Health-Care Delay in Malignant Melanoma: Various Pathways to Diagnosis and Treatment by Senada Hajdarevic, Åsa Hörnsten, Elisabet Sundbom, Ulf Isaksson, Marcus Schmitt-Egenolf

“…Delay of registration of results from histopathological assessments within PHCs seems to be an important issue for future improvement. Exploring shortcomings in MM patients’ clinical pathways is important to improve the quality of care and patient safety.…”
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The Effects of Synchronous Computer-Mediated Interaction and Face-to-Face Interaction on Iranian EFL Learners’ Speaking and Listening Anxiety by Parisa Moradi, Abbas Ali Zarei

“…The study involved 60 male and female English language learners at Kish-e-Mehr language institute and Dialog Online language institute in Qazvin, with ages ranging from 15 to 35. Convenience sampling based on availability was used to select the participants. …”
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Banda Bekali and local knowledge in flood management: 100 years of social and environmental interaction in Padang City by Handrian Ginting Jonson, Afrida, Arifin Zainal

“…Using a qualitative-descriptive approach, the research focuses on the canal’s sections in Padang, selecting informants through purposive sampling based on age, gender, and societal roles. …”
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Tumor detection on bronchoscopic images by unsupervised learning by Qingqing Liu, Haoliang Zheng, Zhiwei Jia, Zhihui Shi

“…The Memory Matrix based on Convolutional Block focusing (CB-Mem) helped the student model store more meaningful normal sample features during training and disrupted the reconstruction of “tumor” images. …”
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Planning urban spaces to enhance the sense of vitality (Case study: Khayyam St., Qazvin) by Maliheh Babakhani, Zahra Rajabi

“…There is a sense of vitality among citizens as well as the lack of urban spaces. This issue has been neglected in many cities of Iran and needs to be planned. …”
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Seismic Performance Evaluation of a Frame System Strengthened with External Self-Centering Components by Yulin Fan, Jiaye Song, Xuelu Zhou, Hang Liu

“…To address this latter issue, this study proposes a novel reinforcement method that involves enlarging the structural cross-section and adding external self-resetting components to improve seismic performance. …”
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Using twin data to examine heritable and intrauterine hormonal influences on transgender and gender diverse identities by Will Conabere, Anja Ravine, Sue Malta, Louise Bourchier, Fintan Harte, John L. Hopper, Ken C. Pang

“…To further examine this issue, we recruited 27 twin pairs from two Australian specialist gender clinics, and obtained details of zygosity and self-reported gender identity. …”
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Development and validation of the Low Back Pain Questionnaire for Nurses (LBP-NS) in Indonesia: A structural equation modeling approach by Wirakhmi Ikit Netra, Kusuma Ikhwan Yuda, Haniyah Siti, Nurkholis Fiqih

“…Low back pain (LBP) is a prevalent global health issue, recognized as a leading cause of disability worldwide. …”
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Caricature-visual face recognition based on jigsaw solving and modal decoupling by Yajun Yao, Chongwen Wang

“…The feature common subspace alignment branch maps the anchor image, as well as the positive and negative sample images, into a common subspace to isolate identity features. …”
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Spreading False Content in Political Campaigns: Disinformation in the 2024 European Parliament Elections by Andreu Casero-Ripollés, Laura Alonso-Muñoz, Diana Moret-Soler

“…This favours the circulation of an issue central to the far-right agenda and aims to discredit elections and their mechanisms to undermine democracy. …”
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Performance Evaluation of Hybrid Machine Learning Algorithms for Online Lending Credit Risk Prediction by Tesfahun Berhane, Tamiru Melese, Abdu Mohammed Seid

“…In order to address the issue of data imbalance within the dataset, specifically between the non-defaulter and defaulter classes, the synthetic minority oversampling technique sampling approach is utilized. …”
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Environmental vertical management reform and firms’ ESG performance: evidence from China by Jing Yang, Qiqi Wang, Yueyuan Huang

“…Focusing on the micro perspective of firms, we employ a staggered difference-in-difference model to analyze a sample of A-share listed companies from 2009 to 2021. …”
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Implementasi Pemberdayaan Sosial Berbasis Keluarga Program Keluarga Harapan di Kec. Tigo Lurah, Sumatera Barat by Jafrianto Jafrianto, Jendrius Jendrius, Indraddin Indraddin

“…To achieve this change, PKH issued a program called the Family Development Session. …”
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The Upright Project's Effectiveness in Preventing Adolescents Bullying in Schools by Riska Amalya Nasution, Meinarisa, Nurlinawati, Ilham Falani

“… The underlying issue of this research is the high prevalence of bullying among adolescents, which adversely affects their mental health, social well-being, and academic development. …”
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Exploring the dark triad and sexting practices in Portuguese young adults by Mariana Costa, Claúdia Gouveia, Sónia Caridade

“…These findings underscore the importance of addressing non-consensual sexting as a critical health and social issue, emphasizing the need for interventions aimed at preventing and managing this form of abuse.…”
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A Critical View into the Background of Sociological Studies on Lifestyle in Iran by Reza Samim

“…The present article aims to study the approaches of the sample articles from different aspects of research, in the light of a sociological attitude toward the concept of lifestyle.…”
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Perceived supervisors’ psychological control and work-family conflict of nurses: a mediated moderation model by Ying Zhang, Zhijie Pang, Na Zhang

“…Thus, work–family conflict is a key issue in nursing management. However, little is known about the impact of supervisors’ controlling behaviour on work-family conflict among nurses. …”
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Educational strategies to reduce the gender gap in the self-efficacy of high school students in stem teaching by María Brage-del-Río, Jose Luis Martin-Núñez, Iciar Pablo-Lerchundi

“…ANOVA analyses results show that there is a gender gap for the entire sample and that this is particularly notable in the crucial years when students are deciding on their academic careers. …”
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Health information sharing – conceptual clarification and exploratory analysis in the context of mammography screening by Paula Stehr, Elena Link, Constanze Rossmann

“…About one-fifth of the sample shared information on mammography between the two survey waves. …”
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Protected grounds of discrimination and the risk of workplace bullying by Michael Rosander, Helge Hoel, Stefan Blomberg

“…To alleviate this requires a comprehensive approach involving policies treating it as an organizational issue, proactively as well as having safe procedures when problems surface. …”
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