Assessing cancer knowledge among pharmacy students in Jordan: Bridging the gap between theory and practice. by Ali Hmedat, Haneen Amawi, Ghaith Al-Taani

“…This study particularly assessed the students' knowledge and awareness of cancer signs and symptoms, associated risk factors, and possible screening methods.<h4>Methods</h4>This cross-sectional study was conducted from June to September 2024, using an online survey among pharmacy students from various Jordanian schools to assess their knowledge about cancer and its warning signs, risk factors and screening recommendations. …”
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‘Rationality’ in Collective Escape Behaviour: Identifying Reference Points of Measurement at Micro and Macro Levels by Milad Haghani, Majid Sarvi

“…While the term has been frequently used in the literature, clear definitions and methods for measuring rationality do not exist. Objective. …”
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Comparative analysis of coaches' perception of their capability, opportunity, and motivation to train athletes with special educational needs by Olesia Shevchuk, Iryna Kohut, Viktoriia Marynych

“…Data collection was carried out via Google Forms, and statistical calculations were performed using Microsoft Office Excel 2010 and IBM SPSS Statistics Version 27. Methods included questionnaires and a range of general scientific and mathematical-statistical methods (descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney U test, and Kruskal-Wallis H test). …”
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Child mortality estimation: estimating sex differences in childhood mortality since the 1970s. by Cheryl Chriss Sawyer

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>The methods developed here pinpoint regions and countries where sex differences in mortality merit closer examination to ensure that both sexes are sharing equally in access to health resources. …”
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The Role of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) on the Socio¬economic Transformation of Rural Areas in Nyarusiza Sub-County Kisoro District. by Izabayo, Joan

“…In chapter two, there was a critical review of the issues that have been explored and studied both theoretically and empirically in the existing literature on non-governmental organizations as an independent variable and the socio-economic transformation of rural areas as a dependent variable. The data collection methods are put into action in Chapter 3. The research used both qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis. …”
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Assessing the Role of MBIFCT as a Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) in Socio-Economic Transformation of Rural Areas in Gitenderi Parish Nyarusiza Sub-County Kisoro District. by Kwebiha, Alex

“…In chapter three this is where the methods of data collection were put into action. The research used both qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis. …”
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Impact of Maziba Church of Uganda on Family Stability in Maziba Sub-County Kabale District. by Akancungura, Albert

“…In chapter three this is where the methods of data collection were put into action. The research used both qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis. …”
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SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND EVALUATION OF NOVEL QUINOLINE MOLECULES AS ANTIBACTERIAL AGENTS by SEEMA KHAN, NARENDRA K. SINGH, SHANKAR SINGH, AVINASH K. KONDALKAR

“…The compounds were evaluated for antibacterial activity using zone of inhibition method at four different concentrations. The products were insoluble in water, methanol and DMSO while they were soluble in chloroform and were obtained in 67 - 76 % yield. …”
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Fair Optimization and Networks: A Survey by Wlodzimierz Ogryczak, Hanan Luss, Michał Pióro, Dritan Nace, Artur Tomaszewski

“…This paper reviews fair optimization models and methods applied to systems that are based on some kind of network of connections and dependencies, especially, fair optimization methods for the location problems and for the resource allocation problems in communication networks.…”
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The Role of Poverty and Gender in Shaping Households’ Energy Consumption Patterns in Selected European Countries by Florian Marcel Nuță, Alina Gabriela Mărcuță, Levente Dimen, Liviu Mărcuță, Lucian Gaban, Nargiz Hajiyeva, Alina Cristina Nuta

“…Using data from 2010 to 2022 and the moments’ quantile regression method combined with a pooled OLS based on Driskoll-Kraay estimators, we found statistically significant results regarding the impact of poverty and gender on household energy consumption. …”
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Deep learning of the particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon fractions using a compositional transform and mid-infrared spectroscopy by Mingxi Zhang, Zefang Shen, Lewis Walden, Farid Sepanta, Zhongkui Luo, Lei Gao, Oscar Serrano, Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel

“…Mid-infrared (MIR) spectroscopy combined with multivariate modelling can alleviate these limitations because the method can estimate SOC and its fractions rapidly, cost-effectively and accurately. …”
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Clinical and etiological characteristics of mixed infections in children in the Izhevsk hospital by T. A. Britkova, K. E. Panteleev, O. A. Pazinenko

“…Aim: to study the structure, features of the findings and treatment of mixed infections in children at the present stage.Materials and methods. 85 case histories of children aged 5 months to 17 years and 10 months were examined, the final diagnosis of which included 2 or more infections on the basis of the children's infectious diseases department City Clinical Hospital № 7 of Izhevsk. …”
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Resource management mechanism of a commercial bank by E. A. Posnaya, E. Yu. Cherkashina, N. V. Yurchenko, O. I. Ditsulenko

“…The study aims to propose an optimal mechanism for managing the resources of a commercial bank.Materials and methods. Objectively, necessary conditions for creating an effective banking system are the possibility and practical implementation of the transfer of financial resources between business entities, providing service consumers with freedom of choice between various objects for placing temporarily free funds, as well as providing the same (equal) rights to everyone who creates demand for financial resources, the presence of a developed banking system. …”
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The impact of social security systems on public health outcomes: an economic perspective on machine translation applications by Shuhua Niu, Weihua Li, Li-Li

“…However, traditional methods for evaluating these systems often fail to capture the complex dynamics of policy interventions over time.MethodsTo address this, we propose an advanced economic policy modeling framework that integrates dynamic optimization techniques with machine translation applications. …”
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Generative AI mitigates representation bias and improves model fairness through synthetic health data. by Raffaele Marchesi, Nicolo Micheletti, Nicholas I-Hsien Kuo, Sebastiano Barbieri, Giuseppe Jurman, Venet Osmani

“…As a consequence, underrepresented subpopulations, such as those from specific ethnic backgrounds or genders, do not benefit equally from clinical discoveries. Several approaches have been developed to mitigate representation bias, ranging from simple resampling methods, such as SMOTE, to recent approaches based on generative adversarial networks (GAN). …”
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Special Aspects of Fixing Interfering Source Located in Close Proximity to Radio-Electronic Equipment with Multi-Channel Receiver and Estimate of Accuracy by S. G. Borovikov, A. A. Ivensky

“…The schemes displaying the problem geometry for phase and difference-distance-measuring methods for determining of jammer position are presented. …”
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The Effect of Multimodal Exercise on the Levels of BDNF and GDNF in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease by Abbas Abdulameer Naser, Khosro Jalali Dehkordi, Mahmoud Nasser Radhi, Farzaneh Taghian, Ahmad Chitsaz

“…Demographic data were collected using the demographic questionnaire outlined in the Methods section. Thirty patients were randomly divided into two equal groups of multimodal exercise and control, with no significant differences in age, weight, and height. …”
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DETERMINISTIC CHARACTER OF CHANGES OF THE CASPIAN SEA LEVEL AND ITS QUANTITATIVE PARAMETERS by U. G. Magomedbekov

“…The analysis conducted by methods of nonlinear dynamics shows deterministic character of Caspian Sea level changes for 1931–2009 and realization of dynamic chaos.…”
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Generating Automatically Print/Scan Textures for Morphing Attack Detection Applications by Juan E. Tapia, Maximilian Russo, Christoph Busch

“…Our proposed methods achieve an Equal Error Rate (EER) of 3.84% and 1.92% on the FRGC/FERET database when incorporating our synthetic and texture-transferred print/scan images at 600 dpi alongside handcrafted images, respectively.…”
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