Effect of one Laptop per Child Policy on academic Performance in Social Studies in Ruhango District, Rwanda. by Jean, Libanje Pierre

“…The study population was 3,984 and Krejcie & Morgan’s table for determining sample size was used to get the sample size of 351 respondents. …”
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Study for Improving Maternal Pregnancy And Child ouTcomes (IMPACT): a study protocol for a Swedish prospective multicentre cohort study by Anders Larsson, Henrik Imberg, Marius Kublickas, Anna-Karin Wikström, Peter Lindgren, Lina Bergman, Bo Jacobsson, Anna Sandström, Stefan Hansson, Peter Conner, Ylva Carlsson

“…Inclusion in the study began in November 2018 with a targeted sample size of 45 000 pregnancies by end of 2021. …”
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Inflammation-driven periostin in ECRS has contrasting effects on tissue structural integrity and osteitis by Soo-In Kim, Soo-In Kim, Soo-In Kim, Min-Seok Rha, Min-Seok Rha, Min-Seok Rha, Jinsun Kim, Sang Hyeon Ahn, Sang Hyeon Ahn, Ji-Hwan Ryu, Ji-Hwan Ryu, Ji-Hwan Ryu, Hyung-Ju Cho, Hyung-Ju Cho, Chang-Hoon Kim, Chang-Hoon Kim, Chang-Hoon Kim

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PROFESSIONAL GROWTH THROUGH SHORT-TERM INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY: A QUALITATIVE STUDY BASED ON STUDENT REFLECTIONS by Veriko Berandze, Mirian Khelashvili, Levan Chichua, Katarina Aškerc Zadravec

“…While the study’s small sample size presents limitations, the findings support the integration of short, intensive, and internationally diverse learning formats into higher education curriculum to foster employability-relevant skills. …”
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Comparative experimental study of the mechanical and fracture properties of Portland limestone and Corsehill sandstone by Aikaterini Marinelli, Matthew Stewart

“…An experimental investigation of the mechanical and fracture characteristics of Portland limestone and Corsehill sandstone is undertaken, aiming at enhancing understanding of the structural behaviour of these natural building stones commonly used in both new and restoration projects in Edinburgh, Scotland. A series of three-point bending and four-point bending tests on appropriately cut prismatic samples, in the presence of U-shape notches, were performed and results were interpreted following the concepts of crack mouth opening displacement and fracture energy. …”
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The effect of construction management on structural stresses in buildings: Case study Yasouj city by ali momeni manesh

“…The number of samples selected in this research is 306 people from the above statistical population. …”
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Lexicography of the Syrian dialect of Arabic: Sources and dictionary by Aida D. Haddad, Amr A. A. Khalil

“…The proposed multimedia dictionary project caters to the needs of diverse user categories by providing, for example, etymological, phonetic, grammatical, and semantic information about each lexical unit, visualisation of its concept, and supplementary semantisation through film discourse fragments. …”
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Delivering the European Skills Agenda: the importance of social skills for a sustainable tourism and hospitality industry by Sheena Carlisle, Stanislav Ivanov, Pilar Espeso-Molinero

“…The sample includes 1404 respondents from organisations across eight countries in Europe in five tourism and hospitality sectors (hospitality, food & beverage, tour-operators, visitor attractions and DMOs). …”
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Probabilistic historical biogeography: new models for founder-event speciation, imperfect detection, and fossils allow improved accuracy and model-testing by Nicholas Joseph Matzke

“…BioGeoBEARS is open-source and freely available for installation at the Comprehensive R Archive Network at http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=BioGeoBEARS. A step-by-step tutorial is available at http://phylo.wikidot.com/biogeobears.…”
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Robust Pose Estimation for Noncooperative Spacecraft Under Rapid Inter-Frame Motion: A Two-Stage Point Cloud Registration Approach by Mingyuan Zhao, Long Xu

“…The first stage computes coarse pose estimation by leveraging Fast Point Feature Histogram (FPFH) descriptors with random sample and consensus (RANSAC) for correspondence matching, effectively handling significant positional displacements. …”
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Using geographic information systems to link population estimates to wastewater surveillance data in New York State, USA. by Dustin T Hill, David A Larsen

“…Reliable estimates for the boundaries of a sewer service area or sewershed can be used to link upstream populations to wastewater samples taken at treatment plants or other locations within a sewer system. …”
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On the Development of an Acoustic Image Dataset for Unexploded Ordnance Classification Using Front-Looking Sonar and Transfer Learning Methods by Piotr Ściegienka, Marcin Blachnik

“…The dataset was obtained using digital twin simulations performed in the Gazebo environment utilizing plugins developed within the DAVE project. It consists of 69,444 sample images of 512 × 399 resolution organized in two classes annotated as UXO and nonUXO. …”
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SOCIAL MEDIA AS AN ADVOCATE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE IN NIGERIA: AN APPRAISAL OF FACEBOOK USERS IN EKITI STATE by Awosenusi Omolara Christianah, Awofadeju Peter Olayinka, Babatola Deborah Bukunmi

“…However, the study considered 400 participants which make up the sample size and this was arrived at through Taro Yamane's formula. …”
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Validating a test to assess early childhood learners’ ability to perceive, express and appreciate emotions by Jose Miguel Mestre Navas, Rocío Guil Bozal, Fátima Martínez-Cabañas Rodríguez, Cristina Larrán Escandón, Gabriel González de la Torre Benítez

“…Using a sample of 138 early childhood learners (aged from 3 to 6) this paper tested an instrument for assessing the ability to perceive, appreciate and express emotions (as defined by Mayer & Salovey’s model, 1997; 2007). …”
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Reciprocity, transitivity, and skew: Comparing local structure in 40 positive and negative social networks. by Cassie McMillan, Diane Felmlee, James R Ashford

“…Using exponential random graph models (ERGMs), we examine these differences across a sample of twenty distinct, negative networks and generate comparisons with a related set of twenty positive graphs. …”
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THE IMPACT OF GODFATHERISM ON NIGERIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM IN KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA by Ahmed Oluwatobi ADEKUNLE

“…Programs for civic education ought to be incorporated into community projects and the school curriculum. …”
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Leadership styles and quality of work life in SMEs by T. S. Nanjundeswaraswamy, D.R. Swamy D R

“…This empirical study is accomplished to predict QWL in relation to Transformational and Transactional leadership styles. The sample consists of 240 Mechanical Manufacturing SMEs in Bangalore, India. …”
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Towards a Cross-Cultural Theory of Tone-Tune Mapping: A Comparative Study of Cantonese and Yorùbá by Edwin K. C. Li, Aaron Carter-Ényì, David O. Àìná

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Monitoring infrastructural power: Methodological challenges in studying mobile infrastructures for datafication by Stine Lomborg, Kristian Sick Svendsen, Sofie Flensburg, Signe Sophus Lai

“…Through exemplifying empirical interventions, derived from a sample of 1129 apps used by 69 Danes participating in the Datafied Living research project, we investigate and discuss how Apple and Alphabet hold infrastructural power and perpetually consolidate their effective mobile duopoly while simultaneously protecting and enhancing their assets in related data markets (e.g. through mobile advertising). …”
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ASSESSMENT OF DESIRED COMPETENCIES OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AGENTS IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES IN SOUTHWEST NIGERIA by Olabode Stephen ALABI, Adedayo Olufemi AJAYI

“…Three states: Lagos, Oyo and Ondo states were randomly selected from the six in southwest Nigeria and all the AEAs in the Agricultural Development Projects in the selected states were sampled. Data were collected using a validated questionnaire. …”
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