Examination of trauma levels and earthquake stress coping strategies of university students who exercise and do not exercise after an earthquake by Zekai Çakır, Ülfet Erbaş, Mevlüt Gönen, Mehmet Ali Ceyhan, Tuncay Öktem, Murat Kul, Ahmet Naci Dilek, Sema Güzel

“…In this research study, the first objective is to assess the level of trauma and earthquake stress of university students who exercise and those who do not. Methods This study utilized the descriptive survey research method. …”
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Analisis Penilaian Ranah Afektif Melalui Pembelanjaran Daring Mahasiswa Program Sarjana Era Digital by Suharyanto H. Soro, Tita Prapitasari

“…This research includes qualitative research with a case study approach. Data collection methods use observation, interviews and questionnaires. …”
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Evaluating an intervention to promote access to mental healthcare for low language proficient migrants and refugees across Europe (MentalHealth4All): study protocol for a pretest–p... by Fang Wang, Mike Mösko, Demi Krystallidou, Yuhui Chen, Liza G G van Lent, Saskia Hanft-Robert, Ilaria Galasso, Barbara Schouten, Antoon Cox, Sona Hodakova, Chiara Rao, Koen Kerremans, Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez, Özlem Temizöz, Dalia Mankauskienė, Łucja Biel, Emilio Di Maria, Julia van Weert, Melanie de Looper, Gian Hernandez, Gaukhar Orkashbayeva, Tobias Kleineidam, Angeliki Tsoukaneli, Mehmet Uygun, Ily Hollebeke, Beatrice Bünsch, Leon Köchel, Mia Mengtong Li, Mara Morelli, Stefania Muzi, Cecilia Serena Pace, Carlotta Gualco, Nijolė Maskaliūnienė, Katarzyna Czarnocka-Gołębiewska, Urszula Okulska-Łukawska, Argnieszka Biernacka, Aleksandra Kalata-Zawłocka, Agnieszka Słopień, Natalia Pytlińska, Monika Šavelová, Andrej Birčák, Daniela Müglová, Carmen Valero Garcés, Carmen Pena Díaz, Elena Alcalde Peñalver, Cristina Álvaro Aranda, Silvia Damianova Radeva, Sabine Braun, Jaleh Delfani, Graham Hieke, Elena Davitti, Constantin Orasan, Lieven Buysse

“…They are also more likely to experience a lack of access to mental healthcare due to language-related and culture-related barriers. …”
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Barriers and facilitators to implementing a task-sharing mental health intervention for Sickle Cell Disease populations in low- and middle-income countries: a qualitative analysis... by John Patena, Leah Elster, Tania Hameed, Sumedha Kulkarni, Alden Yuanhong Lai, Annika C. Sweetland, Joyce Gyamfi, Temitope Ojo, Angela Odoms-Young, Charmaine Royal, Emmanuel Peprah

“…This investigation uses a qualitative study design to evaluate the acceptability and feasibility of implementing a PST-based task-sharing mental health intervention for SCD populations in LMICs using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR).MethodsPurposive, convenience, and snowball sampling strategies were utilized to identify study participants targeting two key groups: (1) SCD stakeholders and (2) global mental health (GMH) experts. …”
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Impact of Free Sugar Consumption on Dental Caries: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Children in the United States by Val Joseph Cheever, Amir Mohajeri, Kavina Patel, Richard Collin Burris, Man Hung

“…This study aimed to examine the relationship between sugar intake and dental caries experience in a sample of children aged 6–12 years. …”
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Effectiveness of Pharmacist-Led Training Regarding Medication for Type 2 Diabetes, Based on Patient and Physician Medication-Related Issues Identified in China by Yang ZH, Cheng CJ, Chen GM, Huang J, Zhou H, Jiang J, Ye Z, Weng YF, Tan HH

“…Both groups were principally composed of general practitioners with primary titles, but most had 0– 5 years of experience, followed by > 20 years. A total of 361 patients were sampled (174 men; mean age 66.8± 9.62 years), of whom 215 (59.6%) had had type 2 diabetes for 6– 15 years, and 126 (34.9%) had had the disease for ≤ 5 years. …”
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Medical chart-reported alcohol consumption, substance use, and mental health issues in association with HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) nonadherence among gay, bisexual, and ot... by Paul A. Shuper, Narges Joharchi, Thepikaa Varatharajan, Isaac I. Bogoch, Mona Loutfy, Philippe El-Helou, Kevin Giolma, Kevin Woodward, Jürgen Rehm

“…Our investigation entailed comprehensive chart extraction to assess the extent to which chart-reported alcohol, substance use, and mental health issues were associated with chart-reported PrEP nonadherence. Methods Data from medical charts of gbMSM at two PrEP clinics in Toronto, Canada were extracted for a retrospective 12-month period (02/2018-01/2019). …”
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Toward unsupervised building extraction from very high-resolution remote sensing images using SAM and CLIP by Chenxiao Zhang, Peng Yue

“…Next, we present a hybrid feature fusion network that combines CLIP patch tokens with task-specific features, achieving high data adaptability while maintaining text-related visual features. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our proposed method achieves F1 scores of 56.00% and 62.53% on the Manhattan and WHU Building datasets, respectively, outperforming or matching supervised methods that require 700 training samples. …”
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Plasmodium falciparum multidrug resistance 1 gene polymorphisms associated with outcomes after anti-malarial treatment by Veronika R. Laird, Mateusz M. Plucinski, Meera Venkatesan, Kelsey A. Rondini, Milijaona Randrianarivelojosia, Mauricette N. Andriamananjara, Hawela Moonga, Deus S. Ishengoma, Arlindo Chidimatembue, Pedro Rafael Dimbu, Adicatou-Laï Adeothy, Abdoul Habib Beavogui, Simon Kariuki, Sam L. Nsobya, Aline Uwimana, Gauthier Mesia Kahunu, Ashenafi Assefa, Ousmane A. Koita, Naomi W. Lucchi, Samaly S. Svigel Souza, Zhiyong Zhou, Leah F. Moriarty, Eric S. Halsey

“…Past studies of Pfmdr1 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at codons 86, 184, and 1246 have shown different responses to AL and ASAQ. Methods To determine whether infection with parasites carrying specific Pfmdr1 SNPs leads to increased risk of recurrent parasitaemia (recrudescent or new infection), data from 3,915 samples from 16 therapeutic efficacy studies from 13 African countries between 2013 and 2019 were analysed. …”
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TRANSLATORS’ INTERPRETATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS IN THE LIGHT OF INFORMATION ENTROPY by Yana V. Boiko.

“…The research methodology incorporates not only general scientific methods, as well as empirical methods in order to substantiate the theoretical basis of the research, but also methods of discourse analysis (cultural and historical, comparative-linguistic-cultural), methods of literary analysis (biographical, hermeneutic, interpretive-textual), methods of linguistic analysis (etymological, contextual, descriptive, semantic, and stylistic) and methods of contrastive translation and transformational analysis, which are used to determine the changes in the scope of information expressed by the units of analysis in the timeremote original texts and in chronologically distant Ukrainian retranslations of the 19th – 21st centuries. …”
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Combining machine learning with UAV derived multispectral aerial images for wheat yield prediction, in southern Brazil by Henrique dos Santos Felipetto, Erivelto Mercante, Octavio Viana, Adão Robson Elias, Giovani Benin, Lucas Scolari, Arthur Armadori, Diandra Ganascini Donato

“…Therefore, the application of these variables and algorithms to estimate wheat productivity proves to be a viable approach, offering an efficient method to predict grain productivity, especially in the southern region of Brazil.…”
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Exploring the mediating effect of customer satisfaction on the relationships between service quality, efficiency, and reliability and customer retention, loyalty in E-banking perfo... by Md. Abu Issa Gazi, Abdullah Al Masud, Farid Ahammad Sobhani, Md. Aminul Islam, Tahmina Rita, Naznin Sultana Chaity, Mita Das, Abdul Rahman bin S. Senathirajah

“…This study aims to explore how customer satisfaction (CS) serves as a mediator in the connections between service quality (SQ), efficiency and reliability (EAR), customer retention (CR) and customer loyalty (CL) within the E-Banking industry in Bangladesh. The empirical experiment employed a survey approach, with 380 participants completing a Google form as the primary data collection method. …”
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A comparative analysis of service quality and student perceptions in Kyrgyzstan’s higher education institutions by Rita Ismailova, Mirlan Chynybaev, Sagynbek Orunbaev, Nurlan Omurov, Sabyrkul Kalygulova, Amangeldi Zhumadilov, Gulnara Isaeva, Svetlana Sirmbard

“…The study was conducted using a non-probability, purposive sampling method, involving 889 students. Data analysis included t-tests to compare expected and perceived ServQual scores, and effects of institution type and location. …”
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Determination of 34 Elements in Ground Substrate of Black Soil by ICP-MS/OES with Alkali Melting Digestion by Haiyue YU, Qi ZHANG, Bing LU, Chenhao HAN, Taoyuan WANG, Mingliang LI

“…Traditional pretreatment methods such as open acid dissolution digestion, microwave acid dissolution and digestion, high-pressure closed acid dissolution and digestion, and ashing method cannot completely digest the sample, and different elements need to adopt different digestion and determination methods, resulting in long experiments, complex operation processes, high analysis costs, and are not suitable for the simultaneous determination of multiple elements. …”
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Assessing water quality environmental grades using hyperspectral images and a deep learning model: A case study in Jiangsu, China by Hongran Li, Hui Zhao, Chao Wei, Min Cao, Jian Zhang, Heng Zhang, Dongqing Yuan

“…Water quality assessment is essential for effective environmental management, yet traditional methods such as chemical sampling are often labor-intensive and inefficient for large-scale, continual monitoring. …”
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Analyzing and explaining the reflective teacher approach and its role in improving curriculum knowledge: Developing an educational discourse at Farhangian University by Reza Masouminejad

“…The participants were student-teachers in which data was collected through semi-structured interviews (individual and group).The researcher's self-review method, rich description of the data was used to determine the validity of the data, and the parallel analysis method and the systematic process in recording and writing the data were used to determine the reliability. …”
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Unsupervised Image Classification Based on Fully Fuzzy Voronoi Tessellation by Xiaoli Li, Longlong Zhao, Hongzhong Li, Luyi Sun, Pan Chen, Ruixia Jiang, Jinsong Chen

“…In addition, the Voronoi tessellation is explicitly expressed in the objective function in the form of the mathematical model, which allows it to obtain the optimal value through analytical solutions instead of the previous random sampling method. It greatly increases the convergence speed of the algorithm. …”
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The impact of plastic mulches on Aspergillus flavus-clade populations in pistachio orchard soils by Masoumeh Haghdel, Amir Mohammadi, Nasser Sedaghati, Mohammad Moradi

“…The population of A. flavus-clade in the soil was measured monthly using the serial dilution method and SPDA culture medium. Identification and toxigenic isolates were screened using a coconut agar medium. …”
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Investigating the impact of artificial intelligence stimuli on customer engagement and brand relationship quality in the retail banking industry by David Masilo, Favour Chauke, Prof Neo Ligaraba, Goitumetswe Pitso

“…Utilising a convenience sampling method, the study collected 267 responses through an online survey to test the proposed model. …”
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Extending the computational reach of a superconducting qutrit processor by Noah Goss, Samuele Ferracin, Akel Hashim, Arnaud Carignan-Dugas, John Mark Kreikebaum, Ravi K. Naik, David I. Santiago, Irfan Siddiqi

“…We experimentally demonstrate these methods on a superconducting transmon qutrit processor, and benchmark their effectiveness for multipartite qutrit entanglement and random circuit sampling, obtaining up to 3× improvement in our results. …”
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