A Serious Game to Study Reduced Field of View in Keyhole Surgery: Development and Experimental Study by Phoebe Whitley, Connor Creasey, Matthew J Clarkson, Stephen Thompson

“…The development of a serious game that can be played by a wide range of participants will enable us to gather quantitative data on the effects of the reduced field of view on task performance. …”
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Michel Foucault, Bruno Latour e algumas linhas de fuga na produção de conhecimentos by Simone Maria Hüning, Neuza Maria de Fátima Guareschi

“…This article discusses some alterations that may be produced in the 'psy' field on the basis of Michel Foucault's and Bruno Latour's work by highlighting that in our view make this connection possible and fertile. Firstly, we gather questionings about the epistemological bases on which psychology has been founded in order to become scientific, as well as about the dichotomy between natural sciences and human sciences. …”
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Internal Facilitation by Health Assistants for the “WHO Lay Health Worker Dementia Care” in Rural Uganda: A Formative Evaluation by Wakida EK, Obua C, Rukundo GZ, Samantha M, Maling S, Karungi CK, Talib ZM, Haberer J, Bartels SJ

“…To address these needs, we gathered key stakeholders’ perspectives on a culturally tailored model employing lay health workers, supported by health assistants as internal facilitators, to implement the World Health Organization dementia toolkit in rural communities.Methods: We conducted a formative qualitative study, utilizing one-on-one interviews with health assistants, district health team members, and primary healthcare providers in rural Uganda. …”
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Oke-Ibadan Festival and the Ethnography of Aboke people of Ibadan by Oludele Mayowa Solaja, Adesina Abass Olayiwola

“…The instruments used in eliciting information from the participants were in-depth interview (IDI) guide and focus group discussion (FGD) guide, while the responses were gathered with the aid of electronic gadget such as the audio recorder. …”
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Socioeconomic characteristics of drivers versus pedestrians in pedestrian crashes by Antonio Giron, Xiaohan Gu, Robert J. Schneider

“…We collected driver and pedestrian sex, age, and home address from a random sample of 336 pedestrian crashes reported to police between 2011 and 2015 in the City of Milwaukee and the surrounding seven-county metropolitan region. We also gathered socioeconomic characteristics of driver and pedestrian home census tracts. …”
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Simulation modeling of student enrolment to solve operations problems: A case of the Saad Al- Abdullah Academy in Kuwait by Rashed M.F. Al-Therwah, Mahmoud Heshmat, Mahmoud El-Sharief, Ibrahim Mohamed Hassab -Allah

“…The paper represents and replicates each stage of the student enrollment procedure. Data was gathered from 2024 applicants and reviewed by health personnel. …”
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Global research trends in Chinese medicine for the treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD): A bibliometric study by Kangjie li, Jie Wang, Ming Dang, Runxin Ren, Maomao Fu, Jing Wang, Qiao Zhang, Chongbo Zhao

“…For this purpose, analytical tools including VOSviewer, Bibliometrix, and CiteSpace were utilized to systematically evaluate the gathered data. Results: A total of 306 documents were retrieved, indicating a rising trend in the number of publications, which is expected to accelerate in the future. …”
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Pancreatic Cancer: Current Concepts, Trends, and Future Directions by Patrick Wenzel, Carolin Mogler, Kıvanç Görgülü, Hana Algül

“…Using recently developed targeted therapies, such as KRAS inhibitors, the field has gathered momentum and been tooled up with the help of new sequencing technologies. …”
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Gender similarities in high school mathematics: affective and cognitive aspects by Negasi Hagos Tekola, Dawit Asrat Getahun, Hailu Hagos

“…Data were collected by self-report questionnaire and achievement test from 727 (416 females & 311 males) grade 9 students, with average age of 15 years, randomly selected from three government general secondary schools in Aksum. Data gathering tools had acceptable reliability coefficients; 0.80 for teacher affective support scale and 0.93 for mathematics self-efficacy scale. …”
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Are Trends in Economic Modeling of Pediatric Diabetes Mellitus up to Date with the Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Latest Scientific Findings? by Roque Cardona-Hernandez, Alberto de la Cuadra-Grande, Julen Monje, María Echave, Itziar Oyagüez, María Álvarez, Isabel Leiva-Gea

“…Clinical practice guidelines for diabetes were gathered to compare their alignment with modeling strategies. …”
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Semiotic insights on the socio-cultural influence of the San Sebastian Church architectural facade, Lumban, Laguna, Philippines by Ronald Allan S. delos Reyes, Jomel Paulo G. Ebron, Jhona N. Gamez, Christie C. Amores, Ma Rovilla C. Sudaprasert

“…From documents that are gathered, it has been found that the Philippines has had a very active interchange both economically and culturally dating back to Roman times with the Western Hemisphere. …”
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INTERNET-BASED APPROACH IN DISTANCE LEARNING OF PARAGRAPH-WRITING COURSE AT STKIP MUHAMMADIYAH BARRU by Siti Hardiyanti Amri

“…The method was qualitative descriptive consisting of data collection and data analysis. The data was gathered by interviewing and observing the participants. …”
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Service Innovation in Customer Value Co-Creation: The Mediating Role of Customer Engagement in the Hospitality Industry – A Case Study by Meysam Fakharyan, Ali Hosseinzadeh, Hadi Bastam

“…The questionnaires were gathered through an online survey, and their validity and reliability were duly confirmed. …”
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Oxidative Stress and Its Association with COVID-19: A Narrative Review by Hardi Rafat Baqi, Halgord Ali M. Farag, Abdel Hamid H. El Bilbeisi, Rafee Habib Askandar, Amany M. El Afifi

“…The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) symptoms are not limited to the virus’s first definitions. This review gathered the contemporary information throughout PubMed, Scopus, and Science Direct databases regarding possible effects of the virus in generating reactive oxygen species and causing oxidative stress. …”
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DETERMINANTS OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (HRM) ADOPTION AMONG SMALL AND MEDIUM SCALE ENTERPRISES (SMEs) IN KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA by Helen Afang Andow

“…The study adopted survey research design and data was gathered from purposively selected 100 SMEs respondents through copies of structured questionnaires in selected local government areas of the state. …”
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Reflexões sobre a pesquisa com grupos focais nas ciências sociais e humanas: a questão da quantidade de participantes, proveniência e local de organização by Ricardo Fernandes Pátaro, Geiva Carolina Calsa

“…These guidelines include the usual recommendations that focus groups should consist of 6 to 8 unknown participants, gathered in a neutral place. Although important, such conventions may lead to a tacit understanding that there would be an ideal way to work with focus groups. …”
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DIGITISATION OF LEGAL ALGORITHMS TO PREVENT PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CORRUPTION by Oleksii Makarenkov

“…It was emphasised that the entity responsible for the oversight of the integrity and legality of all public procurement participants, or a complainant, must possess the capacity to gather evidence in such cases. In order to accomplish this, said entity requires full legal access to the necessary data from registries and other relevant sources. …”
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Characteristics and outcome of patients with anorexia nervosa on medical nutritional therapy: an institutional study with review of literature by Denise Elizabeth Shi Yun Teo, Valerie Wei Ling Teong, Rajeev Ramachandran, Su Lin Lim, Charlotte Xianghui Lin

“…Methods: Retrospective descriptive data were gathered from 47 patients diagnosed with AN. Patients with admissions were further stratified according to their nutritional management based on whether they were on the AN protocol or standard hospital care. …”
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Investigating knowledge and attitudes toward genetic testing and counseling among palestinians by Mustafa Ghanim, Maha Rabayaa, Malik Alqub, Ahmad Hanani, Mohammad Abuawad, Belal Rahhal, Shurouq Qadous, Myassar Barahmeh, Sameeha Atout, Saad Al-Lahham, Aseel Aref, Majdi Dwikat, Samar Alkhaldi, Ahmad Makhamreh

“…A cross-sectional study was performed using an online questionnaire that gathered information from Palestinians whose ages were 18 years or older between April and July 2024. …”
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Inferring 3D displacement time series through InSAR measurements and potential field theory in volcanic areas by Andrea Barone, Maurizio Fedi, Antonio Pepe, Pietro Mastro, Pietro Tizzani, Raffaele Castaldo

“…Moreover, InSAR can discriminate the ground deformations along the Up-Down and East-West by combining information gathered through ascending and descending paths. Conversely, the LOS-projected ground displacements remain less sensitive to the North-South components because almost all modern satellites fly along near-polar orbits. …”
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