Schools as Sites of Social Reproduction: Student Interactions in Diverse Secondary Schools in Nigeria by Marlana Salmon-Letelier, S. Garnett Russell

“… In this study, we explore intergroup relations and student interactions in eight diverse secondary schools in Nigeria over one academic year. We use mixed methods and a social network analysis of these interactions and relationships to highlight the perspectives of students within a divided society. …”
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Muscle involvement in leprosy: study of the anterior tibial muscle in 40 patients by LINEU CESAR WERNECK, HÉLIO A.G. TEIVE, ROSANA HERMINIA SCOLA

“…The anterior tibial muscle biopsy revealed denervation in 45% of the cases, interstitial inflammatory myopathy in 30% and mixed (myopathic and neuropathic) pattern in 12.5%. …”
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Active Aging in the People’s Republic of China: A Case Study of Working After Retirement by CHRISTINA MAAGS, JINGWEN ZHANG

“…Yet, policymakers do not regulate this, pointing to a policy gap. Although an expanded labor force would reduce pressure on the PRC’s social protection system, it would also continue to reproduce preexisting socioeconomic inequalities.…”
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Born-Digital Memes as Archival Discourse: A Linked-Data Analysis of Cultural Sentiment and Polarization by Orchida Fayez Ismail

“…This study investigates how born-digital memes about high-profile events can serve as rich archival resources for understanding contemporary cultural phenomena and public sentiment by using a linked-data framework. Using a mixed-method approach, this study analyzes memes from a high-profile trial through web scraping and linked-data structures to map themes, sentiments, and cultural references. …”
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Urban Agriculture as a Catalyst for Revitalization Processes in Residential Districts of European Cities. The Case of Anderlecht, Roeselare and Romainville by Kleszcz Justyna

“…It aims to support the thesis regarding the catalyzing role of urban agriculture in transforming urban tissue at the touch-point of its various functional zones and its growing role as an element of nature in transforming urban structures. …”
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Electronic Guides on the Website of the Library of Congress: Types, Subjects, Structure by A. S. Valyalina

“…The advantages and disadvantages of Russian and American EG are identified, the most important are the following: the lack of unity in the interpretation of the concepts “electronic guide” and “guide” is characteristic of both Russian-language and English-language terminology; American EG from the point of view of the information medium of of reflected objects have mainly a mixed nature, they include information about both printed and electronic information resources; The advantage of EG presented on the LC website is the active use of internal hyperlinks to the library’s own resources.…”
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Estimating Efficiency of Interactive Teaching Technologies in Education Process by E. V. Zolotova, E. A. Gushchina

“…In conclusion it was pointed out that interactive technologies both at lectures and work-shops are efficient, however students prefer a mixed format.…”
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Analisis Sentimen Ulasan Pengguna Aplikasi Alfagift Menggunakan Random Forest by M. Bagus Prayogi, Gustina Masitoh

“… Alfagift is a mobile application developed by Alfamart to support online ordering, with features such as promos, transactions, ordering, and delivery from the nearest point according to the consumer's address. User feedback on the Google Play Store shows mixed sentiments, including both positive and negative responses, which can be utilized by developers as material to improve the quality of the application. …”
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Entrepreneurs-politiciens : défi ou dérive d’un nouveau genre d’hommes d’affaires en Haïti ? by Bénédique Paul

“…We analyze the case of the entrepreneurs who have run for election in the 2015-2016 political polls. We adopted a mixed approach mobilizing institutionalism and behavioral dynamic in entrepreneurship. …”
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A Flexible Bivariate Integer-Valued Autoregressive of Order (1) Model for Over- and Under-Dispersed Time Series Applications by Naushad Mamode Khan, Yuvraj Sunecher

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Pronoun inflection in the North Sea Germanic languages: The dative-accusative levelling in the first and second person singular by Rosella Tinaburri

“…Especially from a morphological point of view, it shares many features with Old High German and Old Low Franconian, thereby reflecting the intermediate position it occupies among West Germanic languages and offering a useful perspective for evaluating both Old English and Old Frisian. …”
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Green Human Resource Management On Sustainable Performance: The Mediating Role Of Digital Innovation by Rudy Tobing, Dwiyanjana Santyo Nugroho

“…This research method uses a mixed method, combining primary data in questionnaires and focus group discussions (FGD). …”
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Public Anxieties About AI: Implications for Corporate Strategy and Societal Impact by Michael Gerlich

“…The research employed a mixed-methods approach, incorporating focus groups, a survey of 867 participants, and 53 semi-structured interviews to investigate these anxieties in depth. …”
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The quantity, quality and findings of network meta-analyses evaluating the effectiveness of GLP-1 RAs for weight loss: a scoping review by Michael Nunns, Samantha Febrey, Jill Buckland, Rebecca Abbott, Rebecca Whear, Alison Bethel, Kate Boddy, Liz Shaw, Jo Thompson Coon, GJ Melendez-Torres

“…We focused on network meta-analyses of weight loss outcomes measured at 6 months, 12 months, longer than 12 months or over a mix of time points. At 6 months, subcutaneous tirzepatide was the most effective drug associated with 9 kg (at 5 mg) to 12 kg (at 15 mg) of weight loss. …”
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Microcausality without Lorentz invariance by Lam Hui, Alberto Nicolis, Alessandro Podo, Shengjia Zhou

“…We derive its implications for two-point functions of scalar operators on Lorentz-breaking states. …”
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Variation in the formant of ethno-regional varieties in Nigerian English vowels by Amoniyan Oluwasegun

“…This study, therefore, examines the nature of the dynamic spectral changes of WNigE high and low lexical sets (such as TRAP/BATH, KIT/FLEECE, and FOOT/GOOSE) produced by 75 WNigE speakers who are born and raised, and currently reside in the west, east, and north of Nigeria. Two- and nine-point vowel measurements were employed to estimate the formant dynamics with F1 and F2 vector length, trajectory length (TL), formant velocity, and formant trajectories with the Generalized Additive Mixed Model. …”
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Professionalisierung von Schulbegleiter:innen von Kindern und Jugendlichen im Autismus-Spektrum – Evaluation des Schulbegleiter:innentrainings „ASS ST“ by Marie Schottel, Charlotte Hanisch, Inés von der Linde, Sascha Knorr, Franziska Schmitz, Nicole Bruning

“…Dazu fand in Rahmen einer Prä-/Post-/Follow-Up-Studie ein Mixed-Methods-Ansatz Anwendung, der eine Fragebogenerhebung (N = 37) sowie halbstrukturierte Leitfadeninterviews (N = 18) integrierte. …”
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The role of career guidance activities of a pedagogical university in the professional self-determination of applicants by S. V. Tarasov, E. B. Spasskaya

“…In this study, the problem of the effectiveness of the forms and formats of vocational guidance activities of pedagogical universities is considered from the point of view of the methodology of environmental and cultural approaches, which determine the presence of links between socio-cultural and educational space as an influencing factor in the personality formation and development in a social system changing under the impact of external objective factors.The current empirical study was based on a mixed design. …”
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Interpersonal psychotherapy delivered by nonspecialists for depression and posttraumatic stress disorder among Kenyan HIV-positive women affected by gender-based violence: Randomiz... by Susan M Meffert, Thomas C Neylan, Charles E McCulloch, Kelly Blum, Craig R Cohen, Elizabeth A Bukusi, Helen Verdeli, John C Markowitz, James G Kahn, David Bukusi, Harsha Thirumurthy, Grace Rota, Ray Rota, Grace Oketch, Elizabeth Opiyo, Linnet Ongeri

“…Treatment group differences were observed only at month 3, the time point at which the groups differed in IPT status (before cross over). …”
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Predicting Marshall stability and flow parameters in asphalt pavements using explainable machine-learning models by Ibrahim Asi, Yusra I. Alhadidi, Taqwa I. Alhadidi

“…A comprehensive database comprising 721 hot mix asphalt (HMA) data points was established, including variables such as aggregate percentage, asphalt content, and specific gravity. …”
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