Privacy-preserving incentive mechanism for integrated demand response: A homomorphic encryption-based approach by Wen-Ting Lin, Guo Chen, Jueyou Li, Yan Lei, Wanli Zhang, Degang Yang, Tingzhen Ming

“…To further protect privacy and encourage participation, a fully distributed algorithm incorporating homomorphic encryption is employed. …”
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The impact of digitalization on forming modern youth political leadership by O. A. Sudorgin, A. V. Agafonov

“…The article analyzes digitalization impact as a complex multi-stage process in modern world on forming youth political leadership. …”
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Investigating the Factors Affecting the Performance of Businesses in Science and Technology Parks by Akbar Bahmani, Farshid Aslani, Seyyed Reza Mousavizadeh

“…The work is located in the Science and Technology Park through interviews and content analysis with the participation of 15 experts as panel members, and in a small part through the formation of a structural self-interaction matrix seeks structural and interpretive modelling in which 15 senior managers and experts from science and technology parks participated.Findings: The results show that the most important factors affecting the performance of companies in the science and technology park are creativity, effectiveness, and work interactions, which were effective indicators in the thematic analysis results.Originality/Value: The most effective factors in the performance of companies located in the Science and Technology Park are the factors of job satisfaction, job freshness, and job trust and profession.…”
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A Qualitative Investigation of WhatsApp Interaction for English Language Grammar Learning by Nagaletchimee Annamalai, Najah Rajeh Alsalhi, Mohd Elmagzoub Eltahir, Bilal Mohammed Zakarneh, Kamariah Yunus, Samer H. Zyoud

“…Among them, cognitive presence was identified to be the most common interaction. Participants used the WhatsApp platform to explore and integrate ideas related to English grammar. …”
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Using visual metaphors in advertising campaigns to promote sustainable tourism by Noha Ahmed Kamel

“…To ascertain whether there were any statistically significant differences in the participants' interpretations of the metaphorical themes, we employed independent t-tests for sample analysis. …”
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A NARRATIVE INQUIRY ON HOW TEACHER PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY INFLUENCES TEACHER’S SCHOOL TYPE PREFERENCE by Maria Dewi Rosari

“…By conducting in-depth interviews to two non-formal school teachers from different regions in Indonesia, the researchers found out that job satisfaction, self-efficacy, occupational commitment, and occupational motivation are the factors influencing the participants’ professional identity the most. Job satisfaction could be seen, for example, in witnessing students’ progress more thoroughly; self-efficacy in being able to monitor their teaching performance; occupational commitment in teacher trainings provided by non-formal schools to build their career up; and occupational motivation in receiving manageable challenges from non-formal schools that trigger eagerness from the participants to work. …”
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Demographic disparities, service efficiency, safety, and user satisfaction in public bus transit system: A survey-based case study in the city of Charlotte, NC by Sanaz Sadat Hosseini, Babak Rahimi Ardabili, Mona Azarbayjani, Hamed Tabkhi

“…This research examines service limitations, safety concerns, and attitudes towards technological improvements in Charlotte’s transit system, using survey data from 160 participants collected in 2022 and 2023. The survey included demographic variables such as age, gender, race, income, living area, and bus usage frequency. …”
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Construction of Cognitive Model of Family Education Decision-Making Based on Neural Network by Wenwen Yao, Ying Zhen, Yu Zhang

“…Family’s academic cognition influences the family’s academic concept, rearing fashion, and academic participation. It is no longer solely associated to kid’s bodily and intellectual development; however, additionally associated to household concord and social progress. …”
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Understanding adolescent depression in Singapore: a qualitative study by Ngar Yee Poon, Cheryl Bee-Lock Loh

“…Recovered participants were observed to express a high degree of empathy towards others going through depression. …”
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Changes in Physical Activity Involvement and Attitude to Physical Activity in a 16-Year Follow-Up Study among the Elderly by Mäkilä Päivi, Hirvensalo Mirja, Parkatti Terttu

“…The biggest difference at the end of the followup between men and women was found in participation in supervised exercise classes (39% and 14%, resp.). …”
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Montreal Cognitive Assessment Hearing Impairment (MoCA-H): cross-cultural adaptation to Brazilian Portuguese by Rochele Martins Machado, Karina Carlesso Pagliarin, Fernanda Soares Aurélio Patatt

“…Results Cultural and linguistic adaptations were made to the instrument as well as changes to administration procedures to improve respondent comprehension. Participants with and without hearing loss had some comprehension difficulties in the visualspatial/executive domain task. …”
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The Relationship between Heart Rate Variability and Adiposity Differs for Central and Overall Adiposity by B. Gwen Windham, Stefano Fumagalli, Alessandro Ble, John J. Sollers, Julian F. Thayer, Samar S. Najjar, Michael E. Griswold, Luigi Ferrucci

“…Time domain HRV variables SDNN (standard deviation of successive differences in normal-to-normal (N-N) intervals) and RMSSD (root mean square of successive differences in N-N intervals) were calculated from 24-hour Holter recordings in 159 participants (29–96 years). Increasing WC was associated with decreasing SDNN and RMSSD in younger but not older participants (P value for WC-by-age interaction = 0.003). …”
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Statistical Evaluation of Indoor Air Quality Parameters in Classrooms of a University by Zeki Argunhan, Ali Serkan Avci

“…Relative humidity, temperature, carbon dioxide, radon, and particulate matters (PM0.5, PM1.0, PM2.5, PM5.0, and PM10) were taken into account as the parameters of indoor air quality measurements. …”
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Empirical case study of a digitally enabled energy community with prosumers and P2P trading by Philipp Staudt, Bent Richter

“…Overall willingness and ability to provide manual demand response might be low. Participants’ use of the provided digital tools were at least partly driven by their desire to control energy costs. …”
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Toward a Systematic Approach to Developing Professional Roles: What Writing Tutors Need to Know and Know How to Do by Dagmar Knorr, Micha Gerrit Philipp Edlich

“…Emphasizing the importance of reflection in this respect, this article discusses several approaches and strategies that allow participants to reflect on their writing and their future role as peer writing tutors. …”
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ORGANIZATIONAL AND LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE REGULATION OF LABOR RELATIONS OF AN EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION AND AN ADVISER TO THE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION by Elena V. Bezvikonnaya, Andrey A. Savkin

“…The subject of the study is the Institute of labor relations with the participation of teaching staff, since the position of adviser is attributed to the positions of teaching staff. …”
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Combining CS Unplugged and L2T2L to Bridge the Computing Illiteracy Gap of the Elderly Population: A Case Study by José Alfredo Díaz-León, Olatz Arbelaitz, Mikel Larrañaga, Ana Arruarte

“…A case study was conducted in Lima, Peru, with the participation of 140 volunteers from centres for the elderly. …”
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Can Meditation Influence Quality of Life, Depression, and Disease Outcome in Multiple Sclerosis? Findings from a Large International Web-Based Study by Adam B. Levin, Emily J. Hadgkiss, Tracey J. Weiland, Claudia H. Marck, Dania M. van der Meer, Naresh G. Pereira, George A. Jelinek

“…Statistically and potentially clinically significant differences between those who meditated once a week or more and participants who never meditated were present for mean mental health composite (MHC) scores, cognitive function scale, and health perception scale. …”
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Overcoming a stumbling block: Challenges of English-medium instruction for Vietnamese tertiary Students by Duong Minh Tuan, Le Thi Diem Lan

“…The study used a mixed-methods research approach, gathering quantitative and qualitative data through a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews, respectively. The participants were 120 students enrolled in EMI programs at a public university in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. …”
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Considerations in Using Videoconferencing to Assess Multi-learner Classes of Layperson CPR: A Benchmark Study

“…An unstructured discussion held with study participants during the study provides insight into further considerations that should be accommodated for in future work aimed at improving instructor performance in the videoconferencing space.…”
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