Illinois. …”
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Urban Systems Between the Environment, Human Health and Society: An Overview by Carlo Modonesi, Stefano Serafini, Alessandro Giuliani

“…Similar to what happens during the development of an organism, the interface between any complex system and its environment determines its structural and functional fate. We argue that large cities have blurred the interface with their natural environment and depend on delocalized global sources. …”
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Compensatory Vowel Lengthening of /A/ Occurs due to the Deletion of Certain Consonants according to Moraic Theory by Raz Aziz Ahmed, Dastan Saber Mama

“…In addition, the mora is used to determine syllable weight and serves as a structural unit between the syllable and phoneme tiers. …”
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Free economic zones and territories of advanced development: modern problems by O. A. Dmitrieva, K. N. Luzin

“…The research results consist in identifying the problems of the functioning of free economic zones, identifying structural problems that represent errors in the creation and functioning of such territories that require immediate solutions soon, as well as analyzing projects of free economic zones in Russia that are successful and cost–effective within the framework of the regional development program.…”
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Calculation of impact characteristics and icing phase transitions of salty droplets by TANG Yuhao, CHAI Delin, YI Xian, GUI Yewei

“…Based on the Monte Carlo method and the phase transition model of salty droplets motion, the impact characteristics of salty droplets on the structural surface were simulated. The effects of the moving phase transition on the impact characteristics of salty droplets with different particle sizes were analyzed in this paper, the results show that the impact mass flux of 20 μm and 30 μm salty droplets decreased significantly due to the large mass loss during the movement. …”
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Interaction Diagram of Hollow-Crossed Reinforced Concrete Columns Undergoing Biaxial Bending Using the Closed Polygon Method by Yudi Susetyo Yudi, Agus Maryoto, Nanang Gunawan

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Benchmarking AlphaFold‐enabled molecular docking predictions for antibiotic discovery by Felix Wong, Aarti Krishnan, Erica J Zheng, Hannes Stärk, Abigail L Manson, Ashlee M Earl, Tommi Jaakkola, James J Collins

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Systems thinking approach to human resources development in public health supply chains by Erin Meier, Andrew Nelson Brown, Barry Chovitz, Dominique Zwinkels, Michael Egharevba, Bridget McHenry, Joseph Kabatende, Ines K. Gege Buki

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Challenges to Promoting Resilience in Supply Chains Observed during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Exploratory Study of the Amazon Region Using the TOPSIS Technique by Dhiordan Cunha Tadaiesky, Joaquim Lima das Neves Neto, André Cristiano Silva Melo, Rosley Anholon, Eliane de Castro Coutinho, Vitor William Batista Martins

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Navigating the Future: Envisioning Metaverse Adoption in Indonesian Tourism Through the Technological–Organizational–Environmental (TOE) Framework by Afrizal Firman, Ka Yin Chau, Ankita Manohar Walawalkar, Massoud Moslehpour

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Failure Depth of a Floor of a Fully Mechanized Working Face When Passing a Collapse Column by Jinlong Cai, Min Tu, Wensong Xu

“…The calculated depth failure of the floor of the working face without structural defects is 14.6–14.7 m based on the Hoek–Brown criterion. …”
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Design Analysis and Evaluation of a W-Element Model for a Twisted-Pair Cable by Mohammad Zarei, Amin Khalilzadegan, Khayrollah Hadidi

“…This paper presents a straightforward approach to extract a W-element model for the twisted pair cable based on its structural and electrical characteristics. The W-element model employs a novel state-of-the-art transmission line simulation method which is very fast, accurate and robust. …”
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Ikigai and Career Choices in Hospitality and Tourism: A Study of Student Motivations Amidst Industry Disruptions by Paula Tavares de Carvalho, Ricardo Jorge Raimundo

“…The research focused on students and recent graduates (up to two years post-graduation) from two universities in Portugal’s largest cities, Lisbon and Oporto, offering Hotel/Tourism Management programs. A quantitative study was carried out, and out of 610 questionnaires distributed, 346 valid responses were analysed using the structural equation modelling technique. …”
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Understanding the impact of attitudes toward seeking psychological help and school well-being on depression and anxiety among Vietnamese university students by Le Minh Cong, Nguyen Van Tuong, Nguyen Vu Thanh Tam

“…A cross-sectional survey of 8383 students was conducted using validated self-report measures, and data were analyzed through Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). Results showed that school well-being was negatively associated with depression and anxiety, suggesting that students with greater school satisfaction had better mental health. …”
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Modeling the relationships between growth language mindset, L2 grit, and foreign language learning burnout by Xiaojing Hu, Lu Song, Yuan He

“…The current study addresses this gap by examining the impact of learners’ growth language mindset (GLM) on FLLB by employing the structural equation modeling (SEM). Furthermore, the mediating role of L2 grit in the relationship between GLM and FLLB was scrutinized. …”
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How Does the Performance of Islamic Microfinance Institutions Affect the Welfare of SMEs?: Empirical study of BTM Mulia Babat by Fifi Hakimi, Faricha Maf'ula, M. Ramizal Syahidin

“…The partial least square-structural equation modeling method is used in this quantitative study, examining data from 52 respondents, where the respondent data are BTM Mulia Babat business financing customers. …”
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Religious faith, gratitude, conflict resolution styles, and romantic love by Marius Marici, Adelia Furdui (Florea), Patricia Runcan

“…The aim of this research was to investigate the role of gratitude and conflict resolution styles as mediators between religious faith and romantic love.MethodsA structural equation model was performed with data from married males and females from Romania (N = 226, Mage = 40.67, SDage = 11.76). …”
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Concerns About Contraception and Future Fertility: Prevalence Among Young Individuals and Its Impact on Contraceptive Use and Reproductive Health by Naheed Akhtar, Sabiha Qamar Javed, Tooba Adil, Falaq Shahid, Fiza Rehman, Maryam Arif

“…Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in five public sector hospitals across different districts of Peshawar, Pakistan, between June 2023 and February 2024, among 400 participants aged 18-30 years in Peshawar, Pakistan, using a convenience sampling technique. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data on demographic factors, contraceptive knowledge, and fertility concerns. …”
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Motivations for suicide attempts and risk factors among youths in Western Iran: A cross‐sectional study by Fatemeh Darabi, Arash Ziapour, Hassan Ahmadinia

“…A nonrandom sampling method was used to select 110 participants, ages 15–35. Structured questionnaires such as the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI‐II), and the Suicide Motivation Scale (IMSA) were used to gather the data. …”
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