Environmental implications of Universal Rural Road Access Program (URRAP) roads in Southwestern Ethiopia: The case of Jimma and Buno Bedelle zones by Hassen Negesso, Milkessa Edae

“…Household survey with randomly selected household heads and in-depth interview, focus group discussion (FGD) and observation for purposively selected samples were used to collect relevant and required data. …”
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Transfer of Impurities Determination Methods: Comparative Testing, Validation, Acceptance Criteria (Review) by N. A. Epshtein

“…In most cases, comparative testing of samples or partial validation of methods is performed. …”
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THE SOLUTION OF THE APPROXIMATION PROBLEM OF NONLINEAR DEPENDANCES USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS by V. N. Ageyev

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Cyberbullying victimization predicts substance use and mental health problems in adolescents: data from a large-scale epidemiological investigation by Cláudio Romualdo, Wanderlei Abadio de Oliveira, Luciana Bertoldi Nucci, José Eugenio Rodríguez Fernández, Laura Soares da Silva, Evelin Moreira Freires, Amanda Severo Lins Vitta, Fernando Ferreira Semolini, Lucas da Rosa Ferro, Denise de Micheli, André Luiz Monezi Andrade

“…PurposeThis study investigated the potential association of cyberbullying victimization (CyVic) on substance use and mental health-related behaviors among Brazilian adolescents, using data derived from the National Survey of School Health (PeNSE).MethodThe sample comprised 146,536 adolescents aged up to 17 years, who were selected through probabilistic and representative sampling. …”
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Investigating the Effects of Socioscientific Issues-based Learning Module in Enhancing Students’ Physics Knowledge by Jeah May Badeo, Bee Ching Ong Kian Koc, Domarth Ace G. Duque, Russel L. Arnaldo

“…This study investigated the effect of using socioscientific issues (SSI)-based learning modules in enhancing physics knowledge. …”
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Structural Challenges of Attracting and Retaining Sponsorship in Professional Sports by Somayeh Mohammadi, Behzad Izadi

“…The statistical population comprised experts in the sports sector, including presidents, vice-presidents, secretaries, marketing managers of federations, and managers and deputy ministers. A purposeful sampling method was utilized, and in-depth interviews were conducted with 24 participants until theoretical saturation was reached. …”
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Returning of individual genetic findings to biobank participants: a mixed methods study results in Lithuania by Jūratė Lekstutienė, Rūta Žiliukaitė, Marija Jakubauskienė, Eugenijus Gefenas

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Learnable Point Cloud Sampling Considering Seed Point for Neural Surface Reconstruction by Kohei Matsuzaki, Keisuke Nonaka

“…This work proposes a learnable point cloud sampling designed to address the scalability issues. …”
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Can Well-sampled Phase Curves Be Used to Infer Asteroid Spectral Features? by Zachary Murray

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THE STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF ALLOYING ELEMENTS ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE EXPERIMENTAL SAMPLES AFTER SURFACE HARDENING by A. U. Ahmedpashaev, M. U. Ahmedpashaev, J. B. Begov, B. M. Musaibov

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Research on Network Intrusion Detection Model Based on Hybrid Sampling and Deep Learning by Derui Guo, Yufei Xie

“…Furthermore, to address the challenge of low identification rates for malicious traffic types with small sample sizes in unbalanced datasets, this paper introduces TRBMA (BS-OSS), a variant of the TRBMA model that integrates Borderline SMOTE-OSS hybrid sampling. …”
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Examining Predictors of Environmental Health Knowledge and Competences in a Sample of Catalan Paediatricians by Mikel Subiza‐Pérez, Ferran Campillo i López, Kalliopi Vrostsou, Jesús Ibarluzea

“…Methods We recruited a sample of 293 paediatricians (80% women, mean age 47 years) working in Catalonia (Spain). …”
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Determination of durability of samples modeling the MS-21 fuselage longitudinal and cross joints by V. K. Harina

“…To determine the durability of the samples, modeling the MS-21 fuselage longitudinal and cross joints, theoretical calculations and experimental studies were carried out, and it allowed to judge about the compliance of the results obtained by the loaded hole.…”
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A biocompatible supramolecular hydrogel mesh for sample stabilization in light microscopy and nanoscopy by Marko Lampe, Bart Dietrich, Joanna Wnetrzak, Tom Waring, Gareth Lycett, Marisa M. Merino, Dave J. Adams, Marco Marcello

“…Abstract Most embedding media for live and fixed samples were not designed for microscopy and have issues including long polymerization times, peak of toxicity toward the sample during the sol-gel transition, and irreversibility of this transition. …”
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Improving Local Fidelity and Interpretability of LIME by Replacing Only the Sampling Process With CVAE by Daisuke Yasui, Hiroshi Sato

“…Therefore, there are studies that improve fidelity by changing only the sampling. However, no studies have been identified that improve local fidelity and interpretability by modifying only the sampling. …”
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DCSLK: Combined large kernel shared convolutional model with dynamic channel Sampling by Zongren Li, Shuping Luo, Hongwei Li, Yanbin Li

“…This study centers around the competition between Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with large convolutional kernels and Vision Transformers in the domain of computer vision, delving deeply into the issues pertaining to parameters and computational complexity that stem from the utilization of large convolutional kernels. …”
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Rate adaptive compressed sampling based on region division for wireless sensor networks by Wei Wang, Xiaoping Jin, Daying Quan, Mingmin Zhu, Xiaofeng Wang, Ming Zheng, Jingjian Li, Jianhua Chen

“…Abstract Image acquisition and transmission in wireless sensor networks (WSN) are core issues for some resource-deficient multimedia sensing applications. …”
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Evaluating the utility of harvester-collected samples for muskox (Ovibos moschatus) pregnancy diagnostics by Olivia Hee, Mathieu Pruvot, Fabien Mavrot, Eleanor R. Dickinson, Gabriela F. Mastromonaco, Lisa-Marie Leclerc, John Blake, Carla Willetto, Jan Adamczewski, Susan Kutz

“…Monitoring wildlife health in remote and vast regions of the Arctic can be difficult and expensive, but community-based monitoring programs can help alleviate these issues. Reliable bio-monitoring tools, compatible with sample types collected from remote regions, are needed to determine indicators of population health, such as reproductive rates. …”
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Investigating causal effects of income on health using two-sample Mendelian randomisation by Erik Igelström, Marcus R. Munafò, Ben M. Brumpton, Neil M. Davies, George Davey Smith, Pekka Martikainen, Desmond Campbell, Peter Craig, Jim Lewsey, S. Vittal Katikireddi

“…Mendelian randomisation (MR) uses genetic variation between individuals to investigate causal effects and may overcome some of the confounding issues inherent in many observational study designs. …”
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Issues in the Design and Validation of Coupled Reverberation Rooms for Testing Acoustic Insulation of Building Partitions by Agata SZELĄG, Marcin ZASTAWNIK

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