Guidance and Counselling and Learners’ Discipline in Kasese District: A Case of Selected Government-Aided Secondary Schools in Bukonzo County. by Kule, Samson

“…The study adopted mixed-methods research that incorporated elements of both Qualitative and Quantitative approaches to provide deeper and wider insights into the data evaluation. …”
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AI-Enhanced Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring for Smart Home Energy Optimization and User-Centric Interaction by Xiang Li, Yunhe Chen, Xinyu Jia, Fan Shen, Bowen Sun, Shuqing He, Jia Guo

“…A novel channel-wise attention mechanism optimizes multi-dimensional feature fusion, dynamically prioritizing critical information while suppressing noise. Comparative experiments on the custom dataset demonstrate superior performance, particularly in distinguishing appliances with similar load profiles, underscoring the method’s potential for advancing smart home energy management, user-centric energy feedback, and social informatics applications in complex electrical environments.…”
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GFA: Generalized Feature Affinity for Semantic Segmentation in Resolution-Degraded Images by Jinze Yang, Youming Wu, Zining Zhu, Wenchao Zhao, Wenhui Diao, Kun Fu

“…Therefore, a novel learning method called generalized feature affinity (GFA) is proposed. …”
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Investigating the Predictive Role of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies in Depression, Anxiety and Stress of Adolescents by Shakiba Mahmoudi, Abbas Firoozabadi, Seyed Ruhollah Hosseini, Seyyed Kazem Rasoolzadeh Tabatabaei, Maryam Shamsaei

“…Introduction: The aim of this study is to investigate the predictive role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies on the levels of depression, anxiety, and stress experienced by adolescents aged 15 to 18 in Mashhad.Method: This study employed a descriptive and correlational design, targeting a population of students in Mashhad aged 15 to 18. …”
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SBCS-Net: Sparse Bayesian and Deep Learning Framework for Compressed Sensing in Sensor Networks by Xianwei Gao, Xiang Yao, Bi Chen, Honghao Zhang

“…To comprehensively evaluate its performance, we conduct systematic experiments on multiple public benchmark datasets. These studies include comparisons with various advanced and traditional compressed sensing methods, comprehensive noise robustness tests, ablation studies of key components, computational complexity analysis, and rigorous statistical significance tests. …”
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ACGRHA-Net: Accelerated multi-contrast MR imaging with adjacency complementary graph assisted residual hybrid attention network by Haotian Zhang, Qiaoyu Ma, Yiran Qiu, Zongying Lai

“…This strategy prioritizes crucial information while preserving shallow features, thereby achieving comprehensive feature fusion at deeper levels to enhance multi-contrast MR image reconstruction. Extensive experiments on the different datasets, using various sampling patterns and accelerated factors demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the current state-of-the-art reconstruction methods.…”
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Conceptual Model of Improving Health Communication Capacities in Pandemic Conditions from the Point of View of Health System Experts by Sayed Hossein Mousavi, Ali Jafari, Hossein Basirian

“…Sampling was done with a purposeful snowball method, which included 20 communication and media professors and health professionals. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES ON THE BASIS OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTTOM STATIONS IN DIFFERENT ZONES OF THE NORTH-CASPIAN SHELF by Vladimir B. Ushivtsev, Sergey V. Vostokov, Nikita B. Vodovsky, Maya L. Galaktionova, Gulnara А. Akhmedova

“…Sampling of fouling was carried out by the method of registration sites. …”
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Changes in Customer Behavior Towards Video Advertising Post-Pandemic by Surjandy Surjandy, Cadelina Cassandra

“…The exploration focused on understanding changes in four major factors which included Sensory Appeal (SEN), Informativeness (INF), Entertainment (ENT), and Telepresence (PRE). Methods: Data were collected using snowball sampling method, resulting in 744 responses. …”
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Development of an Indirect ELISA to Distinguish between Porcine Sapelovirus-Infected and -Vaccinated Animals Using the Viral Nonstructural Protein 3AB by Zuchang Zhong, Benqiang Li, Jie Tao, Jinghua Cheng, Ying Shi, Pan Tang, Jiajie Jiao, Huili Liu

“…In this study, the recombinant PSV 3AB protein was expressed by a prokaryotic expression system, and an indirect ELISA method was established. Serum samples from healthy animals, immunized animals, and infected animals were evaluated. …”
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Relationship between psychological resilience, cognitive flexibility and post-traumatic growth level in patients with severe sepsis treated by continuous renal replacement therapy by Changzheng Zhao, Lancai Zhou, Haixia Gao, Yongzan Lu, MiaoMiao Shi

“…This study aimed to explore the relationship between psychological resilience, cognitive flexibility, and post-traumatic growth (PTG) levels in patients with severe sepsis treated with CRRT.MethodsFrom January to October 2024, patients with severe sepsis who were treated with CRRT in our hospital were selected by convenience sampling as the research object. …”
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Current capabilities of prototyping technologies for multilayer printed circuit boards on a 3D printer by D. S. Vorunichev, K. Yu. Vorunicheva

“…The first samples of electronic boards printed on a 3D printer by the method of inkjet printing were obtained. …”
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Fault diagnosis and inference of hoist main bearing based on transfer learning and ontology by Fei DONG, Di ZHANG, Kunpeng GE, Junjie CHEN, Xinyue XU

“…To verify the effectiveness of the proposed methods, experiments analysis of cross-domain fault diagnosis under balanced and unbalanced training samples using two types of bearing fault datasets were conducted. …”
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Calibrated Adaptive Teacher for Domain-Adaptive Intelligent Fault Diagnosis by Florent Forest, Olga Fink

“…In this paper, we propose a novel method called Calibrated Adaptive Teacher (CAT), where we propose to calibrate the predictions of the teacher network on target samples throughout the self-training process, leveraging post hoc calibration techniques. …”
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Newborn screening for sickle cell anemia in Antalya, Türkiye by Zeynep Öztürk, O Alphan Küpesiz, Gülsün Karasu, Vedat Uygun, Nihal Oygür, M Akif Yeşilipek

“…Blood samples were studied using the `Sickle Cell Short Program` test method on a Bio Rad Variant device. …”
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A DCT Regularized Matrix Completion Algorithm for Energy Efficient Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks by Kefu Yi, Jiangwen Wan, Tianyue Bao, Lei Yao

“…Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art methods for low sampling rate and achieves a good recovery accuracy even if the sampling rate is very low.…”
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Mathematics teachers’ career length and teaching self-efficacy by Monika Grigaliuniene, Erno Lehtinen, Erno Lehtinen, Erno Lehtinen

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the construct of self-efficacy in mathematics teachers. The sample consisted of 222 Lithuanian pre-service teachers who were divided into four groups according to their length of teaching experience. …”
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Temporal Data Set Reduction Based on D-Optimality for Quantitative FLIM-FRET Imaging. by Travis Omer, Xavier Intes, Juergen Hahn

“…Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) when paired with Förster resonance energy transfer (FLIM-FRET) enables the monitoring of nanoscale interactions in living biological samples. FLIM-FRET model-based estimation methods allow the quantitative retrieval of parameters such as the quenched (interacting) and unquenched (non-interacting) fractional populations of the donor fluorophore and/or the distance of the interactions. …”
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Lessons Learned from Assessing the Quality of Virtual Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Students’ Perspectives from Zahedan University of Medical Sciences by Leila Safabakhsh, Mohammad Javad Afsharpour, Javid Dehghan Haghighi, Afsaneh Karimi

“…The present study aimed to investigate the status of virtual learning from the perspective of students at Zahedan University of Medical Sciences (ZAUMS), Iran.Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 390 students’ perspectives from five faculties of ZAUMS, were selected using a stratified sampling method from January to February 2023. …”
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DESIGNING OF INDEPENDENT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PATH AS A MEANS OF SUCCESSFUL VOCATIONAL TRAINING by Svetlana A. Lysuenko

“…Practical research methods involve the empirical analysis of products, results and quality of students’ activity (the content-analysis of the essay content based on the set theme, monitoring of educational achievements and revealing of abilities to combine educational and professional experience). …”
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