Exploring students’ narratives: Understanding self-efficacy in vocabulary mastery by Ina Muftia, Listyaning Sumardiyani, Siti Nur A’ini

“…The results indicate that the majority of students have high self-efficacy and prefer the gamified online tool Duolingo for learning English vocabulary. Students also choose songs, dictionaries, peer group discussions, and mixed methods. …”
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Small profits mean peace: food price, risk aversion, and farmers’ choices of sale channels by Tan Tian, Yuan Yuan Su, Pei Chen

“…The results indicate that higher prices are more likely to lead farmers to choose dealers who are private buyers offering flexible terms, compared with depots which are government procurement centers ensuring stable prices and other channels. …”
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Livistona chinensis: Chinese Fan Palm by Timothy K. Broschat

“…Because of its gracefully drooping leaf segment tips, this species is sometimes called the “fountain palm”. …”
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Multiobjective Differential Evolution Clustering Algorithm Based on Multimedia Information in Working Mechanism Innovation for Traditional Chinese Medicine by Xiaoling Zhu, Hongsheng Cheng, Xu Zhang, Huaxu Zhu, Zhiguang Sun

“…This paper takes a specific Chinese medicine company as an example, combined with differential evolution clustering algorithm to effectively help Chinese medicine enterprises choose a more suitable innovation model. This paper starts with specific cases and carries out research from the microperspective of traditional Chinese medicine enterprises. …”
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Robot-assisted surgery for gynecological cancer by Hao Liang, Hang Yu, Jiangtao Fan

“…This comprehensive guidance provides valuable insights for young or novice gynecological oncologic surgeons in choosing appropriate surgical techniques for tumor procedures.…”
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Optimizing Pinned Nodes to Maximize the Convergence Rate of Multiagent Systems with Digraph Topologies by Yujuan Han, Wenlian Lu, Tianping Chen, Changkai Sun

“…This paper investigates how to choose pinned node set to maximize the convergence rate of multiagent systems under digraph topologies in cases of sufficiently small and large pinning strength. …”
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Analysis of Stakeholders Involvement in the Implementation of the M.A. Literature Curriculum at Kabale University Using E-Learning Approach by Johnson, Ocan, Constance, Tukwasibwe, Chrisostom, Oketch

“…This paper is not concerned with comparing and exploring possible techniques of identifying university stakeholders with the aim of choosing the most suitable one, but it is intended to clarify on the categorization of the internal and external stakeholders.…”
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Analysis of Electromagnetic Interference Effect of the Pulse Interference on the Navigation Receiver by Xin Huang, Yuming Wang, Yazhou Chen

“…A mathematical model of the pulse interference signal is established, and we choose the bit error rate (BER) as an indicator of the quality of the BDS signal. …”
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INTERNATIONALISATION OF THE PERFORMANCE OF A JSC LTD: CASE STUDY by Žaneta Kavaliauskienė, Urtė Tamulytė

“…The subject of the study is the internationalisation of the performance of an enterprise. The study aims to choose the most attractive foreign market for the internationalisation of the performance a JSC Ltd. …”
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Approximation of the first passage time density of a Wiener process to an exponentially decaying boundary by two-piecewise linear threshold. Application to neuronal spiking activit... by Massimiliano Tamborrino

“…Then, we describe how to choose the optimal one minimizing the distance to the curved boundary, and hence the error in the corresponding passage time density. …”
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The Role of Higher Education in Reproduction of Social Inequality in the Labor Market of Kazakhstan by M. K. Shnarbekova

“…The author analyzes how the modern education system contributes to the formation of socio-economically determined choice of higher education, where the latter includes a decision on continue studying, choosing a university and specialty.The functioning of the higher education system is analyzed in the context of the interconnections of education, the labor market and family resources, which reflect the movement of human capital and current trends in social mobility in Central Asia, as exemplified by Kazakhstan.The article presents data from a study conducted among young professionals aged 21 to 29 years with a different level of education. …”
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A Reconfigurable Antenna-Based Solution for Stationary Device Authentication in Wireless Networks by Prathaban Mookiah, Kapil R. Dandekar

“…A general guideline on how to choose the different elements of the decision metric in order to realize better performance for physical layer-based authentication schemes based on any diversity scheme is also developed.…”
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Location privacy preserving scheme based on dynamic pseudonym swap zone for Internet of Vehicles by Min Yang, Yong Feng, Xiaodong Fu, Qian Qian

“…For each vehicle, dynamic pseudonym swap zone allows it dynamically to establish a temporary pseudonym swap zone on demand to exchange the pseudonym with another random vehicle in the just formed zone. This randomness of choosing the pseudonym exchanging vehicles prevents dynamic pseudonym swap zone from the secure risk that the information of exchanging participants exposes to their group manager in some existing works in which each pair of pseudonym exchanging participants is assigned by the manager. …”
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Development of a methodological approach to the procedure for assessing the quality and effectiveness of the management decision–making mechanism by V. V. Stroev, A. I. Tikhonov

“…Therefore, the choice or development of a competent methodology for the management decision-making process would help the decision-maker not only to choose the most effective management decision, but also to minimise possible financial, social and other risks. …”
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Correlation between public housing location and city local characteristics: a comparison of gamma and inverse Gaussian models by Gunwon Lee, Seok Lee, In Su Na

“…The results could encourage developing countries to reduce their initial project burdens and social costs by choosing the right location.…”
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Green finance as a tool to stimulate investments in environmentally sustainable projects by U. S. Karimov

“…The main attention is   paid to a   detailed analysis of   the current state of   the green bond market and to   the process of   forming a   greenium in   the Russian green finance market which will help investors make informed decisions when choosing investments.…”
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The application research of ancient calligraphy recognition model based on improved filtering and AI technology in calligraphy education in colleges and universities by Xing You

“…Abstract With the increase of Chinese emphasis on calligraphy education, more and more students choose to learn calligraphy courses in colleges. However, the present process of calligraphy education lacks enough content of appreciation and learning of stele characters of ancient calligraphers. …”
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Multiobjective Optimization Design of Time-Modulated Concentric Circular Ring Arrays by Weilong Liang, Zhao Wu, Li Zhang

“…Furthermore, not only one outstanding optimization result can be acquired but also a set of solutions known as Pareto front is obtained by using the GDE3 algorithm, which will guide the design of time-modulated array more effectively. Users can choose one appropriate outcome which has a suitable tradeoff between the PSLL and the PSBL. …”
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Bipolar Soft Sets: Relations between Them and Ordinary Points and Their Applications by Tareq M. Al-shami

“…The philosophy of bipolarity is that human judgment is based on two sides, positive and negative, and we choose the one which is stronger. In this paper, we introduce novel belong and nonbelong relations between a bipolar soft set and an ordinary point. …”
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Pelaksanaan peraturan tentang legalitas para pengobat tradisional komplementer berdasarkan Undang-Undang Kesehatan No. 36 Tahun 2009 by Juliana Juliana, I Gede Agus Kurniawan

“…Society tends to deprioritize legality when choosing TCHs due to the deep-rooted cultural belief in traditional healing methods. …”
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