Gender Equality and Sustainability in Vietnamese Higher Education: Educators’ Perspectives by Muhammad Qasim Rana, Angela Lee, Tran Van Ty, Dao Phong Lam

“…A quantitative research design was employed, using a structured survey distributed among faculty members across different academic ranks, including lecturers, senior lecturers, associate professors, and professors. …”
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Noise2Variance: Dual networks with variance constraint for self‐supervised real‐world image denoising by Hanlin Tan, Yu Liu, Maojun Zhang

“…Experimental results indicate that the proposed Noise2Variance method exhibits commendable performance on peak signal noise ratio and structural similarity metrics compared to existing self‐supervised denoising techniques. …”
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Visual Complexity in Korean Documents: Toward Language-Specific Datasets for Deep Learning-Based Forgery Detection by Yong-Yeol Bae, Dae-Jea Cho, Ki-Hyun Jung

“…Furthermore, the detection performance of models trained on English-based datasets varies according to the language of the training and test data. These findings underscore the necessity of developing datasets and model architectures tailored to the linguistic and structural characteristics of each language to enhance forgery detection efficacy. …”
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Contraceptive Use and Its Associated Factors among Women Who Gave Birth within 12 Months in Dubti Town, Pastoral Community, of Afar Region Northeast, Ethiopia by Abdu Yimam, Girmatsion Fisseha, Mebrahtu Kalayu, Etsay Woldu Anbesu

“…A systematic random sampling technique was employed to identify and enroll women. Data were collected using a pretested, structured, and interviewer-administered questionnaire. …”
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Associations of intimate partner violence and financial adversity with familial homelessness in pregnant and postpartum women: A 7-year prospective study of the ALSPAC cohort. by Caitlin S Chan, Aaron L Sarvet, Archana Basu, Karestan Koenen, Katherine M Keyes

“…Marginal structural models and multiple imputation were used to address time-varying confounding of the primary variables, testing for interaction between concurrent emotional/physical IPV and financial adversity, and adjusted for baseline age, ethnicity, education, partner's alcohol use, parity, depression, and social class.…”
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Can non-timber forest products (NTFPs) contribute to the sustainable livelihoods of rural communities? Case study: Central Zagros, Iran by Sohrab Moradi, Naser Ahmadi Sani, Majid Pato

“…The research tool was a semi-structured questionnaire that was completed through face-to-face interviews. …”
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Supporting the role and enabling the potential of community health workers in Bangladesh’s rural maternal and newborn health programs: a qualitative study by Alayne M Adams, Myriam Vuckovic, Emily Graul, Sabina F Rashid, Malabika Sarker

“…Regular communication and collaboration between CHWs and public-sector frontline workers were perceived as important in enabling their role in increasing the coverage of essential services. Support for structured systems of training, supervision and monitoring which encompass the support of referral decisions, was also apparent. …”
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Cardiovascular Disease Detection through Innovative Imbalanced Learning and AUC Optimization by Karthikeyan Palanisamy, Krishnaveni Krishnasamy, Praba Venkadasamy

“…The performance of this model was rigorously evaluated using comprehensive data from a medical survey conducted in 2012, which included an extensive cohort of 26,002 athletes. …”
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Technological Anxiety in the Public Sector: Exploring the Impact of Digital Factors on Personnel Performance by Kunxiang Li, Bin Wang

“…Since the purpose of this study is to explore the impact of digital technology on the work performance of public sector personnels, the research objects of this research constituency are a total of 717 public sector personnels from different public sectors. Data were collected from 717 public sector personnels using quantitative research methods and analyzed with a structural equation model in AMOS 28.0. …”
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Unveiling Ecopharmacology: Insights into knowledge, attitude, and practices among medical and nursing students in tertiary care teaching hospital of district Almora, Uttarakhand by Akbar Ahmed, Akshita Maithani, Preeti Kumari, Vikram Singh Dhapola

“…Materials and Methods: This descriptive and cross-sectional study employed a pre-validated self-administered structured online questionnaire conducted between december 2024 and January 2025. …”
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Psychological distress as a driver of early COVID-19 pandemic fatigue: a longitudinal analysis of the time-varying relationship between distress and physical distancing adherence a... by Gillian A M Tarr, Keeley J Morris, Sato Ashida

“…We then used marginal structural models to examine the time-varying effect of distress on future interactions with non-household members as a measure of pandemic fatigue.Results Among families with children, each unit increase in distress at the beginning of the study resulted in a 9% increase in non-household contacts (RR: 1.09; 95% CI: 1.03 to 1.16), but the effect declined with each additional week by 1.8% (ratio of RR: 0.982; 95% CI: 0.971 to 0.993). …”
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Physicians’ perspectives, needs, and expectations of pharmacy preoperative evaluation clinic: a qualitative study in China by Junping Han, Zhu Shen, Jiaqi Dou, Hao Lu, Jie Pan, Zhu Zhu

“…NVivo12 software was used to organize the entire interview content, and the interview data was analyzed and summarized using the Braun and Clarke’s six-step guide. …”
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Digital transformation, organizational agility, and firm performance in emerging markets: Evidence from Vietnam’s machinery sector by Nguyen Khanh Cuong, Nguyen Ngoc-Long, Ho Tien Dung, Than Van Hai

“…The research model was tested using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The results reveal that digital orientation (β = 0.585, p < 0.001) and digital capacity (β = 0.240, p < 0.001) significantly promote the adoption of digital transformation. …”
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Assessment of Knowledge and Preventive Practices on Latent Tuberculosis Infection among Nursing staff at a Tertiary Care Centre at Goa by Aswin V.C., Vanita G. Pinto Da Silva, Sandeep Patnaik, Apoorva Hallur, Yamesh Vidyadhar Tari

“…A complete list of the participants was made, and data from all nurses employed in every ward and outpatient department of the hospital was collected using a semi-structured self-administered questionnaire. …”
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Guided Reinforcement Learning with Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient for a Rotary Flexible-Link System by Carlos Saldaña Enderica, José Ramon Llata, Carlos Torre-Ferrero

“…Future work will focus on real-time implementation and structural robustness testing under parameter uncertainty. …”
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Perceptions of interdisciplinary critical thinking among biology and physics undergraduates by Ashley B. Heim, Georgia Lawrence, Riya Agarwal, Michelle K. Smith, N. G. Holmes

“…In this study, we explored how biology and physics undergraduates approach and perceive critical thinking between the two disciplines. We conducted structured think-aloud interviews with biology and physics students, asking students to first complete portions of established biology and physics critical thinking assessments and then respond to several follow-up questions about critical thinking more generally. …”
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Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Ankara Haymana Thermal Center Applicants: A Cross-sectional Case Study by Aysun Genç, Aslı Tok Özen, Birkan Sonel Tur

“…Among the reasons for preference of the spa center, the most powerful indicator (n=76, 74.5 ) was determined as the healing of water.Conclusion:In order to analyze the reasons of patient preference and use it as an effective treatment method in the structuring and operation of the balneotherapy centers, it has shown that modern spa treatment principles should be implemented in an integrated way by applying the principles of modern spa treatment.…”
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Investigating the Effect of Human Resource Information Systems on Individual Innovation Capacity, with the Mediating Role of Emotional Commitment and Professional Participation in... by Sekineh Lotfi Fard, Amir Ojagh, Lane Wakefield

“…Also, to organize, summarize and describe the sample sizes, descriptive statistics were used, and to test the statistical hypotheses, considering the number of the research sample and disconfirming the presumption of normality of the data distribution, the correlation coefficient, and the structural equation model were used. …”
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Factors Associated with the Unplanned Pregnancy at Suhul General Hospital, Northern Ethiopia, 2018 by Yohannes Moges, Solomon Adanew Worku, Abrhaley Niguse, Bayew Kelkay

“…The study participants were selected using a systematic sampling method, and the data was collected using a pretested structured questionnaire through face-to-face interviews. …”
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COVID-19 pandemic and mental health among Hispanic/Latino/a immigrants in the USA: protocol for a scoping review by Faustine Williams, Alicia Livinski, Cameron K Ormiston, Jolyna Chiangong, Dera Tompkins

“…This is especially the case among Hispanic/Latino/a immigrants who face numerous structural and socioeconomic barriers to well-being. …”
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