Drought Resistance Physiological Responses of Alfalfa to Alternate Partial Root-Zone Drying Irrigation by Qunce Sun, Ying Wang, Shuzhen Zhang, Xianwei Peng, Xingyu Ge, Binghan Wen, Youping An, Guili Jin, Yingjun Zhang

“…In this experiment, alfalfa was used as the research subject, and three irrigation methods, CI, fixed partial root-zone drying (FPRI), and APRI, were set up, each paired with three decreasing moisture supply gradients of 90% water holding capacity (WHC) (W1), 70% WHC (W2), and 50% WHC (W3). …”
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Patterns of Health Services and Medicine Utilisation by First‐Generation Pakistani Immigrants in New Zealand by Noor A. Mann, Zain A. Khan, Saima Asghar, Afshan Rani, Nadia Hussain, Sumera S. Akhtar, Susan Heydon, Mudassir Anwar

“…Therefore, the study aimed to investigate and understand the patterns of health services utilisation and medicine usage among first‐generation Pakistani immigrants in NZ. Methods Convenience and snowball sampling using social media platforms were used to conduct eleven semi‐structured interviews consisting of two participants per interview. …”
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Coping Strategies of Women with Breast Cancer Undergoing Chemotherapy During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study by Susilo Harianto, Nursalam Nursalam, Dewi Maryam, Abd Nasir, Cucuk Rahmadi Purwanto, Hafna Ilmy Muhalla, Emuliana Sulpat, Amellia Mardhika, Domingos Soares

“…Purpose: This study explored the coping strategies of women with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: A qualitative phenomenological design was employed to explore the experiences of women living with breast cancer and their coping mechanisms. …”
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Self-Care Practices and Perspectives in Managing Coronary Heart Disease Patients: A Qualitative Study by Setyowati Setyowati, Aria Wahyuni, Hananto Adriantoro, Kasiyah Junus, Eric Umar, Nelsensius Klau Fauk, Hidayat Arifin

“…<b>Methods</b>: A qualitative design employing semi-structured interviews and a focus group discussion was used. …”
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An Evaluation of Mine Water Inrush Based on Data Expansion and Machine Learning by Ye Zhang, Shoufeng Tang

“…The accuracy of coal mine water inrush prediction models is affected mainly by the small number of samples and difficulty in feature extraction. A new data augmentation water inrush prediction method is proposed. …”
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Medical students’ perceptions of the learning environment and its implications on teaching and learning: A qualitative study in Nigeria by Adetunji Obadeji, Alwyn Louw, Ian Couper

“…Background & Objective: With increased interest in understanding the role of the Learning Environment (LE) in effective teaching and learning, this study explores how medical students in Nigeria perceived their LE and its impact on their education. Material & Methods: A thematic analysis approach was adopted for this qualitative study, using focus group discussion to gather data on students’ experiences. …”
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Breastfeeding complexities and sociocultural barriers in the context of preventing perinatal transmission of HIV: A descriptive phenomenology in Northern Ghana. by Awinaba Amoah Adongo, Kofi Osei Akuoko, Jonathan Mensah Dapaah, Esmeranda Manful

“…A purposive sampling technique was employed to ensure the inclusion of diverse experiences and perspectives, resulting in a sample of 32 respondents. …”
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Taking menstruation health and hygiene seriously: a qualitative exploration of the challenges and facility requirements of female adolescent athletes in Bangladesh by Syeda Nurunnahar, Nazrin Akter, Farjana Jahan, Rehnuma Haque, Julie Hennegan, Mehjabin Tishan Mahfuz

“…It seeks to identify their current menstruation management practices, assess physical, psychological, and sociocultural challenges during menstruation, and evaluate the facility improvements and support systems needed to enhance menstrual management and athletic performance. Methods A qualitative research design was employed, focusing on a phenomenological approach to understand the lived experiences of adolescent athletes. …”
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Psychosocial support during pregnancy: perceptions and expectations among pregnant teenagers in Ahvaz, Iran-a qualitative content analysis by Setareh Yousefi, Simin Montazeri, Nahid Javadifar, Saeed Ghanbari

“…This study explores how pregnant adolescents perceive and what they expect from psychosocial support during pregnancy. Methods A qualitative study was conducted in Ahvaz, Iran, from 2023 to 2024. …”
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Hospitals early challenges and interventions combatting COVID-19 in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. by Hamid Ravaghi, Vanessa Naidoo, Awad Mataria, Merette Khalil

“…<h4>Methods</h4>To collect in-depth and comprehensive information on hospital experiences, qualitative and descriptive quantitative data was collected between May-October 2020. …”
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ECO-MIND: enhancing pro-environmental behaviours and mental health through nature contact for urban youth – a research protocol for a multi-country study using geographic ecologica... by Marco Helbich, Martina Bubalo, Karlijn van den Broek, S M Labib

“…Participants aged 18–24 will be recruited through stratified random sampling. We will use geographic ecological momentary assessment to assess respondents’ everyday experiences and exposure to greenspaces. …”
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Enhancing Domain Generalization Performance in Low-Resource Setting via External Dataset and Pseudo Labeling With Sentence-BERT by Junho Lee, Seunguk Yu, Jinhee Jang, Keunhyeung Park, Youngbin Kim

“…Furthermore, we conducted various in-depth analysis experiments to strengthen the validity of our proposed method and demonstrate its robustness in effectively enhancing domain generalization. …”
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Onnanoscale phenomena inthe electroacoustic sputtering process by W. H. Al-Tibbi, V. S. Minakov

“…The electroacoustic scattering method is promising for obtaining nanocrystalline structures in the surface and subsurface layers of the sprayed samples. …”
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Automated Scan-vs-BIM Registration Using Columns Segmented by Deep Learning for Construction Progress Monitoring by G. Z. Tsige, B. S. A. Alsadik, S. Oude Elberink, M. Bassier

“…</p> <p>In this work, we propose an automatic coarse registration method that is motivated by the Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC) algorithm to estimate the transformation parameters that best align the as-built point cloud in the coordinate frame of the BIM model by matching the corresponding columns. …”
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The effect of ultrasonic waves on the amount of total coliform and E-coli in municipal wastewater sludge by Farshad Golbabaei Kootenaei, Nasser Mehrdadi, Mahdi Asadi-Ghalhari, Gholamreza Nabi Bidhendi, Hassan Amini Rad

“…All the experiments were performed on the basis of standard methods for water and wastewater experiments with No. 9221 (APHA, 2005).Results and discussion: With ultrasonic waves and through the destruction of the cell walls of pathogens, viruses and microbes and the disintegration of pathogens result in the disinfection of sludge. …”
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A Lightweight Network with Domain Adaptation for Motor Imagery Recognition by Xinmin Ding, Zenghui Zhang, Kun Wang, Xiaolin Xiao, Minpeng Xu

“…This paper proposes an innovative method that combines a lightweight convolutional neural network (CNN) with domain adaptation. …”
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Guided Discovery with Socratic Questioning by M. Hakan T&uuml;rk&ccedil;apar, Melis Sedef Kahraman, A. Emre Sarg&yacute;n

“…&#147;The Socratic method&#148; is a way of teaching philosophical thinking and knowledge by asking questions. …”
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Effect of Immersive Virtual Reality Teamwork Training on Safety Behaviors During Surgical Cases: Nonrandomized Intervention Versus Controlled Pilot Study by Lukasz Mazur, Logan Butler, Cody Mitchell, Shaian Lashani, Shawna Buchanan, Christi Fenison, Karthik Adapa, Xianming Tan, Selina An, Jin Ra

“…ObjectiveGiven the persistence of adverse events in the operating rooms, the objective of this study was to quantify the effect of an innovative and immersive virtual reality (VR)–based educational intervention on (1) safety behaviors of surgeons in the operating rooms and (2) sense-making regarding the overall training experience. MethodsThis mixed methods pre- versus postintervention pilot study was conducted in a large academic medical center with 55 operating rooms. …”
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An Extreme Learning Machine Based on the Mixed Kernel Function of Triangular Kernel and Generalized Hermite Dirichlet Kernel by Senyue Zhang, Wenan Tan

“…The experiment results demonstrated that the robustness and generalization performance of the proposed method are outperformed compared to other extreme learning machines with different kernels. …”
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ATBHC-YOLO: aggregate transformer and bidirectional hybrid convolution for small object detection by Dandan Liao, Jianxun Zhang, Ye Tao, Xie Jin

“…Comparison experiments on the DIOR and VEDAI datasets validate the effectiveness and robustness of the improved method. …”
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