Different whole body HIIT protocols do not promote different muscle thickness and functional adaptations among healthy physically active subjects by Alexandre L. Evangelista, Júlio B. B. de Camargo, Roberta L. Rica, Luiz Carlos Carnevali Júnior, Gregg S. Mallett, Valentina Bullo, Marco Bergamin, Stefano Gobbo, Danilo S. Bocalini

“…Therefore, the aim of the present study was to assess the effects of two distinct WB-HIIT protocols on morphological and general fitness adaptations in healthy active young individuals.MethodsThirty-four participants (22 males and 12 females) were randomly assigned to one of the following groups: 30 s of all-out effort interspersed with 10 s of passive recovery (G30 × 10, n = 17) or 40 s of an all-out effort interspersed with 20 s of passive recovery (G40 × 20, n = 17). …”
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Enabling smart parking for smart cities using Internet of Things (IoT) and machine learning by Mofadal Alymani, Lenah Abdulaziz Almoqhem, Dhuha Ahmed Alabdulwahab, Abdulrahman Abdullah Alghamdi, Hussain Alshahrani, Khalid Raza

“…Finding a space for their vehicle can take a lot of time and effort, leading to late arrival for work. On the other hand, security guards have difficulty entering their employees’ cars. …”
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De l’intérêt au savoir : le processus de l’apprentissage chez Dewey et Bachelard by Sébastien Charbonnier

“…Se pose d’abord le problème de la dialectique entre l’intérêt et l’effort. Comment susciter le désir d’apprendre chez les élèves ? …”
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Dentists’ readiness to accept an electronic oral health surveillance system in Egypt using a modified framework of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT): a... by Hams H. Abdelrahman, Maha Hamza, Wafaa Essam, May Adham

“…In contrast, anxiety towards electronic systems (ANX) (ß = -0.140, 95% CI: -0.187, -0.095) had a significant negative effect on BI. Effort Expectancy (EE) had a significantly stronger positive impact on BI of females than males. …”
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Experimental gillnet study to inform future large fish monitoring in the San Francisco Estuary by Dylan Keating Stompe, James A. Hobbs

“…To help fill this monitoring gap, we conducted an experimental gillnetting effort in the spring of 2023. We employed American Fisheries Society experimental gillnets in a stratified random sampling design in the North Delta, California, USA. …”
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ANN-based software cost estimation with input from COCOMO: CANN model by Chaudhry Hamza Rashid, Imran Shafi, Bilal Hassan Ahmed Khattak, Mejdl Safran, Sultan Alfarhood, Imran Ashraf

“…One of the essential processes in software engineering is to accurately and reliably estimate the required effort and cost to complete the projects. The domain of software cost estimation has witnessed a prominent surge in research activities in recent years and being an evolving process, it keeps opening new avenues, each with advantages and disadvantages, making it important to work out better options. …”
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Critica literară versus critica culturală. Legitimări ale literaturii române ca literatură europeană by Crina Bud

“…Les littératures jeunes et de peu d’audience, telle que la littérature roumaine, se légitiment, dès le début, en tant que littératures européennes ou universelles par le biais de la critique culturelle. Leur effort de se rattacher à un modèle dominant (par exemple, le modèle européen) se voit doublé par l’effort de préserver les données identitaires, et cette tension est visible aussi de nos jours, lorsque la mondialisation a imposé, dans le domaine des études littéraires, les approches culturelles, au dépens des approches esthétiques. …”
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Experience of nurse-guided root cause analysis after a sentinel event: a qualitative study by Li-Li Huang, Yan-Hong Jiang, Ju-Hong Yang, Wei-Wen Hong, Hai-Fei Chen, Wei-Wei Hu

“…The main themes were: (1) success in a demanding field requires exceptional skills and abilities (having comprehensive knowledge, empowering capabilities, demonstrating interest and engagement), (2) building strong interpersonal relationships between guides and team leaders (selecting mature and experienced team leaders, building trust and cooperation with team leaders, exerting the guiding role of team leaders in projects), (3) tailored communication strategies in nursing for effective leadership and safety enhancement (navigating complex hierarchies through tailored communication, fostering collaboration through targeted communication strategies, empowering teams through clear and adapted communication) (4) investing effort and overcoming obstacles are key to successful nursing-guided project implementation (investing time and effort in project implementation, addressing obstacles during project advancement). …”
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A machine learning and clustering-based approach for county-level COVID-19 analysis. by Charles Nicholson, Lex Beattie, Matthew Beattie, Talayeh Razzaghi, Sixia Chen

“…We use this feature subspace to aggregate counties into meaningful clusters to support more refined disease analysis efforts.…”
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‘Grim Realities’ or ‘Light of Fancy’? Charles Dickens in the Bulgarian Classroom by Zelma Catalan

“…During and after the transition period his value has been questioned by educational ideologies that privilege language proficiency over literary competence, as well as by the efforts to redress the gender balance in the canon of British literature. …”
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A Brief Survey of Gender Parity in the Theatre Industry by Yeliz Biber Vangölü, Florentina Gümüş

“…Our findings comply with relevant studies and attest that gender parity is far from being attained despite efforts to include more women in theatre in various roles.…”
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Innovation Performance: What Is Happening In Agricultural Cooperatives? by Heloiza Cristina Holgado-Silva, Erlaine Binotto

“…The findings contribute to the understanding of innovation in industrialization, and add efforts in research on innovation in emerging economies.…”
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Norske drapsmenn (og kvinner) 1955-1982 by Hilde Dahl

“…Reducing the number of homicides is an expressed goal in several official reports. However, preventive efforts require knowledge. While a handful of studies have been conducted using a variety of disciplinary approaches and methods, several recent reports point out that homicide is not a prioritized research field in Norway (NOU 2010:3; FHI rapport, 2012; JBD, 2018). …”
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Familiarity with Measures to Reduce Administrative Burdens in The Public and Private Sector in Slovenia by Urška Milavec, Maja Klun

“…Measures to reduce administrative burdens are part of efforts to improve regulation quality. The aim of the research carried out in 2010 in the public and private sector was to determine whether their staff display different levels of familiarity with the measures and whether both sectors define the same groups of regulation as the most burdensome. …”
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Land Application of Biosolids in the USA: A Review by Qin Lu, Zhenli L. He, Peter J. Stoffella

“…The purpose of this paper is to provide information on recent research progresses and regulation efforts regarding land application of biosolids, including forms and types and nutrient values of biosolids, environmental and health concerns, and related best management practices (BMPs) of biosolids application, with emphasis on its land application in agriculture. …”
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Divergent patterns in Indian Ocean trade to East Africa and southern Africa between the 7th and 17th centuries CE: The glass bead evidence by Marilee Wood

“…Glass beads form a large part of archaeological evidence attesting to Indian Ocean trade with eastern Africa between the 7th and 17th century CE, but they have generally been under-utilized by archaeologists in their efforts to understand and interpret that trade. Research in the past decade has identified seven bead series that were present in southern Africa during this time span, and chemical analysis has opened windows on the origins of the glasses used to make the beads. …”
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Regionális és kisebbségpolitikai válaszok az EU-csatlakozás kihívásaira (Regional and Minority Policy Responses to the Challenges of the EU Accession) by Edit Soós, Tibor Pap

“…The study also notes that efforts have been made to improve legislation in favour of minorities but rebukes the chronic failure to implement this legislation and introduce additional legislative or regulatory measures.…”
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About Total Stability of a Class of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems Eventually Subject to Discrete Internal Delays by Manuel De la Sen

“…Some stability extensions are also discussed for the case when the systems are subject to forcing efforts by using links between the controllability and stabilizability concepts from control theory and the existence of stabilizing linear controls. …”
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Sadrazam Mehmed Said Paşa’nın (Küçük) İngiliz Büyükelçiliğine Sığınması (1895) by Emel DEMİR GÖRÜR

“…Abdulhamid period, took refuge in the British Embassy, the reasons for his refuge, and the negotiations between Sultan and Pasha through emissaries and the efforts to convince Said Pasha were discussed in detail. …”
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Invective Metaphors in the Bulgarian Language. An Attempt at a General Characteristic by Dilyana Dencheva

“…Additionally, within the framework of the aforementioned aspects, efforts are made to systematize and delineate specific characteristics. …”
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