The challenges of principals' dual roles in South African public schools by Johan Kruger, Andre Du Plessis

“…The study further underscores the importance of integrating democratic principles and Christian values into the implementation of educational policies, advocating for inclusive participation, shared decision-making, and mutual respect – principles deemed essential for fostering just and effective governance within schools. …”
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Identifying the Dimensions and Components of a Gamification Model in the Marketing Processes for Sharing Economy Transportation Businesses by Somaye Moradi, Maysam Shafiee

“…Subsequently, the interview texts were divided into meaningful elements, then, initial codes were extracted, and ultimately, 70 codes were confirmed and analyzed. …”
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Designing a Digital Branding Pattern in Healthy Agricultural Products by Abolghasem Mohammadnezhad Ali Zamini, Arezo Ahmadi danyali, Mahmoud Ahmadi Sharif

“…According to the indicators obtained in the research process and the analyzes performed on them, the final model was obtained using the coding method. Conclusion Digital branding of healthy agricultural products is centered around the creation of brand meaning and brand power, which initiates under influence of casual conditions, and makes sense with different strategy of digital brand creation and brand power, and strengthens the brand culture in the target community and visualizes the identity and personality of the digital brand of healthy agricultural products in the mind of the customer. …”
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Machine learning using genotype and gene-expression data identifies alterations of genes involved in infection susceptibility, antigen presentation and cytokine signalling as key c... by Nicholas Pudjihartono, Daniel Ho, Justin Martin O’Sullivan

“…However, the functional impact of these variants—particularly on tissue-specific gene expression—and which regulatory interactions make the greatest relative contribution to JIA risk remain unclear. …”
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DREFNet: Deep Residual Enhanced Feature GAN for VVC Compressed Video Quality Improvement by Tanni Das, Kiho Choi

“…However, several challenges are associated with codecs such as H.265/High Efficiency Video Coding and H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC) that can impact video quality and performance. …”
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Explaining the Comprehensive Human-To-Human Marketig System in the Health Tourism Industry by Ali Pourang, Meysam Shirkhodaie, Mahmood Yahyazadeh far, Mohsen Alizadeh San, Masoomeh Tavangar

“…Axial Coding: Grouping codes into 24 main categories based on common themes. …”
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The role of major and minor structural proteins of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus in induction of protective immunity by Dan Li, Dan Li, Laixu Zhu, Laixu Zhu, Chenchen Cui, Chenchen Cui, Zhenchun Wu, Zhenchun Wu, Pengkai Qing, Pengkai Qing, Qiongqiong Zhou, Qiongqiong Zhou, Peng Gao, Peng Gao, Yongning Zhang, Yongning Zhang, Lei Zhou, Lei Zhou, Xinna Ge, Xinna Ge, Xin Guo, Xin Guo, Jun Han, Jun Han, Hanchun Yang, Hanchun Yang

“…IntroductionPorcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV), an economically significant threat to the world pork production, is notoriously known for its heterogeneity, and therefore the current vaccines often fail to provide efficient cross-protection against diverse PRRSV strains.MethodsBy making chimeric viruses using HP-PRRSV-2 lineage 8 (JXwn06) and lineage 1 NADC30-like strains (CHsx1401) as model organisms, the recently results have shown that the viral structural protein-coding region is critical for induction of homologous immunity. …”
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Websites: The Good and the Bad by Ricky W. Telg, Laura M. Gorham, Tracy Irani

“…This 2-page publication on understanding what makes a good and bad website is the second of the Writing and Designing for the Web series. …”
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Translational framework for implementation evaluation and research: implementation strategies derived from normalization process theory by Carl R. May, Alyson Hillis, Bianca Albers, Laura Desveaux, Anthony Gilbert, Melissa Girling, Roman Kislov, Anne MacFarlane, Frances S. Mair, Sebastian Potthoff, Tim Rapley, Tracy L. Finch

“…These strategies support practical decision-making across the planning, delivery, and sustainment phases of implementation, and offer context-sensitive guidance for adapting interventions to diverse settings. …”
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Supporting Muslim undergraduate medical students through medical school: lessons from a novel, student-led case-based learning intervention by Zain Mohammed, Zain Mohammed, Hafsah Ba, Linta Nasim, Emily Roisin Reid

“…The in-session discussions evidenced that participants had increased their cultural literacy and awareness of Muslim students' needs and identified practical solutions, including inclusive scheduling, making appropriate prayer facilities available to enable equitable educational attainment, providing clear clinical attire guidelines, and providing robust reporting mechanisms. …”
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Assembly and Analysis of the Mitochondrial Genome of <i>Hippophae rhamnoides</i> subsp. <i>sinensis</i>, an Important Ecological and Economic Forest Tree Species in China by Jie Li, Song-Song Lu, Yang Bi, Yu-Mei Jiang, Li-Dan Feng, Jing He

“…A total of 411 C-to-U RNA editing sites were identified in 33 protein-coding genes (PCGs), with higher frequencies observed in <i>ccmFn</i>, <i>ccmB</i>, <i>nad5</i>, <i>ccmC</i>, <i>nad2</i>, and <i>nad7</i> genes. …”
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Characteristics of Land Use Change and Evaluation of Ecological Sensitivity in Chongqing by XIE Xianjian, GOU Qiantao, WU Han

“…Specifically, the Coupled Spatial Distance Index Model, Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis, Geodetector Model, and Grid Coding techniques were applied to evaluate the ecological sensitivity comprehensively. …”
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CENTER-ing Black voices: incorporating lived experience across the research process to advance equity in drug treatment and outcomes by Devin E. Banks, Maria E. Paschke, Kaytryn D. Campbell, Daje D. Bradshaw-Glenn, Rashmi Ghonasgi, Burton Barr, Arial Collins, Gerald Dennis, Keith Lofton, Alfred Long, Harriet Montgomery, Andreas Prince, Rachel P. Winograd

“…Academic staff dedicated to liaising with the CAB encouraged establishing structure and bylaws toward a self-governing CAB with decision-making power independent of agency partner and research teams. …”
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Patients’ Experiences of Digital Health Interventions for the Self-Management of Chronic Pain: Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis by Ashleigh Main, Haruno McCartney, Maryam Ibrar, Fiona Muirhead, Alexandra Mavroeidi, Harleen Kaur Rai, Roma Maguire

“…Following a 3-step inductive thematic synthesis approach, the researcher performed line-by-line coding of each eligible article to identify descriptive themes. …”
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Predictive values for different cancers and inflammatory bowel disease of 6 common abdominal symptoms among more than 1.9 million primary care patients in the UK: A cohort study. by Annie Herbert, Meena Rafiq, Tra My Pham, Cristina Renzi, Gary A Abel, Sarah Price, Willie Hamilton, Irene Petersen, Georgios Lyratzopoulos

“…Jointly assessing the risk of cancer or IBD can better support decision-making and prompt diagnosis of both conditions, optimising specialist referrals or investigations, particularly in women.…”
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Illuminating the “black box” of complex suicide prevention interventions: towards a theory of implementation using the normalisation process theory by Sadhvi Krishnamoorthy, Gregory Armstrong, Sharna Mathieu, Victoria Ross, Kairi Kõlves

“…The Normalisation Process Theory translational coding manual was used to map data related to the primary and secondary constructs defined in the theory and its extensions.ResultsThree domains pertaining to implementation context, mechanisms, and outcomes (CMO) were explored. …”
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Machine Learning Approach to Identifying Wrong-Site Surgeries Using Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Dataset: Development and Validation Study by Yuan-Hsin Chen, Ching-Hsuan Lin, Chiao-Hsin Fan, An Jim Long, Jeremiah Scholl, Yen-Pin Kao, Usman Iqbal, Yu-Chuan Jack Li

“…The model was trained on data from 2017 to 2019 and tested on 2020 orthopedic procedures, using ICD-10-PCS (International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Procedure Coding System) codes to distinguish body part and laterality. …”
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Secondary use of routinely collected administrative health data for epidemiologic research: Answering research questions using data collected for a different purpose by Scott D. Emerson, Taylor McLinden, Paul Sereda, Amanda M. Yonkman, Jason Trigg, Sandra Peterson, Robert S. Hogg, Kate A. Salters, Viviane D. Lima, Rolando Barrios

“…Key considerations were organized around four themes: 1) Know the data and their primary use (understand their scope and limitations); 2) Understand classification and coding systems (appreciate the nuances regarding classification systems, versions, how they are employed in the primary uses of the data, and querying the values); 3) Transform data into meaningful forms (process data and apply identification algorithms, when necessary); 4) Recognize the importance of validity when defining analytic variables (make meaningful inferences based on data/algorithms). …”
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Automatic speech signal segmentation with chosen parametrization method by Cz. BASZTURA, T. SAWCZYN

“…It is based on calculations of the phonetic function at speech, which makes it possible to find the boundaries of these phonetic segments. …”
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Social Capital Impact on Social Religious Influence in the Quran Teachings by Saeid Moidfar, Muhammad Bagher Akhondi

“…This achieves through the qualitative content analysis of the Quran interpretations, coding and conceptual classification. The research findings show that the enhancement to the message, arousing emotions and enthusiasm, friendly ties; social warm, friendly and face to face relationship, reliability and responsibility make religious social influence develop. …”
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