Achieving sustainable competitive advantage: The case of small and medium-sized enterprises in Botswana by Tadios Munodawafa, Micheline Juliana Alberta Naude, Krishna Kistan Govender

“…Primary data were gathered through seven in-depth interviews with key government informants based on a purposive sampling technique, and thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. …”
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“An interpretative phenomenological analysis of male body image through the lived experiences of men in India” by Gerome Karthic Kumar Louis, Gandhapodi K. Chithra

“…Methodology A qualitative research design involving in-depth interviews with a purposively selected sample of cisgender men from diverse backgrounds in India was utilized. …”
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An improved beluga whale optimizer-Derived Adaptive multi-channel DeepLabv3+ for semantic segmentation of aerial images. by Anilkumar P, Venugopal P

“…General neural networks are used to improve categorization accuracy, but they also caused significant losses to target scale and spatial features, and the traditional common features fusion techniques can only resolve some of the issues. A segmentation network has been designed to resolve the above-mentioned issues as well. …”
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LINKING STUDENTS’ SCIENCE LITERACY AND SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING APPROACH by Amaira Utami, Putra Habib Dhitareka, Riana Nurismawati

“…In this modern era, where environmental challenges are becoming an urgent issue society faces, the need to foster students’ science literacy and scientific attitude is becoming crucial. …”
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From policy to practice: The mediating role of innovation in renewable energy adoption in OECD nations by Anjan Kumar Sahu, Mantu Kumar Mahalik

“…Renewable energy must replace polluting energy to address environmental issues. Governments are creating measures to address such issues and accelerate renewable energy transition. …”
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Social media engagement and domestic violence awareness: women victims' experiences by Drina Intyaswati, Siti Maryam, Windhi Tia Saputra, Mohamad-Noor Salehhuddin Sharipudin

“…The population were women social media users and used purposive sampling techniques with the criteria that respondents were married or had been married, had been victims of domestic violence (physical or mental), and had accessed domestic violence issues on social media in the last six months. …”
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Social media usage and civic engagement among Indonesian digital natives: An Analysis by Deni Zein Tarsidi, Karim Suryadi, Dasim Budimansyah, Rahmat Rahmat

“…The study involved 15 digital natives aged 18-24 who actively use social media, selected through a purposive sampling technique. The analysis in this study used NVivo version 12 Plus for MacBook. …”
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Multi-Scale Construction Site Fire Detection Algorithm with Integrated Attention Mechanism by Haipeng Sun, Tao Yao

“…First, considering the wide range of scale variations in detected objects, an additional detection layer with a 64-times down-sampling rate is introduced to enhance the algorithm’s detection capability for multi-scale targets. …”
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Exploring the Impact of Father’s Demise among Female Adolescents by Rabia Farooqi, Ayesha Khan

“…Data was collected through in-depth interviews from 4 adolescents aged between 17-19 years, accumulated by a purposive sampling method and analyzed through interpretative phenomenological analysis. …”
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External variables that could cause students to drop out of accounting courses: a study at a brazilian federal public university by Magali Martins e Martins, Deize Aires Neves, Juliana Tonello Azevedo, Alexandre Costa Quintana

“…For women, the most impactful variables are incompatible study/work schedules, health issues, and the low quality of prior education. …”
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Ethical considerations related to virtual visiting for families and critically ill patients in intensive care: a qualitative descriptive study by Kirsty Clarke, Karen Borges, Sultan Hatab, Lauren Richardson, Jessica Taylor, Robyn Evans, Bethany Chung, Harriet Cleverdon, Andreas Xyrichis, Amelia Cook, Joel Meyer, Louise Rose

“…However, few empirical studies explore the ethical issues associated with virtual visiting. This study aimed to explore the anticipated or unanticipated ethical issues raised by using virtual visiting in the ICU, such that healthcare professionals can be informed about how to carry out virtual visits ethically, safely and productively. …”
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“A banana in the tailpipe”: a qualitative study of patient flow in the healthcare system by Mahnaz Samadbeik, Andrew Staib, Justin Boyle, Sankalp Khanna, Emma Bosley, Elizabeth McCourt, Daniel Bodnar, James Lind, Jodie A. Austin, Clair Sullivan

“…The process challenges included bed management, modernization struggles, private hospital issues, funding model problems, information sharing gaps, coordination challenges, transition issues, particularly delayed discharges from inpatient wards, and problems in healthcare management and patient communication. …”
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The Shadow Economy: A Bibliometric Analysis by Zolkover Andrii, Venelin Terziev

“…The results of analyses show that financial market and financial intermediates become an essential part of the issues and that the topic of the problem of poverty among the urban population, low income, drugs abuse and problems of female employment, gender inequity in income in the papers which analyzed the shadow economy issues are very popular. …”
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Concentration dependence of the retarding effect on tungsten recrystallization under high-dose helium ion implantation by Jiaguan Peng, Yuanfang Lu, Xiuli Zhu, Tiangang Zhang, Hanfeng Song, Bingchen Li, Long Cheng, Xiancai Meng, Hongxian Xie, Sijie Hao, Yuhao Li, Linyun Liang, Yue Yuan, Guang-Hong Lu

“…Recrystallization, a critical issue that weakens the strength and thermal shock resistance of tungsten-based plasma-facing material in fusion devices, is effectively retarded by helium. …”
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Preservation of cfRNA in cytological supernatants for cfDNA & cfRNA double detection in non‐small cell lung cancer patients by Yidan Ma, Yifei Wang, Lei He, Jun Du, Lin Li, Zhixin Bie, Yuanming Li, Xiaomao Xu, Wei Zhou, Xiaonan Wu, Li Yang, Jing Di, Chenyang Li, Xiaoguang Li, Dongge Liu, Zheng Wang

“…Among the 84 NSCLC patient samples, seven cytological samples failed the tests. …”
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Nea Paphos as a center of pottery production in the Hellenistic period: the contribution of Polish research in Maloutena and the Agora by Ewdoksia Papuci-Władyka

“…The issue of the existence of local ceramics production in the ancient city of Nea Paphos in the Hellenistic period has been a subject of scientific discussion since the 1980s. …”
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Utilization of Waste plastic in Geotechnical Engineering Applications in Iraq: A Review by Mushtaq Sadiq Radhi

“…There is also another issue, which is that projects frequently encounter weak soil, which must be modified. …”
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Eugenol and cloves as plant-origin stabilizers in epoxidized natural rubber compositions by Malgorzata Latos-Brozio, Agata Dumka, Anna Masek

“…In polymer materials technology, replacing synthetic stabilizers with natural antioxidants is a current and developing issue. Cloves have antimicrobial and antioxidant properties, which is why they are often used in medicine and in gastronomy. …”
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Utilizing coal combustion bottom ash as a sustainable alternative to natural aggregate in eco-friendly building bricks by Trong Phuoc Huynh, Si Huy Ngo, Van-Dung Nguyen

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Utilizing coal combustion bottom ash as a sustainable alternative to natural aggregate in eco-friendly building bricks by Trong Phuoc Huynh, Si Huy Ngo, Van-Dung Nguyen

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