Effect of Alkali Pollutant in Influencing Crack Propagation in Soils by Junhong Yuan, Jingbo Cui, Jianmei Chang, Guanhong Zhang, Mingxi Liu

“…In this study, the image processing method was used to quantitatively analyze the dehydration cracking process of clay polluted by alkaline pollutant sodium carbonate on the basis of experiments. …”
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Applying an international CAPM to herding behaviour model for integrated stock markets by Najmudin Najmudin, Diana Hashim Syarif, Sugeng Wahyudi, Harjum Muharam

“…This paper combined ICAPM method and international CSAD model to identify herding for eight stock markets, the sample period being from January 2003 to December 2016. …”
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Beyond N-Grams: Enhancing String Kernels With Transformer-Guided Semantic Insights by Nazar Zaki, Reem Alderei, Mahra Alketbi, Alia Alkaabi, Fatima Alneyadi, Nadeen Zaki

“…Extensive experiments conducted on eight diverse datasets comprising 2,501 total samples, featuring texts generated and enhanced by leading LLMs including GPT-3.5, GPT-4, DeepSeek, and KIMI, demonstrate superior performance of the proposed methods. …”
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A Composite Pulse Excitation Technique for Air-Coupled Ultrasonic Detection of Defects in Wood by Jun Wang, Changsen Zhang, Maocheng Zhao, Hongyan Zou, Liang Qi, Zheng Wang

“…The experiment results showed that the composite pulse excitation technique significantly enhanced the precision of nondestructive ultrasonic testing for wood defects compared to the traditional single-pulse excitation method. …”
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Rethinking power: secondary analysis of evaluation results for an intervention to prevent violence against adolescent girls and young women in Haiti by Maureen Murphy, Emanuela Paul, Sara Siebert, Jean Prosper Elie

“…Results The results show girls and young women the intervention areas reported less experiences of physical or sexual IPV in the past 12 months over time (from 25.7% at baseline to 15.7% at endline) and reduced, though non-significant due to small samples, odds of experiencing IPV compared to the controls (OR: 0.78; p = .51). …”
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DETERMINATION OF THE TEMPERATURE FIELD DURING LASER COAGULATION of CHORIORETINAL COMPLEX WITH OPTOACOUSTIC <i>IN VITRO</i> by A. V. Ardamakova, N. A. Fedoruk, A. P. Lytkin, A. V. Larichev, V. I. Siplivyy

“…To compare the results with pre-calculated temperature field values, direct temperature measurement was taken from the surface of the absorbing layer. The experiment was performed on six human chorioretinal tissue samples in vitro; the obtained optical absorption coefficient values did not exceed 120-300 cm-1 with maximum error margin of 20 %. …”
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KREDIBILITAS SITUS SAHAM ONLINE: PENDEKATAN USABILITAS, DESAIN DAN INFORMASI KONTEN SITUS BURSA EFEK INDONESIA by Effy Z Rusfian, Irwansyah Irwansyah, Niken F Ernungtyas

“…This study aims to observe variable of usability, design and content which affect website credibility on Indonesia context especially with idx.co.id as a treatment. This reaserch method using quasi-experiment with 30 participants with the equivalent time-samples design and adopting Bipolar Emotional Response Testing (BERT), this study found that website credibility was explained about 51.6% by usability, design, and information variables. …”
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Characterization of the two-dimensional length and diameter distributions of gold nanorods by size exclusion chromatography by Lukas Hartmann, Nabi Traoré, Wolfgang Peukert, Johannes Walter

“…Our technique opens up a simple and easy-to-use characterization platform that requires very little sample volume and provides multidimensional access to length, diameter, aspect ratio, volume and surface area distributions of plasmonic nanoparticles in one single experiment. …”
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Simulation of the Potential Liquification of Puger Sand Soil on a Small Scale in the Laboratory by Arief Alihudien, M. Rifki Alfaries, Nanang Saiful Rizal

“…This study aims to effectively simulate the liquefaction potential of Puger sand material on a small laboratory scale to identify soil behavior that can cause structural damage due to liquefaction phenomena. The method used in this experiment is that water-saturated sand samples are placed in a container and subjected to vibration using a shaker to simulate the effects of an earthquake. …”
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Perception of Organizational Justice among Hospital Nurses by Sule Kurt, Kadriye Özkol Kılınç, Havva Öztürk

“…Aim: To determine nurses' Organizational Justice Perception (OJP). Method: This descriptive study was conducted with 145 nurses who worked at a public teaching- research hospital. …”
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Potency of Green Cincau Leaves (Premna oblogifolia merr) Juice as Prebiotics and its Effect on Laying Hen Performances by Anna Lidiyawati, Eko Widodo, Edhy Sudjarwo

“…Two hundred fifty 56-wk-old Hisex Brown layers received different diets namely 0, 5, 7.5, 10 and 12.5 ml of green cincau leaves juice added in the basal feed. The method used in this study was experiment based on Completely Randomized Design and followed by Duncan’s Multiple test if significant effect occurs. …”
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Responses and coping mechanism among diabetic foot ulcer patients: A Qualitative Study by Cau Kim Jiu, Parliani, Deni Aryadi

“…Method: A qualitative approach was applied through semi-structured interviews with a purposively selected sample of patients diagnosed with DFUs. …”
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Offline Signature Biometric Verification with Length Normalization using Convolution Neural Network by Zahraa Mazin Alkattan, Ghada Mohammad Tahir Aldabagh

“…In terms of verification, a deep-learning technique using a convolution neural network (CNN) is exploited for building the reference model for a future prediction. Experiments are conducted by utilizing 4,000 genuine as well as 2,000 skilled forged signature samples collected from 200 individuals. …”
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Structured hashing with deep learning for modality, organ, and disease content sensitive medical image retrieval by Asim Manna, Dipayan Dewan, Debdoot Sheet

“…The network of MODHash is trained by minimizing characteristic-specific classification loss and Cauchy cross-entropy loss across training samples. Experiments are performed on a radiology dataset derived from the publicly available datasets of Kaggle, Mendeley, and Figshare. …”
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Short-term changes of soil microbial functional diversity induced by mineral and organic fertilizers by Dumitrița Dascălu, Bogdan Onica, Vlad Stoian, Bianca Dumea, Valentina Stoian, Roxana Vidican

“…The MicroResp method was used to assess community-level physiological profiles by using 15 different carbon sources and converting their catabolic activity to CO2. …”
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Comparison of Women’s Perceptions of Violent Extremism between Ambon City and Yogyakarta City by Jean Evelyn Ilela, Nur Afni Khafsoh, Rizard Jemmy Talakua, Elenore Michelot Brun

“…Approach The research method used is the Quantitative Approach using the Independent Sample t-Test. …”
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THE STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE OF E-COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE HEALTH SERVICES OF THE HOSPITALS by Murat Nazlı, Hande Arbak

“…Aim: Due to the recent technological advancement, patients have the opportunity to share their negative experiences about the services of the hospitals over the internet. …”
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Using Advocacy Advertising for Promoting Exclusive Breastfeeding among Women in Nigeria by Abdulrahman Ali Kolawole

“…Methodology: The study used a survey method with a sample size of 377 women. Data for the study were collected using a structured questionnaire.   …”
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Analysing the manipulation of the youths, election violence and democratic retrogression in South Africa by Ibrahim Yusuf Didamson

“…Data was collected through interviews and focus group discussions in five sampled locations in KwaZulu-Natal. The thematic and inductive method of analysis was used in aiding the analysis of the generated data. …”
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Analysis of the Association between Teachers’ Classroom Teaching Behaviors and Students’ Knowledge Acceptance Based on Psychological Data Analysis by Tianjin Yao, Xiuye Yang

“…This paper adopts the method of psychological data analysis to conduct in-depth research and analysis on the correlation between teachers’ classroom teaching behaviors and students’ knowledge acceptance. …”
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