Exploring Reading Comprehension Challenges in the Setswana Home Language Classroom: Learners’ and Techers’ Perspectives by Paulinah M. Mahoro, Mary M. Makgato, Tilla Olifant

“…Through a qualitative approach informed by a case study design involving semi-structured interviews and focus group interviews, four Grade 10 Setswana home language teachers and 39 Grade 10 learners were selected to participate in this study using purposive sampling. …”
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Tensiones en el campo católico. La cuestión del peronismo después de 1955 by Claudia Touris

“… El propósito de este artículo es analizar los diagnósticos, opiniones y debates que se produjeron en el campo católico con posterioridad a la Revolución Libertadora (1955). Partimos de la idea de que dicho campo atravesaba una profunda transformación respecto de las décadas anteriores, donde más allá de los conflictos, la identidad católica era en sí misma una divisoria de aguas respecto de aquellos que se ubicaban por fuera de dicho universo. …”
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Impact of the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic on the patient journeys of those with a newly diagnosed paediatric brain tumour in the UK: a qualitative study by Rachel Isba, Donald MacArthur, Liz Brewster, Ibrahim Jalloh, John-Paul Kilday, Kalsoom Akhter, Roland Casson, G A Amos Burke

“…Objectives To explore the impact of the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic on the diagnosis, management and patient journey for children and young people with a newly diagnosed brain tumour in the UK.Design Exploratory qualitative study focused on patient journeys from multiple perspectives, conducted as part of a wider mixed-methods study.Setting Three paediatric oncology tertiary centres in the UK.Participants 10 children and young people with brain tumours (n=6 females, n=4 males), 20 caregivers (n=16 females, n=4 males) and 16 stakeholders (specialist nurses, consultant neurosurgeons and oncologists, and representatives from brain tumour charities) were interviewed between January 2022 and June 2023.Results The paper incorporates multiple perspectives, including those of children and young people, parents/caregivers, clinical staff and charity representatives, to explore the patient journey. …”
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MagNet—A Data‐Science Competition to Predict Disturbance Storm‐Time Index (Dst) From Solar Wind Data by Manoj Nair, Rob Redmon, Li‐Yin Young, Arnaud Chulliat, Belinda Trotta, Christine Chung, Greg Lipstein, Isaac Slavitt

“…The challenge attracted 622 participants, resulting in 1,197 model submissions that used various ML approaches. …”
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Diagnostic Accuracy of the Triglyceride and Glucose Index for Insulin Resistance: A Systematic Review by Adriana Sánchez-García, René Rodríguez-Gutiérrez, Leonardo Mancillas-Adame, Victoria González-Nava, Alejandro Díaz González-Colmenero, Ricardo Cesar Solis, Neri Alejandro Álvarez-Villalobos, José Gerardo González-González

“…We identified 15 eligible studies with 69,922 participants and an overall quality of low to moderate. …”
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The Composition of Emissions from Sanding Corian® with Different Sandpapers by Seungkoo Kang, Huayan Liang, Yong Qian, Chaolong Qi

“…The results from the direct-reading instruments reveal that the size distribution of particulate from sanding Corian® differs from that of sawing Corian®, showing that the size distribution of dust is affected by the fabrication process. …”
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Development and Testing of a Patient Outcome Measure for Interprofessional Tuberculosis Care: A Delphi Study by Bau D. Ardyansyah, Reinie Cordier, Margo Brewer, Dave Parsons

“…Results: A total of 65 international and 61 Indonesian participants in the Delphi studies. The final instrument consists of 44 items organized into five domains. …”
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Neural correlates of the non-optimal price: an MEG/EEG study by Aleksei Gorin, Elizaveta Kuznetsova, Andrew Kislov, Egor Levchenko, Vasily Klucharev, Victoria Moiseeva, Anna Yurchenko, Alexander Luzhin, Natalia Galkina, Anna N. Shestakova

“…Conversely, setting a “non-optimal price”—one that is perceived as much lower or higher than the product's true market value—can negatively influence consumer decisions and business results.MethodsWe conducted two electroencephalography (EEG) studies and one magnetoencephalography (MEG) study to investigate brain mechanisms underlying the perception of prices during a price judgment task. In each trial, participants were exposed to a mobile phone image (iPhone, Nokia, or Xiaomi) followed by a price, and instructed to judge whether the price was high or low based on a target word (“cheap” or “expensive”).ResultsIn both EEG experiments, we found a strong N400-like response to the incongruent target words following prices that substantially differed from the real market value of the mobile phone. …”
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RISK RANKING OF OPEN-END INVESTMENT FUNDS IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA by Ivana Srdarević, Ivan Kristek

“…These are separate assets controlled by investment fund management companies and investors participate in income return of the overall portfolio fund by purchasing shares in investment funds. …”
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Experiences of the International In-Training Examination (I-ITE) by Rwandan pediatric residents – a survey-study describing candidate feedback [version 2; peer review: 1 approved,... by Christian Umuhoza, Natalie McCall, Peter Thomas Cartledge

“…Immediately on completing the I-ITE residents provided feedback by filling in an electronic questionnaire comprised of four closed Likert questions and an open text box for free-text feedback. Participants were pediatric residents from the University of Rwanda, the only university in Rwanda with a pediatric residency program. …”
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The impact of internet use on physical activity among Chinese older adults: the mediating role of social support by Yifei Shen, Yifei Shen, Chuntian Lu, Bin Wang

“…Additionally, the SPSS macro PROCESS is used to test the mediation effect, examining the mediating role of social support in this relationship.ResultOur research findings indicate the following: (1) Internet use significantly and positively predicts physical exercise among the old adults; (2) Social support exerts a positive influence on physical exercise in this population; and (3) Social support partially mediates the relationship between internet use and physical exercise among the old adults.ConclusionThe study concludes that increasing Internet penetration among the old adults is of great practical significance in expanding their social support network and promoting physical activity. …”
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Helicobacter pylori infection recurrence in developed versus developing countries – a systematic review and meta-analysis by M. Schechter, Y. Niv

“…., Englewood, NJ, USA). Results: 5,808 articles were screened and 20 articles (35 data sets with 16,785 participants) from 11 countries were finally enrolled for analysis. …”
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Knowledge of Future Dental Practitioners towards Oral Cancer: Exploratory Findings from a Public University in Malaysia by Akshaya Srikanth Bhagavathula, Nazrin Bin Zakaria, Shazia Qasim Jamshed

“…A total of 162 undergraduate (third, fourth, and fifth year) dental students at International Islamic University, Malaysia, were approached to participate in the study, and those who agreed were administered. …”
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Cross-Regional Capacity Mechanism for Emergency Power Support in Extreme Weather Events by WU Zifeng, YUAN Jiahai, ZHANG Jian, ZHANG Haonan

“…Furthermore，a scenario-based analysis is applied to determine the lower and upper bounds of the capacity compensation price for coal-fired power units participating in cross-regional emergency power support within the electricity market during extreme weather conditions. …”
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By the time you read this it is already too late by Theron Schmidt

“…Putting these approaches into practice, an artist like John Hall might use the dimensions and affordances of the printed page as a space to enact, not just describe, the encounters it produces (Hall 2004), or the lecture performances of Rabih Mroué simultaneously describe the effects of representation and participate generatively within their own representational dispositifs (Mroué and Martin 2012; Mroué and Saneh [2005] 2013). …”
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Human&vehicle-in-the-loop test method in human factors research on automated vehicles: Conceptualization, realization, case-study, and lessons learned by Markus Steimle, Vanessa Stange, Mark Vollrath, Markus Maurer

“…To investigate these needs during vehicle development, studies with participants can be conducted using test vehicles and driving simulators. …”
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Prevalence and sociodemographic characteristics of functional impairment in community-dwelling older adults in China: a cross-sectional study by Yun Li, Li Zhang, Zhe Tang, Lina Ma, Pan Liu, Xiaxia Li, Wenhua Yu, Yaxin Zhang

“…This study aimed to explore the prevalence and socio-demographic characteristics of functional impairment in Chinese community-dwelling older adults using the Function Impairment Screening Tool (FIST), which was previously developed based on the Delphi method.Design Cross-sectional study.Setting Community-based.Participants The study included 6444 community-dwelling older adults from the China Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Study.Results The FIST identified functional impairment in 31.3% of Chinese community-dwelling older adults. …”
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Association between the use of electronic cigarettes and subsequent initiation of tobacco cigarettes in the youth population of a city: A retrospective cohort study by Khadeejah Hussain, Sancheti P. V., Agrawal M, Parande M. A., Tambe M. P., Borle P

“…In present study, 'Curiosity' stood out as the factor reported by most (70.45%) of the participants, which led to the initiation of smoking combustible cigarettes in E-cigarette users, followed by 'Adventure' (40.91%), 'Peer Pressure' (31.82%), 'Need for more nicotine' (29.55%) and lastly, 'Stressful life' (25%). …”
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Investigating the Effectiveness of Technology-Enhanced Language Learning Tools in Supporting Second Language Acquisition by Christiana Darkoah, Levina Nyameye Abunya, Edward Owusu, Victoria Ogunnike Faleke

“…Consequently, this paper delved into the correlation between young learner’s access to technological tools and devices at home and their proficiency levels in their second language. Twenty-five participants were randomly selected from KNUST Primary School in Kumasi, Ghana. …”
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Positive resonance: Successful interpersonal emotion regulation facilitated relationship closeness by enhanced inter-brain synchronization by Tongtong Zhu, Xiaoxuan Zhang, Luyao Jin, Linzi Wang, Yanmei Wang

“…Seventy-four female dyads (friends) were randomly assigned to one of two strategy groups (CR vs. ES), with one participant as the target and the other as the regulator. …”
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